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From: yau@cs.concordia.ca (Joseph K. K. Yau)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Allergic to heat condition
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:33:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Anyone know anything about a skin allergy called allergic to heat
condition (that is what I call it). 

Ever since I was a child, my skin is very sensitive to heat. Especially in
the winter. 

Whenever I feel hot, the skin on my face, my skull, my back and my chess
turn red (like rash but the skin is smooth) and become very itchy. 
And when this happen, I can feel my brain is expanded and I can feel the
pause of the blood moveing in my head (sometime even headache). It happen
also when I got excited by some external events, such as embrassment,
nervus, anger or after I got scare.

The only thing I can do to calm it down is to cool it down. Like go to the
washroom and let cold water spray on my arm or wrist for 4-5 minutes. or go
to a room with air conditioning. Then I will feel better and the rash will
disappear in 1/2 - 1 hrs.

I visited the doctor and the doctor said it may be somthing to do with the
blood vessle. But it is not a big problem. The doctor also told me that
when it happen, go to a cool place or wash my hand is the only way to do.
Any there is no medicine to cure it. Other than that the doctor did not
tell me anything.

I was just wondering if there is anyone out here have heard of this kind of
thing or know what is the medical term of this skin problem. Anyone found a
cure for that.

-Joe

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From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis, & Banks
Date: 4 Oct 92 11:17:36 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <BvIDIs.9yp@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>
>All the quacks that I've investigated had credentials, Ken.   Rather
>than pit one set of credentials against another, wouldn't it be
>preferable to provide some pointers to the data?

Russell, you are as bad as the alternative medicine freaks around
here: Everyone demands a list of references for everything from
the "experts" but everyone else can back up what they say with
stuff copied off restroom walls! Get a life. 

Ok. I will no longer identify myself or post as a physician. That
should get me on equal footing with all the crazies in this group.
And, no, I will not post a list of references on everything. Find
your own. I barely have time to read this group and get pissed off
once a day than to look up references for other people.

 -km
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Correction: AAAS does not publish Science News
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:52:56 GMT

I may have posted earlier that the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) publishes both the journal _Science_
and the weekly 16-page newsmagazine _Science News_.

Possibly I was confused by seeing some writers' names appear in
both publications, but the publishers of each publication confirm
that there is no connection between them.

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 


The difference between the Bushes and the Clintons is that with the
Clintons, it's the wife who dyes her hair to look younger.
From: richards@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Darrell H. Richardson)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Sinus Headaches
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:05:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpspkla.44460001
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.

Sorry, you have my simpathy. I get sinus headaches fairly often and know
what they are like.
What I do is:
1) This is the most important (for me). Drink lots of water and avoid
   diuretics (caffine, even decaf-coffee is a diuretic). This is to
   make sure that the sinuses have the fluid to drain properly.


2) Take a Duravent. This is a synthetic adrenaline and may be trouble
   for you. It is a prescription drug and is the only none adictive
   decongestant that works on me.


3) Be aware that you/one may have an infection that could benefit from
   antibiotics.


Good luck
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Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:48:26 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu's message of 3 Oct 92 13:02:18 GMTLines: 22

In <16724@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu writes:
> In article <1992Oct1.235834.19874@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
> >In article <16692@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
> >
> >>This is really minor compared to say, a patient who has
> >>pseudoseizures (phoney seizures that mimic epilepsy).
> >
> >Sounds like a story worth telling...
> 
> Pseudoseizures are not at all uncommon. They are one of the
> greatest attention-getting mechanisms among some patients.

Wow. This sounds like a REALLY STUPID disease to fake.  In most states it'll
get yr driver's license yanked until the "seizures" are under control. How can
you do yr "doctor/hospital shopping" if you can't *drive* to places outside yr
local area?  Besides, what fun are unneeded anticonvulsants?  They don't have
any interesting "recreational" effects. 


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Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: sci.med
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:51:51 -0400 
From: Sean McLinden <sean+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Journal Question

>So, I will make my inquiry more specific (and try not to make this a "pre-med
>student whinning for information" type of note). I want to be well
rounded when
>I go for interviews. I'm doing all the usual stuff (good grades,
volunteer work
>at hospital, etc.) but even still I don't always get exposer to current
medical
>issues. What would you suggest?

