Medicine problem

is no side effect if i take multi vitamins at the same time i'm taking pills?

2010-05-23T21:21:00.001-07:00

i'm taking pills but at the same time i want to take multi vitamins, is there any side effect for this?
Answer:
There might be an interaction. Certain medicines and certain supplements can interfere with each other. Tell your doctor or pharmacist what you are taking.

It depends on the actual pills and the actual vitamins. Ask your pharmacist and read the prescription info you were given!

it would really depend on what kind of pills i cant think of any but talk to your doctor or a pharmacists he will he able to help you out.

you can take both at the same time., there are no side effects for this.But dont take the vitamin pills continuously; take the vitamin pills for 15 days then stop taking the vitamin pills for 15 days , go on like this.

water sluble vitamins as ( C and B complex ) have no side effect
but others do

Is nano-technology something to get very excited about with regard to it's use in medicine?

2010-05-23T21:21:00.000-07:00

Answer:
Good question. Check out :
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nanotechan...

As long as it's not used to Borgify us all!

Well, to me everyone is excited about nanotech, but it really has some interesting application. However, I'm not sure the potential in Medcine.

is nanotechnology better or medicine?

2010-05-23T21:20:00.002-07:00

Answer:
Obviously nano tech is far better than medicine. The future lies in the hands of nano technitions. After 15 years the estimated nano industry is more than $15,000,000,000,000

Your question assumes nanotechnolgy and medicine are two different things. However nanotechnology is an important part of medicine.

Well they are poles apart.
As such for small diseases medicines are definitely better and nanotechnology cannot be used to cure common simple diseases.
One more thing to be noted if there is a disease like AIDS nanotechnology cannot take all the virus out on a large scale.
On the other hand for operations nanotechnology is not better than medicine it is better than surgery.
If i am unable to answer your question please do tell me in which context you are referring these terms to.
Thanks

If you are suffering then obviously medicine is more better then nanotechnology. If u die, then what is the use of nanotechnology.

ofcourse nanotechnology is better...the less pain and the more gain...

You did not elaborate. I do believe you want to decide between studying nano-tech and medicine, I think you are not decided and want to make decision on the bases of scope in future, both have lots of frontiers to explore, money is usually is dependent on supply and demand.So make up your mind multidisciplinary is aways possible.

how can you compare or replace nanotechnology with medicine.these are two entirely different things.the possible relation between these can be : "nanotechnology could help improove and discover new medicines,ways they act,ways of their administration,etc."

For Biotech u need to study Bionanotechnology. U can make an Honours course in any field of biology. Like Biochemistry, Zoology, Human Genetics etc. For this U will have to study medical 11 and 12 standard and take a course later in Bionanotechnology.
Nanotechnology is a non medical field. For this you will have to take non med 11 and 12 standard. Ur stronge subjects have to be physics.
I hope it helps u!

nanotechnology is better. in 11 th std u cannot choose biotech bcz no universities are offering .u can join bsc biotech or btech- biotech only after the completion of intermediate. all the best

NANO is full of that Engg stuff with equations and calculations,. BIO TECH, NANO, done beiile in these stuffs... and BEWARE HYPES are created thru MEDIA.. Jus analyse the following?1. Whats your potential.2. How far u can go in one feild,,3. The failures u overcame during ur academics.. 4. The place u live and the Support From ur Family (eg: a farmers son (its difficuilt) cant become a ROCKET SCIENTIST.. 5. Belive in . HARD work... DOne u are a _____________ and what u want to be

nano technology might one day involve molecule or cell sized programmable computer chips with zappers(maybe tiny lasers) to do in toxins chemicals, and invading pathogens.medicine is one application for nanotechnology.it doesn't look like either or

Is Mylan just like a Valium?If not what is it and what are the side effects?

2010-05-23T21:20:00.001-07:00

Answer:
I have never heard of Mylan and googled it. There is a drug company called Mylan Laboratories but I found no drug called Mylan. You might want to check the name again.

Mylan is a generic company that makes drugs, not an actual drug. Valium belongs to a family of antianxiety drugs known as benzodiazepines that includes alprazolam (Xanax), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), and lorazepam (Ativan).

Is my rapid heartbeat normal after Prednisone??

2010-05-23T21:20:00.000-07:00

I have just finished a short-term 11 day course of Prednisone. 40mg for 5 days, 30mg for 3days, etc. The heartbeat thing didn't start right away, maybe the 4th day or so. It increased with each day. I took my last dose, 10mg, yesterday, and now am unable to do normal routine things around the house like washing dishes. My heartbeat is so pronounced and feels like its coming out of my chest. It's a sort of watery kind of raspy beat. Very scary. I called my heart doctor and she assured me it was normal. Somehow I just don't feel convinced. How long does it take for the Prednisone to leave the body? Has anyone experienced the same condition and what was the outcome?
Answer:
Prednisone may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away: headache
dizziness
difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
inappropriate happiness
extreme changes in mood
changes in personality
bulging eyes
acne
thin, fragile skin
red or purple blotches or lines under the skin
slowed healing of cuts and bruises
increased hair growth
changes in the way fat is spread around the body
extreme tiredness
weak muscles
irregular or absent menstrual periods
decreased sexual desire
heartburn
increased sweating Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: vision problems
eye pain, redness, or tearing
sore throat, fever, chills, cough, or other signs of infection
seizures
depression
loss of contact with reality
confusion
muscle twitching or tightening
shaking of the hands that you cannot control
numbness, burning, or tingling in the face, arms, legs, feet, or hands
upset stomach
vomiting
lightheadedness
irregular heartbeat
sudden weight gain
shortness of breath, especially during the night
dry, hacking cough
swelling or pain in the stomach
swelling of the eyes, face, lips, tongue, throat, arms, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
difficulty breathing or swallowing
rash
hives
itching If you experience a serious side effect, you or your doctor may send a report to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program online [at http://www.fda.gov/MedWatch/re... or by phone [1-800-332-1088].

If your uncomfortable, call your doctor again and tell him. I will tell you though that after taking a 6 day course of methylprednisone I was all jacked up for days and am still trying to get my body back to normal. My heart isn't racing but I feel like my eyes are bouncing in my head.

Symptoms of an overdose include obesity (especially around the stomach); a round face; increased hair growth (especially around the face); acne; bruising; increased blood pressure; swollen hands, feet, or ankles (fluid retention); and sore or weak muscles

Prednisones main problem is it does have many side effects, but as it leaves the body the symptoms go away.
I experienced this side effect with Prednisone, but after 3-4 days off the meds, they went away. Different people react different ways, but if your doctor isn't worried then you probably need not worry either.
However, if it continues or gets worse, insist on a check.

Oh yeah, this is normal. Feels terrible when it is happening but normal. I take it for asthma when it gets bad. If you noticed it probably made you have more energy and not feel so bad. It gives you a feeling of false wellness. That is why people get addicted to it. You feel better than you actually are. Since you took the last pill yesterday you should start feeling better soon. It makes me shakey towards the end and kinda mean! rofl This is normal too and the tachycardia, fast heart beat will go back to normal. Drink plenty of liquids unless you are fluid restricted and it will help. Feel better soon.

I guess that my first question is why do you have a heart doctor? What kind of underlying medical conditions do you have? As for the tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), it is a somewhat uncommon side effect. Although, if you have an underlying heart disease you may be predisposed to arrythmias. Your age may also play a role in how well you tolerate the fast heart rate. If at any time you get short of breath, light headed, or have chest pain you should seek emergency care immediately. CALL AN AMBULANCE--DO NOT DRIVE!! The half-life of prednisolone (the active part of prednisone) is about 3-4 hrs/dose, but if you are at the end of your course, it may take a few days to completely clear your system. Hope you get feeling better soon.

Is my ibuprofen dosing schedule fine?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.003-07:00

I recently had a tendon injury near my heel and today have started taking ibuprofen. I plan to rest my feet until the 27th or the 1st, around 2 weeks. During this time I will take ibuprofen. I plan to take 200mg 4 times a day for a week, and then maybe stop a few days, and restart for the remainder until the deadline. Is this okay?Also, would my body adapt to that dosage in these 1-2 weeks?
Answer:
Ibuprofen can be used to treat a fever, at which case your dosing is ideal, or to treat inflammation, for which your dosing is inadequate. Without knowing your vitals, it would be imprudent to tell you what to take, so I really think you should speak to your doctor or go to a pharmacy and ask a pharmacist (free advice usually). Hope you feel better. All I will say is that I don't think you'll get the relief you're seeking with the dose you're on now.

400mg every 6 to 8 hours is the recommended dosage
.also be carefull not to get hooked on them!

.You are recommended to take ibuprofen every 4-6 hours as needed for pain.Check with your Physician

Med student needs some more classes!
Assuming you are an adult then 200mg is inadequate. Minimum adult dose is 400mg three times per day. You can even go higher but should talk to your doctor.
Your body will not adapt to Ibuprofen, nor is it habit forming/addictive.

Is my doctor on drugs? Xanax confussion!?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.002-07:00

My doctor gave me xanax to help me cope with panic attacks. He said only take it when your having one. But i heard you cant just take one pill and stop or you will go in seizures and get withdrawrls. HOW THE HELL am i supposed to just take it when I need to and then stop?. Also im on coreg to slow my heart rate, and dosnt xanax SLOW DOWN your heart? I think its time for me to get a new doctor..this is clearly not right. Or im just reading too much on the internet. Any ideas?
Answer:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Taking a Xanax is a lot like taking a shot of booze. It will slow down your heart if you're anxious and calming to helps you past the adrenaline surge that has your heart racing, but it has no direct cardiac effects. If you're an alcoholic and stop drinking you can have seizures and go into DT's. The way to avoid this mess is to take the Xanax only when you need, and don't get hooked on them.

Does your doctor know about the other medications you are taking? If so, he shouldn't have prescribed you something that could have a possible interaction. There are websites (sorry I don't know the names, but you can browse and find them easily) where you can enter in the med and how many mgs you take with another and it can give you POSSIBLE interactions. If you are worried, call the pharmacist and ask also - they are totally underrated, and are aware of possible drug interaction that could happen. You also will get out of having to pay for a visit just to ask a question.
If you feel that you aren't being taken care of with your current doc, then you need to find one that you are satisfied with. No one is ever happy in the end if they put up with a mediocre physician.
Take care.Edit: Here, I'm leaving you a link to one of the drug interactions search sites I found. I hope this helps. :)
http://www.medscape.com/druginfo/drugint...

You are reading too much into the info on the internet. Taking an occasional Xanax will not cause seizures or withdrawl symptoms. That happens when someone has been taking large doses for a long time; they can't quit cold turkey.
I don't think Xanax has an effect on your heart rate. Double check with your pharmacist to see if it does or if there is a known interaction w/ Coreg - I'm pretty sure there isn't.
Rather than dumping your doctor, why not ask him more questions. Find out if he can/will address your concerns. After you've tried to had your concerns addressed, then decide if this is the doctor for you. You can't expect any doctor to be mind reader - you need to tell him what you need from him. If he can give it - great. If he can't address your needs, then look for another doctor.

You heard wrong. Xanax is an ideal drug to take for panic attacks and where you heard this junk about seizures and withdrawal, well it isn't true.

I also take xanax. I take it when i feel an attack coming on. Not when the attack gets here. If you take it only when you need it you will not get dependent on it like some people do. People that get addicted usually do not take it like they should. I have never had a seizure nor have I ever went through withdrawals either and i have quit taking them when i had my youngest daughter so i would not worry about either of those just take them when you feel an attack coming on.
GOOD LUCK!

Your doctor should certainly be aware of the other drugs you are taking. I can't imagine a doctor not looking at your chart BEFORE prescribing a medication for you. You should have asked that question when you were in his office. I have been on Xanax for years for panic attacks. I am also on other meds. You could have problems getting off Xanax if you are taking it daily and large doses. If you take it only when you feel an attack coming on or during an attack, you are not addicted to it. Prepare a list of questions on paper for your next doctor's visit. As someone else said, you can check with your pharmacy too. And they are free.They are very helpful. Any time I have a drug question I ask my pharmacist.

Is motrin the best pain bill?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.001-07:00

I have been taking motrin 800 three times a day for pain but is there a better pain reliever that won;t make me so sleepy?
Answer:
different meds react differenly to different people. I could tell you advil realives all of my pain, but then you can take it and it could have no effect on you. Just try different ones until you find one that works well with you.

NO GENEBS{PAIN RELIEVER,FEVER REDUCER}

is mixing alcohole with Paracetamol can be deadly ?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:00

the question says it all...
Answer:
Paracetamol, called acetaminophen or Tylenol, has no known interactions with alcohol--specifically, ethanol, the particular alcohol in intoxicating beverages. Both ethanol and acetaminophen/paracetamol are known to be hard on the liver, but you have to take both fairly regularly at a significant dose over prolonged periods of time for there to be any trouble--unless you take a huge dose of either or both, which is poor judgement with anything.On the whole, mixing booze with any medication is potentially asking for trouble, for an assortment of reasons.The really "killer" combinations with alcohol are barbiturates, benzodiazepines and the small group of drugs, including disulfiram and metronidazole, that inhibit the last step of alcohol metabolism...

You answered your own question. But mixing alcohol with any drug can be very dangerous especially depending upon your health history and if you are taking any other medications. This is not a smart thing to do.

Is methadone treatment (when taken how its prescribed) safe for the rest of your life?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.003-07:00

Please, this is a serious question. Only serious answers please
Answer:
Methadone treatment is nothing more than legalized addicition. If you want to fool yourself into thinking it is going to help you, then you have that right. No, you are going to be addicted to the methadone for the rest of your life. Be proud. (I was recently a juror in a criminal trial involving the robbery of a methadone clinic...I learned more than I ever wanted to about methadone and the clinics that dispense it.)You could, instead, get some REAL help, and clear yourself of whatever addiction you are suffering from (pain killers or heroin, presumably) within just a few months. Yeah, it's going to be a very difficult few months to go through. But that's a far better prospect for your future than allowing some quackpot (with all good intentions) to tell you that replacing your current addicition for a life-long addiction to methadone is going to actually help you.Clear your head...take your life back.

You are only replacing one drug for another. They say it's harder to get off methadone than other drugs..try cold turkey, if you can. These drug centers are a lot of bull. It's the money they care about, not the people!!

Is melatonin bad for the blood pressure?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.002-07:00

Melatonin is a chemical that helps you want to sleep.
Answer:
Can react with certain alpha and beta blockers. Can kill you if you overdose in combo with blood pressure meds and other prescription meds if you are not very careful. Also, buying over the counter foods (and that is what it is considered - as St John's Wort) aren't regulated by FDA.Your body provides seratonin and that is all you need without a real doctor prescribing for you.

i dont know but it helps me sleep lol

is melatonin an over the counter medication or a prescription drug?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.001-07:00

Or can you name an alternative medication to take to help fall asleep. NOT Valagen
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over the counter and cheap. just don't expect too much. it helps a little. i use it because i have always had insomia problems and any little nonaddictive thing helps. some things like nytol will damage your heart. melatonin is harmless as far as i know. but that reminds me i aint the sharpest pencil in the box. lol

Try Sheepacountin鈩?

Over the counter and it really works!

I thought it was something you could get at a health store. i take sublingual melatonin and it helped my insomnia. Just be careful to never take it unless you will be in bed for the next few hours as sunlight can cause damage to your eyes from it.

You should not put any substance in your mouth to help you sleep. Not because of morality but because it is bad for your body's normal system. Maybe you should rethink your lifestyle choices. I did. Less work, more relaxation, and I sleep like a baby!

It is definitely over the counter, it is don-dependent (so you can't get addicted to it and it won't hurt you if you stop taking it) and it doesn't technically help you sleep... it helps you relax. Melatonin is a substance your brain makes that relaxes your muscles and your mind. Sometimes your brain doesn't make enough and you can't sleep, and so to remedy this you can take Melatonin. It also works great for jet-lag. Once your body and mind are relaxed, you'll sleep like a baby... I wouldn't recommend taking anything else.

This is over the counter. Helps to regulate sleep cycles. I believe it is a natural herb.
You can find it at Walgreens, Walmart, etc.

Is Male Birth Control Pills Out Yet?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

I have heard alot about them, but are they really out yet.
Answer:
Here is one undergoing clinical trials. It is taken a few hours before sexual activity when necessary rather than daily regardless of sexual activity.

Not yet wait for about 2 years.

i wish theyd come out. id love to see my boyfreind gain 20 pounds :-D

well i bet they'd be deemed only 40% effective, since i bet only 40% of the guys out there would be dedicated enough to take the pill every single day (especially if they're not married and irresponsible)

This is a follow up to Carl.
Yes, clinical trials are going on.
I did a search on Medline (medical literature) and came across a few articles..
--A May 2006 review article [Hormonal approaches to male contraception: approaching reality. ] concludes that temporarily stoppingsperm development through taking hormones (as in a pill) is the most likely form of male birth control in the future...early phases of clinical trials in these areas point to high efficacy and few side effects (I think the clinical trial described by Carl is one of these clinical trials)--Another May 2006 article [New approaches for male fertility control: HE6 as an example of a putative target.] describes a non hormonal approach which targets specific proteins which have specific roles in male fertility...however no drug as yet has been formulated based on this approach.And now...a digression.back in the early 80's I was a lowly lab technician in a pharmacological research lab [focus on membrane properties of mitochondria] at our local medical
college...one of the post docs was extremely interested in a male birth control pill...and I seem to recall him talking about some
plant product from India [I could be wa..a..y off].Anyways, out of curiousity, I did a search on the Internet...
and now he's VP of Strategic Development at a company in Baltimore called ReProtect http://www.reprotect.com/contact.shtml,... whichh develops products to protect reproductive health...nothing about male birth control pills, tho'.but who knows?

There should be no news stories on this. Maybe there will be in a couple years, maybe not. Premature news stories like those that hit the web a few days ago are all too common. It's very normal for drugs to look like the best thing since sliced bread in the early stages, only to find that they're not so great with further experience. Think Vioxx. I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.
And a major part of the debacles that came from Phen/fen, Vioxx, and others is laypeople pressuring their doctors for the latest. Once there was an old doctor's saying, "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor the last by whom the old is cast aside." There's a lot of wisdom in that.

is lumbosacral spondylosis thesis a disability?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.003-07:00

i had a mri and several other tests i was diagnosed properly DRS. cannot give me shots or do surgery it wont help.It was found too late.I am44 yrs old,white,female,also i have fibromyalgia was diagnosed with that 5yrs ago.I also have sciatica neuralgia neuritis and osteothrosis arthiritis i am always in pain and i cant sleep and my nerves are a wreck and im also highly claustrophobic and have panic attacks , i have medicine but it only works for me sometimes so please if there is anyone out there can help me medically or legally i would be very grate ful.
Answer:
SPONDYLOLISTHESIS is the correct spelling. When it (slipping or bulging of the intervertebral disc) occurs at the level of L5S1 it is responsible for pressure on the corresponding nerve roots ..and this is responsible for the sciatica. You will have pain and numbness in the area of distribution of the sciatic nerve.You have several other pathological problems .My suggestion is : keep your confidence in your doctors and keep taking your medication regularly.Best of luck.

Maybe these will help, just click on them and go through them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pain_manage...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_secu...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_dis... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/disabilitie...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/invisible_d...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_secu...

Truthfully, some in the medical profession don't believe in fibromyalgia. Not to say you don't have pain, but there is an extrinsic source and there is no such thing as "fibro" so your doctor basically gave up on you. If you did have an MRI and it was examined by both a radiologist and a neuro I'd say you have a chance. Once again, I am going to reiterate I don't doubt your pain.
But, the problem is so many are on disability for back pain or fibro that you will get rejected the first time I've heard.Also, I'd say it depends on severity, simply because other people live with the conditions you do have to a lesser degree.
Basically you have inflammation and pinching of your back nerves. Where did you work before? How much do you weigh?
Are you in therapy? Do you exercise (probly not too much with those back problems, but if you do kudos).You should be on prednisone or at the very least NSAIDS.
Get a lawyer for your disability claim, and it should be a good one.

is laughter the best medicine?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.002-07:00

i have a reserch parer work. and i really need to get some details about it. can somebody help me out?
Answer:
Laughter, it's said, is the best medicine. And there's lots of evidence that laughter does lots of good things for us.It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort. It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and nondiabetics alike. It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems. Its role in intimate relationships is vastly underestimated and it really is the glue of good marriages. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.

