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For the eyes: Wash out with large amounts of water for 10 mintues before doing anything else. Do this at once where you are. Only after you have washed the eye for 10 minutes do you take the patient to the doctor. SUNBURN

This is often worse than you think, particularly in children. As treatment, allow plenty of rest; plenty of cooling fluids; moist compresses to the affected areas. Soothing creams, especially those containing a local anaesthetic, are helpful.

Ask your chemist at the beginning of summer what cream to use. Calomine lotion may be used. If major blistering occurs, see your doctor. PREVENTION OF BURNS

It is important for parents to consider prevention in relation to the safety of children.

NEVER let a child play with matches.

NEVER leave children in the car with matches in

the glove box or cigarette lighter in the dashboard.

DON’T have handles of pots and saucepans projecting from the stove. Little hands do reach up. Keep cups with hot tea and coffee in the centre of the table, not along edges!

NEVER run the hot tap in the bath by itself. Always have the cold one on as well; and do not leave small children in the bath by themselves. They could turn on the hot water.

Pay attention to the night attire your children wear. No night dresses — they look pretty but burn so easily. Tight-fitting pyjamas for boys and girls are best. WOOL IS BEST, it burns slowly. Cotton and flannelette are dangerous, and synthetics melt.

Be responsible . .. demand that your retailer stocks only approved, fire-resistant nightwear.

Check such things as radiators to see that they are adequately guarded. New products, initially, are often unknown quantities so far as safety for children is concerned. Sometimes their dangerous features are not recognised by the manufacturers until a few accidents happen.

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Colic usually develops when one of the smaller stones attempts to move from the gallbladder down the duct which leads to the bowel. Smaller ones may enter the duct and then become jammed.

When this happens, there is a back pressure along the ducts and bile builds up in the liver and overflows into the blood and tissues, producing the yellow color known as jaundice. The larger stones are unable to enter the duct.

The diagnosis of stones may be suspected but an X-ray is necessary to confirm their presence. This is a cholecystogram.The patient usually has a preliminary plain X-ray. Only stones containing a lot of calcium will be visible on this film.

The person is given some tablets to take in the evening and an appointment is made for the next day. The tablets contain a radio-opaque dye which, excreted by the liver, passes in the bile into the gallbladder where, like the bile, it is concentrated and outlines this organ.

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Some forms of the contraceptive Pill contain one hormone which, when broken down in the body, forms androgen and women on the Pill can develop both acne and excess facial hair. Other forms of the Pill are more oestrogenic and can reduce both acne and facial hair.

The drug phenytoin, widely used in epilepsy to control convulsions, may lead to an increase in body hair in some women. The exact cause is unknown, although an increase in the activity of androgen or an over-sensitivity of the hairs to hormone is believed to be the reason.

Most women with hair problems do not consult their doctors, relying on self-treatment or the care of beauty salons or those who specialise in the removal of hairs. Those who do seek medical advice are usually concerned there might be a serious underlying reason for the hirsutism or because of a severe emotional reaction.

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Place cucumbers in a wooden barrel, or a large earthenware or glass jar. Place a few leaves of black currants, cherries, mustard seed and dill branches in with the cucumbers.

Boil up a sufficient amount of salt water, using about four ounces of sea salt for five quarts of water. Let water cool down, then pour it over cucumbers. Cover with linen canvas, place a wooden board over it, and on the top a clean heavy stone. There should be enough salt water to cover the board. Keep container in a warm place for about one week, then move to a cooler place. Pickles are ready for eating in about three to four weeks. Every second week or so remove the stone and die covers and wash them well first in warm then in cold water, then replace them. Keep the top of the water clean from foam and mildew. When pickles are ready for eating the] can be placed in glass jars and kept in the refrigerator.

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1. H-Pantoten tablets are made in Sweden and are sold in every drug store, health food store and barber shop in Sweden and also in many other countries on the European continent. Perhaps they will soon be available in the United States. If you can obtain them, take one to three tablets each day, preferably before breakfast. If you are not able to obtain H-Pantoten, use a natural, multiple high-potency B-complex vitamin formula. Health food stores have several to choose from. Select one which has all the B-vitamins present with especially large doses of those B-vitamins named in this chapter as being of particular importance for the hair and for improving blood circulation: inositol, choline, biotin, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, folic acid, riboflavin, and pyridoxine. Take B-complex formulas before breakfast and before dinner.

