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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Request for Information: CMV
Keywords: Layman's terms... please.
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:35:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: pitt.16127
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <Aug.18.14.43.56.1992.14016@pilot.njin.net> birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
>
>That means there's also a 50% chance that she doesn't have the antibodies.
>In that case, the fact that she already had a cold would tend to make it 
>a bit more complex for her body to fight CMV.  The fact that I also had
>a cold would - I should think - make it easier for any latent CMV in me
>to either reactivate or be transmitted.
>
Not at all.  Having a cold can increase the activity of the immune
system in general and quite possibly make it more difficult
for another virus to establish itself.

>Last time I checked, I had a good immune system.  Of course, I got CMV
>totally out of the blue in 1990, and I had a good immune system then.  To
>me, CMV continues to be something that I can't get good answers about,
>at least not good enough to explain what happened to me.
>
You don't even know for sure that it was CMV that made you sick.
You could have gotten it as a child.  Without postconvalencent
titres (which you didn't go back for) your doctor didn't know either.

>said to look it up in the library, I don't think there are 100,000,000
>people who are really aware of what it even is.
>
So what?  Do you have to be aware of what it is in order to
get it?  Listen, Brian is a virologist, you'd do well to listen
to him rather than argue.

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From: Robin.Salmansohn@f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Robin Salmansohn)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Magnetic Therapy
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:52:30 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:273/715 - Alternative Lifesty, Wyndmoor PA


 To: RFLOOD@ESOC.BITNET (<RFLOOD@ESOC.BITNET>)
 
 <> I believe there's some justification for using 
 <> magnetic fields in some areas,
 <> but to achieve any results, they have to be 
 <> strong, and  these devices being
 <> offered  are way too low powered.....
 <> As an example, I have heard of  bone regeneration 
 <> being accelerated where
 <> the complete limb is placed in a coil and 
 <> subjected to high power magnetic
 <> fields.  No way will you get a comparable field 
 <> from a permament magnet.
 
A Study conduted at Temple University Hospital (Dr. Greenstein, M.D.),
Department of Neurology using (pulsed and varied frequency electromagnets
) for the investigational use in pain control was found to have no therapeutic 
value.


 

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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: larry@bradley.bradley.edu (L. D. Stratton)
Subject: Re: what causes leg cramps ?
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 19:20:32 GMT

In <92226.40447.6310550@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6310550@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:

>Does anybody know what causes leg (calf & foot) cramps ?  For the
>past 5-6 nights I've been woken up by leg cramps.  The only thing
>that stops them is to stand up.  I recently started on Weight Watchers
>(trying level 2)... Could the diet have something to do with it ?
>Any insights will be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Deb

   Deb,
     As a dancer I frequently am subject to cramps but I increase
     my intake of calcium and vitamin C.  It really does help.

      ld
From: FORTMAPL@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU ("Paul Fortman : free spirit")
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Scoliosis and back pain
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:48:49 GMT


I have had constant back pain, mostly upper but some lower too, since
I was a very young child.  Not too long ago I had a chest X-ray to 
check for pneunomia.  The doctor informed me that I didn't have 
pneumonia, but did ask me about my scoliosis.  Until that day I 
didn't know that I had scoliosis.  Is there any effective treatment 
for scoliosis for someone who is in their 30s.  Is the scoliosis the 
cause of my back pain--back pain that is sometimes so severe that I 
cannot function at all.  Also, since early childhood, I frequently 
get severe aches and pains in my muscles and joints, which can also 
keep me from functioning.  

Thanks.

Paul Fortman

fortmapl@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids
From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
Subject: Re: Hepatitis vaccine
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:43:08 GMT

In <shahn-130892180027@134.174.81.95> shahn@hstbme.mit.edu (Samuel Hahn) writes:

>In article <22830@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, smergen@luna.dpl.scg.hac.com
>(Sandra Mergen) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> mbb@soac.bellcore.com writes:
>> >Does anyone know anything about a vaccine for hepatitis C?
>> >My doctor said it is new and my 1 yr old should get it.
>> >The baby books I have do not mention this vaccine.
>> 
>>   Brian writes:
>>   >Are you sure you are not talking about the Hemophilus   
>>   >Influenza Vaccine?  I don't think an HCV vaccine is 
>>   >even on the horizon.
>> 
>> Parents Magazine wrote an article about the new hepatitis
>> vaccine that is available.  I called my pediatrician and she
>> said that the vaccine is available now.  Her practice is now
>> giving it to newborns on their 2 week checkup.  There is a
>> total of 3 vaccines for this.

>The vaccine is for HEPATITIS B - a much more common (and easily
>transmissible)
>virus than Hepatitis C.
The new hepatitis C (yes, that's 'C') vaccine was mentioned in
local newspapers within the past few days -- as having passed
one small clinical trial. There's also one for hepatitis A.

