One of the results of poof diabetes control and rampant blood sugar levels is the development of neuropathy or nerve damage. Damaged nerves prevent proper transmission of sensations including those of heat, cold, touch and pain. The patient may not be aware of the pain that results from the heart not getting sufficient oxygen. Without [...]

Diabetes places one at increased risk of heart attack and undermines efforts to prevent a second event. But the good news is that you can take charge of the situation and bring diabetes under control. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which patients do not properly metabolise sugar in the blood. As levels of blood [...]

Treatment 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]