Although there is no way to prevent or medically treat Alzheimer’s disease, experimental drugs and procedures are feverishly being tried. If an experimental treatment is available to your relative, check the reputability of the procedure and the qualifications of the researchers doing the study with the National Institute on Aging. As I mentioned earlier, the [...]

Because diagnosing dementia can be so tricky, if you suspect a relative may have Alzheimer’s disease, bypass your family doctor. Visit someone with special training – an internist, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, or a psychologist who is trained in geriatrics. Preferably, get your relative evaluated at a hospital-based geriatric center. Visiting a center is preferable [...]

Young children may become distressed by any acute or prolonged illness in one of their parents. Some will entertain a fantasy that the parent may die. Parents need the child to visit. Often the presence of grandparents or other members of the extended family provides important continuity and security for the child during this period. [...]

There is no bone damage, but the ligaments around the vertebrae (spinal bones), are stretched or even torn. Subluxation or partial dislocation of the small joints between the vertebrae bones may occur. This may cause pressure on the nerves as they leave the spinal cord. Damage to the intervertebral discs may also occur. The vague [...]

The bacteria are usually excreted in the faeces and contaminate food by being transferred to the hands after using the toilet and then to the food being handled. Contamination of water supplies from human excreta is the main method of spread of other bowel infections, such a cholera. Gastro-enteritis, where there is usually nausea, vomiting, [...]

Pain with periods is called dysmenorrhoea. tbe commonest form is primary dysmenorrhoea wmeh occurs in the absence of any abnormality of the pelvic organs. Occasionally pain can be the result of some inflammatory process and then the treatment is directed to that cause. We are not certain why women suffer from pain with periods, but [...]

Milk, especially goat milk, has been held in high repute, especially in Hindu countries, as a potent virility food. The exceptional property of milk is explained by the fact that protein is an extremely important nutrient for normal sex functions. Milk protein, casein, is the highest grade of protein known to man. Furthermore, milk proteins [...]

As a consequence of these experiments in Sweden and England, the Swedish Pharmaceutical Company AB Carls-Bergh has put out a vitamin-miiieral-trace-element-ainino-acid preparation for hair in a tablet form called H-Pantolen. The active ingredients in H-Pantoten are: vitamin H (biotin), pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, folic acid, para-amino-benzoic acid, inositol—all vitamins from B-complex—plus iron, iodine and other [...]

GALL-BLADDER AND GALL DUCTS 1. The inflammatory gall-bladder disturbances are recognised by a lightening of colour in the gall-bladder area—white lines or wisps. It is usually a question of an inflammation extending from the intestine, as already stated in connection with inflammatory states of the liver, going out from the duodenum, and extending in proportion [...]

The live triple measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine should be given to children at the age of 12 months. It confers long-term – probably lifelong – immunity against all three diseases. Measles. Measles is a contagious viral disease that affects mainly the respiratory system, the eyes, and the skin. It is considered dangerous mainly because its complications [...]