Archive for June, 2009
Autism Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
Autism (say: aw -tih-zum) causes kids to experience the world differently from the way most other kids do. Kids who have autism usually keep to themselves and many can’t communicate without special help. Although treatment has improved greatly in the past few decades, autism cannot be cured. It’s estimated that three to six of every 1,000 children have autism. It persists throughout life. Some believe this increase is largely due to changed diagnostic criteria and/or societal factors, while others think the reason is environmental. Although the specific causes of autism are unknown, there is a large database of links between autism and genetic loci that span every chromosome. Other ASDs include Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (usually referred to as PDD-NOS). Some autistic children and adults are opposed to attempts to cure autism, because they see autism as part of who they are, and in some cases they perceive attempts of a cure to be intensive and unnatural.
Symptoms of Autism
Some Symptoms of Autism :
Avoids cuddling or making eye contact.
Doesn’t respond to voices or other sounds.
Injures himself or herself or is unafraid of danger.
Has a flat facial expression or uses a monotone voice.
Doesn’t understand hand gestures or body language.
Is very concerned with order, routine or ritual.
Treatment of Autism
Therapists use highly structured and intensive skill-oriented training sessions to help children develop social and language skills. Family counseling for the parents and siblings of children with autism often helps families cope with the particular challenges of living with an autistic child.
Doctors often prescribe an antidepressant medication to handle symptoms of anxiety, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Anti-psychotic medications are used to treat severe behavioral problems. Seizures can be treated with one or more of the anticonvulsant drugs.
There are a number of controversial therapies or interventions available for autistic children, but few, if any, are supported by scientific studies. Parents should use caution before adopting any of these treatments.
Vitamin C: Good for What Ails You
Bette Dowdell
Did you know that some animals produce their own Vitamin C? They never get heart disease. No atherosclerosis. No heart attacks. Just singing a song all the day long.
Sad to report, humans aren’t part of that happy group. Heart disease runs rampant amongst humans. Hark, Sherlock, might that not be a clue?
When things are this binary–produce Vitamin C and avoid heart disease vs. don’t produce Vitamin C and be in a world of heart disease hurt–it behooves us to check it out. (I cannot tell you how delighted I am to get the word ‘behooves’ in, but I digress.)
So here’s the simple answer: We have to take Vitamin C or suffer the consequences. Our inability to produce it on our own is supposed to be some kind of genetic defect. Who knew?
So let’s take a look-see here.
Well, as I just mentioned, Vitamin C protects the body from heart disease. Impressive, eh?
Vitamin C also helps the brain recover from anesthesia, so after any operation, stoke up on C. Better by IV, but do what you can.
And Vitamin C helps build collagen, the better to stave off the downside of aging, and I use the word ‘downside’ advisedly since everything heads south at an alarming rate. If you’re north of 25, be sure to take Vitamin C.
Not to mention that Vitamin C provides antioxidant benefits, which means if you eat, breathe or do anything else that creates free radicals, be sure to throw some Vitamin C down the hatch. Since antioxidants are death to free radicals, here’s to your health and all that.
And of course, there’s the old standby of taking tons of Vitamin C at the first signs of a cold.
And did you know Vitamin C helps the endocrine system–thyroid, adrenals, etc.? You betcha! The endocrine system craves nutrition. Drools over the thought even. If you could peer into your inner being, you might even see some slobbering going on. Very intense.
Plus, Vitamin C helps fight off anemia. Treatment for anemia should always include Vitamin C. Not all doctors know this.
This Vitamin C sounds like pretty good stuff.
Calling Linus Pauling! Calling Dr. Linus Pauling!
Some words of advice: Should you decide to take this wondrous substance, always take the complex, that is, Vitamin C with bioflavonoids. Vitamin C on its own can have a downside. And a little dab of Rose Hips ain’t bioflavonoids, though labels might make you think so.
Also, take a buffered form. Vitamin C is acidic; you do not want to make your body acidic. That way lies disease.
One good form of Vitamin C is EsterC. It’s naturally buffered, has some extra minerals to enhance its effects, and tends not to upset even the most delicate of stomachs. It’s just a little pricey, though. If not EsterC, get any buffered capsule in a health food store.
Start with, say, 250mg with a meal. After a few days, add another 250mg at another meal. Keep on keeping on that way. You’ll know when to stop because when your body reaches its limit, diarrhea sets in. Then you back off 250mg and maintain. After a few months of your body becoming used to the new regimen, raise it again and see how it goes.
Everybody differs in how much Vitamin C fills their needs. I personally take 6000mg a day (2000mg with each meal). Plus, I add 1000mg every four hours if I sense some dastardly germ seeking to do me in. (When you’re under any sort of stress attack, your body needs more C.)
Finally, don’t buy nutritional supplements anywhere but a health food store or an online equivalent.
People pay the big bucks for advice this good, so pay attention. Your heart–along with many other organs–will thank you.
Smoke Assist – Ways To Quit Smoking Cigarettes
How does smoking affects your life? Do you have any idea and are you aware of what it gives you? Some people consider smoking as their comforter, a part of their diet, a daily routine and are already included on their budgets.It relaxes them and makes them feel stable. It is quite a pleasure for them everytime they are smoking a cigarette of any kind, it depends on what they are already used to. But they are not surely aware of what might happen as a result of their rebellious smoking. What are the ways to quit smoking cigarettes.
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Quitting smoking is not that easy but you could kill the urge softly and you could use some strategic plans to do it. Like using patches, pills, drops and gums. Sometimes smokers find it difficult to quit because psychologically they already are thinking that they can’t quit. They can’t do it but basically they really can it’s just that they don’t want to quit.
Smoking cigarettes is NOT a natural or pleasurable thing to do. Can’t you see that the body rejects it? Smokers often cough, spit or not to mention how it tastes like. So why don’t we find the right ways to quit smoking cigarettes?
While every other quit smoking program is focused on helping you fight off false cravings for nicotine, hundreds of thousands of people who are sincere about quitting are sadly spending millions of dollars buying up expensive pills, patches, inhalers, supplements and gums in a losing battle to save their own lives. but it would be better to be determined enough to avoid it.
We have to find Ways To Quit Smoking Cigarettes, for we should start living a healthy life towards a better future.
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