Cats
The exact incidence of cat allergy has not been established, but in my own practice it is one of the five most common allergens. Allergies to birds, gerbils, hamsters, and rabbits occur, although much less frequently than allergy to cat. Their exact incidence is likewise not clearly established.
If you are a cat-allergic person, you are well aware of the sneezing, nasal congestion, and runny nose that can occur within a few minutes of entering a home inhabited by a house cat. The substance responsible for these symptoms is a protein allergists refer to as Fel d I (this protein is the 1st allergen derived from Felines). Derived primarily from cat salivary glands and sebaceous (oil) glands of hair roots, Fel d I is primarily distributed by cat saliva and dander (material common to the superficial skin). Cat urine and feces contribute little to Fel d I’s load in homes.
Easily airborne, Fel d I appears to remain so for hours, even in an undisturbed house (a house with no one in it). Walking on carpet or sitting on furniture containing this protein causes significant amounts of it to be released into the air. A protein of relatively low molecular weight, it can easily lodge in the nose and eyes or evade nasal entrapment and find its way into the lungs, thus wreaking misery upon cat-allergic family members or guests. It will take months for the cat allergen to abate from your home even after the cat itself has been banished to the outdoors.

Dogs
Like cats, dogs are common causes of perennial allergic rhinitis. The exact nature of the dog’s allergenic proteins responsible for symptoms has not been delineated to the degree that that of cats and house mites has been. We do know that the allergens are proteins and that they are found primarily in the dog’s shed skin and saliva. They also are found in dog hair, blood serum, urine, and feces, but these are not the sources of our primary exposure.
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The design and operation of the human body and the way in which it operates on an automatic level never ceases to astound me. Among the things I find really fascinating is the way the human body knows how to hold to life, to protect its existence. As part of its innate knowledge about how to protect itself, the body tends to prepare itself in ways that I call the as if syndromes. The body changes of these ‘as if patterns of preparedness can cause physical symptoms in stage one stress breakdown. For example:

‘As If I’m fighting for my life
There was an interesting article in one of the medical journals a few years ago about the use of onions and garlic to reduce the risk of thrombosis, that is, the clotting of blood within veins and arteries. It was based on an old French veterinary remedy for thrombosis in horses, and it sparked off some witty letters to the editor about this proposed method of preventing heart attacks. An experiment was described where medical students going into examinations had their blood tested for its clotting ability, some of them having had a meal with onions and some having had a meal without them. The researchers purported to show that the students who had not eaten onions prior to the examination showed an increased tendency for the blood to clot as a result of the stress of the examinations.
What interested me more than the onions or their effects on interpersonal relationships was that the blood of healthy young people should be more ready to clot when they go ‘to do battle’ with the examiners. I have heard that people in hiring and firing jobs have a higher risk of heart attack. (Heart attacks are usually caused by a clot of blood blocking up the coronary artery to the heart – coronary thrombosis.)
It is as if the person going out to face some conflict has his body made ready to respond to a possible loss of blood. It is said that soldiers sustaining severe wounds in battle often don’t bleed much at all, whereas if a person sustains a severe, unexpected wound, as in the case of a butcher severing a femoral artery while boning the ribs of a carcass, there is a real risk of dying immediately from loss of blood. Clearly, readiness for conflict can minimize blood loss.
It is as if the body tones up the blood vessels so they are all ready to shut down the moment they are severed and the blood made ready to clot at a moment’s notice. Unfortunately, if the battle involves a politician under attack from his opposition having to defend himself against a barrage of criticism at question time in the parliament, the toned up blood vessels and quick-clotting blood would be of no good use to him at all. Instead, the increased tone of the blood vessels and the extra clotting ability might cause a clot to form in a vein or artery. I remember how President Nixon suffered from thrombosis of his leg veins when he was in a beleaguered state prior to his resignation.

‘As If I’m hanging on by the skin of my teeth
There are many patterns of preparedness characterized by chronic contraction of specific muscle groups. A common pattern is seen in the person who is expecting the worst and has the teeth clenched and the head held rigidly in anticipation. This may cause severe pain in the temporo-mandibular joint in front of the ear, as well as headaches and neck pain. In general, I find that people who are always psychologically bracing themselves for disaster tend to suffer with stiffness and pain of the extensor muscles of the body. These include not only the muscles at the back of the neck, but those of the shoulders and the lower back.

‘As If I’m starving to death
Diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes, used to be considered a psychosomatic disorder, particularly when it was discovered that the extra Cortisol released by the adrenal cortex under conditions of stress tends to increase the body’s blood glucose level and produce symptoms similar to diabetes.
However, there is now no real need to think of diabetes mellitus as a psychosomatic disorder (it doesn’t avail us much), because the treatment for diabetes is by insulin injections and diet, or diet and pills, or diet alone. However, I have been impressed with the number of diabetic patients who have in (their history a significant cause of deep insecurity, an insecurity so profound that they may have feared, at least unconsciously, starving to death.
In diabetes mellitus, the body behaves as if it only has fat from the body stores to live on, as if it is starving to death. The body seems to ignore food coming in to the stomach – with regard to secreting suitable quantities of insulin at least – and occupies itself with breaking down stores of body fat. The result is a combination of excess acid in the blood from breaking down fat, plus an inability to metabolize carbohydrates, with excess glucose flowing out in the urine.
Let me say, however, that while this theory is an interesting one and attention should be paid to deeply-held fears of being abandoned and starving, the correct treatment of diabetes mellitus is by the medically proven methods of diet, hypoglycemic drugs and insulin.

