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The goal of achieving a normal lifestyle despite the presence of bronchial asthma certainly includes sexual activity. Sex should be regarded as healthy exercise to which many of the precautions concer...
Patients with mild asthma and anxiety disorders such as panic attacks that require medication may receive tranquilizers. In these patients, close communication must be established between the primary ...
Leukotrienes have been found to be highly active in patients with aspirinhypersensitivity asthma. These chemicals appear to be the most important mediators of the asthmatic response in patients with a...
Allergy to aspirin and related medications may trigger asthmatic attacks in as many as 20 percent of adult asthmatics. This sensitivity appears to be more common in severe adult asthmatics, especially...
You can help your family in many ways, some of which may be quite subtle. One way is to see that your family receives diabetes education. This gives them some understanding of how they can be of assis...
Defense Mechanisms. Anger, denial, and bargaining may be associated with responses called defense mechanisms. The major defense mechanisms are rationalization, regression, reaction formation, repressi...
Your self-esteem involves who you think you are, what strengths you feel you have, and what you feel you have achieved. Your level of self-esteem will have a great deal to do with how you react to hav...
Diabetes is known to cause high blood-glucose levels, but how do you know to what extent this has occurred to you? When insulin is too low and glucose levels are too high, glucose is not getting into ...
Perhaps clearer explanations of management methods are needed. There are several methods of managing insulin, as follows: Method 1: Complete Management by the Physician. The physician mayor may not h...
A number of supplies are needed for home self-testing of blood-sugar levels: lancets to pierce the finger, the finger-piercing device, and the machine and/or sticks or tablets used to test blood or ur...
More and more clearly there seems to be some relationship between bronchial asthma and stomach function. Asthmatics often suffer from digestive problems, frequently complaining about excess stomach ac...
The symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux are obvious, including heart-burn and belching, complaints most apparent after meals and during the hours of sleep when an asthma patient is reclining.
Asthma and Surgery: Surgery may present several problems for asthmatics and must be approached carefully. To avoid complications there should be close communication prior to the procedure between the ...
Patients who undergo elective surgery who are not under good control should postpone their procedures to allow proper administration of medication. In emergencies, this delay may not be possible, so a...
The intermediate-acting insulins are NPH, Purified Pork N, Hetin 2 NPH, Novolin N, Humulin NPH, Hetin 2 Lente, Novolin L (human), and Humulin L. These start working in 1 to 2 hours, with peak action i...
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