Laughter is awesome. It makes us feel better about our environment, ourselves, and each other. Laughing with someone about something in common means a shared interest. Not to mention, laughter is good for us. It is, in a way, exercise for the midsection.

o yea laughing is so good for you even if you just smile it sends a message to your brain that your happy even if your arent so keep laughing and smiling. lol GOOD LUCK!!

May be. And yes according to the Deen of the medical college in the movie munna bhai MBBS.

This is a hoot!!http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/0...Stress has been seen a hinderance to performance. We all have stress and with that comes physical reactions to stress. In the military we used laughter to reduce stress and improve performance. Implementing comedy into training to take a break from the stress of the physical and mentally demanding task. When I am in a good mood I treat people better, feel stronger and healthier, and perform well. I believe strongly that you are how you feel. So laugh it up! LOL

Is lasik surgery permanent?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.001-07:00

Answer:
the surgery is only permanent for certain ages which are old people about 30-60yrs, however for young people its not recommended because their eye sight changes with time because they are not fully grown and developed.hope i answered u benefically!!

Yes, and you also answered us visually!

DEATH IS PERMANENT

Is Lasik Eye Surgery Safe?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.000-07:00

Is Lasik Eye surgery safe? Does it have any bad side effects? How is the vison quality? And the cost?
Thanks
Answer:
It is generally safe. However, there are certain side effects that you should be aware of.The surgeon will make small selected slits in your cornea -- the outer surface of the eyeball -- to change the way light is directed to your retina. If your cornea is thin, you might have some trouble because the surgery will make your cornea even thinner. This can result in changing vision during the day, or other car lights on the road at night might appear fuzzy and out of focus.Get a second opinion, since some surgeons are willing to do the surgery, even when your cornea is too thin.Likewise, if the surgeon makes a mistake, you might have some of the side effects discussed above.

totally safe ,and is expensive ,no side effects ,very rare ones.

YA but there a lot of precautions. The operation may take around $2000-4000 and other hospital charges.

Yes it is safe. Apart from the 45% that get side effects (pain in eye, blindness etc)

One Error Of The Machine/Human and U Toast Your Eyes.If It is Not A Major Correction ..i would not recommend it .. wear the Lenses Instead.

Many years ago when the surgery was first offered to the public people often experienced a halo affect around lights at night, and people had to wear special contacts over their eyes after the surgery for a few weeks. Now I think both of those problems have been corrected. I know several people that have had the surgery, and the only problem encountered was my sister. They over corrected her eyes, so for a while she had better than 20/20 vision. It has been about 5 years since she had the surgery, and now she is going to need glasses again, but it is just a very slight correction. She had terrible vision before, and now it is so much better after the surgery. Like any surgeries though, their are risks. Research the different providers in your area before you choose one.

Yes,I have it done a year ago, and i believe that it was the best thing that i have ever done to my self! It doesn't have any side effects, but you will have red spots in the white area of the eye for about two weeks, and that comes from the pressure during the surgery!(not all people get it, but i did)the surgery is about 5 min long! the vision quality will take stages of improvement! i didn't need my eye glasses from day one, but it takes between 1-2 months for final results! you will have problems reading for the first 2 weeks, and dryness! you must not look into bright lights during the 1st week! and must not rub your eyes, they will give you all the instructions!the cost depends where you get it, it can be from $600-$2000.If you are thinking about getting it i urge you to do so!
Good luck to you!

Laser surgery is safe in the hands of an experienced ophthalmologist, and the ones who have had it are happy. The cost varies too much to say.

Lasik and Laser eye surgery is very safe nowadays. My cousin got her dental implants and lasik surgery in India by a company called Forerunners Healthcare. The Price for dental and lasik surgery is very less in India. She paid 25% of the price she was quoted in America.Forerunners Healthcare is very famous in India They arrange Dental surgery, jaw surgery, lasik eye surgery, Dental Implants etc for foreign patients in India. I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and magazines- about their patient stories.
They arrange financing for USA, Canadian, UK and other international patients who plan to have surgery abroad for low cost, as dental and eye surgery is not covered by insurance. They also have photos pasted of their International patients. You can checkout their website. There are huge cost savings. As a doctor I personally believe that surgery can be easily handled in India, as the quality of healthcare available In India is simply best in the world. The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com...
Hope this helps.

Is Kaiser Permanente an excellent Hospital?

2010-05-23T21:16:00.003-07:00

If so would you recommend it?
Answer:
Kaiser was the original 'managed care' provider in the country. I grew up with them. I used to call it "The Kaiser revolving door". In the patient goes, hours of sitting and waiting, a few minutes with a doc, and out the patient goes. With nothing productive happening to improve the patient's health. I changed to private insurance as an adult. My mother died under Kaiser's care and my elderly father is suffering under their care. Sorry, I do not recommend them. Note: their system REWARDS doctors for NOT treating patients.Best wishes.

No, I've had many relatives and friends die in Kaiser when they were doing just fine. They are crooks.

Is it wrong to drink coffee if it increases my motivation and domestic effectiveness?

2010-05-23T21:16:00.002-07:00

Are there actually any ethical issues here?
Answer:
Obviously somebody told you not to drink too much coffee. Ask them why? Is it a fair trade thing? You'll soon know when you've drunk too much when you get the shakes. Other than that, I can't see what the problem is. It tastes great, perks you up in the morning and bestows certain health benefits. Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, of course...

I can't think of any ethical reasons, but there are medical ones, that suggest that you don't drink too much of the stuff.

Coffee is a legal stimulent so go with the flow and get motivated.

Not that i know of!

you could make sure you only buy fair trade coffee,
and if you are unsure on the ethics I would avoid a certain fat cat coffee chain who won't allow Ethiopia their due rights on labelling

in my country we drink tea, tea has the same effect like coffee, i heard sometime in news that drinking tea prevents from heart attack, maybe coffee is the same...

no, you can drink it once a day in the morning no more than
300c.c. if you drink too much your motivation will get hyper and will cause damage to your brain

Not, if you do not drink excessive quantity. Caffein raises the blood tension, and is an stimulant. It is not good in case you suffer of hypertension.
No ethical issues there. Besides, as I remember, coffe in U.S.A. (I am assuming your write from that country) is very soft, compared to the one we drink here in Spain or in Italy, or even in South American countries.

No, coffee in a drip pot is safe. I would not have survived without it on my 24-48 shifts.

Really they all hit it above. Drink up if it mentally or emotionally helps you if you think the negatives are not overwhelming. I drink it every now and then but I also drink tea. They hit all the con's really except one. Coffee contains caffiene which is a known diuretic. Diuretics are things that can make you pee alot. This means that depending on what you are doing, be careful not to become dehydrated.

Is it wrong for a Doctor to have consensual sex with a patient, if so should it be reported?

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Answer:
yes, it is wrong, and should be reported. THe doctor is violating the doctor/patient relationship.

Mind your own business.

Yes, it is absolutely and categorically wrong, and should be reported to both the police and the medical authorities in your area.Best to you.

Yes it is wrong - consensual or not, because the relationship between a patient and a doctor is one of absolute trust, and the doctor has taken advantage of that. Report it - AMA and Police.

Why would a doctor be any different than any other person?Consensual means you willingly participated in the act. The fact that you are also his/her patient is irrelevant (at least it should be). Doctor/patient relationship only refers to the patient's medical information and does not extend to who he is sleeping with...Would you not date your accountant, lawyer, maid, postman, grocery clerk or unemployed neighbor? What does someone's occupation have to do with sex?(except maybe if you are a member of the CIA and sleeping with Al Kaida officers...)

I think it depends on the situation.

yes it is wrong if the patient still has to pay for their visit!

It is ethically wrong, and if found out, the Physician can lose his license to practice medicine forever. It doesn't matter if it's consensual or not. A patient would have to be discharged from the practice for one year before being able to have sex with the Doc. This happened in the practice I worked in for 23 yrs, and the Physician has lost his license forever. Hence, everyone at the Clinic lost our jobs as well. This was also a consensual situation. ~~~~

YES. AND IF IT HAPPENS, TELL THE AUTHORITIES.

Not only is it wrong but it is illegal. If the doctor is interested in seeing a patient they should terminate the professional relationship and then make an open invitation that they would like to see them socially. The doctor in question should not hound nor use private information to contact the person (mediacl files have address, phone number etc.) It should be just a case of here is my private number give me a call if interested. But it is most concerning if the doctor is dealing with mental health issues. The doctor knows the person's weakness and knows what buttons to push. Especially dangerous if the person is battling any type of drug depenancy as the doctor could abuse the relationship by becoming a dealer of sorts.Any good doctor would never take a professional relationship to a social one. He risks being sued and losing his liscense.

it would seem that there are many details (that i really don't want to know) missing.for example, do we need to report every Dr that has married one of his/her patients?

no
no

Is it worth it to become a docotor these days?

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You see so many doctors in the phone book, just like attorneys. Do doctors these days make good money and have a good job market?
Answer:
If you just want to make money, then no you shouldn't be a doctor. There are many other well paid professions out there that are much easier. If you want a rewarding profession, one that you can be proud to get up every day and go do, then yes you should be a doctor.

It really depends on what field you get in to and how good you are at your job. Good ones, of course, make quite a bit of money. If you are just looking to get into it for the money, the I would suggest not doing it because it doesn't seem like your interest lies in medicine. You need to really love what you're learning to get the grades you need to make it to and through med school.

Of course, why would having there names in the phone book along with many others doesn't mean there losing business. In fact there getting customers by advertising.

Depends on the field and location you go to. In some places you stand the chance of making more money b/c a particular specialty is in high demand so much so that they will pay your med school off to get you to come practice. Some docs pass that option and go to more highly populated areas to make more money. Mainly location and reputation, but they are definitely making money.

Doctors are still one of the best paid professions out there. The salaries are not a high as the once were, but it is anticipated that they may rise as the population ages, provided there are no more medicare funding cuts. It is also predicted that there is an impending shortage of physicians for the same reason.Doctors as a whole are more frustrated now than ever before.Many of the decisions that they made in the past are over-ruled or outright taken away by insurance companies.Malpractice is more out of control than ever for several reasons. One of causes is outrageous litigation. The other is due to gouging by mal-practice insurance companies who are required to make a profit (their revenue comes from premiums paid by doctors and by investing a strategic reserve against catastrophic loss - so when the market goes sour, premiums go up).Physicians are also troubled by the need to crack through the day and see as many patients as possible to keep their salaries from shrinking. Most physicians would love to spend more time with their patients and explore all of the avenues that lead to a happy, healthy patient, but can't since they are limited to 15 mins including paperwork.While the population as a whole is more educated about their health than ever before, physicians are still troubled by poor patient compliance with medication and life style changes (exercise, seat belt use, quitting smoking, risky behavor, obesity, alcohol and drug abuse).The profession also requries a significant investment of time. 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school and 3-10 years of residency (+/- fellowship). The typical work week is still over 60 hours with some topping 80 hours or more as an attending (I won't mention what happens in residency - but offcially they are limited to an average 80 hour work-week). So lifestyle is a concern of many (would be/current) physicians.Also be prepared. The new mantra is that the learning never stops. It is estimated that 5 years after one leaves medical school 25% of what you learned will have changed. The progress is rampant and sorely needed, but also unrelenting. Don't think that you can rest on your laurels after medical school is over.Two words:
School loans. The average physcian accumulated $75,000 to $100,000
in debt even with grants and family contributions. Some will top $250,000 or more in debt.But that's all the negatives.Physicians also still maintain a high respect with the public. While this is not as high as it once was, and several spectacular events have chipped away at the respect, they are still highly respected.As noted the salary, while not what is was, is still healthy.There are not other job in the world where you can make that much of difference in someone's life (ok, ok nurses are right up there too).
The (uncommon) moments where you impact someone's life in a way that noone else can, make it a job with the greatest rewards.The end answer is a question: are the benefts worth it to you? If you are not sure, make some contacts and ask if you can shadow a physician or help out in their office.Don't go into the profession just for the money. You will hate it. Go into because you want to work hard, make a difference, and that you genuinely give a damn about people. Your patients will know and apprecate it.

THye indeed make more money and are filthy rich

doctors are in NO way "just like attorneys"

Is it unusual for a M.E. to list the cause of death as unknown?

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Answer:
No it is not because our bodies are so complex and begin to break down the moment we pass making it difficult to determine cause of death in quite a few cases. It can also be that there are more than one competing causes where it can't be distinguished as in a suicide/homicide/accidental death case. However the main causes of undetermined death is when a person has had work done by EMS or Doctors that have muddled up the original cause due to treatment and medications given. I hope this helps you out a little.

if someone's body has been through a lot of perimortem trauma, it might be difficult to identify what among the evidence was actually the cause of death.

is it true you cant mix welbutrin with an antianxiaty drug?

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if so what could happen if you do?
Answer:
i work in a pharmacy and i constantly see people prescribed some type of SSRI, selective seretonin re-uptake inhibitor, along with some type of benzodiazepine, which ares anxolytics.SSRIs such as
Prozac - Fluoxetine
Zoloft - Sertraline
Wellbutrin - Buproprionin combonation with benzodiazepines such as
Xanax - alprazolam
Valium - Diazepam
Ativan - Lorazepamthese combonations occur quite frequently, you should definately ask your doctor or local pharmacist if there are any certain reactions you should know about, but from my experience in a pharm, those 2 mixes occur all the time.

actually welbutrin enhances the effect of xanax and they are often perscribed together. But of course check with a medical professional.

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Is it true they employ vampires to take your blood at the hospital?

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Answer:
mm the people who take your blood love to be called 'vampires' NOT, I collected blood for many years in a hospital, and everyone thought saying 'here come the vampires' was the first time you had heard ti, but after 20 or 30 times a day it gets a bit boring to say the least, so we all used to wear fangs, and then smile a lot.

yeah! they've taken 8 pints away from me already.

Why are the rose gardens so healthy and nice in the hospital grounds...work that one out..before asking about vampires

no, thats not true. if they were vampires they would drink your blood on the spot, they wouldn't go through the trouble extracting it though a needle either. they would use their fangs

B. are you crazy vampires don't exist.

No because they'd drink it all and the lab wouldn't get any samples.

Yes, remeber to take your crucifix with you or make sure the room is sunlit.

Don't know about vampires but i have seen worse and that is accident and injury lawyers they drink everyone dry !

naa can't be, their aim would be better lol

when B+ive blood group increases they employ the vampires to suck their blood as they become useless for the others .

No. However leeches are used to cure bloody sores.

Where do you people come up with this stuff? NO, NO, and many more times NO!!!!!!!!!!...

yeah! of course it's true!!by the way..where did you get this insane idea??

Yes, that is correct.

As a doctor and a vampire, yes.

lol! well they certainly dont use their teeth if they are vampires!

Most definitely, when I was in hospital, a rather dashing young man came into my room, smiled and showed me his name badge, it said Dracula on it. He tried to pretend that someone gave it to him, but we all knew who he really was...

Yes! I saw that job advertised once and nearly went for it just because it was different! There is a special medical name for the job of the person who extracts blood but I cant remember what it was now. If bloodsucking is your thing why not do what you love and get paid for it to!

Yes, but blood banks have a lot of problems with "drinking on the job."Have a nice day.

WE call them "sophisticated vampires", because they collect blood through state of the art equipment and not by sucking through the mouth, and they are highly trained to perform their jobs.

No but they employ them to take your money.

The correct term for someone who takes blood samples is a phlebotonist - but to be fair some of them look like vampires

phlebotomist :)

No the correct term is phlebotomist

Is it true that you can't drink alcohol whilst taking a course of antibiotics?

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I always thought that the antibiotics didn't work properly and that you also got drunk more easily if you did this but now someone has told me it's a myth (although doctors tell you it's true)
Answer:
You should not drink alcohol while taking any medication. Alcohol has a tendency to alter the way medication is absorbed in the body.

its true...

It is so true. Alcohol and medication do not mix. You may actually end up getting an allergic reaction.

i heard that it is true. it neutralizes the effect of the drug.

Although the effect varies with the antibiotic, virtually all of them are degraded to some extent by adding alcohol to the body. Some of them are sensitive to other chemicals and patients are warned off other beverages including caffine containing soda and coffee. In some cases the effect occurs in the stomach when the medicine is taken in pill form, in other cases in the blood stream.
As for getting drunk more easily, that part sounds a little strange (how would you measure "drunk" - balance, vision, coordination, "buzz", judgement), since some drugs are disorienting with alcohol you might be more so.

A widespread myth holds that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics, but in fact, drinking doesn't lessen the effects of the drugs. However, alcohol can lower your general energy and delay your recovery so it is best to minimize drinking until you've finished the prescribed course of antibiotic treatment. (Beyond that, chronic liver damage from excessive alcohol consumption can affect the metabolism and toxicity of antibiotics.)

Just as it's true that oral contraception is not as effective whilst on medication, but the main thing with antibiotics is to make sure you finish the course.Where did you get them from? I thought doctors were under strict instructions not to provide them these days, sounds like your realy sick so what are you doing drinking alcohol?

won't hurt you but it won't help you either, it cancels out whatever dose is in your system at the time. So it doesn't make sense is all- if you must drink skip a dose and resume at your next dose like you do when you accidentally forgot to take it. Also Dr's don't like it because not only do they want you to take all your medication properly and on time, but drinking lowers your immune system- which if your on meds means your already compromised.

Nope! You are correct that it is a myth!The widespread myth holds that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics, but in fact, drinking doesn't lessen the effects of the drugs. However, alcohol can lower your general energy and delay your recovery so it is best to minimize drinking until you've finished the prescribed course of antibiotic treatment. (Beyond that, chronic liver damage from excessive alcohol consumption can affect the metabolism and toxicity of antibiotics.)
The VD Clinics of the 1950s and 1960s gave the somber and serious advice that alcohol should absolutely not be used while taking penicillin. But there were no significant chemical interactions between penicillin and alcohol. The real reason that this advice was given was for moral reasons, not pharmacological reasons. The medicos of the day were worried that alcohol would reduce the inhibitions of the sufferers, and that, while under the influence, they might get a little "frisky" and pass on their infection to another person, before the penicillin had a chance to cure the sexually transmitted diseases. That's how the mythconception that alcohol should never be taken with antibiotics arose.Even so, it's well known that alcohol can interact quite nastily with a small number of modern drugs such as tinidazole (Fasigyn) and metronidazole (Flagyl), potentially causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, headaches, fast heart rate and flushing. And alcohol can reduce the absorption of other antibiotics such as the doxycyclines and tetracyclines. But these few interactions are well known to both medical doctors and pharmacists.Mind you, alcohol can put an extra load on your liver and immune system, can impair your judgment, liberate aggressive tendencies, reduce your energy state - and can be associated with staying up late, behaving recklessly, and not getting all the rest that your body needs to heal itself. So half a glass of an alcoholic beverage of our choice would be fine with most antibiotics.

TOTALLY TRUE
MY DOCTOR ALLWAYS TOLD ME
DRINK 1 BEER A DAY LESS THAN HIM
AND I WOULD ALWAYS BE IN GOOD HEALTH!!
HE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC

With some antibiotics you can drink, but it works quicker if you don't.

For a very small number of antibiotics, alcohol inhibits their action. It is likely your doctor would tell you if you were on these, but you should ask if you are unclear. However for other antibiotics, as alcohol causes diuresis (i.e. makes you urinate more) it speeds up how fast the antibiotics are processed so would slightly reduce their effectiveness. With these, the antibiotics are more effective if you don't drink alcohol but they can still work.

