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Will medical science increase the general age of the population?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.003-07:00

If I am 40 now, how old can I expect to become?
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yes it has been happening I guess thats politics to.Just study the history of life expectancy. We no longer have many things that could wipe you out to worry about do to vacination and miracle drugs like penicillian. Think about it in time of Jesus Christ the life expectancy was probably less than 33 1000 later in 1069 William the Conquer didnt make out of his 40s... It was still really low when Colubus discovered the Americas like 40 or so only since the last fifty years has people been able to live till 77Yet in Egypt 5000 years ago you had a pharroh live to 100. So they have increased but the limit is the same as always 120 and medicine cannot do it all your genes also does some to. And everyone is different so all medicines dont work for all people
THats why its so hard to diagnois or treat anybody because you dont know the exact complete state of that person like say a computer would need to know before it tried to fix what has them out of balance chances are many things and when they are sick a doctor will fix the main things because we have no test to give the exact and complete state of a human being. In which case the doctor job would be easy just solve the equation and find the best rememedy to put them back in balance but yes life expectancy due to advances in medicine have always been going up.Check the stats

that's a question for the politics and government section i think

it really depends on your own life decisions - diet, exercise, sexual activity, etc - however, technology is now availlable, for the extremely wealthy, to prolong life to the 140 year range!

Yes it will and has.Life expectancy is a function of more than just the therapies available to a given population ... it is the average number of years of life remaining to a number of people of a given age according to a given mortality table.Therefore, it is dependent on lifestyle, geographic location, nutrition, hygiene, exercise, genetics, and many other factors.The average life expectancy in the United States at this time is 77 years 5 months.Women typically outlive the average by several years.

will lortab show up as anything in just a normal drug test. one that tests for THC,opium,cocaine and meth.?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.002-07:00

will lortab show up as THC, opiums, cocaine or methamphetimines
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Yes. Lortab is a narcotic. The "metabolites" that are measured in the test will show positive for narcotics/opiates. They ask you ahead of time what meds you are on, if you declare them it should not be a problem.

LORATABS DO SHOW UP! They show up as a drug and they stay in your system for ever.--bowski--

so long as you got a script for them and let the drug tester know you take these it will be ok

Lortab contains the narcotic hydrocodone and will show up in a urine drug screen as an opiate. Your urine will test positive for approximately three days after your last dose. If you have a valid prescription for Lortab you don't need to worry,

it will come up as "opiums" (opiates).. 3-5 days and its out of your system.

Even though it's a controlled substance, it will not show up on your drug test b/c it does not test for any of the drugs you mentioned (maybe opiates...not sure on that though). Also, if anything shows up...you have an alibi. Make sure a drug tester knows before embarking on the journey of a drug test lol.

will lorazepam 0.5 mg make you high?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.001-07:00

will lorazepam 0.5 mg make me high? or "chill"? is it good for stress?
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No. you won't even know you'd taken it.It's good for relieving the symtoms of stress and anxiety as are all benzodiazepams. This is a very low dose, you will probably not feel any physical effect, but you may be less stressed!

Consult your doctor. Don't take any medicine that is not prescribed to you!

wut's that? sleeping pills?

Will looking at "trees" improve your eyesight?

2010-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:00

I hvae extreme nearsightedness on one eye, and my other eye is "farsighted"(about 15/20 vision but cannot see close objects as good as my other eye) Can looking at trees over a long period of time improve your eyesight? And do you look at the trees with or without the glasses?(or contacts)
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Hardly. Anymore than looking at hookers will improve your sex life.

It could help, but of course, you will lose all ability to see the forest. Do you really want to run that risk?

I have never heard this before.
I did hear something about carrots.

Of course not. See a doctor and get a proper prescription. Forget all the stupid, crazy remedies people with no brains tell you about and the paid whores on radio and TV push. One bunch is stupid, lazy and crazy, hardly the best to listen too and the other couldn't care less if you lose your first born child to zombies so long as they get paid so why do you think the pseudo-science they peddle is worthwhile. SEE (pun intended) a doctor!

Will lamictil (bipolar medication) make weight loss drugs (phentermine) LESS effective?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.003-07:00

I am taking lamitogrine (Lamictil) for bipolar I...but also am taking a amphetime sytle weight loss medication (phendimentrazie.soon to change to phentermine). Will the lamicital reduce the effects of weight loss drug? [these are both prescriptions, but neither doctor knows i am on the other]
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OH MY GOSH!! You have to be honest with your doctors! You have enough to deal with just with being Bipolar.. Medications definetly affect other medications. I would drop the weight-loss medication, because it is more important to keep your mind normal than your weight. If you want to lose weight, drop pop and try an easy exercise that you've always liked. I've had two brothers that were Bi-polar. They both took their lives because they wouldn't take medication.Keep your chin up!

Ask your pharmacist.

antidepressants may decrease anorectic response so yes it can make the weight loss drugs less effective.

Obviously the doctors don't know about each other. No reputable physician would consider allowing you to take the two together. You pretty well deserve what you get, and you're probably hypomanic right now to think you're being smart to play this kind of game. Come clean with your shrink. You need it.

will it hurt a person to take tramadol while taking methadone?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.002-07:00

methadone is a narcotic blocker. tramadol is not a narcotic, but is used for pain
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I wouldn't do it. I know they're both pretty powerful and both mood altering. I know that junkies use both so I would not combine them together, you really shouldn't need to. Methadone is usually used when someone is trying to get off drugs. Tramadol may not be a narcotic and may not be controlled but it probably should be as it definately alters the mood.

should be fine. is a narcotic tho.. a U-opiate agonist. tramadol isnt an antagonist at all so it wont put u in withdrawal.. be careful man. there is no interaction besides being really drugged up... its funny, cuz i was in ur situation like 5 years ago and had a ton of it and didnt know if i could.. i was scared it was an antagonist... never ended up taking it.. and luckily i dont take anything now.

Will it be possible to cure aging one day with advanded technology?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.001-07:00

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what is everyones obsession with immortality? by the way, if I were a Jehovah's Witness, the answer to your question would be yes.

What do you mean "cure aging"? Aging isn't a disease, it's a natural and beautiful process. Do you mean "curing" the physical "symptoms" of aging, like dry skin and wrinkles? Yeah, there will probably be more advanced treatments for that. Do you mean "curing" it in the sense of living forever? I hope not. Death is a natural part of they cycle of life, and keeps populations in check. Do you mean curing age related diseases like altzheimers? I hope so. Altzheimers scares me.

I don't believe that aging will ever be completely eliminated due to the nature of biological systems. It may be drastically slowed down, but eventually cells wear out and die. However, I am confident that lifespans will be greatly expanded...possibly indefinitely. The solution is continual cell replacement. As cells wear out over time and die, they can be replaced with brand new genetically identical cells grown from instructions in your DNA. For example, when your liver wears out, it is simply replaced with one genetically identical and in the shape yours was when your were 20. I think the advancements in this type of organ replacement technology we'll see in the next several decades will be amazing. It is definitely something to look forward to.So I think the answer to stopping death lies not in eliminating aging, but with replacing the cells that do age.

Only if you find a way to stop time.

Yes, suspended animation, which scientist tested on numerous animals, leading to the animals waking up from the dead. Which will, eventually lead to, testing it on humans, giving us some type of "extended lifespan". Because of the lack of expertise, there have been few cases were these animals had brain damage.

I suppose the answer rests partly in your basic beliefs about science and God. I do not think that we will ever be able to 'cure' aging- because I believe that this is, ultimately, in God's Hands. However, it is truly amazing what science has been able to do to 'ease' aging... the body, however, always seems to wear out, no matter how many advancements medicine makes... just my thoughts!

Will immortal life be possible in the future?

2010-05-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

Will immortality (or relative immortality, barring road accidents and the like) be possible in the future? Technology is always advancing and scientific breakthroughs are constant. There are those that say every disease will be cured some day, that the ageing process will be reversed or even stopped. And then if you read novels like Tad Williams' "Otherland" series, they bring up the concept of transferring our consciousness to a futuristic internet. In short, theoretically there may be several ways to achieve this generations down the line. Who would have thought some of our technology or medical abilities would be possible two hundred years ago?And so do you think it will be possible? Or if not immortal life, extending our lives to several hundred years by slowing the ageing/decaying process?And if treatment does become possible, will it be only for the wealthy like cryogenic freezing currently is?Do you think people born in the last 20 to 30 years came along too early to take advantage of this, assuming you believe it will be possible, or will something happen in our lifetime to extend our lives if we wish it?I'm interested in different points of views, but am not interested in religious views ("We are all immortal"), as I don't find them logical or believable.
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Yeah, I believe we'll become 'immortal' in a way. I doubt we'll be able to do it and remain sacks of meat, but just look at where technology is at and where it is headed. We're getting faster computers which leads to better AI, and robotics are getting better. It won't be too long before there are prosthetic legs that are just as good as real legs, and it's a small step from that to robots that are maneuverable as humans. Bottom line, we will eventually merge with our machines and even upload our consciousness into them. Sure it will just be a 'simulation', but that's what we are essentially, simulations run by our brains. Your brain is just a neural net and as we continue to learn how they operate it should be simple enough to make an artificial one. Check out this site and put on your thinking cap.
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A main reason that we age is because our teleomeres decay. These little structures protect our genes, and with their protection, our genes are able to function and tell our body to repair itself. If we could at least lengthen the lives of our teleomeres, we could lengthen our own lives because our body would be more able to repair itself for longer, instead of just shutting down and letting senescence take over as we age. I'm not sure if they know how to lengthen teleomere life any, but perceiving your life as stressful shortens their lifespans.But there are other factors too, so it probably wouldn't make us immortal!

WELLESLEY, Mass. 鈥?Ray Kurzweil doesn't tailgate. A man who plans to live forever doesn't take chances with his health on the highway, or anywhere else.As part of his daily routine, Kurzweil ingests 250 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea. He also periodically tracks 40 to 50 fitness indicators, down to his "tactile sensitivity." Adjustments are made as needed."I do actually fine-tune my programming," he said.The inventor and computer scientist is serious about his health because if it fails him he might not live long enough to see humanity achieve immortality, a seismic development he predicts in his new book is no more than 20 years away.It's a blink of an eye in history, but long enough for Kurzweil, 57, to pay close heed to his fitness. He urges others to do the same in "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever."The book is partly a health guide so people can live to benefit from a coming explosion in technology he predicts will make infinite life spans possible.Kurzweil writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots, which he calls "nanobots," that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won't even need a heart.The claims are fantastic, but Kurzweil is no crank. He's a recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize, billed as a sort of Academy Award for inventors, and he won the 1999 National Medal of Technology Award. He has written on the emergence of intelligent machines in publications ranging from Wired to Time magazine.The Christian Science Monitor has called him a "modern Edison." He was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. Perhaps the MIT graduate's most famous invention is the first reading machine for the blind that could read any typeface.
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During a recent interview, Kurzweil sipped green tea and spoke of humanity's coming immortality as if it's as good as done. He sees human intelligence not only conquering its biological limits but completely mastering the natural world."In my view, we are not another animal, subject to nature's whim," he said.Critics say Kurzweil's predictions of immortality are wild fantasies based on unjustifiable leaps from current technology."I'm not calling Ray a quack, but I am calling his message about immortality in line with the claims of other quacks that are out there," said Thomas Perls, a Boston University aging specialist.Sherwin Nuland, a bioethics professor at Yale University's School of Medicine, calls Kurzweil a "genius" but also says he's a product of a narcissistic age when brilliant people are becoming obsessed with their longevity."They've forgotten they're acting on the basic biological fear of death and extinction, and it distorts their rational approach to the human condition," Nuland said.Kurzweil says his critics often fail to appreciate the exponential nature of technological advance, with knowledge doubling year-by-year so that amazing progress eventually occurs in short periods.His predictions, Kurzweil said, are based on carefully constructed scientific models that have proven accurate. For instance, in his 1990 book, "The Age of Intelligent Machines," Kurzweil predicted the development of a worldwide computer network and of a computer that could beat a chess champion."It's not just guesses," he said. "There's a methodology to this."Kurzweil has been thinking big ever since he was a boy. At age 8, he developed a miniature theater in which a robotic device moved the scenery. By 16, the New York native built a computer and programmed it to compose original melodies.His interest in health developed out of concern about his future. Kurzweil's grandfather and father suffered from heart disease, his father dying when Kurzweil was 22. Kurzweil was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his mid-30s.After insulin treatments were ineffective, Kurzweil devised his own solution, including a drastic cut in fat consumption, allowing him to control his diabetes without insulin.His rigorous health regimen is not excessive, just effective, he says, adding that his worst sickness in the past several years has been mild nasal congestion.Kurzweil's interests in technology and health sciences have merged in the past decade as scientists have discovered similarities."All the genes we have, the 20,000 to 30,000 genes, are little software programs," Kurzweil said.In his latest book, Kurzweil defines what he calls his three bridges to immortality. The "First Bridge" is the health regimen he describes with co-author Dr. Terry Grossman to keep people fit enough to cross the "Second Bridge," a biotechnological revolution.Kurzweil writes that humanity is on the verge of controlling how genes express themselves and ultimately changing the genes. With such technology, humanity could block disease-causing genes and introduce new ones that would slow or stop the aging process.The "Third Bridge" is the nanotechnology and artificial-intelligence revolution, which Kurzweil predicts will deliver the nanobots that work like repaving crews in our bloodstreams and brains. These intelligent machines will destroy disease, rebuild organs and obliterate known limits on human intelligence, he believes.Immortality would leave little standing in current society, in which the inevitability of death is foundational to everything from religion to retirement planning. The planet's natural resources would be greatly stressed, and the social order shaken.Kurzweil says he believes new technology will emerge to meet increasing human needs. And he said society will be able to control the advances he predicts as long as it makes decisions openly and democratically, without excessive government interference.But there are no guarantees, he adds.Meanwhile, Kurzweil refuses to concede the inevitably of his death, even if science doesn't advance as quickly as he predicts."Death is a tragedy," a process of suffering that rids the world of its most tested, experienced members 鈥?people whose contributions to science and the arts could only multiply with agelessness, he said.Kurzweil said he's no "cheerleader" for unlimited scientific progress and added he knows science can't answer questions about why eternal lives are worth living. That's left for philosophers and theologians, he said.But to him there's no question of huge advances in things that make life worth living, such as art, cultural, music and science."Biological evolution passed the baton of progress to human cultural and technological development," he said.Lee Silver, a Princeton biologist, said he would love to believe in the future as Kurzweil sees it, but the problem is, humans are involved.The instinct to preserve individuality, and to gain advantage for yourself and children, would survive any breakthrough into biological immortality 鈥?which Silver doesn't think is possible. The gap between the haves and have-nots would widen and Kurzweil's vision would become ever more elusive, he said."I think it would require a change in human nature," Silver said, "and I don't think people want to do that."

WOW! What a long question. Do you really want to live forever?
You would have to have millions of dollars tucked away to survive. You would be too old to work to care for yourself.
And really, could you see yourself having to be with the same relatives for hundreds of years? I would go insane!!I can wait until death happens naturally. Then it's another journey...the other side.

Not even the stars in the galaxies are immortal. In a universe ultimately running itself down into total entropy, the meaning of immortality for physical biological beings is moot, since the end-entropic universe would have *no* chemistry.Here is an excellent short story by Isaac Asimov that addresses the question from a physicist's perpective.

Immortality? We are all immortal...until proven otherwise. This is a doctor's perspective. Death is usually an unacceptable outcome.

Will I pass my piss test?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.003-07:00

I quit smoking pot only a week ago, I will have a job interview in about a week and I know I am going to have a test. I was only a nitely smoker just to get to sleeep, 3 or 4 hits a night. I have been taking vite-b, niacin 2 times a day a multie vite and drinking lots of water and oj. Do you thik I will be ok?
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I don't think they'll hire you anyway, because of your grammar.

weed stays in your system 30 days. meth 3 to 5 days

the THC stays in your system about 30 days

I know this works for a fact because army recruiters used it on 2 of my best friends. Go to the store and by a frozen can of grape concentrate or maybe two depending on your size. Let it thaw open the can and consume the contents, dont mix it with water just take it straight from the can. You will have to go to the bathroom a lot but it will definitley clear your system DO NOT waste your money on a detox system at GNC even though they will work just as well. Good luck and happy crapping

traces of THC stays in your fat for about 5-10 days if you're not a regular smoker. A heavy smoker may contain residual traces for up to a month.
There are drinks you can buy for about $30 that will mask any traces for the entire day after you drink in the morning. (not a bad investment if it will help get you the job) You would need to go to some headshop that sells smoking pipes to find these drinks (or ebay).
Its unlikely you'll have to submit a sample AT the interview. My advice is to drink as much water as you possibly can the day you need to go to the lab. You'll have to pee every five minutes--but you'll be peeing straight water. And try not to eat anything on that day.

hello: if you drink a lot of water, and sweat sweat sweat all that THC out of your body..you will have a better chance of passing the test. it all matters about your body fat for that is where THC is stored. But the best way is to keep drinking A LOT OF WATER too keep flushing your system and also i recommend a steam room to keep your body sweating.

If they test you 2 weeks after you start. There is a chance on this. They may want to observe you for a bit to see if you are otherwise a good employee. The reasoning, why incur the cost of an expensive drug test if in two weeks the potential employee shows signs of anger management issues. Either way, THC stays in your body fat and is detectable for 28 to 30 days

will i pass my etg test?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.002-07:00

I DRANK 2 MARGARITAS ON MONDAY NIGHT AND HAD A RANDOM UA TODAY. IT WAS AN ETG TEST. I'M AFRAID THAT I'M GOING TO FAIL IT. I'M ON PROBATION FOR A DWI AND NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK (YEAH, YEAH I KNOW I SHOULDN'T HAVE), BUT I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF I WILL PASS! SINCE I ONLY DRANK TWO DRINKS. THE PROBLEM IS, THE TEST IS GOOD FOR DETECTING UP TO 80 HRS!!
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Presuming that you drank on Monday night/Tue morning YOU WILL NOT PASS the test as you are well within the reported 80 hour window.The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (www.samhsa.gov) has made a determination about EtG not being a reliable standalone test due to its _extreme sensitivity_. See link.This, however, does not excuse your behavior. You should get your problem under control before you kill someone else or yourself. You'll feel a lot worse knowing you killed someone than by losing your job or being put on probation.

since it has been 3 days, the percent of alcohol in your system will be very small.
it will mostly depend on what else you ate and drank that will soak up the alcohol and pass it through your system.
I wouldn't worry about the test.
I would worry about why you had to cheat and now are concerned!

