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Television has lots of potentially very positive features for children. It can be a valuable teaching aid, a source of stimulation and entertainment, and can promote the child’s curiosity in the world around him. Parents can do much to ensure that the effects of television are positive and not negative.
1. Limit television viewing to 1-2 hours a day. Encourage other activities such as reading, sport, instructive hobbies.
2. Never have the television on continually in the background. Try to avoid the habit of automatically turning on the television in the morning or in the evening, or when the children are at home.
4. Select the programs that the children will watch — of course let them be involved in choosing — but avoid endless hours of one program following on from the other. Once a program is selected, get your children to agree to turn off the set themselves when the program is finished.
5. Watch television with the children and help them interpret what they see. Do ‘reality testing’ for them, expressing distaste for the violence, discussing other ways of handling disagreement and conflict, questioning stereotypes.
6. Use the VCR more. There are many videotapes that are specially made for children, and literally thousands of programs and movies that are entertaining, educational and appropriate for children.
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I don’t think he will ever want to touch me again. I feel like ruined property, damaged merchandise. I don’t think I would want to touch me, to touch that thick, ugly scar where my soft breast used to be.
WIFE BEFORE COUNSELING
I love her. In some ways, I love her more now than ever. But I just can’t bring myself to look at that part where her breast was.
HUSBAND BEFORE COUNSELING
It has come to be a symbol of sorts, I guess. He kisses me there and touches me there. It just doesn’t seem as much a thing as it would seem. In fact, it means something special. We hate it in some ways, but it symbolizes us and our survival. It stands for our victory.
WIFE AFTER COUNSELING
When we make love, I don’t try not to look at it or touch it and I don’t try to touch it or look at. I don’t try anything about it. But it’s not hers, it’s not like an “it,” really, but the whole thing is us, a part of us. That was the biggest change, I think, when I stopped trying to adjust to “it” and she stopped waiting for me to or help me to adjust. It’s that “holistic” thing, I guess.
HUSBAND AFTER COUNSELING
If we can have lung disease, heart disease, and other organ diseases, then we should refer to “cell” disease instead of the general and frightening term “cancer.” I have never heard anyone refer to the “heart disease of crime,” yet one recent commentator reported that “crime is the cancer of our country.” Cells overgrow every day. They overgrow because so many cells multiply and divide in our body that some are bound to “go bad.” They overgrow because of the toxicity of our world, our food, our style of living. Since cells are the building blocks of our body, cell disease can occur anywhere, and therefore there are many “types” of cell disease (actually locations). I discuss here some of the problems that came up in the couples group.
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The Kinsey’s sexual-response model was based on three phases: buildup, orgasm, and aftereffects of orgasm. Rhythmic muscular contractions accompanied orgasms in the Kinsey view, and this was the same for both sexes. Kinsey focused less on the male penis than did Ellis, describing more general stimulation to both the male and female as characteristic of human sexual interaction.
The female was described as less sexually responsive than the male, but by this Kinsey meant that her frequency of orgasms was less. Men reported more than 1,500 orgasms before marriage, women reported approximately 250. There was no category for “almosts” and “super.” Kinsey described the female as more physically responsive, requiring touch and direct contact for arousal and orgasm. Males were more psychologically responsive, reacting to images, pictures, and objects.
It was implied that marriage was a “convenient state,” providing a ready opportunity for sexual outlet. The more than 11,200 two-hour interviews yielded statistics that came to be prescriptive. Ninety-five percent of men had some sexual experience before age fifteen; men reported having 4 orgasms per week; 70 percent of men reported contact with a prostitute; 50 percent of men reported having sex outside their marriage before age forty; 30 percent of unmarried women reported not being virgins at age twenty-three; women reported 233 orgasms before marriage, with a significant decline in orgasmic frequency after marriage; 25 percent of girls reported having some sexual experience before age twelve, and 52 percent of these experiences were with a stranger. A lot of people were doing a lot of things sexually, and an unintended invitation to join a category was issued.
If Ellis focused on what was “normal,” Kinsey examined what he considered “natural.” If mammals could to it, it was natural, and Kinsey attempted to avoid the confrontation of what was right or wrong in favor of describing what “was.” The only unnatural sex act was one that could not be done. Several response came from the individual, not from within a relationship.
Kinsey saw nothing particularly special about our humanness. He wrote, “The elements that are involved in sexual contacts between the human and animals of other species are at no point basically different from those that are involved in erotic responses to human situations.” In fact, Kinsey felt that it was our arrogance about being human, our attempt to distance ourselves from our mammalian ancestors, that caused us to take sex out if its’ ‘natural” context.
