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- Posted by admin in General health |
- June 16th, 2010 |
When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? Too many facial wrinkles? A scar across your cheek? Pits left over from adolescent acne? Not enough hair on you head? Nose too big? Bags under your eyes? Belly hanging out? Thighs jiggling with fat?
Two million Americans each year grow tired of what their mirrors tell them. So they turn to plastic surgeons for an artistic re-sculpting of what nature, careless living, or accident has misformed. Most women and a growing number of men are no longer self-conscious about going for a “nose job” or a tummy tuck or having their face reshaped. Nor do they worry about spending anywhere from 2,000 to 30,000 dollars for the repair job. American plastic surgery is now a 4 billion dollars-a-year industry.
“I love being a grandmother,” says Ila Miles, a homemaker from Tucson, Arizona. “But I don’t want to look like one.” Mrs. Miles spent 5,800 dollars on nose surgery and a complete facelift.
For Timothy Rothrock, 20, a student from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, plastic surgery totally restored his face after he was trapped in a forest fire. The worst damage, however, was to his neck: he had lost the contour -the curve from his chin line to his neck. Ugly raised scars marked the skin.
Ten operations were required to stretch, lift, and reshape Mr. Rothrock’s skin back to normal. “A few people still stare, and kids can be bothersome,” he says. “But now the scars are not quite as noticeable.”
For people whose faces are their fortunes, plastic surgery is strictly business. The roster of those who have had “repairs” reads like the guest list at a big Hollywood bash: Carol Burnett (chin augmentation), Frank Sinatra (hair transplant), Michael Jackson and Peter О’Toole (noses reshaped), Lana Turner and Phyllis Diller (facelifts), Mariel Hemingway (breast augmentation), and Eileen Brennan (face repair after a car accident).
“I feel blessed,” says Ms. Brennan, now the star of a new ABC-TV series, Off the Rack. “Every bone was broken in the left side of my face. I didn’t think I’d ever appear before a camera again.”
With the increasing demand for reshaping faces and bodies have come spectacular improvements in plastic surgery, making it safer and more daring than ever before. In addition to the facelift, which achieves only surface changes, plastic surgeons today can actually modify the bone structure below the skin through facial sculpting. New methods and materials for chin augmentation and reduction can create facial symmetry where it was lacking (as in Carol Burnett’s case). Techniques for eyelifts and nose surgery have been improved, so that the end result is a less “done,” less artificial look.
Along with common cosmetic repairs, the list of human sculptings now includes replacement of limbs, fingers, and hair torn from their anchors by accident; remolding to normal the faces of infants born with gargoylesque features; and redesigning noses, eyes, ears, chins, hairlines, and more to satisfy the patient’s deep emotional needs.
The rush to reshape nature’s work signals a fundamental change in the American outlook, says Dr. William W. Shaw, chief of plastic surgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. “Before the 20th century, people struggled to survive epidemics and famine,” he explains. “Medicine then turned its attention to chronic diseases like cancer, heart ailments – and to death. People now want to do something for themselves against aches, pains, and deformity.”
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- June 16th, 2010 |
This is a relatively rare, serious disorder of the adrenal gland in which there is insufficient production of one or more hormones. Deficient production of aldosterone leads to excessive excretion of sodium and water in the urine, and increased retention of potassium. These changes lead, in turn, to lowered blood volume, dehydration, and hypotension. Patients may have a craving for salt, thirst, profound weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, and changes in heart rhythm.
Deficient production of other hormones, glucocorticoids, leads to rapid depletion of liver glycogen and to hypoglycemia a few hours after meals. If no food has been eaten for 10 to 12 hours hypoglycemia is severe.
Mild insufficiency is often controlled by increasing the salt intake and by giving five to six meals daily. Cortisone may be prescribed to control hypoglycemia. When the deficiency is severe deoxycorticosterone (DOCA) is prescribed to control the mineral metabolism.