Ewh! I'm afraid your chances are slim. Depends on what time you actually drank on Monday night, and what time the test was today.Sounds like you might needs some help with that drinking.. Good luck, I hope things do work out for you.

Will I have A probelm with withdrawals after quiting paxil after 6 days?

2010-05-23T21:17:00.001-07:00

Im having VERY BAD side effects and cant take it anymore. I dont want to suffer if I go off though.
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You should NEVER discontinue meds like these cold turkey. If the side effects are unbearable, talk to your doctor about switching you to another drug. If you don't want to take drugs at all, then talk to your doctor about tapering your dose.

It's diffrent for everyone but for me: i had no major side effects but you should call your health care provider, ask them how to taper off your medicine because withdrawal could make you suicidal.

When I ran out of Paxil I had a months prescription of Zoloft to help with any side effects of depression. Which I didn't ever get any depression, but I did feel the withdrawal off of the Paxil. That is why I was wanting to get off of it, there were times I would miss taking it in the morning and by evening, I was feeling the withdrawal of not taking it, and then the research I came across about taking it, made me want off of it more. So now I am roughly off of everything for 3 1/2 months now, and just now starting to not feel the withdrawal of the Paxil. Which is good, I am not depressed, but I am not getting the "brain zaps" either.

No you willl not suffer side effects form Paxil withdrawl after 6 days, as it take form 2 to 4 weeks to reach a theraputic level in your blood.

It normally takes 2 weeks for most medicines to immerse in our systems.2 weeks also for theraputic value.I personally did not like Paxil.But consult with your physician before discontinuing any medication,especially an anti-depressant or an anti psycotic!

check the site on paxil withdrawal called www.paxilprogress. net. You have to taper off or can get very sick mentally and physically. Check with your doctor before stopping. I didn't but used this site.

you have to go off it graduallly or it will have bad side effects.

oh yeah u kno that i sit and watch i love ny JUST ALL THE TIME and try to be like her when me saying that white boy lost actually doesnt have anything at all 2 do with that. but yea you can think that buddy...its ok. but yeah i was just saying that because you snapped on me whenever i asked you how you "thought" you knew that he won. and u so kindly put i dont "THINK HE WON" I
" KNOW HE WON" because you are probably some 12 year old little 6th grader going through puberty and thinks that anything someone older says is wrong. oh god..ur such a rebel! oh yeah now u can return 2 listening 2 ur panic at the disco cd while watching re-runs of the golden girls you little homesexual *** sucker. hope you learned that ur a complete fucktard and u need 2 go seek medical help emediatly. hahahahahahahahahaha its so funny thinking that you were like " AHH I KNOW HE WON AHHH" and then he gets eliminated and ur just like " AHHHH I DONT EVEN CARE AHH" ( the ahhs are a mixture of u bitching about your life and the extreme pleasure ur most likely getting from ur uncle gerald shoving his 8 and half inch **** into ur puberty going through with about 2 blond hairs *** hole ) yeah so next time u think u kno something.do a little research and find out if ur sources are actually true. Because if they arent..pss...that makes u look like the deushbag that u actually are. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ***** SUCK ******* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH WOW UR A FAGGIT HAHAHAHA I LOVE MAKING FAGGITS LIKE YOU UPSET HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ITS REALLY FUN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... FUKING COW ******* FUCKTARD ***** **** ASSHOLE LICKING BUT ONLY IF ITS A GUYS YOU ******* RETARD GO DIE OR ILL KILL YOU IN UR DREAMS

Will I go blind if the lasik surgery fails??

2010-05-23T21:17:00.000-07:00

Answer:
It could happen.

not necessarly blind, but i have a co-worker that had lasik done and now she has worse vision than when she started! i dont recomend it unless its a well known docotor, and they are board certified!

blindness would be faster than anticipated.

I had it done in March 2000, almost 7 years ago and I have never regretted it for a minute. If you are really concerned, do it one eye at a time. But really, it's very, very safe and you will be very, very happy afterwards, I bet.

you never know what could happen when you have a procedure like that, that is just part of the risks getting it done.

Will I fail the Hair Follicle Test?

2010-05-23T21:16:00.002-07:00

I do not smoke pot, but have been exposed to it on a number of occasions. Will it show up on the hair follicle test?
Thank you
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if it did show up, it would only be trace amounts. from this, all they actually can prove is that you have been around it, not smoking it.

doubt it.

Well i was told that if you are around it it can get into your system and it might show up but its like 99.9% that it wont.

If you haven't actually inhaled the direct smoke, your hair fillicle test will be negative.normal.If however, you have sat in a car or other enclosed area while your friends were clambaking..then..there is a strong possibility that your hair follicle test will be positive. Especially, if you remeber getting a contact high.Hope this helps.Hair follicle tests are not very specific tests for cannabinoids...in other words..they are often negative in people that smoke weed.GOOD LUCK!
Drink 4 liters of golden seal in 48 hours before the test...to lower the liklihood of a positive test!

depends on how long your hair is and how much you were exposed to

Will I ever know what, and if, that joint was laced with?

2010-05-23T21:16:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone,About three years ago, my friend, a guy whom will go unnamed, introduced me to my first experience with drugs; marijuana, chiefly. The experience I had goes as follows: My friend and I, a person with overwhelming anxiety, fear and perpetual misunderstanding of my environment -- schizophrenic, to a degree -- and surroundings, decided that the day for me to smoke marijuana was... exactly that day, three years ago.Was that the night of my life or what... He rolled the marijuana into the joint and added to that a sprinkle of what he later said was "tobacco". Completely sure that I was going to experience what exactly what he ascribed to smoking marijuana, I sat back and proceeded to allow him to roll my joint, and then we'd later go outside, as the night had just begun, and smoke our respective joints (he rolled one for himself).We smoked the marijuana, and about halfway into my joint, (question continues into the "additional details" section).
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maybe it had Ketamine or PCP in it ?This is a fairly detailed file which covers a type of brain damage known as NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity or Olney's Lesions (after the researcher who discovered it). It also covers other risks of using dissociatives, and how to minimize them. If you currently use, have used, or plan to use, any dissociative (drug which blocks NMDA receptors or which is a dissociative anaesthetic), then you should read this document. This includes ketamine, PCP, dextromethorphan, and nitrous oxide; see Section iv. below for more information.
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm_...p.s. find a better friend

I'm not as smart as Deesnut. I don't know all the medical detail. However, I can tell you that most "street drugs" are impure, making it dangerous. The way these substance were grown, supplied and cut was not regulated. When you smoke a marijuana/wet, you don't know what you are getting into your body-lead, mercury, animals/insects feces... It may not just be laced, it can be just seriously bad for you by itself. I do 911 calls in the inner city. We know when a new shipment come in because people start tripping all over the place and we get victims getting into car crashes or passing out and getting raped, assaulted and robbed. I am sorry you had this horrible experience. Please be careful when you choose your friend (rule #1-they don't try to kill you). I hope you are young and your body is able to recover from the damage of this isolated incident.

or maybe pot is not the drug for you

Will I die if I hold in a sneeze?

2010-05-23T21:16:00.000-07:00

Answer:
Your eyes pop out and you loose the right to breathe, so yes.

No but your eyes will pop out and u'll wish you had died!!

i dont think so?

nope i do it all the time especially during class

Yes

no.

A sneeze is involuntary, it's impossible to hold it in.

well im still here!

nope - not to my knowledge.

I have held in several sneezes because I was in meetings and stuff and did not want to interrupt what was going on. I have had no problems. However, a teacher of mine once told me that it was dangerous because he had a kid in one of his classes pop a lung doing it. I have no idea if what he told me was true and even it was true, how ofter something like that happens.

You probably wont die, but its not very healthy for you. My doctor told me that u can even burst your ear drum by holding in a sneeze. You sneeze so u can get rid of a foreign object or dust out of your nostril, if u hold a sneeze in, obviously it cant come out. Not healthy mi amigo

apparently not. i havent tried though..

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

yep you will prolly die. and you dont even want to know what happens if you hold in a fart.!

You'll hear better.

Yes, twelve peoople die each day in the Us from holding back sneezes. By the way in case you care, Al Gore invented the sneeze.

Death is not so simple, naturally you will let go..

I held a sneeze in once and my head exploded, it took ages to glue it all back together again and cost a small fortune on buying glue.
I also got my eyes mixed up and put them in the wrong sockets, now I'm cross-eyed.

No it escapes disguised as the rattle of a machine gun from your bottom.

No, but the power of the unsneezed sneeze will carry forward exponentially into your next sneeze, so the more sneezes you suppress, the more explosive and potentially fatal it will be when you finally do sneeze.
Follow the link below to find out what happens when somebody holds in more than 2 or 3 sneezes in a row.

will i be called "Doctor Jacinta" if I have completed my PharmD Degree?

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I guess it depends if your name is Jacinta or not. :) My PharmD friends typically don't use their title "Dr." at work or on their business cards. They just add the PharmD to their cards. I know PharmD's who teach often use Dr., but I think it's more common in academics. Outside of academics and medicine, I think use of the work Dr. can get confusing. My aunt still tells people I'm studying to be a doctor because I'm in a PhD program and I made the mistake of saying that I can't wait until the day I'm called Dr. She gets so disappointed that you'd think I had actually flunked out of medical school! You can ask people to call you Dr. if you want though. It will be true and it feels good too...so I hear:)

I work with lots of pharmacists, and we dont call them doctor. I guess it depends on the people you work with.

You can be called Dr. Jacinta, Dr. E, Dr. Enriquez (I made up the last name) if you have any Doctorate degree. Bill Cosby is a Doctor of Education and can be called Dr. Cosby. Attorneys have Juris Doctorates and can be called doctors but prefer you don't. They sue doctors.

You can in formal situtations.
You can sign your name like that too.My dad had his PhD and we ocassionally called him doc

I would think so. Some people I know have been called doctors after receiving their Bachelors Degree in Medicine. In formal situations you should be called ( out of respect) a doctor.

yes use it when waiting for a table at a restaurant, and to piss off your pea green user loser gf's

will i be a doctor one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The future is uncertain.Do you want to be a doctor? Then start doing things to prepare yourself academically . You might also volunteer at a hospital or get a job at a doctor's office to get close-up exposure to the field.Good Luck!;-)

Well if you work hard ,and be determined in it , No doubt you will be a doctor oneday...But you will have to put a real struggle .
Good luck

The answer is simple: no.

Perhaps you will.
Start preparing now by disciplining yourself to use proper sentence structure, with correct capitalization and punctuation.

If u have determination,then do everything that you are supposed to do to become a doctor.Would you like to be a physician or Do research in some field and get your PhD and thereby become a doctor? Try your best and God will take care of the rest

yea sure...you can do anything u set ur mind to as long as ur heart is in the job
do well in skool.study pre med, take the mcat, go to med skool, do residency...and boom ur a doctor!

yes you will if u r interested in being a doctor

will having an annual chest x-ray be harmful ?

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Answer:
a year apart should not be harmful. you probably get more raditation from your cell phone over a year, then from a x-ray.

NO, it is not enough radiation to harm you.

No, but why are you getting annual chest x-rays?

Unlikely. Are you doing this because of a positive PPD?

Will give 10 points for best answer.?

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Is there any technology or vaccinations for Cystic Fiberosis? If so what are they?
Answer:
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease - it involves a defect in the CFTR gene locus. There is no "vaccination" against it as it is not the result of a viral infection. The treatment is mostly for the symptoms of CF (e.g. lung problems, infection due to excess mucus, etc.); there is nothing, at present, resembling a cure. Probably this will not exist until there is some sort of gene therapy to correct the disease systemically. This is many years off, probably at least three decades.

You can do a search on the web for technology and vaccinations, but you should also consider a holistic approach. I have a friend who is an MD who knows all about how eating an organic vegan raw diet can help the body fight off diseases. Here's his site: www.ecopolitan.com

unfortunately, no, we do not have a vaccine for CF.

Will Cryonics ever work?

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They keep changing what and when it means to be dead. 100 years ago if your heart stopped you'd be dead...Now even lack of brain activity as in certain brain surgeries...isn't a reliable cut off. Who knows what Future Nanotecnology will bring?
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In my opinion, yes, Cryonics will eventually work. Vitrification, a minimally damaging process similar to freezing, is making huge advances. Within the last year, an entire rabbit kidney was vitrified, stored in liquid nitrogen, thawed, and implanted. (and it worked!) Before this, it had never been done with anything as large as a whole organ.Freezing and Thawing technology will continue to mature over time, and eventually work.That brings us to why Cryonicists spend the money to be frozen. Time. Decay, and every other cellular process, practically stops at liquid nitrogen temperature. If it takes 50 or 500 years for the technology to develop, that's ok, because it is the equivalent of less than a second of cellular decay at -192 degrees.http://www.benbest.com is an excellent resource.
http://www.alcor.org and
http://www.cryonics.org are the two primary Cryonics organizations in the US.Ejay Hire, Funded option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute

I really not want to wait around to find out. I just be cremated and Believe what Jesus say He will do for me. I would rather trust God and Greedy Man. Sorry I can not help you more. The link may help you though, this Cryonics Lab been around since 1972, I think.

Here's the rub. We don't really know what it is we are trying to preserve.For instance, you could store some DNA easily. Or, you could even do a gene by gene print out and store it digitally. But we know that a clone of you wouldn't be you.So, what is it that we really want to save? Is it the whole brain? The connections in a particular brain? The brain getting hormonal messages from a particular body?We just don't know what essential parts have to be preserved to preserve the sort of 'you' that you would recognize.Even then there is a problem. What if the brain is the sort of thing that has to be 'on', at least most of the time, to stay 'brainy'? There's a real problem. And what if what we need to preserve is impossible to preserve? There are quantum states that are by definition impossible to preserve, or even know about without damaging them.The long and the short of it is that simple cryogenics isn't likely to be the sort of answer we want. More likely is some sort of way to record the 'you' that is you onto another medium and restore from that. A sort of back up disk.

It works great on ants: If you freeze them (say to around 10 degrees), they lay still- immobile. Then, if you let them thaw out, they unfreeze, and crawl away as they unfreeze. I have done this experiment many times. I have read that it works well on at least some fish, too.

At the current state and means of practice, I see only problems for those preserving themselves cryogenically. To be frozen, you first have to be dead, so the problem is not just one of defrosting and reanimating, but of bringing life back. This will raise legal issues because the person has already died, what can there legal status be? Do they have rights? Suppose the changes in society (spiritually, financially, politically) are so great that the person does not want to live in that time, but law at that time forbids euthenasia or refreezing? If the changes in technology are not quick enough, how much effort should be required to store/transport frozen bodies to keep them safew from increases in solar intensity?Just keep it simple for me

Will contraction of a muscle occur if the lower motor neurons serving it have been destroyed?

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What about the UPPER ones?
Answer:
A controlled voluntary muscle contraction under these conditions will not occur. In fact over time a denervated muscle will turn largely into connective, non-contractile, tissue. This means that a person who has a say spinal cord injury over time will lose skeletal muscle. So if in the future the injury were to be corrected the persons muscles would be usless. Muscles can be kept alive using external muscle stimulators.

Not in terms of voluntary movement, ie if you want to move your leg, but have no lower motor neurons, you won't be able to; but if the muscle were to get direct stimulus (like an electrical stimulus, shock) it would contract. I think. I believe they use something like that to help paralzyed people regain ability to walk.

a lower motor neuron injury will leave you with a flaccid paralysis, meaning you'll have no voluntary ability to contract your muscles. the muscles may have involuntary spasms under certain circumstances, like if you become hypokalemic. also, like mentioned before, direct stimulation would also elicit an involuntary contraction.an upper motor neuron injury is different, depending on where the level of injury is. if the injury occurs at the spinal cord or brain level, then you may have a rigid paralysis, which is an abnormally sustained contraction of the affected muscle.

Will cold medication effect a ethylglucuronide test.?

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There is a new UA test which shows if you have drank in the last five days. It is called a ethylglucuronide test. If I take cold medication will appear as though I have been drinking?
Answer:
I'm not sure about the ethylglucuronide test, but on urine tests, cold medicines with psuedoephedrine can show up in the results as amphetamines.

Yes, but only if the medication contains alcohol (ie ethanol) such as niquil, or cough syrups, etc., as many cold medications do.

will cinnmon lower blood sugar in diabetics im a diabetic?

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i take a teaspoon in a glass of milk in the morning and a teaspoon in a glass of milk in the evening will that lower my sugar to normal ?
Answer:
If your diabetic shouldnt you be checking your blood sugar levels on a regualr basis like the rest of us and if you do why not just experiment and see. Take a reading before you try some, wait and hour or two and check it again and you should now which way it will affect you.

Yes, I heard from a dietitian that cinnamon will lower your blood sugar, so will cayenne pepper, there is a pill you can take for that.

Not that I ever heard, and I am Diabetic also.Mine does very well when I have 2 APPLES a day, with the peel. It has to do with the fiber. Eat more high-fiber foods to help yours go down.

That sounds like an old wive's tale. When I took Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2 we went into exhaustive detail about diabetes and I never heard any mention of cinnamon or any other kind of home remedy to lower blood sugar.
You need to take your medication as prescribed and watch how much sugar you intake. That's pretty much the only way to get it within normal range.

Here's a really good article on the subject. I'm leaning towards yes to answer your question.
http://chetday.com/type2diabetes.htm...

hmmm well INSULIN lowers b.sugar. and water does too. idk if it depends on type 1 or 2...2 may be different. but if u just want to keep it steady eat peanut butter.just a couple of spoonfulls on a piece of bread will keep it going good...

They got this new stuff out called Insulin.You can get it prescribed to you by a Dr.

The cells in the body - muscle, nerve, etc - need insulin to be able to use glucose for fuel. What happens in Type 2 Diabetes (aka Diabetes Mellitus) is called Insulin Resistance - the cells don't respond to insulin very well, so glucose levels rise and the body starts to malfunction. A number of studies have indicated that cinnamon has a glucose-lowering effect in humans. We believe that cinnamon contains a compound that increases insulin sensitivity in the body's cells. However, we don't know yet what dosages are most effective and, like any medicinal compound, it won't necessarily work for everybody and even in people for whom it does work, it won't necessarily bring glucose levels into the normal range - just lower them.My advice: Work with your doctor, if she or he is familiar with these studies and willing to monitor you closely. At the very LEAST, make sure your pharmacist and your physician know that you are taking cinnamon supplements.

will anabolic steroids show on a drug test for a job?