First, realize that your interviewer is going to be the luck of the draw,
so there is little that you can do to really game the system. Most schools
do not have a set format for interview questions (it is more likely that
they know what they *cannot* ask then what they can), and there is little
that you can do to really prepare for them. Best advice...act natural.

Second, if you want to impress people with your medical aptitude, forget
most of contemporary treatment and diagnostics...it will be out of date
by the time that you finish school and you would be hard pressed to understand
the intricacies, anyway. Remember that you don't want to appear superficial.

Instead, realize that there are some important issues with respect to
health care about which all responsible citizens should know something.
These include issues related to public health and health care financing.
Go to your library.... get the last three issues of Consumer Reports which
details their recommendations regarding Managed Care and then start with
that (this is NOT an endorsement of their position) and read about the
campaign issues with respect to the candidate's position on health care
reform. Look more at the public health literature, the hospital CIO and
CEO throwaways, and the like, to learn what are people's attitudes towards
health care financing, and what are the important public health issues
of our times.

Entering medical school no one will be surprised if you know little or nothing
about the practice of medicine...but you almost cannot be alive, today, without
thinking about such things as AIDS, the crisis in health care financing, the
high infant mortality rates and low rates of pre-natal care for much of
America's inner city populations, and the problems of drug abuse. You,
certainly, ought to know at least something about these issues...

And other world events, as well.

Sean
From: mdebuitlear@vms.eurokom.ie
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis
Date: 1 Oct 92 10:22:44 CET
Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service

In article <16665@pitt.UUCP>, km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
> There is also a large body of medicine that is not backed up with references,
> is based on the experience of physicians over the years, and is spread by 
> work of mouth. If you want to disqualify this information you can take all 
> our licenses away.
> 
Precisely the points made by Complementary Medicine Practitioners. 
Acupuncture, for instance, is based on the experience and observations of 
practitioners over thousands of years (and it works very well for 1,000,000 
people).  

I note that most flames in this newsgroup are aimed at people who post without
being able to provide referances to scientific research.  Maybe more open minds 
all round wouldn't be a bad thing ?


Micheal De Buitlear.
E-Mail M.De.Buitlear@EuroKom.ie
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From: cathy@techbook.com (Cathy Gaupo)
Subject: Re: "Problem Patient"
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:22:13 GMT

This is fascinating reading.  I had a roommate who I would say had this
problem.  She ALWAYS had something wrong with her- brain tumor, cancer
She paid for an MRI out of her own pocket because her regular doctor
said there was no need for one.  She paid for other test about having
cancer.  

         I was absolutely tired of her as a roommate- and I can't see
how doctor's or anyone else would have the "patience" for them.

She repeatably     said she was going to kill herself.  She would call her mother
and tell her she was going to kill herself that night.  This happened
over and over.  

I agree with the person who said that a lot of the problems go back to
abuse as a child.  Using her as an example, it holds true.  

I don't know the solution to these problems with both the people or the
finances.  My roommate needed psychiatric help.  But she wouldn't go for
it.  I have no idea if she's alive today.

-- 
cathy@techbook.COM  Public Access User --- Not affiliated with InterCom
Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81)
From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
Subject: Re: NATURAL ANTI-cancer Remedies
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 06:03:15 GMT

drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:

| Since every conspiracy theory that I'm aware of ...

| Not having read the original post,

The post you didn't read but commented on at length anyway was filled
with alternative cancer "cures", and had nothing to do with conspiracy
theories.

Perhaps you've been distracted by spending too much time in a
"southern" magnetic field!  (:-{)>

== Bob Yazz ==
-- 


"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that
one word is 'to be prepared.'" -America's own Danny "Mr. Potatoe Head" Quayl
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Frequency Problem????
From: macridis_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Gerry Macridis)
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:01:59 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
Summary: ?Diabetes; advice to see doctor
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Sep28.013422.9754@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
soula@vifp.monash.edu.au (Stella Rowan) writes:

> A friend of my mothers who is very overweight and prone to stress has
> an offensive odour.  She is in her early 40's and lives alone.  She often
> binges on food.  
> Sometimes the smell is really strong like ammonia.  She visits the toilet
> very frequently within a short time span.  [...]
> When she is stressed  the smell can be overpowering.  [...]
> 
> Can anyone please try and identify her problem.  Due to her
> sensitive nature noone dares approach her about her problem.