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Embarrassment about buying condoms is almost a tradition. With the increased publicity about safer sex, and the widespread acceptance that condoms will give you some protection against both sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, that embarrassment is disappearing. Gone are the days when you had to lurk around the men’s toiletry section of the pharmacy, waiting for the other customers to leave, then go through the awkward charade of asking the pharmacist for fifteen dollars worth of shampoo and cotton buds before you could pluck up the courage to ask for the condoms. The fact that you can pick them up off the shelf in the supermarket or the service station, or get them from a vending machine, makes them easier to buy.

One of the world’s biggest condom manufacturers, Durex, has designed a range of condoms targeted directly at sixteen year olds. The bright packaging, multi-colors and familiar chewing-gum flavors see to that. Now this marketing exercise is bound to draw harsh criticism from those who claim that .inning condoms at a teenage market is just giving them the go-ahead to ‘do the business’, so the manufacturers are expecting a controversy, but let’s take a look at the facts.
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Some girls faced with longterm unemployment see pregnancy and motherhood as a career option, without thinking through the implications on the rest of their lives. They need to be shown the unromantic reality of coping twenty-four hours a day with the responsibility of a baby, and all the restrictions that it entails.

Certainly another big factor has to be lack of anticipation. Unprotected intercourse often happens when it is unplanned, yet taking a condom along to a party means admitting that you are expecting intercourse. Interestingly, a recent British study showed that eighty-five percent of sixteen- to twenty-year-old males now believe that girls should carry condoms, so that attitude appears to be changing.

Adolescent health workers tell me that one of the reasons girls give for having unprotected intercourse is that they want to find out if they can conceive. It’s a way of testing their womanhood. By the time they find out that they are in fact fertile, they don’t want to know anymore. But it’s a bit late. They are then faced with the harsh reality that they are going to have a baby or an abortion.
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Although hepatitis is more widespread in developing countries, cases do occur in Australia. It is also a health risk for those travelling overseas.

Cause

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by infection with various viruses. These are hepatitis A (infectious hepatitis), hepatitis B (serum hepatitis) and non-A non-B hepatitis.

Investigations

The diagnosis of hepatitis can be confirmed with blood tests.

Treatment

If your child’s symptoms are severe he may need to be admitted to hospital for nursing care. A child with hepatitis A usually improves after 2 weeks, while hepatitis B can be a prolonged illness. There is no cure for hepatitis so treatment is directed to relieving symptoms and includes rest as well as a special diet free of fatty foods.

Prevention

Good hygiene and proper sewerage are critical in the prevention of hepatitis. If you are travelling overseas with your child to areas where there is a high risk of exposure to hepatitis, an injection of human immunoglobulin can be given to help avoid infection with hepatitis A. A specific vaccine is now available against hepatitis B. This involves blood tests and three injections over several months — discuss this with your doctor.

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Depression: I mentioned earlier that there is a direct relationship between feelings of loneliness and isolation and serious depression. The sexual needs of the developing person cry out for direction and understanding, for discussion and focus. Adolescent suicide is dangerously increasing, in part because sexual feelings in our young people are not tolerated and have few safe avenues for expression.

There are many myths about teen depression and suicide. If they threaten it, they won’t do it. If they are active andjnvolved, they won’t do it. If they are doing well in school, they won’t do it. If they come from a good home, they won’t do it. These statements are false. If you are worried, there is reason to worry, so reach out now. It is éîã just depressed people who kill themselves. Agitated, afraid, worried, insecure, hyperactive people kill themselves, too. Healthy sexuality is a key part of making it through the stress of young adulthood. Wrong turns on the love maps of these young people can result in death through sexual experimentation gone wrong. Some adolescents hang themselves to cause a high related to lack of oxygen while masturbating, failing at the last moment to control the lack of oxygen. This cause of death is known to all clinicians, but is not often talked about. The sexual problem, called asphyxiophilia, is one of the so-called paraphilias, problems with relationships and loving sexuality. We might hear the comment, “He never said anything at all to me about being really that upset,” after a young person has killed himself, because what he might have said was not something we wanted to hear or were too uncomfortable to allow him to tell us.

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True False

1. Women do not ejaculate.

2. Most women have orgasm in intercourse.    

3. Women take a longer time to respond than men.    

4. Women have sexual fantasies less often than men.

5. Women are less turned on by visual stimulation than

men.

6.    The more lubrication of the vagina, the more aroused the woman is.

7.    Women can go on and on. They do not have a re-

fractory period.

8.    Women relate sex and love together while men tend

to be able to separate the two.

9.    Women prefer one partner and are not interested in

variety.    

10.    Women do not like oral love but might do it if their

partner really wants it.

All of the answers to this quiz are false because each myth is based on the premise that men and women respond completely differently, and this is not necessarily true.

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Your mind-body system remembers every damage you did to it in the days gone by. If some healing in the past has not been perfect, because of other emergencies in your body (and mind), some of the damage remains unrepaired.

When you purify your body and mind, resources within your body become available, enabling repairs which are long overdue .

The effect of this can be quite’ amazing. Many people on various detoxification programs (oxygen therapies, fasting) observe symptoms of their past diseases in quick succession and in reverse order. Basically, you can expect to re-live every serious disease you experienced in the past. Don’t be frightened. This is healing. Your body is just fixing things which are long overdue. Symptoms are usually very mild, and they last only an hour or two. Many active people do not even notice such symptoms, because they are so mild.

I would like to give you just one example drawn from my own personal experience. At the age of 7 I had a severe ear infection, which was very painful, took a long time to heal and doctors injected me with lots of antibiotics. At the age of 42, during fasting I experienced the symptoms of this disease, accurate in every minute detail. I was astonished, because the situation was restored so perfectly, that I remembered not only my feelings from childhood but also the taste and even the smell of antibiotics I took at that time. The experience lasted only for a few hours.

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