Does Botox reduce the frequency of chronic migraine?
Doesn’t it seem like Botox is showing up everywhere as a medical treatment? Botox is a brand of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), a protein substance originally derived from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In its original form it was the toxin responsible for botulism, the paralyzing illness often caused by eating contaminated food.
BoNT is now used to treat a number of medical conditions including muscle spasms, excessive sweating, overactive bladder, and some eye muscle conditions. However, one of its most common uses is in the preventive treatment of chronic migraine. Chronic migraine, defined as headache occurring mo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paul Rizzoli, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Headache Source Type: blogs
Headaches: What to know, when to worry
Everyone gets the occasional when-will-this-day-end headache. These headaches may even follow a certain pattern. (Mine usually strike like clockwork if I miss my morning cup of French press coffee.)
But when is a headache cause for concern?
“Most bouts of regular headaches are not serious and can be treated on their own,” says Dr. Elizabeth Loder, chief of the division of headache in the department of neurology at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “However, being aware of the features of the different types of headaches can help you determine if your headaches are something more serious that requires...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Headache Health Migraines Source Type: blogs
To help restore healthy bowel flora, eat no GMOs
One of the most potentially harmful aspects of genetically-modified crops, or GMOs, are that such crops are often engineered to be resistant to specific herbicides or pesticides. A farmer therefore can spray an herbicide to kill weeds, while the GM crop plant survives. But it means that the plant now has herbicide residues in it. Or it may contain its own built-in pesticide such as Bt toxin, expressed by the plant because the gene for this pest-resistant compound has been spliced into the plant’s genetic code. So GMO crops pose a double-whammy: the crop itself with new genetically-programmed components, especially pr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 29, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates dysbiosis Inflammation prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Weapons grade chilli oil
UPDATE: Turns out these are Scotch Bonnets, up to 400,000 Scoville units in terms of capsaicin concentration. I’ve now chopped, deseeded and blanched half a pound of them to freeze and pickle.
I wore rubber gloves, a facemask and goggles while I did so, but the house is now full of their volatiles and neither Mrs Sciencebase nor myself can stop coughing and sneezing. I just touched my face with a formerly gloved finger that I thought I’d washed thoroughly and the skin there is sizzling gently…why do we use these weapons on mass destruction in food again, remind me?
UPDATE: I was talking chillis in the p...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - September 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Weapons grade chilli dressing
UPDATE: I blitzed them in the food processor today and converted the jar of pickled chillis into a lethal cocktail for drizzling into curries and marinades etc. Thought I had better put a hazmat type sign on the bottle.
Turns out these are Scotch Bonnets, up to 400,000 Scoville units in terms of capsaicin concentration. I’ve now chopped, deseeded and blanched half a pound of them to freeze and pickle.
I wore rubber gloves, a facemask and goggles while I did so, but the house is now full of their volatiles and neither Mrs Sciencebase nor myself can stop coughing and sneezing. I just touched my face with a formerly g...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - September 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
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Question 1
Is stuttering more common in boys or girls?
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Boys.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five ASS Austin flint austin flint murmur botulism botulus breath sounds broncho-vesicular King George VI sausage stuttering TLA TOF tonsil guillotine Source Type: blogs
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Question 1:
What is Stabler sign?
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Stabler sign: Non-...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 12, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicitis botulism cullen echinococcus granulosus ectopic pregnancy Francois Henri Hallopeau hair hydatid Kenya Rovsing's Selman Waksman Stabler's sign Trichotillomania trichotillomaniac water lily si Source Type: blogs
Botulism in The United States
Rates of food-borne botulism in the United Sates have declined somewhat since the 1990’s, while those of infant botulism continue to increase. [1] See graph
Reference:
Berger S. Botulism: Global Status, 99 pages, 90 graphs, 877 references, Gideon e-books https://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/disease/botulism-global-status/
Note featured on ProMED
The post Botulism in The United States appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - August 18, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: General Source Type: blogs
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Question 1
The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan, and only chefs who have qualified after three or more years of rigorous training are allowed to prepare the fish. What dish in Egypt is less well controlled and has resulted in deat...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 31, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five albert stevens bacon boil botfly botulism fesikh furuncular myiasis manhattan project obecalp placebo plutonium radiation second fracture Source Type: blogs
Why Bother?
For some reason I have had a similar conversation with different women on the same topic: why take tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors after initial breast cancer treatment. Aromatase inhibitors are Arimidex (anastrozole), Aromasin (exemestane), and Femara (letrozole)The conversations all boil down to:What if I get side effects? They have heard they are awful and could cause them some real problems. But if you don ' t even try them how will you know if you will experience the side effects?What exactly do they do? They don ' t really understand that they would reduce their recurrence risk by being on themWhy do I have to be o...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 8, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctors medications side effects Source Type: blogs
Preventing and treating colds: The evidence and the anecdotes
Oh, who doesn’t hate colds. You’re miserable, achy, tired, congested, and coughing. You may need to miss work, or go to the doctor. But it seems that no one really feels sorry for the person with a cold because colds are so common. “It’s just a virus, it’ll get better on its own,” says your doctor. “There’s no cure.”
Well, colds cost the U.S. an estimated 40 billion dollars per year considering lost financial productivity, plus spending on medical care, pharmaceuticals, and supplements (and that estimate is from 2003)!1 It’s just a virus? There’s got to be more we can do to effectively prevent and tre...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cold and Flu Health Prevention cold prevention Source Type: blogs
A Weak Admission
A 64-year old woman presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, dry eyes, and difficulty keeping her eyes open. She admitted to eating mandarin oranges out of a can the night before, and at that time she thought they "tasted funny" but did not think much of it.The next morning she noticed she was having trouble opening her eyes and that her mouth was dry. She looked inside the can of oranges and saw it was discolored.Her presenting vital signs were unremarkable. The patient was alert and awake. She had ptosis bilaterally, with mydriatic pupils unresponsive to light. The patient h...
Source: The Tox Cave - November 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Post #44 Transitioning Babies to Solid Foods
This is an unedited excerpt from my 2nd book, "What to Know Before Having Your Baby" - coming out in February of 2017.Because infants begin their life on breast milk, parents often think that milk is essential for their child’s diet even beyond the first year of life. While milk is absolutely important for the first few months of life, once babies can start eating solids, the value of milk (breast, formula, or cow’s) quickly diminishes. Milk’s main purpose is for humans (and animals) to provide an easy source of nutrition to their babies until they are ready for solid foods – which offer a far greater d...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - June 3, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
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Question 1
Who is likely to have given one of the first blood transfusion in the United States (clue: famous surgeon)?
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William Halsted, at the age of 29.
His sister had delivered her first baby and severe haemorrhage followed.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five blood transfusion botulinum botulism FFFF herpes zoster hutchinson sign jarsich-herxheimer melanoma syphilis topagnosis William Halsted Source Type: blogs
