Archive for the ‘General health’ Category
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CHILDREN’S HEALTH: SINUSITIS
Symptoms: Yellow or milky discharge from the nose; fever; pain; stuffy nose; cough; red, swollen eyelids; headache. Home care: - Protect the child against sinusitis by giving decongestant cold remedies for a cold and having the child use nose drops, or by treating an allergy with antihistamines. - Give aspirin or paracetamol for pain. Warmth applied to [...]
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PREVENTION OF SEX DRIVE LOSS
Obviously factors such as the level of inhibitions one has about sex can’t be prevented in the here-and-now because their seeds lie deep in childhood. However, much can be done with the help of an insightful professional to heal even some of these old wounds. • Go through the list above and think out what [...]
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SELF-HELP PREVENTION FOR VARIOUS CONDITIONS: ACCIDENTS
To most people an accident is an ‘act of God’, a random occurrence or the result of carelessness or thoughtlessness. But just because accidents occur quickly, often instantaneously, doesn’t mean that they are not preventable-many are. Studies show that even the most apparently random of ‘incidents’ occur according to recognizable patterns and are in fact [...]
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ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION WITH LOSS OF SEXUAL DESIRE: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Any man who tells me that he’s never had a problem achieving and then maintaining an erection is lying. Whether it’s due to stress, illness, fatigue, or medication, it’s actually not unusual for a man to have trouble with getting and/or keeping his erection. I define erectile dysfunction as the inability to achieve or maintain [...]
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CONSTIPATION, CHRONIC: TREATMENT
If you are constipated only once in a while, you probably have nothing to worry about. If you are under 50 and you have had no lifestyle changes, as reflected in your answers to the questions above, you should simply try to increase the amount of exercise you get, the amount of fiber in your [...]
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SHORTNESS OF BREATH, ACUTE
Description and Possible Medical Problems Acute shortness of breath can be a frightening event for people of any age. If you’re under 50, or are older and in pretty good condition, and you don’t have any other symptoms, your shortness of breath might not be serious. It could be the result of a sudden emotional [...]
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SKIN, ORANGE
Description and Possible Medical Problems Every once in a while, I’m visited by a patient who has an orange hue to her skin, which is especially noticeable in the creases of the palms of her hands. This is commonly seen in people in their twenties and early thirties and is called carotenemia. The most common [...]
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TONGUE, SORE PATCHES ON
Description and Possible Medical Problems Does your tongue resemble a topographic map? Have some parts of its surface smoothed out, leaving bright red and sometimes painful craters behind? You may have geographic tongue, a disorder in which some of the papillae, which form the rough surface of the tongue, wear away over time. A healthy [...]
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BODY SIGNAL ALERT/EYE, “CURTAIN” IN FRONT OF: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Behind the retina, at the back of your eye, lies a thin layer of blood vessels called the choroid. These blood vessels supply the entire eye with blood and oxygen, which help keep it functioning and healthy. Sometimes the retina of one eye can suddenly tear away from the choroid, causing you to see a [...]
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SNORING, CONSTANT FATIGUE, FALLING ASLEEP TOO EASILY
Description and Possible Medical Problems If an elbow in your partner’s side isn’t enough to stop him from snoring, and if he can fall asleep at the most inopportune moments, he probably has a condition called sleep apnea, a condition in which a person can actually wake up hundreds of times a night, even though [...]