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Your question is vague, and probably needs clarification before you get a really full answer.First, if they are doing a regular pee/blood test, they CAN test for steroids. Although it's an expensive process, some bigger corporations have do so in the past. On the other hard, you have the lie detector tests, which you have little chance of lying to - especially if you just got off a cycle.I can't help you beat the lie detector, but a general steroid test would be easy to beat. Let's say you are doing 250mgs of test enenanthate per week. The half life of TE is 10.5 days. BUT (there is a BUT) after the half life is OVER, there is DETECTION TIMES! The Detection times for Test enan is 3months. What this means is that if you did your test shot today, it would NOT be out of your system for at least (+/- figure) 3 months 21 das, ballpark 4months. If you have the test coming soon, stay off the gear, but if you can time your stuff around the test, then do it - just be careful.Steroids Detection Times - testosterone enanthate
http://www.isteroids.com/steroids/steroi...Reference testosterone enanthate half life here
http://www.isteroids.com/steroids/steroi...Testosterone Enanthate Information
http://www.isteroids.com/steroids/testos...

no not for a drug test but it can show up if they test you specifically for steroids it will!!

No.

will acohol show positive on a drug test or will it not show up at all?

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If the test includes alcohol it will show positive for ethanol. Usually if the test is 48 hours after you drink the alcohol won't show. If you are over 21 in the US alcohol is legal so it shouldn't keep you from a job. Lots of people have a few drinks after work. If you are underage and are found positive for alcohol or if you are doing the test as part of a drug treatment program then it might look so good. If you are diabetic and spilling glucose then the test might show false positive for ethanol.

i don't think so i know alot of people that drink and smoke and so far the alcohol dose not show up

they only test you for drugs unless you have a alcohol and drug test, then yes it will depending on how long you drank before the test

When you get yourself tested for drugs, they are not looking for alcohol. It's the bigger stuff they are interested in like pot, cocain, etc. I would not advise you to party all night drinking anyway b'cause if they smell that on you then they will report that and all companies don't want people that drink too much.

The drug test has to actually test for alcohol. There are many things a drug test can look for, alcohol being one of them.Alcohol , marijuana, and cocaine (amphetamines) are the three most popular for employment testing.

It all depends on if they test for it or not, I was told once that a drug test I would be taking would show any alcohol consumed within the past 24 hours, however this was not the case, my test came back negative. This could also be because alcohol is only in your system for like 8-12 hours and I was drinking alot of water and taking niacin.

it depends on the test and the duration if its after a couple hours yes days it would require an extensive test but it would show as ethonal and it also depends on alcohol levels

Will A Pearl dissolve in a Cats Stomach Acids?

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Yeah my cat recently swallowed my Fiances Pearl earrings. I called the vet and they just told me to keep an eye on her and her stools... oh joy... but anyways I was wondering if a pearl will dissolve in the acids of the stomach. I dont think it will but I was wondering if anyone might have some better idea or information to lead me to my answer! Thank You!
Answer:
A pearl is made of calcium carbonate, the same material the oyster shell that produced the pearl is made of. Any carbonate is very susceptible to acid. The acid in a cat's stomach is not strong enough to completely dissolve a pearl, but it will certainly etch the surface so that it is no longer glossy.

I'm no expert but I'd bet on it coming out in the cat's smelly poop! Good luck!

not at all, if anything the stomach acid will destroy the pearl (if you're unlucky. The only danger would be if the earrings became lodged in the inside if the cat. then it would mean surgery for little tabby.

Keep a close eye on the litter box and you may find a jem.

OH POOR KITTY I think that you should just keep a close watch on her and WUV HER AS MUCH AS U CAN *the fiance and the cat*LOL

No the acid in your cats stomach is not strong enough to dissolve it. It should go right though but make sure it doesn't cause a blockage.

No. No more than corn desolves in our stomach

will a one off use of amphetimines effect a person who has epilepsy?

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A high dose can cause a seizure. Even in low doses it will cause lack of sleep which can also cause seizures. I wouldn't bother.http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/sportsan...

won't know till you try
be careful

Do not be an absolute plonker Rodney!!

I'd Imagine that you're not entirely serious with this question as there is no such thing as a one of use of amphetamines, Stick to prescription drugs...

yes it could. May affect some and not others on a one off basis. Not recommended though.

Will a blood transfusion alter one's genetic make-up?

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No. The blood breaks down fairly quickly anyway, and is only a temporary measure to give you enough time for your body to create it's own.

No, you don't turn into half apple half human after eating an apple do you? We eat DNA in food all the time. Nothing to worry about.

Red blood cells do not contain any DNA material, and therefore cannot replicate themselvles. Once they die, they have to be produced by hematopoietic stem cells, or replaced with another transfusion. So NO, it will not alter your genetic makeup.

No. Chemicals in blood is not strong enough to create such an effect and they are usually broken down after a week or two. Process such as radiation might cause an alteration to your genetic make-up, which most probably results in cancer

Of course not. Your genetic makeup is in every cell in your body, not just your blood.

Certainly not. Blood transfusion will not alter one's genetic make-up. However, as recently as World War II, the United States kept black and white blood separate because of just that fear.On 16 January 1942 the Navy announced that "in deference to the wishes of those for whom the plasma is being provided, the blood will be processed separately so that those receiving transfusions may be given blood of their own race." Three days later the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine, who was also the President's personal physician, told the Secretary of the Navy, " It is my opinion that at this time we cannot afford to open up a subject such as mixing blood or plasma regardless of the theoretical fact that there is no chemical difference in human blood." See Memo, Rear Adm Ross T. Mclntire for SecNav, 19 Jan 42, GenRecsNav. See also Florence Murray, ed., Negro Handbook, 1946-1947 (New York: A. A. Wyn, 1948), pp. 373-74. For effect of segregated blood banks on black morale, see Mary A. Morton, "The Federal Government and Negro Morale, " Journal of Negro,Education (Summer 1943): 452, 455-56.

will a antibiotic clean out your system of marijuana?

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Answer:
No, but quitting it will ~~~

No.

No. It's not a bacteria.

It's "an antibiotic" and if you believe one will clean your system of weed, you've been smoking too much!

No. Antibiotics kill bacteria. They do not get rid of toxins from your body.

No, but exterminator or terminator (i forgot the name but it's one of those) will get rid of all traces of drugs in your system. Trust me. It costs like $50 though for one dose of it.

Antibiotics kill bacteria. I don't believe that any residual components of the canabis molecule would fit that description.

no. Antibiotics are used to wipe out microorganisms, not remove pot...

NO!, AND I HAVE TRIED TO SMOKE 5 DIFFERENT KINDS !!

No. Try LOTS of cranberry juice and get some Goldenseal from your local vitamin store.

no, and if you're stupid enough to smoke it then you deserve to keep it in there a while, making you sicker and sicker

Antibiotics are for infections. I've never heard of an antibiotic to clean out mj.

NO. Since it's natural, it has to work it's way out. If it was chemical it would be rejected by your body in just a few days. If you smoke a lot or recently it could take as much as 30 days to completely leave your body.

YA MAN thats right. I did it once and i think it worked.

if you're lookin to pass a test...look into some stuff called "The Stuff". i dont smoke but i know people who tried it and they say it worked for them.

no. antibiotics do not "clean" anything from your system. antibiotics kill bacteria.if you want more information about your issue, try:STEAL THIS URINE TEST: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America by Abbie Hoffman

yeaah, sure. that's the ticket.

an antibiotic will not clean out your system of marijuana. an antibiotic will help the body's immune system fight against bacteria. Marijuana is a stimulant, if you want to clear it out, stop smoking it and drink lots of water. Eventually your liver will clean the body out of the toxins. Water helps your circulation become more efficient.

No, but if your lucky it will clean out your colon of all friendly bacteria, leaving you with a nasty case of diarrhea.

will a 40 milligram oxycontin give me a buzz?

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if so 4 how long?
Answer:
Oh sure, it will. clear up until they have to shock your heart back to beating after you DIE!! This drug is for people with terminal illnesses and those who are in constant, severe pain. You shoudnt even have it unless you are one of those people. The last kid I saw do this puked purple Exorcist style and was barely breathing. Sure, if thats your idea of a buzz, go ahead.
Hope its worth it.

It will kill u if u keep taking them

It might give you a "buzz" but it could also KILL YOU. Individuals who take a large dose of OxyContin are at risk of severe respiratory depression that can lead to death. Inexperienced and new users are at particular risk, because they may be unaware of what constitutes a large dose and have not developed a tolerance for the drug. Abusing OxyContin is illegal. OxyContin is a Schedule II substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Schedule II drugs, which include cocaine and methamphetamine, have a high potential for abuse. Abuse of these drugs may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.To sum it all up... DON'T DO IT!!

Heck yeah, watch out! BE CAREFUL... DON'T even drink with it...in fact, don't even start that stuff, it's like a heroin addiction...you're better off without a drug addiction, trust me!

if you've never done that **** you'll be throwing up and be miserable most of the time and probably make you fall asleep really u might want to try a 1/4 of it. that stuff is way strongeer than any pain pill you may have or may not have taken. Don't mess around with that because it's for the terminally ill and hardcore junkies.

40mg? maybe, but 80 is better.

Define "buzz"

Well you will get the kind of buzz you get when your redneck cellmate "Leroy", who you met after your incarceration for possession of narcotics, makes you his girlfriend and rents you out to others on the cell block for "dates".Yes; enjoy your little "BUZZ" Nancy Boy!

will it be better to go for operation in cerv. spondlitis,?

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i am facing huge problem due to illness. much headache, chakkar. rediculopathy and grade-1 spondlitis reported, taking medicines for past 1 yr thru sgpgi LKO dr s. jha. i m hoppless, now thinking for surgery. suggest kindly.
Answer:
Hi,There are 2 cases:
Case 1: If the doctor has adviced u not to go for surgery immediately then wait till he says so.
Case 2: If the doctor has given u a choice to go for surgery then definitely go for a surgery; because it means that the doctor feels strongly that u need a surgery and feels that since a small amount of long- term risk is involved he wants u to take the call on that.But i generally fell that u should not live in pain and if u have a choice from the doctors advice just go for it.Happy Recovery !

GO FOR THE SURGERY, YOU'LL FEEL MUCH BETTER

Most everyone has to make choices like this sometime in their lives. A good rule to follow is: Can you live with it. No matter what type of surgery, complex or simple, you need to weigh your quality of life against the risks and the probablity of a surgery's success. But only you can answer this for yourself. Good luck.

Wierd Fever?

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I've had a medium temperature fever for a few days now, but It has made me very lethargic, unusual for my fevers. And all of a sudden, I have a really fast heartbeat, I'm having hallucinations, and I have way more strength and speed than usual. I am not thinking like normal either. I keep imagining I'm falling into a pit and then I realize i'm not... I'm extremely dizzy but "powerful". The fever is around 102 degrees to 103 degrees farenheit. How can i prevent myself from going crazy, I'm even questioning my life, reality, and why I'm posting this question, HELP!
Additional DetailsAlso, I'm sweating like crazy and I have urges to rip off my clothes, which is never normal for me.Did imention i am so hyper, that i typed all of that in about 1 minute?I am not on drugs, nor have I ever been (besides advil and stuff) Nor have I ever drunk alchohol or smoked or anything like that.
Answer:
Well .. U need to see eiether and endocrinologist or a psychiatrist or may be both.These symptoms are more likely of generalized anxiety disorder

Sound similar to Thyroid Storm. See a real doctor.

If you're getting wierd in the head, it's past time to head for the emergency department (US) or A%26E (UK).

Go and see a doctor. Rest up good. Get well.

go to a doctor! in the mean time cool yourself off, taking a cold shower.
but just go see a doctor!

Why You Want T o Be A Pharmacy Technician?

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Answer:
i used to be a pharmacy tech and i really liked it.
you count pills, you answer phones, you can answer some questions, you do drug inventory, i got to do some compounding (so fun). its a job thats not physically demanding and it pays decent, especially if you are nationally certified.
It does get hard sometimes in dealing with patients; if they can't get their medication for some valid reason (insurance expired prescription) they tend to get emotional and the situation can get heated. other than that i really loved being a pharm tech.

i dispense medications in a large insitution. i am not a pharmacy teck . i did tell a friend to try it and she did. she makes good money working in a hospitail pharmacy . she likes the work.
i cant really think of a reason to not do that job. a person might get bored counting pills i suppose but there is a bit more to it then that.
here in canada you dont need to have the course to work under the supervision of the pharmacist. some people i know do that as well. overall i would say that is a good light job for a person .
not much stress no lifting overall a pretty good job.
i suppose a person in a large pharmacy might have some concern about the exposer to the different chemicals in the air dust from pills and fumes from some other drugs but i think only a pregnant women might need worry about that. she could wear a mask if she wanted . so thats about it.

To be honest I got into pharmacy because it is a valuable part of health care...but you don't have to touch anyone.
I really enjoy challenging myself and I find that being a tech allows me to do that.

Why wouldn't someone who has a 4.0 GPA in pre-med and 41Q in the MCAT be accepted to med school?

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I'm still a freshman in college and I'm taking med prereq classes and doing good, but what really scared me is that I was talking to someone who has just graduated from college and applied to several med schools but got rejected from them all, he sais that he had a 4.0 GPA and 42Q in the MCATs, why do you think he didn't get accepted?
Answer:
Most medical schools are looking for a well-rounded applicant. If you spend all your time in your dorm room studying, your bedside manner will likely suffer. An interview will help determine this, but it isn't everything. In an interview, you are more or less prepared for what is going to happen, and the interviewer is controlling the situation. In a hospital, things are a little different: the situation is often unexpected and you are trying to control it. Success in things like research (critical thinking), student leadership (confidence, willingness to accept responsibility), volunteerism (compassion), even social organizations (comfort around others) play a role in the evaluation of candidates.GPA and MCAT scores are usually used to set a cutoff for reading your file. All of the other stuff then plays in to whether you get interviewed. The interview is the final cut. I have seen some great "paper" candidates who went to the bottom of the list after an interview, either because they were very poor communicators or were too arrogant about their own qualifications.Bottom line, if you spend the next couple years making yourself a well-rounded applicant and practice your interview skills you will likely have your choice of Medical Schools.As a side note: some schools weight your GPA based on your school. Candidates from large, competitive public universities with very difficult "weeder" courses that are designed to fail as many people as possible will sometimes get a boos to their GPA, those from some of the prestigious private schools that will never give anything less than a C get deflated. Not everyone does this, but it happens.

He might have blew the interview, or he may have applied to schools that were out of his league.

wrong skin color

Did your friend join pre-med AMSA, have any experience with research, get published, volunteer in a hospital, have a good application essay and personal statement... the list goes on and on. Getting good grades and testing well is easier than putting yourself out during college and getting as much experience as you can. That defines a stand-out candidate. Don't worry. Most of my friends who have applied and been accepted to med school did not have 4.0 GPAs. They were published in peer reviewed journals (get in touch with a professor needing research assistants... that is an AWESOME way to get involved), in the Greek system, officers of science and pre-med organizations, and tireless volunteers. Your experience and the way you interview is more important that you'd think.

There are other reasons such a personality and outside activities. I was lucky to get in with a much lowerer GPA.

I didn't have a 4.0GPA when i was accepted. Maybe it was his interview or perhaps, all the other applicants that had interviews, were better. Or maybe, he lied to you about his GPA and MCAT score.I honestly believe that the only reason why I got in was because of my determination and ambition. If you don't have both, and MORE, then you are in the wrong field. If you don't know why he was accepted to school, and he is your friend, then maybe you ought to take a good look at what you are getting into, before you go in too deep.

There are a great many more applicants to med school than there is room for them, so admissions committees look beyond mere grade point averages and the MCAT. They look at things like community service, involvement in school activities - even records of deportment ( did your buddy ever get busted for spitting on the sidewalk?)
The trick is to apply not just to the schools of your choice, but those located off shore, such as the one on the Island of Grenada...those are often easier to get into, cheaper - and they provide JUST as good a medical education as a place like Cornell Med, Columbia, Harvard or Yale. In fact, if I were to consider going back to complete my medical degree, those off shore universities are the ONLY ones I'd consider - and yes, classes are in English!

Why would you not resedate with Etomidate??

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Why would you not want to resedate a patient with Etomidate??
Answer:
actually, the adrenal suppression is more of a theoretical concern. you can use an etomidate infusion to keep people continuously sedated if you wanted to and it wouldn't cause any problems. the main reasons for not using it are:1. there are more cost-effective ways to provide continuous sedation because etomidate wears off quickly. you're better off using ativan or some other long-acting benzodiazepine.2. etomidate can decrease seizure threshold. meaning in people prone to have seizures, etomidate can cause them to have seizures.

Etomidate is generally used for rapid INITIAL induction of anesthesia, to knock them out, because it is very fast-acting, but has no analgesic (i.e. pain-numbing) properties, so it must be combined with other anesthetics/analgesics. You would not use it a second time to re-sedate because it causes serious adrenal suppression with a second dose, which is obviously undesirable. There are other options available that would do the same thing without the adrenal deficit, and you probably wouldn't need rapid induction for re-sedation either.

Why would someone with a vitamin A deficiency might have dim vision at night?

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HELP...its confusing
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The retina of the eye is composed of cones, which see colors and need a lot of light, and rods, which see black and white and need less light. Vitamin A is used to make the chemical that enables the rods in our eyes to see in lower light.

Because the rods and cones in the eye are affected by low retinol(vitamin A) amounts and night blindness results. The condition is reversible by consuming adequate retinol.

"vit A" = "retinol"retinol + NAD(+) = retinal + NADH + H(+), catalyzed by retinol dehydrogenase.now, retinal is all-transretinal is ligated to proteins (opsins)
when light is absorbed, it switches to 11-cis retinal, which causes a structural change to the protein component -%26gt; ion flux -%26gt;... -%26gt;perception of light.

The substance or vitamin that helps you see in the dark better is called beta-carotene. Most foods that contain beta-carotene are orange and also contain Vitamin A.

Why would someone get rashes after gallbladder surgery, even several weeks later?

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Your gallbladder holds bile acids, which can be really itchy when they build up in your body and get to the skin. They can also make your skin look yellow or green, ie jaundiced.The most common symptom after gallbladder removal is diarrhea. However, jaundice has been reported. Was this person jaundiced even before surgery? Immediately after surgery? Or at least a few days after surgery?If jaundice was present before surgery, this makes me think that a stone may have been obstructing the common bile duct, so s/he should have had an ERCP to remove the stone as well. Or it could be liver or bile duct disease, most of which--at the stage of presenting jaundice--is not easy to reverse.If jaundice occurred right after surgery, probably the anatomical change and/or inflammation has led to bile build-up in the body leading to the rash. This will probably settle once the body adapts and the inflammation settles.If jaundice started a few days to weeks after surgery, that's more concerning. Call your doctor.And if the person has had fevers or chills, has been vomiting, etc., definitely take that person to the Emergency Room.

