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PREVENTING ASTHMA: SOME NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS – POST NATAL CARE FOR NEW-BORNS OF ASTHMATIC PARENTS

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• preferably breastfed your infant. Chances of getting allergies is more in bottle-fed babies.
• Boil milk properly before giving.
• Introduction to common allergenic foods, such as eggs, wheat, fish and coca should be delayed.
• Dust-proof casing or a foam mattress should be used, dust-free environment is very important for a child.
• Keep pets away from the baby’s bedroom.
• Stuffed toys should be kept out of the crib.
Prevention is better than cure; this applies very appropriately in cases of asthma in children. All the preventive measures mentioned can minimise the intensity of the disease in the patient and ease up pressure on the family.
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Comments (0) Dec 20 2010

LIFESTYLE FOR A HEALTHY PROSTATE: LEARN TO RELAX

Posted: under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.

One technique that has helped many handle stress is meditation. Studies indicate that if practiced regularly, relaxation exercises can produce a significant lowering of blood pressure and can improve a person’s sense of well-being and his ability to cope with his world.
Prayer is a form of meditation, and some people believe that regular churchgoers have fewer heart attacks than those who do not regularly attend their church. An Israeli study showed that among people who went to synagogues, 24 per 1,000 suffered heart attacks as compared to 56 per 1,000 for people who rarely went. Well-documented studies of Y. Kemi evaluating instances of spontaneous cancer remission suggest that a strong faith, religious or otherwise, was the common determining factor among the patients.
Dr. Benson of Harvard is a firm believer in exercise and meditation to help a person to relax. He believes that it can help a type A individual to avoid heart attacks. Could it possibly help to avoid prostate cancer? Many believe that it can. According to Dr. Louis
E. Kapolow, “The best strategy for avoiding stress is to learn how to relax.” Unfortunately, many people try to relax at the same pace that they lead the rest of their lives. For a while, tune out your worries about time, productivity, and doing right. You will find satisfaction in just being, without striving. Find activities that give you pleasure and that are good for your mental and physical well-being. Forget about always winning. Focus on relaxation, enjoyment, and health. Be good to yourself.
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Comments (0) Dec 13 2010

COMMON VITAMINS: F, K, T AND U VITAMINS

Posted: under General health.
Tags: General health

Vitamin F
Essential fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic being considered the most important fatty acids. Measured in grams or milligrams (mg.).
Functions
Considered to be important in lowering blood cholesterol in atherosclerosis and, thus, preventing heart disease. Essential for normal glandular activity – especially the adrenal glands. Necessary to healthy skin and all mucous membranes. A growth-promoting factor. Needed for many metabolic processes. Promotes the availability of calcium and phosphorus to the cells. Can protect from damage by excessive radiation,
Deficiency symptoms
Deficiency may lead to skin disorders, such as eczema, acne and dry skin, gallstones, falling hair, retarded growth, impairment in reproductive functions, kidney disorders, prostate disorders, menstrual disturbances.
Natural sources
Unprocessed and unrefined vegetable oils, especially soybean oil, corn oil, flaxseed oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil. Also available in capsule form.
MDR (minimum daily requirement)
Not established. National Research Council says that “fat intake (should) include essential unsaturated fatty acids to extent of at least 1 percent of the total calories.”
Vitamin К
Menadione. Measured in milligrams (mg.).
Function
Essential for the production of prothrombin, a substance which aids in blood clotting. Important for normal liver function. An “anti-hemorrhaging” vitamin. An important vitality and longevity factor. Involved in energy-producing activities of the tissues, particularly the nervous system.
Deficiency symptoms
May cause hemorrhages anywhere in the body due to prolong blood-clotting time, such as nosebleeds, bleeding ulcers, etc. Lowered vitality. Premature aging.
Natural sources
Kelp, alfalfa and other green plants, soybean oil, egg yolks, cow’s milk, liver. Also manufactured by the normal bacteria in the healthy intestines.
MDR (minimum daily requirement)
Not established.
Vitamin T
Sesame seed factor, known to be present, but unidentified, often referred to as vitamin T.
Function
Re-establishes platelet integrity in the blood. Useful in correcting nutritional anemia. Promotes the formation of blood platelets and combats anemia and hemophilia. Useful in improving fading memory.
Natural sources
Sesame seeds, “Tahini,” raw sesame butter, egg yolks and some vegetable oils.
Vitamin U
Vitamin-like factor found in some vegetables, notably cabbage.
Function
Promotes healing activity in peptic ulcers, particularly in duodenal ulcers.
Natural sources
Raw cabbage juice, fresh cabbage, homemade sauerkraut.
Important note on vitamins
The deficiency symptoms could occur only after a prolonged inadequate dietary intake or the body’s chronic inability to assimilate dietary vitamins. The symptoms listed do not alone prove an existing nutritional deficiency, as similar symptoms may be caused by a great number of conditions or functional disorders. If, after an adequate vitamin supplementation, these symptoms persist, they may indicate a condition other than a vitamin or nutritional deficiency.
When suffering from serious diseases, it is unwise to attempt self-treatment, with vitamins, minerals or any other way, but it is advisable to consult a doctor, preferably one who is nutritionally oriented, and to abide by his expert advice on the choice of suitable therapy.
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LEARNING MORE ABOUT COMMON VITAMINS: BIOFLAVONOIDS

