Most common ways that occupational agents cause rhinitis: 1. Irritant Reactions: Agents that irritate the membrane of our noses are the most common causes of office rhinitis. At the top of the list of such agents is cigarette smoke. 2. Allergic Reactions: This is the most common mechanism of non-office rhinitis. Longshoremen, farmers, veterinarians, and [...]
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of chronic arthritis in children that is also referred to as Still’s disease, juvenile chronic polyarthritis, and juvenile chronic arthritis. It rarely begins before the age of one year, but it may start anytime after the first year. There are different types of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis that begin at [...]
It is only in the last 10 years that we have found that Glutamine is: 1 The primary nutrient for the digestive lining. 2 The primary fuel for the immune system. 3 Vital for the metabolism of muscle. 4 Vital for wound-healing and tissue repair. 5 The body’s most common amino acid. Dr Douglas Wilmore, [...]
Fainting can precede and cause a seizure, as in Jane’s case, or occur without a seizure, as we have seen in Rebecca’s story. Fainting spells may occur when someone hasn’t eaten, when someone gives blood, or occasionally after insufficient sleep or after extreme tension or anxiety or with overventilation due to anxiety. Fainting spells can [...]
What is so important about exercise having its own signaling pathway to remove blood glucose? The insulin mechanism guides glucose from ingested food to tissues for storage. During periods of feasting, insulin repletes glycogen stores (complexed glucose) in skeletal muscle and then in the liver. Once these glycogen stores are filled, insulin directs blood glucose [...]
Once you have decided to quit smoking and have developed an attitude that permits you to approach that effort in a positive manner, the next step is to adopt a method that has the highest possible likelihood of success. There is no single best way to stop smoking. The best way is one that you [...]
Breast cancer does not occur in children and the first cases are seen in the late teens and in the early twenties. At that age, the disease is rare but its frequency increases rapidly up to age fifty and then continues to increase, but less rapidly, thereafter. As we noted in the chapter on diet, [...]
What are the diagnostic criteria for JRA? Juvenile RA is diagnosed in children 16 years of age and under. The child must have persistent joint pain with inflammation that makes movement very difficult for at least six weeks, and other forms of childhood arthritis first must be excluded. Is it easy to misdiagnose a child [...]
Four out of five adults have back pain severe enough to interrupt their daily routine at least once in their life. A common and frustrating problem to treat, there is no quick, easy cure; recovery is slow; the pain often recurs; and prevention and treatment require life-long commitment. Self-care is the major factor in preventing [...]
Epidemics of brain fever are not an excessively large cause of disability and death in the United States. There have, however, been outbreaks such as the one which occurred in St. Louis in 1933 in which there were more than 1,000 cases. In the St. Louis epidemic there were 100 cases for every 100,000 population [...]