Could it be a staph infection? You should probably get that looked at.

go to www.google.com and then type in ur question.guudddddd luck:D

why would someone be changed from ranitidine to lansoprazole?

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Answer:
Ranitidine is a Histamine receptor blocker, similar to Benadryl or Claritine but with greater specificity to the H2 receptors in the stomach. It works by helping your stomach maintain its protective mucosal lining through secretion of bicarbonate and turning off inflammatory signals. It is a good first line drug, but in totality is not as effective as are the proton pump inhibitors such as lansoprazole. Proton pump inhibitors specifically block the hydrogen pump in your stomach responsible for the secretion of acid. This usually leads to better control of symptoms and allows for natural repair of the stomach wall by your own body. These drugs also normally have longer half-lives and so require less frequent daily dosages, and most patients do much better on them. It is standard medical protocol to switch patients from a H2 blocker to a proton pump inhibitor if they do not experience significant improvement or if symptoms are worsening.

Well, I was on ranitidine for many years, but since I have changed to lansoprazole, my life has changed so much, no more pain from acid reflux, I can't tell you how much better life is now! Quite simply it's a better product!

I absolutely agree with Greybear. my experience is exactly the same - lansoprazole is a far superior product compared to ranitidine.

Ranitidine is one of the earlier proton pump inhibitors (ppis) but the "prazole" drugs are more recent. They tend to be water sensitive but are still effective. Recent therapies for ulcers combine ppis with antibiotics to kill off helicobacter pylori which causes or exacerbates ulcers. Bismuth is also poisonous to h. pylori.

Rav hit the nail on the head. I am a pharmacist with 2 doctorates in pharmacy and 31 years of experience. Ranitidine is a H-2 blocker that is great for mild problems.
The proton pump inhibitor is far more effective in the long run.
They may take a little longer to bring relief but they are able to bring a greater degree of healing than any h-2 blockers.
(H-2 blockers include Tagamet (cimetidine) Zantac (ranitidine)
Axid, (nizanitine) Pepcid (famotidine).
PPI= Prilosec, Prevacid, Aciphex, etc.

H2 antihistamines like ranitidine are much less expensive but proton pump inhibitors like lansoprazole are a bit more effective, so if the former isn't working well enough it's a good idea to change. Though the percentage of people in whom they're effective isn't that great, if you're one of those people it can make a world of difference. And even though the percentages are small, the numbers are large.

The "ranitidine class" of drugs act to block the histamine-2 receptors. The "lansoprozole class" block the receptors of the cells responsible for stomach acid production. The latter are much more effective and will shut off acid production completely in the right dose to allow healing of ulcers, GERD, or any lesions that would not heal if stomach acid were present. Both classes of drugs arrive at the same result, but the latter are clearly superior.

Why would reticulocyte counts be increased in chronic blood loss, but decreased in Vitamin B12 deficiency?

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Reticulocytes increase in blood loss as a compensatory measure. Reticulocytes are immature RBCs, so their presence reflects an attempt by the bone marrow to produce more RBCs (driven by EPO -- erythropoietin). B12 is required for DNA synthesis and cell division, so synthesis of RBCs would be impaired. In fact, with folate or B12 deficiencies, you may observe a macrocytic anemia -- few red blood cells of larger than normal size. In this situation, the RBCs can grow and produce hemoglobin, but they can't divide, so they just swell in size.

Retics are immature RBCs. If blood is chronically being lost, the bone marrow is constantly putting out RBC's. The marrow cannot make the mature ones fast enough and often sends out the retics to make up for the low count. I don't remember why it is low with B12 issues.I saw your other blood question too. What are you studying for?

why would i need to have a bone scan done after knee surgery? should I be worried?

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They need a bone scan just to be safe. They need a before/after bone scan...It's like when you finish writing your paper and then go back and proofread it. No, you should definitely not be worried if the surgery was a success. The hard part is over. Anyways, good luck (as always)!

To See If Its Heeling The Right Way

They want to check to see how the bone density is for the surrounding bones.

NO YOU ALREADY DID THE HARD STUFF.

why would i become a doctor?

2010-05-23T21:09:00.001-07:00

Answer:
In my Opinion, Definitely Not Money.

Because, you want to help people??

You would become a doctor to help people, to learn about medicines, about the human anatomy, and/or because that's the career you want to have.

To make lots of money. God knows doctors arent in it to be compassionate to their patients.

Become a doctor: it is an opportunity to do life long service in a profession, without having to retire! You have recognition, esteem in society, and good income, too! You have people around you all the time, you are in demand, you do feel wanted!

why would you ask us? Thats up to you to decide.

you would become a doctor so you can see all that genitalia.!! yeah bitches!... woop woop

If you don't know than better don't! :)

because it must give you some positive energy on your body and mind.

Because it's your passion

since you say "would" id say thats your call but if youd said "should", id say if you care about people you might want to help them when they have no one to help them with a medical problem kasi theres a serious shortage of good doctors, and an even more serious shortage of ones who care about human life and care enough to think outside the box to come up with difficult solutions to uncommon medical problems. most follow a cookbook solution written in a book ages ago, and are lost without it or if the problem isnt covered in a book. you may just be the one to write the next medical journal. if you have the capability and i assume you do kasi you are considering it, id say go for it. i wont bore you with talk about the fact that doctors tend to get very rich, kasi that is no reason to do it. if you go into it for money alone you wont be a good doctor and we have enough bad ones already.

why not? if you have the heart for it.. just keep in mind that prior to being a full-pledged doctor, you will be faced with lots and lots of trials like not being able to get enough sleep, tons and tons of readings, less social life.. so if you're still up for it, then go for it.. the smiles of patients is very rewarding after a day's work.. and knowing you've been a very big help in giving a person a new lease on life..plus you never stop learning..

u should ask urself instead of asking us, because u r thew only one who will ans this question

To spend long hours and money educating yourself to help heal others. I don't think money is a good reason unless you are committed to the profession.

why would i be sent to a rheumatologist?

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I've been to 3 different doctors. The first to sent me to a rheumatologist. I saw the rheumatologist. He says I'm fine but come back if I have a symptoms . But I don't know what symptoms to look for. I can't get a straight answer from anyone. I know i was positive for two antibody tests one the doctor didn't explain the other was a GI problem and me being B12 deficient but my other bloodwork says my B12 levels are fine. My cholesterol is a little high. I can't get anyone to give me a straight answer and its frustrating. I've been online looking for why someone could be sent to a rheumatologist and there's a variety of answers. Any advice or insight would be welcomed.
Answer:
Rheumatology considers a complex breadth of disorders that involve rather obscure mechanisms and etiologies -- that is, it's really difficult to pinpoint what causes them, and thus difficult to determine how to treat them. Most rheumatological disorders are considered to have an autoimmune component that mediates chronic processes of inflammation that may be episodic, or more recurrent. You were likely referred to a rheumatologist because you had symptoms that were consistent with a rheumatological disorder, and it's sometimes best to let a specialist handle those cases, since they are likely to be more familiar with treatment options and such. However, I'm disappointed to hear that no one has adequately explained your treatment plans and disorder to your satisfaction, because that should also always be a goal of primary care. I would request from your doctor that whatever procedure is being done be explained sufficiently to you, such that you have a good understanding of what everything means and why things are being performed.The antibodies you referred to might have been anti-nuclear antibodies, which is a common thing to look for in some rheumatological disorders.

Without more information, it's difficult to specifically answer your question. I can answer what most rheumatlogists specialize in treating.A rheumatologist is a specialist in arthritic and rheumatic diseases and conditions. Diseases diagnosed or managed by the rheumatologist include:rheumatoid arthritis
lupus erythematosus
Sj枚gren's syndrome
scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
dermatomyositis
polychondritis
polymyositis
polymyalgia rheumatica
osteoarthritis
septic arthritis
fibromyalgia
gout, pseudogout
spondyloarthropathies
ankylosing spondylitis
reactive arthritis (Reiter's syndrome)
psoriatic arthropathy
enteropathic spondylitis
reactive arthropathy
vasculitis
polyarteritis nodosa
Henoch-Sch枚nlein purpura
serum sickness
Wegener's granulomatosis
giant cell arteritis
temporal arteritis
Takayasu's arteritis
Beh莽et's syndrome
Kawasaki's disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

It sounds like your first doctor may have been a little too thorough. You don't mention the reason you started this journey through the minefields of medicine, but you must have had a large number of tests, and when that happens, there are almost always some positive tests even in healthy people. Deciding which are "true positives" and which are spurious findings is often a difficult clinical problem. If you went into this thinking tests were objective "either it is or it ain't" things, as most people think of them, then welcome to the much more complicated world of real medicine, in which skim milk masquerades as cream. I'm sure they'll let you know when they figure it out themselves, but things are often not as simple as we'd wish.

You wouldn't be the first person they couldn't diagnos right. But if you have pain from rheumatoid arthritis I would suggest you go to healthquest.peoplesway.com and look at the products. Especially PROTEC. If you do not have this condition protec will just make you feel better and build your immune system and help alleviate problems you might not even know you have yet. If you go to youtube you can search peoplesway and see some videos on the products.

Why would applying heat to a cut will benefit hemostasis (the stopage of blood flow to prevent chronic bleedin

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Answer:
You are most likely refering to electrocautery which is done in a few well defined circumstances: during surgery to control bleeding, during endoscopy (EGD or colonoscopy), for the treatment of epistaxis (nose bleeds), or for removing skin lesions. There are a few other cases where it's used, but it's pretty uncommon.For chronic bleeding in the colon or stomach an endoscope (flexible stick with a camera on the end) can be passed through the rectum or mouth (respectively), the lesion can be visually identified and the electrocautery used to coagulate (clot)the blood thermally (the exterme heat causes coagulation instantly) and seal the vessels leading into and out of the lesion.

because heat will help cauterize the wound and also thicken the blood to help it stop bleeding

Applying heat to a cut will enrich flow of blood. I don't think it can stop it though.
Prevent bleeding, use coagulants not heat ^_^.And I don't understand your question, please rephase it.

This is like cauterizing your wound- like warriors in the past used to do. The negative side to this is that it may cause ugly scaring, even though it stops the bleeding and heals the wound.

It won't, it will make bleeding worse, by bringing added blood flow to the area to try to cool the area, and not allow clotting to take place. I have worked as a RN in an ER and ICU for 12 years and never put heat, only ice on a bleeding wound. Unless you are going to burn the vessel ends closed. (cautery)

Why would a young person who is drug and alcohol free have a decline in mental function? As in, they used to?

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have an excellent memory, but now can't memorize. Despite putting more effort into schoolwork, they can now barely pass when they used to be a straight A student without much effort. They constantly lose things and are very disorganized.
Answer:
A (woefully incomplete) list of possible problems would include:metabolic/endocrine: hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia
psychiatric: depression, attention deficit, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
infectious: Epstein-Barr, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Reye's Syndrome, Syphilis
congenital: Kearns-Sayre Syndrome, Werner syndrome
toxins: drugs, alcohol, medications
autoimmune: Rasmussen's Encephalitis
trauma: Traumatic Brain InjuryAs you can see, based on this small sampling of potential problems, expert advice should be sought (i.e. see a physician/pediatrician). It is not a wise idea to try to figure this out on your own.you'll read dozens of diseases that "fit you symptoms to a T"

This could be stress, depression, a learning disability or maybe just a lack of sleep. Try discussing specific changes with a doctor or guidance counselor.

You don't say how old this 'child' is. If he/she is a teen - there's a lot of hormonal stuff going on.. and it's all part of the growing process. All of a sudden, things become more important than school.. social life becomes number one...Of course, there can be real physiological problems - but if it's a teen - I'd give it some time.

maybe the skull growth has squashed the brain, as it slightly does to the eyes, making nerds appear everywhere, muahaha...jkProper sleep is needed in a quiet environment and keep the mind stimulated with thoughts and challenging things. Sleep enables us to repeat thoughts and remember them. We remember things by repeating them over and over again. I guess the young person has lost the enthusiasm as they once had as when they were a child. Stress must be handled as "good stress" ie. motivating stress, and "bad stress" ie. too much.

could be due to a number of reasons, such as decreased levels of thyroid hormone, lead poisoning, genetic abnormalities (ie. having turner syndrome), changes in diet (not getting proper nutrients), or just form being tired and burnt out!

Practice makes perfect. Practice memorizing, reciting, etc. You can retrain the brain even with the effects of aging-- unless there is some underlying medical issue.

the most common cause would be mental illness. schizophrenia or major depression. there's lots of other things that can cause those symptoms in a young person- drugs would have to be the top reason, but if you were to exclude that, then i'd have to say mental illness.

Why would a patient with a high fever weigh lighter?

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Answer:
Possibly because of dehydtration, and increased temperature consuming more calories than the person would otherwise

Water loss - dehydration from sweating out the fever. Water weighs a lot per gram.

High temp usually causes dehydration and loss of body water is probably the cause.

Why would a drug test b positive for Barbituates after taking antibiotics?

2010-05-23T21:07:00.000-07:00

Is there any reason a drug test would be positive for barbituates after taking antibiotics? Could the combination of antibiotics and a local antistetic cause this??
Answer:
As far as a screening test, many things can register as a false positive. Screening tests aren't designed to be a confirmation of barbiturates. Some folks are to cheap to follow it up with a confirmatory test. If you're certain you didn't take barbiturates, insist on a confirmatory test. Confirmatory tests are much more expensive, but rarely have false positives. Neither should register positive for Barbiturates in a confirmatory test.Local anesthetics contain no barbiturates. Certainly antibiotics don't.

no - but next time eat a poppy seed muffin for breakfast and you will pop hot as poppies are the source for ------.

The anesthetic might be a barbituate of some kind. The antibiotics have nothing to do with it.

why would a doctor say..?

2009-11-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

i broke my wrist and had surgery on it friday. i am going for a cast on tuesday but the doc told me after my surgery that i cant use my arm for 6 weeks. so i understand that i cant use it now, because i am in a sling and splint, but why after i get the cast wont i be able to write? or drive? shouldnt the cast hold it in place enough that i can semi use it?
Answer:
Although the cast will hold it in place, I think it might be a good idea to try to keep it as stabilized as possible, to help the healing process.Or it might be that he said it because it is pretty difficult to try to have full function of your arm with the cast on. It's a hard plaster covering-- your range of motion is pretty limited. I'm not sure if driving is a good idea, because you won't have very good control of your car. I'm not a doctor, so ask him if you're not sure!

Because with surgery you have other issues beside the break now. How much tissue and muscle did he have to cut into, Were the tendons effected. There could be many reasons you can use your wrist cast and all after surgery.. Good luck to you and hope you heal quickly with the least amount of pain.

well the doctors looking out for you he probably thinks that your wrist can move enough in the cast that it can break again!!you probably shouldnt even be wrighting!!

The cast is put to keep your arm in toyal rest position so that bone can heal in its orignal position.Without cast you will start using it and bone will not come to its orignal postion.

The reason they don't want you to use it...even a little.., is because the muscles are actually attached TO the bone. And if you use those muscles you will be subtly pulling on that bone in ways that you aren't even aware of. And in pulling on the bone it will not mesh properly and will prevent it from healing as fast as it could. Sorry but if you want to heal the right way then just DON'T use that arm or hand at all. At least not until he tells you. It's just for a few weeks. You can deal.

Pain would be a good reason to avoid those things. The bones will be held in place, but all the soft tissue will be traumatized after the surgery.

The reason that you are waiting to get a cast is so the swelling can go down and the cast will fit. You shouldn't put any excess weight on that arm until after your checkup...post cast. Some people heal quicker then others but you don't want to jeopardize a second surgery by doing too much.

Why would a doctor not want to take medicare patients?

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Answer:
Doctors recieve signifigantly less reimbursement for medicare and medicade patients. It takes longer to get paid.
Medicare also periodically changes what they will pay for and requires much more paperwork.
THey also will choose not to pay for some claims if the I's are not dotted and the T's are not crossed jus the way that they like.

CAUSE ALOT OF DOCTORS DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH INSURANCES ..IT IS PROBABLY MORE THAN MEDICARE YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED ALOT OF DOCTORS HAVE TO WAIT TO BE REIMBURSED FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES!

Too much paperwork involved in processing claims with the govt.Govt is slow about re-imbursing the Dr. for his efforts.Govt doesn't always fully reimburse the Dr for the work he has done.

Depending on what type of doctor. A family practice doctor doesn't except all types of insurances. Doctors in hospitals don't want to take the patients because of the way they act. It is very common that doctors in a hospital pass around the patients. Surgeons don't like to take patients because of their age, condition. Surgeons like to have high stats, every time a patient dies in the OR their stats go down so they don't want there stats to go down so they just don't except the patients.

Why won't people use stem cell research?

2009-11-07T06:48:00.000-08:00

Stem cell research only would use fetuses from abortions, which are legal, and would otherwise go to waste. Why do people have such a problem with it? It CAN cure Cancer, Aids, and heal the body (parapalegic people could walk again!)
Answer:
The latest trends is to obtain the stem cells from the amniotic fluid of the Foetusses and not the aborted foetusses itself.Scientists seem to believe that by amniocenthesis (a small puncture of the amniotic sac) they can get enough fluid containing the Stem cell.Isn't that a breakthrough the controversial issue you brought up.?

I dont want to kill a baby to get over my own illness

So is it ok that Hitler's SS generals were making lampshades out of the skin of murdered humans? Hey, they were already dead anyway. Right?? So what's the problem?Now that I shot the first part of your question out of the sky, there is no proof that stem cell research will cure any human disease or condition. So when you say "It CAN cure Cancer, Aids", etc., you are absolutely wrong.

No one knows if it can cure cancer or aids, that is speculation and we still have a long way to go before accomplishing that. Stem cell research's primary resistance comes from christians, who beleive that humans should not "tinker" on that level. I beleive they should allow stem cell research, but a lot of people think it is unethical.

Its the same as donating your body to science except that it isn't your body. A dead fetus has no legal rights so it should be down to the parents. However stem cells I believe come from growing embryos which might have become a person in 8 months. This is why the church doesn't like it.

I understand what you mean, but a lot of people would be against it because they feel like it's not right or something. I'm all for researching it. I just don't think it should come to a point where someone gets an abortion just for the stem cell research.

Why Winter is a pain in the butt.?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.003-08:00

Answer:
slippery ICE

not here in san diego california

My bones ace and ice

Dark, drab, cloudy, sunless days! one of the few reasons why I plan on moving to Arizona in the near future.

no sun ,all colors grey, we feel cold and sleepy.