A high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet is essential in order to reduce the stimulation by insulin and the subsequent hypoglycemia. Simple sugars are especially avoided. Midmorning, mid-afternoon, and late evening snacks high in Protein and low in carbohydrate are used.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 19th, 2009 |
Planning ahead
It is important to plan ahead when travelling with children. This can make all the difference between an enjoyable holiday and a nerve-wrecking disaster for all.
Make sure when booking that you choose accommodation that is safe for children Check for hazards such as balconies, stairs and swimming pools. Enquire what facilities are available for children. A nearby playground can provide free entertainment when parents need to rest. Make sure the place that you stay in welcomes children, and that your children can run around without bothering other guests.
Children are often fussy eaters. If your child has certain food preferences check in advance the sort of food available where you will be staying. You may like to take some food along with you. If your child requires medication of any sort, be sure to take an adequate supply along with you. If your child uses an asthma pump when he- is unwell, be sure to take it along also. In addition, always have your parent-held record with you in case you need to take your child to the doctor or the hospital while away.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 18th, 2009 |
The Sweetheart: Sweethearts seem to be trying to “sweeten” the disease away by overcompliance to any and all medical suggestions and requests. This same pattern continues in the marital sex, as they attempt to please their partner. “I have never turned him down. Even when I am sick as hell from the chemotherapy, I’ll still do something.” This wife reported a continued effort to be “nice” sexually and in every other way. “The doctor forgot what he told me about the medicine, but he is a very busy man. I am not his only patient. I understand.”
Research in healing indicates that such compliance is as potentially detrimental to coping with disease as is the unrelenting battle of the Hero. Providing sex as a favor, as an obligation to a partner, only serves to alienate the spouse, who in turn may pull away sexually. A balance between compliance and educated, modulated resistance to the disease process seems to be healthiest for any patient, and such a balance is promoted by a continued sexual interaction where there is alternating give-and-take. “I wish she would be a little nasty sometimes, you know. She is so damned sweet I almost feel guilty having sex with her.” This husband’s report points out the need for balance and what can happen to the spouse of the Sweetheart patient.
The Sweetheart patient puts herself or himself at risk. The medical industry can kill you if you fail to represent yourself, fail to ask questions and hold professionals accountable. Being obnoxious in the hospital or when you are being treated will not make you popular, but being too nice might get you ignored. Again, the issue is balance.
There are certainly many other forms of adjustment to illness. Try to understand how you are being ill, your sickness strategy, and you will learn much about how you might get well.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 18th, 2009 |
Every person asked this question had » very specific answer. Intercourse is not something we take lightly, even though we talk very crudely about it sometimes. Share your first intercourse experience with your partner. It will be difficult, but again a necessary step for super marital sex. Being happily married does not require the level of disclosure required on this test, but this book is a program for super marital sex, and for this, such vulnerability is necessary.
“I’ll tell you, it was crazy and quick,” reported the husband. “A bunch of the guys got together, got drunk, and went to this place. This woman was there. We all took a turn. What a wild time. I don’t know how I got it done.”
“Mine was after the prom,” said his wife. “I only remember my hoopskirt up in the air like som0 stupid tent. I couldn’t see anything.
To tell the truth, I don’t know if he ever really got in me. It might have been between the seat and my butt. I worried for weeks until I got my period.”
Clearly, these initiations to intercourse become “main roads” on our love map, and unless we study and learn from them, no detours to better routes are possible.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 18th, 2009 |
Soft sore or soft chancre produces a painful ulcer on the genitals.
The pain tenderness and soft feel of chancroid distinguish it from the painless hard chancre of primary syphilis. It responds well to tetracyclines and also the sulphonamides.
Granuloma inguinale or Donovanosis is rarely seen in temperate countries. It is endemic among the Aboriginals of central and northern Australia and is common around Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. It has an incubation period of one to four weeks. It causes painless blisters or small papules on the skin of the genitals or thighs which then become raised and irregular and may break down and ulcerate. These lesions heal slowly and may leave marked scarring. Penicillin is not effective but the condition responds to the tetracyclines.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 15th, 2009 |
The mature doctor will accept that death is inevitable, and will help his patients to approach it. But actively to push the patient across that threshold is another thing altogether.