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Tags: General health

Vitamin P. Bioflavonoid complex: citrin, hesperidin, quercitin. Rutin. Considered to be a part of the vitamin C-complex. Measured in milligrams (mg.).
Functions
Strengthens capillary walls and prevents or corrects capillary fragility. Prevents capillary hemorrhaging and acts as an anti-coagulant. May prevent strokes. Protects vitamin С from destruction in the body by oxidation. Vitamin С synergist – enhances its property. Beneficial in hypertension, respiratory infections, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, hemorrhaging, bleeding gums, eczema, psoriasis, cirrhosis of the liver, retinal hemorrhages, radiation sickness, coronary thrombosis, arteriosclerosis.
Deficiency symptoms
Causes capillary fragility. Appearance of purplish or blue spots on the skin. Diminished vitamin С activity. Susceptibility to above-mentioned conditions.
Natural sources
Fresh fruits and vegetables; buckwheat; citrus fruits, especially the pulp; green peppers; grapes, apricots, strawberries, black currants, cherries, prunes. Cooking largely destroys bioflavonoids.
Not established. Usual therapeutic doses 50 to 200 mg. or more. The FDA has determined that bioflavonoids do not have any nutritional, therapeutic, or preventive value. Therefore, the above information regarding the function, deficiency symptoms and sources of bioflavonoids is offered for educational and experimental purposes only, not as an endorsement or recommendation.
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Comments (0) Sep 23 2010

DIAGNOSING EPILEPSY

Posted: under Diabetes.
Tags: Diabetes

‘I  had my first fit at the age of 12. I was on board ship at the time with the Girl Guides. Since it was my first trip abroad, and there was a force eight gale raging in the North Sea, no one thought that it was anything more than a childish convulsion. No one told me about it either. I had this incredible dream of lying in a cabin wearing a friend’s blazer. No one said, ‘That’s not a dream, that happened to you yesterday.’ Why there was all this secrecy I never knew.
‘I returned home from my trip abroad, and proceeded to relate all to my parents. “You haven’t told me everything, “said my mother. ” You didn’t tell me you were ill while you were away.” No one was more astonished than me. Despite my protests I was led off to see the doctor, who gave me tablets to take, told me never to forget them, and said no more.
‘A year later I went off to camp with the Guides again. I remember being sent to the farmhouse to collect eggs and bread, with another girl to help carry. “Thank goodness Sarah had the eggs,” was the comment of the day, since I had a fit just outside the farmhouse door. My mother was sent for and suggestions were made that perhaps it was being away from home that “upset” me. To her everlasting credit my mother asked me what I felt about the whole matter, and I was allowed to stay at the camp. It was bad enough being the “different” girl who had the fit: I didn’t want to be the “different girl who went home” too.
‘I had my third a few months after that and went to see a specialist at a London hospital. “Epilepsy,” he confirmed after tests had been done. It was almost a relief to know that I had a recognizable condition, and was not just having “funny turns” every so often . . .’
(From Epilepsy ’78, British Epilepsy Association – see appendix)
Plenty of people will recognize and empathize with this feeling of relief when a vague feeling of being under the weather or a series of odd or inexplicable symptoms turns out to have a solid basis in medical fact. Whatever the diagnosis, once you know what is wrong you can start to face it and deal with it.
However, a diagnosis of epilepsy is not one to be made lightly. Once it is made, the person concerned is given a ‘label’ that may affect their chances of employment or lose them various privileges – a driving licence for example. It means, too, that they will have to start a regime of drug-taking that may continue for months or even years.
Another problem is that epilepsy is not a simple disease and it is not always easy to diagnose. There is no such thing as a ‘typical’ case of epilepsy. It can take many forms and have many different symptoms; there is no one simple test for it. This is one reason (among several) why people who have epilepsy dislike being lumped together and referred to as ‘epileptics’. It is a meaningless label as well as an insulting one.
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Comments (0) Jun 03 2010

