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carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:  >Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical.  Could be your brother is >reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock >in other people.  >Similarly, Chinese food isn't just MSG.  There are a lot of other >ingredients in it.  Why, when someone eats something with lots of >ingredients they don't normally consume, one of which happens to be >MSG, do they immediately conclude that any negative reaction is to >the MSG?   ARGHHHHHHHHHh  READ THE MEMOS!!!!  I said that I PERSONALLY had other people order the EXACT SAME FOOD at TWO DIFFERENT TIMES from the SAME RESTAURANT and the people that ordered the food for me did NOT TELL ME which time the MSG was in the food and which time it was not in the food.  ONE TIME I HAD A REACTION  ONE TIME I DID NOT  THE REACTION CAME THE TIME THE MSG WAS IN THE FOOD  THAT WAS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE  SAME RESTAURANT - SAME INGREDIENTS!!!  >Why, when someone eats something with lots of ingredients they don't >normally consume, one of which happens to be MSG, do they immediately >conclude that any negative reaction is to the MSG?   I eat lots of Chinese food - I LOVE Chinese food.  I've just learned the following  IF I get food at one of the restaurants that DOES NOT USE MSG or  IF I prepare the food myself without MSG or   IF I order the food from a restaurant that will hold the MSG (and I never get soup unless it's from a restaurant that cooks without the MSG)  I DO NOT GET A REACTION!!!!  OKAY  DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!  I GET A REACTION FROM MSG  I DO NOT GET A REACTION WHEN THERE IS NO MSG  If you're having trouble understand this, please tell me which of the words you do not understand and I'll look them up in the dictionary for you.  -- The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.       -- Harold Nicholson
In article <10535@blue.cis.pitt.edu> kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes: >In article <1rm29k$i7t@hsdndev.harvard.edu> rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes: >:In article <enea1-270493135255@enea.apple.com> >: enea1@applelink.apple.com (Horace Enea) writes: >:>Can anyone out there tell me the difference between a "persistent" disease >:>and a "chronic" one? For example, persistent hepatitis vs chronic >:>hepatitis. >: >:I don't think there is a general distinction.  Rather, there are >:two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic >:persistent hepatitis.  I can't think of any other disease where the >:term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic. >: >:Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic persistent" >:sound fuzzy, the actual distinction between the two conditions >:is often fairly fuzzy as well. > >I beg to differ.  Chronic *active* hepatitis implies that the disease >remains active, and generally leads to liver failure.  At the very >minimum, the patient has persistently elevated liver enzymes (what some >call "transaminitis").  Chronic *persistant* hepatitis simply means that >the patient has HbSag in his/her blood and can transmit the infection, but >shows no evidence of progressive disease.  If I had to choose, I'd much >rather have the persistant type.   Being a chronic HBsAg carrier does not necessarily mean the patient has chronic persistent anything. Persons who are chronic carriers may have no clinical, biochemical, or histologic evidence of liver disease, or they may have chronic persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma.  Most cases of chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) are probably the result of a viral infection, although in a good number of cases the cause cannot be determined. The diagnosis of CPH is made on the basis of liver biopsy. It consists of findings of portal inflammation, an intact periportal limiting plate, and on occasion isolated foci of intralobular necrosis. But in contrast to chronic active hepatitis (CAH) there is no periportal inflammation,  bridging necrosis, or fibrosis.   CPH has, indeed, an excellent prognosis. If I had to choose between CAH and CPH there is no question I would also choose CPH. However, as David pointed out, the distinction between the two is not as neat as some of us would have it. The histology can sometimes be pretty equivocal, with biopsies showing areas compatible with both CPH and CAH. Maybe it is a sampling problem. Maybe it is a continuum. I don't know.  =================================
I've recently listened to a tape by Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, in which he  claims to have discovered a series naturally occuring peptides with anti- cancer properties that he names antineoplastons.  Burzynski says that his  work has met with hostility in the United States, despite the favorable  responses of his subjects during clinical trials.  What is the generally accepted opinion of Dr. Burzynski's research?  He  paints himself as a lone researcher with a new breakthrough battling an  intolerant medical establishment, but I have no basis from which to judge  his claims.  Two weeks ago, however, I read that the NIH's Department of  Alternative Medicine has decided to focus their attention on Burzynski's  work.  Their budget is so small that I imagine they wouldn't investigate a  treatment that didn't seem promising.  Any opinions on Burzynski's antineoplastons or information about the current  status of his research would be appreciated.