The Kinsey perspective, then, saw orgasm as essentially pelvic muscle contraction in both genders, but women tended to be less responsive and slower to respond than men. There were several categories of sex from which to choose. Marriage saved time in searching for outlets, but women tended to diminish in sexual responsiveness once married and men tended to seek out variety, were by nature sexually promiscuous. Love was not a category or a factor, it was not something that could, even should, be studied if it existed at all. “Tell me what you did, not how you felt” was the second-perspective question.
The emphasis on energy buildup and discharge, on doing it instead of experiencing it, and an implied drive for variety of the first two perspectives interfere with the super marital sex mat stresses flow instead of discharge, an intimate comfort, not variety.
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SEXUALLY RELATED DISEASES – CONCLUSION
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It is important to remember that if a person is sexually active then he or she can get venereal disease. It doesn’t matter how clean or how well brought up you may be, it is not confined to any one socio-economic group.
If you think you might have acquired one of these infections, then immediately seek professional help. You may see your local doctor, the Out-patient clinic of a public hospital, or one of the Government clinics set up to deal with VD.
There is no need to be frightened that someone will come to call on you or hound your sexual contacts if you seek treatment. Naturally you will be urged to let your partners know if it is shown you have VD, but that is only acting responsibly.
Remember that most venereal diseases can now be quickly and completely cured.
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DRY EYES – GENERAL INFORMATION
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While most eye inflammations lead to an increased production of tears with watering of the eyes, sometimes the reverse, with dry eyes resulting, can be an annoyance.
There are a few rare conditions where the production of tears by the lacrimal glands is reduced but the problem can occur in the elderly as tear glands age and so produce less tears.
Failure to blink frequently may also be a cause of drying of the eyes.
Artificial tears are available in drop form and may be prescribed although some are available from the chemist without prescription.
These drops are a lubricant, contain no active drugs and may be used frequently without risk to the eyes.
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CAESAREAN SECTION – PROCESS OF CHILDBIRTH
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For some babies, the process of normal childbirth presents a great hazard, with the risk of death or severe brain damage. Our grandparents knew and accepted this. Today, you and I are just not prepared for our babies to run these risks.
Generations of medical students have been taught that, in labor and childbirth, they need to consider the three Ps — the passage, the passenger and the power (which pushes the baby through the passage).
Now the pressure is on the doctor not to risk the baby with a difficult forceps delivery but to go straight to a caesarean section.
This operation carries with it a small risk to the mother, but modern anaesthetics, improved surgical techniques and the availability of blood from the blood bank make this risk very small.
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On the whole, these deformations consist of localised flattenings and bulgings of the margin of the pupil. In this case one should note whether these distortions appear in the right or left eye, and whether they are found in the upper, lower, nasal or temporal sectors. A sunken condition of a flattened segment leads to inward bulging, corresponding to an increase of all symptoms.
All asymmetrical deformations of the pupil are reliable indications for assessing the condition of the nervous system, as well as to imply a disease condition of those organs whose areas are localised in the sector corresponding to the flattened segment. This second point is very important.
Flattening of the left pupil margin in the upper sector indicates psychic disturbances. Flattening of the lower sector of both pupils indicates severe muscle weakness affecting the legs.
Flattening of the pupil margin in the nasal sector indicates disturbance arising from the spinal cord and its nerve trunks, and includes physical and mental conditions. Temporal flattening corresponds more with hormone disturbances. From cerebellum to gonads, including suprarenale, pancreas and heart, these organs stand in close hormonal relationship. From this arises the clinical picture of vegetative dystony.
Flattening of the pupil margin in the upper sector of the right iris is more often seen in conditions associated with hysteria, whereas involvement of the same sector of the left iris indicates a predominance of melancholic states (see also right iris: Uterus-Cerebellum line, and left iris: Rectum-Cerebellum line).
Right temporal sector flattening suggests disturbance of the liver and consequent effects. In this case, the patients are suffering from liver encumbrance arising from hereditary preconditions caused by faulty nutrition and mode of life
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Signs and symptoms
The vomiting itself is obvious, and the doctor concentrates on identifying its cause. It’s also important to evaluate the degree of dehydration caused by persistent vomiting.
Home care
If your child is vomiting, avoid giving solid foods, milk, or aspirin tablets. These substances aggravate the vomiting. Allow the child sips of cold, clear liquids (ice water, carbonated beverages, tea with sugar, flavored gelatin water, commercial mineral and electrolyte solutions, or apple juice). Commercial preparations of orthophosphoric acid, fructose, and glucose also may be given. If the child can keep down a teaspoon of liquid every five minutes, he or she will retain 60 grams of fluid in an hour.
Precautions
• Watch for signs of dehydration in your child.
• If vomiting and diarrhea are happening at the same time, control the vomiting first, then treat the diarrhea.
• Some phenothiazine drugs that are used to control vomiting in adults may cause serious central nervous system side effects in children; do not use them for children.
• Remember that abdominal pain (with or without vomiting) could be appendicitis.
