What is wrong with my feet?
Im a 15 year old diabetic, and for as long as I can remember I have had issues with my feet. This had varied from Achilles tendons to ingrown toenails, and now I am suffering more so than ever. Just for the record, I have always tried my hardest to keep my feet well looked after, ive used pumice rocks, creams, moisturisers, insoles dried them when they got wet etc, but im really beginning to give up on them. There just another complication amongst other things in my life and there really getting me down. My most recent problems are with the side of my big toes and the balls ( on both feet). I also have burning pains down the side of my feet and into my heels. On my toes, the skin is very thin and falls/peels off itself in layers which often results in discomfort and bleeding. I do play alot of sport, mainly tennis. But I have always worn suitable footwear, for example K-Swiss, and my school shoes are cushioned and made properly as apose to those plimsolls things that everyone else wears.I have spoken to my diabetic nurse about this, and she has written to the board of 'feet care' ( cant remember the official name). But she has said that im looking at 18months before i even get a consultation. I think by that time if I do not get any help im going to chop them both off!!! All im asking for is if anyone knows what's going on, and also where / how i can get them sorted one and for all!!! I have been sent for xrays a few years ago, and all that they showed was that the joints in my toes, were not where they should be, and in some cases, they are missing completely! I have since been discharged from the practise and now have to start the case from scratch. Please help :(
Pain & Pain Management - 1 Answers
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The toe problem could be bursitis. Check here, http://adam.about.com/reports/000061_7.htm http://www.foot-pain-explained.com/bursitis.html http://arthritis.about.com/od/toe/Toe_Pain_Causes_Symptoms_Diagnosis_Treatment_Pain_Relief.htm The other pain in the side of your food could be related to your diabetes. Check here. http://www.ehow.com/about_5285539_foot-pain-diabetes-symptoms.html http://www.pioneerthinking.com/jf_diabetes.html http://diabetes.webmd.com/peripheral-neuropathy-8/default.htm
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
how can i make a cut heal faster, plus more questions
how can i make a cut heal faster, plus more questions?
hey so last night i cut myself with a swiss army knife(i know i'm a retard). it was bleeding alot so i cleaned it by putting listerine on cuz it was the alchohol i had. i put alot of pressure on the cut and rapped it in gauze. the next day when i took off the gauze it was still bleeding so i cleaned it out with listerine and rewrapped it. when i went to school and saw the nurse the bleeding stopped so she put bacitracin and another bandaid and i was fine. later, being a retard again, i strated playing basketball and some kid tore the bandaid off and it started bleeding again. i went straight to the nurse, and she made me clean it with soap and water and she put some more bacitracin on and then she put another bandaid on. i took it off a few minutes ago wen i went into the shower and it wasn;t bleeding and it didn;t start bleeding again. do u think i have an infection? the cut was really deep by the way. is wrapping the bandaid tight around it bad? what can i do to make it heal faster, and what can i do to prevent and infection from happening?
First Aid - 1 Answers
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Cleanse well with alcohol, hydrogen peroxide (It may bring out a mere 'yikes' out of you...then put on a cream antibacterial ointment/something to keep loose dirt from getting deep into the wound which may cause infection. Thanks!
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hey so last night i cut myself with a swiss army knife(i know i'm a retard). it was bleeding alot so i cleaned it by putting listerine on cuz it was the alchohol i had. i put alot of pressure on the cut and rapped it in gauze. the next day when i took off the gauze it was still bleeding so i cleaned it out with listerine and rewrapped it. when i went to school and saw the nurse the bleeding stopped so she put bacitracin and another bandaid and i was fine. later, being a retard again, i strated playing basketball and some kid tore the bandaid off and it started bleeding again. i went straight to the nurse, and she made me clean it with soap and water and she put some more bacitracin on and then she put another bandaid on. i took it off a few minutes ago wen i went into the shower and it wasn;t bleeding and it didn;t start bleeding again. do u think i have an infection? the cut was really deep by the way. is wrapping the bandaid tight around it bad? what can i do to make it heal faster, and what can i do to prevent and infection from happening?
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Cleanse well with alcohol, hydrogen peroxide (It may bring out a mere 'yikes' out of you...then put on a cream antibacterial ointment/something to keep loose dirt from getting deep into the wound which may cause infection. Thanks!
