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The biotype scurfy: homeopathic constitutions

Posted by admin in Medical on August 28th, 2009

We continue our journey through homeopathic constitutions. We speak today of the child phosphoric acid. It is rare that a child will have phosphoric acid, most often a carbonic that three or four years to develop its real constitution. However, already in the “baby” there are signs not being overlooked. The stature at birth is great, greater than 50 cm, while having a normal weight because the child is thin. The complexion is pale, your chest is long and narrow, and the abdomen is sunken.

In terms of behavior the child cannot live without tenderness, affection, caresses, and smiles. It is very lively, precocious, and affectionate but cries easily and grumbles. Suda just wants the “Biberons” scanty, but repeated. Even at this early age would like salty foods. Species grows rapidly in height, but also on the physical and mental. Its weaknesses are digestive disorders (not like milk, has often vomiting and diarrhea), dental eruption (very painful), and the agitation by sleeplessness. Towards the three or four years grew more in height, lean and lanky, with long, narrow thorax, winged scapula, sterna ridge.

Whole body, however, is graceful and harmonious. The teeth are regular but fragile, yellowish, easily decayed. The appetite is capricious, sleep variable and light. A child is mentally very lively, intelligent, and precocious. Loves history and adventures. A fantasy, a romantic or a little dancer, an artist. More and improved air improves very open to the sea and the countryside. It is very affectionate and attached to family, seeking and giving affection. His weakness at this age are the lungs and upper respiratory tract, but also the nervous system because it is easily discouraged if he is not surrounded by the affection of his loved ones. Gets excited and gets depressed very easily.

The teenager is emotional, romantic. Slender, elegant, distinguished, refined. The girl is blonde or brunette, incarnation clear, blue eyes and big, elegant, a model tall and slender. Both male and female, have a great success for their attractiveness and sexuality begins early. In studies are brilliant but they tire easily: the depression is soon, are indispensable encouragement. Literary studies, legislators, artists are their favorites. Weaknesses remain bronchitis, l asthma allergic to cyclothymiacs, namely the variability of the character with moments of elation alternating with depression.

The remedy base? Calcarea phosphorica. This drug has an action very deep, with a wide spectrum of symptoms. La C. The C. phosphorica acts with its two constituent elements: calcium and phosphorus. Calcium phosphate is present in all tissues except the elastic band. In the blood, lymph, plasma, saliva, gastric juice and in serous effusions. It particularly abundant in bone and teeth. Phorforica represents the drug’s choice for this type of constitution going to be included in the disease: structural alterations of the dentition, ossification, digestive, respiratory, and lymphatic and venous circulation of the nervous.

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Memo-film. Hope for Alzheimer’s patients

Posted by admin in News on August 12th, 2009

Project Memo-film is collaboration between the Municipal Film Archive and the John XXIII Institute in Bologna with the support of Unipol. This is a kind of film-therapy in which the protagonist and, at the same time, received the film is just the person suffering from Alzheimer’s. After finishing the film, whose realization is curate by the Film Library of Bologna, headed by director Giuseppe Bertolucci, the film is shown to patients every day for about twenty minutes to reactivate the memory and to promote the recovery of a sense of identity that unfortunately, the disease gradually fades to clear it completely.

Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative disease which affects the brain cells. This is a progressive and highly disabling disease that affects mostly elderly, although there are early form before hitting the half century. And the most common among dementia, about 70% of cases of dementia are due to Alzheimer’s disease. More precisely, the incidence of this disease is 5% in people over 65 years to reach the 40-45% in people between 80 and 90 years. To be affected in our country are about 800,000 people, mostly women.

Onset of the disease is insidious. Occur small memory deficit, neglect, confessional episodes passengers, and errors of assessment, restlessness or drowsiness. In the early days to be hit is the recent memory, while the remote is intact. For example, the patient may forget the road home, or taking improper behavior or inappropriate in the circumstances. Memory deficits gradually becoming more widespread and debilitating and occur several other neurological deficits such as apraxia and aphasia up to progressive neuronal degeneration that leads the person to be completely dependent on others, it becomes impossible for even making simple, everyday gestures like washing and dressing. The final stage of the disease is characterized by loss of control of all bodily functions and emptiness of mind. Finally, to lead to death is never the dementia but the pathologies that arise to complicate the course usually are around ten years.

There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, whose cause has been identified extra cellular accumulation of a protein called beta-amyloidal, deposited on the membrane of neurons, which form the plaques cause inflammation that destroys them. In the early stages can be used to pharmacotherapy to limit memory deficits, depressive episodes and / or anxiety, difficulties in falling asleep, and so on. Possible use of rehabilitative treatment as long as possible to maintain self-stimulated in a subject because maintain continuous and adequate attention and concentration, memory, awareness of themselves and what surrounds it. Precisely in this direction is the creation and administration of biographical films made on patients under the Project-memo. An effective way, and touching, to remind the patient and his loved ones before, and beyond, the disease, there is a person with its unique history and unique that no disease can wipe out.

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Syndrome Turner factsheet

Posted by admin in Syndrome on August 3rd, 2009

Turner syndrome, also known as gonadal dysgenesis, is a disease that affects only female subjects due to an abnormal chromosome X. The incidence is 1 female born in 2500. In most cases it is caused by the absence of an entire X chromosome in each cell in the body that normally, in female subjects, it has two more rarely are found in mosaic forms (the chromosome is absent only in some cells in others is present in two copies) and forms caused by chromosomal abnormalities such as structural members in one of the two X chromosomes is somehow damaged.

The syndrome occurs in more nuanced forms in those individuals with mosaic or those caused by structural alterations, and is most evident in the forms due to complete monosomy of chromosome X. The clinical manifestations typically include short stature, 1.45 m on average, a shield chest (rib cage wide and flat), short neck, swelling of feet and hands (peripheral lymphedema), poorly developed secondary sexual characteristics due to abnormal ovarian involving a lack of estrogen production. Women with Turner syndrome also have amenorrhea primary (absence of menstruation) or menopause early. Less than 1% is able to procreate. Can be added cardiac complications, renal anomalies, hypertension, increased susceptibility to autoimmune diseases and development of osteoporosis. In some cases there are myopia or strabismus. The syndrome does not involve mental retardation, although deficits were detected visual-motor and visuo-spatial that can cause problems at school, in this sense is of paramount importance that the quality of family and school that the child must be sufficiently supportive and encouraging attitude iperportettivo differently by family, friends and teachers could have uninflluenza negative effect on mental development of the person.

The life expectancy of women with Turner syndrome is not different from the rest of the population. Much can be done to improve quality by working on clinical manifestations of disease. It ‘may be administered somatotropin (growth hormone) to stimulate the development of the height and using a hormone to the 12 years to foster the development of secondary sexual characteristics of women. Through the administration of somatotropin was reached to obtain an increase in the height of 7 / 8 cm. Currently, the problem of infertility can be overcome thanks to the techniques of assisted fertilization. Any complications from heart or kidney should be kept under medical supervision.

Prenatal diagnosis is possible through karyotype analysis by amniocentesis (taking a small amount of amniotic fluid) or CVS (taking of villous chorion, the cells that form the placenta). The newborn with Turner syndrome presents at birth weight and length below average, swelling of hands and feet, skin folds of the neck.
Sometimes, when the manifestations are mild, the diagnosis is reached only once reached puberty when there is primary amenorrhea and short stature. More accurate post-natal diagnosis is possible through the removal of skin cells obtained from skin biopsy.

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