Actualy... I love winter.

Why wings of Propeller or turboprop aircraft are located on the upper side of the fuselage?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.002-08:00

Answer:
It's not true that all the propeller driven aircrafts are high wing (i. e. with wings above the fuselage). There are well known examples of propeller aircrafts which were low wing (i.e. with wings below the fuselage), like DC-3 Dakota, Super Constellation, etc.

not necessarily, their are "low wing" and "High Wing" aircraft, if you mean "Why is it forward toward the nose of the aircraft", it is because, the smaller wing in the rear balances the science of "Flight".

One reason for this very simple - it prevents the propellors hitting the ground in a hard landing. It may also assist in take-off - reducing turbulence under the aircraft.

One reason, is so that the pilot is able to see more of what is under the craft than if the wing were attached to the underside of the fuselage, as is the case with most WWII combat fighters. Another is that with the fuselage hanging from the wings instead of pushing down upon the wings, even if the craft is improperly balanced from nose to tail, the craft can still maintain an upright flying position when the controls are completely released, whereas WWII fighter pilots almost ALWAYS had to keep a hand on their controls to keep from pitching into a dive or to keep from pitching up, losing airspeed, and stalling, into a dive.So, I guess both of my reasons could be summed up as being for safety.

why when you make a circle over your head with a cup of wather, it doesn't comes out of the glass??

2009-11-07T06:47:00.001-08:00

Answer:
It's the centripetal force that pushes the water towards the centre of the circle. If you go fast enough the cetripetal force will be greater than gravity and your water won't spill.F(c) = m V^2/r and F(g) = mgTo stop the water falling out of the cup V^2/R %26gt;G
(Where G =9.81m/s).P.S. This would have been better in the Physics section.

I think it is called centrifical force. There is enough force pushing up on the water to overcome gravity and keep the water in the glass.

Why when andrenergic blockers decrease the sympathetic nervous system do they cause tachycardia?

2009-11-07T06:47:00.000-08:00

Answer:
they don't- adrenergic blockers (commonly called beta blockers) would all cause bradycardia. stimulation of the beta-1 receptor would cause an increase in heart rate. blocking that receptor, which is what you would do with a beta blocker, would therefore cause a decrease in heart rate.

Alpha adrenergic blockers cause a reflex tachycardia. I answered your question when you asked it again.

why we use alcohol 70% has decontaminator in biology lab?

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Answer:
Disinfecting power peaks at around 70% ethanol (ethyl alcohol); stronger and weaker concentrations have less ability to disinfect. Ethyl alcohol kills organisms by denaturing proteins and dissolving lipids, and so works on most bacteria and fungi, and many viruses.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ethanol#oth...

coz alcohol dissolves the lipids in the bacterial cell wall and thus kills it!

We use alcohol because it have many praporty like priservation it is a good vicheal and its help in many reaction and also kill bactaria l

70% alcohol can cause maximum ionization of bacteria.this property is restricted to 70% %26 even alcohol having strength above 70% has less ionizing power.

why we said doctors work, practise ?

2009-11-07T06:46:00.000-08:00

Answer:
Practice, in the older English language, did not mean only learning exercises. It meant getting experience. The term practice is used for the practical (and not so practical) application of many skills. We practice engineering, monogamy, magic, the dark arts, Catholocism, accounting, etc. So the use of the word "practice" for the working application is not restricted to medicine.

Technology and new information constantly change what scientists know and what they can do as far as medicine is concerned. For this reason, it is called "practice."

Practice is derived from "praxis", Latin and Greek for the process of putting theoretical knowledge into application, as in applying the knowledge of medicine into healing patients.

why we said doctors work, practise ?

2009-11-07T06:45:00.001-08:00

Answer:
Doctors, Lawyers, and other free lance professionals practise and they do not do work, as work men do. It is a learned profession, where they need to learn through out their career. As they practise, they equip themselves more competently.

'coz they never get a desire results.and they keep on practising on us

probably because practice makes perfect.
I'm curious too.

Although it is based on several exact sciences, Medicine itself, is not an exact science and so today's "Gold Standard" is tomorrow's joke. So doctors must always be studying and practicing new techniques and treatments.

Practice is derived from "praxis", Latin and Greek for the process of putting theoretical knowledge into application, as in applying the knowledge of medicine into healing patients.

every time doctors encounter a new patient with ailments of unknown parameters ,there in no definite and authentic mode of treatment.
therefore it called a practice and it is not a work or routine nature.
doctors deal with lives of people and needs extra care to deal with the situation.

Wherever there is a continuation of , that may be called Practise ,I think.Normally for Doctors ,lawyers,and to Chatered Accountants we use this .

Medicine is a science and also an art.The physician can lattempt to seek perfection but being an imperfect science it is very difficult, impossible, to do so.Hence the term Practice of medicine.

coz medical field is mysterious, they keep practicing to discover new preventions from diseases, discover new diseases, bacterias to save human beings %26 animals.

Even after 33 years in the profession as a Doctor I realize that for every new patient the treatment ,
I offer is an experiment, which is most likely to succeed but at the same time I cannot be 100 % sure.
PROBABLY THAT IS WHY IT IS PRACTICE

Why we only can use our brain not even reach 5%?

2009-11-07T06:45:00.000-08:00

Answer:
The idea that we use only 5-10% of our brains is misleading. When healthy, we use all areas of our cortex for different functions. The parts we don't use for thinking are connective tissue (structural components), blood vessels, etc., which make up a lot of the mass of the brain. This may be the meaning behind the statement that we use only a portion of our brain.

We use all of our brain, that is areas in the brain, yet we do not use it to full capacity, there is a difference. So in that sense it is not misleading at all that we only use a certain percentage of our brain. That area has not evolved to full capacity yet, given time it will at some point.

We do use our whole brain, just not all at the same time. Do you use every program on your computer at once? That would be silly.When the whole brain fires at once, we call that a seizure.The proof that we use our whole brain - when little bits die (that's a stroke), we notice.

Why we have two eyes, what is the difference by looking with one eye and by looking with the two?

2009-11-07T06:44:00.001-08:00

What role plays our second eye in our vision?
Answer:
The slightly different angle of view from the two eyes makes it possible for the brain to see three dimensionally.
One eye sees only two dimensions: length and width. The third dimension that is added by having two eyes is depth (or distance).

Depth and perception I think.

It makes it a lot easier to judge distances.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/... this should help

Having two eyes means we can perceive distance and depth. Close one eye and get someone to hold out a pencil at a fair distance and try to grab it, then you'll see why we need two eyes!

have you seen a cyclops? we would look stupid with only one eye %26 what if we damged our only eye? at least with 2 we have a back up

depth perception. If you see with one eye, you can't tell distance. 2 eyes give you 3d effect.

By using two eyes we gain stereophonic vision. The distance from an object to your eye is the same if it is directly in front of you, but is different if it is off to one side. The brain is able to interpret these distances and determine where objects lie in 3d space. With only one eye, it is unable to do this (although it can compensate to an amazing degree)

you have a bigger peripheral vision by using both eyes

vision spread (also we would all look like cyclops)

To admire the body twice.Common knowledge.

Stereoscopic vision is great for working out how far food is away from us, and for tool making, and for social contacts. Since we are (aparently) smart, and have a great rotating neck, we don't need to have eyes on each side of our heads to look out for trouble.Having two eyes also increases the amount of the world we can seeat any one time, but only slightly. Another bonus is that if one eye is damaged we have a backup.

The difference and the role is depth perception.

Because we are descendants from "Primates", if you're going to swing through trees, you'd better have good dimensional depth perception. Stereoscopic vision (2 eyes) provides this ability, otherwise we would not be around today, due to the fact that our skulls would have been crushed, from slamming into tree trunks !

Monocular vision doesn't give depth perseption, where binocular vision does. Plus, predatory animals have forward facing eyes while prey animals eyes look to the side. Therefore, preditory animals have depth of field vision to judge the distance to their prey. Prey animals lack depth of field, because they only need to know that a preditor is there, not how close, and to run.

With two eyes you get a three dimensional view of the world, that's why all animals have two eyes. the positioning of your eyes are what are really important.
As you may know sharks have eyes on the sides of their heads, giving them a blind spot straight in front of them.
you would also only be able to see in one direction at one given time, with only one eye.
however i suggest you research the human eye if your really interested.

It is called depth perception.

Both your eyes control your perception of depth and distance. Cover one eye and walk outside and you'll notice that you either can determine depth or dimension. Then switch and cover the other eye and you'll notice the other option.

with two eyes you have a lot more side vision also two eyes together judge distances better and relays that to the brain

Well both together give you a three dimensional perspective.
It gives you a sense of depth or thickness. Again its the two eyes that help you gauge distances, try kicking at a point on the wall with one eye closed.

Two eyes gives us distance,you can tell how near or far an object is away from us

the two eyes together give you almost 180o vision it also give you the ability to assess distance and it also gives you over all clarity, and as some folk have said here, should you lose sight of one eye the other one is always there to come to your aid but that is typical of the human body in general most vital parts are duplicated but perhaps none as important than eyesight and we take it for granted

Depth perception is absent with one eye

3D.

periphereal vision.
o, ya, and GOD MADE IT SO!

we get to see a larger area at a time

why we have blood?

2009-11-07T06:44:00.000-08:00

why our blood is color red unlike the green blood? why we will die if no more blood?what is the meaning of blood?
Answer:
Blood is but one of the liquids circulating our body. Blood is important because it is the main way of carrying nutrients from the producing cells to the consiuming cells, carrying oxygen from the lung to every cell of the body. the reason we have blood is because we are cellular based organism. we are defined by our cells. our cells are mainly made of liquid, so anything that would carry nutrients to those cells would have to be liquid.so far we know not of any living organisms that do not have a type of liquid that acts like blood.cells have celluar liquid
plants have seva
insects have a type of blood
animals have blood
humans have blood

so vampires will have something to eat?

why will we die if we have no blood? well...for the same reason we would die if we had no head...or no brain...or no heart. i'm afraid that's a stupid question, coz we wouldn't just die if we had no blood, we'd die if we were missing any other vital organs. we have blood because...we just do.

ok. this is how it works. red blood cells (why blood is red) have one duty. to carry oxygen to all the different parts of your body. red blood cells contain hemoglobin which is the "binder" that grabs oxygen as the blood passes through your lungs. the oxygenated blood then goes throughout your entire body (because all individual cells heart, brain, liver, ect. require oxygen in order to stay alive). when you don't have enough blood it just means that your body is no longer getting the oxgen it needs, irregardless of whether or not you have lung problems.
i hope this answers your question.

the color of blood is due to HEMOGLOBIN.or it will b white in color like some insects.
we ll die cos our bdy cells will not get any nutrition n hence they ll die n hence we naturally.
meaning for blood...i ll tell u if u tell me the meaning for body???

blood is red because of the erythrocytes, erythro is latin for red, cyte for cell. erythrocytes are red clood cell and the yare red due to the oxygen the ycarry. Blood without owygen is blue, but you never see it because it's in your weins. The purpose of blood is to carry oxygen to all the organs of the body, because that is what keeps them going. Also blood carry leukocytes and phagoctes, which fight off disease,

why we feel cold in fever?

2009-11-07T06:42:00.000-08:00

Answer:
Cold is something you feel through your skin.When you have fever, there will be a lot of heat generated in your body. If your inner body is hotter than that outside, then the outer boundary which is your outer body that is separating them will feel colder, hence you feel cold.By using comforters, blankets, you are ensuring that your outerbody also experience the same temperature as in side your body.

When your body reaches high temperatures, heat receptors send messages to your brain to cool down your body. From the brain, messages are sent to your epidermis to dilate the blood vessels so that heat will be lost. In the process, the surface epithelium is cooled down as sweat is evaporating from your body. This is called a negative feedback mechanism. It is done to maintain homeostasis of body temperature.

Your body feels cold when the outside temperature is lower than your body temperature. When you have fever, your body temperature is high and the outside temperature is lower than your body temperature. So you feel cold at normal room temperature.

Why wasn't proffessor Walker unable to revive the frozen viking thawed out in the US,doesn't it prove that you

2009-11-07T06:41:00.001-08:00

can bring a Norse to Walker,but you can't make him think!!
Answer:
Groan.Oh dear, oh deary me.

A pun is the lowest form of humor. Try again, please.

Ignoring the comma splice and run on sentence, the grammar of your sentence says that Walker was successful in reviving the Viking. Other than what I had to do, what does thinking have to do with the price of Drakars?

That is enough PUNishment.

Why was Quinine really taken off the market?

2009-11-07T06:41:00.000-08:00

I have Lymes disease and associated muscle spasms of external muscles and internal organs...very painful. All that works to relieve pain is
this medication. It has been used for over two hundred years for malaria. Now, the FDA of US has decided it causes heart palpatations.
I think they Big Business have invented another drug that they want to sell at a high price and have to get this one off the market first.
I am a nurse and have never seen this drug cause problems...if heart palpatations occured...they had this condition before the drug was administered. NiElli
Answer:
If it has not yet been taken off the market it should be for various reasons . Before it went off the market it was being used as an anti-arrythmic drug with its well -known side effect i.e. negative inotropic on the heart muscle thus decreasing the contractility of the myocardium.It is just deadly by its depressant action on the heart.Originally extracted by the South American Indian from the bark of a tree , it cured the malaria but left the patient in intractable heart failure, very often leading to death attributed to the Malaria.I am glad to see that its analgesics potency has been kept in many other products without the deadly side effect.

isnt it in Tonic water?

Quinine has been used for many years.. both for cramps and for maleria. I did not know it was off the market... bummer...

Quinine does have a cardio toxicity effect in which it may cause arrythmias usually tachyarrythmias meaning a fast heart rate and sometimes hypotension. Besides this effect it can also cause hypoglycemia (a fall in blood glucose levels. It has many other adverse effects apart from these but these are rare in occurence. None the less quinine is still used in many third world countries as the main stay treatment of severe malaria. here in Tanzania it is the thirdline treatment of malaria and the only treatment for severe or complicated malaria. Why would the US government decide to venture on another drug and withdraw quinine from the market? Well that to me is a political issue rather than a real medical concern. Politicians do it all the time (they go for all the goodies that will be in their best interest).

you people are STUPID...quinine isnt off the market...i filled some today!..just 1 of the strengths was taken off..150 mg or 200 mg i believe...quinine is still readily dispensed and stands as the #1 anti-malarial drug available

Please do your research before posting.Thanks

try quinine water

Why vampires never suffers an adverse agglutination reaction even he drinks different blood types?

2009-11-07T06:40:00.002-08:00

Answer:
Blood is broken down in the stomach and intestine. .Agglutinatin can not occur.

HUH? are you sure?but then, you eat the blood from all kinds of animals, with no apparent ill effects.
maybe there's a difference between blood being injected, and going into the intestinal tract.

um, probably gets destroyed by digestive enzymes. Hey, here's a question for you... Let's say there are no vampires in the USA and dracula gets on a boat and comes to New York. If he needs to feed once a month, and each guy he bites turns into a vampire who also needs to feed once a month, then how long before all the people in New York are vampires?

why thumbs bend backwords for some people, and for some they don't?

2009-11-07T06:40:00.001-08:00

i know it's genetic, but i want an explaination about the phisical structure of whatever it is, that makes it happen (or not happen).
Answer:
it's primarily due to the laxity of the ligaments supporting the joints; the more lax it is, the easier the joints move over each otherin conditions such as Marfan's syndrome, where there is an abnormality affecting the connective tissue, excessive laxity of the joints are a feature

The above answer is exactly correct - just wanted to echo that.

Why the professions of Doctors are called Practice?

2009-11-07T06:40:00.000-08:00

Answer:
Because they are like Advocates who always say positives but do negetives and are never sure what they are doing. If we go for a survey, we will find that at least 90% pathological or other tests recommended by doctors results in Okay.

Beause no doctor is perfect.do u agree with me?

it is an acknowledgment that you are always practicing to be better and to learn more to do a better job with. all medical related jobs are listed as practices

YES BECAUSE PRACTICE MAKES MAN PERFECT, NOT ONLY TO THE DOCTORS BUT ALSO TO THE LAWYERS THEY CALLED PRACTICE.

A doctor applies what ever he has learnt on live human beings when he starts his work out side the college.Where as in other professions one can be taught with live examples or simulated examples.So a doctors experience with live case is called practice.More the practice the better and confidant the doctors become.

practice1. Repetition of an activity to improve skill. Can be used as noun or verb. "He will need lots of practice with those lines before he performs them."

2. The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts. Can also be used as a noun or a verb. "She ran a thriving medical practice." 3. The observance of religious duties which a Church requires of its members. 4. A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.
"It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers. " "It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving."

why the PH of blood must be according to conditions like acid and base?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.003-08:00

it said that the blood Ph must vary according to condition and enviromental wheather and other factors.. why is it
Answer:
actually the normal pH of human blood is between 7.35-7.45 and it is regulated by the kidneys and lungs. For immediate control, you either hyperventilate to bring down your CO2 which will increase pH (make blood more alkaline), and likewise you will hypoventilate to decrease pH. Your kidneys will also excrete or retain acid or bicarb (base) depending on your blood pH, but this takes longer to occur compared to your respiratory compensation.Your body can function outside of those normal limits, but at the extremes your enzymes and proteins stop working because the severe alteration in pH will change their molecular configurations- very commonly we'll see people with profound acidosis experience cardiovascular collapse because their catecholamines won't bind to adrenergic receptors anymore, so they get profound hypotension and their heart stops beating.

Bloods pH is very tightly controlled between 7.0 and 7.4 by the body. Hemostasis is achieved by the conversion and removal of CO2 and Carbonic Acid and Hydrogen ions. If the blood pH varies out of these ranges you develop Metabolic Acidosis or Alkalosis. I do not know where you are getting your information.

I do not know where you are reading this, nor can I really understand your statement.Blood pH is highly regulated in the body because if it varies too much from 7.4 it denatures your proteins (if it becomes too basic it dissolves the proteins; if it becomes too acidic it coaggulates the proteins). Your blood contains chemicals called buffers which help to maintain the blood pH within normal limits. The enviornment and weather have nothing to do with it. Substances entering the blood stream from absorption of nutrients and drugs are what change blood pH.ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TEACHER

pH of the blood should always remain neutral around 7.

why the noisy rackets injected into your news and programs ?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.002-08:00

it is not pleasant listening to the extra clatter that is being injectedbetween words and or statements. Its especially bothersome to one who wears hearing aids
Answer:
Maybe you have a problem with sound on TV, cos to me nothing is different and I have sensitive hearing...So what you state is not happening in this household...or are you referring to background music in some cases?Still in News they rarely play background music anyway...鈾?br />
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OK I have just thought maybe if you have digital TV then you can get channel drop out and pixilated interference which would create noise you mention...

