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High fever leads to loss of body fluid through the skin and through the increased breathing rate associated with it and as a result the temperature may be driven even higher by the fluid imbalance. For this reason parents should begin encouraging their child to drink more fluids as soon as even a slight fever [...]

Perhaps it is the historical use of fever as the prime indicator of disease that makes its occurrence raise such fear in parents. Episodes of Little House on the Prairie show little John sweating through the “crucial” hours of high temperature as his father and mother look on and pray that soon the fever and [...]

Q.I’ve been diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease. Now I have to go for tests to tell if I have Barrett’s esophagus, apparently caused by years of stomach acid damaging my esophagus. Can you tell me more about this?

“Tick paralysis” is most commonly caused by female American dog ticks, although other species of ticks have also been reported to cause this condition.

I have exciting news, each day my psoriasis gets a little better. The fading of the patches continues. The patches continue to look more and more like normal skin. I must admit that right now they are extremely dry, but more like a dry skin on top of healthy skin. I still have not had [...]

The thoughts/feelings, perceptions, and behaviors we have about our body size and shape, form our body image. Negative body image is associated with a number of psychological problems and is a risk factor for eating disorders and relapse following weight loss. Treatment for negative body image is important.

Here are the questions: Do you appreciate your children? Can you learn to control yourself during these mother’s days? Is “will power” still a part of your vocabulary? Do you often experience lack of energy? Do you feel more patient and less frazzled when relaxed? Is it possible for you to calm down – take [...]

Motherhood. Did you try to envision it before the time came? Maybe you couldn’t even imagine such a multi-faceted lifestyle in your deepest dreams… Many women fantasize about becoming the best parents with nurturing instincts, who would never get out of control, or lose their emotional stability.

Scuba Diving with breast implants There have been experiments conducted with silicone, saline, and silicone/saline filled breast implants. The results of the experiments showed that there was a minimal increase in bubble size in both saline and silicone gel implants. Fluctuations in results varied on the depth and duration of the dives conducted. The saline-filled [...]

However, it is a possibility that women that dive while menstruating are less able to expel dissolved nitrogen due to increased fluid retention and tissue swelling. This theory is not yet conclusive as a result of limited research in this area. One recent study found that 38 percent of women divers with DCS were menstruating [...]