In article <1993Mar29.113528.930@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:  >Hmmmm... here's one place where I really think the patient ought to take more >responsibility for him- or herself.  There is absolutely no reason why you >can't ask the pharmacist filling the prescription for the "Physicians' Package >Insert" for the medication when you pick it up at the pharmacy.  Make sure to >tell the pharmacist that you want the "Physicians' Package Insert" *NOT* the  If people are going to do this, I really wish they would tell me first. I'd be happy to go over the insert (in the PDR) with them and explain everything.  All too many patients read the insert and panic and then on the next visit sheepishly admit they were afraid to take the drug and we are starting over again at square one.  Some of them probably didn't even come back for followup because they didn't want to admit they wouldn't take the drug or thought I was trying to kill them or something.  What people don't understand about the inserts is that they report every adverse side effect ever reported, without substantiating that the drug was responsible.  The insert is a legal document to slough liability from the manufacturer to the physician if something was to happen.  If patients want to have the most useful and reliable information on a drug they would be so much better off getting hold of one of the AMA drug evaluation books or something similar that is much more scientific. There are very few drugs that someone hasn't reported a death from taking. Patients don't realize that and don't usually appreciate the risks to themselves properly.  I'm sure Herman is going to "go ballistic", but so be it.  Another problem is that probably most drugs have been reported to cause impotence.  Half the males who read that will falsely assume it could permanently cause them to lose sexual function and so will refuse to take any drug like that.  This can be a real problem for PDR readers.  There needs to be some way of providing patients with tools geared to them that allow them to get the information they need. I am involved in a research project to do that, with migraine as the domain.  It involves a computer system that will provide answers to questions about migraine as well as the therapy prescribed for the patient. For common illnesses, such as migraine and hypertension, this may help quite a bit.  The patient could spend as much time as needed with the computer and this would then not burden the physician.  Clearly, physicians in large part fail to answer all the questions patients have, as is demonstrated over and over here on the net where we get asked things that the patients should have found out from their physician but didn't.  Why they didn't isn't always the physician's fault either. Sometimes the patients are afraid to ask.  They won't be as afraid to ask the system, we hope. --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
My 14-y-o son has the usual teenage spotty chin and greasy nose.  I bought him Clearasil face wash and ointment.  I think that is probably enough, along with the usual good diet.  However, he is on at me to get some product called Dalacin T, which used to be a doctor's-prescription only treatment but is not available over the chemist's counter.  I have asked a couple of pharmacists who say either his acne is not severe enough for Dalacin T, or that Clearasil is OK.  I had the odd spots as a teenager, nothing serious.  His father was the same, so I don't figure his acne is going to escalate into something disfiguring.  But I know kids are senstitive about their appearance.  I am wary because a neighbour's son had this wierd malady that was eventually put down to an overdose of vitamin A from acne treatment.  I want to help - but with appropriate treatment.  My son also has some scaliness around the hairline on his scalp.  Sort of teenage cradle cap.  Any pointers/advice on this?  We have tried a couple of anti dandruff shampoos and some of these are inclined to make the condition worse, not better.  Shall I bury the kid till he's 21 :)
Could some please refer me to someone who can perform PRK (Photo Refractive  Keratostomy) in Canada (preferably eastern portion).  I've looked in the yellow pages with little success, and if someone has had a good (or bad, for that matter) experience, that would be especially helpful if you could please let me know.
Nutrasweet is a synthetic sweetener a couple thousand times sweeter than sugar.  Some people are concerned about the chemicals that the  body produces  when it degrades nutrasweet.  It is thought to form formaldehyde and known to for methanol in the degredation pathway that the body uses to eliminate  substances.  The real issue is whether the levels of methanol and formaldehyde produced are high enough to cause significant damage, as both are toxic to living cells.  All I can say is that I will not consume it.    Phenylalanine is nothing for you to worry about.  It is an amino acid, and everyone uses small quantities of it for protein synthesis in the body.  Some people have a disease known as phenylketoneurea, and they are missing the enzyme necessary to  degrade this compound and eliminate it from the body.  For them, it will  accumulate in the body, and in high levels this is toxic to growing nerve cells.  Therefore, it is Only a major problem in young children (until around age 10 or so) or women who are pregnant and have this disorder.  It used to be a leading cause of brain damage in infants, but now it can be easily  detected at birth, and then one must simply avoid comsumption of phenylalanine as a child, or when pregnant.