The vaccine for hepatitis B is currently available generally and
being recommended for children. Likely the others will also, soon.

There's also a "delta hepatitis" now, and my MD rather expects we'll
see more and different hepatitis viruses as time goes on.
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: watch size heartbeat monitoring device ?
From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:19:48 GMT
Organization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

In article <1992Aug20.221356.25531@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) miswrites:
>
>
>Call Creative Health Products, 1-800-742-4476, or [you're from Australia?] 
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^

That should be 1-800-742-4478 -- note the last digit

-dk
From: laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Affects of increased blood flow to the brain
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:55:11 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
In-reply-to: georgec@eng.umd.edu's message of 13 Aug 92 16:26:21 GMT

>>>>> On 13 Aug 92 16:26:21 GMT, georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) said:
George> In article <9805@fs3.cam.nist.gov> crosson@cam.nist.gov (Robert Crosson) writes:
George> >I was just thinking the other day that we know what decreased
George> >blood flow to the brain causes.  Is there any research
George> >looking into the affects of greater (maybe only a little)
George> >blood flow to the brain?  Like increased brain function?
George> >Increased intelligence?
[..]
George> However, my opinion is that the best way to increase blood and
George> oxygen flow to the brain is to be physically fit. After a good
George> workout, haven't you noticed that you feel more alert and need
George> less caffeine?

I agreed! Various Yoga routines directly increase the blood flow to the brain.
--
Boniface Lau    (613) 592-2122 ext. 3042    Boniface_Lau@Mitel.COM
Mitel Corp.  				    
350 Legget Drive, Kanata
Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3
From: fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Headache help
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:36:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis

In article <10001.2A8E5676@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Raymond.Miller@p0.f10.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Raymond Miller) writes:
>I would like to obtain information on the proceedure known as
>TRIGEMENIAL RADIO FREQUENCY RHIZOTOMY (and similar proceedures used
>to destroy nerves in chronic headpain sufferers that do not respond to 
>conventional treatments. I am one such person, going into the third year of 
>unbearable pain. I know this is a drastic step, but desperation brings us 
>places we never thought possible.
OOH! This is a drastic step.  Trigeminal rhizotomy is specifically for
tic douloroux (I may have misspelled that).  If you have that syndrome,
it may help.  When done here, it is performed under intermittent heavy
sedation, with testing inbetween, to confirm that the proper area is
being ablated.  "Tic" is a form of facial pain.  You need a diagnosis of
a syndrome involving a specific nerve before you can even think of
having ablation.  "Head pain" is too vague.

This sort of thing is done by a neurosurgeon, with an anesthesiologist.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: elonich@cbnewse.cb.att.com (diane.e.pedersen)
Subject: Re: Strange Cure For Burn?
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:31:11 GMT
Summary: evaporation

> 
> In article <1992Aug13.005931.12031@odin.corp.sgi.com>, sajid@jam.wpd.sgi.com (Sajid Zia) writes:
> > I have experienced a strange cure of burn; If your skin is
> > exposed to heat lightly, something like spilling the boiling water
> > or hot oil on the skin, If you put kerosine on that part of the skin, it
> > gets cured immidiately, not even a sign is left. 
> > 
> > Can somebody reason it out medically? 


My guess is that the rapid evaporation of the kerosene has a deep
cooling effect that stops further damage (like holding an scalded
body part under cold running water -- for minor scalds, the cold
water also results in "no visible damage")

I would hesitate to recommend kerosene over water.  I believe
there are composnets in kerosene that can absorbed through the skin 
and are harmful in quantity.  And kerosene is not the safest
substance to keep around the house for potential medial use.
-- 
Diane Pedersen
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
att!ihlpe!elonich
From: young@serum.kodak.com
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Amino acid diet, is it safe?
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:26:08 GMT
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@sasquatch

In article <vmgyl7g@rpi.edu> cecchinr@dimaggio.cs.rpi.edu (Ron Cecchini) writes:

[...]

>Since protein gets broken down into amino acids, I can't understand why
>ingesting pure aminos is so bad?!

	I'm stretching my knowledge of body metabolism a tad, but if I'm
	TOO far off, someone will make the corrections.  Excess protein
	(read: amino acids) is not stored; it is typically converted to
	glucose by the liver and THEN stored, after further chemical magic,
	or burned as fuel in the cells.  The nitrogen residue of this
	conversion must be excreted, since it is toxic, and the kidneys
	have to do all the work.  If amino acids become a major source
	of energy, the kidneys must work overtime to detoxify the system.
	Thus, the optimum amount of amino acids is that which is necessary
	for tissue maintenance and construction and some hormone synthesis,
	while energy needs should be supplied from carbohydrates.  Lipids
	are necessary in relatively small quantities as well.