2. Supplement your diet with a varied choice of the following B-vitamin-packed foods:

Brewer’s yeast—one to two tablespoons a day.

Desiccated liver (important for Bi2) —five to ten tablets a day.

Lecithin—one to two tablespoons a day.

Wheat germ—two to three tablespoons a day.

Sunflower seeds, whole grains, raw nuts, beans. Sunflower seeds are extremely rich in the minerals and vitamins essential for hair growth: choline, inositol, vitamin E and D, and minerals phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium.

3. Take the following additional food supplements:

•Wheat germ oil—two to three teaspoons a day.

Vitamin E—300-600 International Units a day. Start with 100 I.U. and add 100 I.U. each week. (In case of high blood pressure, consult your doctor.)

Vitamin C—up to 1,000 mg. a day.

Bioflavonoids—20—100 mg. a day.

•Cold-pressed vegetable oils—use them liberally with your salads or in cooking.

Cod liver oil—one tsp. daily.

Kelp—one tablet with each meal.

•Bone meal tablets, for minerals—five to ten daily. Where not suggested otherwise, food supplements should be

taken with meals.

4. Eat a balanced diet of vital, natural, unrefined foods, with

emphasis on raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds,

and milk products.

5. Don’t overeat. Hardening of the arteries, which often ac-

companies obesity, may be a contributing cause of impaired

blood circulation and diminished blood supply to your

scalp.

6. Avoid salt, white sugar, white flour, and all foods made with them. Use sea salt moderately.

7. Avoid alcohol and tobacco.

8. Avoid excessive shampooing of your hair. Unless your hair

is excessively oily, do not wash it oftener than once a week.

Vigorous brushing twice a day for a few minutes will normally keep your scalp clean from dirt, dandruff, stale oils,

etc. The normal discharge of sebum, the oil from the sebaceous glands, is beneficial for your hair. Vigorous brushing is

extremely important for the healthy state of your hair and

for the prevention of baldness. It stimulates the sebaceous

glands and hair roots and increases the blood supply to the

hair follicles.

9. Use finger or vibrator massage to improve blood circulation

in your scalp. Here’s how you do it: place both hands, all

finger tips, firmly on your head and, without moving the

fingers, push the whole scalp in circular movements for a

few seconds; then place the fingers in a new position and repeat. Cover the whole scalp, including the forehead, temples, and neck. For effortless massage use an electric vibrator, available at department stores for less than ten dollars.

10. Use a slant board or headstand stool, both available at better health food stores. Lie on the slant board, with your head down at the lower level, at least twice a day for 15 minutes each time. If possible, do a headstand twice a day, one to three minutes each time. Both are extremely effective in bringing more blood to the blood-starving scalp. Many men have reported better hair growth and even new hair in completely bald areas after practicing headstands for a few months.

Warning: If you suffer from high blood pressure, or if your blood capillaries are in poor shape and brittle, build up your condition and strengthen your capillaries with the vitamins C, P and the macrobiotic diet.

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If both kidneys register, then in many cases it is a question of overstrain, suggesting that the system is overladen with poisonous substances and that one or several other organs (intestines, skin and lungs) show conditions of functional insufficiency. In such cases one also finds an early or closed weakness-sign, or darkening of the kidney area.

True kidney disease usually takes place in one kidney only, and the following signs may be seen:

1. Nephritis: inflammation of the kidney. In acute conditions, small white points, wisps or clouds, or also small white streaks are found in the kidney area, which take on a yellowish colouring as the conditions become chronic. With older damage, the iris-wreath in the kidney area is contracted inwards.

If the condition is one of cysto-pyelitis then sharp white lines or wisp signs are also found in the bladder area.

2. Renal hypo-function: functional weakness of the kidney. The kidney area shows a dark weakness-sign, which is markedly widened in the muscle zone. Patients with these signs pass scanty urine and have high-domed finger nails.

