Mr. H. Singh was a very difficult type of patient who was always complaining—never satisfied, never happy. Although he was always relieved of his previous physical complaint by the medicine, he would present with some new minor complaint as fresh evidence of his continued illness. One day he complained in a very bitter tone “Doctor, [...]
Whenever a physical ailment has changing or irregular and uncertain symptoms, negative Scleranthus is in evidence and calls for the same remedy. In negative Scleranthus state the person is dithering between two options which are diametically opposite to each other—to go or stay back, to attack or defend, to buy or not buy, to tell [...]
Many people with BDD never breathe a word to others about their appearance concerns—largely because they’d be much too embarrassed to mention them. As a college student said about her face, “People must notice it’s long, but I haven’t asked. I’d be much too embarrassed! And if people said they didn’t notice it, I wouldn’t [...]
Anxiety, depression, caffeine and alcohol are notorious enemies of a good night’s sleep. Anxiety makes it difficult to go to sleep. Depression produces a typical sleep pattern involving difficulty dropping off, frequent awakening and early morning wakefulness. Like many sleeping tablets, alcohol produces drowsiness and is initially an aid to sleep. Three or four hours [...]
АЛКОГОЛЬ И КУРЕНИЕ – ОПАСНЫЕ ФАКТОРЫ РИСКА ПРИ ПОЛЛИНОЗАХ К факторам риска при поллинозах относится злоупотребление спиртными напитками. Вред алкоголя заключается в том, что он раздражает слизистые оболочки не только желудочно-кишечного тракта и дыхательных путей, что создает дополнительные условия для проникновения пыльцы растений в органы дыхания. Алкоголь расстраивает все функции нервной системы, следовательно, усугубляет течение [...]
One of the physician’s tasks in the sleep disorders clinic is to distinguish between patients with potential sleep apnoea and those with other complaints which adversely affect the quality of sleep. Stress related insomnia, for example, has no place in the laboratory dedicated to sleep related breathing disorders. The following case studies are fairly typical [...]
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Depression in the elderly is also called ‘pseudo-dementia’, i.e. false-dementia; this is because the symptoms and signs of depression can be very difficult to separate from those of some of the dementing illnesses. Depression is common in old age, and the elderly have the highest rate of successful suicide attempts. Depression often accompanies physical ill-health [...]
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When we say Mr. Smith’s heart attack was caused by the stress of retirement, blame our brother’s death on his anguish over being widowed, or nod ruefully when we catch the flu the week we move, we are agreeing to a belief as old as ancient times: that major disruptions in the pattern of life [...]
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Older people do not move even once, however. In spite of their reputation as migrants, people over sixty-five are the least likely to change residence of adults of any age. Our early twenties, not our sixties, are the time of life when we are most likely to move. As the years pass and we establish [...]
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If you suspect that your child has a fracture, see your doctor. Most fractured limbs need to be splinted or put into a plaster cast. This enables the bones to unite and mend without being disturbed by any movement. If the fracture is a complicated one, or it is open to the surface, your child [...]
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