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1. Decide Who Will Participate in the Intervention People who are addicted to something may have hurt various family members and friends along the way. Even if the addict hasn’t hurt anyone, you may still be very worried about her…
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1. Enroll the Patient in a Structured Education Workshop If you’re the parent of an autistic child, your doctor may have already told you how important it is to introduce structure in the patient’s life. Studies have shown that many…
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1. Take Thyroid Hormone Many people with low levels of thyroid hormone production in their bodies have depression or bipolar disorder. Thyroid hormones has displayed a beneficial effect in these cases even if you have a normal thyroid. The thyroid…
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1. Understand the Causes of Vaginismus Vaginismus is a condition in which a woman’s pelvic floor muscles spasm involuntarily in response to penetration or attempted penetration. This makes penetration either impossible or painfully difficult. Many women have never heard of…
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1. Talk to a Dermatologist Syringoma is a bump formed on the face, caused by cell overgrowth in the sweat glands that creates a small yellowish tumor. It’s benign, which means there’s no health risk, though it can make you…
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1. Watch for Vomiting Diarrhea and Abdominal Pain Early signs of iron poisoning can point to a number of causes. You may experience gastrointestinal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and drowsiness. In serious cases, the stomach may bleed and your breathing and…
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1. Medication for Heartburn If you suffer from heartburn, try over-the-counter medications for relief. Antacids can alleviate heartburn and indigestion by neutralizing stomach acid. They only provide temporary relief, however, with the effects wearing off within 2 hours. H2 blockers…
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1. Know Your Risk While there may be no sure way to prevent prostate cancer, you should know whether you are at high risk. Men who have several close family members with prostate cancer fall into the highest risk category….
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1. Expect a High Fever Anticipate a fever in excess of 100 degrees F in a person who contracts avian influenza. Symptoms differ considerably from one case to the next, with some patients showing only mild signs of infection while…
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1. Count on Acute Care Rehabilitation First Immediately after a stroke, a patient’s hospital team will help with initial recovery. This covers a basic physical therapy assessment of the patient’s ability to move and function physically, as well as a…
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1. Throw It Back Up Like many other plants, wisteria vine poisoning is treated by first removing the toxins in your system and then treating the symptoms. You should induce vomiting within the first few hours of ingesting the wisteria…
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1. Focus on the Family When a child is diagnosed with autism, families often go into crisis mode and focus all of their attention and resources on that child. The singular goal often becomes getting treatment for that child at…
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1. Fight Swimmer’s Ear With Vinegar You can use vinegar to treat fungal ear infections, such as swimmer’s ear. However, before doing so, you should get a medical professional to confirm that the cause of the problem is in fact…
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1. Talk to Your Doctor About Good Detox Centers Frankly, finding a detox center is as easy as opening the phone book or typing the word “detox” into an online search engine. More important than finding a center, however, is…
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1. Knock Out the Infection with Antibiotics Both men and women can contract gonorrhea through bodily fluids, and it can be passed onto a newborns at birth if the mother is infected with this sexually transmitted disease (STD). Besides the…
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1. Take the Right Medications Most cases of manic depression require some kind of medication. The medication helps keep manic episodes under control and prevents depressive episodes from getting out of hand. Your psychiatrist or personal physician will be able…
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1. Get a Doctor to Perform a Pelvic Exam If you haven’t chosen to have your ovaries removed to prevent ovarian cancer outright, you can have a physical exam performed as a screening method. Your doctor will probably not recommend…
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Are you seeking the perfect nutrition bar? This is not an easy pursuit. The tremendous allotment of nutritional bars available on most grocery store shelves coupled with the great variance of ingredients and nutrients can create a frustrating shopping and…
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1. High-Fiber Foods Can Promote Colon Elimination Eating fresh foods that are high in fiber and water can facilitate colon elimination. Fiber keeps your digestive system healthy and helps food to pass through without difficulty. To cleanse your colon and…
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1. Know What Side Effects to Expect All of the drugs used to treat people with autism carry some side effects. Depending on which type of drug your child needs, however, there are different side effects you can expect. There…
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1. Treat Hemiplegia by Relearning Hemiplegia, or one-sided paralysis, is a very common outcome of a stroke. Recovering use of the affected side of the body is often possible, at least to some degree. It takes months and sometimes years…
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1. Get Psychiatric Help The first thing many parents do when they discover their child has ADHD is to get a Ritalin prescription from the family doctor. While this is the easiest answer, it’s not necessarily the best. Go to…
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1. Confront the Addicted Family Member One of the most powerful ways to cope with a family member with an addiction is to confront that person about her problem. The best way to do this is to have a formal…
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1. Cause Vomiting Cases of black locust poisoning are infrequent in humans. The flowers are sometimes used in teas to treat headaches, nausea and stomachaches. If a poisonous amount has been taken, the first step is to get the black…
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1. Stand Up Straight This advice is never more important than during pregnancy. As your baby and belly grow larger, your body’s center of gravity begins to shift forward. Trying to compensate for this change, back muscles work harder than…
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1. Recognize a Pulled Groin The groin is the area where the legs meet the pelvis. When you overstretch one of the muscles that connect the bones of the legs and pelvis, you have a pulled groin. Generally, this occurs…
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1. Oh, It’s Just Heartburn; Or Is It? We all have, at one time or another, experienced the discomfort of “heartburn”, or “acid indigestion”; perhaps too much spicy food, or too much alcohol, or a combination of foods that give…
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1. Why You Need Protein Protein helps your body to maintain and rebuild muscles. As you age your natural hormones make your body want to hang on to fat–particularly around your middle, a high risk for many illnesses–which means your…
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1. Not Your Ordinary Muscle Aches Inflammatory muscle disease is a group of muscular disorders, the majority of which can fall into the category of auto-immune disorders. This type of disorder occurs when the body is somehow triggered to literally…
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1. Understanding what it means to have your back fused. There are many situations and pathologic conditions that would require a segmental fusion in the back, mainly the lumbar spine, and understanding what a fusion procedure entails is crucial to…
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