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		<title>COMMON VITAMINS: CHOLINE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the vitamin B-complex. One of the &#8220;Lipotropic Factors.&#8221; Measured in milligrams (mg.). Functions The most important function of choline is in its teamwork with inositol as a part of lecithin. Essential for proper fat metabolism. Lecithin helps to digest, absorb and carry in the blood fats and fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">A member of the vitamin B-complex. One of the &#8220;Lipotropic Factors.&#8221; Measured in milligrams (mg.).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Functions</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The most important function of choline is in its teamwork with inositol as a part of lecithin. Essential for proper fat metabolism. Lecithin helps to digest, absorb and carry in the blood fats and fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E and K. Necessary for the synthesis of nucleic acids, DNA and</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">RNA. Minimizes excessive deposits of fat and cholesterol in the liver and arteries. Essential for the health of myelin sheaths of the nerves. Regulates and improves liver and gallbladder function. Necessary for the manufacture of a substance in the blood called phospholipids. Choline is useful in treatment of nephritis. Can prevent formation of gallstones. Useful in reducing high blood pressure. Has been used to treat atherosclerosis, kidney damage, glaucoma and myasthenia gravis.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency symptoms</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Prolonged deficiency may cause high blood pressure, cirrhosis and the fatty degeneration of the liver, atherosclerosis and hardening of arteries.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Granular or liquid lecithin (made from soybeans), brewer&#8217;s yeast, wheat germ, egg yolk, liver, green leafy vegetables and legumes.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">MDR (minimum daily requirement):</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not established, but many authorities estimate it to be 1,000 mg. or more. Usual therapeutic dose 500 to 1,000 mg. Not toxic in doses under 6,000 mg.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Note: Prolonged ingestion of massive doses of isolated choline may induce a deficiency of vitamin B6. Therefore it should always be taken with other vitamins of B-complex.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Choline can also be manufactured in the body of healthy individuals receiving optimum nutrition, particularly adequate amounts of vitamins B6 and B12, magnesium, folic acid and methionine (an amino acid).</div>
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		<title>COMMON VITAMINS: PANTOTHENIC ACID</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vitamin B5. Calcium Pantothenate. Measured in milligrams (mg.). Functions Involved in all vital functions of the body. Stimulates adrenal glands and increases production of cortisone and other adrenal hormones. Primarily used as an anti-stress factor. Protects against most physical and mental stresses and toxins. Increases vitality. Wards off infections and speeds recovery from ill health. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Vitamin B5. Calcium Pantothenate. Measured in milligrams (mg.).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Functions</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Involved in all vital functions of the body. Stimulates adrenal glands and increases production of cortisone and other adrenal hormones. Primarily used as an anti-stress factor. Protects against most physical and mental stresses and toxins. Increases vitality. Wards off infections and speeds recovery from ill health. Helps in maintaining normal growth and development of the central nervous system. Can help prevent premature aging, especially wrinkles and other signs of aging. Can help protect against damage caused by excessive radiation.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency symptoms</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deficiency can cause chronic fatigue, increased tendency for infections, graying and loss of hair, mental depression, irritability, dizziness, muscular weakness, stomach distress and constipation. May lead to skin disorders, retarded growth, painful and burning feet, insomnia, muscle cramps, adrenal exhaustion, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and low blood pressure. Considered to be one of the causes of allergies and asthma.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Natural sources</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Brewer&#8217;s yeast, wheat germ, wheat bran, royal jelly, whole-grain breads and cereals, green vegetables, peas and beans, peanuts, crude molasses, liver and egg yolk.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">MDR (minimum daily requirement):</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not established, but estimated to be between 30 to 50 mg. a day. In some studies, 1,000 mg. and more were given daily for six months without side effects. Usual therapeutic doses 50 to 200 mg. Note: It is considered that folic acid helps in the assimilation of pantothenic acid.</div>