Unusual hunger and increased urinary frequency can indicate diabetes.  An
acetone-like (nail polish remover-like) smell on the breath can also
indicate diabetes, especially in the more severe cases which have
progressed to diabetic ketoacidosis.  People who are stressed and people
who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes.  If it is diabetes
she has and it's not promptly treated, there is increased risk of serious
physical disorders (such as stroke and heart attack) developing in the
long-term.

I would point this out to her if I had to (regardless of her sensitive
nature) in order to convince her to see her doctor so that the problem
(whether it is diabetes or something else) can be identified and treated
if necessary.

-- 
Gerry Macridis,      /\/\     .... Email: macridis_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Private Box 3929,   ( oo )    :... Voice: +64 4 3899444
Wellington,           \/......:
New Zealand.                       Learn first aid; it saves lives.
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From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater)
Subject: Thyroid Problems and Immunity to the Common Cold/Flu??
Originator: kjc7435@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:32:57 GMT

Got a question for all the professionals out there. I had radioactive
iodine therapy for my Graves' Disease in June, (oral medication for
anti-thyroid made me come out in rashes), and was placed on .1 mg of
Synthroid per day stating in August.  My question is this...before I got
the anti-thyroid stuff in the beginning, I used to come down with colds
once a week!!  (more like the common cold--sore throat, stuffy nose,
lots of phlegm, cough, sinusitis).  I went without having any colds
while I was being regulated (April--August).  Then, I caught a cold in
mid-August which lasted for a few days.

I just caught another one just like it (only this is a throat viral
infection) a few days ago and have been sick almost all week!!  

Is hyper/hypo thyroidism in ANY way connected to a weakened immune
system?  And, if so, what can I do to boost the immune system so I
don't come down with colds this frequently?  I'm a college student so am
exposed to many colds and am fed up with sickness getting in the way of
my schoolwork.  Do I need to have my TSH levels checked? (again?).

Please send all replies to: (e-mail):
"kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu".

Thanking you,
Miss Kerry Cater.
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: low thyroid levels, but not hypothyroid
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:46:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Oct3.014604.13194
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1992Oct02.225657.11002@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
>>In the past "fringe" clinics have indiscriminately prescribed thyroid
>>hormone, such as for weight-loss.  (The stuff rapidly rids people who
>>don't need it of their lean body mass, which is absolutely unhealthy
>>for most everybody.)

That's received wisdom, probably accurate, if you correct for hyperbole.
Of course, if you don't give too much, you stay euthyroid because your
thyroid stops producing what you don't need.  In other words, within a
certain dosage level, thyroid replacement for weight loss is at most
a placebo.

>Any studies on the long term effects of the thyroid medications
>that were widely prescribed in the 50's and 60's based on the
>now discredited "basal metabolism" test?   

It's true Chuck: you have _no lean body mass_. :-)  Seriously, I doubt
there are any long term effects, but how are your thyroid tests today?
Anything unusual?

BTW: what does your food diary say for today?

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis, & Banks
Date: 4 Oct 92 15:41:55 GMT
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <BvG8v1.733@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>are multiple problems, crossing different fields.  It is also bad
>where not that much is known, such as the field of nutrition; in
>this case, a recent posting on the nutrition group by a professor
>of nutrition at a medical school found the knowledge of nutrition
>by doctors and secretaries comparable.  It is exascerbated by the

Was he saying that the knowledge of the vitamin cranks was better?
I'd say in their case, the Will Rogers quote I use sometimes in
my sig file is apropos: "It ain't what you don't know, it's what
you know that ain't so."

-- 
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrogance, arthritis, & Banks
Date: 1 Oct 92 09:20:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: omen.1992Oct01.092023.28930
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest

In article <BvEq4L.3H@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>In article <BvB0ww.9Mv@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>>>In other words, they'll learn that it's wrong because you say it 
>>>is.   Are your pronouncements a reasonable substitute for verifiable
>>>information?
>
>From article <16665@pitt.UUCP>, by km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum):
>> Look. When I go to an attourney, I ask for information and advice,
>> not references or arguments. When most people go to a doctor, they
>> ask for the same things. Is there any particular reason why you
>> would think that doctors on the net would obviously lie to people,
>> or speak on things they are not informed on?
>
>Is there any reason why any licensed doctor would lie?   Questions
>involving quackery cannot be resolved by pitting one person's
>credentials against those of another.  