Medical treatment
Your doctor will determine the cause of the vomiting by obtaining a detailed health history and performing a careful physical and neurological examination. The presence and degree of dehydration will be assessed, and if the child is seriously dehydrated he or she will be hospitalized for administration of intravenous fluids.
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SELF-HELP PREVENTION: COLIC
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What is it?
Pain in the abdomen caused by the spasm of a hollow abdominal organ.
Colic can thus occur in the urinary passages, the uterus or the intestine, for example. The term is not often used of adult pains by lay people but is usually confined to the irritable crying of babies and young children thought to be caused by such muscle spasm.
Three-month colic is a condition so called because it consists of colicky pains (in babies) that disappear by 3 months of age. It is usually worst in the evening. Many babies with so-called colic do not have abdominal organ spasm at all-they are crying for another reason.
What causes it?
Given that the very word ‘colic’ is used so widely and indiscriminately of crying children it is essential to look at what the causes really are if one is to try to prevent any of them.
• Bottle-fed babies who are fed with a teat that has too large a hole in it can gulp down air and so get abdominal pains as the intestine passes this gas along.
• In breastfeeding mothers with a very large and fast flow of milk much the same can happen.
• Often it appears that so-called colic is not colic as such but is a response to the mother’s busyness and preoccupation with other things, rather than the baby, at the time of the day typical for ‘colic’ (6 o’clock in the evening). Some of these irritable babies may simply want attention.
• A considerable number of so-called ‘colicky’ babies are mislabeled-they are really bored, lonely or hungry.
• Recent research has found that traces of undigested foods and drinks get through into the mother’s bloodstream and thus in her milk. These proteins (mainly from cows’ milk) then upset certain susceptible babies and produce colic.
• Other foods a mother eats to which neither she nor her baby are actually ‘allergic’ can also produce colic. Onions, garlic, Chinese food, cabbage, beans, green leafy vegetables and alcohol can all be culprits. Green leafy vegetables and pulses can make a breast-fed baby very windy.
• A poor breast milk supply, for whatever reason, can produce a baby who is always hungry and cries. He is labeled colicky.
• Cows’ milk causes colic in some allergic, bottle-fed babies.
• Some teething babies suffer from ‘colic’ too.
Prevention
• Change the teat on the bottle to one with a smaller hole. Feed more slowly and ‘wind’ the baby before lying him or her down.
• If a breastfeeding mother has too much milk she can express the first milk by hand and either keep it to give to a breast-milk bank at her local hospital or discard it. The other way of overcoming the problem of too much milk is to feed from one breast only at a feed. Alternate the one you use. Allow the baby to suck at the empty breast for comfort. In this way he or she gets milk and comfort sucking and yet not too much milk. Express the unused breast if it becomes uncomfortable.
• Relax at the end of the day as much as possible. Spread out household chores through the day and pre-prepare the evening meal, for example. Try to sit down and perhaps have a small drink of alcohol to relax yourself.
• Ensure that your baby is not bored, is played with and gets plenty of stimulation and stays with you wherever you are, whether he or she is awake or asleep.
• If you are breastfeeding try cutting out cows’ milk and milk products entirely from your diet for two weeks and see if this does anything to your baby’s colic. If things improve, stay off dairy products until you wean and then don’t give them to your baby.
• If you are breastfeeding, keep off foods you find from experience give your child colic.
• If you have a poor milk supply, feed more frequently day and night and never let your baby go more than three hours without a feed-if necessary wake him or her up and feed.
• If cows’ milk is the culprit in your baby’s bottle use goats’ milk or soya milk instead.
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TOES, RED, ITCHY, WITH PAIN BETWEEN
Author: admin
Description and Possible Medical Problems
Athlete’s foot is such a common condition that the moment your feet start to itch and become red and the skin between your toes cracks, you probably already know what the problem is.
In fact, athlete’s foot is such a common condition that an entire industry of powders and lotions seems to have been built around it. Some other products also use the issue of athlete’s foot prevention— “Use our special sandals in the shower at the gym and avoid athlete’s foot forever!”—to sell their own products.
When it comes right down to it, athlete’s foot is a fungal infection that is easy to catch but also easy to treat. The best growing conditions for athlete’s foot include a moist environment such as a shower that other people use, like in a locker room, and shoes and socks that don’t allow your feet to breathe. In addition to redness, itching, and cracks between the toes, the skin may be flaky and will smell foul.
Treatment
To treat athlete’s foot, the best thing you can do is to keep your feet as dry as possible with talcum powder or an antifungal powder for athlete’s foot such as Tinactin. It’s also a good idea to wear shoes and socks that breathe—such as cotton socks and leather shoes—and sandals or other open-toed shoes as often as possible.
Usually these techniques will clear up athlete’s foot within a few days. If they don’t work or your athlete’s foot gets worse, see your doctor. You may need a prescription antifungal powder or cream or an antifungal medication.
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