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		<title>YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH: CYSTIC FIBROSIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder which occurs in approximately 1 in every 2500 births. Children with the disease have excessive amounts of salt in their sweat, and produce thick mucus which blocks the pancreas and the lungs. This leads to many long-term problems, including repeated chest infections, poor growth (failure to thrive), and occasionally [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder which occurs in approximately 1 in every 2500 births. <a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_568_myambutol_rx_pills.php" title="Myambutol ( Ethambutol Hydrochloride )">Children with the disease have excessive amounts of salt in their sweat, and produce thick mucus which blocks the pancreas and the lungs.</a> This leads to many long-term problems, including repeated chest infections, poor growth (failure to thrive), and occasionally diabetes. A specific test called a sweat test is diagnostic of cystic fibrosis. Treatment is always in a specialist unit, and is aimed towards preventing deterioration in the child&#8217;s condition. Although many children are now surviving to adulthood, their lifespans are considerably shortened. Parents who have a child with cystic fibrosis have a one in four chance of having another affected child. Genetic counselling is advisable. Antenatal diagnosis is now available via chorionic villus biopsy.<br />
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		<title>SEXUALITY, ILLNESS, AND HEALTH: FERTILITY AND SEXUALITY- SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 05:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the recommendations I give to the couples after consultation with their referring doctor. 1. It is not true that &#8220;just when someone adopts, they get pregnant.&#8221; There are many such stories, but statistics do not bear them out. Nonetheless, a necessary first step in solving a fertility problem is to discuss [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  Here are some of the recommendations I give to the couples after consultation with their referring doctor.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">1. It is not true that &#8220;just when someone adopts, they get pregnant.&#8221; There are many such stories, but statistics do not bear them out. Nonetheless, a necessary first step in solving a fertility problem is to discuss together what options you will or will not accept. Would you adopt if necessary? What age, gender, race and health-status child would you consider? Why do we want à child anyway? Don&#8217;t fid1 for me simplistic &#8220;just adopt and you&#8217;ll get pregnant&#8221; or &#8220;just relax and take a vacation&#8221; ploys. Fertility, all of loving and life, is much more complex than that.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">2. Do you want a child or a baby? Babies sound nice and have millions of effective press agents, but they bring with them bundles of problems, too. Talk over the fact that parenting is an approximately seventy-year phase of development during which you will try to help someone become more mature than you are. Do you want t° he parents together, or are there individual ambivalences that may need talking out, perhaps with a counselor or clergyperson? Learning to cooperate and share parenting and the continuing development of parenting goals and expectations is one of the most intimate parts of marriage. It is a form of sharing available only within a relationship committed to nurturing the lives of persons growing within and from that relationship.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">3. <a href="http://www.d-store.net/?product=trental" title="PENTOXIFYLLINE improves blood flow">Don&#8217;t panic.</a> No matter what you hear, almost half of the couples in the United States have some trouble with fertility. Anxiety and fear won&#8217;t help, so remember the perspective of your relationship. You have somebody already. You are just trying to add to the group.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">4. It&#8217;s not your fault or his fault or their fault. We just don&#8217;t know enough about fertility to blame anybody anyway, and there are women getting pregnant every day who were told they were never going to have a child. Think of this issue as a systems issue, not an individual issue.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">5. Just as in parenting, you must not personalize the problem. When parents take the credit or diminish their self-worth because of their children, they experience family problems. If you are trying to have a child to prove something, such as your masculinity or femininity, you are probably getting in your own way.<br />
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		<title>YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: THE FRICTION FALLACY</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just put your first two fingers against your thumb and move your hand up and down and everyone will know what you mean. That is how men come. TEENAGER The early perspectives of sexuality asserted that men experience orgasm by thrusting, resulting in friction to the outer third of the penile shaft, which in turn [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Just put your first two fingers against your thumb and move your hand up and down and everyone will know what you mean. That is how men come.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">TEENAGER<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The early perspectives of sexuality asserted that men experience orgasm by thrusting, resulting in friction to the outer third of the penile shaft, which in turn resulted in &#8220;orgasm&#8221; and an &#8220;organ&#8221; emphasis. Men grow up believing and learning that there is one way to &#8220;come&#8221; and that is to have friction applied to the penis in a steady rhythm. This belief is one of the reasons that men learn to be the &#8220;do-it-to-ers&#8221; rather than receivers. For men, movement is sex.<br />
