Archive for the ‘Allergies’ Category
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MEAL PLANNING FOR ALLERGIC CHILDREN
These are suggested menus for the three daily meals. Breakfast: A canned fruit juice, a vegetable, a soya beverage, potato bread, banana rye bread, Ry-Krisp, rice pancakes, or waffles. Lunch: Rooster, capon, or canned fish (but never fresh fish or shellfish), vegetables, and a beverage or a fruit (apple, plum, apricot). Dinner: Lamb (including the [...]
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MENTAL SYMPTOMS OF FOOD ALLERGY OR INTOLERANCE: SCHIZOPHRENIA
One mental disorder, schizophrenia, deserves special mention here because it has been strongly linked with food sensitivity by some doctors. The idea originated with the observation that it was more common among those with coeliac disease than among the population at large. Coeliac disease is an extreme sensitivity to wheat that causes damage to the [...]
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CONTRACEPTIVE CARE OF THE OLDER PATIENT – CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS (GETTING OLDER)
It is not just the relationship between the couple that is changing, but that with other members of the family as well. Parents are getting older and may need more support leading to great pressure on the middle generation. The ‘what about me?’ syndrome has been described (Lincoln, 1992), where the woman feels that everyone [...]