Dermatitis is a pattern of skin inflammation which may follow contact with an injurious substance or may develop without any apparent external cause.
The recognition of skin disorders is essentially a visual art. It requires experience to distinguish what is dermatitis or eczema from what is not; disorders that might be confused with dermatitis or eczema [...]
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Where a more extended form of physical activity demands more energy, glucose becomes the next most immediate source of energy or ‘fuel’. For example, after the first 50-100 metres have been run, the ATP and CP stores have been depleted, but the person is still running and needs more energy. The glucose is broken down [...]
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Starting from scratch to find a specialist that will suit both your needs and expectations is not easy. Where do you start?
It is best to shop around by talking to friends and relatives — in particular those who have either been diagnosed as having endometriosis or those who suffer from menstrual problems. These women are [...]
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Danazol can cause a wide variety of side effects and there is a huge variation in the way that women respond to the drug. Most women experience some side effects and a few experience many. For some women the side effects are quite mild and of no real significance, while for others the side effects [...]
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Almost without a doubt the most universally accepted form of alternative therapy, homoeopathy is a treatment system developed in the late 18th century by Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor. The basis of the therapy is enshrined in two main guiding principles: first, that ‘like cures like’; and, secondly, that ‘less is more’. What this means [...]
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There is ample evidence that the amount and timing of your sleep can have a profound effect on your mood. You can use this known relationship to your advantage. Once again, a log of your mood and sleep patterns may provide clues as to what this relationship might be in your case. For example, you [...]
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There are a few more aspects of epileptic seizures that require explanation.
Some people may have a warning of seizure. The first type of warning is a vague feeling of an impending seizure, particularly before a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure. This prodrome may last several hours. It has no obvious physiological [...]
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Symptom: Inability to sit still or be quiet for more than a very short period.
Home care: Hyperactivity always requires professional evaluation and treatment.
Precautions
- Do not confuse a child’s natural tendency to be active with true hyperkinesis.
- Never accept a diagnosis of hyperkinesis from anyone except a professional.
- Do not try to deal with hyperactivity at home; it always [...]
• Biochemical causes of depression are still hotly debated. Certainly it is possible to detect and even measure biochemical events in the brains of depressed people, but whether the chemical differences between depressed and non-depressed people are the cause or the effect of the depression is impossible to say. Lowered serotonin seems [...]
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Although criticism can be made of animal trials it is less extensive than in the case of human trials.
Generally speaking, animal trial work falls into two main categories. There is the work that involves the use of anima as test models for products. In this case the animals are being used to test the safety [...]
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