EPILEPSY AND PREGNANCY

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Tags: Diabetes

Women with epilepsy are quite often concerned about getting pregnant. There appear to be five reasons for this concern. They wish to know:
if they are likely to hand their epilepsy on to their children;
whether their fits will get worse during pregnancy;
whether it is safe for the baby that the mother should take anticonvulsants drugs during pregnancy;
if there will be any problems in the newborn baby from these drugs;
if they can safely breast feed the baby.
With regard to handing on epilepsy to one’s children – as mentioned earlier, if one parent has epilepsy, the chances of one of the children having epilepsy are no greater than in the population at large. If both parents have epilepsy, it would appear that the risk of a child having epilepsy is about 10 per cent. So in fact the chance of a child inheriting epilepsy, particularly idiopathic epilepsy, is negligible.
As far as seizures during pregnancy are concerned, the situation is not as clear as it might be. There is evidence that for some women, seizure control may deteriorate, while for others there may in fact be no change or even an improvement. A patient told me recently that “she would like to remain pregnant forever” as she had not had a single fit during her pregnancy, compared with six fits in the preceding nine months!
As a general working rule, it is suggested that people who have more than one grand mal fit a month are those who are most likely to have a deterioration in seizure control during pregnancy. The deterioration, if it occurs, is most likely during the first three months of pregnancy. There are a number of theories why this may happen, but none has been proved. It may be of value to check the blood anticonvulsant levels during pregnancy, especially if there is a deterioration in seizure control. The blood levels may fall, necessitating an increase in dosage during the pregnancy.
The main concern for parents is whether the anticonvulsants can harm the unborn baby (foetus). It is known by most people with epilepsy that this is a potential hazard. The effects include physical abnormalities in the baby, a process known as teratogenesis. Abnormalities have been reported in the offspring of mothers on all the commonly used anticonvulsants with the exception of carbamazepine. This is particularly applicable to phenytoin, barbiturates and sodium valproate. Babies born to mothers who have been on carbamazepine have not been shown to have any physical abnormalities, but have a smaller head size than other babies. This has not been shown to be any handicap to the babies who have been followed up for five years.
The risk of abnormalities in the baby is difficult to assess, but it seems to be most common in mothers on polytherapy (receiving numerous drugs), especially if they are on three or more anticonvulsants. The risk in mothers on phenytoin, with or without other medications, appears to be about a 10% chance of the baby showing features of the ‘foetal hydantoin’ syndrome. This syndrome consists of cleft palate, abnormalities of the fingers, possible heart abnormalities and mild mental retardation. Thus, at present, if it is possible, it would seem wise to try to change patients over to carbamazepine before conception. This may not be possible in all patients and, of course, many women will first visit their doctor when already pregnant, at which time there is no purpose in making the change.
Anticonvulsants taken by the mother during pregnancy may have some effects on the baby immediately after birth, as they are transmitted to the baby across the placenta. These include the possibility of a mild bleeding tendency and some drowsiness. In mothers who have been taking barbiturates, the infant may occasionally show features of a withdrawal reaction with irritability, jitteriness and poor sucking. None of these features is either common or serious.
As far as breast feeding is concerned, all the anticonvulsant drugs appear in breast milk to some extent. At worst they may produce some mild drowsiness in the baby. There is no reason for mothers with epilepsy not to breast feed if they wish to do so. If the mother is concerned that she might have a fit and drop the baby, she should breast feed sitting on the floor.
In summary
It is predominantly patients with grand mal seizures more than once a month, who require particular attention during pregnancy.
The teratogenic effect of anticonvulsants is small. The risks of stopping treatment, especially the possibility of status epilepticus, are probably greater than the risks of having an abnormal baby.
Any abnormality probably occurs before the woman even knows that she is pregnant. So stopping the drug when pregnancy is discovered is of no help and may provoke fits.
At the time of writing, carbamazepine would appear to be the safest anticonvulsant in pregnancy.
It is appropriate to continue anticonvulsant treatment throughout pregnancy with the assistance of blood level monitoring where this is seen as necessary.
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Comments (0) Jun 03 2010

YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH/ BLINDNESS: TREATMENT

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Tags: General health

The first step to appropriate treatment is accurate diagnosis. If you suspect that your baby has visual problems, first see your doctor who will refer him to an eye specialist for thorough eye tests. Most causes of visual impairment cannot be cured, the exception being surgical repair of a cataract. However, much can be done to meet your child’s specific needs.

Make sure that you provide a safe environment for a child who is blind or cannot see well, by checking around your home for things which could cause accidents. As the child gets older, it is important to provide a suitable educational setting for him. This may involve a special school for the visually impaired. Parents should always be involved in helping to develop an appropriate program, which makes maximum use of other senses, such as hearing and touch, for learning. Some children who are visually impaired are able to read large print books; others need to learn braille, or learn from audio tapes and ‘talking books’.

A child who is blind or visually impaired needs to become as independent as possible. At a later stage the use of a special cane or a seeing-eye dog may afford him maximum independence.

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Comments (0) May 21 2009

SEXUAL INBERITANCE: THE WRONG LESSONS OF LOVE: TWELVE EROTIC ERRORS

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Tags: General health

The young couple in the parked car struggled so not only because they didn’t have a place for sex or a way to be safely comfortable and communicate sexually, but also because they had learned well the wrong lessons of sex. Ironically, this young couple’s struggle was similar in many ways to sexual struggles within marriage. They didn’t have their own place, they couldn’t find privacy, they didn’t talk about sex, they didn’t work as a team. They were trying to do sex to each other or for each other, not with each other, and they were victims of the same genital focus I have discussed throughout this book.

Here is a list of the twelve erotic errors that have served as the sexual lesson plan for the first three perspectives of sexuality.

1. Sex is an impulse. It is the strongest, the most difficult to control of all human impulses.

2. If you start touching erotic zones, it is difficult to turn back, to control the “sexual impulse,” the gravity of sexual drive pulling us helplessly toward intercourse.

3. “Foreplay” is a preset collection of guaranteed sexual maneuvers that must be learned primarily by boys to get girls ready for sex.

4. Boys are always ready for sex, always want it, will do it with almost any girl if they have the chance. Anything less than constant sexual urgency is less than manly. A quote by Emo Philips illustrates this focus. “My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.” So goes the “folk myth” of sex in the school years.

5. Good girls don’t want sex. Bad girls may want it, so boys should have it with them and then find a good girl to marry. Good girls need a lot of “foreplay,” so boys, who are never bad for wanting sex and are “queer” if they don’t, should practice their technique on bad girls.

6. Everything you do sexually is for intercourse. Intercourse is the best, most adult thing in the whole world.

7. “Playing around” with hugging and kissing is fun, but if you don’t finally “go all the way,” you aren’t grown up and you may end up hurting yourself.

8. Sex is natural and simple. Anybody can do it. You don’t have to learn how to “make out,” you just have to let yourself go.

9. You had better use contraception and always have it ready. It takes away I from the “real thing,” but you have to have it ready, because once you I start “playing around,” you will lose control and always want to “go all I the way.”

