5 Common Mistakes (and Solutions) When Dealing with Kids ’ Chronic Constipation
As a pediatric feeding specialist, my job includes helping kids become more adventurous eaters by working with registered dietitians, physicians and other team members to ensure a child learns to comfortably try new foods. One frequent issue in kids with feeding challenges is chronic constipation. Why? Because picky or selective eaters often food jag on fiberless “kid food” like chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese.
Kids—especially picky eaters—need to have regular, almost daily bowel movements in order to feel hungry and increase their desire to try a variety of foods. Steve Hodges, a pediatric urologist at Wake Fores...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Melanie Potock MA Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Feeding Disorders Source Type: blogs
Lessons learned from constipation
Here’s an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health about constipation. As uninteresting as it can seem at first glance, constipation can offer useful insights into diet and health, but not simple-minded insights like “get more fiber.”
A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional “solutions” can stray, Keystone Kops of health stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire. Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictabl...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 21, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel health cellulose constipation fiber grains prebiotic Source Type: blogs
Targeting Hepatic Stellate Cells to Reverse Liver Fibrosis
Researchers are working on a method of targeting stellate cells in the liver to prevent them from causing fibrosis when overactivated in response to infections, autoimmunity, and other causes of liver disease:
Liver fibrosis and its more severe form, cirrhosis, are caused by scar tissue that forms in the liver. The progressive stiffening of the liver, a hallmark of the disorders, occurs when a type of liver cell known as the hepatic stellate cell is "activated" and overproduces the stringy network of proteins called the extracellular matrix that binds cells together. Being able to turn cirrhosis around, especially in its ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Viruses help form biofilms
Bacteria frequently grow in communities called biofilms, which are aggregates of cells and polymers. An example of a biofilm is the dental plaque on your teeth. Biofilms are medically important as they can allow bacteria to persist in host tissues and on catheters, and confer increased resistance to antibiotics and dessication. Therefore understanding how biofilms form is crucial for controlling microbial infections. An advance in our understanding of how biofilms form is the observation that filamentous phages help them assemble, and contribute to their fundamental properties.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important hum...
Source: virology blog - December 18, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information bacteria bacteriophage biofilm birefringence liquid crystal matrix microbe microbiology polymers Pseudomonas aeruginosa viral virus Source Type: blogs
Hemostasis and Tissue Sealing Agents Market to Experience Significant Growth Due to Aggressive Marketing Strategies
The global hemostasis and tissue sealing agents market signifies the market for sophisticated hemostat medical devices. These devices are utilized to control excessive bleeding in operations and surgeries and have significant roles in assisting healing processes in surgical procedures. Introduction of New Products Driving Hemostasis and Tissue Sealing Agents MarketThe hemostasis and tissue sealing agents market is going through a steady growth phase. The major companies in the hemostasis and tissue sealing agents industry are adopting aggressive marketing strategies to increase their product penetration rate in the ma...
Source: Medical Hemostat - August 24, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Methodology Matters Greatly in Regenerative Therapies
You can't just throw stem cells or signal proteins to change the behavior of existing cells at injured tissue and expect reliably good results. A great deal of craft and sophistication goes into even the first generation stem cell transplant treatments, and the need for this complexity is demonstrated by the variability of outcomes seen in stem cell trials. The results are all over the map even for treatments that use the same types of cell to spur regeneration the same types of tissues. There are all sorts of factors at work: how the cells are cultured, how they are supported after being delivered into tissues, what signa...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 19, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Eat, pray push?
I’ve previously expressed my reluctance to dwell very much on the issue of constipation, but this common issue is one of the defining problems with wheat and grains, despite widespread conventional advice that they are healthy sources of fiber.
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 4 of Wheat Belly Total Health, Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities From Grains:
“A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional ‘solutions’ can be. Constipation remedies are li...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 30, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel movements constipation fiber gastrointestinal gluten grains Source Type: blogs
Can emulsifying agents wear away fat?
Taffi asks…Polyethylene glycol is listed as an ingredient in my vitamin. Does this mean it is pegylated? are pegylated ingredients harmful when ingested? I know ethoxylates can be toxic, but that might be minute exposure. Also, can emulsifying agents wear away fats/water from the body?
