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HIV INFECTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR CHILDREN-PROBLEMS WITH TELLING

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Many of the problems people with HIV infection have with their children are, on the surface, the same problems they have with any other relative: how to tell them about the infection, how to deal with their worries, how not to be a burden on them. Under the surface, however, the problems are complicated by the uniqueness of the parent-child relationship. Parents and children are not equal partners in a relationship. Parents take care of children, not the reverse. Young children truly are helpless and cannot care for their parents. Older children may be unable emotionally to care for their parents, or the parents may be unable to accept care. Problems with Telling-In many ways, telling your children about HIV infection is different from telling most other relatives. People feel responsible for their children; they want to protect them against fear and worry and life’s hard facts. They think of themselves as their children’s safe haven, and they want to avoid bringing uncertainty into their lives. As a result, many people decide to put off telling their children until they have to. They will have to tell, they say, if they get an AIDS-defining illness. “With this virus,” said Helen, “you don’t know anything definite about the future. I have two kids, aged sixteen and seventeen, who live with their father. I will only tell them if I start getting really sick. They would be anxious, a little for themselves even, though they would believe I wouldn’t hurt them. They’d be anxious about my dying.” Dean also has a child by an earlier marriage: “I have a son, who’s pretty well grown now. He knows about me. I told him only when I hit the AIDS stage.” Sometimes, in spite of their plans, people find that they must tell their children even before their first AIDS-defining illness. People in the stage called ARC are often fatigued and bothered with many minor illnesses. The children, who always see more than they seem to, sense that their parents are unwell and preoccupied. The children worry. Sometimes they suspect the truth; sometimes they come to entirely wrong conclusions. One mother had two children she wasn’t telling about her diagnosis. The children noticed her frequent sicknesses and doctor appointments, talked to each other about it, and decided she was dying of cancer. The children were upset: one child became a workaholic, going to school and then working into the night until early the next morning; the other got into trouble at school. When their mother finally told them she was infected with HIV and wasn’t dying any time soon, they were almost relieved. At the least, they no longer had to deal with uncertainty. Telling your children you have HIV infection usually also means telling them how you got the virus. People want their children to respect and look up to them. They don’t want to look vulnerable or fallible. Most people, however, get infected in ways that society judges harshly: through using drugs intravenously or through gay sexual relations. Often people have hidden these behaviors from their children. People worry their children will make the same judgment society makes, and reject them. Drug users especially worry that they have set a bad example. Helen is proud that her children do not use drugs and have never seen her use drugs: “I’d rather die than lose my kids’ respect,” she said. One couple with two children told them that the father (who had HIV infection) had cancer. Several years before, the father had experimented with bisexuality and had become infected. Both parents were ashamed of this. The mother said she didn’t want them to see her as a secret-keeper, but she couldn’t tell them their father is bisexual. Dean and his eighteen-year-old son managed to resolve the issue of homosexuality the way Dean and his parents resolved it. He talked openly and lovingly about his life and his son’s place in it, and his son’s relation to his partner. “Now my son just accepts it,” Dean said. “He says, ‘Dad is gay and has AIDS.’ He brings his friends to our house. When the kids are around, my partner and I hold back our normal affections and don’t use terms of endearment with each other.” Sometimes children have more trouble with the situation than Dean’s son, and are upset at their father’s bisexuality. Sometimes they dislike their father’s partner. In general, people find telling the truth works out best. They naturally feel sadness and guilt and regret about the truth, and those feelings will complicate how they talk to their children. They find that the simplest truth works; they say things like, “You know I used to have a drug problem. At that time, I did things I wasn’t proud of, and I got AIDS.” Children in their teens understand this sort of information best.
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April 19th, 2011 | Posted in HIV | Comments Off

