Medical Articles, Medicine Information.

MARITAL HYGIENE: PRE-MARITAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION – VIRGILITY AND MARRIAGE Formerly, an intact hymen was regarded as a sign of virginity. It was not recognized, as it is today, that in some women the hymen is naturally so slight or flimsy that it cannot be distinguished by the ordinary person from one which has been torn or stretched through intercourse. Also, we know that it is quite possible for dilatation to have occurred as a result of inserting a douche nozzle. The earlier notion that virginity could be determined by the condition of the hymen sometimes led to great injustice.Even with these facts pretty generally known, there will always be a certain amount of suspicion aroused in the minds of some old-fashioned men, on finding that the hymen is not intact at marriage. One gain which will result from making artificial defloration the rule before marriage will be that a husband will no longer have an advantage over his wife in concealing his past while she is not allowed the same privilege. Regardless of one’s attitude toward premarital sex relations, this proposed equality of women with men to determine for themselves how much of their past they wish to divulge will commend itself to every fair-minded man. If a man truly loves a woman, he will not care to know anything about her past except what is pleasant for her to recall.*117\275\8*

HIV: ON LIVING-TACTICS FOR PRESERVINGThis article is about how to fight the disease, how to keep from giving in, how to stay in one piece. It is about how to face uncertain physical health and still preserve emotional health. Preserving emotional health in the face of HIV infection is heroic, and people do it all the time, using all sorts of tricks. They call the tricks survival strategies or mind games or mental tricks—preservation tactics, for lack of a better term. Preservation tactics allow people to function in their daily lives, to endure pain and loss, to choose how to live, and to find real satisfaction and pleasure in the process.     There are a great variety of successful preservation tactics. People use different tactics at different times, depending on their needs. Many of the tactics even seem to contradict one another: sometimes people need to confront what the disease might bring; other times they need to take a break from that. Some of the tactics might work for you; some you might need to modify. You will almost certainly make up new ones for yourself.     Some tactics come from mental health professionals, though these professionals have no firm rules for maintaining emotional wholeness. Most tactics come from the rich imaginations and enormous inner resources of the people affected by HIV infection.     These people are proud of their toughness and resourcefulness, and so they should be. Steven Charles said, “I have to deal with this whether I want to or not. A whole year has gone by since I was diagnosed with the virus. How have I come through it? I think I’ve come through it admirably.” Neither Steven nor anyone else feels they have been admirable every minute: “It’s hard to do seven days a week,” he says. But on the whole, everyone who uses preservation tactics says that life is better.     Preservation tactics seem to fall into two broad categories. The first is: use your sources of support. The second is: as far as you are able, take control of your life.*228\191\2*

If a baby is indirectly fed such drugs we must not be surprised to see its health adversely affected. So, if your baby has cradle cap, think about the drugs you might be taking. If you have the unpleasant habit of smoking, you should certainly give it up while you are breast-feeding. Think of your child. Would you want your baby’s health upset because your irresponsibility means it has to try and cope with poisonous nicotine?

Even during pregnancy nicotine has an adverse effect on the unborn child. You can prove this to yourself by means of a simple experiment. Place a stethoscope on the mother’s abdomen and count the child’s heartbeats. Then let the mother smoke just one cigarette and then count the beats again. You will note that they have increased by eight per minute! Once the mother and her partner have convinced themselves of this overstimulation, they will be in no doubt that the mother should give up smoking at once.

Certain foods can affect the mother’s milk in the same way as drugs. I have often seen a child’s cradle cap disappear within a few days if the mother avoids eating egg white. It is, therefore, especially important to adopt a healthy diet while breast-feeding, as set out in another section of this book. Nursing mothers should remember that they are eating for both themselves and the baby.

Try to breast-feed your baby for as long as possible. But if, in spite of changing your own diet, the child’s condition remains unaltered, then replace a meal by giving a bottle of almond milk or buttermilk. Babies suffering from cradle cap respond well to this less fatty food. Violaforce, the fresh plant extract made from wild pansy, can be added to buttermilk to enhance its curative effect.
*69/28/1*
Discount medications online

Cradle cap in babies gives the parents a lot of trouble. Though many think that it is due to external factors, such as infections, this is not so. It is simply an abnormal oversensitivity, a so-called trophic allergy, possibly also a symptom of deficiency. If you deal with the causes the condition will soon disappear. On the other hand, the baby may have been born with the weakness of oversensitivity. Initially, treat the underlying cause: good digestion is important, so if anything goes wrong in this respect, the bowels should be normalised with the aid of brown rice gruel, buttermilk and other natural means.

In the case of breast-fed babies, the cause of cradle cap may be in the mother’s diet. Unfortunately, few mothers pay much atten­tion to the fact that anything they ingest, especially medicines, finds its way into their milk and is passed on to their babies. For example, a mother may be constipated and take a laxative. Then her breast-fed baby suddenly has a bout of diarrhoea. The baby is treated with all manner of things, without success, until bottle-feeding is resorted to and the diarrhoea finally stops. What a pity, though, since the infant is deprived of the best food for it – breast milk. With a little knowledge and forethought the upset would never have occurred in the first place.

While she is breast-feeding, a mother should not take any laxa­tives that contain aloe and other strong substances. Instead, linseed preparations, such as Linoforce, psyllium seed and similar remedies are harmless and can be used to regulate the bowels. Other medi­cines are also known to enter into the composition of milk when the mother has taken them. Among the most common of these are Luminal and many other barbiturates which are used to make up various sedatives and sleeping pills, as well as bromide, morphia and mercury preparations, quinine, salicylic acid and many rem­edies for rheumatism, iodide of potassium, alcohol and nicotine.
*68/28/1*
Compare online pharmacy prices

These are usually more common in older children and adolescents.

