What Doctors Don't Tell YouSuspect acidity if you:
* take excessive strenuous exercise, which causes lactic acid to accumulate in the blood
* are diabetic, which tends to cause acidosis through loss of potassium, sodium and ketones in the urine
What is Bell’s palsy?
This form of acute facial paralysis arises from inflammation of the facial nerve that controls the muscles used for facial expressions.
Inhaled steroids used to treat small children with asthma could stunt their growth. ...
Not content with injecting live vaccines into the immature immune systems of babies, the medical authorities have recently approved the use of a steroid for tots just three months old. ... ...
* Try vitamin B12 shots. One study found that patients treated with 500 mcg of injected vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) three times a week for eight weeks made the quickest recovery compared with those taking steroids. Methylcobalamin alone also...
Doctors believe they need to assist the body’s natural repair mechanisms when treating wounds. But evidence shows that many antiseptics and dressings may do more harm than good.
* Tranquillisers
* Beta-blockers
* Steroids such as prednisolone
* Epilepsy drugs such as Zonegran
Q:I have recently been discharged from hospital having had colitis and Crohn's disease diagnosed. I have been ill for three months and have lost 28 pounds. I am waiting for a consultation with a g ...
At Easter, I was diagnosed with polymyalgia and took steroids for three weeks to ease the pain. I started with six capsules a day and gradually eased off.
Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs in your doctor's black bag. There's no doubt that the discovery of steroids a half century ago was a major advance ...