</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  One of the most difficult assignments for husbands in the super marital sex program was to try to hold their pelvis still, not by effort but by surrender, while their wife stimulated their genitals. It took a while, but when the husbands learned this technique, they were amazed at the range of sensations that resulted. &#8220;I have never in my life felt anything like it. It actually happened to me without me trying to make it happen. What a trip!&#8221; This husband was like many others who reported a new freedom of choice in sexual interactions when they discovered the F and R areas and choices beyond friction and movement.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">  Masters and Johnson state that male sexual response is exclusively in the glans or end of the penis and the shaft of the penis. This is not the case. The Hite Report in 1980 and my own data indicate that men also masturbate by gently stroking their scrotum and that the penis is the &#8220;main place&#8221; only if that is the lesson that is repeated throughout life and the design of the love map.<br />
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		<title>THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH: THE PURITY OF THE PHYSICAL BODY FREES ENORMOUS RESOURCES OF THE MIND</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 09:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purity of the physical body frees enormous resources of the mind. If properly directed, such resources could be used to acquire many natural skills considered miraculous or supernatural by normal people. Creating matter by a pure thought, flying around the galaxy and the Universe in your various astral bodies, being consciously present at several [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The purity of the physical body frees enormous resources of the mind. If properly directed, such resources could be used to acquire many natural skills considered miraculous or supernatural by normal people.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Creating matter by a pure thought, flying around the galaxy and the Universe in your various astral bodies, being consciously present at several locations at any one time, learning anything at all instantly in complete silence, understanding all languages by direct telepathy, are just a few primitive examples of what is possible. There are no limits to our spiritual development. It is only a question of time and our own free will.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">However, when our physical bodies are poisoned, your &#8220;house&#8221; is on fire. Most of the resources of the mind are simply not available. We are forced to crawl spiritually.<br />
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<p><a href="http://leadmedic.com/product_info.php?cPath=56&amp;products_id=806" title="Purinethol is used to treat leukemia."><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Frequently we add to our misery by engaging our mind in developing fear, anxiety, stress, envy and other totally useless activities, thereby preventing any residual resources of the mind to be brought into a useful action.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Fortunately, from time to time, our higher mind gives us a chance or a hint, on how to improve your situation. Just in case we are ready to learn. The fact that you are reading this book is just one example. (It is a sad fact, that most people just do not listen and do not want to learn. They criticise and doubt everything and everyone, except their own ignorance. They do not see, that they have a lot to learn).<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Note, that it is actually your mind, which makes a decision to initiate purification of your body as well as itself. It does it actually for itself. You make it for yourself. During the process of purification of the body, you will feel great. You will find, that your mind is sharp and your intelligence increased. Any creative work or study will be much easier. By maintaining the purity of the body, you will be able to attain new levels of understanding, gain new skills and knowledge with very little effort. You will see your life and its purpose in a wonderful new perspective.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">You can greatly assist the purification of the body, by trying to encourage certain states of the mind and avoid others. Purification of your mind (thoughts) can be as important as physical detoxification, since it is your mind at all levels which ultimately controls every function of your body. Again, the subject is quite extensive, so I will give you only the basic information and advice here.<br />
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		<title>LEPROSY &#8211; INTRODUCTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leprosy has been known since Biblical times, and is still a scourge throughout the world. It still occurs in parts of the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Central and South America, Southern Europe around the Mediterranean and in Northern Australia There are about 10 to 15 million sufferers throughout the world. But, contrary to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Leprosy has been known since Biblical times, and is still a scourge throughout the world.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">It still occurs in parts of the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Central and South America, Southern Europe around the Mediterranean and in Northern Australia<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">There are about 10 to 15 million sufferers throughout the world.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">But, contrary to popular opinion, it is not highly infectious.<br />
</span></p>