3. Contracted kidney: one finds in the kidney area dark to black points or streaks as signs of tissue disintegration. The condition is one of irreparable damage leading to progressive disturbance and renal insufficiency, with consequent uraemia. When these sharp black signs are seen, they are a reminder to be cautious (not dark wisps—these are signs of unresolved catarrh), and in addition to the customary urine analysis, to measure the blood pressure frequently, and also if possible to observe the fundus of the eye. Other signs of contracted kidney are a weakness-sign in the heart area, and in addition to the small black kidney signs a large suprarenal sign.

4. Renal stone, nephrolithiasis: occurs more frequently than is generally accepted—it is not for certain established diagnostically in every case. For so long as concretions are retained in the renal pelvis no signs for stone can be found in the iris unless its presence results in inflammation of the mucous membrane—and this possibility is always there. When stimulation of the mucous membrane of the renal pelvis arises from concretions, one finds in the kidney area a small white streak (as distinct from the sign of inflammation arising otherwise: white clouds) close to the iris-wreath. These small white streaks disappear, however, when the inflammation recedes, and leave behind no sign of special significance. Such cases are only seldom seen by the irisdiagnostician, usually accidentally, when a patient comes on account of some other complaint. Generally, the condition is one of ureteral colic, without inflammation signs in the kidney or ureteral areas. Only a loosening of the iris fibres is to be seen in the organ area of the ureter: right iris 30′-35′, left iris 25′-30′.

When a sharp-edged stone lodges in the renal pelvis a local circumscribed inflammation first arises. This leads to the above-mentioned small white signs in the iris. If the condition in the renal pelvis results in damage to the mucous membrane and degeneration of tissue, then a small dark to black point-like sign develops in the white sign. These small injuries and inflammations heal quickly when the stone shifts to another position in the renal pelvis, so that from these repeated local injuries several small black points develop in the area for renal pelvis.

It would be untrue to infer that all such signs as have been discussed refer to renal gravel. My view is that a single stone can also give rise to such signs. Much depends upon the kind of stone, as to whether these signs will develop. These small point-like signs are not the only signs in the iris for stones. Sometimes we find several points surrounded by a thin white line, suggesting that frequent inflammatory response to stone damage of the renal pelvis has already occurred, and also that such has healed again.

One sometimes finds a black streak with a point on top. It looks like an upside down comma. Such a sign suggests that there is a large stone in the renal pelvis, which from its size and weight has resulted in an indentation of the renal tissues, destroying mucous membrane and connection tissues.

The signs described so far can exist without the patient complaining of, or having complained of painful symptoms in the kidney region. Where there are painful conditions one always finds a white sign (inflammation sign) by the black sign. According to the degree of inflammation, small white streaks or larger white clouds show, which may extend to the neighbourhood of the kidney areas. With extension of the inflammatory process, and destruction of the renal tissues, there will appear against the large white clouds several large, longish or zigzag black signs.

((Black signs = tissue destruction = loss of substance.)

5. Hydronephrosis, renal stasis: arises as the result of pressure from inside or outside (stones, tumours, etc.), whereby the ureter is constricted and the urine collects in the renal pelvis, resulting in a considerable dilatation of the renal pelvis. In the iris the condition is recognised by a wide separation of the iris fibres in the kidney area, with many long black signs which appear between the fibres. In well marked cases, the iris fibres are observed to be running in large arcs which extend over the extremity area (30′) and extend through the region for inguinal, uterine and rectal areas: right iris 25′, left iris 35′.

6. Floating kidney: is recognised by a displacement of the kidney areas in the direction of the abdominal area. One sees a distinct white arc which extends out from the iris-wreath into the lower temporal quadrant of the iris. In addition, one often finds a contraction of the wreath at right iris 45′, or left iris 15-20′, which arises through pressure of the displaced kidney upon the intestine.

Floating kidney and hydronephrosis have quite similar signs. They are easily distinguished by the long black signs (loss of substance) which are found with hydronephrosis but not with floating kidney.

7. It is important to draw attention to the close connection between lungs and kidneys. Thus, for example, there is no lung T.B. without kidney signs in the left iris. (Right iris: hereditary, left iris: acquired.)