If you are taking flagyl (metradiazole) and you drink you will feel very ill. that's because chemically it is very similar to antabuse - the drug they give alcoholics - it reacts with the alcohol to make you feel sick.Most antibiotics will work with alcohol.The reason for the myth is that antibiotics were first used in numbers to treat venereal disease n the 1950's. Doctors thought that if people went to parties and got drunk they would have more sex and spread the disease before it had been cleared, so people were told to abstain from both sex and alcohol.

its not always true. It depoends what medication you are taking.
best to ask ur doctor whether u can or not.
even though people say you shouldnt i dont thionk its true because alcoholics still have to take antiboitics some times and its not as though they will stop drinking so yeh..#best to ask your doctors.

It all depends on which antibiotics you are on,some of them react with alcohol resulting in the positive effects being cancelled out therefore being a waste of time taking them which is a waste of money %26 one of the reasons doctors will tell you not to drink on them since the NHS is already throwing away millions every year on medications that are wasted.Read the packet/leaflet with th tablets-they have to put the truth on them (side effects/do's %26 don'ts) by law.

it is true, booze lessons the effect of the meds, not the effect of what your drinkin

As a general rule, a glass of wine with dinner isn't going to make any difference, but there's much to take into account. Some antibiotics, for instance, will make you quite alcohol-intolerant, and you'll throw up an unbelievable amount.
Doctors, knowing more about drugs, tend to have a much greater respect for their ability to do bad things to you than is the case with the general public, and like to keep things conservative with any drug, and even moreso with mixtures of drugs, and that includes alcohol.

As far as I know the only antibiotics which specifically warn you not to drink are the dental ones.

my dear it is for ur liver. liver has to deal with the antibiotics and the alcohol. if u take both the liver will clear them out slowly and this will not be good for u and ur liver. this may result in prolonged activity of drugs and when u take the next dose the last dose mite still high leading to an ova dose.
so ur doctors are right u shud not do it. and just becoz sumone said nothing happened to them when they did it does not mean u can do it and get away with it becoz our bodies are different and react differently to situations.

well physically one can do whatever they like lol ,would i recommend it naaaaa, but i am not a dr. so if you are not sure i would take your drs advice and not risk any problems

Read the label!!!

Is it true that you can get lead poisoning if...?

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you don't wash your hands after handling Christmas lights that have a tag that says"
Prop 65 Warning:
Handling the coated electrical wires of this product exposes you to lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harm."
WASH HANDS AFTER USE
Answer:
Lead in trace amounts and with limited exposure time will not harm you The reason lead became such a problem was beacause it was everywhere. It was in paint, pipes, furniture and so on. This exposed people to more than trace amounts all the time, which caused the negative health impact. It can't hurt to wash your hands after contact with lead though.

I would say yes. Why else would they write that on the tag?

That should be illegal to sell stuff like that but if you are if-y about it wear gloves! MAN THAT IS CRAZY!

is it true that when you sneeze that you stop breathing for one second?

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Answer:
Yeah, I died like 6 times yesterday!Aaaaaaaaachooooooooo

yes, your heart stops when you sneeze

yes its true

yep its true.

Actually your heart stops...thats why we say bless you

yeah heart attack

A sneeze is a forceful exhalation (part of breathing).We ALL stop breathing in between each inhalation and exhalation - it's not a constant process.In order to really STOP breathing, you'd have to go for at least 30-60 seconds without taking a breath. We don't do that when we sneeze.

yep

Yup it true. and also did you know your heart also stops when you have a "he-cop"?

yes its true and your heart stops too. and we say bless you not becuase our heart stops its because they used to believe that your soul would escape when you sneeezed henses the bless you. another useless fact is we all close our eyes when we sneeze and if we dont our eyes would pop out

Yes it is true, and also why it was the one of the most horrible and dangerous semptoms of the Black Death, because if one got the Black Death sneezing was the last semptom, as the person's heart would stop beating and the lungs would stop beating for a long time because of constant sneezing, eventually killing the person by suffocation and lack of blood flow

no your heart stops beating

Not only breathing, heart also stops for a moment, as due to excessive pressure created by lung to sneeze and if heart tries to pump blood at same time, there is chance of capillary hemorrhage...Hence christian says 'God bless you' and Muslim says 'Allhamdullilah', as person has reviewed his / her heart beats and breath..

I believe you have this confused with the MYTH that your heart stops beating for a second when you sneeze. It doesn't.

well yeah its kinda true.
next time you sneeze try to inhale at the same time!
and no your heart doesn't stop beating!

Yes, webmd.com

is it true that they have found a gene in the human DNA that if they removed it, the aging process will stop?

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think about it, our whole world would be redifined. Im up for it, or you?
Answer:
No it is not true. Ageing is a natural process of decay. We live in a decaying world and as with all equipment our bodies decay. If we were to even slow the proces of aging the world would be a mess and over populate at a rate that could not be substrained thus the balance of the natural order would cause even greater poverty and hunger in the world. So why would we want to even try and slow the ageing process.

NoImpossible. Aging occurs because of faults, not as a command from a single gene in the DNA sequence.There may be a gene associated with the symptoms of ageing in one specific area that has been targeted, but even then it can't be removed, it would need to be changed or replaced.You don't want to throw a sequence off (:

Is it true that someone can actually die while dreaming of being killed or falling down from a high place?

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what i've heard that the brain may actially dies if not waken up from the dream
Answer:
The brain doesn't just die, but it would be possible to suffer a heart attack in that circumstance, especially if the heart was already weak. Obviously there's no way to tell if it actually happened or not.

Of course it is. So many people have died, at leats one probably died while having such a dream.

Hmmm... In my opinion I think that's very unlikely to be true.

There is no evidence of this, since nobody who died in this manner can report what they were dreaming of, however I have dreamed many experiences that would be lethal and not died from them.

Very rarely. It does happen but think about it. It's just a dream? Normally you wake up when i gets bad.

And how would they know, unless they survived the dream?Anyway, one would think that someone with a weak heart might indeed suffer a heart attack during such a dream, but otherwise, everyone else wakes up normally.

Um..no...but if you're dreaming of suffocating and you're actually suffocating, like if your head is on the pillow and you can't breathe but you tihnk it's just in the dream, then I guess you could actually "die in your dream"

Yeah cuz it can feel so real that the person can go into a shock and self induse a heart attack of the shock!!

yes, normaly due to heart faliure or stroke.

If you can begin any question with, "Is it possible..." then chances are it is possible. The likeliness is a different story.

Yes. That is absolutely possible. A feasible (but unlikely) scenario would involve a sleeping person being shot dead at the same moment that the person is dreaming of being killed for falling. Likewise, a person could actually die while dreaming about flamingos or winning the lottery.

nope. died in a dream car accidentstill here

Good question. Blessings

It's possible, but not for the reason you imply. A person could have a nightmare and have their heart give out. They wouldn't have to even die during the dream. All they would have to do is stress their system over it's limits. And, their limits would have to be pretty low.I've died during a dream so many times I can't count. The most memorable was the time I had my head blown off with a shotgun. I didn't wake up dead then, so I guess nothing in a dream would do it for me.

I've had a few nightmares where i died, but luckily i didnt die in real life. I havent heard any cases of people actually dying from a dream.

Think hard. How many dead people have told you what they were dreaming about when they died?

i, myself, have died in my dreams many times. and at the end, it's just blank. and i wake up after a while.
however, i dont know if it is possible for someone to die if they die in their dreams. maybe i'm just lucky all these times. i know that it is possible to live even though you die in a dream, but i dont know if it's actually possible to die. i hope my answer is understandable.

Is it true that some people have woken up in thier coffins back in the 1800's?

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Answer:
This is precisely why I want to be cremated!!

WOW!!! I've never heard that, but that would suck!!

yes - because they were really in a coma - and woke up - so they put a string tied to a bell above the ground - hence
a dead ringer !!!

yes

yep, happened all of the time. They did not have EKG machines and if someone was in a coma and had suppressed life signs they were often buried alive only to wake up later. they used to put a pipe in the casket to allow air to get in through the ground and to check for life signs and after a couple of weeks remove the pipe if no one yelled out from the hole. They have dug up coffins with the insides scratched up with victims trying to claw their way out.

yeah happened many times ,they had no way of hearing a heart beat or pulse..many of the people had certain diseases that you can appear to be dead and not be..its almost impossible to tell..they have moved coffins many of them that were opened from that time period that this happened and actually the people passing by graveyards would hear the screams of the people thus giving the legend of vampires a boost and also of ghouls and ghost..

YES DEFIANTELY! Ive heard of about 10 cases where someone "died" and woke up and tried getting out of the coffin and couldnt and in one case he actually did get oyut and the entire town thought he was something akin to a zombie and there was pure chaos

my mother told me that one of our great relatives did that, some grave robbers dug her up. when they cut her finger to get her ring. she woke up. and walked home. really

I think that is true. In the old days, medicine was not as advanced and the diagnosis of death was sometimes wrong. People were in coma-like conditions. This comes from the fact that some coffins that were exhumed had scratch marks on the inside. For a while, in Europe at least, some coffins were buried with a string that led up through the ground to a bell. The dead person, if not really dead, would pull on the string to call for help.Of course a few years ago I recall reading a story about a woman attending her mother's open casket funeral in England. In the middle of the ceremony her mother sat up and awoke, evidently she was not dead. Unfortunately her daughter than had a heart attack and died.

THERE ARE THE TALES OF THIS, THE EERIE EFFECT CAUSED BY SOME PLANTS CAN GIVE DEATH LIKE SYMPTOMS, AND THE STORY WENT THAT IT STARTED PEOPLE BUILDING COFFINS WITH AIR LINES UP TO THE SURFACE AS TO AID SOMEONE WHO WAS BEYOND THE GRAVE, LOT OF OPIUM AND MEDICINE MAN STUFF HAD IMPORTED DRUG THAT I FORGOT BUT CAN RENDER U TO PASS AN AUTOPSY AND COME BACK LATER IN THE DAY

seems so! check out wiki for "safety coffin" and "premature burial"!
ugh!

Yes, and in more recent times peole have woken up in the freezer. Once the mortuary gets done with you you have nothing to worry about because if you weren't dead before you'll be dead after.

Since there is no such word as WOKEN, I am confused by your question.

It's certainly recorded earlier

yes, this was prevalent in new england in the 1600s during the salem witch trials..In fact, there are scratch marks from the victims who tryed getting out.

Yes i was not there but the stories are real even happens today.Hope i don`t see one tho

is it true that some medicines?

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can make your teeth yellow
Answer:
There's really only one drug that causes you teeth to turn Yellow.
It's Tetracycline (not sure where the other guy got amoxicillin)It's generally only seen in children under 12 that's why it's only given to children if it's the last resort.

yes, there are also medications that can give really visible yellow-brown bands on your teeth like tetracycline, it happens during the development of the teeth while the baby is still in the womb.

no, but years ago if a pregnant woman took certain anti biotics during pregnancy the babies teeth would be yellow as they lost their enamel,once the tooth has developed and broken through it wont turn yellow

I have taken a lot of medecine and have had not this effect but saying that i way it could turn your teeth yellow
it depends on the med..the person...

This is true some medicines make your teeth yellow because i know someone who has had the medicines and the teeth went all bright yellow. the medicine is called AMOXOCILINE

yes it is a friend of mine in high school had just that problem. she was perscribed 2 medications which the mix of the 2 caused her teeth to yellow but it was strange because it was just the 2 front teeth. one medication weakened the enamel and the other reacted with the exposed portion of the under layer enamel to make a yellowish brown tint appear on the teeth. there are also medications(not sure the names) that will turn your fingernails and toenails yellow. these are much more common than are the teeth medications. if you are worried about a medication turning any part of your body yellow you might want to consult your doctor at the time of perscription.

Yes. Docs gave antibiotics to preemies years ago. It damaged their teeth permanently. Usually, their teeth are either yellow or in a stage of rotting. No amount of brushing can stop it. Bleaching would only help for a couple of days, if at all.

I think so

Is it true that shotting self point blank in the head kills painlessly?

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...
Answer:
No.People have shot themselves in the head and survived.Those who could still function and talk later said it hurt.

People say they want to die painlessly. I say, what does it matter? Either way (pain or no pain) you're still going to die!

there are not really that many survivors from this... so how could anyone answer it.i'd say it would happen quickly...

not known.all the poor folks who know are not able to tell us.

I don't think that anyone alive would know the answer to that.

See... thats just it! nobody lives to tell about it. The ones that do can't tell us either! And it's SHOOTING

yes, and it kills the pain of life too

I guess if it killed you instantly it would be painless, quite how you prove that is a different matter!

I think you'd have to ask someone who died that way, however... I wouldn't recommend trying it.And why would you even ask? I sure hope that you have more faith in yourself, and in life, than that!

only if you do it right, i know a kid who shot himself in the head and didnt die for like 30 minutes while he was on the way to the hospital

Why don't you ask the people that tried but didn't succeed and are now vegetables for the rest of their lives. Ask them if they could take it all back would they. How it really wasn't worth trying to end it all. And how life is so much more precious then you could ever imagine.

Might not even kill you. You could end up a vegetable, or with a major mental disability. Depends on where you point the gun, what type of gun it is, how thick your skull is.My uncle was a doctor and has told many stories of people that failed.

Pretty much. The shock wave created by the bullet passing through the skull (and the expanding muzzle gasses following behind it) makes a pulp out of all the neurons (and the synaptic interconnections between them) in about a millisecond. Since it takes the 'conscious' about 20 milliseconds or so to recognise anything, it never has a chance to register 'pain' (or anything else) before it is destroyed.
Doug

no, it's not. shooting yourself in any way hurts! it doesn't matter if it's point-blank or 10 feet away, it still is painful.

I tried it last week and it really stung.

It is possible but highly unlikely. The probability of hitting yourself in the exact right spot to cause a painless instant death is extremely low. From working in an ER I have witnessed someone who probably thought it would be painless, but they were wrong. They shot theirself point blank through the temples, and they lived for about 3hrs while we worked on him. The next morning they were collecting his organs. Definitely not the way I'd want to go. So painless, I highly doubt it, unless you hit that spot right on. Shot in the head doesn't mean instant death.

Obviously, no one can really tell you from life experience. I think there are a few things to think about ... When you shoot yourself in the head, you'll have to shoot through your skin, muscle and bone. If you feel pain, it would be the shot through the skin, muscle and bone that cause most/all of the pain. Since your brain itself doesn't feel pain. This would obviously hurt very very badly. And you would feel it rather instantly. It is uncertain whether you would die immediately. There is also the possibility that the adrenaline would be so high that you'd feel nothing at all.There have been cases where people have been stabbed through their head and lived. (through the back and out top of the mouth and upper lip, missing the brain completely.) Other people have been able to survive without half a brain. The body is an amazing thing, there is no way to say what could happen. And living after failing at suicide would probably hurt very badly.

is it true that salina, the singer who was shot by her manager die due to the lack of a blood transfusion?

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did salina's parents refuse a blood transfusion, which caused her to die?
Answer:
I dont think that was the case. Selena was married, so her husband would have been the one to make a decision like that. I dont believe he would have denied her of proper medical treatment.
It didnt say anything or refer to anything like that in the movie they made about her either.

No! They loved her, they wouldn't have been that ignorant.. I believe she died on the spot.

No that was all just a rumor.

No. If I remember correctly, she was shot in the shoulder, and died after a few minutes from the blood loss. Hypothetically, she could have been saved if she had an immediate transfusion, because no internal organs were hit. However, she was at a hotel at the time, and sadly she died from her wound. I think that her parents were not nearby at the time.

No. Selena was rushed to the hospital and was given a blood transfusion, but it was already too late.Later when her father showed up at the hospital, he said she wouldn't have wanted a blood transfusion because of her faith (they were Jehovah's witnesses).At that point she had already received the transfusion.

Her name is spelled Selena and NO they didn't refuse. Besides that she was married and that decision would be left up to her husband Chris, not her parents.

Is it true that most medicine makers don't want you cured but instead want you to be treated so they can ...

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maximize profits ?
Answer:
Ethically: NO.
Commercially: More inclined to YES than NO (partial).
It depends on the type of disease or syndrome they are catering to.
Example: If it is fever, flu or common cold, the answer is yes, because they dont want to lose customers (getting customers itself is rarity). If it is Diabetes or cancer, the answer is NO, as they know customers cannot be cured completely and once one gets it, he/she will become a life-time customer.

I believe that.

Yes, though they would never publicly admit this. The money is in the disease, not the cure.

I believe that can be a reasonable assumption. To prove it might take "an act of congress" because if someone where to prove such an accusation, there would be the biggest lawsuit in world history to follow. The charge: Fraudulent medical claims of a general nature. It would be the accuser's role to list everything.

yes. i was watching this special on fox one day and this guy was on and was describing his book where he went around the world to different countries, researching special medicines. and there are many cures for many diseases that "dont have a cure" , and he was also explaining how in the US it is illegal to treat cancer without chemo. and that there is a cure for cancer but it is not released in the US because of the same reason marijuana isnt legal. because it is an herb and can be grown anywhere, in other words the government just cant tax it and make there money.

In league with the "doctors" of the world, the mega-corporate pharmaceutical companies encourage, indeed almost force, the treatment of disease rather than the cure of it.
An example is the "treatment" of type 2 diabetes in which the medication causes weight gain which in turn increases insulin resistance which inturn requires more medication.
It is a vicious circle, kept in motion by the greedy.To find the root cause of most problems in this world, follow the money.

well, there are certainly a lot of conspiracy theorists that would like everyone to think that. of course there are probly a lot of med. companies that dont want you to think that. corruption among the pharmasutical companies has been an issue for a while. there are plenty of medicines that work effectively and thats how most of them are. i think the problem isnt meds that dont work, but meds that are over perscribed. some pharmacutical companies will pay doctors to perscribe more medicine than people actually need or even assign it if the person dusnt really need it at all. the whole business has become a sticky one...one where such corruption is easily able to fester, but im not sure its as bad as a lot of people make it out to be

Maybe. some of them, but i don't think they are so cruel.

No.
Two reasons why this paranoid view of the world is wrong:
- Oversimplification. You think that for any disease there should be a pill, preferably in five different flavours, which, once swallowed, cures you instantly.
Unfortunately, deceases are not like that. Bacteria and parasites are rarely killed 100%, they become immune to drugs, etcetera.
Cancercells are too much like normal cells to just kill them off without harming normal cells.
Damaged cells, as in Parkinsons or dementia, can not be replaced by an injection or a pill.
It's not an exact science. Your flaw is thinking that it is.- Capitalism. If my company purposely made a drug that doesn't work, and another company could make a drug that DOES work.
How long do you think people will buy my medicine when they know it doesn't cure, and they know there's another medicine that works?
Which do you think they'll buy?
Which company do you think will make the most money?

All companies are in business to make (rather than lose) money. As such drug companies are constantly on the lookout to buy smaller companies with useful drugs and also may expend millions of stockholder dollars researching new drugs (few of which succeed). There are many human ailments that have long-lasting effects such as diabetes and drug companies certainly would favor drugs with long term treatments. You can always refuse to take any drugs. Your doctor is your adviser not your dictator. There is some strange notion that modern medicine would be somehow better today without drugs. Go figure. When my doctor prescribes drugs or over-the-counter medication they have always helped. Instead of worrying about bad drugs worry about finding a good doctor you trust.

They will maintain your health but not cure, to big of a loss if they do. =)

is it true that left-handed people have inverted cerebral hemispheres?

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Answer:
I don't think that is true, left handers have a dominant right hemisphere, or whatever the right side of your brain is called. There is a theory as well that left handedness is an evolutionary step, thousands of years ago it was a survival trait, left handed fighters would have the element of surprise when fighting right handers.

That's a very polite way of asking if they are freaks..

i doubt it.i am a lefty.explain inverted cerebral hemisphere to me at brerocks25@hotmail.com or im me at brebrerocks25@yahoo.com

Some do and some don't.

If you mean is a left handers brain right side dominant, yes. Also explains why lefties are often very creative. Right handed people are left lobe dominant being generally more logical.

Some is that and some is not .. and the left handed people is n't freaks . but they have a really good handwriting . and the left handed people have the centre of writing in their cerebrum in the right side . that's all

Is this a good thing or bad ?,I am left handed.Or as they say round here Coggi hander.

