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TYPES OF INFECTION: HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTIONSThe streptococcus is one of the most widely distributed and variable organisms that attacks mankind. Such conditions as sore throat, sinus infections, scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal fever, or lymphangitis may be caused by streptococci. Other conditions associated with such streptococci include acute rheumatic fever and acute inflammations of the kidney.Such infections are found in all races, in both sexes, at all ages, and they come on at any time of the year. Scarlet fever is said to be rare in the tropics. Very small babies, under three months of age, seldom have streptococcal infections, because they get some immunity from their mothers at the time of birth. Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, and scarlet fever are more frequent up to ten years of age. Streptococcal infections can result from contaminated food, milk, water but most frequently pass from one person to another with coughing, sneezing, spitting and what are known as “hand-to-mouth” infections.Tonsillitis and pharyngitis are usually streptococcal infections which begin with sore throats. When there is a rash, the rash is said to represent sensitivity of the skin to the products of the streptococcus; this condition is scarlet fever. Infections of the sinuses usually follow infection of the tonsils and throat. Ear infections occur in many cases and the streptococci are said to be responsible for ten per cent of ear infections. Specific methods of inoculation against streptococci are difficult because of the many different varieties of the germ. The Dick test will indicate whether or not a child is susceptible to the streptococcus of scarlet fever and there are methods of building resistance against these streptococci by inoculating small doses of the toxin.Regardless of the portion of the body that is attacked by the streptococci, the control of the condition is now possible through the proper use of the sulfonamide and antibiotic drags. Streptococci are especially susceptible to attack by the sulfonamide drugs. The complications of infected throats are more important than the sore throat itself. Penicillin is the antibiotic drag most frequently used in treating throats infected with streptococci. Penicillin is especially beneficial in laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis and scarlet fever. The complications of scarlet fever have in the past done more harm than the disease itself. In severe cases of scarlet fever convalescent serum may be used, and good results have been reported from use of the antitoxin.Saline gargles and irrigations of the throat help to wash out the byproducts of throat infection. One of the most significant advances is the use of sulfonamide drags to prevent streptococcal infections. When there are outbreaks in large homes, in barracks, in asylums, or places where great numbers of people assemble, the sulfonamide drugs may be taken as a means of preventing infection with the streptococci. All sorts of attempts have been made to cut down respiratory diseases by the use of ultraviolet light in the air, by the spraying of medicated vapors or aerosols and by other techniques for keeping the germs from floating in the air. These, in general, have not been successful.*3/318/5*

