Archives: 2009 May
CHILD’S DISORDERS: HOARSENESS AND MOUTH ULCERS
HOARSENESS Hoarseness in children is usually the result of inflammation of the voice box (laryngitis) or throat. This is usually due to infection with a virus. The child may also have a fever and a cough. There is no specific treatment, but encouraging your child to speak as little as possible and to drink plenty [...]
NEWBORN’S APPEARANCE: FEET AND REFLEXES
Feet Sometimes a newborn baby’s feet are turned inwards temporarily as a result of their cramped position in the womb. This will correct itself by the first year. If the feet can be readily moved to a normal position then your baby is unlikely to have a club foot. Reflexes Certain reflexes are present in [...]
SEXUALITY, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH: HAVING A HEALTH PROBLEM AND NOT FEELING GOOD AND FEELING GOOD AND HAVING A HEALTH PROBLEM
Having a health problem and not feeling good. Just as times of being and feeling healthy are transitional phases of life process, so it is with times of sickness. All life systems go through periods of change, adaptation, “breakage,” wearing out, and responding to internal and external challenges to our immune system. At such times, [...]
THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH: THE BOTTOM LINE
We develop diseases because we are poisoned. Everything else, no matter how complicated, involving other living creatures (bacteria, parasites etc.) or not, is just a consequence. Deadly poisons are everywhere around us, most of them as a result of human (“industrial”) activity, and we have to learn how to avoid them, at least in our [...]
IRITIS – CASES
In most cases, no apparent cause can be found for this inflammation, however, there are many diseases which are associated with it, or regarded as being the cause. Tuberculosis and syphillis were once common causes of iritis. Other venereal diseases such as gonorrhoea, or NSU, non-specific urethritis, can be the cause. Any acute infectious disease, [...]
ASTHMA – INTRODUCTION
Some children lose their asthma at adolescence but find it comes back when they enter their 40s. In asthma, there is an oversensitivity of the bronchial tubes and, in allergic individuals, a generalised hypersensitivity to certain foreign proteins or allergens. These may be animal fur, grass pollens, the house dust mite, sometimes chemicals eaten or [...]
THE TAMPON DEBATE: IS THEM A CONNECTION TO ENDOMETRIOSIS?
In my practice, numbers of women who use tampons exclusively (or use them in combination with pads far heavy flow) worry that tampons may be implicated in the onset and progressive growth of endometriosis. There are a number of reasons for their concern: If tampons block menstrual flow and keep blood in the vagina, they [...]
SKIN CARE: HIVES
Hives, known medically as urticaria, are a very common problem They are sometimes known as ‘heat lumps’, appearing as raised’ red lumps which tend to come and go over any part of the body and which are extremely itchy. They are the result of increased capillary permeability, or ‘leaky bloodvessels’. The condition has been closely [...]
NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF APPETITE CONTROL: FAT
A preference for fatty foods may have developed during hunter-gatherer times because high-fat foods were both scarce and probably beneficial for survival.10 this legacy now counts against us in a world of greater availability of fatty foods with desirable textural qualities like thickness and smoothness. Does a high-fat meal reduce appetite? Professor Blundell and his [...]
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN CASE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS: RELIEF, DENIAL, CONFUSION
When a doctor finally puts a name to all that pain and suffering you feel relieved. At last someone has recognised that you do have something wrong with you and it is not all in your head. No, you are not neurotic and your symptoms have a name. Endometriosis. You do not have cancer and [...]