TREATMENT OF STRESS BREAKDOWN: STRESS WE CANNOT AVOID

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We come now to the people who are suffering from stage one stress breakdown symptoms as a result of stress that they cannot possibly avoid. In this category I place the people whose occupations require them to accept long periods of stress when they may also be short of sleep and malnourished. Soldiers come into this category; so do the families caring for severely handicapped relatives and some mothers of newborn babies, if they are denied help from others. My advice to people suffering from stress-breakdown symptoms from unavoidable stress is:
• Are you really sure you can’t get any help at all? Are you really a coper who thinks it is a sign of weakness to ask for help?
• If you cannot avoid stress symptoms, at least don’t mistake them for symptoms of illness, and don’t make any wrong assumptions about the origins of your symptoms. For example, if you are bursting into tears at the thought of having to psych yourself up to do the shopping on your own, don’t load yourself up with guilt for being lazy.
• If you can’t avoid the big problems, at least get rid of as many of your other little problems as you can. It’s like jettisoning extra baggage to lighten the load if the ship is in danger of sinking. So if you can’t look after your sick baby and the other children as well, and keep the house clean, let as many non-essentials go as you can.
• Get as much sleep as possible, even if it’s just ‘forty winks’ now and then during the day. Don’t skip meals, and don’t do anything like deciding now is the time to go on a crash diet to lose weight. Don’t drink alcohol or ask the doctor for sedative drugs. Cut down on your tea and coffee intake.
• Decide to take a holiday when the stress is over, and do it. The holiday might be going to bed for a few days, or going away to recuperate and be pampered.

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April 15th, 2011 | Posted in Anti Depressants-Sleeping Aid | Comments Off

MENINGITIS

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Acute bacterial Meningitis is a severe life threatening condition and without treatment 90 per cent of its victims die. The incidence of Meningitis is highest in children, usually in the first month of life. One in 4,000 children under the age of five will catch Meningitis caused by bacteria called Haemophilus Influenzae. Other bacteria such as Meningococcus and Streptococcus Pneumonia cause Meningitis; but less commonly than Haemophilus.

Meningitis is always suspected when a child or an adult complains of headache, fever, photophobia, neck stiffness and nausea. Vomiting often accompanies these symptoms although in infants the symptoms are less specific. They may develop a fever and go off their feeds. Vomiting, irritability and excessive sleepiness can also occur. The definitive diagnosis of Meningitis cannot be made without a lumbar puncture. Fluid from around the brain is sampled via a needle in the lower back.

With Meningitis there is no time to waste and treatment usually begins before the causative organism is identified by the laboratory. Most cases of Bacterial Meningitis respond to one of various combinations of antibiotic therapy.

Home Remedies

Bacterial Meningitis can be masked by the inappropriate use of antibiotic therapy. Doses used “just in case” a child is going to develop a middle ear infection or bronchitis after a cold are insufficient to ward off Meningitis. Children with colds should be left alone by the medical profession. Bacterial Meningitis is just another reason why the prescription of antibiotics for colds and flues constitutes an extreme form of medical negligence.

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September 23rd, 2010 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

MENIERE’S DISEASE: SYMPTOMS AND HOME REMEDIES

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The combination of severe vertigo, ringing in the ears, deafness, nausea and vomiting make up the picture of classical Meniere’s Disease. Many people with Meniere’s Disease become severely depressed. The startling suddenness of the attacks, the hideous retching and above all the terrifying loss of orientation in space, together with deafness and cacophonous head noises contribute to undermine their flagging morale. People have been known to commit suicide in their attempts to escape these symptoms. Medicine has no faithfully reproducible cure for the curse of Meniere’s Disease and the illness is slowly progressive.

Antihistamines help relieve the vertigo and tinnitus, but sedation is their unfortunate side effect. Sometimes the vertigo, deafness, nausea and vomiting can be relieved by a peripheral vasodilator called Sere. This drug should be used cautiously by people taking antihistamines and people with a history of peptic ulcer or asthma. Surgery has a number of potentially successful procedures to offer. They include removal of the middle ear’s balance control centre, the removal of a nearby nerve plexus and numerous methods to relieve fluid pressure in the middle ear.

Home Remedies

Some people with Meniere’s Disease take Zinc tablets to relieve their symptoms. Many claim remarkable success. The medical literature has yet to catch up with the why and the wherefores of this essentially innocuous intervention.