What noisy rackets!? What channel!

why the level of cortisol rises in the morning?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.001-08:00

Answer:
Circadian clock regulates cortisol production.It is at it's highest at about 4 am and then your body uses it up during the day as necessary.

cortisol is a long-term stress hormone, and at night you r relaxed, you don't need cortisol that much, while in the morning you need attention

Any hormone for that matter is at its high levels in the morning. The time betwen 11pm to 3 am is when we are supposed to relax and our metabolic rate decreases. This is the time when our hormonal levels gradually increase reaching a peak in the early mornings. This increased level helps us to sustain the whole day again repeating the process again and again.

why the image reaches inverted to brain/eye?

2009-11-07T06:39:00.000-08:00

Answer:
Once an image passes through the lens in your eyes it is invert by that lens (all lenses have this effect) the image is projected to your retina upside down the optic nerve then relays it to your brain which processor the information and turns the image right way up.

because our eyes have the properties of mirror that's why everything the eye can see is inverted.

Because our lenses are convex lenses, thus images reach our retina inverted. Our nerves in the retina translate the images 'reinvertedly' and transmit the signals to our brain, so our brains receive the correct image.

because it acts as a camera, not easy to explain it without a drawing..-
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got the point ? :p

why the image reaches inverted to brain/eye?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.003-08:00

Answer:
The reason for this is simple if one understands optics. The rays of light as they enter the eye have to pass through the lens. Each eye of ours has a convex lens. i could have drawn a simple diagram but I don't know how it can be drawn here. Anyway, the property of a convex lens is that the image gets inverted and is real for an object that sends parallel rays into the eye of the object is beyond the principal focus of the lens.

uh? i learnt somewher but i forgot now

The image is not inverted in the brain but it is inverted when the light rays passes through our lens it becomes inverted. It is because our lens is a concave lens which is a converging lens. All the light rays are converged at focal point which is in the eye, at this point the rays make an inverted image which is read by the brain and an erect image is obtained.

The crystalline convex lens of each eye projects an inverted image on the retina. Optic nerve fibers from each eye crisscross at optic chiasma the junction of two optic nerves and these fibers reach optical cortex of both sides for giving three dimensional erect and singular interpretation of images from both eyes by brain

Image gets inverted in lens of the eye itself nerve fibres in lower part of retina get upper part of image %26 vise versa. so the imgae get trnasmitted to vision part of cortex in inverted direction

Why the heck do my BP tablets come in Blister packs of 28?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.002-08:00

Not 31 or 27, 28! But my medical will not allow me to collect a new prescription until a WHOLE (yes, 31, 30, 28 or even 29 days) month has gone by.Do you think that the medical aids and the pharmaceutical companies are saving like this?
Answer:
This because medical practitioners still work to what is called a lunar month rather than a calendar month, despite the fact that the lunar month contains 29 days, not 28. There are 13 lunar months to a year, rather than 12 calendar months and 13 x 28 = 364, which is close enough and avoids the problems of the random variation of calendar months.However, if your medical centre will not allow prescription renewal except by calendar month this is a local decision having no status in reality; they are simply cutting corners on medicine costs - tackle them head on and insist on renewal when required.

It's a conspiracy. Like the hot dogs and the buns.

28 days is 4 weeks worth

28 fits nicely in the box. If they put 30 or 32 in, they would need a bigger box, and that would cost more and the drug company's would be making the billions they are at the moment.

I dont think the problem is with the 28 pack as most meds seem to be packaged that way. You must just live in the wrong place. I order mine about 10 days before I run out %26 they're waiting for me at the chemist within 4 or 5 days unless I'm due for a medication review. (I'm in UK)

I would have thought that 28 was a sensible number to have being 4 weeks worth. Having calender monthly packaging would mean that companies would have to make three different packaging (plus a fourth one every four years) which would make less sense and be more confusing.What doesn't make sense is the doctor not allowing you to renew till the full month is over even though this medication is obviously something you should take every day.

Why the GI tract is cleared before General Anesthesia?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.001-08:00

Answer:
so you don't vomit, and depending on the procedure, sometimes it's easier to work with an empty stomach.

To insure that vomiting, which can occur in anesthesia, does not regurgitate material which could get into the airway.

it is less of a chance that the person will throw up and asperate (i think thats spelled wrong) that when you throw up and the fluid goes into the lungs and can cause death etc. my grandmother in the 1970s had surgery and asperated and had a heart attack, but she had food in her system. it also depends on where the surgery is. i have had many surgerys on my abdomen and every time i have to clear everything out. good luck.

unconsious and in-voluntary controll of the tract can make things very . very messy.Anesthesia knocks ya out... you don't even dream - so since the brain does not have normal function during it - - it is just best to be sure.

yeah he got it. In the event - if - if the person vomits under
general anesthesia, without food in the GI there will be no food
to obstruct the airway.

avoiding aspiration of vomitus,and miss on operation table.

Why the blue eyes are weaker than other colored eyes?

2009-11-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

Can somebody give me an explanation about this!
Answer:
Because they look at science binders

I currently live in Scandinavia where blue eyes are the thing and I so don't see many people wearing glasses and in Denmark at any rate many people don't want to pay extra for contacts. I saw more corrective lenses on people than here in America. I no longer believe the myths about blue eyes being weak, coffee stunting your growth or short daylight hours making people sluggish.

I don't think they are. But if they were, it would be because brown irises shield the retina from glare better than blue ones do.

That is a myth!! I have color changing eyes. When I have blue eyes, my eyes are STRONGER than when I have green eyes or any other color.

why the arms and hands are used to draw blood and not the feet.?

2009-11-07T06:37:00.002-08:00

Answer:
They are convenient. Although when inserting serial IV catheters, you want to start distally (away from the body) and work your way up. This works both on the hands/arms and feet/legs. Also, you can use larger sites which can accommodate faster fluid resuscitation and have less of a tendency to collapse, i.e. femoral, subclavian, jugular. In a severely vascularly compromised patient, an intra-osseous stick may be performed which goes inside your bone. (there are vessels there, too)

The veins are closer to the surface and easier to get to. In the hospital, when the arms have been used enough, they do use the feet. Muscular use of the arms makes them easier than feet to draw blood.

The skin is thinner so it's easier to get the needle in and out.

I think it's for convenience.
My mother was once operated on and they needed to inject her with solutions, but her arteries were too thin. They tried everwhere and eventually had to inject through her big toe. It was very painful, though.

The arms and hands are more accessible.Blood can be taken from any part of the body, but for most of the body, unclothing that part would be required.

I also assume that it takes time and effort to take your shoes and socks off, and for the nurse to bend over to reach your feet. Your hands are usually exposed, and closer to the nurses' hands than your feet are; why not just use that?

Because you don't have to take your socks and shoes off!

i guess it is because the arms are closer to the heart. Because it is closer to the heart the blood pressure/flow is better, making it easier to draw blood. Also legs have stronger, bigger muscles that requiere a lot more blood, and might make it hard to draw blood from the legs.

They want you to walk out of the office. It is harder to walk out of the office with a pain in your foot.
Not to mention the bandage might slip if you are walking on it.

I once asked this exact question of a phlebotomist who was drawing my blood. Her answer was that hands and arms are more readily available (no shoes, no socks) and are generally considered to be cleaner. The veins on the tops of feet and around the ankles are sometimes used as an alternative, especially with heroin addicts who have destroyed the more commonly used veins in their arms.

There are many reasons, some of which I'm sure others will repeat.1. The arms are easily accessable.
2. Little to no clothing needs to be removed for access
3. The brachial and radial veins are larger and anatomically more accessable then the tibial or dorsal venous arch
4. The medial arm has fewer nerve endings then the foot so it is less painful
5. There is less chance of phlebitis (vein inflamation)
6. The arm is generally cleaner then the feet which harbor more bacteria and fungus then the upper extremitiesIt is possible to take blood from almost any vein or artery in the body depending on how invasive you wish to be. For standard, everyday blood tests, the arm is just the most convieniant.

paul t is right on on his reasons, mainly pain and more likely to be problematic (hematomas, and irrittaion with walking)another note- you can draw from the feet as long as the doctor has written it on the chart, in such patients that warrant it - it usually doesn't come to this though.
there have been a couple times i've heard of a jugular draw becase that was the last available (last resort) option.

Why take inactive birth control pills?

2009-11-07T06:37:00.001-08:00

I have been on Seasonale for a year now, and lately I've been wondering this. What is the point of taking the inactive pills? Why do you need them? Besides to tell if you're pregnant or not, I really don't see any point in taking them. I've heard of women skipping them and not having periods for years, so is there any harm in this? Another question... does Seasonale cause acne? Cause lately I've been breaking out
Answer:
Ok..here is the lowdown on the inactive birth control pill. Sure, they are beneficial to help keep you in the habit of taking your pills, but actually this time off from the estrogen/progestin found in the active pill is critical. The estrogen in birth control pills causes your endometrium to grow every month before a period. When you take birth control pills and do not take time off from the active hormone, then your endometrium keeps building upon itself, putting you at a much higher risk of developing endometriosis or uterian cancer. After 3 months, it is recommended that any woman with an intact uterus shed this lining by having a period, even if it is only for a few days.
Also, birth control pills can up your chance of developing blood clots and stroke, so it is also best to shed your uterine lining in case any clots could be forming.As for the acne, Seasonale contains one of the most androgenic progestins in a birth control pill out there. I believe that it contains levonorgestrol, which can cause androgenic side effects such as acne, progressive weight gain (not cyclic weight gain, which is just weight gain seen with your menstrual cycle), and hair loss. If you are experiencing any of these side effects, talk to your doctor about perhaps using a different birth control pill with a progestin that has the least amount of androgenic side effects. My suggestion would be Yaz, since it has a lower dose of both estrogen and progestin, and contains a progestin called drospirenone, which actually helps against weight gain and acne. Also, Yaz is good because the series of inactive pills is only 4 days and causes you to have shorter, lighter periods than the typical 7 days.

I thought that many birth control pills prevented acne...but I'm not sure of that one. The reason you take inactive birth control pills is so you stay in the habit of taking them. If you didn't get those and just didn't take any pills during that span, it is more likely that you'll forget.

I believe that the inactive pills in birth control are just placebo's that you take just to keep yourself in the habit of taking them.Some people have reported severe acne as a side effect

The inactive pills are placebos to keep you on a regular schedule. You don't need to take the inactive ones, but you need to still follow the daily pill order because the active pills are designed to work on specific times in the estrogen/progesterone cycle. Seasonale is a new drug that is sort of aslow release, three-month version of the Pill. Similar to the effect of using a constant-dosage formulation and skipping the placebo weeks for three months, Seasonale gives the benefit of less frequent periods, at the potential drawback of breakthrough bleeding. Seasonique is another version in which the placebo week every three months is replaced with a week of low-dose estrogen.

Most of the inactive pills are placebos. In some brands of birth control however there is iron in them.

when youre on BC you don't have a real period, its just a reaction to the hormones. the 3 weeks of the active pills have progesterone in them (and other hormones) which keep your ovaries from releasing the egg. in the week of the inactive pills, you arent getting those hormone supplements, so you have your "period." it's my understanding that the inactive pills are just there to keep you in the habit of taking your pill every day.you should check with a doctor for this question before you make a decision about taking or not taking the inactive pills.

they're just placebos (fake pills) i never take mine, never have, never will. although some doctors really want you to take them because they normally contain iron and you can be a little low on iron when your bleeding.

Why take a pill for headaches if you already have one?

2009-11-07T06:37:00.000-08:00

Why would you want a headache at all for that matter?
Answer:
And then ''Keep away from children''? Strange isn't it. Maybe we should just keep away from children

to keep the poor pharma companies in tea and coffee breaks

Maybe the headache will take your mind of your ingrown toenail?

are you saying there is a pill to experience a headache? where? how do i find it? i want a life time supply!

So you can tell your boyfriend that you still have a headache.

Why structural moiety prevents Dopamine from crossing the blood brain barrier?

2009-11-07T06:36:00.003-08:00

Is it only lipid or non-lipid could go thru the Blood brain barrier? and which one is the one with the charge, lipid or non-lipid??
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The ability or inability of any chemical to cross the blood-brain barrier is dependent on its chemical structure. The drug levodopa is used as a prodrug to increase dopamine levels for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, since it is able to cross the blood-brain barrier whereas dopamine itself cannot.Levodopa, an amino acid that is a precursor of several neurotransmitters, enters and leaves the brain by means of the carrier for L-phenylalanine. Once in the endothelium, however, L-DOPA may be converted into dopamine and DOPAC in successive steps by the enzymes L-aromatic amino acid decarboxylase and MAO. Although dopamine can leave the brain by means of its own carrier, neither dopamine nor DOPAC can cross the antiluminal membrane into the brain. Hence the enzymatic conversion can serve as a means of controlling how much L-DOPA reaches the brain. However, conversion to dopamine also occurs in the peripheral tissues, causing adverse effects and decreasing the available dopamine to the CNS, so it is standard practice to co-administer a peripheral DOPA decarboxylase inhibitor 鈥?carbidopa or benserazide 鈥?and often a catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) inhibitor.I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

It's a little more complicated than that. The blood brain barrier severely restricts what it allows in. It is true that hydrophobic compounds are allowed in easier than hydrophilic compounds. But also compounds over 500 daltons are restricted. While there is also active transport of other compounds such as sugar and some amino acids. Non-lipid compounds tend to be charged. And dopamine cannot cross the BBB, but L-dopa can.

http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/cgi/co...There are detailed answers in the link above:Generally, small, nonionic, lipid-soluble molecules penetrate easily across the BBB whereas larger, water-soluble, and/or ionic molecules will less likely exhibit passive diffusional processes (Spector, 1977, 1990).

why someone can have over sleep?

2009-11-07T06:36:00.002-08:00

my friend sometimes sleep almost 9 to 10 hours per day.what factors that contribute it to happen? and how to reduce over sleep?
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The optimum amount of sleep is 7-9 hours (no matter what kind've activity you do)..you might need less if you're less active (sit at a desk all day). but minimum of 6 hours. Set an alarm clock..and wake up. If anything..it's better to wake up with 7 hours of sleep than 9. 8 of course is the optimum. The thing is once you past 9 hours...you're body actually starts burning energy rather than building it (to keep you asleep) and then your body also goes into a hibernation stage (thinking you're gonna sleep for a long time)..and that's why when you wake up..you feel tired, because it takes even longer for your body to kind've "kick start" for the day. Hope this helps.
~G

Some people need to sleep this much every night to be refreshed. That is not that different from the norm. In others it is a sign of depression.

Diet can play a part i think, the wrong foods can sap your energy.

They are probably just catching up on sleep for previous nights happens to me all the time

Many things can cause excess sleep:
1) It's natural for that person
2) friend has sleep apnea, does he/she snore?
3) Certain prescription drugs
4) Heavy physical exercise
5) depression

why single erythrocite is yellow-green, but blood is red?

2009-11-07T06:36:00.001-08:00

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Erythrcytes are actually more of a pink.Ruta, these weren't fixed, just a simple blood smear. Blood plasma is kind of a yellow color, so if erythrocytes were yellow-green, our blood would be too. It is the color of the hemoglobin (red when oxygenated, dark red/maroon when deoxygenated) that confers the red color onto the whole blood.
If you are so adamant to contradict everyone, I suggest you cite your source for these yellow-green erythrocytes.

blood is red only when exposed to oxygen, because of the oxidation of iron in blood

To Troy and Megs. Could you please read the question before answering?
Question
why single erythrocite is yellow-green, but blood is red? We know how arterial and venous blood look like and have seen it under microscope. As you know cells change while fixation of the preparation, so the fact that you see it "pink" under microscope doesn't mean it's pink naturally. I can asure that a SINGLE erythrocite is not pink or red. It is yellow-green. The question again, why a SINGLE erythrocite (not chemically affected) is yellow-green while a GROUP of erythrocites is red?

You don't need to fix a blood cell to see that it is red. A fresh sample of blood under a 40x objective will show you a single red/pink erythrocyte. They are not yellow or green. They are red/pink. That is why blood is red. They are red because hemoglobin is red, and RBCs contain 35% hemoglobin.

Why shouldn't I drink while taking an antibiotic like amoxicilin?

2009-11-07T06:36:00.000-08:00

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Did someone tell you you can't drink while taking amoxicillin. I see not problem at all. If you are sick you may not want to drink but not because of the antibiotic.
Beer does not contain any active yeast it has been PASTEURIZED and it does not inactivate antibiotics.
Metronidazole is not an antibiotic it is an antifungal and is labeled to not take with alcohol.

Yeast in beer. If you were a chick, then you would really need to avoid the suds to prevent a yeast infection.

Because alcohol intereferes with the antibiotic - making it less effective.

Alcohol dehydrates the body making it much harder to heal any wound or infection.

antibiotics are usually made from cultures - things like mold, etc.
alcohol kills the cultures, so you might as well not be taking your antibiotics.

Here is some data on amoxicillin:
http://www.safemedication.com/displaydru...There are no known side effects of drinking while on amoxicillin:
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/infection...However, there can be problems with drinking and what the amox is treating- for example, if you are on amox for brochitis and are also on codeine, the drinking can interact with the narcotic. If you are taking amox for a bleeding ulcer, booze is right out. Likewise ear infections, where decreased balance+ decreased balance from booze can equal serious accidents.But here is good advice from one college med center:
http://uistudenthealth.com/question/defa...
"In general, it is not a good idea to combine alcohol with prescription medications, but when it comes to Amoxicillin and alcohol there is no direct contraindication. With that being said, please keep in mind that if you have been sick enough to warrant taking an antibiotic, you should probably avoid drinking alcohol as well. If you absolutely feel the need to have a drink鈥?keep it in moderation!"

you can drink, there is no problem with amoxicillin

BECAUSE ALCOHOL SUPPOSEDLY STOPS THE ANTIBIOTIC FROM WORKING. IN OTHER WORDS IT KILLS THE GOOD STUFF THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE KILLING THE BAD STUFF THAT IS MAKING YOU SICK.

it's not advisable to drink whilst on antibiotics. the absolute worst antibiotic to drink alcohol when on it is metronidazole as it will cause vomiting. the problems with drinking alcohol with ANY medication is that it can cause adverse effects or prevent the medication from working. that is why it says on the packets not to drink alcohol when on medicines.

why should you routinely loosen lids on tubes before exposing a sterile pipet to the laboratory air? tell fast

2009-11-07T06:35:00.003-08:00

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Typically so that you minimize the amount of time struggling to open the capped tube once you have the sterile pipette exposed to the air and you are waving it about.

it won't stay sterile for long so you try to do things as quickly as possible

why should aspirin tablets not be taken after the used by date?