<p><a href="http://leadmedic.com/product_info.php?cPath=56&amp;products_id=823" title="Topamax (Topiramate)"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">In fact, it is thought that it takes years of intimate contact with a sufferer for the infection to be spread to someone else, and even then they usually have to be living in unhygienic conditions.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The germ is similar to the one which causes ÒÂ.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Most infections are contracted in childhood but it may take up to 10 years for the disease to declare itself.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The germs are usually spread from the upper respiratory tract, mainly the nose and throat, and enter the body, usually via a skin abrasion.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Because it doesn&#8217;t affect vital organs it rarely causes death, and often the patient doesn&#8217;t feel ill for most of the course of the disease.<br />
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		<title>BORNHOLM DISEASE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coxackie viruses belong to a group which cause a number of seemingly unrelated diseases. They were named after the U.S. town where the two patients from whom the virus was first isolated lived. Different varieties of the virus can cause meningitis or inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Other illnesses [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The Coxackie viruses belong to a group which cause a number of seemingly unrelated diseases.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">They were named after the U.S. town where the two patients from whom the virus was first isolated lived.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Different varieties of the virus can cause meningitis or inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Other illnesses are pericarditis, where the covering over the heart is involved, and an inflammation of the chest muscles and the pleura or lung covering.<br />
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<p><a href="http://drugswatcher.com/product_info.php?cPath=56&amp;products_id=765" title="Kytril (Granisetron)"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">This condition is called epidemic pleurodynia or Bornholm disease from the Danish island where an outbreak led to the first description of this disorder in 1934.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> The symptoms are those of muscle pain and tenderness of the chest wall and pain made worse by breathing.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">There may be a slight fever, headache and muscular pain elsewhere as well as the chest.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The pleuritic chest pain may lead to a suspicion of other forms of pleurisy or, in the absence of fever, the chest pains may be thought to be due to strain.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Fortunately, the disease is shortlived and rarely lasts beyond two to three days. There is no specific treatment beyond aspirin to lower the temperature and reduce the pain.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*230/71/1*<br />
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		<title>INGROWN TOENAILS IN CHILDHOOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Symptoms: swollen, red, and painful area near toenail; thin, watery pus from the infected area; raw, red tissue covering part of the nail. Home care -    Soak the toe frequently in warm water. -    If possible, gently cut out the ingrown part of the nail. -    If the ingrown spur cannot be removed, soak the bandaged foot [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Symptoms: swollen, red, and painful area near toenail; thin, watery pus from the infected area; raw, red tissue covering part of the nail.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Home care<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    Soak the toe frequently in warm water.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    If possible, gently cut out the ingrown part of the nail.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    If the ingrown spur cannot be removed, soak the bandaged foot in a solution of Epsom salts and encase the foot, complete with bandage, in plastic wrap or a plastic bag.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    In the case of an infant, do not try to remove the ingrown nail, but wipe the toe several times daily with rubbing alcohol, then soak in warm water.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_20101_nimotop_rx_pills.php" title="Nimotop ( Nimodipine )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    Any time home treatment does not work, consult the doctor.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Precautions<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    Be sure your child always wears well-fitting shoes; if the shoes are too small or too pointed they can cause ingrown toenails.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">-    Show your child how to trim the toenails correctly.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Sometimes the corners and edges of toenails break the skin surrounding the nail. Once the skin is broken, infection can set in. The infection causes the tissues to swell, forcing the corner of the nail further into the toe. This condition is known as ingrown toenail, and it cannot heal as long as the nail remains within the tissues.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The initial wound may be caused by injury to the toe as a result of being stepped on or being squeezed by ill-fitting shoes. Or the nail may have been trimmed to leave a sharp spur at the corner; this spur pierces the skin as the nail grows.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Most cases of ingrown toenails involve the big toes of older children; however, any toe can be involved, at any age. A baby can develop an ingrown toenail by digging bare toes into the crib mattress or into another surface onto which he or she has been placed face down.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*132/84/5*<br />