The left handers brain is very different from the right handers brain. As a left hander, I find that there are a vast number of things that I can do and ways that I think that are very different from those of my RH contemporaries. I read on a higher level, I use words when I write that others don't usually use, I write backwards and upside down, which, believe it or not, is much easier than writing "normal". LH people are generally more creative, more intuitive, more emotional, and compassionate. I have had my share of problems with being LH. As a child I lived in Germany, needless to say, I had a teacher that was NOT fond of the left hand and used a ruler on the palm of my hand to "change" my handedness, it DIDN'T work, and I started acting like an "ssa" in class to annoy her. I love being the only person in my family as a dominate lefty, so for those of you who have heard that handedness is hereditary, it's not. Oh, just to be fair, some "scientists" believe that left handedness is due to some sort of brain damage that occured at birth. Whatever! So, that's my two cents.
AND:Left-brain/right-brain proponents in popular culture will find substantial support for the idea that brain hemispheres are indeed functionally specialized. Moreover, there is significant, repeatable lateralization of the human brain along numerous dimensions. The left and right hemispheres can even perform as independent minds when their intercommunication is severed as in the rare commissurotomy procedure. However, there is significant empirical evidence to refute the idea of hemispheric dominance in the "on again, off again" sense which these proponents presume. Instead researchers continue to affirm the constant, subtle, and profound interplay of the two hemispheres; we do not posses two, limited brains that vie for control, rather we posses an almost transparently unified mind of much greater ability then merely the sum of the two parts. These are exciting times for all those interesting in the brain and how it works. Still, there are so many questions, seemingly contradictory experimental results, and hyperbole. The truth is, contrary to pop-psychology, we simply don't understand enough about cerebral dominance, brain lateralization, the causes and effects of left/mixed handedness, and how these things interact, to be able to make short, quick, easy-to-digest, blanket statements. It's even a little sad, because the truth is so much more profound, exciting, and interesting

Left handed people are in their right minds.

The human brain makes an excellent beach ball.

no of course not. it is true that brain functions are different in the left and right hemispheres. being left handed, being a recessive trait doesn't mean that cerebral hemispheres are already inverted. It only means that the brain functions more efficiently on the other hemisphere.

If you are left handed, that does not mean that you are smarter than right handed people. The hand you write with is just different. If you are smarter that someone else who writes with a different hand, the just means that you are smarter than them. It doesn't catagorize a whole group of people.
.I hope this doesn't seem like retaliation...

Among the right handed people:
99% have dominant left hemisphere and 1% have dominant right hemisphere.Among the left haned people:
85% have dominant left hemisphere and 15% have dominant right hemisphere.Left handed people are neither dumber nor smarter than their right-handed counterparts. IQ has nothing to do with cerebral dominance. If the motor (i.e., part that moves the limbs) function of your brain is dominant on one side, that does not necessarily mean that the other functions (i.e., cognitive, etc) are also dominant on the same side. You many not be aware of this, but apart from a dominant hand, you (and I, and all the rest of the world) also have a dominant eye and a dominant ear. These things don't have a bearing on intellectual or creative abilities (or disabilities) of a person.

They dont' REALLY have inverted hemispheres. What happens is that there is a tissue (like a cable) that joins the brain's hemispheres, but this "cable" is like an X, so the left hemisphere is connected to the right part of your body and the right to the left. This happens in all vertebrates. Because right-handed people use more the right part of their bodies, that part of the brain is more active. Anatomically, there is no difference between them.

yes it is true that for a left handed person the right side of the brain is the dominant hemisphere. But it has nothing to worry about they r as sane as a person should be.

There is scientific evidence to suggest that some left-handed individuals are a surviving "mirror-image" twin. The non-surviving (probably right-handed ) twin succumbed to the "disappearing twin" syndrome whereby one twin dies in-utero and is re-absorbed into the mother. Mirror image twins can have internal organs, such as the heart, on opposite sides of the body. Is there such a thing as an inverted brain?

some may and some may not

yes the left handers have the right side cerebral hemisphere functional
and i am also a left hander in fact i write with both hands but my right cerebral hemisphere is more developed and left handers are also good artists as i am

Is it true that it is possible to produce human insulin by using bacteria?

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Answer:
YES!!Human insulin protein molecules produced by bacteria are gathered and purified. The process of purifying and producing cow and pig insulin has been greatly reduced or eliminated.

Yes. The modern day insulin analogs are produced by using recombinant DNA technology. Insulin glargine is an example of this. This is a long acting insulin analog that is typically dosed for diabetics once daily. It is commercially available through prescription as Lantus. Lantus is produced using a safe version of E. coli bacteria. More can be researched on this topic by searching these specific terms.

Yes. E.coli is used. Human insulin made this way only is widely used .

Is it true that if your maternal grandfather never went bald, you have no genetic chance of going bald?

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Answer:
no you have more than 50% chance...baldness is dependen to a X-linked gene, since womens sex chromoses are XX and mens are XY.. when your maternal grandpa is bald; he gives his baldy X to your mother, but she also takes another X from her mother; so she becomes XX... and she gives her son, to you, one of these X chromosomes. If your X chromosome came from maternal grandma; you may not turn to bald. but you have to check your uncles also... maybe your maternal grandma also has a baldy X chromosome, it is seen in some uncles..

I always thought it was the paternal grandfather.but anyway, not necessarily. There's always a possibility, I think, even if it is slight.

no because sometimes genes skip a generation. If that was true, the same could be said of those who have a maternal grandfather who lived to be 100. It's a chance you might too, but no guarantee set in stone.

Genetics is a big factor in baldness but the sad fact is any guy can go bald for whatever reason. Don't fight it, lot of women love bald men and you save money on the haircuts!-:) We should all thank Michael Chikliss for bringing dignity to bald, fat WHITE guys! Peace and Merry Christmas!
Vin

Is it true that if you run a gold band across your forehead...?

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and it leaves a black streak, it means you are deficient in iron? How does this work?
Answer:
OK, this is sort of true but it has nothing to do with gold. Gold is completely non-reactive as a chemical - that's why everybody likes it in jewelry, right? Because it doesn't tarnish. But if you rub yourself with a hard piece of metal it could cause a bruise. Bruises come from tiny broken blood vessels in your skin. The vessels and the blood in the vessels are dependent on the presence of iron to be healthy. If you are iron-deficient then you are more like to have bruising when you rub a ring or coin on a delicate section of skin over a bone - like your forehead.
People who are iron deficient tend to bruise more easily. It is not magical and it has nothing to do with the kind of metal you use.

works anywhere on your skin doesn't need to just be forehead. Yes this means you are deficient in iron. Will work with a coin too

Yes. It is true. Rub gold anywhere on your face and it will tell you if you are lacking iron in your blood. The more pure the gold is the better it will work. I do not know the technical reasoning for it though.

I don't know how it works but it does. You don't have to run it across your forehead though any part of your face, jawline, will do.
I find that my gold rings leave black circles around my fingers when my iron is really low.

I suppose this explains the marks people can get on their skin if they wear real gold

Is it true that drinking cow's milk is beneficial for a patient with peptic ulcer?

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Answer:
The calcium will actually cause increased acid production, but the scientific evidence overall is, "we dunno." If it feels good, it's probably OK, and it was a mainstay of treatment in the first half of the twentieth century, when there was a general idea that white things felt good and red things bad for your ulcer, It sounds crazy in the world of $3-a-pill proton pump inhibitors and routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy, but to a large degree it still holds fairly true.

most ulcers are due to high amounts of stomach acid. milk is a base, and should therefore neutralize some of the acid.

Yes and no..it (as well as Mylanta or other ant-acids) helps with the symptoms a bit but the cause of peptic ulcer is parasitic/bacterial.so it makes sense to cure it rather than mask it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peptic_ulce...
http://glycob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/con...

Is it true that breakthrough medical research has proved that doing research on rats causes cancer in rats?

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Answer:
Yes and no. For example, some kinds of cancers that ONLY occur in rats have been found. It was widely believed that saccharin or cyclamates (I forget which one) caused cancer, but the fact was that rats digest, process and eliminate it differently than we do. When it is concentrated in their urine, it forms crystals, which it does not do in our urine because our urine contains a higher percentage of water. (A human with water levels in the urine as low as a rat's would already be dead of dehydration.)The sharp-edge crystals in the rats' bladders repeatedly cut them and caused bleeding, required healing, and eventually led to a breakdown of the healing process, with uncontrolled cell growth and reproduction, called cancer-- because the bladders were continually being cut by the sharp-edged crystals and needing to be healed...! So it was not that the sweetener caused cancer. ANYTHING that crystallized in their urine like that would eventually have caused cancer. The rats just couldn't tell us, that's all. Stop medical experiments on mute animals-- experiment on PETA members, instead. THOSE WORTHY OF OUR RESPECT WOULD VOLUNTEER.11 DEC 06, 1851 hrs, GMT.

this is probly a joke question(?)but--having had many rats and mice over the years,i can tell u that EVERY-and i do mean 100% of them-rodent that i ever had,died of cancer in its old age.u could see the tumours,and they'd have to be put down.in the wild,they are predated by almost everything-owls,foxes,u name it.they dont live long enough to develop the disease.but 3 year old mice and 5 yr old rats are extraordinarily prone to cancer in my opinion.ive often wondered if those tests are skewed-i mean,was it the diet they were fed.or the chemicals they ingested in the lab-or,like my pets,was it just that rodents are cancer prone to begin with??

is it true that ayurveda and yoga can cure otherwise incurable disease?

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Answer:
Ayurvedic medicine is a form of alternative medicine in use primarily in the Indian subcontinent. The word "Ayurveda" is a tatpurusha compound of 膩yus "life" and veda "knowledge", and would roughly translate as the "Science of Life". Ayurveda deals with the measures of healthy living, along with therapeutic measures that relate to physical, mental, social and spiritual harmony. Ayurveda is also one among the few traditional systems of medicine involving surgery. Even now aurveda is practiced by many persons in India and they sometimes cure cronic diseases like cancer, Diabetes and heart ailments aprt from minor diseases. Yoga is a family of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. It is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy, in which it is often paired with Samkhya, and they are referred together as the Samkhya-Yoga school.
Today in India and across the World, Yoga is a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means to both physical health and spiritual mastery. Karma Yoga (yoga of Action), Jnana Yoga (yoga of Knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (yoga of Devotion), and Raja Yoga (yoga of Meditation) are considered the four main paths of Yoga.
Outside India, Yoga has become primarily associated with the practice of asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga, a system of Yoga that developed from - and in order to prepare students for the practice of - Raja YogaYoga is not a medicinal treatment and by severe practice of Yoga we can keep our body healthy and also cure problems like constipation, blood pressure, obesity, and very many diseases-.

I believe that they can. I'd like to hear some experiences regarding these powerful healing techniques.

Theoretically, yes it is. Practically the chances are rare. However they help lessen the intensity of disease. But one should go for these options because there is no other choice anyway. Yoga is also a good defence against any future possible diseases.

wouldn't everyone like to believe that...but in true fact it does not...maybe it can help to alleviate some of the symptoms associated with diseases but it does not in any way cure the disease

Ayurveda is Sanskrit for knowledge of living. Ayurvedic herbs etc help in keeping one healthy .Yoga is Sanskrit for a state or stature. Yoga helps muscles,bones and joints healthy and functional. Curing otherwise incurable diseases is claimed but not proved.

Is it true that aspirin can affect our liver?

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please tell me... i want to know about how serious is the effectness...
Answer:
It is very rare that Aspirin can cause any damage to the liver. There have been only a handful of cases of hepatotoxicity (liver damage) but these have been primarily in either YOUNG rheumatoid arthritis patients or lupus patients, and even then it was reversible.Sometimes Aspirin is mistaken for acetaminophen, which in high doses can cause liver damage, but even this is rare.Keep in mind that Aspirin still needs a somewhat healthy liver to function properly! Aspirin is broken down into the active salicylate partially by the liver. The salicylate in Aspirin is then broken down into smaller components, primarily by the liver, so it can be easily removed from the body in the urine.

ye it duz, but in the long term, it starts to get eatn away shall we say!

yeah if you take the whole bottle

I don't know specifically, but a lot of drugs do IF you take them for a long time or abuse them. For most people, I don't think it would be a problem.

Your body needs ways of getting rid of harmful chemicals, and the liver is very important in this process. Any time you take medicine, even an aspirin, it's your liver's job to later remove the medicine from your bloodstream. If your liver isn't functioning correctly, the medicine may stay in your bloodstream longer than it should, and that can cause problems. :-)

Aspirin is ok.. stay away from Acetominephen (tylenol)

Yes, Aspirin can affect our liver.Aspirin causes insignificant gastrointestinal bleeding that can over time, however, cause iron deficiency; gastric ulcers may also occur with long-term use. Complications can be avoided by using enteric-coated aspirin, which does not dissolve until reaching the intestine. Aspirin should not be given to children who have chicken pox or influenza, because it increases the risk of contracting the rare and frequently fatal Reye's syndrome, a disease of the brain and some abdominal organs.
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Is it true that all the bad things that the government tells us about weed are false and the only reason that?

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it is not legal is because we can't find a good way to tax it?
Answer:
TLC ? Leandro? Hahahaha...Weed has "Tender Loving Care"...Hahahahaha your right but wrong that's THC
Alcohol is at least 20 times worse for you than liquor and the "Government" taxes and allows IT. So the answer is the YES the Government is full of crap about this.

Some of the things are true to an extent such as mental problems caused by marijuana do happen but they arent permanent. I think the taxing thing might one of the reasons but probably no the only one

Well I don't think so since Marijuana does contain TLC which makes people hallucinate and three's short term effect and long term effects and these areShort-term Effects
Short-term effects of marijuana include problems with memory and learning, distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch), trouble with thinking and problem solving, loss of motor coordination, increased heart rate, and anxiety. Long-term Effects
Marijuana smoke contains some of the same cancer-causing compounds as tobacco, sometimes in higher concentrations.Studies show that someone who smokes five joints per week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes every day.

Weed is safer than an antidepressant, trust me.

Leandro L is funny as hell! "TLC" HAHAHAHAi think he means thc. he obviously knows nothing but what the government has told him.i will say that while it is not exactly good for you.. it is wayyyyy better for you than alcohol... and thats a fact. so if the potential harm of a substance should dictate its legality, then it should be legal. hell, there are already legal stores that sell pot in california if u got a doctors signature.

You find a good summary of when and why marijuana was outlawed at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/...You can find a funny short history of the subject at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/... In short, most state marijuana laws were first passed in the period 1913-30. There were two major reasons for the laws.The first reason was racial prejudice against Mexican immigrants. The second was the fear heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana -- exactly the opposite of the modern gateway myth. It was outlawed at the national level in 1937. You can find the full transcripts of the hearings for the law at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/tax... The reasons the law was required -- it was said, was because marijuana causes insanity, criminality, and death. It should be noted that the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics said that there was no connection at all between marijuana and heroin. In short, the reasons for the law were racism, ignorance, and nonsense. The primary economic interests associated with making it illegal were the newspapers which made money with sensational journalism and the people within the Federal Bureau of Narcotics itself. Since then, entire industries have grown up that benefit from marijuana prohibition.Taxation was not an issue. Hemp was grown throughout the country and taxed just like any other crop.Taxation was the means they used to create the law. At the time, everyone agreed that the US Government had no constitutional power to prohibit drugs. Therefore, they achieved prohibition by putting a tax on drugs, and then making the amount of the tax so much that no one would pay it. They also required a license, and then didn't issue any licenses. Therefore, when people got arrested, they didn't really get arrested for marijuana. They got arrested because they didn't pay the tax on marijuana and have the license. It was a "tax violation."Harry Anslinger, who was head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930-1962 knew from the very beginning that the marijuana laws were completely unenforceable. He knew because, shortly after the law was passed, he walked out on a bridge over the Potomac and saw before him a field of wild cannabis that stretched as far as the eye could see. Therefore, he reasoned that the only way to approach the prohibition was with a campaign of Reefer Madness. That is, he would tell such stupendous lies that no one would dare touch the stuff. For example, his own US Official Expert on marijuana testified in court, under oath, that marijuana would make your incisors grow six inches long and drip with blood. He went on to say that, when he tried it, it turned him into a bat. The lies have gotten a little less ridiculous since then, but the US Government still maintains an openly admitted policy of lying about drugs. You can find numerous histories by different authors and hundreds of original historical documents at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer... under Historical Research.

Is it true that a person's pupils will dilate when they see someone they are attracted to?

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I read about this somewhere, but I'm not sure how credible the source was.
Answer:
Yes, it's true, but none of the responses so far have really given the most accurate reason for it, so I'll elaborate. Pupillary dilation is called mydriasis and is mediated by the sympathetic component of the nervous system. The sympathetic output is elicited by anything that causes arousal -- fear, emotion, surprise, etc. So, seeing someone you're attracted to clearly fits in this category, and results in sympathetic activation, which causes mydriasis of the pupils.The sympathetic system is also responsible for the other physiological manifestations of attraction, such as increased heart rate, nervousness, increased respiratory rate, etc.

Someone or something, it's true.

I don't know because i never carry a mirror

Yes ,it is very true..heart beat is raised and breath ing is quickened..Kinda like the fright or flight thing.

Pupil dilation:To start off with pupil dilation can indicate liking, interest, attraction or鈥?. intense fear. (we鈥檒l leave out intense fear for another segment). Our pupils dilate and grow when we see someone we are attracted to. Why? Because our eyes enlarge to take more of this person in. This is an unconscious occurrence which we cannot physiologically control. The fun part about this is you are able to tell if someone is interested in you by observing their pupils 鈥?do they expand or contract? Contracting would not be good as it indicates intense dislike. Of course, you need to take the environment into account as well. If you are standing in the sun it may be difficult for the physiological response of pupil dilation to occur. On the flip side, if you are standing in a dark area, pupils will automatically contract, even if there is no liking involved. In addition, remember that some people will have larger or smaller pupils by nature. Dark restaurants induce romance because the dim lights encourage the larger pupils making people more attracted to one another.The fun part about this is that most people do not consciously understand pupil response so you are now one up on a great deal of the population. Studies done indicate as pupil size increases so does attractiveness. For example: models on magazine covers normally have their pupils doctored to give them larger pupils because advertisers know this sells more magazines. Likewise, if pupils appear smaller, it decreases the attractiveness.Interesting tidbit: During the middle ages, women often used a plant extract called Belladonna (Italian for "beautiful lady") To give themselves bigger pupils. They would put drops of the extract into their eyes in order to look more attractive to men - and it worked. The problem was Belladonna was poisonous so the women used Belladonna to look beautiful鈥?. and they did鈥?. and then they would die. Ok, so important points to keep in mind, dilation works in an "unconscious" fashion. Individuals with enlarged pupils are subconsciously seen as attractive, warm, friendly, conscientious people.

yes its true and whats more we are more attracted to people with dilated pupils saw a documentary.they took identical twins and put a solution into the eyes of one to make her pupils dilate.every one in a street survey then chose that girl but couldn't say why they did

yes. why don't you try it.

It is true, this is due to the sudden changes in body chemistry and blood circulation. For example: some people experience cold fingers and some people get a shaky hand. This is blood shifting to the parts of the body where it is required and this causes various effects in the body not just pupil dilation. Breasts expand and you produce more pheromones. etc.

Yes it is true. Psychological experiments have been conducted by touching (i.e. by drawing to make it appear bigger/dilated) a persons pupils alone and presenting the photos to people of the opposite sex. Consistently they had picked out those whose pupils had been touched to appear dilated as more attractive without knowing why. This is one of the subliminal responses that attracts you to people (sometimes of the same sex also).

its absolutely true. sexual arousal causes pupils to dilate.

yes not only that but anything that attracts them that is a function of the eyes

Yes, but it doesnt mean they are going to cheat on you.

Is it true or a myth?

2010-05-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

that food grade "poppy seeds" can cause a false positive for an illegal drug in a standard drug test?
Answer:
Yes, you can test positive for opiods after poppy seeds. I work in research and we used to work with cocane addicts. They were tested for drugs when they came in to do research. One day the researchers decided to test the poppy seed ingestion on themselves, and they tested positive after eating poppy seed muffins.