10. If you are really deeply in love, you will want to have intercourse. If you I are a girl, intercourse means love, so if you have done “it,” you are I probably in love. If you are a bad girl, and just like sex for fun, feelings, I and closeness, you can have a lot of sex and never been in love. Intercourse I is something good girls try to save and give later as a marital gift. Bad I girls might trade intercourse too soon and for too little.

11. If you are a boy and in love, you will know just what to do to please your I girlfriend. You will magically know, through love, every secret turn-on. I Love is so strong that it makes sex remarkable.

12. Your parents would never understand about your sexual feelings. They are f older, times were different for them, and they just want to tell you about [ not doing it or contraception, sperm, and eggs. Nobody tells their parents what they really do or would want to do sexually. Old people don’t have the same sex feelings as young people, if they have any left at all.

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Comments (0) May 18 2009

YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: MR. MYTH – THE EJACULATION-AS-ORGASM MYTH

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Tags: General health

You can’t tell me that ejaculation isn’t orgasm. This is just a bunch of crap, some type of psychobabble. You come or you don’t. I don’t want to hear any more about this stuff. It is just crap.

HUSBAND AT SESSION ONE

    

I never would have thought it. It seems so obvious now. How could I ever have thought that ejaculating was the same as really enjoying sex? This is remarkable. I can see that psychasm is not a gimmick. It’s real. You have orgasms and psychasms, it’s just obvious. But I can’t convince my friends. Now they think I’m crazy, like I bought some new sexual mantra.

SAME HUSBAND AT FIVE-YEAR POLLOW-UP

The danger in discussing the difference between ejaculation and orgasm is that the earlier perspectives on sexuality are so firmly established in our society. The mere suggestion of psychasm sounds like the worst of pop psychology, like some strange throwback to a psychology of the past. The Masters and Johnson position is clear and dominates our thinking. They write, “Orgasm refers specifically to the sudden rhythmic muscular contractions in the pelvic region and elsewhere in the body that effectively release accumulated sexual tension.” Kinsey reported orgasms without ejaculation, but was referring to the same contraction concept, and he reported it only in young boys, sexually immature persons. Masters and Johnson state, “Ejaculation without orgasm . . . can occur in certain cases of neurological illness.” They clearly feel that ejaculation is orgasm in the male.

I suggest that ejaculation and pelvic muscular contractions are “orgasm,” organ-based, and that more generalized emotional, cognitive, and body response is “psychasm.” Men are capable of both, separately and simultaneously, and understanding this capacity in men is important not only for super marital sex but for other health-related issues.

Women can emit a fluid during sexual response that may come from the Skene’s glands along the urethra. Women do not typically define their orgasmic experience by this fluid release, but for men, “the fluid is the fun.” Fear, anxiety, and joy can all result in ejaculation, so it is a response that is typically but not exclusively related to sexual stimulation.

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Comments (0) May 18 2009

TRUE HEALING – PRACTICAL ADVICE: DETOXIFICATION OF LUNGS

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Tags: General health

We will discuss only natural detoxification methods here. By natural I mean methods of assisting and/or enhancing the natural cleansing mechanisms the body already uses every day .

Let us consider some of the organs which are responsible for the excretion of the toxic waste from our body, and see how we can assist in this process.,

Lungs. All our blood passes through the net of blood vessels in the lungs and is oxygenated. This process provides oxygen, necessary to the process of extracting energy from our food. Using this oxygen our body is able to oxygenate (burn) food as well as toxins. Excretion is achieved by exhaling carbon dioxide together with other (sometimes quite aromatic) gases. How can we assist ? Surely lots of clean fresh air would make a difference. Improved breathing techniques could also help. According to the teachings of yoga our breathing should be quite slow and contain four distinct phases: slow inhaling, a wait period, slow exhaling and another wait period. For some people it happens so naturally, that they do not pay attention to it. However it is possible to acquire bad habits, in which case some breathing exercises may help. For instructions regarding breathing technique, look up the books “The oxygen breakthrough” or

“Oxygen therapies” or read a book about yoga.

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