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		<title>PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: FITS (CONVULSIONS)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are they? Sudden spasms of the muscles caused by an abnormal burst of activity in the brain. Convulsions are common in babies and young children. Epilepsy, which causes one kind of fit, is relatively rare, so you should not jump to the conclusion that your child&#8217;s fit is epileptic in origin. What causes them? [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Sudden spasms of the muscles caused by an abnormal burst of activity in the brain. Convulsions are common in babies and young children. Epilepsy, which causes one kind of fit, is relatively rare, so you should not jump to the conclusion that your child&#8217;s fit is epileptic in origin.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">What causes them?<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•        The most common cause of fits (in children) by far is a raised temperature. These so-called febrile convulsions occur most often between the age of 6 months and 3 years old. They are rare after the age of 5 years.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The most usual causes of such high fevers are tonsillitis, acute ear infections, urinary infections and measles. There is often a family history of febrile convulsions during infancy.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•       Epilepsy. This is a condition in which a person has repeated losses of consciousness. There are more than 100 causes for such attacks but for the vast majority of people with epilepsy there is no known, provable cause as such. Epilepsy starts at any age but usually during infancy. Most epileptic children are normal mentally and physically when the attacks start and most lead happy and normal lives with the help of drugs.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Epilepsy can be triggered by late nights, too much alcohol, a high fever, flashing lights, and many other things. It can now be controlled in the vast majority of both adults and children.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Hypoglycemia.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Infections of the brain such as encephalitis, rabies and tetanus.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Shortage of vitamin B6 in children.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Certain poisons and intoxications, including lead, arsenic and alcohol poisoning.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Head injuries.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    Hysteria. Some hysterical people (usually women) have convulsions but only in front of an audience-they never occur when they are alone.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Prevention<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The preventive measures that can be taken against the above causes are obvious and some, such as hysteria, cannot be prevented. The two main causes of convulsions-fevers in children and certain precipitating factors in epilepsy-can, however, be prevented.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•    If a child has a high fever the parent is in a difficult dilemma because there is no doubt that the fever is valuable in killing the bacteria or virus that caused it in the first place. It used to be thought that fevers should be lowered by using aspirin or similar drugs but this is now disputed. A substance called endogenous pyrogen produced during fevers enhances the body&#8217;s immunity to disease. Once this pyrogen is produced it circulates in the blood to the brain and stimulates the body&#8217;s thermostat to produce substances called prostaglandins which set the body&#8217;s temperature to normal. Endogenous pyrogen increases the mobility of white blood cells and stimulates the production of proteins to fight infection. Antibiotics, it appears, also work better at high temperatures.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">However, high fevers have damaging effects too, especially over about 104° or 105°F. The secret then is to start lowering the child&#8217;s temperature before it gets this high-say at 102°, or earlier if the baby or child is irritable. Take all the clothes off the child and lay him or her on a waterproof sheet on the bed. Cool his or her face, trunk and limbs with tepid (just warm) water so as to make the surface blood vessels dilate and lose heat. Cold water makes them contract and conserves heat. Wrap cloths soaked in tepid water around the child&#8217;s groin and neck, and check his or her temperature every 10 minutes until it is normal. Don&#8217;t give aspirin unless the fever is very high (over 103°F/39.4°C). Give the child plenty of drinks (preferably water or dilute fruit juice).<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The above procedure will prevent the vast majority of feverish fits. If ever your child has a fit, don&#8217;t panic but do tell the doctor.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Prevention of epileptic fits is far more difficult because the cause is rarely found. If you find that tiredness, alcohol, flashing lights or TV bring them on, you will have to avoid these things. You can avoid the TV problem by watching in a light room and not going near the set to switch it off or to adjust it. Most photosensitive people can overcome their problem by covering one eye with the palm of their hand. The effects of flashing lights on water can be reduced by wearing polarized spectacles. Sometimes psychological treatments can prevent attacks. The majority of preventive measures for true epilepsy centre around adequate drug control.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*150/72/5*<br />
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