Most doctors would accept the principle that one should not use extraordinary means to prolong life if that life has lost its “quality.”
But here the definition becomes obscure. For what is “quality” of life?
In the U.S. the medical profession has been confused by the always-present threat of a malpractice suit.
Fortunately, this is rare in Australia.
When you discuss euthanasia, either in support of it or not, you will need to consider who it is who makes the final decision — the patient, the patient’s family, the patient’s doctor, a panel of doctors or lay people, or perhaps a concensus of all of these.
But you will also need to discuss who will do the deed — the patient’s own doctor, or a specially licensed doctor — who carries out this procedure when requested.
God help him.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- May 12th, 2009 |
Being a bacterial illness it responds to antibiotics, although the organism is resistant to penicillin.
Pertussis vaccine is present in the triple antigen and is given to children starting at eight weeks of age. The greatest threat to children from whooping cough is to those under 12 months old.
Older children tolerate whooping cough much better, but may be affected by severe side effects from the vaccine.
The whooping cough part of triple antigen is usually not given to those over 12 months old. When immunisation is necessary, the CDT (combined diphtheria and tetanus) vaccine is used instead.
Cough suppressants are of little use trying to control whooping cough, but the child will usually respond fairly quickly once antibiotics are given.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- April 29th, 2009 |
The question arises: Is it true that the sympathetic nervous system registers in the iris as a square, as shown in several iris charts?
After studying the existing systems, I have come to the conclusion that the sympathetic trunk and the sympathetic ganglia have their proper place around the iris-wreath, but before giving my interpretation, I would like to outline the relevant observations given in these systems.
Irisdiagnosis has been greatly enriched by Anderschou’s location of the ganglionic plexi in the iris. He portrays the ganglionic plexus as a chainlike range of elevations between the nutritive organ areas (stomach and intestines) and the other organ areas of the body. Observation of it in the iris is rather difficult, and not possible in an iris of compact and dense texture.
On close examination with a lens, the small indications are found in conjunction with the organ-arcs. A part of the colon and intestines is to be found inside the sympathetic line, but all borders are dependent upon the mutual influences of the affected (diseased) parts. In this connection, I should like to point out that the medulla oblongata also has its place here.
In the Anderschou chart, the sympathetic line is indicated as a square around the iris-wreath, with arcs of different sizes directed inwardly and outwardly.
The solar plexus, a ganglionic plexus of the general nervous system, is also the control centre of the body-life, which through the umbilical cord has built up the whole body according to the three polar axes of the three dimensions. The animal nervous system, subject to consciousness and will, has its centre in the brain. The control centre of the vegetative nervous system corresponds in the iris with the central fibrous ring of the pupillary sphincter around the pupil.
The position of the solar plexus (plexus coeliacus) has been defined by only two or three investigators, who, however, are very vague in their exact location, and with whom I must completely disagree. According to the anatomical position, the solar plexus is found in front of the sympathetic trunk, in which case it is unquestionably a gastro-intestinal plexus. In spite of other opinion, it can only be placed with the sympathetic nervous system, whose location in the iris-wreath surrounding the digestive area, therefore the intestinal area, is quite definite. The sympathetic trunk shows as a ring-formation around the solar plexus in the region of the
iris-wreath.
He correlates the Vagus with the upper layer of the iris, the Sympathetic with the second layer, and the motor and sensory nerve fibres with the third layer. The correspondence with Hense’s view of the nerve layers is significant.
Kronenberger’s interpretation of the threefold arc-formation and the nerve rings is found in Hense in a different form. This interpretation of the three arc-formations has presumably also led to the introduction of the three major, six minor regions in the iris chart of Madaus-Flink.
However, that the sympathetic nervous system is not seen as a square, but that if signs such as black streaks or white lines go from the outer edge of the iris to the iris-wreath, or radiate out from the pupil and break through the iris-wreath, such signs always refer to the Sympathetic. It indicates that the complaints have a chronic character and would be difficult to cure.
