Archive for May, 2009
-
CHILD’S HEALTH/SKIN DISORDERS: ECZEMA TREATMENT
The key to preventing severe flare-ups of this chronic condition is to treat symptoms as soon as they appear. The mainstay of treatment is the use of cortisone ointments or creams, with small amounts applied several times a day to affected areas. Itching is always worse after hot baths, and at night, so this is [...]
-
HOW TO KEEP YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH?
• Is the clinic easily accessible? Is it within walking distance, or are there good public transport connections? Is there adequate parking available within the clinic property or nearby? Are they courteous and warm? Are the waiting facilities adequate? Do they cater for children, with a bright atmosphere, toys and children’s books, and carpet so [...]
-
YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/FINDING OUT WHO’S THE MATTER WITH US: HOT SEXUALPROBLEMS – HYPERSENSITIVITY OF F AND/OR R AREA AND HYPERSENSITIVITY OF G AND/OR Ñ AREA
HYPERSENSITIVITY OF F AND/OR R AREA: I feel like a big stick of dynamite and my penis is the fuse. It is so sensitive that it can hurt. HUSBAND Virtually all of the men reported some hypersensitivity of the F and/or R area sometimes during their sexual experiences. Two hundred twenty-one of the men reported [...]
-
THE DESEXUALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE/A SEXUAL-SYSTEM EXAM: GETTING INTO THE SEXUAL “SWING” OF THINGS
I’ll tell you one thing. We are so in tune with each other that it gets us in trouble. If I’m really down on a given day, then he is down. We get down together in minutes. We just reflect each other perfectly, almost like one mood together. We are like one tree in the [...]
-
PSORIASIS – OTHER TREATMENT
Cortisone given by mouth or by injection is not used in psoriasis except to treat severe unstable cases where local treatment is best avoided. Methotrexate is a drug widely used in treating various cancers. It is effective in some cases of psoriasis because it depresses the over-activity of the cells in the skin. This is [...]
-
CROHN’S DISEASE – DESCRIPTION
Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract and can affect any part of it from the mouth to the anus. It is most common at the end of the small bowel just where it joins the large bowel. The causes are unknown and in many ways, it resembles ulcerative colitis, another [...]
-
COLDS, RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS (BRONCHIOLITIS; WHEEZY BRONCHITIS AND ASTHMA)
BRONCHIOLITIS: Confined to children under the age of two. It is usually due to the respiratory syncytial virus but may have secondary bacterial invaders. It involves the smallest of the airways — the bronchioles — as well as the larger bronchi. The illness often starts as a rather mild infection with a nasal discharge and [...]
-
YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – STAGES OF CANCER
Doctors have developed a sort of shorthand method for describing how extensive a cancer seems to be. We call this the stage of the cancer. For most cancers there are four stages. Here are the essential things which determine the stage of a cancer. I won’t go into details, but for each type there are [...]
-
HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPHY: AVOIDING OSTEOPOROSIS
‘Osteoporosis and its consequences may be regarded as one of the most serious long-term consequences of the human menopause.’ from Focus – The Menopause, International Monograph Series, 1990. ‘We are all aware of the undoubted benefits of HRT in preventing bone loss.’ letter in British Medical Journal, 1990. It is possible that you have read [...]
-
NON-MEDICAL REASONS FOR HYSTERECTOMY
The continuing debate about whether hysterectomy is overused is an issue of great importance for the many women who will ask themselves at some time in their lives, Ts a hysterectomy really necessary for me?’ The debate has been fuelled by findings of large variations in rates of hysterectomy between and within countries for no [...]