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Natural Alternatives to Antacid and Reflux Drugs: Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice Root (DGL)

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Natural Alternatives to Antacid and Reflux Drugs: Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice Root (DGL)

This herbal extract is very soothing to the lining of the esophagus and stomach. It also has natural anti-inflammatory effects. Studies have shown DGL to be effective for healing ulcers, and many practitioners find it helpful for GERD. There have been no direct studies of DGL for GERD.

Licorice Root

Licorice Root

DOSAGE

Chew one to two 400-mg tablets three times daily, 20 minutes before meals. DGL is also available in powder form.

SAFETY

While higher doses of regular licorice root may elevate blood pressure and cause water retention, this is not a concern with DGL. Glycyrrhizin, the constituent that may elevate blood pressure and cause water retention, has been removed.

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Natural Alternatives to Acne Drugs. Diet and Lifestyle Changes

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Natural Alternatives to Acne Drugs. Diet and Lifestyle Changes

For some people with acne, a healthy diet can do wonders to clear up their complexion. Conventional medicine has traditionally held to the notion that acne is not related to diet. Nutrition-oriented doctors such as ourselves have found that diet plays a major role in acne for some but not all individuals. An emerging body of scientific evidence is demonstrating that diet does indeed have an impact on acne. For example, researcher Loren Cordain, professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University, teamed up with five scientists from around the country to look at the more than 1,300 Kitivan Islanders of Papua New Guinea and Ache hunter-gatherers of Paraguay. They could not find a single case of active acne in either Kitivan Islanders or Ache hunter-gatherers. According to Cordain, the perfect skin of the two unrelated groups in the study was not due to genetics, but likely was the result of different environmental factors, especially diet.

Unlike the high simple sugar content of U.S. foods, the diet of the Kitivans in Papua,New Guinea, consists mainly of fruit, fish, and tubers. The diet of the Ache hunter-gatherers of Paraguay includes wild and foraged foods, locally cultivated food, and a small percentage of Western foods obtained from external sources.

A Western diet boosts the hormone insulin, which promotes inflammation of the skin as well as the overproduction of oil and skin cells in pores that lead to bacteria overgrowth on the skin and acne formation. In addition, the Western diet increases growth factors and other hormones such as testosterone that contribute to acne. (more…)

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What are foodborne illnesses?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

What are Foodborne illnesses?

Foodborne illnesses

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What Paratyphoid A and B?

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

What Paratyphoid A and B?

Paratyphoid A and B – acute infectious diseases, the clinical picture is similar to typhoid fever. Pathogens – moving from a sort of salmonella bacteria that are resistant in the environment. Disinfectants in the usual concentrations kill them after a few minutes. The only source of infection in paratyphoid A are sick and bakteriovydeliteli, and when paratyphoid in them can be and animals (cattle, etc.). Ways to transfer more fecal-oral, less food or water (including mushin). The rise of morbidity begins in July, reaching a peak in September-October, endemic. Susceptibility of high and does not depend on age and sex.

Features of clinical appearance in paratyphoid

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What is dysentery?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

What is dysentery?

Dysentery is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella. The source of infection – a sick man and bacillicarriers. Infection occurs when contamination of food, water, objects directly with the hands or flies. Dysentery microbes are localized mainly in the colon, causing its inflammation, surface erosion and ulcers buy Revatio online.

Dysentery

Dysentery

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Symptoms, signs and course of typhoid fever

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Typhoid

What is typhoid fever?

typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever – an acute infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Salmonella. The causative agent can persist in soil and water up to 1-5 months. Die when heated, and the action of conventional disinfectants buy Noroxin online.

The only source of infection – a sick man and bacillicarriers. Sticks typhoid transferred directly by dirty hands, flies, sewage. Dangerous outbreaks associated with consumption of infected food products (milk, cold meat dishes, etc.).

Symptoms, signs and course of typhoid fever.

The incubation period lasts from 1 to 3 weeks. In typical cases, the disease begins gradually. Patients malaise, weakness, fatigue, mild headache. In subsequent days, these phenomena increase, body temperature begins to rise to 39-40 degrees Celsius, decreases or disappears appetite, disturbed sleep (sleepiness during the day and insomnia at night). There is a delay in the chair, the phenomenon of bloating. By day 7.9 of disease on the skin of upper abdomen and lower parts of the chest, usually on the anterolateral surface, there is a characteristic rash, which is a small red spots with sharp edges, diameter of 2-3 mm above the level of the skin (roseola). Instead of disappearing roseola may appear new. Peculiar characteristic retardation patients, pale face, decrease in heart rate and blood pressure reduction. Above the light scattered dry auscultated wheezing – a manifestation of a specific bronchitis. Tongue dry, cracked, covered with a dirty-brown or brown film, edge and tip of the tongue are free from attack, with imprints of teeth. There is a rough rumbling of the cecum and tenderness in the right iliac region, liver and spleen were enlarged on palpation. It reduces the number of leukocytes in peripheral blood, especially neytrofillov and eozinofillov.

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Lobar pneumonia

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Symptoms (manifestation) lobar pneumonia

Symptoms (manifestation) lobar pneumonia

Lobar pneumonia

Symptoms (manifestation) lobar pneumonia.

Lobar pneumonia manifested by sudden onset (patient calls the day and time), chills with a spectacular rise in body temperature to febrile figures, cough (initially dry, and then with a viscous rusty sputum), dyspnea, chest pain, palpitations. On examination: herpes on the lips, chin, on the wings of the nose, shortness of breath, behind the chest when breathing on the affected side. The body temperature goes up to high numbers, and kept for several days, and then decreases rapidly within a few hours (crisis).

After the crisis the patient’s condition improves, he begins to recover quickly. Under favorable conditions, the crisis comes at the 7-8-th day of illness. In this period can be an acute heart failure (decrease in blood pressure, increased heart rate and weakening, etc.), it is important to take into account nurses. It should be ready kordiamin, camphor, mezatona, caffeine, adrenaline to raise blood pressure, and oxygen, antibiotics such as Noroxin (Norfloxacin) and Keftab (Cephalexin).

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