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September 23rd, 2010 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

PREVENTION OF LOCAL RECURRENCE – RADIATION AFTER AN OPERATION

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Radiation after an operation is often recommended when it is either suspected or definitely known that cancer cells have been left behind. You will remember from the chapter on surgery that the chances of not being able to completely remove the cancer can be reduced by careful assessment before the operation. Postoperative radiation is more likely to be recommended after poorly planned than after carefully planned surgery. Radiation in this setting is also very unlikely to improve the cure rate. However, depending on the type and location of the cancer it can certainly reduce the chance of local recurrence. If this approach is recommended to you, ask what the chances of local recurrence are with and without radiation. Of course, if your surgeon knows that cancer cells are still there, local recurrence is certain if no other treatment is given. Find out how much the chance is likely to be improved by radiation and at what ‘cost’ to you. Are there any other ways of reducing the chance of local recurrence? Ask what difference it would make if radiation was reserved until the local recurrence occurred, instead of being given as a preventive. Would cure still be possible if you waited until you got a definite local recurrence? What symptoms could a local recurrence cause and how could they be treated? Don’t agree to the additional treatment unless you feel sure that the likely benefit is greater than the likely cost.

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June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Cardio & Blood- Сholesterol | No Comments »

PREVENTION OF LOCAL RECURRENCE – RADIATION TREATMENT

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Radiation treatment is often recommended before or after surgical removal of a primary cancer. It is important that you understand what can be gained by doing this.

Firstly, as I mentioned in the previous section, the addition of radiation to surgical removal of a primary cancer very rarely makes any difference to the chance of complete and permanent cure. However, it can make a difference to the chance that cancer will grow back again in the same place — local recurrence.

Radiation before an operation may be recommended if you have a large primary cancer that your surgeons feel they cannot completely remove. Their recommendation is based on the hope that shrinking your cancer by radiation could change it from one that is too large and extensive to be removed to one that can be removed completely. The fact is that a cancer that is too extensive to be removed can rarely be cured by any means, unless it is a type that is extremely sensitive to radiation or chemotherapy. It is also a fact that radiation, followed by a less extensive operation than would have been necessary to start with, is an approach that very rarely produces cures. It sounds like a good idea but unfortunately, it doesn’t work. I would question the radiotherapist and surgeon very closely indeed before agreeing to such a plan.

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June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Cardio & Blood- Сholesterol | No Comments »

CHILD’S DISORDERS: SWOLLEN LIPS, TONGUE TIE AND TUGGING AT EARS

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SWOLLEN LIPS

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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May 21st, 2009 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

SEXUALITY, ILLNESS AND HEALTH/SEX AND CELL DISEASE (CANCER): CHEMOTHERAPY AND SEXUALITY

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Chemotherapy and sexuality: Most forms of chemotherapy are designed to boost the body’s own natural defense against fast-growing cells that are out of control. In the process, chemotherapy may result in side effects related to some destruction of your own healthy fast-growing cells (like the lining of your stomach or your hair cells). You can do much to reduce the sexual side effects of chemotherapy by conditioning yourself. Listen to pleasing music or smell a pleasing odor during chemotherapy treatment. The music or odor might become “paired” with the chemotherapy, and the sound or odor itself might actually help the chemotherapy by making it more effective with less of a dose. The principle at work here is the classical conditioning done by Pavlov, who taught his dogs to salivate to a bell. In this case, you are teaching your own defense cells to respond to music or an odor. This technique is still in the experimental stage, but there is no harm in trying it. Anything that doesn’t hurt the treatment program could help it. Here are some issues related to cancer and chemotherapy.

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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May 18th, 2009 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

YOUR MARILAL HEALTH/THE SUPER SEX RESPONSE MODEL: DESIRE

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DESIRE: This term refers to frequency of sexual interaction. It does not mean “wanting” sex, only how many times you and your spouse are sexually intimate. With this use of the word “desire,” a systems orientation is necessary because it refers to interaction, not a drive state. “Low” desire and “high” desire are relative terms indicating a couple’s report of how often they are sexual together. You will understand more about this way of using the word “desire” by learning about the other nine phases of sexual response.

“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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May 18th, 2009 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH: VIRUSES

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With regard to viruses, most of the “facts” made available to the general public are simply not true. Viruses are not alive. This is official. They cannot move, do not have any metabolism, cannot multiply and do not have any attribute whatsoever associated with living organisms. They are simply very complex organic compounds (nucleic acids), created and modified as a result of the activity of surrounding living cells. Some of the above compounds (viruses) could be quite toxic. Bacteria can use viruses as food. Our cells use and produce viruses in the metabolic process.

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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May 18th, 2009 | Posted in General health | No Comments »

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