DEPRESSION: DESCRIPTION AND TREATMENT
Depression lies beyond the broad spectrum of accustomed human unhappiness. In some cases, depression is considered a normal human emotional response to abnormal circumstances including the death of a parent, spouse or a child. In these situations the expectation is one of an inevitably slow and painful recovery. When mood plunges past the lowermost boundary of abject human unhappiness with no obvious social or physical cause, doctors say that a person is organically depressed. This definition justifies the use of special mind altering chemicals or the application of Electro Convulsive Therapy.A depressed person experiences alterations in the patterns of sleep. They have difficulty getting off to sleep and wake frequently. A striking feature of depression is early morning waking and often the mood cycles on a daily basis with despair at its height earlier in the day.The concentration and memory of the depressed person suffer also. So do levels of energy and drive. Delusions in relation to innocent bodily experiences loom large. Depressed people become very negative and nihilistic and have difficulty seeing any future both for themselves and others.When depression is at its worst, ideas of suicide and attempted suicide dominate. It is not unusual for very depressed men to kill their families and then themselves. About 20 per cent of the adult population experience symptoms of depression at some stage of their lives.In spite of public opposition to the medical management of mental illnesses such as depression, the use of antidepressant drugs and Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy has miraculously changed the morbid course of many depressive illnesses. Medication restores the mood to normal within weeks and ЕСТ produces a similar response in days. Without treatment almost 40 per cent of severely depressed people successfully suicide. With treatment the suicide rate drops to five per cent.
Home RemediesDespite an “organic” basis for its cause, depression and suicide plague aging individuals with chronic illness who lack supportive social networks. A wide range of stresses can plunge such people into the depths of suicidal depression. Prevention includes the adoption of an overtly satisfying series of social involvements. Bowling Clubs, The Senior Citizens, affiliation with churches that place an emphasis on fellowship, specific illness support groups and continued qualitative involvement with family affairs are all buffers necessary to keep a life threatening depression at bay.”Furthermore it must be said that the key variable in a lot of depression related suffering could be a lack of sex. There is still a gaping hole in the literature on this point because sex is still a taboo subject in this and many other societies.Sigmund Freud explored anxiety in relation to human fear, but no great pioneer has explored the psychological manifestations of human frustration and failure in the field of sexuality. As for the treatment of depression, shock treatment is very reminiscent of orgasm.And of course antidepressant medication may well mimic the brain’s chemical changes which occur during and after acts of satisfying sexual intercourse. Posterity may well view shock treatment and antidepressant medication as the poor man’s substitute for deep and meaningful acts of sexual gratification.”On a more mundane note L tryptophan – a naturally occurring amino acid elevates the mood of mildly depressed people. It has also been used as a mild sedative and a sleeping potion. Controversy erupted in and around the deaths of 20 people in the United States from the Eosinophilic Myalgia Syndrome. This syndrome was associated with the use of L tryptophan and the deaths were traced to the contamination of a batch of L Tryptophan manufactured by a Japanese company. Dietary sources of L tryptophan include soy beans, cottage cheese, uncooked rice, fish, lentils, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.
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OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGIC RHINITISOccasionally, agents to which workers are exposed will cause allergic nasal symptoms. The symptoms are the same as those of seasonal or chrome allergic rhinitis but the causative agents are those unique to the workplace. In this form of allergic rhinitis, as in the other forms, symptoms tend to parallel the exposure of the allergic workers: Intermittent, occasional exposure produces intermittent, occasional symptoms. Daily exposure results in chronic daily symptoms.
Occupational Allergic Rhinitis Example 1.Vicki is a twenty-five-year-old laboratory technologist who has worked in the animal lab at a university medical center for just over two years. She has been bothered with seasonal allergic rhinitis since childhood, but in the last three months she has begun to experience episodic paroxysms of runny nose, sneezing, and itchy, red eyes whenever she goes into the rat room. Yesterday afternoon, the janitor began sweeping the room while she was working in it and, in addition to her nasal symptoms, she began to cough and wheeze slightly. On consultation with an allergist, Vicki learned that she had become allergic to the proteins in rat urine, which can dry and get into the air in places like animal laboratories, especially during the cleaning of cages and the sweeping of floors. Furthermore, her symptoms had become too severe to permit continued exposure. Fortunately she was able to transfer to another research project that did not involve contact with rats or their urinary proteins. Diagnosis: occupational allergic rhinitis, rat urine.*4/322/5*

Headaches should never be dispelled with analgesics. Rather, you should try and discover the cause and then treat it by natural means.

Many headaches are caused by intestinal disturbances. Putrefac­tive processes develop gases which enter the liver through the portal vein and, from there, find their way into the bloodstream. Headaches frequently result because the nerve and brain cells are affected by “the poisons circulating in the blood. Abdominal troubles and diseases can also trigger headaches. Overwork tends to erode one’s nervous energy and this condition, too, may start a headache. Other problems that may cause headaches include a ruptured disc (slipped disc) resulting from strain. This cause can be successfully treated by a chiropractor. High or low blood pressure, diseases of the blood and nephritis can all trigger headaches.

Let me point out that a headache per se is never an illness, only a symptom pointing to an illness that is causing it. It is for this reason that taking analgesics and chemical drugs to deaden the pain is completely inappropriate. The correct thing to do is to find; and then treat the underlying cause. On the other hand, you cam do something about a headache by providing the nerve cells withj certain biochemical salts which will lessen and often cure the pain. There are also homoeopathic remedies, for example Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot), which are especially good for headaches.
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As a control centre of paramount importance, the pituitary should receive extra care and attention. Because of its important functions, it is well protected in an inaccessible bony hollow at the base of the skull. The only way to care for it is by looking after one’s general health. Thus, it is worthwhile supplying the body with wholesome food, sufficient sleep, exercise and oxygen by deep breathing. Even though we already know a great deal about this small gland, many of its secrets have yet to be discovered.