Obviously we need a working definition of medical competence in a
specialty to distinguish from random quacks.  I propose we define
an "sci.med expert" (on a particular specialty) as one who has
demonstrated a 5-year cure rate of 51 per cent or better on all
patients with the disease/disorder in question.

-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
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From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
Subject: Re: Cost Concerns in Med School?
Organization: WP Group
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:36:03 GMT

In article <BvD8zJ.33x@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
rl> Would you be in favor of abolishing the Medical Devices Amendment
rl> of the Pure Food and Drug Act?

From article <16695@pitt.UUCP>, by geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks):
gb> I'd certainly be in favor of modifying it if not abolishing it.

The Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Medical Devices Amendment, didn't
just drop out of the blue because someone had an overwhelming desire
to create a bureaucracy.   They were legislative responses to the public 
outcries that arose from preventable disasters that had caused a lot
of suffering for a lot of good people.   

-- 
Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ
From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Trental for HIV in August 1992 Beta
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:46:54 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1992Sep28.204803.0903453@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
>One of the docs on the net -- perhaps Brian, but I'm not certain --
>mentioned he had a pen that said Trental on it, and incidentally
>mentioned he thought the drug was something to the effect of not
>terribly useful.  (Trental is FDA approved for circulatory problems.)

...

>I was wondering whether it was the (FDA approved) circulatory use or
>the much more recent HIV use that Brian(?) was referring to, and
>what other thoughts he might have.

I confess. It was me. I still have the pen, as well.

I was referring to the circulatory uses of Trental (pentoxifyline). It is
a theophlyline-like agent that I'm sure Steve knows much more about than
I do, as I was unaware of any other uses of the drug. It is used for
people with intermittant claudication in the legs (a condition
analagous to angina in coronary heart disease). I have never been
impressed with its performance. 

 -km
From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Hurting Ribs (during pregnancy)
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:30:26 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Oct1.140712.10365@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jschwarz@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jan A. Schwarz) writes:
>   My daughter is experiencing a pain on the left side of her
>   abdomen.  She said it feels like her ribs are bruised.  She is
>   six months pregnant.  The pain gets more intense as the day goes
>   on, especially after she has eaten.  She said it hurts inside but
>   also feels very tender to the touch.  In the mornings when she first
>   gets up it doesn't hurt.  But by lunch, when she eats, it starts
>   hurting.
>
I have no idea if this has anything to do with your daughter's
problem, but when my mother was pregnant with me, I kicked her
and actually fractured one of her ribs.  She said it was very 
painful.  (I apparently had an abnormally high amount of amniotic
fluid, but none of the complications usually associated with this--
just lots of freedom of movement.)

-- 
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Opinions, what opinions?  Oh *these* opinions. | It's hard to seize the
No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | day when you must first
I knew I'd left them somewhere.                | grapple with the morning.
From: ias@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Irfan Shahmiri)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Foetal monitor
Date: 4 Oct 92 06:09:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.


Hi,

My friend in India wants information about an electonic
diagnostic equipment called Foetal monitor.

I will appreciate if somebody can provide me with some info.


Thanks


--irfan.
From: gallop@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Don Gallop)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Detached Vitreous
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:16:24 GMT
Reply-To: gallop@sacho.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Don Gallop)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Can any ophthalmologist out there tell me what the fix for a detached vitreous(not retina) is?
also, what can be done about floaters caused by hemorraging?

Don Gallop
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From: ryanb@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Ben Ryan)
Subject: clembuterol
Summary: clembuterol
Keywords: clembuterol
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:10:06 GMT

:wq
Hello world,
Can anyone assist with info on an anti asthma agent 'clembuterol'?
It has supposed anabolic properties but is still, I think, unavailable in Australia. Is it used for sport purposes. Any side effects?
Thanks in advance,
Please E-mail me 
Ben
B.Ryan@admin.utas.edu.au


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