It's true...Mythbusters tested it on their show and proved that it does happen.

That's true...avoid them if you know you will be tested.

Yes.this is true. Do you ever watch Mythbusters TV show? On that show they tested this myth and proved it to be valid. I was pretty amazed, I didn't really think it worked, and you didn't have to eat a whole bunch to do it either!

Poppy seeds can definitely cause a false positive on a drug screen. It has to be poppy seeds from opium poppy plants. Both opiate and non-opiate poppy seeds are sold and used in cooking, but non-opiate seeds are more common. They get into your system quickly and stay for a couple of days.

It's false. Mythbusters ate a whole cup of poppy seeds and it turned out NEGATIVE. So it's harmless to eat a poppy seed muffin. Maybe a long time ago it happened, but today they raised the limit on the margin for error to reduce false positives.

Yes, they are called interferring substances.

Yes it can , it's has thesame chemicals as opium (drug the smoked in korea during the war- also in perks) , so it will test posotive and also police dogs can smell poppy seeds as if it were opium..

there have been cases where poppy seed kolaches (we laughed at how specific they got) did cause false positives in drug tests for morphine/heroin. although if/when they reflex to tlc it should come out normal.

Is it true Kentucky selle ephedra still? I was told you had to sign for it, is it true??

2010-05-23T21:07:00.000-07:00

Answer:
its still OTC but can only be sold by certifed pharmacy technicians (other other medical professionals higher up the medical ladder)

Well just get u a 25lb. bag of red dot chicken feed and soak it in water in tub with heat lamp in place 4 3 days %26 sign 4 no thing.OK?

Is it true if a heart pacemaker is incinerated or burned in a fire, it will produce a nuclear explosion?

2009-11-07T06:48:00.001-08:00

...an explosion powerful enough to level a city block? A friend of mine told this to me and I find it difficult to believe.
Answer:
no, you have to be joking. Or have an extremely low IQ. First off if it was that unstable it would not go in someones body.

Nope. That type of fuel could not undergo such a dramatic reaction.

Your friend is not very bright. Simply put, the answer is "no".

It's true.

I don't even know how they work, but no it is not possible, for one they would have to be nuclear powered (which there not) and for two a fire will not set off a nuclear reaction.

I'm glad you were skeptical, because that is completely bogus. A pacemaker is nothing more than a battery and a computer chip. It's about as dangerous as a wristwatch.

Absolutely not. To have a nuclear explosion you need a critical mass of a radioactive material. Somewhere around 20 Kilograms. An entrie pacemaker does not even weight a pound.

Your friend is wrong...Very wrong.Pacemakers contain no nuclear isotopes and even if they did there would be no possibility whatsoever of a fission reaction.Pacemakers have used Lithium Iodine batteries for the past several years, before that I believe they used zinc-cadmium or something similar.No radioactive materials involved at all.

Aaaah. That would be a "no."

No, not a nuclear explosion! But I do know that if a body with a pacemaker is cremated, it will have some explosion. A funeral director told me that he forgot to remove one once and it ruined the cremation unit. He had to but the crematory a new one!

i'd say there would be an explosion but not a nuclear one. the explosion is due to the battery used in the pacemaker (Li-I) or (Cd-Zn) these batteries produce enormous amount of heat due to exothermic reactions triggered by the heat from the fire so they explode.

That's how the terrorists plan to attack us next. They're using funeral homes as fronts. Not much security there. Just taking suicide bombing to the next logical level - suicide corpses.

Is your leg longer? Your buddy's been pulling it. One of the major hurdles the Manhattan project members had to solve was the method of "crushing" the uranium core to obtain critical mass in exactly the right way. The soccer-ball shape of the conventional charge and the wiring to get each segment to ignite simulataneously was a stroke of genius. It's very difficult to obtain this condition, and pacemakers tend not to be chock-full of explosives.

The answer is NO. But I can add a little trivia to this discussion. Many years ago, say in the early seventies battery technology is not what it is today. Pacers back then basically used mercury batteries so the search was on to find a longer lasting battery. Medtronic used a nuclear pile battery that they claimed was good for 20 years. I am not making this up, I actually saw one during a tour of the medtronic plant here in MN and saw one. There was a catch, the patient had to sign papers stating that the pacer would be removed from the patient prior to burial. You cannot bury a nuclear battery.

nononononononononononono!!...

is it true black people have an extra muscle in there legs?

2009-11-07T06:48:00.000-08:00

I always heard in school that black people have an extra muscle in there legs, thats why they can jump so high and run really fast..I dont believe this tho but what ever...
Answer:
I have heard that also. So finally went to ask jeevesNo they don't have an extra leg muscle but are more athletically inclined than caucausians.Here is part of the article ... the rest may be found at the link I have in "source".
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White men can't jump. Asian men can't either. But according to Jon Entine's new book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It, Black men - and women - sure can. The usual reason given for Black athletic success is that Blacks have little chance to get ahead elsewhere. But Entine's new book shows that in sports, Blacks have a genetic edge.The physical facts Entine reviews are quite well known. Compared to Whites, Blacks have narrower hips which gives them a more efficient stride. They have a shorter sitting height which provides a higher center of gravity and a better balance. They have wider shoulders, less body fat, and more muscle. Their muscles include more fast twitch muscles which produce power. Blacks have from 3 to 19% more of the sex hormone testosterone than Whites or East Asians. The testosterone translates into more explosive energy.Entine points out that these physical advantages give Blacks the edge in sports like boxing, basketball, football, and sprinting. However, some of theserace differences pose a problem for Black swimmers. Heavier skeletons and smaller chest cavities limit their performance.VERY INTERESTING

no, black or white people have the same number of muscles in their body

yes it is true

NO!

Is It True ,That The Stonger You Are In Your Arm muscle , the less it would hurt when you get you blood taken?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.003-08:00

Answer:
It's not true. Everyone has a different threshold of pain. To some it's nothing. To others it may be excruciating. It also depends on the skill of the person inserting the needle.

If you think it hurts to get blood drawn you are probably a wussy

Not neccesarilly (i cant spell lol)

It doens't hurt to get blood taken.

Giving blood doesn't hurt, not finding a vein is what hurts. So The more you are pumped up with muscle the easier it is to find a vein

The pain has nothing to do with how strong your arm is.It depends how swift and accurate that the blood taker is

If the phlebotomist drawing your blood is good and your veins are not tiny it shouldnt hurt whether you have muscles or not

While it may be true that having the underlying layer of muscle makes the vein closer to the surface and eaier to access, I would not say that muscle content actually affects the level of pain associated with venipuncture. The skill level of the phlebotomist is important as well as the reaction of the patient. If you are nervous and jittery, any pain you feel could be amplified under the stress and make the experience worse. And don't forget to eat before having your blood drawn, unless instructed to fast by your doctor. having low blood glucose levels and getting upset are not a good combination, especially when a needle is involved. Also, each individual has his own level of pain tolerance.

i believe it is the opposite because the more muscle you have the more pressure their will be.

My sister draws blood for a living and its not the size of you muscle that will make it hurt i depends on the size of your vein the experience that the phlebotomist has and also how nervous you are because when your nervous all the blood rushes to you heart and organs which takes blood away from your arm or where ever your getting poked and the less blood there is where its being drawn the harder it is to get the blood and the more painfull it is.

there is no temporal relation between muscles and pain. But if you've lots of muscle, you could not have gotten it without a lot of pain... So I guess it works that way... you'll be able to bear it easier.Also if you're muscular and not laden with fat... it's very easy to find a vein. So it's easier to draw blood. Sometimes Doctors/ para medics are forced to prick more than once in obese / non muscular people.

The more you work out the better you veins are, so it is easier to give blood...

Is it serious if your excrement is a strange color and smells absolutely awful?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.002-08:00

It has been this way for a month. My diet is normal. Please help.
Answer:
Strange coloration with very foul-smelling stool sounds very much like classic steatorrhea, which is basically non-absorption of fat in the small intestine. The reason for steatorrhea varies, but may is commonly due to enzymatic deficiencies, malabsorption disorders, or dietary imbalances, but may have many other causes as well. You should see your doctor to determine the cause, so that you can both come up with a plan to prevent it.

it could be due to the medication you're using, or may be you're not having enough water

Yes it is serious. Very serious.
Check with your doc.

blood in your stomach will pass thru as melena- which is commonly seen as dark tarry stools. if that is what you're seeing, then you need to get evaluated by a GI doctor to find the source of your bleeding.

Is it safe, and would it work if i too 3 tabs of 50mg to make up for 150mg?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.001-08:00

I have been prescribed fluconazole from docs each tab is 50mg and i have to take 2 tabs one a week for 7 weeks. I read the leaflet and it says usually the dose given is one 150mg only. Would it work if i took 3 tabs of the 50mg?
Answer:
More than likely not. Your doctor has prescribed long-term therapy for a reason. The 150mg one-time dose is for vaginal candidiasis ONLY! Taking fluconazole for a shorter period than prescribed may lead to recurrence of active infection.

Fluconazole dosing all depends on the type of infection and its location in your body. The daily dose of fluconazole for the treatment of infections other than vaginal candidiasis should be based on the infecting organism and the patient's response to therapy. Treatment should be continued until clinical parameters or laboratory tests indicate that active fungal infection has subsided. Patients with AIDS and cryptococcal meningitis or recurrent oropharyngeal candidiasis usually require maintenance therapy to prevent relapse.Again, do not change your regimen without talking to your doctor first. Fungal infections are sometimes difficult to treat. Follow your doctor's advice. You may save yourself a lot of time, money and needless suffering.I hope this helps. Be well.Rick the Pharmacist

you should take it the way your dr. wants you to take it. as some medicines shouldnt be split up. call your md and find out.

no you take it as prescribed by your doctor for your use

it should work in that you will receive the appropriate amount of medicine into your system.. the only thing i am not sure about is whether it is going to be properly deliveredsome medicines are timed-released.. they have components in them that slow down the absorption rate of the pill causing the medicine to slowly be delivered to you throughout the day or set time periodid call your doctor just to be sure, although i imagine it would be fine

It doesn't matter what the dosage normally taken is. You should only take how much has been prescribed by your Dr... they prescribed that amount to you for a reason... just stick to what's on the label.

Nope..use it as your doctor directs. More than likely, he has a reason for the dose. Even if the "usual" dose is 150mg, that doesn't mean you are taking it for that condition it is "usually" prescribed for. If you have questions, contact your MD or his/her nurse.

It will work fine to treat your yeast vaginitis but not for your nail infection. You spent money to get the opinion of an expert and now you've decided you know better? Here's a thought: doctors are among the smartest people and have extensive training, yet they go to another doctor when they're ill.

Of course it would work, but that is not what you were prescribed. Don't be your own doctor.

Since its a antimicrobial drug their should not be any problem as such, and then the tablet would not contain any other substance as well, and hence it would work out, but then it is always better to go by the way the doctor suggests. for u may not be aware of other facts that go with it.. and the various theories that are related to the dosage preperation..

is it safe to use losartan & metoprolol at same time?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.000-08:00

i have very high blood pressure
Answer:
That's a pretty safe combination. Losartan is an ARB, which has fewer side-effects than ACE-inhibitors, while metoprolol is a cardioselective beta1 blocker, presumably to prevent reactive increases in heart rate. As long as your kidneys are in good shape, you should be ok.

Yes. Losartan reduces the ability of the blood vessels in your body to constrict, which means your heart doesn't have to pump so hard to get blood around the body. Metoprolol stops the heart beating too hard and too fast.

That's a pretty routine combination, especially in people who've had a recent heart attack and/or people with both hypertension and diabetes. But it's also not a bad combo for hypertension alone if single-drug therapy isn't adequate.

is it safe to use a product for the skin that contains ethyl alcohol and methyl salicylate?

2009-11-07T06:46:00.001-08:00

what are the possible toxic substances would be produced when we react methyl salicyalte and ethanol? are there any restrictions in the quantity in the formulation when using both of these compounds?
Answer:
Perfectly safe. Methyl salicylate is oil of wintergreen. Ethanol is just concentrated booze. Mixing the two will not cause a reaction unless there is a strong base present (sodium hydroxide, for example). A strong base will release methanol.

Both are irritants. Ethyl alcohol sterilises the local area of skin. Alcohol sponging is better than water sponging during high fevers as alcohol evaporates rapidly and reduces fever faster.Alcohol applied to certain areas like genitals specially in children is painful.
Methyl salicylate is used in almost all pain balms.

Is it safe to take vicodin when you are on ketoconazole?

2009-11-07T06:46:00.000-08:00

Answer:
you should consult with your doctor or pharmocyst

Well, I was watching House, M.D. the other night and they said...... ASK YOUR DOCTOR MEDICAL QUESTIONS, not a bunch of net people.

Both medicines are stressful on your liver. You also risk interfering with the way the ketoconazole works. You should avoid taking them together if possible.

Yes, you can take vicodin and ketoconazole together, but this combination would warrant you to monitor this drug therapy. Ketoconazole is a an inhibitor of the liver enzyme that breaks down vicodin, while vicodin is an inducer for this liver enzyme. If both of these medications are taken at once, you might not have enough of this liver enzyme to metabolize or break down the vicodin, which could diminish the proper therapeutic effect for your pain management (this would cause vicodin to stay in your system longer than wanted, allowing it to build up and possibly lead to toxic effects). While taking this combo, you need to watch for any symptoms of toxicity such as excess sleepiness, low blood pressure, slowed heart rate, slowed breathing, and excessive nausea or vomiting. I would check with your doctor first before taking this combination and make sure that you have a healthcare professional monitoring your therapy with these two medications. Another side note: make sure you are NOT drinking alcohol while taking these two drugs as it can lead to a lot of nasty side effects (excessive drowsiness, nausea, and vomiting). Best of luck!

yes it's safe

Is it safe to take tylenol if your on prozac?

2009-11-07T06:45:00.001-08:00

Answer:
Tylenol (acetaminophen) interacts with very few other drugs, except for beverage alcohol (liver damage). You can take it safely along with Prozac (fluoxetine).I hope this helps, be well.Rick the Pharmacist

Talk to a pharmacist, or your doctor before doinbg so.

i've took prozac b4 and i would take headache powders and tylenol and i took prozac about 3yrs

Yes, but in the recommended doses. If you think you may have taken too much or are consdiering it, contact the your local Emergency Room or Poison Control immediately.

is it safe to take phentermine with prozac?

2009-11-07T06:45:00.000-08:00

Answer:
Is it safe to take phentermine with Prozac?According to drugs.com drug interaction software - NOfluoxetine and phentermine (major Drug-Drug) GENERALLY AVOID:Several case reports suggest that patients treated with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) may exhibit an increased sensitivity to sympathomimetic agents. The mechanism of interaction is unclear. The reaction has been reported when fluoxetine was used concomitantly with phentermine, amphetamine, or phenylpropanolamine. Additionally, some sympathomimetic agents (e.g., amphetamines) may possess serotonergic activity and should generally not be administered with SRIs because of the additive risk of serotonin syndrome, which is a rare but serious and potentially fatal condition thought to result from hyperstimulation of brainstem 5-HT1A receptors.Despite so-called "anecdotal reports" of others speaking here without legal authority, I would not recommend the two together for a couple of reasons: one, the rare, but potential drug interaction; two, the reason you're taking Prozac should be way more important in stablizing than losing weight. Get a grip on the underlying reason for taking an antidepressant - THEN take care of any weight issue. Not that losing weight isn't important for long-term health, but mental health issues trump losing weight in the big scheme of things.I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

never good to mix drugs

Yes, it is. Actually prozac enhances the phentermine. I have always taken the two together. When your body seems to have become immune to the phentermine, start taking prozac once daily with it. It will kick start it again. But as always please consult with your physician.

it is best to speak to your Physisician

is it safe to take NyQuil while on antibiotics?

2009-11-07T06:44:00.000-08:00

I am taking Penicillin VK prescribed by my dentist because of root canal therapy, but I am not feeling too well. Is it safe to take NyQuil?
Answer:
yes you can. There is no drug interaction. Just stay away from acetaminophen if you are taking nyquil (nyquil already has that in it.) Acetaminophen is in pain pills, tylenol, etc.

You can call a pharmacist and they can tell you.
Or your local hospital or clinic.
Hope you feel better.

Read the back of the NyQuil bottle and see if it says anything. If not, then ask your Doctor. I think it should be though since it's OTC.

Yes; NyQuil should not have any negative interactions with Penicillin VK.

I would say that you can take it, but I would still recommend that you ask a pharmacist.

heck yah

Other than the basic fact that Nyquil is useless, there's little reason to worry. Drug interactions are quite unlikely.

Is it safe to take ibuprofen and parecetemol together?

2009-11-07T06:43:00.001-08:00

I had a doctor tell me that i should take ibuprofen and parecetemol together for my really bad back pain once but is it safe?
Answer:
yes perfectly and they wont make you drowsy either so you can do what you want

Only under medical supervision - and for heavens sake do not try to drive a motor vehicle.

i've taken them b4 with no probs. just dont o.d! if ur worried take parecetamol, then wait an hou b4 takin ibuprofen!! u could always get the number 4 nhs direct and ask their advice!

yes it is

yeah, no problem, double the doses to be sure.

yes..ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory

yes, no worries :-)

yes it is as Ibroprufen doesn't contain paracetemol, although I would try the Ibroprufen first and only take the paracetemol if you are still in pain.

Certainly yes. If you have very bad pain it is safer to take 2 different pain killers together than to double the dose of one.
Happy Christmas.

it is dangerous.

I'm surprised your doctor advise this as I do not believe it to be safe to take these 2 ingredients together.

Totally safe as they are 2 seperate drugs. This is the combination of pain killers suggested by most doctors/nurses/ hospitals. Just make sure you leave a 4 hour gap between parcetamol doses, and a 6-8 hour gap between ibuprofen doses. You can take both tablets together, just leave the gaps inbetween.

If you were told this by a doc then it should be ok. Dont take more than recommended dose. this is 8 paracetamol in 24 hrs max. If you are at all unsure phone NHS 24 for advice.

well, it's better to alternate between the two i.e. take ibuprofen, next hour take paracetamol, next hour ibuprofen again etc. instead of taking them at the same time, it's just a bit easier on your kidneys and liver which has to process them all. Plus drink lots of water.

Yes it is in moderation.!

Yes you will be fine to do this. Paracetamol is a pain killer that blocks the pain signals sent by the nerves at the source of the problem e.g in your back. Ibuprofen is an anti-inflamitory (to stop any swelling/inflamation) as well as a pain killer that blocks signals at the receptor part of the brain that deals with feeling pain. They are perfectly safe to take together. Remember to always follow the dosage on the instructions given with the tablets though.

Yes, they're from different drug 'families'. I recommend it all the time.

Yes you can. Leave at least 15minutes gap between paracetamol and ibuprofen, so the effects are better. The reason why they can be taken together is because they work in different ways without affecting one-another but helping each other!! i.e. One is for inflammation (which consequently would help with the pain) the other one is for pain. Good luck and remember to be careful, don't over do it, stick to the dose your doctor has given you.

Please Don't Try.

Yes and no, actually I just took a Vicodin ES (Dunno what it is sold as in the UK, but 7.5 mg Hdrocodone and 750mg parecetemol) and 2 Ibuprofen, And a lot of the time I'll take just paracetemol and Ibuprofen. I have some torn muscles in my neck and with the weather change here kills me at times. Both the medications work differently, and I think paracetemol has a better pain killing advantage, but Ibuprofen is a lot better anti-inflamatory. The mix was also recommended to me by my doctor, but with warnings..As far as getting drowsy, depends on the person, I've seem people go to sleep on one single Ibuprofen, and here I am on both plus a strong narcotic, and I don't use it much (maybe once or twice a month, so no real tolerance, yet still running around and writing stuff.Also, take into account how strong your stomach is, because both medications can just rip it apart in some people, even causing ulcers with continued use. (Which is why they say not to mix them).Definitely avoid long term use, both medications can cause liver damage, and the more you mix them the more you can cause stomach damage.Anyways, you will be fine, no overdosing (unless your mixing the max 5,000mg of Ibuprofen with the max dose of parecetemol).

