• Don’t place unrealistic expectations on yourself-discuss with each other what aspects of intimacy and sex you can cope with at each phase of your recovery• Have a very supportive partner whom can act as an advocate in consultations, particularly when you are not well enough to think clearly• [...]
Sperhaps the main reason why SRIs are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world is that they have relatively few side effects. A recent study involving more than six thousand patients showed that far fewer patients (13.9 percent) stopped SRIs because of side effects than stopped standard antidepressants. In my own clinical practice [...]
As we have seen, narcoleptics occasionally experience muscle paralysis associated with the onset or termination of sleep. The same problem can afflict nonnarcoleptic people as well. Patients lie unable to move any muscles, except those around the eyes. In some cases the victim suffers formication—the frightening sense that bugs are crawling over the body—or other [...]
As more research is done concerning diagnosis and treatment of CVD among women, it is becoming clear that women sometimes experience different symptoms and benefit from different treatment than men do. Consider the following: Feeling painOver the years, it has been widely assumed that men, being the stronger, tougher sex, were much more tolerant of [...]
Cancer is the name given to a large group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of at normal cells. It may seem hard to understand how normal healthy cells become cancerous, but if you think of a cell as a small computer, programmed to operate in a particular fashion, the process will [...]
MeaslesTechnically referred to as rubeola, measles is a viral disorder that often affects young children. Symptoms, appearing about 10 days after exposure, include an itchy rash and a high fever. German measles (rubella) is a milder viral infection that is believed to be transmitted by inhalation, after which it multiplies in the upper respiratory tract [...]
Cymetra (not yet available in the UK) A mixture of collagen, elastin and glycosaminoglycans – three substances that are found naturally in the dermis of the skin -Cymetra is derived from donated human cadaver skin. An advantage of Cymetra is that it poses no risk of an allergic reaction and therefore the need for skin [...]
FibresDietary fibre is derived from plant cell components and is resistant to digestive secretions of the gastrointestinal tractType-1 FibresBenefitsType -II FibresSource BenefitsThese are water insoluble – cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin.Source : Cereals and milletsDecrease the intestinal transit time, increase the fecal bulk and therefore are useful in constipation.These are water soluble fibres – pectin, gums and [...]
Most are not poisonousMore than 45,000 people are bitten by snakes each year, but only about 8,000 of those are by poisonous snakes. Fewer than 15 fatalities result from snakebites annually, and many of those occur because the bites are not treated. Determining if the snake is poisonousMost venomous snakes in the United States (such [...]
A sudden depression which descends like a cloud and envelops the un-suspecting person without any warning, leaving him thoroughly distressed. The cloud lifts after sometime by itself as suddenly as it came. One does not know, when it would come, how long it would last and when would it come again. So long this depression [...]