Asami K asked:


I’m 19 years old and have had sex before. All my partners used condoms, my recent ex bf/last sexual partner was a virgin. but recently i noticed these, their not bumps, they are not red, they dont leak, they dont itch just idk. They are risin of the skin like i guess warts, but i saw what warts look like and they dont look like them. they are not in the vagina they are actually away from the genital area but like on the side and theres littles ones by the outside of the anal hole. But i never has sex in the anal area at all. im very careful and use condoms. im scared to think that maybe i might have genital warts. If i do, i heard cervical cancer is a lead to the diease, is their treatments to cervical cancer. and i really ugh dont want some random person burning or freezing me vagina!! ugghhh. i have eczema also, u think its probaley just that? or any skin problem? I also have a new bf who i just recently took his virginity, but we used a condom, and ugh it was more like 25 sec session….hes scared of gettin me pregro. yeah i know my life is soo crazy. HELP tho!!!! i heard of online medicine to remove genital warts and stuff, im thinkin about getting checked, what do the free clinic doc do? do they just look at it? or take a blood sample?? PLEASSEEEE HELPPP

Ariana

alligatorfoo asked:


i have tinea versicolor on my chest and was looking around for some ways to get rid of it. i’ve read some forums online and looks like selsun blue is one of the main treatments but some people say they experience burns and other bad experiences have happened.
any other treatments yall can think of or any recommendations for when using selsun blue such as a time or amount? please and thanks.

Chelsey

Dr. Kira Valentine asked:


I have been on some heavy antibiotics and now I have a yeast infection that is killing me.

I got some Monistat 1 day treatment and used it around 8 o’clock yesterday morning, but it still itches and burns like crazy and it’s now 2:44 am.

I want to try some of these home remedies I read about online but I don’t want to remove the Monistat. Please help me.

Jayden

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

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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

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Lilah

Cordelia asked:


I think many Americans are starving themselves because of their daily reliance on white flour for sustenance, whether rich or poor. Does white flour inhibit good digestion of other more protein rich foods? (Look at all the protruding bellies.) I’m looking at something that indicated that in a report as follows:

“Conditions listing Kwashiorkor as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Kwashiorkor. Our database lists the following as having Kwashiorkor as a symptom of that condition:
Alcoholism
Amphetamine abuse
Amyloidosis AL
Anorexia Nervosa
Blind loop syndrome
Boyd-Stearns syndrome
Brinton disease
Classic galactosemia
Cocaine fetopathy
Congenital short bowel
Congenital sucrose-isomaltose malabsorption
Cutaneous photosensitivity colitis, lethal
Cystic Fibrosis
Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional
Finnish nephrosis syndrome
Follicular hamartoma – alopecia – cystic fibrosis
Gastrointestinal amyloidosis
Hereditary amyloidosis
Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Intestinal epithelial dysplasia
Intractable diarrhea with enterocytes assembly abnormalities, congenital, familial
Juvenile tropical pancreatitis syndrome
Microsporidiosis
Obal syndrome
Opisthorchiasis
Pancreatic insufficiency
Pancreatic Islet Cell Cancer
Patau syndrome
Sandifer syndrome
Self Harm
Short Bowel Syndrome
TopDrug interactions causing Kwashiorkor:
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Chloramphenicol and Acetaminophen interaction
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TopCauses of Kwashiorkor: Online Medical Books
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Protein-calorie malnutrition: Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Both kwashiorkor (edematous PCM) and marasmus (nonedematous PCM) are common in underdeveloped countries and in areas in which dietary amino acid
content is insufficient to satisfy growth requirements. Kwashiorkor typically occurs at about age 1, after infants are weaned from breast milk to a protein-deficient diet of starchy gruels or sugar water, but it can develop at any time during the formative years. Marasmus affects infants ages 6 to 18 months as a result of breast-feeding failure, or a debilitating condition such as chronic diarrhea.
In industrialized countries, PCM may occur secondary to chronic metabolic disease that decreases protein and calorie intake or absorption, or trauma that increases protein and calorie requirements. In the United States, PCM is estimated to occur to some extent in 50% of elderly people in nursing homes. Those who aren’t allowed anything by mouth for an extended period are at high risk of developing PCM. Conditions that increase protein-calorie requirements include severe burns and injuries, systemic infections, and cancer (accounts for the largest group of hospitalized patients with PCM). Conditions that cause defective utilization of nutrients include malabsorption syndrome, short-bowel syndrome, and Crohn’s disease.
Protein-calorie malnutrition: Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Both marasmus (nonedematous protein-calorie malnutrition) and kwashiorkor (edematous protein-calorie malnutrition) are common in underdeveloped countries and in areas where dietary amino acid content is insufficient to satisfy growth requirements. Kwashiorkor typically occurs at about age 1, after infants are weaned from breast milk to a protein-deficient diet of starchy gruels or sugar water, but it can develop at any time during the formative years. Marasmus affects infants ages 6 to 18 months as a result of breast-feeding failure or a debilitating condition such as chronic diarrhea.
In industrialized countries, protein-calorie malnutrition may occur secondary to chronic metabolic disease that decreases protein and calorie intake or absorption or trauma that increases protein a

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