	Body builders would do well to eschew the high-protein, high amino
	acid supplements, and go with something like Carbo-Hit(tm) which
	replenishes the energy stores and eliminates the need for the body
	to resort to less benign energy reserves such as fat and protein.
	Even THAT probably isn't actually necessary, as long as a complete
	and varied diet is consumed, but at least excess carbohydrate won't
	overwork your kidneys.

	If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate correction, not flames.


-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David J W Emrich)
Subject: Electric Blankets
Summary: Is there any connection?
Keywords: Electric Blanket Sterility
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:19:54 GMT


I have an interesting subject to broach, one that has caused my
curiosity to be piqued during a recent discussion.

The idea is this...
Recently, I heard a theory that Electric Blankets (eg. a fairly heavy
cotton/synthetic mix double layer cloth, with two interleaved woven
heating coils sandwiched in between), emit enough electromagnetic field
energy that, if the user sleeps on one all night for some period of
time, it can cause sterility, in people (of both sexes) who are already
pre-disposed to sterility.  THere is also some notion that they can
cause cancer.

  Does anyone have any more info on this.  ??
Namely...
1.  What does it mean to be "pre-disposed" toward sterility?
2.  How long is "some period of time", months, years ?
3.  Is there any field emitted when the blanket is switched off?
4.  What about the cancer risk?

Obviously, the simple answer is, no one really knows yet, but it would
be safer to use the device to just heat up a bed, and when one actually
climbs in to bed, the blanket should be turned off.

I think there has been some research done on this, but I would be
interested to see people's reaction.

Please Email me with your ideas/suggestions/statistics, and I will
compile a summary of all the best and fairest answers.

David Emrich
gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
From: birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Request for Information: CMV
Keywords: Layman's terms... please.
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:46:20 GMT
Organization: Screaming in Digital, the Queensryche Net Digest


Greetings.

	In late November of 1990, I took ill, and was tested for Mono.  The
doctor informed me that I didn't have Mono, but _did_ have CMV.  I asked him
what it was, he told me to go look it up.  He then went on vacation [to
Bermuda, I believe].  I looked it up, grasped the basic concept of it, and
spent 3 weeks sleeping, trying to eat jello, and taking Nuprin.  After that
I felt pretty much better, and went on with life.  The doctor returned from
his vacation, and asked me to come in for further blood tests.  I [politely]
told him to pack sand.  [I don't appreciate doctors who won't give me
information about illnesses, particularly the going-on-vacation ones].

	Recently, I had a cold, and a friend of mine also had a cold.  We
spend large amounts of time in each other's company, colds or not.  She now
has some of the preliminary symptoms of a CMV infection - swollen lymph
nodes in her neck, extreme fatigue, high fever.  She's getting tested
tomorrow.  We are, as the song says, hoping for the best but expecting the
worst.

	I have been told in recent days that CMV has a tendency to remain
in someone, latent or inactive, and reactivate if their immune system drops
or if the CMV is transferred into someone else's body.  I've also been told
that I may not be immune to CMV, and may only have an inactive case of it.

	Right now, as a 'CMV survivor' I have a good bit more general 
knowledge of the critter than the average man on the street.  However, I
don't know as much about it as the average expert.  I'd like to learn more.

	I'm very concerned as to what the current risk is, both to myself
and to those around me.  I'd like to find out how it can be transmitted,
exactly how much damage it does to what, what triggers it, and what 
secondary infections should be guarded against.  I'd _especially_ like to
find out whether there's any way to zap it when it's inactive.

	-Shag
-- 

     Freedom belongs to only those without video screens for eyes and mouth.
		- Queensryche
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Knee Surgery - Reconstructive
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:45:40 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <92231.002443TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu> TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu (Tony R. Marasco) writes:
>A friend of mine needed reconstructive surgery performed on her knee.  This
>was required after she sustained an injury while playing basketball over
>the summer.  The doctors say her healing is on schedule.  She says she
>can almost walk without crutches, but still uses one.  Her surgery was
>performed in mid-July and rehabilitation began last week.  Does this seem
>like decent progress?
>
You are probably talking about a reconstruction of the anterior
cruciate ligament (inside the knee) using a strip of patellar
tendon.  If so, the operation is quite common nowadays and
has been done for 20 years or so.  Some people even play pro
football on reconstructed knees.  It is a very good operation,
and restores most of the patients to a very good level of
functioning.  The only alternative is wearing a heavy brace
when playing, as without the cruciate, the knee is unstable
and prone to further injury repeatedly.  The drawback of
the operation is the long rehabilitative period (6 mos. or so)
needed.  If it was my knee, I'd probably choose to go with
the surgery, though.