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Are microwaves dangerous
Are microwaves dangerous?
I've heard both sides, and I want to know whether they're dangerous. I found on a website (http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html) that: "MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing People! By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney) Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is certainly one of the most ignored. There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven!" Logic suggests that if heating is all there is to microwave cooking, then it doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different? A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the University of Minnesota in a radio announcement: "Microwaves ... are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle. The bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could burn the baby's mouth and throat... Heating the bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk, some protective properties may be destroyed.... Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few minutes longer, but it is much safer". There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades - and that in that time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase. Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it. He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute for Biochemistry. They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. "These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of the study". Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who ate microwaved food for a year or more? The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat plenty of raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) also showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Another change was a decrease in the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration The results were published in "Search for Health" in the Spring of 1992. How was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry somehow made the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order'. Hertel and Blanc were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings. Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial. FINALLY, in 1998 the Court `Gag Order' was removed. In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision. The Court decided that the `gag order' prohibiting him form declaring that microwaved food is dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of F40,000. RUSSIANS BAN MICROWAVE OVENS After the World War II, the Russians also experimented with microwave ovens. From 1957 up to recently, their research has been carried out mainly at the Institute of Radio Technology at Klinsk, Byelorussia. According to US researcher William Kopp, who gathered much of the results of Russian and German research - and was apparently prosecuted for doing so 1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave sufficiently for human consumption created: * d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent) * Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds * Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere * Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in milk and cereal grains; 2. Microwave emissions also caused alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside - and galactoside - elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this way; 3. Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods; 4. Cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables; 5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood; 6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occur
Chemistry - 1 Answers
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it all depends how you use them . but i can see how , if used wrong, there is a great potential for getting seriously hurt maybe not killed, but hurt
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I've heard both sides, and I want to know whether they're dangerous. I found on a website (http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html) that: "MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing People! By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney) Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is certainly one of the most ignored. There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven!" Logic suggests that if heating is all there is to microwave cooking, then it doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different? A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the University of Minnesota in a radio announcement: "Microwaves ... are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle. The bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could burn the baby's mouth and throat... Heating the bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk, some protective properties may be destroyed.... Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few minutes longer, but it is much safer". There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades - and that in that time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase. Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it. He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute for Biochemistry. They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. "These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of the study". Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who ate microwaved food for a year or more? The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat plenty of raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) also showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Another change was a decrease in the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration The results were published in "Search for Health" in the Spring of 1992. How was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry somehow made the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order'. Hertel and Blanc were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings. Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial. FINALLY, in 1998 the Court `Gag Order' was removed. In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision. The Court decided that the `gag order' prohibiting him form declaring that microwaved food is dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of F40,000. RUSSIANS BAN MICROWAVE OVENS After the World War II, the Russians also experimented with microwave ovens. From 1957 up to recently, their research has been carried out mainly at the Institute of Radio Technology at Klinsk, Byelorussia. According to US researcher William Kopp, who gathered much of the results of Russian and German research - and was apparently prosecuted for doing so 1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave sufficiently for human consumption created: * d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent) * Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds * Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere * Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in milk and cereal grains; 2. Microwave emissions also caused alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside - and galactoside - elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this way; 3. Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods; 4. Cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables; 5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood; 6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occur
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it all depends how you use them . but i can see how , if used wrong, there is a great potential for getting seriously hurt maybe not killed, but hurt
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Monday, November 1, 2010
If you had your woman dress up for youin a sexy costume...what would you make her wear
If you had your woman dress up for youin a sexy costume...what would you make her wear.?
Here are a few...Tinker bell, Swiss miss girl, Army girl, nurse.
Polls & Surveys - 5 Answers
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nothing.
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Sheep skin
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I would have her be an angel.
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i left it on our bed didn't you put it on yet? i want you looking like janet reno when i see you
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catholic school girl! MMMMM
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Here are a few...Tinker bell, Swiss miss girl, Army girl, nurse.
Polls & Surveys - 5 Answers
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nothing.
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Sheep skin
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I would have her be an angel.
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i left it on our bed didn't you put it on yet? i want you looking like janet reno when i see you
5 :
catholic school girl! MMMMM
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