“I don’t know who you are. And I want you out of my room and to leave me alone. Or I’m going to call for help!” These and similar responses are not uncommonly heard in nursing homes and healthcare facilities across the globe. They are harsh words indeed, and usually spoken by an aging parent to frustrated children, once familiar friends and even a loving spouse.
The child is no longer recognizable. The friend is now a complete stranger. And the loving spouse is even perceived as an immediate threat. For the agitated, bewildered parent, he has little if any awareness of his deteriorative condition, and can seldom recall recent events though they be repeated over and over again. As matters stand, he is a victim of both short and long-term memory loss and is experiencing a gradual decline in mood, thinking and social and language skills. And unfortunately, he is not alone. Millions more like him in every corner of the globe are suffering from what was once considered a rare form of dementia: Alzheimer’s disease.
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Your health and your healthy future is an important part of your daily living now. How you live your life, what you eat, how much you eat and how your body uses what you eat is a major part of what your health outlook for the future is.
In learning about cutting back on fats, oils and in eating healthy you have to take a look back to the basics of the food groups and cut back on the fatty foods in your diet, along with taking a cholesterol lowing medication such as Lipitor, for a better outlook for your health. Continue reading…
If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking then you know how difficult it can be. It is not just a matter of having enough will power. You may be physically addicted to nicotine and other chemicals that are purposedly added to tobacco to make cigarettes nearly impossible to quit.
But it’s not just the physical addiction that keeps you chained to your smokes. Cigarette smoking, like many addictions, is also a social and behavioral habit. A habit is simply a repetitive action, a consistent way of responding to events. For example, you probably have a habitual routine for waking up in the morning and starting your day. You likely have a habitual way of getting to work, or the same routine for relaxing once you are home at the end of the day.
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Dementia is a severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration. It is due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain. It develops when the parts of the brain that are involved with memory, decision-making, learning, and language are affected by one or more of a variety of infections or diseases. Dementia can be caused by substance abuse (drugs and alcohol), hormone imbalances, nutritional deficiencies, head injury, and a combination of various prescription medications. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, which possibly causes around 50% of all dementias, however there are 50 other causes of dementia considered to be very rare.
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Everyone knows someone they believe to be narcissistic. That person is probably boastful, arrogant, and full of himself to the point that he’s difficult to be around. It’s too bad he’s so kind and generous, because that makes it impossible to hate him. And let’s remember, everyone has quirks—that’s hardly a reason to deprive yourself of their friendship.
Not everyone, however, knows someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a pathological condition included in the American Psychiatric Association’s fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM IV (or realizes that someone he or she knows has it). The DSM IV, considered the bible of psychiatry, lists all recognized mental disorders and the criteria used in their diagnoses, along with recommendations for treatment. Included are mental illnesses of adults and children, including autism, schizophrenia, paranoia, eating disorders, and bipolar and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.
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I used to get annoyed with patients who seemed to have never-ending lists of complaints, until I became a victim of mental ill-health myself. Feeling my age all of a sudden, with an inopportune coincidence of my earnings withering away, seemed to be my unique reasons for feeling strangely low and uncharacteristically pessimistic; I know now that these reasons for depression, anxiety, and excessive stress, are awfully common.
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The following drugs must not be used during pregnancy to avoid risk factors for the growing fetus: Continue reading…
Drugs used to treat cancer inhibit the mechanisms of cell proliferation. they are therefore toxic to both tumour and other normal proliferating cells, especially in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal epithelium and hair follicles. There is a dose dependant effect on the tissues by most of the drugs. The general toxicities are explained below. Continue reading…
Laxatives are also called as aperient. These laxatives promote evacuation bowels. They are milder in action. The frequency and volume of faeces is regulated by the diet. Constipation is characterised by infrequent evacuation of bowels, hard and dry faeces. It may also cause discomfort, malaise and loss of apetite. They are classified in to the following, Continue reading…
Stress. That uncontrollable urge to scream and pull your hair out. We’ve all experienced it; some more than others. Stress can be so overwhelming, it can cause you to lose sight of the things that really matter. Stress can affect your family, your job, and even the routine day-to-day activities that most of us take for granted. Stress can overwhelm the one who feels it, to the point where it takes the very joy out of living.
There are a number of medications for those experiencing stress. However, medication should be used in extreme anxiety cases only. There are a number of ways that a person can learn to reduce their stress level without the use of any prescription medication or herbal supplements. If you’re serious about reducing the amount of stress in your life, I have found that it is possible to do in just one week’s time. The following steps can help you to reduce your stress levels dramatically, and find a renewed sense of joy in life. Continue reading…