Iris chart in which the sympathetic nervous system is indicated around the iris-wreath as a square, and on which he marks the lower line as the sympathetic ganglia, and the upper line as the sympathetic nervous system with connections to the head. Although the organ areas do not quite correspond with the modern chart, one must agree that even at that time a good understanding had been worked out. Everything is so arranged that it could be developed further, thus enabling later investigators to improve the existing system.
In the works of the more recent investigators, Maubach, Angerer and Deck, we find no localisation of the vegetative nervous system.
After concluding this review of different authors and of the anatomical relations, I think I can claim that the following key to the location of the vegetative nervous system in the iris is in accordance with the findings of many investigators.
The autonomic nervous system is described as a nervous system which functions according to its own laws. Anatomically considered, the autonomic nervous system, together with the glands of internal secretion and the body fluids, forms a functional unity.
The Vagus ( = Parasympathetic) is the 10th cranial nerve. It is also called the pneumogastric nerve. It consists of all those vegetative nerve fibres, including their origins and central connections, which arise in the mid-brain and the medulla oblongata, as well as in the sacral division. As the cranio-sacral system, it is functionally opposed to the thoracico-lumbar system (Sympathetic). The fibres of the parasympathetic do not run over the sympathetic trunk, but use true brain and spinal cord nerves as conductors.
The Sympathetic system, also known as the thoracico-lumbar system or the sympathetic trunk, has its cells of origin in the lateral horns of the thoracic and upper lumbar spinal cord. The spinal centres belonging to the vertebral column and spinal cord are subject to the influence of higher centres in the medulla oblongata, in the mid-brain, and in the cerebral cortex.
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- Posted by admin in General health |
- April 28th, 2009 |
Symptoms: Vary according to the virus
Home care: In the case of illness caused by an intestinal virus, give aspirin or paracetamol to relieve pain and fever. Refer to the appropriate section for treatment of diseases caused by a specific virus.
Precautions
- Because there are so many different types of viruses, diagnosis can be very difficult.
- Immunity against any one virus is short-lived, so a child can have one virus infection right after another.
- Call the doctor if your child has any of the following symptoms: stiff neck or back; severe headache and vomiting; extreme weakness or collapse; confusion.
- The following are not symptoms of Coxsackie or ECHO viruses: rash resembling red sandpaper or red goose bumps; pus-like discharge from eyes, nose, or ears; reddish-purple spots; tender, red, enlarging lymph nodes; severe earache; blood in stool; severe cough; breathing difficulty.
A virus is a germ, smaller than a bacterium that can live only within a living cell. Many common illnesses are caused by a particular virus, among them mumps, chicken pox, measles, rubella (German measles), mononucleosis, cat scratch fever, hepatitis, warts, and roseola. Two large groups of other viruses – the respiratory viruses and the intestinal viruses – cause a variety of similar illnesses in children.
The respiratory viruses include the adenoviruses, parainfluenza viruses, rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, and the respiratory syncytial virus. The intestinal viruses (enteroviruses) inhabit the intestinal tract and are divided into Coxsackie viruses (of which 30 varieties are known so far), enteric cytopathogenic human orphan (ECHO) viruses (with 31 known types), and the three polio viruses. Coxsackie viruses are responsible for hand, foot, and mouth disease, herpangina, and pleurodynia. Herpangina lasts three to six days and produces a fever, sore throat, swollen neck glands, and painful ulcers on the soft palate, tonsils, and throat. Pleurodynia is an inflammation of the nerves between the ribs, and it causes intense pain, aggravated by breathing, on one side of the chest.
ECHO viruses may cause diarrhea. Coxsackie and ECHO viruses may cause symptoms of a common cold, a fever with or without a rash, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), or paralysis.
The Coxsackie and ECHO viruses have an incubation period of three to five days or more, and they can be spread via the mouth or in the stool. Immunity against any one of them is short-lived. Therefore, a child can have one virus right after another.
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