I've struggled with back pain for years, and the solution for me is Botox injections. I'm heavily built, with dense muscle-mass, and bending causes my muscles to stiffen and harden, pulling the vertebrae out of alignment, and pressurising the spinal nerve. Nice. Botox injections, on the NHS, into my lower back, stop the muscles tightening. The effect is up to strength in a couple of days, and lasts for a few months. Instead of a knackered 40-year old construction worker, with all the hang-over of hard sports training and injuries, I feel 20! Ask your local hospital if they have a pain clinic, and a consultant there who administers Botox.
Or continue living in pain, killing your liver with pain-killers. And get yourself a good physio.Good luck.

Yes, it is, as long as you check the ibuprofen isn't already combined with paracetamol. Always read the packet carefully.You can phone any pharmacist and they will always advise you.
I believe there is an on- line pharmacist, where you can get all the information you want twenty hours a day.I hope the back pain goes and you will soon feel more comfortable!

Regards, Cassandra

it is safe. may countries have the drugs together in combination as a tablet. For an average caucasian adult, all other conditions remaining normal like sensitivity pattern, a safe dose (body wt 50 kg) would be para 500 mgs thrice daily with brufen 400 mgs twice daily. However, some persons develop reactions to drugs, kidney failure, stomach pain, even with a minor dose. the express supervision of your physician is recommended at all times to look for and prevent rarer complications like blood dyscrasias.
NOTE - If you are looking to the web to check if your physician has the desired knowledge, i would be right in saying you consider most of the medical board not intelligent.

yes

For most, the combination is safe as the two individually, and compared to other common combinations (paracetamol and codeine, for instance) is underappreciated.

That is like taking the same medicine twice. Take one or the other. Ibuprofen can go to 800 mg by Rx.

Sure thing.
In fact they give the same to children in association

Yes, its safe to take but not daily. Ibuprofen is a anti inflammatory and given in joint and muscle pain. whereas, paracetamol is mainly a analgesic which is for lowering raised body temperature. When there is severe pain combination is given for quick action and potentiality of the individual action. both, the drugs has potentiality action. But, they cause peptic ulcer when taken for long time. it must not be used continuously also plenty of water should be taken.

very.

Read the packets and despair !!

Yes, it is absolutely safe.Ibuprofen is in the NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) class of drug. It works on the body in a completely different way from...Paracetamol, (acetominophen) is a mild pain and fever reliever, but it has NO anti-inflammatory properties. No one knows why or how it works on the body. Personally, I avoid the stuff whenever possible.Both drugs can have problematic side-effects. NSAIDs, like aspirin, can irritate the stomach-lining, to the point of ulceration. Take with food or milk.Acetaminophen accumulates in the liver, and can become toxic. NEVER take more than the recommended dose, and be very careful not to take with other drugs which contain acetaminophen. For example, do NOT take a product like Lemsip (Thera-Flu, in the USA), and additional acetaminophen (Tylenol, in USA). Take an NSAID instead.NSAIDs also have prostaglandin-inhibitors. Prostaglandins are a large part of menstrual cramping, and NSAIDs WORK for period pain. Acetaminophen makes no diff at all, but builds up in your liver.It is unwise to operate machinery or drive while on medications, or while in pain. Have a nice lie-down, instead.

Is it safe to take Hydrocodone 10mg with Adderall 10mg?

2009-11-07T06:43:00.000-08:00

I take adderall daily (10mg) and had my wisdom teeth out a week ago which I am still in a lot of pain from. I havent taken my adderall in fear of mixing it, but I began taking it again today. I am in excruciating pain and desperately need to take one of my hydrocodone pills (10mg). Is it okay to take the hydrocodone with the adderall? It doesnt say not to on the drug facts under what not to mix.. but I just want to be sure its safe. Thank you!
Answer:
No problems, I think that they would be fine together.In the rare instance that Adderall makes you sleepy, the hydrocodone can increase that effect.If the hydrocodone is in combination with APAP or acetaminophen (as in vicodin or lortab,...) don't take tylenol, which is the same thing, with it though unless you ask the dentist who prescribed it.

Call your pharmacy, or any pharmacy for that matter. Any competent pharmacist should be able to answer your question.

Is it safe to take advil liquigels 2 hours after taking mucinex?

2009-11-07T06:42:00.000-08:00

Is it safe to take the advil with mucinex
Answer:
It's fine. They don't interact.
Advil is a non-steroidal analgesic:For pain, inflammation, fever
Can cause gastritis, ulcers, renal insufficiency. But, it's pretty safeMucinex is a mucolytic. It's suppose to help break up mucous in the lungs so you can cough that junk up and out. The two are not related. They are often given together.

Advil and musinex don't interact.

Is it safe to take a sauna/steam bath?

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Is it safe to take a sauna/steam bath?
They say that going to sauna or steam can lower your blood pressure. Is it true? Currently my bloodpressure has increased to 130/80. It used to be 120/80
Answer:
130/80 is still normal, but depending on your age. If you are 30+ years of age, that would be alright. If you are below 30, you a high blood but not hypertensive yet. Going to sauna is still tolerable and could lower your blood pressure. But if you are hypertensive, that is 140/90 and up, then it can add more pressure and shoot up to hypertensive level which would eventually end up in stroke. For more info on the benefits of sauna, click at http://www.valuesaunasusa.com/page7.shtm...

Yes it is for most people but I think that you may not be suited for this. Your body probably do not react well to high temperature. Could it be possible that you are doing it too frequently or at a very long period?Try to cut down on it a little until your body becomes used too it. This happened to my blood pressure too. But after a few more times, it is now ok.I hope this helps.:)

Steam bathing contributes to a brighter, healthier outlook, increased blood circulation, metabolism and provides a haven from mental and physical stress. Steamist steam baths will enhance the quality of life for both you and your family each and every day.

is it safe to mix xannex and viagra?

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I was wondering i have a script for xannex and i want to take a viagra just to see how it works is this safe?Also my takes adderall is it safe for her to take half of it?
Answer:
Your question makes me wonder if your doctor has prescribed the Viagra, it sounds as if you're taking it on your own - which is not advisable. Viagra is for men with documented erection problems, it is not a sex performance enhancer (although many people think it is). I caution using Viagra unless your doctor has prescribed it. The most serious potential drug interaction with Viagra occurs with prescription nitrates used for heart disease. Viagra has been used safely with benzodiazepines such as Xanax (alprazolam).I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

Xanax is for anxiety and has a component to relax the muscles. Viagra is for erectile dysfunction, are you saying you are nervous about having sex? Maybe slacking off the xanax would help you perform better sexually. Viagra is for men, if your girlfriend needs something, let her ask her doctor or try some of the over the counter drugs at the drugstore. There is a new oil out by KY that has a warming agent in it, feels silky. This is a question you should have asked your doctor though.

Is it safe to mix Nurofen and Sudafed?

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I'm off out tonight. Now i'm not feeling tip top thanks to the coldy, fluey thing going round at the moment (no not bird flu).Anyway I was just wondering if its safe to mix Nurofen: Cold and Flu with Sudafed.Sudafed is paracetamol based, where as Nurofen is Ibruprofen based. On the Nurofen packaging it doesn't say anything about not taking with paracetamol. BUT in this situation its better to be safe than sorry.Anyone know for sure.
Answer:
If you are an adult yes. This website has the answer on from a source you can trust

i don't think its safe to mix any medicine unless the doctor said its ok to take one then another at the same time

yes it is safe and i've done it many times, as you state nurofen does not have paracetomol in it.
warm some lemonade, honey and whiskey up and drink before bedtime, this will also help your fluey feeling.

WHY ARE YOU ASKING THE LUNATICS ON HERE ABOUT A MEDICAL QUESTION.RING NHS DIRECT

Should be fine just make sure there are no drugs that are the same I take paracetamol and ibuprofen together a few times its not a problem been told to by the doctor before. Just don't do it all the time or you can have stomach problems

It should be safe - but you would be better off phoning nhs helpline or checking with a pharmasict, your local tesco will probably have one on hand until about8pm, give them a call and double check - i have been told when adminstating a paracetamol based drug and an ibruprofen drug, to take them 2 hours apart - this means the one will be most effective, while the other one is trailing off - hope your night out is worth it!

You can mix them as long as they don't both contain the same ingredients. I take anti-inflammatory tablets and painkillers every day for back pain and I mix tablets for the best effectiveness. For example I can take paracetamol with dihydrocodeine and diclofenac (the anti-inflammatory). If they have different ingredients they should be OK to mix.
Have a good night out.

Is it safe to label IV tubing with a permanent marker for the date and time?

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If not, what is the best practice for a system-wide approach to label iv tubing?
Answer:
I have not seen this system of labeling Intravenous tubing.
Try using a paper tape and the permanent marker will stay and that tape is very difficult to remove.
The chart will have the date that the tube was placed. Any changes will be documented. If you are not sure that the change was completed, ask the charge nurse for information...

Yes. The plastic the tubing is made of will not let the marker pass through.HOWEVER, I still would use a bit of tape wrapped around the tube to write on, one where you've got a tab of tape sticking out. That tubing is so much harder to write on than a tab of tape...

Most places have Tubing stickers. If the tubing does not have one, it is just good pratice to throw it out and start fresh, with a sticker.

Is it safe to have the same surgery twice?

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I had a breast reduction about 4 years ago. Is it safe to have the same surgery again?
Answer:
Yes. If the incision is made in the same place as the first incision there may be additional scar tissue to cut through. It's generally a good idea to avoid going under general anesthesia multiple times since each time it becomes riskier, but people have repeat surgeries all the time. ie C-section, knee replacements, etc.

Probably. The surgery is not ordinarily dangerous. But it is painful, as you know by now, so think twice about it.

yes,it's safegood luck

Yes, that surgery can be done again if you need it. You might also benefit from a mastopexy (breast lift), which can be done at the same time.

Breast Reduction surgery has become very common now. My cousin got her breast reduction, tummy tuck and facelift surgery in India by the company called Forerunners Healthcare .The Price for the surgery she paid in India was very less. She paid 30% of the cost she was quoted in America.Forerunners Healthcare is very famous in India. They arrange cosmetic and plastic surgery for foreigners in India. I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and about their patient stories. They arrange financing for USA, Canadian, UK and other international patients who plan to have surgery abroad for low price, as the breast reduction, tummy tuck, facelift and other cosmetic surgery is not covered by insurance. They also have photos pasted of their International patients. You can checkout their website. There are huge cost savings. As a doctor I personally believe that surgery can be easily handled in India, as the quality of healthcare available In India is simply best in the world. The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.Many patients travel from United States of America and UK to get low cost surgery in India. Indian corporate hospitals are comparable to hospitals anywhere in the world. In fact, India has medical facilities that are comparable with the USA, UK and Canada. India offers World Class Medical Facilities, comparable with any of the western countries. India has state of the art Hospitals and the best medical experts. With the best infrastructure, the best possible Medical facilities, accompanied with the most competitive prices, you can get the treatment done in India at the lowest prices.http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com...
Hope this helps.

is it safe to get rid of reactive oxygen species?

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is getting rid of your reactive oxygen species safe?
Answer:
Reactive oxygen species have been implicated in molecular DNA damage that contributes to aging, and is the basis for the success of anti-oxidant containing products in recent years. However, it is also used by white blood cells and macrophages in the body to fight bacteria and parasites, which is obviously a good thing to have, so it really wouldn't be a good idea to totally eliminate them from the body.

That's not possible, so it's not really an issue of safety. If you could theoretically do that, then it might be beneficial because reactive oxygen species contribute significantly to the aging process (at least according to some theories). I don't think anyone can really know if it would be safe or not though.

Reactive oxygen species or free radicals have to be ridden off our body. We do it every day naturally since we have antioxidants too in our body. This is a present topic in research that is gaining a lot of importance.

Is it safe to drink acohol while being under the two inhalers advair and xophenex?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.002-08:00

Please respond
Answer:
Be very careful about Advair...I stopped using it after my doctor advised me that recent studies had shown people using it were at greater risk of dying from...get this... severe asthma attacks. Apparently, Advair usually works great, but can cause a bad attack to be really, really bad. Ask your doctor.

No.

i wouldn't do it.

ask your doctor.

not safe to drink alchohal at all bra, expecially doin that ish, man you gonna have a heart attack or get really stooked.

Yes, sure. And when you do it, say hi to St Peter from me.

Is it safe to double up on a dose of 1 mg Melatonin if the initial dose didn't help me fall asleep?

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I've been taking it for a few months, but lately the one pill (1mg) doesn't seem to be effective. I'm thinking it would be okay, but wanted to get a few other opinions.
Answer:
I think that since they come in higher doses than that you will be safe to take more than one but I would do it slowly like try 2 out for a month or so and then go up as needed but if you are having trouble sleeping ALL the time you might want to consider talking to a dr about that you could have other health issues that are effecting your brains ability to drift off to sleep. Just as a precaution is all I take otc sleeping pills occasionally when I need to. I work third shift so sometimes its hard to sleep when I get home afterthat sunlight gets in your brain sometimes I can't sleep all day. I feel your pain in that area and wish you well and good health!!

Read the label. Checg the amount ,it comes in microgms too .I have up to 6 mgs .no problem.

It should be fine. But, if you are taking any MAOI's this could be very dangerous. **Speak to your PCP if you are taking any other drugs with Melatonin**

is it safe to do heavy excersise while taking antibiotics.?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.000-08:00

is there any problems if i do weight training during course of antibiotics. or after taking injection. I forgot to ask my doc.
Answer:
You can exercise all you want, have fun at it! Just don't drink any alcohol while taking antibiotics.Good Luck.

as long as you are feeling well enough to workout then is should be fine.

call the docters office and they can tall you over the phone i bet

no harm in that do take care if it is related to heart or respiratory conditions.

Should be fine... although you should remember that you are ill enough to require antibiotics, so your body isn't healing as quickly as when you are well. Excercise is fine... just don't over do it.

Depends on what you're taking them for and how badly these ones are effecting your coordination, especially as you're lifting weights. Also worth keeping mind if you are taking them for the flue or a chest infection that your heart rate is quite probably already high. If in doubt just call the doc they can tell in about 5 seconds.

If you are on ABX then you have an infection. If you have an infection then, depending on the organism and the site of infection, you may be infectious. Usually there is no prohibition against exercise with ABX, just don't go to a gym where you could spread the infection to others. Wait until the infection is cured.

Is it rue that, for a drug to be addictive, it must be either injected or sniffed, because other than that?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.003-08:00

It doesn't enter the bloodstream fast enough?
Answer:
Besides smoking (marijuana, crack, cigarettes), addictive drugs can also be drunk (alcohol for example) or absorbed (nicotene patches for example) or just held in the mouth (chewing tobacco, snuff). Actually, substances can be absorbed into the bloodstream quite quickly beneath the tongue.

or smoked? and no it isnt true

This is false.These days heroin can be made pure enough to smoke, cocaine can be smoked, and crystal meth can be smoked, all of which are highly addictive.

Stuff gets into your bloodstream very quickly through your lungs. I've taken a hit of Salvia before and been high before I even pulled the bong from my lips. Also, crack is addictive and it's usually smoked. If a drug is known to be addictive, then changing how you use it isn't going to effect that.

No. Some drugs are addictive in pill form, such as oxycontin.

Absolutely not true.
Take for example tranquillisers, like sleeping tablets. You swallow them and they are addictive like hell.

There are also plenty of drugs in pill form that are addictive. Sleepy times, pain killers, and don't worries, are a few that fall into that class.

No. Many drugs in pill form are addictive, which is why you cant just walk into a drugstore and buy them. Also tobacco, which is usually smoked but can be addictive in it's "smokeless" forms.

All it takes for any 'drug' to be 'addictive' is the 'chance' that a person will need to take 'more and more' of that drug to get the same effect as the 'original dosage' gave. I am on prescription Vicodin for 'pain' ... and if I was 'addicted to it' I would be taking 'forty or fifty' pills a day, to 'completely relieve' the pain in my back and hips. I've had the same 'scrip' for almost three years now, and still take 'less than three pills a day' ... so I am 'not addicted' but the drug I take is still 'addicting' ... and I 'swallow it' ... so 'injection and sniffing' are 'contributors to' addiction happening, but the 'drug' does not 'have to be' injected or sniffed to become an 'addiction.'

Consider the nicotine patch--this is neither inhaled or injected--it is absorbed through the skin. And nicotine is considered to be more addictive than cocaine.

Some addicts like the rush, but no. The large majority of addicts prefer their drugs by mouth.

Of course not. The best examples are:
marijuana - smoked, eaten
tobacco - smoked, chewed
alcohol - drunk
caffeine - drunk

Is it right for the U.S. to be offering fast track Visas to doctors, especially Cubian Doctors, who are?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.002-08:00

willing to abandon their work with the poor in many countries, and come here to make good money?
Answer:
If doctors are needed here then yes. It's up to those doctors whether they want to stay where they're from, you shouldn't feel bad because they chose to come here instead of stay where they were.

C-U-B-A-N.
They're probably more educated than you my friend...

I'll leave the "right or wrong" of this one to those with up or down votes to cast on the subjectSimple comment here-- the "inside reason" that this is being done is simply because the Feds are into a concerted and very much ongoing activation of---flooding the country with illegals from Mexico as we speak and they want "service personnel" to deal with them so that they are not bogging the services sector of the "elites" down with their maintainance !Anyone who does not know that this is going on needs to tune in and listen up--- just two weeks ago the Federal government and the State of Texas gave carte blanche to over 100 Mexican trucking companies to access the borders without the "inconvienience" of border checks ! They now have a rock solid GO card that allows them total access to the country without question one ! Now what cargo do YOU think these trucks will be carrying ! All this at a time when they are pumping this SECURITY thing down OUR throats that have US standing in two hour lines with body searches to LEAVE the country on a plane ! With these doctors they are letting in--- at least they will not be sucking down the social security system like this flood of illegals coming in will be doing---- they are actually passing legislation in Congress that is going to be allowing THESE people to draw from the system that they have never paid into at the major expense of all who have !
THIS SHOULD BE A WAKE UP CALL PEOPLE !!!!!

It is not right for Cuban doctors to be here, and leaving their country just to earn more money. For the lady who said Cubans are more educated then American doctors I am guessing you are not a doctor. Medical School is very rigorous and intense it puts a lot of stress on you. Medical schools teach you so much, and most doctors like myself read books on new medicines almost daily. We keep up on our medical skills. Back to the Cuban question. If we can't trade with Cubans why should we let them come her to be our doctors. It is extremely wrong.

is it right? no. they should be helping people in cuba but not because they are cubans, but simply because they can. doctors from the US should go and help those in poor countries who are dying of easily curable conditions. I dont understand why some in the US think that US citizens are worthy of much more than anyone from anywhere else.

Is it right? I don't think so,not when our Government has made it so expensive, that deserving U.S. students cannot afford the costs of a medical education without a staggering debt load,when their finally ready to practice. Why does this country subsidize foreign students,and not our own? There have been cases when our own students haven't been able to get in school,even though qualified,because class spaces were not available due to foreign students occupying those spots.

is it really possible to gain a longer/bigger penis after the age of 30?

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Answer:
No. There is no device, no pill, no lotion, no cream and no exerices that will add inches to your member.There is an operation, but it is questionable at best

%26gt;Oh, how I wish it were so.%26lt;

no, it start shrinking after 30.. to my knowledge..lol.. but work with what you have. I have a friend that has at least 3inches and he makes me feel good b/c I love him//// it's all about the love.. I swear. I had a husband with 9inches and he made me sick to my stomach, I hated his sex b/c I wasn't feeling him anymore. love is the key

No.
the penis growth stoped at age 18

yeah, I got some pills I would like to sell you
oh please, do you believe everything you read on the internet?

no - give up

For erections...yes...but otherwise...no

If you are overweight losing weight will have the effect of lengthening the penis. Thickness is in the eye of the beholder.

Is it really hard to be a doctor or go to school to be one?

