Archive for March, 2008
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest cardiac arrhythmia, and it is responsible for one million hospital admissions per annum in the United States. The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases with age. Among 18,403 civil servants in Britain AF was present in 0.2% of subjects aged 40 to 49 years and 1.1% among [...]
Conclusion. Multiple Food and Chemical Sensitivities
The concept of multiple food or chemical sensitivities manifested by numerous symptoms in the absence of objective physical findings lacks a scientific foundation. There is no evidence that such patients suffer from an immunologic abnormality. The existence of such an illness is based on anecdotal reports with no verification using properly controlled blinded challenges. The [...]
Immunologic Evaluation
Two studies up to now have reviewed the clinical and laboratory evidence for immunologic illness in patients with multiple food and chemical sensitivities. In 50 cases studied by Terr, levels of circulating immunoglobulins, complement components, and lymphocyte subsets fell mostly within the normal expected range and did not correlate with severity of reported illness or [...]
Clinical Studies.
In recent years, results of several critical evaluations of patients claiming IEI have been published. Collectively these studies do not support a role for food and chemical sensitivities as a cause of the patient’s symptoms nor do they indicate immunologic dysfunction. Instead, they do provide evidence for a significant role for underlying psychiatric illness.
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Treatment Methods
Treatment of environmental illness is accomplished according to primarily three modalities: a program of avoidance of environmental chemical exposure, special elimination diets, and neutralization therapy. Drugs are regarded as harmful synthetic chemicals that cause environmental illness. Nevertheless, patients are often instructed to take vitamin and mineral supplements, and some are treated with certain salts, such [...]
Using Propecia to Treat Hair Loss
For men who are experiencing hair loss, one of the more popular treatments worth considering is called Finasteride. This anti-androgen is marketed as Proscar, Propecia, Fincar, Finpecia, Finax, Finast, Finara and Prosteride. For the purpose of this article, we will use the term Generic Propecia to describe the various forms of Finasteride, as Propecia is [...]
Antiviral Drugs For Herpes Treatment
The major drugs developed to work against herpes simplex virus (HSV) are antiviral agents called nucleosides and nucleotide analogues, which block viral reproduction. They include acyclovir (Zovirax), valacyclovir (Valtrex), famciclovir (Famvir).
The antiviral medications available in pill form have been specifically developed for the treatment of genital herpes. Antiviral medications may significantly lessen the severity of [...]
How Stress And Hair Loss Affect Each Other
Everyone has to live with some about of stress in their life, it is a fact of life and some of it can benefit us while other forms of stress can be detrimental to individuals both mentally and physically. Telogen Effluvium is one of the effects that can result from extreme stress, basically this is [...]
New Stop Smoking Zyban Pills
According to the article, “Cigarette Smoking Among Adults in the United States (2004)” released on Friday, November 11, 2005, in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, approximately 20.9 percent (44.5 million) of adults in the United States are current smokers. This represents a decrease from 22.5 percent in 2002 [...]
Diagnosis of IEI.
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The diagnosis of IEI is most often made by the combination of an extensive environmental history and a battery of provocation-neutralization tests. The patient’s self-report of symptoms occurring after presumed exposure to environmental odors and fumes or after ingestion of particular foods usually suffices to make the diagnosis. The provocation-neutralization test, described below, consists [...]