The instrument panel of a jet plane is a complete mystery to the layperson. A radio receiver small enough to fit in a watch casing is also a marvel of technology. But what is contained in the bean-sized gland – much of which we are still not aware of – surpasses everything the human mind has created a thousand times. Appreci­ating the intricate design and functions of our body, we should always show deep respect for it and avoid subjecting it thought lessly to stresses and strains that affect our health. The biblical psalmist expressed this most aptly when he wrote: ‘I shall laud you [God] because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware.’
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Shingles is a viral infection which appears as a rash. It can occur at all ages, but is more common in the elderly or debilitated person. Shingles in children is a milder illness, and usually does not cause any serious problems.

Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, the varicella virus. It occurs in children and adults who have previously had chickenpox. It is not caught from other people with either chickenpox or shingles. Rather, the varicella virus lies dormant in the nerve cells after the child has had a bout of chickenpox, and is reactivated by unknown causes. Shingles often appears when someone is ‘rundown’ after illness, and occasionally following sunburn or exposure to strong winds. Children under the age of 3 years are very rarely affected by shingles.

Clinical features

The rash of shingles occurs only on one side of the body, as the virus travels down one particular nerve. Initially, you will notice groups of little red lumps, which form fluid-filled blisters. New crops form in the first 2-3 days. Over the next few days all these blisters gradually crust over. The rash appears more often on the torso than on the face or limbs. The child is generally not ill, and does not have a fever. The rash does not seem to worry him at all, and is not sore or itchy, in contrast to shingles in adults, which can be quite severe.

A child with shingles can easily spread chickenpox to others who have never been infected. Shingles itself cannot be spread to others, just the chickenpox virus. You should keep your child at home for a week or so, until the rash dries up. Make sure that people who visit your child while he has shingles have all previously had chickenpox.

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The let-down reflex

The hormone oxytocin stimulates the release of milk from the breast. Often even just the thought of breastfeeding is enough to stimulate this let-down reflex and get the milk flowing. Occasionally you may be feeding your baby on one breast and suddenly the other breast starts to drip milk. Firm pressure against the nipple with the flat of your hand can often stop this leakage. Using breastpads can help mop up any spills and may also prevent embarrassment in public, although some women complain that disposable pads stick to their nipples.

When to finish a feed

Your baby is the best judge of the right time to finish a feed; he will usually fall asleep at the breast or come off the nipple when he has had enough. It is not necessary to offer both breasts to your baby during one feed. If your baby is content after feeding on one breast only, just make sure that you commence the next feed from the other breast. In this way you will ensure that both breasts receive equal stimulation, which is important in order to maintain your milk supply.

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No one program changes anything permanently. I told the couples that their treatment began when their visits to the clinic ended. I saw them all several times at intervals until the five-year follow-up, but more important I asked them to conduct their own follow-up. All marriages have severe conflict, disappointment, life-cycle changes, and daily pressures. To cope more effectively with such pressure, mark on a calendar a time for one brief trip every three or four months. This R&R trip does not have to be expensive, but getting away together not for vacation but for marital recommitment is important to continuing the gains you have made in owning and operating your own sex clinic for super marital sex.

Every New Year’s Eve, your first and foremost task is to select those dates for follow-up trips to deal with and prevent foul-ups of your super marital progress. Give priority to these dates and schedule work and other obligations around them as much as realistically possible. As I stated in Chapter One, so long as we continue to put marriage last, to allow all other events priority in our life schedule, marriage will continue to reflect this place on our commitment list. Once you have the dates, they should be considered as fixed and as important as any other events that may come up. For super marital sex, these dates should be considered even more important than most other events, a form of marital rebirth-days.

“People seem to get almost angry that we have those dates,” reported one husband. “They ask if this is our vacation, I tell them no, and they cannot understand just going away to recommit. Maybe it’s a form of marital jealousy, because they tell me later that they wish they could do it. We stopped wishing and did it. One guy at work even said I was more dedicated to my marriage than to work. I agreed, and he almost had a seizure.”

His wife added, “Of all things, a woman at work asked if I was trying to make a super marriage. A super marriage. Can you believe that? I am sure she meant it sarcastically, but she actually used the word.”

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