Tropical Travel Trouble 004 Bloody Diarrhoea
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A medical student who has just returned from their elective in Nepal presents with 1 week of bloody diarrhoea. He has been in the lowlands and stayed with a family in the local village he was helping at. It started three days before he left and he decided to get home on the plane in the hope it would settle. He is now opening his bowels 10x a day with associated cramps, fevers and has started feeling dizzy.
Questions:
Q1. What is dysentery ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 12, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine amoebic dysentery bacillary dysentery e.histolytica entamoeba histolytica shigellosis Source Type: blogs
Expert Tips for Overcoming Food Addiction
Here’s how to take that first small step.
Food addiction is real. And if you’re struggling with food addiction, know that you’re not alone — I’ve been there, too. In fact, the younger you are, the more likely it’s your struggle.
From my past experience as a compulsive overeater, I suspect that many food addictions act as pacifiers for pain, fears, and anxieties, and even as ways to celebrate emotional spikes that are positive. Food seems to act as a life enhancer, while offering the illusion of short-term emotional balance.
As a food addict, you’ve established neural pathways and a...
Source: World of Psychology - February 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Eating Disorders Exercise & Fitness Health-related Personal Publishers YourTango Binge Eating Compulsion Food Addiction Healthy Eating obese overeating Overweight Weight Gain Source Type: blogs
McLean Hospital Launches the National Eating Disorders Brain Bank
This article was adapted from a press release issued by McLean and FREED) (Source: neuropathology blog)
Source: neuropathology blog - February 27, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Brain Banking Source Type: blogs
February is Eating Disorder Awareness Month
Canada, The United Kingdom and The United States use the month of February to raise awareness about Eating Disorders.Generally, eating disorders involve self-critical, negative thoughts and feelings about body weight and food, and eating habits that disrupts normal body function, and daily life activities.What causes eating disorders is not entirely clear, though a combination of psychological, genetic, social and family factors are thought to contribute to the disorder.Types of Eating DisordersAnorexia Nervosa ~ Essentially self-starvation, this disorder involves a refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight. ...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - February 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness campaigns awareness days eating disorders Source Type: blogs
How to Ditch Perfectionism
I was sitting in a coffee shop with my friend, watching her scroll through Facebook. “I don’t want to deal with another summer. I can’t handle the bikini selfies.”
Summer is still several months away, but I understand the sentiment. On Facebook, everyone seems perfect. Even the photographs themselves are perfectly lit with photo editing software or phone apps that let you clear blemishes or play with exposure. Whether my friend and I are uncomfortable because of seemingly unattainable ‘yoga bodies’ or because destination weddings are a trend, perfection seems not only achievable, but expected.
Being a perfect...
Source: World of Psychology - February 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Anxiety and Panic Habits Happiness Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Personal Personality Ambition Organization Self Consciousness Worry Source Type: blogs
Interview: Paige Elizabeth on Yoga and Recovery
It would be a lie to say I love my body today, but I can’t deny the fact that yoga taught me how powerful my body is and that is what I think about if I move too far into self-hatred.
Paige Elizabeth is a yoga entrepreneur currently bringing her brand of pragmatic instruction to the internet via her Dharmic Path business. She is one of only a handful of women in the world who have completed the Advanced B series of Ashtanga Yoga, a backbreaking series of poses concocted by Indian guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. But it is not the hardest thing she has done. Paige Elizabeth discusses overcoming a life-threatening eating disord...
Source: World of Psychology - January 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Eating Disorders Exercise & Fitness Publishers Recovery The Fix interview Paige Elizabeth Self Harm Sexual Trauma Yoga Source Type: blogs
The Eating Disorder Is Voldemort: On Using Metaphors in Treatment
When some patients start treatment for an eating disorder it can be emotionally and physically uncomfortable. In my work as a therapist I try to educate my patients as to why this feeling is normal. On top of the patient’s discomfort, sometimes it can be hard for loved ones to understand what someone with an eating disorder is going through while in treatment. Therapists routinely use metaphors for both of these reasons, in my opinion. The use of metaphors makes something that was previously unknown, relatable. I think it can be helpful to relate new concepts and hard topics to something familiar in order to make it easi...