>I tend to recall a few athletes' careers that came to abrupt halts after
>such operations.  How much weaker does the joint become following recon.
>surgery?  Will the knee be able to sustain the punishment it will receive
>from playing college basketball?
>

The reconstructed ligament can be as strong as the original.  In
basketball there are certainly no guarantees.  The other knee could
go out as well.  Playing basketball puts you at risk for injury
(I play 3x/week myself) and each individual must decide whether it
is worth the risk.  
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From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Question about Scoliosis and back pain
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:46:23 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

In article <01GNRLN7FK1U000KLO@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu> FORTMAPL@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU ("Paul Fortman : free spirit") writes:
>
>I have had constant back pain, mostly upper but some lower too, since
>I was a very young child.  Not too long ago I had a chest X-ray to 
>check for pneunomia.  The doctor informed me that I didn't have 
>pneumonia, but did ask me about my scoliosis.  Until that day I 
>didn't know that I had scoliosis.  Is there any effective treatment 
>for scoliosis for someone who is in their 30s.  Is the scoliosis the 
>cause of my back pain--back pain that is sometimes so severe that I 
>cannot function at all.  Also, since early childhood, I frequently 
>get severe aches and pains in my muscles and joints, which can also 
>keep me from functioning.  
>

Are you saying you had debilitating back and joint pain all through
childhood with no diagnosis or treatment?  What you had sure sounds like
some sort of child-onset arthritis to me.  Whatever it is, it should have
been treated.  As for your scoliosis: I don't think they use surgical
corrections in adults, but supposedly there are exercises that help.  I had
a friend with it, and she took ballet lessons.  She said as long as she
kept up her lessons and her practice the scoliosis didn't bother her.
I think an orthopedist followed by a physical therapist would be
indicated.
.
.
.
.

.
.
.
From: sajid@jam.wpd.sgi.com (Sajid Zia)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Strange Cure For Burn?
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:59:31 GMT
Reply-To: sajid@jam.wpd.sgi.com (Sajid Zia)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

I have experienced a strange cure of burn; If your skin is
exposed to heat lightly, something like spilling the boiling water
or hot oil on the skin, If you put kerosine on that part of the skin, it
gets cured immidiately, not even a sign is left. 

Can somebody reason it out medically? 

sajid
From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Hysterectomy
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:15:16 GMT
Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA

In article <9266.2A829415@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Ellen.Jones@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Ellen Jones) writes:
>I had a partial hysterectomy last year because of fibroid tumors.

>My questions are - is the cervix also removed with the uterus??  Is it
>still necessary to have pap smears, and why??

Since the 1970's, at least, most hysterectomies in the U.S. have also
removed the uterine cervix.  If the cervix is removed, there is no
good reason to continue doing Pap smears.  Although some people do
recommend continuing to have them for the slight chance of detecting
vaginal cancer, this makes no sense from a public health standpoint.
If the cervix is not removed then it is important to keep having
Pap smears.

>I have one more question which may sound silly, but I'm the curious
>type.  I still have my ovaries, so I still produce eggs.  Do the eggs
>still travel up the fallopian tubes, and then into oblivian??  During
>intercourse, doesn't the sperm also travel into oblivian?

If the ovaries are present they will keep producing eggs, which would
presumably be reabsorbed in the intestinal cavity.  After a hysterectomy,
there should be no passage connecting the vagina with the intestinal
cavity, and so there is no way for the sperm to get out of the
vagina (other than the way they got in).
-- 
David Rind
rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
From: Kotiel@cediag.bull.fr (Kotiel.Assoulin)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: what's new about prions and CJD ?
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:27:28 GMT
Distribution: sci.med
Organization: Cediag Bull S.A., Louveciennes, France


Does anyone have interesting data about prions, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease,
"Mad Cows" disease ?

In short:
the "Mad Cows" Disease  is a disease similar to the human CJD , frequent in
sheeps (kuru) , that was unknown among bovines until recently when someone 
had the great idea to feed bovines with animal proteins ( ovine trash meat)
 instead of vegetal ones (soja).

You don't know CJD ? you are lucky !

A net doctor  will probably describe it better than me.

kotiel.
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From: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Mercury in dental fillings?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 00:03:30 mst
Organization: St. Joseph's Hospital/Medical Ctr, Phoenix, AZ

On <Sat, Aug 15 05:27>, UUCP (jgd@dixie.com Date: 15 Aug 92 05:27:51 GMT
) wrote: 

 >Disclaimer:  I'm not a dentist and don't even play one on TV.  But I
 >come from a long line of 'em.  When yer sitting around the dinner 
 >table full of 
 >dentists and doctors, it's damn hard to keep the conversation steered 
 >toward computers and cars, my two interests.

Actually, not around my dinner table ... the conversation usually is limited 
to ham radio and computers, even though my wife would love for me to find 
another hobby that wasn't quite as expensive.

 

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