Category: General health
TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA: RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE
September 22nd, 2010, No Comments
In the last few years exciting new research has been reported to both the medical and the lay press. Before this time all the research tended to centre on either the drug treatment of dementia or on the social aspects of sufferers. However, it is now generally acknowledged that for the foreseeable future there is [...]
MALIGNANT MELANOMA
September 22nd, 2010, No Comments
One Australian dies every eight hours as a result of malignant melanoma. Contrary to popular belief most of these malignant tumours do not arise out of a pre-existing mole or a freckle. 70 per cent develop from normal skin. There is no doubt that the malignant growth of a melanotic tumour is triggered by the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
