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Because it is impossible to determine clinically whether the infection is due to bacteria or a virus, all ear infections are treated with a course of antibiotics. This may be a 5-day course, though sometimes the doctor will prescribe medications for 10 days to ensure that the infection has cleared up. Various antibiotics can be [...]

If you develop diabetes during your pregnancy, you have what is called gestational diabetes. This usually becomes evident through routine testing of the urine for sugar, which is done at regular intervals during your antenatal care. Some women are known diabetics before they become pregnant. In either case extra precautions need to be taken to [...]

“It takes me forever to climax. I get close, then fade away. Get close again, then fade away. After a few times of that, then I don’t get close. I just fade away. How could I climax sooner so my poor husband doesn’t have to work so hard and hold back so long?

ANSWER: Probably the [...]

Another major reason for the fact that most cancer growths finish up being more seriously damaged by radiation than most normal tissues is that normal tissues are better at repairing injuries. However normal tissues are injured — whether by cutting, burning, infection, radiation or anything else — they get to work and repair the damage. [...]

In hysteria, no pain is felt, at least at a conscious level. Hysteria may occur in children or mentally healthy people suddenly exposed to intolerable strain, such as a war or some natural disaster.

It is more common in those who have the typical hysterical personality. These are immature and inadequate and seem to have no [...]

There has always been an alternative to seeing a proper doctor. Alternative therapies are now becoming well known and respectable. It may not be too long before the practitioners of these systems and their patients are demanding access to beds in general hospitals or even setting up hospitals for the exclusive practice of alternative medicine.

It [...]

It is not only women whose endometriosis has been either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed who experience such self-recriminating attitudes. Even when endometriosis is properly diagnosed at an early stage, many women still wonder if there is a psychological cause of the disease and feel guilty that they have developed endometriosis. They often believe that they have [...]

Eczema and dermatitis are often regarded as being synonymous. Dermatitis, however, simply means inflammation of the skin, of which there are various forms; whereas eczema is a distinctive pattern of inflammatory response with distinctive microscopic changes, and internal, rather than external, associations.

The word eczema comes from the Greek ekzeo, to boil over. In an acute [...]

A simple tool, the Short Fat Questionnaire (SFQ) developed by researchers at Newcastle University, can be used to assess dietary fat intake and provide education about sources of fat in the diet. The SFQ gives an indication of habitual dietary fat intake from significant fat-containing foods. The SFQ provides an excellent check for obvious fats [...]

Ten years ago, at the age of 27, I was eventually diagnosed as having mild endometriosis after many months of pain, discomfort and one miscarriage. I then tried a variety of treatments — Duphaston, Danazol and laparoscopic surgery — and had some positive short-term results but no full-term pregnancies.

I very much wanted children so I [...]