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Throat cultures

A throat culture is done to find out if a throat infection is being caused by bacteria and, if so, to identify the specific bacteria. This can provide the doctor with important information. If the infection is due to a virus rather than to a bacterium, the doctor will know not to prescribe antibiotics because viruses don’t respond to antibiotics; if a bacterium is the cause, knowing which one it is will enable the doctor to prescribe the correct antibiotic to treat that particular type of bacteria.

To collect material for the culture the doctor uses a swab tipped with cotton to scrape cells and discharge from the throat. This material is put into a growth medium, a solution that encourages bacteria to grow. The specimen is watched carefully, and the bacteria are identified. A throat culture is often sent to a laboratory for testing, so it may take 48 hours to get the results.

Other cultures

Although throat cultures are the most common cultures, bacteria from other sites can be identified by the same method. Cultures can be made from blood, discharge from an infected eye or ear, discharge coughed up from the lungs, bowel movements, urine, or discharge from infected cuts or wounds. As with a throat culture, material from the site is sent to a laboratory, and then placed in a growth medium to see what types of bacteria grow and how many there are of each type.

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A small superficial boil is a pimple or pustule. (An acne pimple is not a true boil.) A large boil with several heads is a carbuncle. A boil on the edge of the eyelid is a sty. When many boils are present at one time the condition is called furunculosis. Abscesses are collections of pus in parts of the body other than the skin, as in muscles, brain, bone, and internal organs. Abscesses are like boils, but often they are caused by germs other than staph.

Staph germs are often harmlessly present in the nose and throat or on the skin of healthy people. Staph germs on the skin cause no problems unless there is a cut or break in the skin. If the germs enter the body through a break in the skin, they cause infections.

Signs and symptoms

Boils are easily recognized by their redness, pain, and the formation of pus in the center.

Home care

Boils are treated with frequent or constant soaks with warm Epsom salts solutions (one-half cup per liter of water). When a boil comes to a head and drains, the drainage must be caught on a sterile bandage to avoid spreading the infection. The surrounding skin should be cleansed frequently with soap and water to avoid additional boils.

Precautions

• Be careful with boils on the face and forehead, including the nose and lips. The lymph and blood vessel drainage from these areas is partly internal. Be especially careful that drainage from a boil does not come in contact with the eyes. See your doctor if boils develop on the face.

• Never squeeze a boil. Squeezing breaks down the wall surrounding the boil. When this wall is broken down, the infection rapidly spreads outward.

• Treat all minor wounds and insect bites properly to lessen the likelihood of infections and the forming of boils.

Medical treatment

Your doctor may open and drain the boil, culture the pus, and order sensitivity studies on the staph germs found. These studies will help your doctor identify the antibiotic that will most effectively fight the infection. The doctor may prescribe antibiotics to be taken by mouth. Many staph infections have become resistant to penicillin. Other antibiotics that may be used include erythromycin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, methicillin, and cephalosporin. For repeated attacks of boils, your doctor may recommend nose and throat cultures of the patient and the entire family to identify carriers of the staph germs. Antibiotic ointments applied in the nose and antiseptic baths may be prescribed.

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“It’s well-established in many species that in absence of mating behavior, males live much longer,” says David Gems, Ph.D., researcher in the department of biology at University College London. “Castration increases longevity in a variety of vertebrates. Neutering tomcats has an enormous impact on their life expectancy.”

Dr. Gems himself found that male worms lived up to twice as long when kept by themselves, as opposed to living with other males or with females. That’s because they spent so much energy mating or attempting to mate that it shortened their lives, Dr. Gems says.

In humans, the problem may be part behavioral and part physiological, notes Dr. Gems, who admits that many questions remain unanswered. “One theory is that testosterone raises metabolism, so men burn energy faster and thereby lower their life spans,” he says.

The upside is that if all this is true, men probably have a stronger propensity for longevity than women, Dr. Gems says. “If males had the same genetic constitution as women and had all these odds stacked against them, they’d be genetically unfit,” he says. It’s this stronger innate constitution that also likely explains why men who live to their eighties and nineties are in better shape than women of the same age, Dr. Gems says. “The trick is getting out there,” he says.

Preferably with all appendages still attached.

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