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I want to be a doctor but i have heard its super hard? Is it true?
Answer:
I too was considering the MD track. I agree it is much harder to get into than the get through. When you are in, they have invested too much money in you to let you simply flunk out unless you don't put in an effort. I'm not trying to dissuade you, but rather offer you another option. What turned me off was when the physicians I was working with all said that they wouldn't have their children go into it. I do prostate cancer research now with a masters degree in neuroimmunology. My boss is an MD/PhD. He quit after 5 yrs of practicing medicine in England because he couldn't tolerate the work. He worked in children oncology and said it was HORRIBLE to see so many die. Anyway, I guess if you can't handle the possibility of your patient dying, you shouldn't become an MD. I was just accepted to Dental school. This year Dental school has a lower acceptance rate than medical school...know why? flexibility, better pay and better hours. Look into it esp. as a female. You wont have as much malpractice insur. and you will have time to spend with your family...in addition, you are still a doctor and can still prescribe meds. Most of the MDs I know spend from 6am-10pm at work... eeeeshhh...not for me, not with a family. On the other hand, if i were single I would absolutely LOVE it! You pick ;) Good luck.

good lord, i hope so!

it is very competitive to get into med school. they only take the brightest so unless u plan on coming out of school with a near 4.0 and studying alot, u might want to find something else. btw: its even harder to get into vet school!

the hardest part is getting into med school. the exact requirements can change from year to year because most med-schools only have a limited number of openings. so lets say you go to college and they only have 20 openings in a certain year, you have to be one of the top 20 out of maybe 1000 people who apply to get in. it can be difficult if there are many people who have 4.0 gpa's. most people have to wait a year to apply again, apply somewhere else, or go into another field. Once you're in, a lot of studying and hard work and you should be alright.

It helps if you are smart. You figure you have a lot of difficult subject to take like chemistry,Latin, calculus. and many more.

super hard.no but its pretty hard..unless you have determination and the goal on your mind to be a doctor everyday...You see its much easier for oneself to dedicate themselves to their studies and get a good GPA...but then once you do get a 4.0 GPA you then have to study alot and become "competitive" against the others that want your spot but you know what...everyone is competing against each other to get the best job so there you go.

It is very rigorous to become a doctor. Medical school isn't that hard to get into if you study hard and do very good on MCAT test. You don't need a 4.0 to get into medical school. You do need to have very good grades in all you science classes, and other medical classes. Once in med school you will work VERY hard. If you are a female you even have to work harder to be recognized. You have to read every day on new medicines so you can treat your patients correctly and try new things. If you want to be a Doctor o meet on at a hospital. Most doctors love to give advice if they are not busy on becoming a doctor. Before I became a doctor I sat down with a Doctor and talked about how he become a doctor what where his struggles so I could try to avoid those situations. Trust me just talking to a doctors Will really help you. Some of them might even let you ta tag depending on their specialty.

Is it proper to use reading glass in front of computer, or is it hazardous for the eyes?

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Answer:
You see that little reading glass in the bottom right corner with a plus sign in it, and 100% beside it? click on that---- BINGO

I use them all the time.
Relax!

Must use them constantly. Good for eyes.

Is it possible/practical to practice as an obstetrician without doing gynaecology?

2009-11-07T06:37:00.002-08:00

...is it possible to get a job as just an obstetrician? I want to handle pregnancies only, not gynaecology. How is the job market and salary for this? Would I still have to study gynaecology in medical school/residency?
Answer:
You do not specialize in medical school, so you would have to study gynecology there, as well as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and a variety of other specialties.In order to become an obstetrician, you need to complete a residency that covers both obstetrics and gynecology. You have to learn it all. You may find that you like both. You also may find that the call schedule for OB only is too draining - babies come at all hours, and the staying-up-all-night routine gets old after a while.Obstetrics also has a fair amount of gynecology inherent in it - you still have to stitch up tears or episiotomies, perform hysterectomies when women won't stop bleeding after delivery, take care of their genital warts and STDs, and a lot of other things.You would probably make more money as a gynecologist than as an obstetrician. In Pennsylvania, the high malpractice rates have put a lot of obstetricians out of business. For medical assistance patients, the malpractice costs more than they make for a delivery!Job market/salary is dependent upon where you want to work.Good luck.

You can try to become a doula or a midwife

it is possible, you could work in a large hospital and catch babies all day, but OB is the most sued specialty and carries the highest malpractice insurance, so it may not be practical to do so. You would also have to learn all the gynecology in residency too.
I agree with that other guy, if this is all you want to do, go into being a midwife.

Yes, it is possible to practice obstetrics without practicing gynecology. Most doctors, nowadays prefer practicing gynecology without doing obstetrics, mostly because of malpractice insurance or personal reasons. You would still ahve to go to do a residency (3 years) that trains in both gynecology and obstetrics. The job market and salary depends on where you live, the number of competing obstetricians, and the birth rate in that area. And somewhat on the economy. I couldn't give you an estimate because i don't know how many years before you graduate med school.

Is it possible tu use DNA test to determine if 2 siblings come from the same father?

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We just found out my father has another kid with a gold digger he met some time ago, and it doesn't really look like him.
Me and my sisters are wondering if its possible to make and DNA test between any of us and the kid.
We don't want my dad find out about it.
Answer:
Yes. As long as you have your DNA and the DNA of the suspect sibling you can determine if you have the same father.You don't need the father or mother(s).

I believe it has to be the child and your dad. Different mothers

It would be best if you had a DNA sample from all of the individuals: the dad, the mother and the kid. I would guess, though, that if you had your DNA, one or more of your sisters and the other kid, that a good DNA lab could determine that you all share the same father.I'd talk to a lawyer first, though.

yes you can because you will have a lot of the genaric markers. It is easy to get some of your fathers DNA by getting some body fluids (blood, spit,etc.) off a straw.smoke,tissues etc.

Does not matter if the person looks like your dad. There are many variations in genetics. I think there may be a way to check this without your dad's DNA but it's quite expensive and not altogether 100% accurate.

is it possible to wean urself off heroin a little at a time?

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Answer:
I See PharmNerd Suggestion as a Relatively Good One, but, Probably for Most people, Not Economically Feasible, I See two Things Actually Going On, These Are, Physical and Psychological Addictions, I Suspect What is Going On Is a Mixture of Both, There is Evidence of The "Homeostasis Model" (Consider the Response of Addicts Returning From Vietnam), but I Think Some Consideration Must Be Given to a "Receptor Model" as Well. In Any Case, I Think Being Under the Care of Someone Very Familiar With Addiction, is a Good Idea.

Probably not. If quitting is a problem it is probably an addiction, in which case an addiction clinic is probably best. As scary as it is, addiction itself is much more scary.

You need help with this, so that they can monitor you, I wish you the best !

rat poison is an acceptable substitute.

Most likely not, and trying a do-it-yourself approach almost guarantees failing. You need professional help and real medical treatment to do this safely and with any hope it will work. There are many options which you need to discuss with a doctor expert in drug recovery. There's everything from cold turkey withdrawal to rapid detox under anesthesia and one method is not right for everyone.

Check into a rehabilitation Centre and they will give you all the informsation you need. Most people say to go Cold Turkey I've never ahd an addiction but I think this would be the best way to go. Take Johnny Cash's advice, have friends and family supporting you :)

Yes i do believe it is possible. In order to do this you must leave your environment, get a new hobby that interest you intently, leave all things that remind you about your heroin use behind, and go through the pain for a little bit. The pain associated with opiate withdrawl is your brain and body trying to get back to homeostasis, however if it is very strong you may need medical attnetion seeming as though this in itself may become detrimental to your health. Truthfully though i do not adivse you doing this. See a specialist, check yourself into a clinic and clean yourself up. Heroin is a very expensive, unproductive, and life threatning activity.

is it possible to view my entire medical history records?

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i'd like to like to look at my medical records from birth to present.
how do i do this? Will my current general doctor have my entire history or would i have to go to every hospital and clinici've ever gone to, to gather the information i want.
and will they even allow me to view it?
Answer:
I guess it depends on how each facility you ever went to handled their records. I work in a school's guidance office. When we request the records for new enrollees, some schools will sent the entire cumulative file while others will just send the main information about a student. As soon as a class graduates, the files are placed in a warehouse somewhere so they don't take up room in the office. [I know that this has 0 to do with medicine but it shows you how an office would work]You also have to consider if the older facilities that you went to even exist anymore. Some offices might have gone out of business or burned down or outsourced their files or any of those things. If you were born, grew up and lived in the same place for a number of years, it might be easy to do. If you can go back as far as birth, you should be given access to your files. Otherwise, you'll just have to go to your current place and see what they have.

You will have to go to every hospital and clinic you've been to and collect it that way. There will be a lot of forms to fill out to release that information, but that would be the easiest way. Also, ask your doctor about this, he/she has an administrative staff that could answer this better than I.

Is it possible to transplant human brain from one body to another body ?

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Answer:
Brain transplants are not currently possible, because nerves are tremendously sensitive to damage, and you can't really replace a brain largely because it would involve severing innumerable nervous connections (synapses), the vast majority of which will not reestablish properly within the new body. Every axon forms tens-to-hundreds of synapses with effector neurons or organs, all of which must be intact for the nerve to function correctly. Even only-partially damaged axons are unlikely to travel down their appropriate, convulted path after injury, resulting in non-functional nerves -- this same concept applies to brain transplants, as most axons would not reestablish appropriate and functional synapses, leaving the patient with severe neurological deficits.

of course

IT is not yet possible to do this because the brain needs a constant supply of oxegeon and that there is not advanced enough technology to fuse a brain to a different brain stem.I hope this was helpfull. But no fountaian of youth here.

Not yet.

Not yet. If it were, I'd be frightened!

Hmm.. Depends on the person whose brain is about to be transplanted. hehe.. Oh, and, of course, if he or she agrees.. I mean, it's sooo complicated.. It's like to move someone's personality into another body.. and someone's character too.. It can be a total incompatibility between personality, (not to mention the brain's "attributes") characteristic and physical structure.. Hard to imagine what the result will be.
Somehow I believe it would be like a "soul transplant". Because the human soul rests in the brain.. Otherwise, it might be a shock to that person, whose brain was transplanted. I wander what he or she will feel as he/she wakes up, if ever will.. =)
Anyway, my conclusion is, that it is impossible.

No, and probably never in the future. The brain is not really a separate organ in the way a kidney or a heart is. The cranial nerves and spinal cord are extensions of the same tissue.

Where would you think that the donor brain might come from possibly??
A cadaver brain would not be of much use seeing as how it is dead. I don't expect that you would find many loving donors lining up to give theirs.

No !!Scientists are working in it but they could not find any mean to transplant a brain form one human body to other...Infact it seems impossible for the time being.because brain contain such a complex system and its tissues are destributed through out the body that human could not undertand it fully till now , and secondly its very delicate, consisting of cells which when die can never be produced again .secondly after taking it out and making its nervous connection with the other body is a process which seems almost impossible ! and also brain needs contast oxygen supply and it dies within munites without it...and i fear its not practically possible to conduct such a big operations within minutes.theoratica... they have proven it but practically could not conduct it !

Only after they are both dead.

Is it possible to transplant human brain from one body to another body ?

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Currently, no. But possibly in the future. The base of the brain connects to our spinal cord, which is a tight grouping of millions of nerves that run through our spine and out to all parts of our bodies. Once this cord is severed, depending on the "height" of the severing, paralysis occurs in all parts of the body no longer connected. While most organs are considered vital, without the lungs and heart operating, death will occur in a few minutes.The key to a brain transplant would be correctly reconnecting all the millions of nerves that were severed by removing the old brain. Reconnecting nerves is a difficult process in itself that is gaining more practice in small organs/appendages, such as fingers, legs, hearts. But again, there are millions of nerves to reconnect the brain to, and it must be done properly so.Imagine you are in the largest electronics store in the world, and all the power cords to all the electronics come together and twist into one long braid of power cords (simulates the spinal cord). This braid goes through a wall, and on the other side all the ends of the cords are plugged into electrical outlets in such a way that they could never be removed (simulates spinal cord attached to brain). Something happens to the outlets, and you will need to replace them, but you cannot simply remove the plugs, so you need to sever the braid. You install new outlets with matching wires already permanently plugged in, and must go through the process of splicing the new wires with the old braid. However, you may only connect matching wires, or you may accidentally splice a radio power wire with a television power wire. Since it is only electricity, the worst that could happen is a short in the electronic.For the brain, a short would be deadly. A nerve coming out of a brain whose function it is to tell the heart to pump finding itself connected to a leg will continue to send the "pump" message. Your leg would jerk around, but your heart would malfunction.

Not yet.

Not with current technology. Too many nerves (millions) to reconnect individually.

yup, Mel Brooks did in the movie young frank n stein

You can transplant a human brain, but all you're going to end up with are two dead people.

In time, it'll be possible, but at this moment, technology has not evolved to that level. Maybe in our lifetime, definitely in our children's, we will see it it come to pass.

Well if it happened in a movie, it must be true.

I wish, I know lots of people who could use one.

Interesting question. A human brain transplant (also referred to as a whole body transplant, different from a head transplant) is not possible - yet. It may never be possible, but there are interesting experiments happening with brains and neurons and stem cells in an attempt to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, paralysis, etc. According to this CNN article, brain cells have been transplanted to treat a stroke victim. I also know that stem cells have been used to treat Parkinson's patients. Maybe you will develop new technology someday to help make this happen! Good luck!

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No.

Not yet but a lot of research and experimentation is going on .But still its not fruitful...

Yes, I saw an episode of Star Trek where they took out and put Mr. Spocks brain back in. It was done by Bones, but he is dead now so he cannot share how it was done. Sad.

this means change body of a men. it is very wonderful when a ladies brain put to a mans body and revers. are you about it?

Is it possible to put PCP in crack? And what would happen if you smoked it?

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you will get too high. Smokin too much could be fatal!

yeah it's possible, but you would very likely DIE!

Mind blowing! Literally and figuratively.

It is a pretty bad idea. Your heart rate might get ridiculously intense, and people are known to get a bit violent under such a combination.

There is a much more effective alternative to this combination. Take a large cliber handgun place to muzzle in your mouth at a 22 degree upward angle and pull the trigger. The end results are about the same and the gun will be less painful.

is it possible to pass a hair follicle drug test?

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Answer:
WHY OF COURSE CANDY IF U WEREEEEEEEEEEE DRUG FREE

Not that I am aware of

NO, and I am very glad there isn't.

It is if you haven't done any drugs...

Not if you've done any in the past 6 months.

im sorry..but no..if you did drugs within three months of the test. it will show. any kind of test will show the results positive. it takes three months for drugs to go out of your system

bleach your hair

Hair follicle testing is quite accurate and can go back 6 months or longer, showing any controlled substances used in a sort of timeline. As hair grows out, any drugs used are encased in the hair shaft, so the longer the hair, the longer back in the individual's drug history the lab can detect. Most legitimate testing facilities, however, only use hair within about 3-5 cm of the scalp, and discard the rest. This limits the detection history to about 90 days, depending upon the rate of growth of the individual's hair. Some people attempt to circumvent this through shaving their heads. In the absence of the required amount of hair on the scalp, body hair can be used as an acceptable substitute. Additionally, for pre-employment hair testing, the inability to obtain a sample may be grounds for not hiring the individual.

There is no way to trick or pass a folicle drug test and I wanted to add one thing. There is no time limit on the testing. You have to stop the drugs and cut off all the hair since you did drugs. this can either take time to get through a few haircuts or you could be more drastic and shave your body COMPLETELY.

im not positive but pretty much no it contains chemical substances for months so i had a medical condition for example where they need to know how much of everthing i had in my body like calcium iodine you know well basicly the hair showed i had to much calcium and it was almost a year ago i stoped drinking those vitamins but the hair test is accurate

Is it possible to overdose and die from taking too many vitamins ?

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What would happen If I took thirty multivitamin tablets in one day ?
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Yes it does cause death when taken in very high doses.Under moderately high doses it cause some unwanted side effects like nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps.Nothing would happen if you took 30 tablets on a sigle day as I pressume because not all the vitamins you are consuming is absorbed by the body, but if you injected large quantities of vitamins it would definitely have immedaite effect.In other cases hypervitaminosis occurs due to cumilative effect.

It is possible to overdose fatally on any substance, including water. Thirty mutlivitamins is not necessarily enough to kill you, but it could still be harmful. Substances can have their toxicity quantified by the LD50, the lethal dose to kill 50% of individuals. As an example, the LD50 for Vitamin C is 11,900 mg/kg (that is, 11,900 mg of chemical per kg of body mass). A 50 kg person would need to take 595 kg of Vitamin C before they would die, an obvious impossibility.Many vitamins and minearls are also quantified by a Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL). The UL for Vitamin A is 10000 IU/day, and my multivitamin has 3500 IU of Vitamin A, meaning that just three of them would meet the UL. By going to ten times the UL, you could probably harm your body. The effects of excess Vitamin A include liver abnormalities, dry skin, and hair loss. Still, deaths from vitamin overdose are extremely rare in the US.The bottom line is that you should not take more than the recommended dosage of any vitamin supplement.

First I will advise you that I am NOT a medical professional. That being said, you will not die by overdosing on multivitamins. The worst that will happen, is severe stomach cramps. Your body will flush out all the unneeded nutrients in the urine stream and you will be fine. However the stomach cramps may make you feel like you want to die...Why would you want to try this silly experiment anyhow??

Yes! While excess amount of water soluble vitamins (such as B and C)can be eliminated from the body through urine, fat soluble vitamins have to be processed by the liver. One particularly bad on is vitamin A, which is why most vitamins use beta carotene (which the body can break down into vitamin A) rather than the pure form of the vitamin itself. Another one is iron. Not only can adults cause themselves liver damage by taking excessive amounts of iron, several children die from iron toxicity every year because they take too many chewable vitamins.

you could ruin your liver, cause kidney failure, over dose is possible on all vitamins. Most of the time you'll just vomit them out. However some vitamins can build up in your system and cause very serious illness, and some times even death.

Several vitamins are toxic at high doses. B6 can cause neurologic damage at high levels. High iron causes a condition called hemosiderosis. I'm not sure 30 tablets would do irrepairable damage, but it's certainly not recommended.

I don't know if this would be fatal, but just like anything else in life. Too much of anything is not good and comes with consequences. At the very least, I would think that it would make you very ill. Why would you want to take so many vitamins at one time? Maybe after reading what the following sites have to say, you'll change your mind about taking so many vitamins at once. I surely hope so! Please to careful with your health.

I don't know about vitamins, but Iron overdoses are actually common (especially among children).

Yes, depending on what the make up of the vitamin is. All are different. I would call poison control to find out exactly how toxic the vitamins you have are. Another good source of info is a pharmacist, you can call any drug store and talk to the pharmacist that works their even if you haven't purchased your vitamins there.

most vitamins end up getting flushed out when you pee.Taking 30 multis in one day would probably make you feel real sick but I doubt if it would kill you.

I doubt one episode like that would kill you, but your urine will be a different color and you might be in some amount of pain. This type of habit over an extended period of time would be fatal however. A multivitamin is a combination of water soluble and fat soluble vitamins. You can imagine the fat soluble ones will be stored in your body until such time as they are expended. Continually supplementing the fat soluble vitamins will eventually kill you. A,D,E, and K are the fat soluble in case you're wondering.

Yes. You can overdoes on ANYTHING too much of a good thing can still harm you... now i dont know how many it would take but even to much water the one thing every one needs to live is harmful when you drink to much

Too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing.

Yes you can overdose on vitamins. The fat soluble vitamins, ADEK can cause hypervitaminosis with fewer than 30 pills. Also niacin a B vitamin which is water soluble can cause the skin to turn bright red, called flushing, and a heat to move through your body. It is prescribed for cholesterol and I had to take my husband to the emergency room from a reaction to a prescribed dose.

When my son was little he opened a bottle of kids vitamins up (yes, even with the safety cap the little dickens) and I wasnt sure how many he ate. I counted them, realized from the amount I had given my other kids during the week (I had bought the bottle about a week before) that it was likely he COULD have ingested up to 8 tablets...I wasn't sure but that was the max he could have taken.The poison control center said that Vitamin A was the only vitamin in the lot of what he took that might pose a concern but because he only took (a possible) 8 of them, that I should avoid anything with vitamin A for a week to clear it out. I think with all the self-medicating people do these days it's quite likely you can harm your body by intaking too much of what might SEEM like a good thing. 30 multivitamins could likely be toxic to your body. It could damage certain organs at the very least.

