Category: General health
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 of fluids, [...]
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 the newborn. These [...]
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 food.
A [...]
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, bacterial or [...]
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 breathed [...]
SKIN PROBLEMS: WART REMOVAL
Warts are local accumulations of skin cells which have become abnormally large and adherent to one another as the result of infection with one of nine possible wart viruses. In people whose warts have become widespread and unusually persistent (warts normally disappear in about nine months), an additional factor — decreased immunity — is also [...]
CHILDREN’S HEALTH: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Symptoms: Most often there are no symptoms.
Possible symptoms: Headaches, pounding heartbeat, shortness of breath during exercise, flushed face.
Home care: High blood pressure must be diagnosed and treated by a doctor.
Precautions
- Your child should have regular checkups, and the doctor should measure the child’s blood pressure during each examination.
- High blood pressure can be dangerous if left untreated.
Although [...]
POSTWAR TRAUMA: THE NEXT WAVE
Though Vietnam, the war most commonly associated with today’s cases of PTSD, was more than 20 years ago, that doesn’t mean that you should expect that all these wounds are healed. “You can learn to live with PTSD, but it never fully goes away,” says Mendel. In fact, when researchers at the University of Pittsburgh [...]
MELDING MIND AND BODY: RX FOR ENTHUSIASM!
Before you read through the rest of the book and embark on the Immune For Life program, I’d like to leave you with a final thought that may help you, not only with the program but with every other part of your life as well. That, my friend, is enthusiasm. Whatever you do, do it [...]
