The commonest cause for a swollen lip is an allergic reaction to a chemical, food or an insect bite. Sometimes direct injury to the lips can cause swelling and bruising.

TONGUE TIE

In this condition a small fold of skin runs between the base of the tongue and the floor of the mouth. Normally this skin fold is present just at the rear portion of the tongue’s undersurface, and does not limit movement or interfere with speech. A tongue tie rarely causes any problems, but if it interferes with speech the skin fold may be surgically separated from the tongue. This is rarely necessary. Most speech problems are not related to tongue tie.

TUGGING AT EARS

Young children often play with their ears, tugging them and rubbing them. This is usually no cause for concern. If, however, your child is unwell, has a fever, or complains of an earache, he may have an ear infection, and it is wise to see your doctor. In babies and toddlers in particular, tugging at the ear may be a sign of an ear infection.

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1. Some chemotherapy may alter menstruation, fertility in men and women, and hormonal patterns related to human development, particularly during adolescence. Ask your doctor about the side effects in this regard. Just ask out loud, “What might this chemical do to my sex life?”

2. The whole process of chemotherapy and its administration is not conducive to comfort. You may become depressed as well as have other physical symptoms. Get a strong support system and make sure the setting in which you receive your chemotherapy is one that you can at least tolerate. Listen to music, fantasize, play relaxation and imagery tapes. Help out the process! Go to your own internal pharmacy of natural healing chemicals.

3. it is not true that all chemotherapy causes infertility. Some types can, but not always. Teenagers I have interviewed sometimes assume that their chemotherapy makes them safe contraceptively. This is not true. Talk it over with your doctor.

4 The cell-disease patients I interviewed felt a stronger need than ever to be touched, held, stroked, and loved, and the more invasive the treatment, the stronger was the need. Never forget the power of the healing touch. “I can’t say why or how, but his touch just soothed me after the chemotherapy.” The wife reported that her husband could actually cancel out some of the side effects of her treatment. She continued, “He was on a sales trip once, and I had my treatment. I got sick as a dog. The next time, he was home. If we make love, like that time, I just don’t get the nausea. Can that happen?”

There are forms of cell disease for every part of the body, but the principles above apply to each. If we take the fourth perspective of sexuality, we avoid the trap of a genital/breast focus on sex. When we avoid that trap, we have ample options to protect our sexuality. No disease destroys sharing, and sharing in the absence of the energy buildup and discharge model cannot be destroyed by cell disease. If we give up our sexuality at times of illness, we give the disease a power it does not have on its own.

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“You have absolutely no desire,” said the wife. “You have sex but you don’t really want it.”

“Well, you want it, you have desire,” responded the husband, “but you don’t really have it, you don’t enjoy it.”

You can see the danger in “assigning” sexual motives. I have found it helpful to use desire simply and directly as a number, a count that means nothing but number and certainly is not a symptom of the presence or absence of sexual interest or arousal.

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The above facts indicate, that ever-present viruses and living bacteria in our body are in perfect symbiosis with it in a healthy state (the fact widely accepted by medical science) and therefore they are not the cause of disease.

When we are healthy, there is hardly any food for bacteria in our body, except in the intestines. Bacteria live there happily, helping us greatly to break down and absorb complex food as well as to dispose toxins. If our diet is healthy, we have only “friendly” bacteria, which are perfectly adapted to feed on and break down such food for us.

All bacteria are under the strict control of our mind-body system. Medicine says that our “immune system” is functioning properly.

However, when our body becomes damaged, poisoned, overloaded with toxins, it makes an effort to dispose of and/or break down dead matter and toxic deposits, wherever they may be accumulated. Modern medicine knows very well which toxins are accumulated in which organ. For example benzene goes directly and accumulates in the thymus gland. Bacteria from the intestines are allowed to enter the bloodstream and are transported to the disposal site. Very quickly these bacteria adapt to the local conditions. The bacteria most adequate to these conditions is created and the toxic/dead organic matter is transformed by it, hopefully for easier disposal by the body.

When the toxic sites are large, the population of bacteria explodes. Different types of bacteria will be adapted to the current condition in this part of the body. Bacteria in large amounts may create additional toxins which usually do not help us and cause certain symptoms, enabling us sometimes to identify their type. In this scenario, bacteria are not the cause of the disease, but they simply take advantage of any initial pre-existing toxic state in our body. Killing bacteria with antibiotics sometimes gives relief, because you give your body more time to restore the balance, reducing the rate at which toxins are neutralised and excreted.

Medicine has already tried the concept of sterile (bacteria free) body. It was shown beyond doubt, that it does not lead to a good health at all.

