Health blog

Most of the women have morning sickness during first part of their pregnancy due to various new hormones. When you inhale or smell something like cooking, painting, varnishes and etc. When you go by public transports or when you are in a place where lot of people are gathering also gives the feeling nausea.  products.herbalife.co.uk The depth of nausea varies woman by woman. And almost all searches for the nearest bathroom always. Sometimes it leads to headache and more vomiting. The truth is there are no ways to stop or cure this pregnancy sickness. Everyone find their own way by trial and error.

Screening everyone in high-risk areas for HIV and treating all those infected with antiretroviral drugs could be the best way to block the spread of the virus. A similar strategy could even allow the disease to be wiped out completely.

The intriguing idea was first published in December 2008, in The Lancet. Back then, we reported how Charles Gilks of the World Health Organization (WHO) and his colleagues calculated the effect that such action would have in South Africa, which has a very high prevalence of HIV.

They worked out that giving everyone with the virus antiretroviral drugs would reduce incidence from 20 per 1000 people to just 1 per 1000 within 10 years, because the drugs keep levels of the virus in the blood down, making people less infectious – even if they have unsafe sex.

Nursing a broken heart this Valentine’s day? Comfort yourself that “broken heart syndrome” is now a recognised medical condition.

The syndrome arises when physical or emotional stress – often the death of a loved one – causes “concussion” of the heart, says the Wall Street Journal.

The symptoms, listed in a paper in Critical Care Nurse, are similar to acute coronary syndrome: chest pain and shortness of breath (dyspnoea), but the good news is that the condition is reversible. If you’re broken-hearted, rest assured that normal function will resume within a few weeks.

I just finished reading Sylvia Nasar’s biography of John Nash: the brilliant mathematician who did his best work in his twenties, was schizophrenic from his thirties to his fifties, and then spontaneously recovered in his sixties and went on to win the Nobel Prize.

Nasar says three things helped Nash recover – his own persistence in trying to get better, the support of his wife and friends, and the natural body changes that come with aging. He had not been taking any medicine, or in fact any kind of treatment, for his condition for the twenty years prior to his recovery.

The support of his wife and friends and no drugs: now that is something that is difficult for a lot of us to accept, and it goes against political correctness. In the film version Nash’s character claims that newest generation of antipsychotic medicines ‘don’t cure (him), but they help.’ The real John Nash, when asked if this was true, denied it, and attributed the ‘quote’ to artistic license.

Many ‘advocacy groups’ for mental illnesses praised the film, but Nash’s real experience (as opposed to the film) goes against their current official stand on psychopharmacology – that drugs are necessary to cure mental illnesses. It seems to confirm what anti-establishment psychiatrists like Peter Breggin have said: recovery from mental illness needs a ‘healing presence’ – one element of which is love and acceptance – rather than a prescription of medicines.

Nash himself has said he was lucky he refused to take his medicines and could get away with it. Taking antipsychotic medicines over years leads to a kind of mental fog, and causes tardive dyskinesia – distressing abnormal movements and tics – that would have made his gentle reentry into normal life impossible.

Of course, love alone is not enough. You need knowledge, skills, and resources. Medicine alone is not enough either, and it can actually be harmful.