Clinical features

The edge where the nail meets the big toe is red, swollen, tender, and may be draining pus. The corner of the nail pushes against the cuticle or pulp of the toe, causing pain.

Cause

The edge of the nail (usually the outer edge) grows downwards into the pulp of the toe, instead of forwards. This produces an open wound which allows bacteria to enter, resulting in infection. It may be due to tightly fitting shoes, but can also be caused by cutting the nail by rounding the corners, instead of cutting directly across in a straight line.

Treatment

It will be easier for your child if he wears open shoes or sandals until the toe is healed. If he must wear closed shoes, put some protective padding over the toe. After a bath, when the nail is soft, gently push up the corner of the nail away from the cuticle, and try to wedge a small piece of cotton wool soaked in antiseptic solution into the crevice. Strap this around the toe. This method is usually only effective if the infection has not yet set in.

If this treatment does not lead to improvement of the infection within several days, you should see your doctor who will discuss with you the options of antibiotic treatment, and/or surgical removal of part of the nail. This procedure is called a wedge resection. Under local anaesthetic a wedge of the nail and nailbed is cut out, to allow the nail to regrow normally. Daily dressings must be applied for a week after a wedge resection. Most cases of ingrowing toenail will respond to treatment without the need for surgery.

See your doctor if your child has a sore, red toe in which one corner of the nail is growing down into the skin.

Prevention

Cut toenails straight across rather than rounding the corners. Make sure your child wears shoes that fit properly.

*316\90\8*

There are -a number of other practitioners who sometimes see children. These include homeopaths, osteopaths, naturopaths, iridologists, and other proponents of ‘natural therapies’. These are areas considered to be outside the mainstream of medicine. Most doctors and many other professionals argue that the theory and practice of many of these areas have no scientific validity, and that they are potentially dangerous in that they postpone the early diagnosis and effective treatment of serious illness.

Often parents take their children to alternative practitioners because they do not like the idea of giving medicines to their children — these are seen somehow as ‘poisoning’ the body, or weakening the immune system. This is quite false. While in a number of minor conditions, such as colds medications are unnecessary and are sometimes prescribed too freely, in other conditions they are lifesaving. When your doctor suggests medications, if you have some reservations about their use, speak to the doctor about them.

While we do not wish to comment on the benefits of alternative treatments for adults, we would recommend strongly against parents taking children to alternative practitioners. While in many cases prescribed remedies are harmless, there have been too many cases of incorrect diagnosis and wrong treatment. This has the potential for tragic consequences, and is best avoided. Find yourself (and especially your child) a good GP to look after day to day illnesses. Your doctor will also be able to refer your child to experts in child health if the need arises.

*20\90\8*

I don’t feel like I really have an intense emotional experience. I don’t feel like I have really gotten into and out of something.

It seems like my body comes but I don’t.

The first report is from a wife, the second a husband. Absence of psychasms, that is, an absence of the alteration of conscious and emotional experience through intimate bodily contact with someone else, is related to both hot and cold times, for unless we are in balance in our lives, we are not free to enjoy a variety of consciousness experiences. To do so, we may turn to drugs to help us accomplish such uplifting and mind-altering experiences, but drugs never really work. Only through intimacy and spiritual development can we really transcend the material, physical limitations of day-to-day life. The 881 men and 492 women who had trouble with psychasm were equally distributed in their hot and cold orientations to life both in my sample and in their own daily lives, running both hot and cold at various times.

*179\97\8*

I can’t remember what I wanted to be when I grew up. IVe been too busy helping everyone else in this house grow up to pay any attention to that anymore.

HUSBAND

I notice that my husband is never in my dreams.

WIFE

Is there still a reason for the two of you to be married, a reason that applies and has meaning for now and for the future (purposeful)? Or, are you two people with no common dreams or purpose, just going along perhaps with separate and unshared dreams (aimless)?

One of the first questions I ask the couple is “Why are you married?” followed by ‘ ‘Tell me your shared marital dreams.” Our society talks of individual liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and less of unity of purpose and dreams. This sample couple scored high toward the aimless axis. The wife reported, “I have always wanted to finish college. He thinks that’s silly. He says I wouldn’t make enough to make it matter. It matters to me, though.”

The husband responded, “I have a clear dream. Living on a lake up north, fishing all day, even at night. I could even use my snowmobile during the winter.”

Two dreams, unshared, and without the appearance of the spouse in either dream. Why are you and your spouse together now? Why do you have sex and intimacy anyway?

Sexually, the couple responded to my question about their”dream sex life” in quite different fashion. The husband reported, “That’s easy. Sex every day, every night, on the floor, in the car, out in the yard, sucking me anyplace and anytime.”

The wife responded, “I kind of see me walking with him on a beautiful beach, say, in Maui. The moon is behind us, the ocean in front of us, the warmth embracing us. We both feel warm, move together, kiss, and move slowly to the sand. No one is near, we are perfectly safe and alone together.”

“That’s no sex fantasy.” The husband laughed. “Don’t you think about garter belts, black panties, some real adventure?”

Sexual interaction has become goal-directed rather than dream-inspired, and the sexual system of your marriage draws its fuel from shared dreams. While too much purpose can force and drive a marriage, stressing it toward future accomplishments, too little common purpose destroys the reason for togetherness. If there is no place to go, we end up searching and lost. If we only look to the destination, our own unshared destination, we will never enjoy the journey.

*39\97\8*