In view of the above, the statement that viruses or bacteria cause disease is therefore no more accurate, than saying that flies cause garbage.)

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Other stones are formed from uric acid when this chemical is increased both in the blood and the urine in gout.

A stone usually signals its presence by causing pain. This may occur when the stone attempts to move from the pelvis of the kidney.

A large stone lying in the pelvis, or irritating the area where the ureter or tube which carries the urine from the kidney to the bladder arises, can cause a constant dull pain in the loin and in the front of the abdomen just below the ribs.

If the stone enters the ureter and attempts to move down, it can cause severe pain.

Ureteric colic is regarded as being the most severe pain we can experience. It comes in spasms and may be felt in the loin, down the front of the abdomen and even into the testes and the front of the thigh.

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I think it is wrong, because it is not a proper explanation of what is happening and gives rise to the impression that something “slipped,” can be “put back.”

Most problems that affect the back involve the lower portion.

There are five lumbar vertebrae in the small of the back and these join to the sacrum, a triangular bone just above the buttocks, consisting of five vertebrae fused together.

Most back problems arise from the discs between the fourth and fifth lumbar and the fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae.

Prolapse of the disc can occur when the back section of the elastic outer disc ruptures and allows the inner core and portions of the elastic tissue to move backwards and press against the spinal cord or the nerves which come from it.

Some recent work in Australia shows that minor tears in the surrounding elastic tissue can allow the fluid portion of the inner core to leak out. This fluid is highly irritant and can cause inflammation of the nerves as they come out from the spine.

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When the modern and very versatile laparoscope was invented in Sweden about twenty years ago, it was the culmination of a long medical quest to look into and observe the living human body. It is fiber optics, or cold light, that made the laparoscope possible and practical to make. The laparoscope is a long rigid tube equipped with thin glass fibers (along which light travels to “spotlight” organs) and a periscopelike attachment that allows doctors to see into the pelvis and

abdomen. Lightweight and flexible (it can be maneuvered into various positions), the laparoscope not only makes it possible to see into the abdominal cavity but can also be used along with surgical instruments, if necessary, for further medical procedures. Therefore, laparoscopy—the technique that employs the tool—can be performed for either a diagnostic or a therapeutic procedure.

The most frequent candidates for laparoscopy are women with fertility problems, but the number of women who are suspected of having endometriosis and are undergoing the technique to confirm it is growing apace. Laparoscopy, it has been found, benefits women with either problem (or both) in this way: since the technique allows a visual inspection of pelvic organs and subsequent diagnosis, it can avert major surgery. For patients with persistently misdiagnosed and undiagnosed pelvic pain, it may finally provide an answer. Doctors can look for signs of endometriosis in its varying stages—from a reddened inflamed appearance of organs to the existence of pepper spots to greater gluelike adhesions to more massive chocolate cysts and tumors. Laparoscopy allows the sighting of such conditions, but remember, it is surgery, though on a lesser scale.

Currently, laparoscopy, familiarly called the Band-Aid procedure, is considered by most doctors to be the only absolute method of detection for endometriosis. Would that it were absolute! As it turns out, laparoscopy is only as good as the practitioner doing the viewing and diagnosing. Endometriosis is sometimes difficult to identify. Endometriosis that is growing on the ligaments behind the uterus or hidden inside tissue can be difficult to spot. To locate such growths, a doctor needs skill and dexterity. The scope must be positioned well below the uterus to catch sight of hard-to-see implants.

Unfortunately, some physicians either are inexperienced or may not fully understand the procedure or the female anatomy, or both. Because of these shortcomings, a number of complications can occur during laparoscopy. If it is not conducted under proper sterile techniques, the procedure can lead to abdominal and pelvic infections. Internal bleeding is a possibility from an incorrectly placed laparoscope; the device can lacerate, perforate, or traumatize the organs. Laparoscopy can cause serious problems like these in the hands of an unskilled physician. Then again, he may be knowledgeable enough about the procedure itself, but lacking as a diagnostician.

Cases of women undergoing this procedure and being told they are free of the disease when, in fact, they are not are not uncommon. One reason, as mentioned, is the surgeon’s skill in detecting it. Another is that the endometriosis may be microscopic and not visible to the eye. This means that evidence of the disease may not be revealed with laparoscopy, although it exists. Otherwise, the disease is officially described at four different stages of severity (I, II, III, and IV), as recently classified by the American Fertility Society.

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On a brighter note it is worth remembering that research la progressing and new treatments are being developed. One of the more exciting drug groups currently being investigated are the ‘retinoids’, which are based on vitamin A; these may have a great future.

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