Is it possible to not be infected with the HIV virus after a single sexual intercourse with an AIDS patient?

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I read on BBC that an AIDS patient INCREASES the LIKELYHOOD of infecting a partner when contracting malaria. I've attached the link if you'd like to check it out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/622007...
Answer:
If you have a genetic mutation in your DNA which has eliminated the receptor HIV attaches onto, you can have intercourse as many times as you like with someone who is infected but the virus will not be able to use your body as a host. Interestingly, scientists believe that, that same receptor determined if you would catch the bubonic plague.

yes it is possible but the chances are really low

yes, not only is it possible but it is more likely than you would be led to believe. Of course it is never worth the risk.The chance of men contracting HIV is much less than it is for women. It also has to do with the actual sex. The chances are much higher with anal sex. Rough sex can also increase the chances. Studies have shown that the odds of a man contracting the virus from one "normal" sexual encounter with an HIV positive woman is less than 2%. I am not sure what it is for women.Interesting side note:
A percent of the population has a genetic mutation that makes them immune to the HIV virus. These people do not have the cellular receptors that the virus uses to invect cells. It is believed, yet somewhat contested, that this mutation is a result of the black blague which killed 1/3 of europeans and, like HIV, targeted white blood cells. This mutation is most common in those of northern european decent and almost inexistent in those from other continents.

http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/hiv/...
lots of intersting figures

I am pretty sure that it is possible not to get aids after one time. However it is not advisable.

Sure if your real lucky.

Yes its possible not to be infected.

Yes.
A single sexual encounter with an AIDS patient may not infect the partner. However, the probablity is infintely higher (denominator of zero) of contracting the virus in such an encounter than it is in an encounter with a another true HIV negative partner.

absolutely!

Is it possible to lick a frog and get high?

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I have heard of this phenomena a lot of times before. But I never found scientific proof for it. So is it possible to lick a frog or a toad and get high? If so, how? Not that I'm going to do it or anything :) I need the answer for my physiology class.
Cheers.
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Yup -- but you can also have trouble!"About 40 years ago a giant tropical toad, Bufo marinus, was introduced into the southern United States and Hawaii to control the unwanted insect population. While the tactic worked well for insect control, it was later found that the toad secreted a fatal toxin. This toxin is produced in the glands on the toad's head and shoulders. Both humans and animals exposed to the substance can become intoxicated. . . . Death (in pets) can occur as fast as 15 minutes if untreated. "

no.

Actually, yes. There are frogs in tropical areas that exude a mucus that has as part of its composition halucinogenic chemicals. These frogs were at one time for sale, and old folks in rest homes, believe it or not, kept them as pets.You might try some googling----frogs+ tropics+ dendrobates (genus) or +poison arrow dart frogs, or + strawberry red poison arrow dart frogs... for one might lead you somewhere. The compounds in the mucus are as well antibiotic, and anti-fungal.. one of the reasons these critters can live in damp environments and not get infections of their skins when they are injured. Saw these when we were in Costa Rica

Yes indeed,though I don't recommend licking any frogs or toads.The large parotid glands of toads of the genus Bufo, located just behind the eyes, produce two substances鈥攂ufogenin and bufotoxin鈥攖hat affect the adrenal and cardiovascular systems in humans. A third parotoid secretion鈥攂ufotenin, an alkaloid鈥攊s a powerful hallucinogen. The Colorado River toad (Bufo alvarius) possesses the specific enzyme for production of this sub-stance, and the parotoids, which can contain large amounts of the hallucinogen, can produce hallucinations when the skin is dried and smoked. The hallucinogenic properties of toad parotoid glands were well known to the native peoples of Central America, and images of toads with prominent parotoid glands are a common feature on bowls and other objects found at archeological sites.

Not a frog, it's rumored that if you lick a TOAD youll get high because the warts on their skin contain a toxin used to get their prey. I have heard this but I've never tried it so Im ot sure if it's true. You do it and let me know.

is it possible to induce flat-lining?

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yes, as you can tell i've just seen the film "flatliners" and it has sparked my interest. I was wondering if it is scientifically possiblt to recreate the experiments, so as to prove once and for all if there is "another side" to reality.I am wearing my suit of armour today, so feel free to throw whatever insults at me that you wish
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Yes, of course. It is called taking the patient all the way to stage four.e.i.. death. If you wish to know more about anesthesia, google it --- anesthesia+general

It's also possible to flatline and not be unconscious, it would depend how you attempt to induce this.

The medicine Adenosine is used to stop a heart rhythm called Supraventricular tachycardia. It does this by inducing a short period of asystole (flat line) and then the heart restarts once it has worn off. It has a half life of just a few seconds, so the period of asystole is very short, usually 2 to 3 seconds.

Rent the movie Flatliners again and take good notes. Kiefer Sutherland,Julia Roberts,Kevin Bacon,William Baldwin and Oliver Platt will teach you how to do it if you would just pay attention!!I would go hang out with some med students and see if anyone feels like risking your life and their career. You might find someone that wants to play.You could call a your local B%26D/S%26M shop. Thhe might know someone that's into that sort of thing and be able to point you you in the right direction.Have fun and be sure your loved ones know if you want to be an organ donor.

Is it possible to improve eyesight naturally?

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Answer:
drink carrot juice

yes, just slightly.. look at more green thins.. lessen comp time

Eat heaps of carrots.!

from my knowledge lasix is the only way, but then again don't get discourage yet there is always change. Who knows there might be something new tomorrow.

Yes eat foods rich in vitamin A and also vitamin C and Magnesium and Iron

I take a Bilberry eyebright vision complex. Completely herbal. And it seems to work. I need less strong glasses now. I take only herbal medicine, never Prescription Drugs..As All Drugs Are A Dead End.

There are books on it using various methods that surprisingly have very good recommendations. Search for it on amazon.com for more information.

Vitamin A is good for your eyes and your immune system. But don't over do it. Too much vitamin A can cause bone problems in men and women. Too much is 25,000 IU or more per day. Vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness. Take B12 lozenges, they are really good for you.

Is it possible to have reconstructive surgery on a temporary ileostomy scar?

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I'm not a plastic surgeon, but I believe that it could be a possibility...Has the ileostomy closed already, or did it get closed surgically? Different people scar differently, based on many factors, age and race being a couple. I would recommend giving the scar time to heal, then getting a referral to a plastic surgeon who could give you some good advice regarding scar reduction surgery.

Probably. If the scar is well healed, talk to a plastic surgeon.It isn't possible to get rid of the scar completely, of course, but if it is large and unsightly, a plastic surgeon may be able to make it look a little better.If you form keloids, though, it might not be a good idea to mess with it.Hope that helps.

Is it possible to have an exact identical twin?

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I saw four identical twins on tv once, but it seems so rare? But is it possible?
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No you could not have 4 identical twins. Twins are two babies born at once. at conception the egg splits and makes twins they share the exact same DNA there for can not go to prison based on DNA evidence. On the other hand it is very very rare that you would get quadruplets that are identical but it is possible. If they are all the same sex it may be the case. I have a relative who has 2 sets of twins 10 months apart and they all look identical however they are not as it is impossible. Hope this helps. I come from a family with 17 sets of twins. They say that it skips a generation however that is not always the case.

Yes it is possible

Yes ive seen some tiwns that look the same

My husband has an identical twin! Thank god the twins in his family don't Have twins but our poor daughter will. I'm going to have twin grandkids one day!
The first time I met his twin he said " I bet I look familiar, don't I?"

I think you already saw the proof that it IS possible.

Identical (as opposed to fraternal) twins come about when the fertilized egg splits into two seperate pieces. It is possible for these to do that again, but very very rare.

...4 identical sibblings would be known as identical quadruplets, not 4 identical twins.

Absolutely! When a fertilized egg splits - once, twice, three times, 4 times...whatever... that means identical twins. I have an aunt who is an identical twin and it is VEEEERRRYYYY hard to tell her and her sister apart. Identical twins will ALWAYS be the same sex. Fraternal twins (2 separately fertilized eggs) could be the same sex, or different sexes.

No there most be something different !

Do you mean four sets of identicle twins, or do you mean quadruplets? It is possible for this to happen. There is a list of well known multiple births, including identical quadruplets at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/quadruplets...

It is possible but you can tell them apart by their fingerprints...everyone has different ones...

they can look exactly the same, but their fingerprints will ALWAYS be different

Is it possible to have a car that runs of a slush oxygen engine?

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I also have two additional questions. Has anyone heard of this before or seen it in a movie because for me to use this for a school project it needs to be completely original. Also by any chance what would be the by-product of the engine?
Thanks
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Well, if you mean liquid or near-liquid oxygen, I used to work with liquid nitrogen and the guy who delivered it also had liquid oxygen and I began asking about it and he said it was very dangerous/reactive in its liquid state and he proved it by letting a drop of it hit the asphalt parking lot (just a drop) and it exploded and left a dime-sized crater about a 1/4 inch deep! Okay, second part of this is that oxygen-we are now talking about the gaseous form of it-is NOT EXPLOSIVE. It is a flame/ignition/burning ACCELLERANT. It speeds up the burning process dramatically. I tested this on a cigarette that had just been lit (which usually can last about 4-5 minutes) and when I put a constant flow of oxygen on the cigarette it glowed very bright (for a cigarette) and was burnt down to the filter in about 20-25 seconds! Now, onto a different part that MAY be helpful and this may, in fact, be what you are looking for. They developed (only as a prototype but a working prototype) a ceramic engine (ceramic and silicon-based things can withstand very high temperatures) in which a separate machine/component would use hydrolysis-separating the hydrogen and oxygen molecules of plain water-to ignite the hydrogen and use the oxygen to accellerate that ignition and it was rather efficient. So, why did it never get very far? Ceramic is so fragile and susceptible to bumps, hits, etc that the engine would fall apart in whatever car it was in on the first bump or pothole it hit! But, it is a starting place for you anyway. Also, the oxygen/hydrogen ignition is exactly what the space shuttle uses.and the byproduct? Plain old harmless water. Cool, Huh? Hope I was of at least some help.Michael

Oxygen is not a fuel in any state, so the answer would be NO.

What you mean by "slush oxygen"? If you're trying to say liquid oxygen, well, geez, it doesn't even turn into a liquid until about -450 degrees F you know. I've never seen anything like this in any movie, but I wouldn't doubt it if you said you have. No it wouldn't be a by product of anything at all. Think of something else.

Is it possible to have a 3 foot long parasite attached to your spine and nervous system?

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Sorry, this is very random but my friend is doing a project and it is on a fictional parasite that is 3 ft. long and attaches to ones spine. I don't believe that can happen but he does.
Thanks
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There are CNS parasites, but not one that is 3-feet long -- it's possible that such a massive parasite could enter the CNS, but it would soon die because it would not be able to acquire adequate nourishment from the relatively-poor vascular perfusion of the CNS -- it's metabolic demand would be way too high. Or, the host itself would simply die due to such a significant increase in pressure within an exquisitely sensitive region like the CNS -- it would kind of be like having a gargantuan tumor grow within the CNS overnight, which is clearly a change that is incompatible with life.

nope.intestines yes as there's food to be had. they must have food to survive.

Not very likely. But in science fiction anything is possible !

A very good old movie called "The Tingler" starring Vincent Price

Is it possible to get DNA samples from feces? If so, how?

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I am looking for other answers, but I was wondering if it removes skin cells on the way out.
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Yes, it is very possible to get DNA samples from feces. When we defecate, cells are slothed off along with our feces. Therefore, our skin cells can be extracted easily. Yes, you will have other DNA mixed in, but simple testing will be able to exclude the other cells.By looking under a microscope, and running some procedures you can separate the skin cells from the other cells. Then you would lyse these cells, treat with endonucleases and then you can run them on a gel.It's a little more complicated than getting normal skin cells but it is possible.Good luck!

I would think it wouldn't be desirable, because you would have the potential for DNA from the food you eat to be mixed in with your own DNA. I'm not sure how you would be able to separate one from the other.

is it possible to get a serological (eg oxoid strep) test for identifying bacteria if so where?

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I think you have answered your own question - The company that supplies Oxoid Strep is "Oxoid"

Antisera for identifying groups of Streptococci are available from any medical supply house.

Is it possible to find out a baby's blood type before they are born?

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If you can't why not?
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No problem, if you can get a sample of the fetal blood.You'd have to have a pretty good reason for doing it though, because it is risk to puncture the amniotic sac (chorioamnionitis, premature labor).

of course, you just stick a needle in them through the mother's stomach. maybe you can also tell from the amniotic fluid, but i'm not sure.

It's safer to wait and test the cord blood after the birth.
If this is to establish or exclude parentage, blood groups are unreliable, due to the large number of possible combinations.
If you get a sample of amniotic fluid, you will be able to get a DNA analysis done.

Yes, it's possible.My teacher's wife had to have it done. Something about the baby could have a certain blood type that would mix and would cause harm to the mother.I believe the process is called amniocentisis. They will test it if there are certain risks.

Is it possible to extract nicotine from tobacco without specialized equipment or chemicals?

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Answer:
Soaking in water.

Yes, in water. It was used as an early form of insecticide.

Probably but who would smoke,they would go broke the nicotine gets you hooked

Is it possible to ever get rid of the fat acquired from taking prednisone for a long time?

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Of course. Much of the weight gain is fluid, regardless the additional weight will have to be lost the old fashioned way, through diet and exercise. One thought, although diet and exercise are essential, the first step is having the prednisone dose decreased or stopped altogether.The weight gained is through increased visceral and truncal fat deposition, the hardest to lose, but most important because this fat is the most dangerous to health, especially in men.I did a rather extensive Internet search and it's difficult because of all the sites devoted to anabolic steroids. Proper sleep is very important regarding steroid weight loss. I've listed a website below that talks about this subject and recommends some ways to combat this type of weight gain. I hestitate to do so, but any info is better than none. I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

I took prednisone from 12/2005 - 6/2006. I haven't shed a pound. I started running, low-calorie dieting, low carb...nothing worked.The only thing that started me to losing a slight amount of weight was starving myself for days on end.

You may now have Cushing's syndrome.
It is so hard to lose any weight with this disease regardless of what you do.www.cushings-help.com
Hope that helps.

Is it possible to drown by falling asleep in the bath, or would it always wake you up?

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like the other person said, it is possible especially if you have had alcoholic beverages, or if you are a deep sleeper, but also if you have had a long hard day at work or have worked for (let's say) 24 hours straight through. It is possible to drown in the tub, even in only enough water to cover the mouth and nose.

You should wake up. Unless you are under influence of a drug or alcohol, or pills.

do you fall asleep face down or face up? come on! we need details :-)

In normal conditions you will wake up. In case you dont then there is some problem and needs consulation with a medical doctor.

I have fell asleep plenty of times in a royal bath with servant women bathing me,...its most relaxing to the Majesty!

Let's do a clinical study... you try it out and see what happens!

naturally you should wake up or at least move to get oxygen, but sometimes the brain doesn't react. Recently there was a small article in the week about babies not turning around in their sleep when a blanket or something was covering their face, ti is now considered a birth defect

If the tub is big enough and deep enough yes you could drown. You might wake up but if you are a very deep sleeper you could drown. I always wake up in cold water as my tub isn't large enough for me to slip down in.

Is it possible to die from not drinking anything and only eating foods without moisture?

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Yes, it's certainly possible and it does happen. It's called dehydration.

no i don't think so

No, go ahead and try it...
YES, of course! ( Man, what do they teach them these days?!)

YES...

I dont know

Considering the human body is 97% liquid/water, yes.Think of the cells - they need fluid.GOD bless us one and all, always.

yes. it has been recorded that you can only live without water for 40 days.

Yes. A person can only live about 3 days without water.

you can die from dehydration but it will take a long time

I seriously think that that is a terrible idea. No offense to anyone out there. Anyway, you can die if you don't drink/consume anything with water. Your cells need water or else they will dry out or something along the lines of that. Like other people have said, you can DIE OF DEHYDRATION. Duh.

yes, here is the scientific explanation. you need water (to make a long explanation short) your cells need water for most of their chemical reactions, yes i know what you are thinking. but if your cell needs energy it needs to break up stored energy by breaking it apart with chemical reactions.

YES, You lose water at a rate of 4 ml/kg/hr per 1st 10kg then add 2mg/kg per hour for 2nd 10kg, then add 1ml/kg/hr for additional kg above 20 kg. ie 70kg man looses 40+20+50=90cc/hr x 24hr/day=2160cc/day. About 70 ounces of water each day.

Is it possible to determine the time of death (to the month or year) of a body buried in soil for over 10yrs?

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I am writing a novel where a man's body is found in someone's backgarden (ie in the soil). It has been there for over 10 years and one needs to assume that decomposition went ahead as normal in a non openly aerated environment. Is it possible to determine if it has been there for 10 years and 1 month, or in years? is it possible to distinguish between 10 and 11 years, 10 and 13 years or more?
Answer:
Yes, it is possible. First, the investigator must identify the deceased by photographing the maxilla and mandible (jaw bones) and submitting the picture to a crime/forensics lab for possible matches. Crime labs normally have a databases for dental records in which the computer will generate a list of the closest matches and the scientist will narrow down that list by visual comparison. Next, the identity can be further verified by comparing bone samples to radiographs in the deceased's medical records (long bones such as the humerus or femur if they are intact provide the best comparison). For example, bone length, varus and valgus angles, and bony landmarks are measured and compared to the x-rays. Given that this confirms the identity of the deceased, and database searches reveal no death certificate, the investigation continues. Next, the investigator will need an osteologist to analyze the bones. This analysis will reveal the approximate age of the deceased at time of death. This approximation is then added (in years) to the subject's date of birth, which should be found in the medical records. The sum is the approximate year the subject died. If the investigator wants to know the exact month, he must rebury the bones in the same or very similar garden (same soil, same depth) for at least a year in order to compute the rate of decalcification. The decalcification rate (which is stated in micrometers per month) is then divided from the total amount of decalcified bone tissue (in micrometers). The quotient is the number of months that have elapsed since decalcification began (the time of tissue death, given that bone decay was uniformly present). This will narrow down the time of death within one month.
There are many other ways of figuring out the year and/or month of death, but given that at least 10 years had passed since the time of death, the bones and clothing of the deceased would be considered most significant to the investigation.

Yes but there need to be clues as to when the body was buried ie: a ticket stub from a theater or an unused ticket for an event or show, a sales receipt ( for cash if the body is to be anonymous at this point) if there is a crime lab involved pollen can be used or perhaps a dead insect on the body or caught in the clothing or hair will help, the clothing itself can provide a clue shorts and short sleeves are one clue a light jacket and jeans are another and a heavy coat is yet another indicator of the time of year the death occurred there are several clever ways that you can use to hide evidence of time of death on a body such as the sales receipt caught in the small pocket of a pair of jeans the change pocket you know the small one on the right front that no one ever checks and few people actually use or in the shirt pocket or perhaps a money belt was worn by the victim or perhaps he had a distinctive dental feature that was altered ie had a mug shot taken in Feb. and had a gold tooth done in march and disappeared in April or broke his arm in may and still has cast in place but the bone is mostly healed that will narrow it down to a few week window combined with other clues this can further pin point the time of death be inventive and the right way to do it for your dead body will make itself apparent.

Is it possible to create a centaur by transplant?

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Answer:
No, your trying to splice two different genomes together... Animal and Humans don't share the same genetic code, DNA to do this...If you tried it, whom ever volunteered to be transplanted would die. The horse would have died because the brain was disconnected and vital organs stopped when it happened. Since our brain is connected to keep the heart pumping, and since the heart of a horse is so different, our brains wouldnt keep it going as thier chambers are more than ours are, or they dont beat the same, plus the various muscles couldnt be grafted to our synapse to control over.I wish you well..Jesse

Currently seems no.May be possible in future.