2009-11-07T06:35:00.002-08:00

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Aspirin will begin to lose its effectiveness after a certain period of time. You can tell with aspirin by its smell. If it smells like vinegar throw them away!

Oh my. The expired tablet content might be harmful to the human body, I think.

My doctor told me that expired meds are fine to take. The expiration date is just a way for the drug companies to make more money. She said most meds are good for a year past there expiration date.

Chemicals cn deteriorate and degrade with time. They are capable of turning in to something else, that may not do you too much good.

Cause that would cut into drug companies profits...
As long as meds are kept cool and dry, I have taken some after 8 years and they work just fine.

Some medicines, especially creams and liquids, get kind of gross after they expire. The active ingredients can become less active, but the expiration dates don't really mean much, especially if you store the medications according to the package instructions.

When a medication expires, the Chemicals start to break down. The breakdown of these can make the medication less effective. In some medications, as the chemicals breakdown, they become toxic to the human body. You should go through your medicne cabinet regularly and dispose of the medications that have expired. Buying a new bottle of aspirin is cheaper than a hospital bill.

Expiration dates are usually pretty conservative - most OTC pills are pretty stable for a long time. If exposed to heat or light moisture air etc . . . they will break down faster, but if they're stored properly (not in the sun and not spilled all over the wet bathroom countertop), then they should be fine for awhile, especially asprin. Some pills that are extra blister-packed will break down faster, losenges and herbal pills will break down faster with moisture.

Why scientist don't find a proper medicine for cancer?

2009-11-07T06:35:00.001-08:00

Cancer is really a harsh problem, and it kills many people every day.I'm a researcher, and I'm trying to find a remedy to cure cancer. I'm researching on some natural plants.you can help me with your oppinions or information.
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well what field are you anyway. Or are you just starting. Contact me if you need help or just collaboration

do research on peach pits.. the drug companies dont want a cure for cancer. a cure would end all the funds for exploratory drugs and gene therapies in their opinion causing a decline in profits

I supply wheat grass and it cures cancer. iam in india and noone believes me. the factory is bombay.

Cancer is a general term.. Since there are many forms of cancer, each behaves and acts diferently. Thus one cancer may react to radiation in one way that is benifical but it has no effect on another. Each cancer must be fought a separate battle. there is not any single miracle cure. continue your research , If nature created it.. then nature has a cure for it.

I believe that beta carotene and ascorbic acid are like a silver bullet to many detrimental conditions...this and wheat germ oil can bring positive changes to the human condition as these are all primary antioxidants in their most powerful form...yet when alcohol is introduced into physiology there's a chemical reaction that takes place that's quite unique...this might have a direct opposite effect of the combativeness of free radicals that induce cellular decay...in addition...there are herbological treatments already known that were designed to aid in healing the sick...books on the subject include the herb book, back to Eden, and many other texts...I have studied herbs up close and find that a threefold treatment could have a positive impact...the first would be an antibiotic treatment...the second would deal w/ the nature of the tissue in question...i.e. beneficial throat herbological extracts...the third attacks the illness itself...antibiotic herbs include don quai, garlic, chaparral, and juniper berries...some of these seem to be of moderate toxicity so great caution is advised...nonetheless...other herbs are not...clover...which is a good base for an herbal remedy is quite pleasant actually...there are many herbs...sage, butchers broom, liquorice, snake root, and lobelia are among some.much more can be learned through the above mentioned literature...These types of remedies in the right concourse with good nutrition and vitamin supplements along w/ refrain could be just the thing the doctor ordered...

I am a translator.The question you asked is beyong me.anyhow,I support your heroic behavior .and I hope you can achive your goal to find a proper medicine for cancer.God bless those who help themselves!.God also help those who help others in need.Good Luck!Since science to me is what Japanese and Chinese to you.so,the only thing I can do is to say,thank you,dedicacted Doctor,becasue of you,many life have been saved from the hands of Satan and Demons .wish you luck

Because it's hard. You should know better than anyone. But I don't get the whole natural plants thing? How can some random plant come up with the precise chemical compound to fight something in human beings? I mean, you got Asprin, and what else? Figuring out a way for the human body to constantly fight cancer would be better. With nanobots or something like that?

Your view of medicine and cancer is very general.You have to look at medicine and cancer at a much deeper perspective and understand each.Cancer is like AIDS. While AIDS is caused by HIV. Cancer on the other hand is caused by cercenogenic chemicals that enduce cancer cells to speed development.Everyday, the hundreds of cells develops into cancer cells inside our body. Although we suffer from this, we can alleviate its development by leading a healthy lifestyle.Cancer can be genetic. Some people don't have a choice because they inherited it from their parents.Some cancers are caused by the environment risks. Like working in radioactive places. People exposed to radioactive contents.Knowledge therefore is the BEST cure for preventing cancer.By teaching people how to lead a healthy lifestyle and avoid risks on their home and workplace.

This is becasue there are many types of cancer and each type of cancer is different. For example a small cell lung cancer cannot be treated by the same chemotherapy as a non-small cell lung cancer. Even for breast cancer, there are different types of cancers with different treatments. Some can be treated using an oestrogen blocker such as tamoxifen. However research has advanced and has with the advent of monoclonal antibodies, these can target particular receptors that are overexpressed in cancer, or particular proteins that are overexpressed. These includes herceptin( for breast cancer), Gleevac( for chronic myeloid leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal sarcoma) and Geftinib( aEGRF) receptor.

Medicine is BIG money. If all (most) of the canser patients were to be cured by a one time medicine how much money will be lost by the big corperations ???

there is so much money in not finding a cure,The big pharmaceutical,Dr, play a big roll in this.

look at phytoeotrogens...!? good luck...! i'm a researcher too - people aren't sitting on their backsides about cancer - please read the literature... anyway good to see your heartfelt enthusiasm...good luck again!

well, what you are doing is nice, but tell us about what lines you are working on, the reason why it is difficult to cure cancer, is because first of all it's a genetic abnormality, it is not some infection that you acquire and a broad spectrum antibiotic would cure it, secondly cancer cells are very similar to the normal cells any drug that kills cancer cells would also kill normal cells, like for example take Methotrexate, it has serious side effects, that is why radiation etc are used to kill targeted cancer cells, and metastasis that is also an important complication, in come cases it is even difficult to diagnose the cancer , because of paraneoplastic syndromes, which might mimic other diseases, so tell me about what lines you re working on, we would like to hear

why RPMI is used in chromosomal analysis?

2009-11-07T06:35:00.000-08:00

Answer:
What does RPMI stand for in your question?The only "RPMI" I know of is a type of medium cells can be grown in. In this case, RPMI stands for "Roswell Park Memorial Institute", the place where the media was first developed.If this is the RPMI you mean, then it is used to grow cells in. The chromosomes would then be isolated from the cells for analysis. RPMI is a common medium, but there are literally thousands of other types of media (plural of medium) that many cells can grow in.

Like the man already said, RPMI-1640 was developed by Moore et. al. at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, hence the acronym RPMI. There are about 10 or 12 versions of this medium, each modified for a particular usage. RPMI is a common medium in chromosomal studies including: routine, high resolution, hematologic malignancy, lymph node tissue and products of conception. If you really care what's in a particular medium and its uses, go to the Sigma-Aldrich site below and look around.

Why patients who had a stroke and show signs of Broca's aphasia may also show deviation of the tongue?

2009-11-07T06:34:00.003-08:00

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The area of the brain that is responsible for expressive language is called Broca's area. A stroke in that portion of the brain results in Broca's type aphasia, a non-fluent aphasia. Very often a motor speech component will accompany Broca's aphasia because Broca's area is located very close to the motor centers that control oral movement of the articulators. Therefore, many Broca's aphasia patients exhibit either apraxia, dysarthria or both. Dysarthria is most easily explained as a weakness of the musculature due to neurological damage. If a person has dysarthria, the weak side will correspond to the damaged area of the brain. In most right handed individuals, Broca's area is located on the left side of the brain and the stroke would affect the right side. This would result (usually) in right sided weakness of the tongue. When someone sticks their tongue out, the stronger side will pull more than the weaker side, and thus the tongue will deviate (pointing away from the weak side and toward the side of the brain that was damaged). I hope this explanation is sufficient. If you have further questions feel free to check out my aphasia speech site http://groups.yahoo.com.group.speechconn... or email SPEECHCONNECT-subscribe@yahoog...
Carolyn

just a guess, but maybe it has to due with lesion of the hypoglossal nerve or control of the hypoglossal nerve.When the hypoglossal nerve, which deals with most of the muscles of the tongue is lesioned, the tongue deviates toward the side of the lesion.

Why our immunological responses decreases as age progress?

2009-11-07T06:34:00.002-08:00

Answer:
I estimate our immunological response increases, probably through age 40 (40--50 for advanced nations), and then declines gradually along with aging.This estimate is from much experience of medical work rather than from any definitive experimental result...As to the reason, well, all mechanisms tend to wear out eventually. In the case of the human body, it tends to get clogged by pollutants and toxins. Proper exercise, plenty of water and good foods will delay this. Bad circulation has an effect on the health of all cells and tissues.Of course, AIDS is the worst possibility in this regard.Yoga, meditation and anti-oxidant vitamins will help.Some lady recently wrote a book called "Cellular Healing" or something like that. This is in the Spirit over Mind over Matter category, one which I have found for SURE is ABSOLUTELY REAL, even an attainment ordained by God for humans.I have not yet read the book, but caught a brief excerpt of this lady on the radio, sufficient enough so that I will find and read her book, even though I am far along the route myself (in both ways, I am 63).I could get a little more technical, possibly mentioning lymphocytes, and stuff like that.But the BEST of all is the answer which I have given. Also the one helpful to most people.Make yourself a raspberry cooler and read it again. Did you eat your veggies today?Chinese also recommend color variety as well as seed, sprout, leaf and fruit, I think. Your grandmother probably has some good advice too

Our bodies immune system just wears out due to pollutions and heavy metals. Cleation therapy is the only thing that will ride your body of pollutions that I know of. Garlic and some other herbs helps also.

You may know that T-lymphocytes (T-cells) are responsible for conferring immunity on our body. Prolonged exposure to antigens reduces the life span of these cells leading to what is called immunosenescence. These antigens, toxins, pollutants, pathogens, etc wear down our immune system.
Autoimmunity is another factor that leads to ageing. There is an increased cell death, called apoptosis, of Tells in advancing years

ware and tare of cells

why not just sew the leg of a dead person onto an amputee?

2009-11-07T06:34:00.001-08:00

Will it work, sewing another persons leg onto the place where you lost yours? It works sewing your own leg back on so why not someone elses, if your leg is unavailable?
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They have done it with hands, but there are psychological factors that make it difficult for most people. Patients have a hard time accepting that they have a dead person's body parts on them. Internal organs are a little different. Looking at a different leg or hand all the time is difficult for the minds of most. Also, the timing has to be perfect. You cant just do that with someone who lost their leg 2 months ago.

In some cases this is possible. However, a leg is very complicated, so replacing one would be a difficult procedure. Also, you'd need to either find a very good genetic match or give the patient all sorts of drugs to avoid immune system rejection.

ya works 4 me...but no two left feet plz...makes bying shoes an evil task

Damn, I wonder why doctors didn't think of that!!

It would be just as dead, the nerves have been severed.

Osteo necrosis.

First of all it's dead, the veins and everything in the leg, how could it work tell me that??

Has to be the exact length. blood, type, and lots of other factors, the chances of finding one that would fit is extremely low.

What if you get the wrong size leg wouldn't the person walk in circles all the time.

Because nerves, the messengers of the brian that tell ur body what to do, die when emputated. And they never come back alive, ever.

I would suppose that it would have to be a dead person that has died with in the hour. Also, it would be too easy to do that. Also I think it would have to be the correct blood type muscle structure etc etc. However that would be sooooooo cooooool. Ooh especially to watch.

If it were that simple, all kinds of people would be walking on two legs instead of one. There are so many things that would have to match to make it work, that its nearly impossible to do. Besides, your body would reject it too. Have Fun!

For cosmetic reasons. Think of how freakish you would look is you had someone else's leg on you. Since it would not improve quality of life, doctors opt not to perform the procedure.

Tissue rejection. Plus with a multi-tissue graft like that, it would be very hard to line up all the bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves.

i don't really think that would work. There are alot of factors that need to be considered and the chances of finding a limb that meets all of them is probably not very good.

You are joking right? This would be the same as an organ transplant. Hand transplants have been attempted as have (famously) face transplants. same risks, there -specifically the main risk being rejection. It definitely does not work the same as sewing your leg back on.

the body would not except that many different tissue type and the transplant would fail. also, paging Dr. Frankenstein.

Becuse the muscle begins to die and possible regection

You would have to get the leg before the person dies
and it would have to be a match

Why not allow cancer patients to use real marijuana and not the synthetic stuff?

2009-11-07T06:34:00.000-08:00

Marijuana is physically non-addictive and the side effects are predictable and manageable. What does the medical and scientific establishment know about synthetic marijuana? Don't forget the F.D.A. approved Paxil, Prozac, DDT, high-dosage estrogen birth control pills, (the new ones are much lower in estrogen) and AZT.
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Because they are intellectually dishonest. The FDA recently released a study claiming that marijuana has no legitimate medical uses. This flies in the face of numerous scientific studies. To keep marijuana illegal for recreational use, they want to limit the exposure to it for anyone at all. It is rather silly in reality. If you want to remove a scourge from society, ban alcohol instead of worrying about whether cancer patients or people with glaucoma are puffin on a joint. If people don't pay attention, even the synthetic Marinol will be unavailable at some point.

the pot that they grow in secret government labs is the best quality that can be found anywhere.it is also tested to find the exact thc levels to ensure that the patients get the proper dosage,as well as to not get ripped off by some dealer with poor quality weed.

Because most cancer patients can take a pill better. And there is no odor. It is controlled by the doctor and the patients know what they are getting. I doubt if a cancer patient or his family would want to roll the real stuff up and light it for the patient. I have a brother in law who is dying and he never smoked any pot. So he takes it in pill form. No hassle and easier on his caregivers and family, including his grandchildren.

Well the amount of THC in a plant is different in every plant and the amount reaching the blood brain barrier cannot therefore be established. Giving a pill ensures only x amount can enter the body. Its a way to cover their backsides in case anything happens. When i worked in a lab for summer we make chemicals here in Ireland and export them to the US market and the FDA is so strict when it comes to standards.

Politics.

Politics..its true. But it isn't the only part of the reason.Not being able to control dosage and purity from street pot is a big part of it. Also, smoking anything is harmful, and that is the most common delivery method. Of course, you could eat it, or vaporize it but the FDA just sees weed from a dealer with contaminents, and huge bong hits and says.no way! We will make a pill.

why neostigmine is not given in succinylcholine poisoning?

2009-11-07T06:33:00.003-08:00

Answer:
Previous answer is a bit off.Neostigmine is an anti-acetylcholinesterase. It blocks the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine in the body. As the acetylcholine builds up, it can displace the muscle relaxant at the motor end plate and the person can once again move. All of the various muscle relaxants are metabolized by the body, with or without the introduction of neostigmine as a reversal agent. In general, Succ wears off so fast it does not need reversal. In fact the half life of the neostigmine is considerably greater than the Succ. Since neostigmine is a weak "nerve agent" and can cause paralysis itself the view is, if you do not need it, do not give it. There are people out there who can not break down Succ, so the proper treatment is to give fresh frozen plasma which contains the enzyme needed to break it down. (If you give neostigmine you might see a very temporary improvement but if you do not get the Succ metabolized, when the neo wears off, you will be right back where you started.) There is only one instance where neostigmine is indicated after the use of Succ. As Succ gets broken down, one of the products of the break down is succ MONO choline. That is a very weak non-depolarizer muscle relaxant. In cases where a person got a lot of Succ, such as in the "olden days" when a constant drip of Succ was used, or when the anesthesia provider gives repeated doses, the build up of succ MONO choline could cause prolonged paralysis. And for THAT you could use neostigmine, but the provider had better make sure he is correct in his assessment.

succinylcholine is a depolarising muscle relaxant and neostigmine is a cholinergic that act against non depolarising agent like atracorium .
we have cholinestrase enzyme inour body that act against succinyl choline

why myelinated nervefibres are white in colour?

2009-11-07T06:33:00.002-08:00

nervefibres.
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Myelin sheaths are made of mostly a white phospholipid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/myelin...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lipid...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/myelin_basi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/myelin_olig...

its a very good quetion.i have to read anatomy book gray.

The myelin sheath is mostly made of fats.

I have seen these Nerve fibers in a human brain at my medical school specifically myelinated nerve fiber are composed of phospholipids...they are white in colour because generally fats are white in colour.

why must we finish taking Antibiotics one full course although our fever has been gone?

2009-11-07T06:33:00.001-08:00

Answer:
because any leftover bacteria might become drug resistant if you don't finish the full course of antibiotics. it's happened with many strains of bacteria, particularly staph

Because the bacteria are still in your body and might not be dead. Sort of unconscious! If you stop the antibiotics they recover and become stronger and the antibiotic can no longer kill them. It's better to kill them totally! So finish the course!
By the way, this could seriously affect if you if are hurt badly and need an anti-biotic to save your life. Always finish the course!

your fever is gone because the antibiotics are surpressing the symptoms of whatever illness you have. you need to finish the full course of antibiotics so that your body can make antibodies against the illness, and you won't get it again (hopefully)

Steven ... If you quit taking your medications as soon as your symptoms disappear, you're liking to be affected again. After you've taken your medicine for a few days, most of the germs that provoked your illness have been killed off. However, not ALL of them were destroyed yet. If you stop taking your medicine before it's finished, those germs that remain will multiply and cause your illness to recur.The very first sentence of my link (below) addresses this particular mis-use of antibiotics. Scroll up to get the entire story.Take care, Steven, and take all the medicine as directed. Good luck.

The alotted dosage must be finished to totally eradicate the germs.If you cut off before the pills are finish,a likely re occurence may happen and you probably have to get different antibiotics to cure you.

Otherwise the infecting germs will become immune to that particular antibiotic and next time same antibiotic will not work on the germs.

To prevent the bacteria from surviving and developing resistance to the drug. Next time, we may need higher doses and longer duration treatment.

in my opinion it is a crime to stop an antibiotic treatment course without a genuine medical reason , Spreading bacterial resistance is a real headache for physicians and pharmacist

Why must we complete the full course of antibiotics?

