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Understanding Acquired-Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Aug 31st
HIV makes you more vulnerable to infection, by compromising your immune system. So those with HIV infection, tend to get viral, bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections more often than others.
These infections can very often be vigorously treated. However, sometimes the infection can become rapidly overwhelming and even lead to death.
Reducing the risk of stroke
Aug 30th
Most people incorrectly believe that they exercise enough but few achieve the minimum: 20 minutes three times a week. Although swimming is of benefit, brisk walking — which is weight bearing — is much better. To be effective the exercise should be sufficiently vigorous to make you become out of breath or perspire heavily. (If you check your pulse, it should be 20 beats per minute faster than normal.) If you have not done any exercise for a while you will need to start gently and build up your stamina over a period of time.
The medical and psychological treatment for anorexia
Aug 28th
If you are treated as an outpatient, you should aim to gain an average of 0.5 kg a week. Most people can achieve this by eating around 3,500 to 7,000 extra calories each week. This level of weight gain helps to avoid complications that can arise with gaining weight more quickly. For example, the chemical balance in your body can be disturbed.
Parkinson’s disease: what you need to know
Aug 27th
Some very effective drugs have been developed, but all have some disadvantages as well. Increasingly, ‘treatment’ means the whole package of measures — exercise, diet, general activity, attitude and medicines — through which quality of life is improved and preserved for as long as possible. The contents of the package will depend on the particular symptoms, how handicapping or distressing the person finds them, the doctor’s assessment of the latest information on possible drug treatments and, last but not least, the individual’s own circumstances.
Stroke and the after effect
Aug 27th
There is no doubt that psychological support is important in this condition. Often, a lot of distress exists because patients do not fully understand what is going on. In the past, we have found that in those patients where we are unable to relieve the pain, significant improvement in the patients well being has occurred by a careful, considerate explanation.
Relationships and communication problems following a stroke
Aug 24th
In certain instances of stroke, people experience difficulty in both speaking and understanding what is said to them. The severity and extent of the stroke can of course vary greatly. So, you could have trouble understanding what is said to you for weeks. Alternatively, you could understand everything that is said to you, but be capable only of uttering nonsensical words in return.
Why some men can’t keep an erection
Aug 23rd
At some stage of their lives most men have temporary difficulty getting and maintaining an erection. This is usually due to stress, alcohol, or tiredness. However, persistent, long-term problems getting and maintaining an erection hard enough to have the type of sex you and your partner want is known as erectile dysfunction or impotence. It
Emergencies – A critical or life threatening situations
Aug 23rd
If the patient is unconscious, there is a safe position to put them in which allows them to breathe easily and stops them choking on any vomit. However, you must first carefully consider whether there is any chance that the casualty has hurt their back or neck, or has an injury that would be made worse by moving them. Putting them in the recovery position in this case could have serious consequences. If you are in any doubt, and the casualty is in no further danger by being left in their original position, do not move them.
Causes of, and diagnosing anorexia (eating disorder)
Aug 22nd
Anorexic people can also have other mental health conditions. For example, some research studies have shown that:
• up to 63% of people with anorexia have depression, and
• 35% of people with anorexia have obsessive compulsive disorder.
The Symptoms of Loss of Appetite (Anorexia)
Aug 21st
People with anorexia often believe that their value as a person is related to their weight and how they look. They think that this is what makes other people like them. And that other people will like them more if they are thinner — they see their weight loss as positive.
They often have a distorted view of what they look like (body image). For example, they think they look fat when they are not. They may try to hide how thin they are, by wearing loose or baggy clothes.