Hello , I think you are probaly right, in spite of the movement it is getting better each day.  cheers
Dear Netters,  I am not sure whether this is the right place to post my query, but I thought there may be some bilingual physicians in this newsgroup that could help. Please, excuse me for overloading the bandwidth.  I am trying to build a resource allocation program for managing a surgical operating unit in a hospital. The user interface is in English, however the terms of medical specialties I was given are in French :-( I have no medical dictionary handy, mine is a technical university :-((  I need to get the translation into English (when there is one) of the following words. They refer to medical categories of operating rooms (theaters). I admit they may not be universally "used".  1- sceptique 2- orl 3- brulure/brule' 4- ne'onatal 5- pre'natal 6- pre'mature' 7- neurochirurgie (neuro-surgery??) 8- chirurgie ge'ne'rale 9- chirurgie plastique 10- urologie (urology??)  Thank you for you help. Cheers,  --------- Berthe Y. Choueiry  choueiry@lia.di.epfl.ch LIA-DI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Ecublens CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Voice: +41-21-693.52.77 and +41-21-693.66.78 	Fax: +41-21-693.52.25
I am doing a term paper on steroids, actually the scientist who helped crate the drug. I discovered that Joseph Fruton is one of the researchers who helped create anabolic steroids. The only information on  this person I know is he was a biochemist that did research in the 1930's. I already did research at my local libraries, but I still need more information. My instructor is requiring resources from the computer networks. Please write back concerning my subject, any books, articles, etc., will be appreciated.
My insurance company encourages annual physicals, and at my age [42] i'm thinking that BIannual physicals, at least, might be a good idea.  Therefore, i'm shopping for a GP.  Might as well get a good one.  Could the Assembled Net Wisdom suggest things i should look for, or point me to the FAQ archive if on this topic if there is one?    Please EMail; i suspect that this topic is real Net Clutter bait.
In article <1993Apr14.090306.3352@etek.chalmers.se> e2salim@etek.chalmers.se (Salim Chagan) writes: >	Can anyone send me the adress to  >	Dana-Faber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA.               ^^ missing "r"  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 44 Binney Street Boston, MA  02115  (617)732-3000
Hi:  I went to the orthopedist on Tuesday. He diagnosed me as having "intersection syndrome". He prescribed Feldene for me. I want to know more about the disease and the drug.  Thanks
In article <1993Apr13.150018.641@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com writes:  >My wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region >in the past three years.  In fact, she tried to have her bone marrow >typed and they wouldn't even do that!  Why? > The FDA, I believe.  Rules say no blood or blood products donations from anyone who has been in a malarial area for 3 years.  I was a platelet donor until my Thailand trip and my blood bank was very disappointed to find out they couldn't use me for 3 years.  > >When the secretary of state asked me if I wanted to donate my >organs I said no because I figured that no one would want them >given my history.  Was I correct? > Not necessarily.  The same rules may not apply to organ donation as to blood donation.  In fact, I'm sure they don't.    --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
In article <93084.140929RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >I took a stress test a couple weeks back, and results came back noting >"Exercise" Hypertension.  Fool that I am, I didn't ask Doc what this meant, >and she didn't explain; and now I'm wondering.  Can anyone out there >enlighten.  And I promise, next time I'll ask!  Probably she meant that your blood pressure went up while you were on the treadmill.  This is normal.  You'll have to ask her if this is what she meant, since no one else can answer for another person.     --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare) writes:  >A friend of mine has a trouble with her ears ringing. [etc.]   A.  Folks, do we have an FAQ on tinnitus yet?  B.  As a lo-o-o-ong time sufferer of tinnitus and as a neuroscientist who has looked over the literature carefully I believe the following are reasonable conclusions:  1. Millions of people suffer from chronic tinnitus. 2. The cause it not understood. 3. There is no accepted treatment that cures it. 4. Some experimental treatments may have helped some people a bit, but there have be no reports--even anecdotal--of massive good results with any of these experimental drugs. 5. Some people with chronic loud tinnitus use noise blocking to get to sleep. 6. Sudden onset loud tinnitus can be caused by injuries and sometimes abates or goes away after a few months. 7. Aspirin is well known to exacerbate tinnitus in some people. 8. There is a national association of tinnitus sufferers in the US. 9. One usually gets used to it.  Especially when concentrating on something else the tinnitus becomes unnoticed. 10.  Stress and lack of sleep make tinnitus more annoying, sometimes. 11.  I'm sure those of us who have it wish there was a cure, but there is not.
There have been a few postings in the past on alleged pathological  (esp. neurological) conditions induced by playing video games (e.g. Nintendo). Apparently, there have been reported several cases of "photosensitive epilepsy", due to the flashing of some patterns and the strong attention of the (young) players. One poster to comp.risks reported some action from the British Government.  A quick search in a database reported the following two published references:  1. E.J. Hart, Nintendo epilepsy, in New England J. of Med., 322(20), 1473 2. TK Daneshmend et al., Dark Warrior epilepsy, BMJ 1982; 284:1751-2.  I would appreciate if someone could post (or e-mail)  any reference to (preferably published) further work on the subject. Any pointer to other information and/or to possible technical tools  (if any) for reducing the risks are appreciated.  Many thanks,
In article <1993Apr22.211005.21578@scorch.apana.org.au>, bill@scorch.apana.org.au (Bill Dowding) writes: > Krillean photography involves taking pictures of minute decapods > resident in the seas surrounding the antarctic. Or pictures taken by > them, perhaps.  In article <1993Apr26.120417.22328@linus.mitre.org> gpivar@maestro.mitre.org (Greg Pivarnik) writes: > No flame intended but you're way, way off base. In simple terms > Kirilian photography registers the electromagnetical fields around > objects, in simple, it takes pictures of your aura.  	Greg, no flame intended, but you have no discernible sense of humor.  What Bill wrote was intended to be funny.  It's called a "joke", Greg.  Look into it. 	Besides, Kirilian photography is actually photography of my friend's two-year-old son Kiril.  Perhaps you meant "Kirlian"?