Source: World of Psychology - January 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabrielle Katz, LCSW Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Books Bulimia Creativity Eating Disorders Health-related Psychology Treatment Women's Issues Binge Eating Disorder Bingeing Body Image Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 8th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 7, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Potential Influence of Gut Microbes on the Progression of Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is the name given to the characteristic age-related loss of muscle mass and strength that affects every older adult, and eventually significantly contributes to outright frailty. For the past decade or more US researchers have been agitating to have sarcopenia officially defined as a medical condition, with no success yet. Indeed, this is a poster child for one of the ways in which the stifling effect of heavy regulation emerges in practice. For so long as the FDA doesn't consider sarcopenia a disease, then it becomes that much more challenging to raise funding for research and development of potential therapies...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 2, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients
This report of an investigation that found that Averil Hart's death from anorexia would have been avoided if the NHS had cared for her appropriately. It highlights five areas of focus to improve eating disorder services.ReportParliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 8, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
How to Stay in Control When Recovering from Eating Disorders
If you have struggled with an eating disorder like anorexia, you most-likely know how to plan. By extracting a very basic human need, the brain must use a maximum amount of energy to deny instinct. Calorie counting, eating only at certain times of the day, obsessing over exercise routines, and meticulously shopping for the “right” kinds of food, are all examples of how an eating disorder can shape time.
Most people who struggle with eating disorders are ambivalent about recovery. They may want to have a life that doesn’t follow such rigidity, but worry about losing control. There are many reasons why some...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Impulse Control Self Control Source Type: blogs
Why Too Much Self-Control Can Be a Bad Thing
Self-control refers to our ability to restrain acting on momentary urges, impulses, and wants in favor of longer term goals. Who doesn’t want more of that?
Most of us think that it’s important to have a lot of willpower, to be able to resist temptation. We all hope that we’ll be able to avoid giving into that impulse to eat more ice cream, keep ourselves from expressing anger at a loved one, or make ourselves finish an important project even though we don’t feel like it. And generally, self-control is a good thing. Society needs people with high levels of self-control, those who can inhibit their momentary desire...
Source: World of Psychology - December 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jason Luoma, Ph.D. Tags: Anorexia Anxiety and Panic Depression Eating Disorders Habits Happiness Personality Psychology Psychotherapy Relationships Stress Treatment Dbt Impulsive Behavior Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy Reactivity Self Source Type: blogs
Mental Health Stigma: A Doctor Who Has Been in Your Shoes
Your doctor may relate to your mental health concerns more than he or she can say.
Imagine you are sitting with your primary care doctor sharing your symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD or anorexia. Imagine in that difficult and lonely moment, your doctor makes the decision to self-disclose that she not only understands your symptoms from a professional standpoint, but also personally as someone who also struggles with a similar diagnosis. What would you think?
My friend Eliza just finished her medical residency and explains that this scenario has played out in her head plenty of times, but never in person. She explains ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maggie Boyle Tags: ADHD and ADD Anorexia Anxiety and Panic Depression Eating Disorders Mental Health and Wellness Personal Policy and Advocacy Professional Psychotherapy Stigma Treatment compartmentalize general physician Mental Healthcare Proj Source Type: blogs
Eating Disorders Breed Disconnection
I have worked with hundreds of women who struggle with disordered eating and poor body image. Some clients obsessively track calories or Weight Watcher’s points. Some try to restrict their food intake all day then order large quantities of food to binge on at night. Some purge after meals or excessively exercise. Others restrict entire food groups. Some have tried every fad diet. Some say mean things to themselves when they look in the mirror, in hopes that this will motivate change. Some have found a community — in Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous — to hold them accountable or to reinforce their guilt...
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tory Krone, AM, LCSW Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Habits Health-related Psychotherapy Self-Esteem Stigma Binge Eating Disorder Bingeing Body Image Disconnection Isolation Shame Source Type: blogs
