Tree Pollens
There are more than 50,000 species of trees worldwide. Some 600 to 700 of these are native to North America, but only the pollen from about 65 of these has been shown to cause allergic rhinitis. As you would expect, the trees causing symptoms are those most commonly found around and within inhabited areas.
Tree pollens generally show little cross reactivity: that is, in general, you must develop an allergy to each specific tree pollen in order for it to cause symptoms. However, there are two tree families that are exceptions: the family containing the alders, beeches, birches, and oaks, and the family of the junipers and cedars. With respect to these, if you are allergic to the pollen of one member of the family, you will probably experience symptoms from one or more other family members.

Grass Pollens
A grass is any member of the botanical family Gramineae, which contains some 4,500 species. However, the pollens of only a small percentage of the grasses – mostly members of the same subfamily – cause the majority of grass-induced allergic rhinitis. These do so because they are widely distributed and release enormous amounts of pollen into the air each season. These plants are so ubiquitous that none of us is safe from grass pollen anywhere in North America. Even in downtown New York City, you can become sufficiently exposed to grass pollen to develop allergic rhinitis.
Included in the grass family are the cereals (oats, barley, rice, corn, wheat). Most of the cereals have large, heavy pollens that can be carried on air currents only for very short distances, not the miles required of pollens that are going to cause widespread allergic reactions. Hence, grass pollen-allergic people are unlikely to be triggered by pollens from a cereal unless they are in proximity during the cereal’s pollination.
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The goals of conventional treatments for all types of arthritis focus on relieving pain, reducing inflammation, maintaining normal function, and preventing deformities. Many treatments are used to accomplish these goals, including medications, physical therapy, and surgery.
The most widespread group of medications used to manage arthritis is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. NSAIDs are the most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the United States – between 70 and 75 million prescriptions are written annually. Aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn, Naprelan), and ketoprofen (Actron, Orudis KT) are common NSAIDs, but there are many others. NSAIDs are the primary treatment for osteoarthritis and are also used in mild cases of rheumatoid arthritis. They work both by relieving pain and controlling inflammation. However, they do not slow down the progression of rheumatoid arthritis; and as we shall see, there is some evidence that they may actually speed the progression of osteoarthritis.
Another category of drugs used to manage arthritis pain is analgesics, like Tylenol (acetaminophen) and Ultram (tramadol). These can also be used for any type of arthritis. They reduce pain but do not affect inflammation nor alter the course of the disease.
Many other drugs are available, particularly for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
All these drugs, including over-the-counter acetaminophen and NSAIDs, can be quite useful, but they also have potential side effects ranging from mild to serious to life threatening.
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This is an inflammation of the ileum. Food enters the body through the mouth, passes downward through the stomach into the intestines. The first portion of the small intestines is called the duodenum, next the jejunum and then the ileum. The ileum connects with the cecum from which juts off the appendix. The ileum may become blocked so that food does not pass through by masses of indigestible residue, by collections of round worms, by tumors, by having one part folding into another called intussusception. The walls may be infected by germs or viruses or become inflamed with swelling, redness due to congestion and pain. Such inflammation is called ileitis. The doctor diagnoses the conditions from his examinations including use of the X-ray, feeling the area, and listening for the movement of the tissues. According to the extent and severity of the condition the treatment may be palliative or radical which includes surgery. Surgery may involve removal of portions of the bowel, or by-passing the damaged portion through short circuiting which connects the bowel above the damaged portion to the bowel below it.
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease is an important cause of morbidity in the U.S. Clark et al initially reported that acute vigorous physical activity (running) can induce gastrointestinal reflux in normal healthy subjects. Moreover, postprandial running exercises further exacerbated reflux symptoms (secondary to disorganized esophageal motility) and correlates with exercise intensity. However, in a survey of runners and age, gender-matched sedentary subjects, Sullivan et al reported that upper gastrointestinal symptoms of heartburn, vomiting, and bloating were rare in runners during training, but became more common when these same runners stopped training, and was similar in frequency to the sedentary control subjects. Indeed the findings from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, which followed 12,349 participants over a 20-year period, showed that individuals who have been physically active over a long period of time have a lower risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease than do sedentary persons.
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Drugs form the mainstay of the modern treatment of asthma. Most other forms of treatment are unproven and have a limited place, if any, in the treatment of asthma in children. While allergens probably have a role in the triggering of asthma attacks, there is very little evidence that desensitisation (a series of injections designed to make the child less allergic to certain substances) makes any difference either to the frequency or the severity of attacks. Physiotherapy may occasionally have a role to play for some children with asthma, but generally the child is better off participating in regular exercise and sporting activities.

Consideration should be given to factors which may trigger attacks of asthma. Cigarette smoke should be avoided. Exposure to animals that cause symptoms (often household pets) should be minimised or avoided, and the child may be better with non-allergenic bedding if he is affected by goose-down or feathers. In some selected cases, carpets may need to be removed to minimise dust, but this is not usually necessary.

These measures should be balanced with the need to minimise drastic changes to the child’s and family’s living conditions. Change in environment of any significant degree may not be indicated in children with mild or minimal symptoms.

Some of these precipitating factors can and should be avoided. However, most trigger factors cannot be identified, let alone avoided. This means that the mainstay of management of asthma is pharmacological — the appropriate use of medications to prevent and treat symptoms.

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We must recognize that our society’s emphasis on the drinking/ sexuality connection is strong. “A few drinks and I can really get it on,” was one wife’s report. She means that she experiences sufficient anxiety and insecurity that a chemical is needed to facilitate sexual interaction. The natural chemicals from our own brains are available to us if we will learn to relax, to share, to give a priority to intimacy so that we do not need “quick drugs” to depress us just enough that we can have sex. There is no human activity that is helped by drinking, and if you doubt that, you may be taking very early steps toward a drinking problem yourself. Drinking is ingesting small doses of a toxic substance that affects our nutrition, judgment, speech, perception, coordination, and ability to be truly intimate. It is one of our society’s most serious problems, and the emphasis on the war against drugs should include alcohol as one of the major enemies.

During the treatment program for the couples, all alcohol was prohibited. Every one of the couples found that sex improved once

they were free of their “habit.” Our brains are preprogrammed to “get high,” but our own bodies and brains provide the natural internal chemicals for that high. We seem to have a natural reflex, a joy response, and this joy response is blocked by alcohol, not enhanced by it. The couples found an immediate improvement in communication without alcohol, although at first some couples were awkward, actually in a type of mutual withdrawal state.

“It was like a first date. We just always used to have a drink or two before sex. It was kind of frightening at first, but we really rediscovered each other.” This wife spoke for other spouses who at first resisted the sanction against drinking and then learned what it was like to respond drug-free in a sexual relationship.

If you have a drinking problem, even if you suspect one, get help now. You will not be able to stop alone later, and the earlier you get the help, the less suffering for all concerned. If you are drinking to change how you feel, you have a drinking problem. If you are fighting this issue as you read this material, you probably have a problem with alcohol.

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