In article <736250544snx@penguin.equinox.gen.nz>, blubird@penguin.equinox.gen.nz (Gordon Taylor) wrote:  > The Prozac gave very bad anxiety/jitters and insomina, it was impossible to  > sit still for more than a minute or so.  I tried Prozac a few months ago, and had some insomnia from it, but no anxiety or jitters.  I probably could have lived with the insomnia if the Prozac had done any good, but it only provided a tiny benefit.  Maybe because the person who prescribed it didn't know much and gave up after a 20mg dose didn't work.  Now I'm seeing a psychiatrist who has put me on Zoloft (another serotonin reuptake inhibitor like Prozac).  One pill/day (50mg) seemed to help some.  Now I'm trying 100mg/day.  Zoloft has fewer and milder side effects than Prozac.  I think my doctor said that only 4% of the people taking Zoloft have to discontinue it because of side effects.  The only problem I'm having is some minor GI distress, but nothing too annoying.  Hopefully the Zoloft will work.  Maybe your friend should try this one next.  My psychiatrist's strategy seems to be to first try one of the serotonin drugs, usually Prozac.  If that works, great.  If it works but has too many side effects, try Zoloft or maybe Paxil.  If the serotonin drugs don't work at all, try one of the tricyclics like desipramine.  >...suggestions as to the next step?  Having a doctor who knows something about antidepressants can make a big difference.  My psychiatrist claims that most GPs and FPs don't have much experience in this area, and from what I've seen I'm inclined to believe him.  I think I know more about antidepressants than the people at my family practitioner's office.  Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor; what I know about this comes from talking to my psychiatrist and reading sci.med.
In article <1qmlgaINNjab@hp-col.col.hp.com>, cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best) writes: = =Jason Chen writes: => Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one => suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But => if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it. = =---------- = =Yeah, it might, if you only read the part you quoted.  You somehow left  =out the part about "we all ate the same thing."  Changes things a bit, eh?  Perhaps.  Now, just what leads you to believe that it was MSG and not some other ingredient in the food that made you ill?  =These people aren't condemning Chinese food, Mr. Chen - just one of its  =(optional) ingredients.  Try not to take it so personally.  And you're condemning one particular ingredient without any evidence that that's the ingredient to which you reacted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
A very simple question : it seems to me that the contraceptive pill just prevents the ovule to nest in the vagina and forces it to fall every month. But it does not prevent the fertilzation of the  ovule. Is it true ? If yes, is there a risk of extra-uterine pregnancy, that is the development of the ovule inside the Fallopian tube ?
In article <1qkdpk$5k6@agate.berkeley.edu> mossman@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Amy Mossman) writes:  >   I had a similar reaction to Chinese food but came to a completly different >   conclusion. I've eaten Chinese food for ages and never had problems. I went >   with some Chinese Malaysian friends to a swanky Chinses rest. and they ordered >   lots of stuff I had never seen before. The only thing I can remember of that >   meal was the first course, scallops served in the shell with a soy-type sauce. >   I thought, "Well, I've only had scallops once and I was sick after but that >   could have been a coincidence". That night as I sat on the bathroom floor, >   sweating and emptying my stomach the hard way, I decided I would never touch >   another scallop. I may not be allergic but I don't want to take the chance.  I don't react to scallops, but did have discomforts with clam juice served at (American) waterfront seafood bars.  I don't know whether the juice is homemade or from cans.  The following is my first encounter with the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.  Ten years ago, about an hour after having Won Ton Soup I collapsed in a chair with my face feeling puffed up, my scalp tingling, my feet too weak to stand up.  The symptoms lasted for about 20 minutes.  Determined to find out the cause of my first reaction, I went back to the Chinese restuarant and ordered the same dish.  The same thing happened.  A quick look inside the kitchen revealed nothing out of the ordinary.
Jason Chen writes: > Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one > suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But > if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.  ----------  Yeah, it might, if you only read the part you quoted.  You somehow left  out the part about "we all ate the same thing."  Changes things a bit, eh?  You complain that people blame MSG automatically, since it's an unknown and therefore must be the cause.  It is equally (if not more) unreasonable to defend it, automatically assuming that it CAN'T be the culprit.  Pepper makes me sneeze.  If it doesn't affect you the same way, fine. Just don't tell me I'm wrong for saying so.