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Your relationship with and trust in the practitioner can be a major factor in recovery, particularly with a problem like insomnia which so often has an emotional basis. Most alternative practitioners recognize the part played in health by the mind and the emotions; however, this does not mean that every practitioner is necessarily equipped to [...]

This is obviously closely linked with waking during the night. Some children after waking up will make their way to the parents’ bed and get in. This invades the parents’ privacy and also disrupts their sleep. In some families, once the child enters the parents’ bed, one of them (usually the father) will go to [...]

If untreated, the condition slowly subsides as fibrosis or scarring develops. Strangulation of the haemorrhoids may totally cut off the blood supply and lead to gangrene. This usually requires immediate operation. Prolapsing piles can lead to a mucoid discharge and soiling of the underclothes. Sometimes a clot may form in an external pile and this [...]

The menopause or change of life is not a disease, but a normal stage in a woman’s life. How well she masters this stage and the symptoms which might arise, often depend on her knowledge of, and attitudes to, her own body. Both sexes go through the changes of puberty as men and women enter [...]

This is a disease affecting infants and children. It may start to produce symptoms soon after weaning when the infant is introduced to solids. It affects one in 4000, and often there is a family tendency. The disease affects the small bowel. Frequent and loose bowel actions, general debility, a failure to thrive and a [...]

This is all worth remembering. I’ve been telling parents for the past thirty years: ‘There are no delinquent children, only delinquent parents.’ Children mimic. They will reflect, with astounding mirror-image accuracy. The way your baby, infant, child develops and subsequently reacts depends to a large extent on you, and your personal reactions to the vagaries [...]

Mumps is an infectious viral disease which is spread by droplets which are released into the air during coughing or sneezing. It occurs in epidemics, mainly affecting children over two years old, but can infect people of any age. After a two to three week incubation period visible symptoms appear, the most obvious being the [...]

Convulsions that occur when a child has no fever may be caused by many conditions. Epilepsy is the best-known cause. Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that causes repeated attacks or seizures. There are several forms of epilepsy, which are identified by the type of seizure experienced. Some forms of epilepsy cause convulsions (jerking [...]

When you haven’t been off the couch since high school, starting a lifelong fitness program can seem a daunting task. Take it one step at a time, says Douglas Lentz, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and director of fitness and wellness at Results Therapy and Fitness in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The following phases make up [...]

These are often said to be an essential part of any preventive medical system in so far as they pick up disease early and enable it to be treated more quickly and presumably more cheaply. When calculating the cost-effectiveness of a screening programme, though, many things have to be taken into account including: the cost [...]