ScarsAway asked:

Treatment of burns scar tissue using ScarsAway

Julia

Donald G asked:


I am a 52 y/o male with mild COPD – according to a pulmonary test in 2003– I am not sure if it was diagnosed accurately, because a recent doctor says that it reminds her more of some allergic/reactive asthma.
Oh by the way, I also happen to be 40 pounds overweight
My sleepy problems, although mild have been around since the 1980’s and are now progressive.
I have been taking herbs from a reputable chinese herbal doctor online, but I cannot always count on its effectiveness – not consistent. I keep B5 in the car and have some caffeine pills, but it is not always just overwhelming sleepiness, sometimes it is a clouding of the brain with it.
When I do get lucky and treat the sleepiness effectively with herbs or claritan , then I notice the fog lifting from my head. I want to also say, that in the cooler months and sometimes the summer, I feel a burning in my ears and a tightness in my sinus mask area during this sleepy time. I am only wanting well thought out answers please! I am a physical therapist and I will not accept a cpap or bi pap machine– I know that they are thrown in the closet by the owners after a few weeks…It is true that it is good in theory or on the chalkboard, but it is a deep disappointment in reality ( the real world).I am really looking for solutions as soon as possible I will not take a breathing machine (CPAP) as a treatment….. Sincerely, DG

Theresa

ucirvinenews asked:

Dr. Marianne Cinat, associate professor of clinical medicine and medical director of the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center, helps advance treatments for people who suffer burns. The UCI center is on the cutting edge of burn care and is making research and treatment advances that are providing burn victims a greater opportunity for recovery. Video by Kerrin Piche Serna, University Communications. More: www.ucihealth.com … UCI UC Irvine Marianne Cinat burn treatment technology medicine medical …

Galilea

Autumn asked:


hi im twelve and i have a yeast infection. I have tried three different pills and three different creams. on the first time i did the cream i couldnt find where to put it so i just put it around it. On the second time I found where to put it and i did a 3 day treatment instead of a 7 day and the buttery stuff kept on falling out. the third time i stopped halfway threw it and started putting it outside because the doctor said. It still hasnt stopped and the burning feeling is hurting a lot. i havent started my period. I am also getting a creamy colored mucus. i learned online that drinking buttermilk should help. and lots of yogurt. i know its a yeast infection because the doctor took a swab test and put it under a mycroscope and said he saw lots of yeast. its also really red down there. i have had this for two months and it still hasnt gone. i really need help. please respond.

Selena

john snow asked:


Psychiatrists Revising the Book of Human Troubles

The book is at least three years away from publication, but it is already stirring bitter debates over a new set of possible psychiatric disorders.
Is compulsive shopping a mental problem? Do children who continually recoil from sights and sounds suffer from sensory problems — or just need extra attention? Should a fetish be considered a mental disorder, as many now are?
Panels of psychiatrists are hashing out just such questions, and their answers — to be published in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — will have consequences for insurance reimbursement, research and individuals’ psychological identity for years to come.
The process has become such a contentious social and scientific exercise that for the first time the book’s publisher, the American Psychiatric Association, has required its contributors to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
The debate is particularly intense because the manual is both a medical guidebook and a cultural institution. It helps doctors make a diagnosis and provides insurance companies with diagnostic codes without which the insurers will not reimburse patients’ claims for treatment.
The manual — known by its initials and edition number, DSM-V — often organizes symptoms under an evocative name. Labels like obsessive-compulsive disorder have connotations in the wider culture and for an individual’s self-perception.
“This is not cardiology or nephrology, where the basic diseases are well known,” said Edward Shorter, a leading historian of psychiatry whose latest book, “Before Prozac,” is critical of the manual. “In psychiatry no one knows the causes of anything, so classification can be driven by all sorts of factors” — political, social and financial.
“What you have in the end,” Mr. Shorter said, “is this process of sorting the deck of symptoms into syndromes, and the outcome all depends on how the cards fall.”
Psychiatrists involved in preparing the new manual contend that it is too early to say for sure which cards will be added and which dropped.
The current edition of the manual, which was published in 2000, describes 283 disorders — about triple the number in the first edition, published in 1952.
The scientists updating the manual have been meeting in small groups focusing on categories like mood disorders and substance abuse — poring over the latest scientific studies to clarify what qualifies as a disorder and what might distinguish one disorder from another. They have much more work to do, members say, before providing recommendations to a 28-member panel that will gather in closed meetings to make the final editorial changes.
Experts say that some of the most crucial debates are likely to include gender identity, diagnoses of illness involving children, and addictions like shopping and eating.
“Many of these are going to involve huge fights, I expect,” said Dr. Michael First, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia who edited the fourth edition of the manual but is not involved in the fifth.
One example, Dr. First said, is binge eating, now in the manual’s appendix as a tentative category.
“A lot of people want that included in the manual,” Dr. First said, “and there’s some research out there, some evidence that drugs are helpful. But binge eating is also a normal behavior, and you run the risk of labeling up to 30 percent of people with a disorder they don’t really have.”
The debate over gender identity, characterized in the manual as “strong and persistent cross-gender identification,” is already burning hot among transgender people. Soon after the psychiatric association named the group of researchers working on sexual and gender identity, advocates circulated online petitions objecting to two members whose work they considered demeaning.
Transgender people are themselves divided about their place in the manual. Some transgender men and women want nothing to do with psychiatry and demand that the diagnosis be dropped. Others prefer that it remain, in some form, because a doctor’s written diagnosis is needed to obtain insurance coverage for treatment or surgery.
“The language needs to be reformed, at a minimum,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equity. “Right now, the manual implies that you cannot be a happy transgender person, that you have to be a social wreck.”
Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York psychoanalyst and member of the sexual disorders work group, said that, in some ways, the gender identity debate echoed efforts to remove homosexuality from the manual in the 1970s.
After protests by gay activists provoked a scientific review, the “homosexuality” diagnosis was dropped in 1973. It was replaced by “sexual orientation disturbance” and then “ego-dystonic homosexuality” before being dropped in 1987.
“You had, in my opinion, what was a social issue, not a medical one; and, in some sense, psychiatry evolved

Jayden

RESCUEPAX asked:

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Lilah