The Beauty Brains respond
I think this Wikipedia article on ethoxylation does a nice job of addressing your questions your first question. The bottom line is these materials are not toxic. The potential danger of ethoxylated materials comes from contamination with a chemical called 1,4 dioxane. Most companies ensure their surfactants cont...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Source Type: blogs
Just in the Nic o’ tine
A 21-year-old man presented with palpitations, tremulousness, nausea, and vomiting. He reported ingesting one 14 mg nicotine patch in a suicide attempt. Initial vital signs include heart rate 132 bpm, blood pressure 140/80 mm Hg, temperature 37°C, respiratory rate 26 bpm, and pulse oximetry 100% on room air. Physical examination is remarkable for agitation, fine resting tremor, tachycardia, and pressured speech.
The lethal dose of nicotine is estimated to range from 1 mg/kg to 10 mg/kg. Reports of nicotine toxicity have occurred with the ingestion of as little as one whole cigarette or three cigarette butts in children...
Source: The Tox Cave - March 2, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Just in the Nic o’ tine
A 21-year-old man presented with palpitations, tremulousness, nausea, and vomiting. He reported ingesting one 14 mg nicotine patch in a suicide attempt. Initial vital signs include heart rate 132 bpm, blood pressure 140/80 mm Hg, temperature 37°C, respiratory rate 26 bpm, and pulse oximetry 100% on room air. Physical examination is remarkable for agitation, fine resting tremor, tachycardia, and pressured speech.
The lethal dose of nicotine is estimated to range from 1 mg/kg to 10 mg/kg. Reports of nicotine toxicity have occurred with the ingestion of as little as one whole cigarette or three cigarette butts in childr...
Source: The Tox Cave - March 2, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The Prospect of Using Antioxidants to Suppress Damage Following Stroke or Other Brain Injury
Much of the damage done following an ischemic stroke occurs when blood flow returns: there is a sudden and overwhelming production of reactive molecules and cells die as a result. Given sufficiently potent and safe antioxidants, this harmful process could be suppressed provided a treatment is delivered rapidly:
Injectable nanoparticles that could protect an injured person from further damage due to oxidative stress have proven to be astoundingly effective in tests to study their mechanism. Combined polyethylene glycol-hydrophilic carbon clusters - known as PEG-HCCs - could quickly stem the process of overoxidation that ca...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 13, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Is MiraLAX Safe for Children?
In the small print on the side of a bottle of MiraLAX, you’ll learn that it’s recommended by the manufacturer only for people 17 years of age and older and that it should be used for no more than 7 days at a time.
But MiraLAX is given to many young children daily for months at a time – sometimes even for years.
MiraLAX and similar medications are laxatives and stool softeners using polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3350 as the active ingredient. These medicines are very widely used, work well, and are well tolerated by most children – so much so that the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatitis, and...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 25, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Babies & Constipation Stool & Constipation Source Type: blogs
Cases: Second-Line Anti-emetic Therapies for Refractory Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV)
Discussion:Nausea and vomiting (NV) are commonly reported side effects with chemotherapy.1 The primary pathway for NV involves the chemotherapy drugs directly stimulating the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ), in the area postrema at the base of the fourth ventricle. Activated receptors in the CTZ transmit signals to the vomiting center in the brainstem to produce NV. Receptors in the CTZ include serotonergic receptor 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3), dopaminergic (D2) and neurokinin type 1 (NK-1) receptors. In addition, chemotherapy can damage GI mucosa causing local release of 5-HT3 neurotransmitters by gut enteroch...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 25, 2014 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs
Understanding cosmetic ingredient names
Conclusion
The naming of raw materials in cosmetics share some characteristics with the IUPAC system used in Organic Chemistry. However, there are many differences and for some things it is impossible to determine the chemical structure from just the name. For more information, your best bet is to go to your company’s library (or your city’s) and take a look at the latest version of the INCI.
Do you have any ingredient naming questions? Leave a comment below and let us know.
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Source: thebeautybrains.com - July 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Beauty Biz Source Type: blogs
Vanicream Moisturizing Skin Cream – Look at the label
Vanicream is an elegantly simple formula that is particularly well suited for sensitive skin. Why? Let’s look at the label…
This product only contains a few ingredients that are relatively inert and it doesn’t contain the usual suspects that can irritate skin such as anionic surfactants and fragrance. It’s even free of “typical” preservatives such as parabens and Methylisothiazolinone, instead it uses a combination of sorbic acid and BHT. If the product was packaged in an open mouth jar I’d be worried these preservatives aren’t robust enough to protect it from the microbes in...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Claims Source Type: blogs
