Please suggest about the diet of a patient of macular amyloid?

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i) In this disease, protein gets deposited under the skin giving rise to a dark appearance.Should a patient avoid protein-rich food?
ii)If yes,how to compensate the protein deficiencly?
Also suggest alternative medicines for cure.
I don't think any diet will make a difference.  (+ info)

Why dont some ppl that have familial hypercholesterolemia get heart attacks?

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FH heterozygotes (with meds) dont get heart attacks bcoz of the few LDL receptors but what are the other
reasons??
Authentic article on familial hypercholesterolemia is at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000392.htm  (+ info)

can familial stress cause me not to have an implantation?

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we did inseminations on march 10 and 11. a friend of the family died,and i've had stress central ever since. can stress cause a fertilized egg not to implant? btw, should i start counting from March 10th towards my bfp or the 11th?
Im not sure about stress affecting implantation, although I do know it can put off ovulation.

You should count from the first day of your period when determining cycle length and therefore days past ovulation (for testing) and baby's due date. You dont count from the times you BD.  (+ info)

What is the familial pattern of ADHD?

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As in, how does the likelihood of having the disorder change based on whether a family member has it.
Twin studies indicate that the disorder is highly heritable and that genetics are a factor in about 75% of ADHD cases. Hyperactivity also seems to be primarily a genetic condition; however, other causes do have an effect.  (+ info)

is there an alternative treatment for familial polyposis?

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My sister died of colorectal cancer 6 years ago, last month her two sons was diagnose with familial polyposis, one of them the biopsy came out as malignant already. The only treatment for this we were told is to removed the colon and be on a colostomy for the rest of their lives, but they are still so young, 29 and 28 years old, no wife nor kids.
You really don't want to screw around with alternative treatments when you son's lives could be at risk, familial polyposis can lead to colon cancer. Once colon cancer metastasize it becomes very difficult to treat. I had an opportunity of taking care of a gentleman who went the alternative route and it was not a good ending.

I Have taken care of young men who had to have this procedure done and thankfully I have not had to see them again (cancer free).

Sorry, I'm not trying to be an a-hole. I work with people who are fighting cancer every day.  (+ info)

Do you teach your child to hate those with familial attraction (commonly ungallantly known as incest)?

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Or do you teach them that love is love, and people can't help who they fall in love with?
Well are we talking siblings and parents, or are we talking cousins, distant relatives and later in life step-siblings? The degree of relation is what gets me. I have 2nd and 3rd cousins that I haven't ever met, if I ran into them on the street I'd never know we were related, so how would that be breaking any taboos if I started dating one of them?

Close family is wrong, but what good is hate or preoccupying yourself with being against it? If one party cannot or has not consented, they're not to blame, the one who forced themselves on the other is, and they should be morally despised on par with any other rapist. If it's consensual, it's gross but it's essentially a victimless crime, so I'm not going to get hung up on it.  (+ info)

Is it bad to have familial adenomatous polyposis at the age of 19?

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It's bad at any age.  (+ info)

Q's for any 1 got a good information about familial Alzheimer's disease?

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my grand father and aunt died with this disease
1_how much is the Percentage of haveing this disease for the girls and boys of my aunt?
2_how much is the Percentage of having this disease for me if my mum pass 65 without having this disease?(how much is the Percentage of having this disease for me from my grad father)
3_is there any early diagnosis for it ? and did it depend on blood sample or what?
I am very interested in Alzheimer's and at 66 I could worry myself silly if I allowed it. My great grandfather, my grandfather, and my daddy all had Alzheimer's. There is a hereditary link to the disease. Researchers are working hard to find out more about it and I just saw on TV that they are developing better ways of catching it early. However, it's one of those things that at this time can't be stopped, can't be cured and is an awful thing. It is harder for the caregiver than for the patient as the person with Alzheimer's loses the ability to think clearly and reason and eventually they aren't even aware they have it. Since there's really no way to prevent it, I have tried to NOT WORRY about it. However, I do take time every day to exercise my brain. I play lots of puzzle games on the net; I do jigsaw puzzles, word games, and read a lot of news articles. I research new and interesting things all the time to keep my thinking skills sharp. I read a lot, crochet from new patterns and try new recipes. I spend time every day with my family and friends. I am writing a book about my life to keep my memory active. All these things help keep my brain active and surely can't hurt. I'm hoping it helps. I am a licensed Alzheimer's caregiver and it's a bit funny that my focus now that I'm disabled is to prevent getting the disease myself.  (+ info)

What does advanced paternal age have to do with non-familial schizophrenia?

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It is thought that causal factors can initially come together in early neurodevelopment, including during pregnancy, to increase the risk of later developing schizophrenia. One curious finding is that people diagnosed with schizophrenia are more likely to have been born in winter or spring[33] (at least in the northern hemisphere). However, the effect is not large. Some researchers postulate that the correlation is due to viral infections during the third trimester (4-6 months) of pregnancy. There is now significant evidence that prenatal exposure to infections increases the risk for developing schizophrenia later in life, providing additional evidence for a link between in utero developmental pathology and risk of developing the condition.[34]

A study by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Bristol University in the UK, looked at the medical records of over 700,000 people and calculated that 15.5% of cases of schizophrenia seen in the group may have been due to the patient having a father who was aged over 30 years at their birth, the researchers argue this is due to build up of mutations in the sperm of elder fathers.[23]

Women who were pregnant during the Dutch famine of 1944, where many people were close to starvation, had a higher chance of having a child who would later develop schizophrenia.[35] Similarly, studies of Finnish mothers who were pregnant when they found out that their husbands had been killed during the Winter War of 1939–1940 have shown that their children were much more likely to develop schizophrenia when compared with mothers who found out about their husbands' death after pregnancy,[36] suggesting that even psychological trauma in the mother may have an effect.
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Is there any alternative treatments for pain management in scoliosis and/or axilary neuropathies?

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You can often get short-term pain relief for scoliosis from a chiropractor or massage therapist. I've used both. Short-term means a few days to a few weeks.

Long-term or permanent relief requires addressing the real problem of scoliosis, which is muscle imbalances. Some muscles on one side of the scoliotic back are stronger and tighter than the opposing group, alternating sides at three or four levels of the back. Exercise therapy offers the most viable solution, but unfortunately there aren't many specialists for this outside Germany, and doctors will tell you it doesn't work. (They are wrong, and can't prove their case.)

The Schroth method is exercise therapy developed in Germany in the 1920s. There are a couple big German clinics devoted to it. There are a few small Schroth clinics in the US now, started by physical therapists who got specially trained. Even a non-Schroth-trained physiotherapist ought to be able to help you if she/he is smart and specializes in spinal issues. If the first PT doesn't pan out, or gives you exercises that hurt, drop her and try another.

There was a very good article on Schroth treatment of scoliosis pain published in 1993 but it's not indexed online. See Sources below.  (+ info)

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