2009-11-07T06:33:00.000-08:00

I was given a seven day course of four tablets...which should've ended tonight...however me being me kept forgetting to take the tablets and ive got 7 tablets left...should i continue to take them or should i discard them?
Answer:
take them, and try to do it according to the original schedule. you should take the whole course because if you don't, all you do is make the germ, whatever it may be, resistant to the drug you're taking, and when it comes back, you'll have to get something else to cure it. This is why they only give penicillin for strep throat now, everything else has become resistant to it coz of people only taking part of their anitbiotics

Well if the infection has gone away on its own, then congratulations, you don't need them. If the infection is still there, ask you doctor.In general, you should always take the full course of antibiotics. Otherwise, the infection could become drug resistant, meaning harsher treatments.

Antibiotic regimines should always be taken completely for a few reasons. The first being just because you don't show symptoms doesnt mean the illness is gone. One example is mononucleosis or mono for short, an illness that is treated with antibiotics but stays in the blood for up to 6 months after the symptoms have gone away.The second deals with mutations. Ever heard the saying what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger? Well this applies to germs especially. Germs and bacteria mutate to survive the hostile environments that they live in. Takeing antibiotics attacks the germs but not completeing the regimine is like quiting a fight you are winnign right in the middle it is just kinda stupid. So take all the remainign antibiotics and remember to stick to the schedule or you could end up with the next super germ. xD (Not likely but do you wanna risk it?)

Never EVER stop taking a medication because you feel better. It just makes matters worse.Finish taking the antibiotics and next time be more careful with a schedule. They have a reason for being given the way they are.

The reason you are suppose to take ALL of your antibiotics is because although you may be feeling better, the infection could still be there and if you stop taking the meds then I could just come right back! If you finish them all and stick to the schedule that you are suppose to then it will kill off all of the infection so you are as good as new and not just THINKING you are!

Why mosquitoes attract frequently towards black colour? For example black hair & at evening?

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Mosquitoes don't respond to color or temperature very much. (research is ambiguous, it isn't for sure one way or the other) Their primary method of tracking prey is chemically. They respond mostly to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, there are a large number of other chemical attractants that also work, but they're not as sure on those. There is a good deal of research on how certain species of mosquitoes hunt, almost always pertaining to certain ratios of chemicals. If you're curious, the entemology department of UF has some of the leading research on it.

mosquitoes respond to thermal stimuli (other than visual)..and black surfaces are warmer because they absorb heat. Hence, mosquitoes tend to congregate over darker areas, surfaces

mosquitoes are mostly dark colored, so they look out for dark colored places to reduce the chances of detection.

Mosquitoes and other insects have compound eyes. They see better in twilight. Bright light is uncomfortable for them.

Why mosquitoes are not able to spread HIV when they can spread dengue virus, W.bancrofti,chiken guniya virus?

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It is understood that mosquitoes are injecting saliva(is it anasthetizing agent?) before drwaing blood from animals. HIV would not survive in mosquito saliva or mosquito blood or multiply inside mosquito body? If that is the case how mosquitoes are able to spread the chicken guniya viral disease, dengue viral disease, elephantiasis nematodes, malarail parasite, yellow viral fever. Can any one clarify my doubt?
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Mosquitoes actually could spread HIV, but they are not good at it.HIV is not a very tough virus. It doesn't do well when exposed to air, and mosquitoes are very small and therefore quite exposed to oxygen (the surface area-to-mass ratio is high). There tends to be a long amount of time between feeding too.HIV doesn't multiply in mosquitoes. The other viruses, parasites etc are different in that they either survive well in the mosquito or actually breed in the mosquito and end up in the saliva of the mosquito (actually, it is more of a blood-thinning agent as opposed to an anesthetic)I think that the only way that HIV could be spread by a mosquito would be if the female mosquito was interrupted during feeding on an infected person. If the same mosquito then immediately attempted to feed on a non-infected person and was smashed so that some of the mosquito's blood meal ended up on and in the non-infected person, an infection could occur. Even this scenario is not very probable.Generally, HIV is spread by the exchange of bodily fluids on (and generally rather deep in) a body opening where there is some type of physical trauma that causes bleeding. Needle injection, anal sex etc help spread aids because these activities traumatize the body and create a place where the weak HIV can start its terrible work.You ought to protect yourself from mosquitoes, but try not to worry about getting HIV from the mosquitoes, it's highly unlikely.Warning: this is a highly politically charged issue. In such cases, its hard to get good answers because good answers are politically incorrect.

your guesses are right, HIV is specific to the species, and cannot make its way into into moscito saliva (or survive in it)

They don't spread, they BOOSTMalaria helps spreading AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people's bodies for weeks at a time, and people weakened by HIV are, in turn, more vulnerable to malaria, in a deadly vicious circle.

HIV mosquito may be too weak to fly around and bite and may die in few seconds.

Because HIV the biggest fraud in medical history and may or may not even exist. Watch the following videos if you don't believe me.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

mosquitoes use animal blood incluing human blood as food . they utilise the protien present in blood to support them. as W. bancrofti or mararia parasite and dengue parasite and not virus complete they life cyc le in mosquites they spread these infections where as HIV does not complete its life cycle in mosquites and hence donot spread AIDS.

why might it be important for a drug to have a brief half-life when it has a narrow therapeutic-index?

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A brief half life helps prevent dangerous doses from building up whilst using drugs where the treatment dose is very close to a potentially dangerous one.

A narrow therapeutic index means that the difference in dosage between therapeutic and toxic levels is very small, and so must be monitored carefully because the patient can easily become toxic. A brief half-life is important because the shorter the half-life is, the faster it will be cleared from the system -- thus, if the patient reaches toxic levels of the drug, the patient will be able to recover faster if the drug has a short half-life than if it had a long one.

why its Ringing in the right ear?

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Consulted doctor and he advised this is due to sinusitis.The medicine recommended is 200 mgSparfloxacin(antibiotic),Ibu... mg), steaming with inhalant capsule Genvol
cadila made for 5 days twice a day each tablet. No improvement of ringing sound-Tinnitus.Nothing is obstructing the pathof the ear upto the ear drum.whather the problem is with middile ear or inner ear?
Answer:
if you drink pop is aspertain that makes you have a ringging in the ear,

your doctor could be correct then maybe he isnt.. there is no real answer for tinnitus..plenty of websites that swear there is a cure but most doctors just blow it off.. its internal sounds you are hearing or perhaps hearing damage to a small extent.Mine started 30 years ago. almost drove me crazy I thought it was high blood pressure.doctor laughed at me.. Its also caused by some medications ,can be temporary or maybe permanent most of time if its cause is the body you will never get rid of it .. you will learn to live with it just like seeing your nose..If you look you see if ,but your brain has adjusted to not see it.. same principal

Well, I occasionally have tinnitus. The only thing I can figure is that since the blood has iron in it there is some phenomena of a magnetic action or something wrong with my Krebs citrus acid cycle and a few loose electrons "ringing" my bell. Check it out! I consider it normal fm time to time, but rare in the short time. What I did was mimic the tone by whistling at the same pitch..harmonizing the frequency. Or u can pull ur earlobe. One of the two actions usually diminish the sound. Yeah it's hard to concentrate when it happens.

Ah ha, been listening to loud music in your car, have the bass pumped up and rocking the car, am I correct? This is the culprit that has given me ringing in my ears, years of loud music..

i have no idea what CAUSES ringing in the ear(s), but the best cure i have found for it is to turn one's head as far in one direction as you can, hold it for a few seconds, then turn in the other direction and do the same. it works for me EVERY TIME. good luck with that tinnitus.

When you consult a good doctor he should ask you what type of medicine you are taking. He probably gave you antibiotics for urgency reasons without diagnostic tests.
If you take some medications ask your pharmacist: he should know or be able to find if there are some adverse effects.
You could also find the answer on the net. For example if you take aspirin every day you could have some earing problem. This is my drug of choice when I do not want to hear some people...

Will someone answer that damn phone?!

It could be a sign of trauma to your ears, Meniere's Disease (a chronic disease of the inner ear), hardening of the inner ear (otosclerosis), earwax that is touching your eardrum or is blocking your ear canal, or it really could be a sinus infection. Many people have a misunderstanding of what your sinuses are. They are basically just empty spaces that are found throughout your skull. When they get blocked by various surrounding tissues, it can result in accumulating secretions causing an infection. This infection can now spread to your ears because your ears connect to your sinuses and then to your nose. The obstruction of these sinuses can cause the ringing you are hearing.
Also, there can be no apparent cause.
My best advice would be to take all of your medication as prescribed, and if it doesn't clear up, ask for a referral to an ear, nose, and throat doc.

Why it is hot when i chew green chilly.?

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Answer:
The substance which makes food hot is capsaicin. Capsaicin is the main ingredient of pepper spray.
How hot food is, is measured by the Scoville units (SHU), this is a measure of the concentration of capsaicin in food. Jalapenos chilli peppers contain 3000 to 6000 SHU. The hottest chilli pepper known - the Dorset Naga pepper - contains 970 000 SHU and is not really fit for human consumption.

Chillies have got a pungent and deep chemical called capsaicin, It activates the nerve cells on the tongue so that the brain experiences the sensation of heat. Rest of the stuff is the reaction of the brain.

Why isn't Qualuude listed in The Pill Book?

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I was attempting to look up Quaalude in the 12th edition of The Pill Book, and found nothing. Looked up the scientific name, Methaqualone...found nothing. Why isn't this sedative that teens sometimes abuse listed in the most reliable medication book in the US?
Answer:
Legal reasons, not allowed in U.S. and many other markets anymore.
Quaalude (Methaqualone)
Quaalude Information
History
Quaalude (Methaqualone, Sopor) was first synthesised in India in 1955 by M.L.Gujral and was soon introduced to Japanese and European consumers as a safe barbiturate substitute.But experience has shown that its excessive use leads to tolerance, dependence and withdrawal symptoms similar to those of barbiturates.By 1965 it was the most commonly prescribed sedative in Britain.In England, it has been sold legally under the names Malsed, Malsedin, and Renoval. In 1965 Methaqualone and an antihistamine combination were sold as the sedative drug Mandrax by Rousell Laboratories.At about the same time (1965) it was starting to become a popular recreational drug named mandies or mandrake.In 1972 it was the sixth best selling sedative on the market in the United States, where it was legally sold by the name of Quaalude, and luding out, was a popular college pastime.Because of its alleged aphrodisiac and euphoric qualities it was known as the love drug at that time (the 70s). Guys would say to girls "Let's do some ludes and ****". Some girls would say "Yes" and others would say "No".It has been used as a hypnotic in the short term management of insomnia and as a sedative but has been withdrawn from the market due to problems with abuse.Dose: THERAPEUTIC RANGE: 150mg - 300mg at night OR 75mg four times a day.In the United States, the marketing of methaqualone pharmaceutical products stopped in 1984 and methaqualone was transferred to Schedule I of the CSA making it an illegal substance in USA as well as a number of other countries.In general, Qualudes are very similar to alcohol and other depressants. Methaqualone combines both sedative and hypnotic properties. The drug produces depression of the central nervous system (a reduction in the heart and breathing rate and blood pressure) and the onset of its effects usually occurs within 10 to 20 minutes of ingestion and may last 6 to 10 hours when taken orally.Small doses create a feeling of euphoria, relaxation, hornyness, and/or sleepiness. Larger doses can bring about depression, irrational behavior, poor reflexes and slurred speech.Negative effects can include a high level of tolerance (you need more to produce the same feeling), reduced heart rate, reduced respiration, and reduced muscular coordination.Some street names it has been sold as are Disco Biscuits, Down And Dirtys, Fuckers, Joe Fridays, Lemmon 714, Lemons, Lennons, Lovers, Ludes, Mandies, Mandrake, Q, qua, quaa, quack, Quad, Qualudes, Soaper, Supper, Vitamin Q, The Love Drug, Wallbangers, Whore Pills, and on and on and on...Overdose by methaqualone is more difficult to treat than barbiturate overdose, and deaths have occurred.Overdose Symptoms: Delirium, coma, restlessness, hyperreflexia, hypertonia, myoclonus, convulsions, tachycardia. Cardiac and respiratory depression occurs less frequently than with barbiturate poisoning. Cardiac and hepatic damage, bleeding, vomiting, renal insufficiency.Management of overdose: Get the person to a hospital right away. Overdose death is usually due to lung, liver, kidney, or heart failure.Unfortunately, much of what is being passed on the streets today isn't all pure, so it's best to stay away from unless you are sure of what you are getting. A lot of what gets sold as ludes, is really valium. This is because valium produces a feeling that is somewhat similar to ludes.

It's a animal tranquilizer.

As far as I remember, it has been pulled.

Methaqualone (Quaalude, Parest and others) is no longer legally manufactured, hence it's not listed in most references. All methaqualone that is available today is manufactured illegally, South Africa and India are big exporters. "The Pill Book" is indeed a useful reference, but not definitive. The most popular drug handbook today is Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook. http://www.amazon.com/lexi-comps-drug-in...I hope this helps.Rick the Pharmacist

technically it is not produced in the US anymore...it is found overseas and illegally imported...
you are correct, I have seen a quaalude OD about 7 years ago, and had to go thru all kinds of heck to get treatment info...i ended up talking to a toxicologist from Chicago...
you might find the link interesting about quaaludes

Try the correct spelling of quaalude and see what you come up with.

why is yawning contagious??

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Answer:
The yawn reflex is often described as contagious: if one person yawns, this will cause another person to "sympathetically" yawn.The proximate cause for contagious yawning may lie with mirror neurons, i.e. neurons in the frontal cortex of certain vertebrates, which upon being exposed to a stimulus from conspecific (same species) and occasionally interspecific organisms, activates the same regions in the brain. Mirror neurons have been proposed as a driving force for Imitation which lies at the root of much human learning, e.g. language acquisition. Yawning may be an offshoot of the same imitative impulse. At a distal level (in terms of evolutionary advantage), yawning might be a herd instinct. Other theories suggest that the yawn serves to synchronize mood behavior among gregarious animals, similar to the howling of the wolf pack during a full moon. It signals tiredness to other members of the group in order to synchronize sleeping patterns and periods of activity. It can serve as a warning in displaying large, canine teeth. This phenomenon has been observed among various primates. The threat gesture is a way of maintaining order in the primates' social structure. The contagion of yawning is interspecific, for example a human yawning in front of a pet dog can incite the dog to yawn as well. Oddly, sometimes sympathetic yawning may be caused by simply looking at a picture of a person or animal yawning, or even seeing the word yawn.

u just made me yawn!

Try asking bill nye. I think this question was on his website the other day

I don't know, but I swear I yawned when I read that question! LOL!

when you see someone yawn it makes you think about yawning. now think about yawning--u just yawned didnt you?

yes, it's a psychological phenomenon. tests have been done. It's a fact.

the word is that a long time ago the leaders of the group would yawn to signify it was time to go to bed
and you might wanna look here http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/... -

I do not believe that it is..Yawning happens when your brain lacks oxygen鈥o it is all just a bog coincidence

I looked up this article and yawned as soon as I saw the picture of the fox..interesting, I didn't make it through the article though. maybe you'll have better luck

because we were pack creatures and we used to eat, sleep etc together I believe...it's primordial response...a cool experiment would be to yawn around a dog and see if it yawns lol..

yep, if u yawn the guy next to u will yawn too, just try it

It's a reflex started at the back of the throat. (almost like when you gag) It is contagious because our brains have a wierd "empathetic" channel attached to that reflex muscle. This is why when one person throws up other people might too. Not everyone yawns only those in tune to this reflex.

Close your mouth!! Don't yawn! A a a Yawn! Rat! I told you not to yawn! It contagious!

it's a "mind" thing lol

DSF You are on newspaper!
http://www.osoq.com/funstuff/extra/extra...

Good question! I would think that seeing someone yawn, triggers something in our reflexes or brain that makes us imitate the behavior.

Very long time ago, when we were living in caves, yawning was considered a social response to the fact that the group leader was yawning too."Yawning in synchrony is more common amoung potential lovers - not as a sign of bordom, but as an expression of their mutual empathy and attraction!"

Why is yawning contagious?

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------------------------------...Why is yawning contagious? Brain study deepens mysteryMarch 5, 2005
Special to World ScienceIt may not be one of life’s deepest mysteries, but as scientific conundrums go, it has a peculiar staying power. Why is yawning contagious?

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Researchers recently found that yawning isn’t only catching among people; it is also among chimpanzees. (Click here for a brief video from this research.) No one has devised a fully convincing explanation of why.Compounding the mystery is the odd way in which the contagious power of yawning is largely unconscious. We can see someone yawn, yearn to replicate the action ourselves, and do it, all without thinking about it. Other times we’re aware it is happening, though it still floats somewhere beneath the realm of reason and of purposeful actions.So what gives? In an effort to find the answer, the Finnish government recently funded a brain scanning study. The results turned up some hard-to-interpret, possible clues. It also confirmed the obvious: yawn contagion is largely unconscious. Wherever it might affect the brain, it bypasses the known brain circuitry for consciously analyzing and mimicking other people’s actions.This circuitry is called the “mirror-neuron system,” because it contains a special type of brain cells, or neurons, that become active both when their owner does something, and when he or she senses someone else doing the same thing. Mirror neurons typically become active when a person consciously imitates an action of someone else, a process associated with learning. But they seem to play no role in yawn contagiousness, the researchers in the new study found. The cells are have no extra activity during contagious yawning compared with during other non-contagious facial movements, they observed.Brain activity “associated with viewing another person yawn seems to circumvent the essential parts of the MNS [mirror neuron system], in line with the nature of contagious yawns as automatically released behavioural acts—rather than truly imitated motor patterns that would require detailed action understanding,” wrote the researchers, with the Helsinki University of Technology and the Research Centre Jülich, Germany. The findings are published in the February issue of the research journal Neuroimage.But if seeing someone yawn doesn’t activate these centers, what does it do to the brain? The researchers found that it appears to strongly activate at least one brain area, called the superior temporal sulcus. But this activation was unrelated to any desire to yawn in response, so it may be irrelevant to the contagion question, the researchers added.Possibly more significant, they wrote, was the apparent deactivation of a second brain area, called the left periamygdalar region. The more strongly a participant reported wanting to yawn in response to another person’s yawn, the stronger was this deactivation. “This finding represents the first known neurophysiological signature of perceived yawn contagiousness,” the researchers wrote.Exactly what the finding means is less clear, they acknowledged. The periamygdalar region is a zone that lies alongside the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain in the area of the side of the head. The periamygdalar region has been linked to the unconscious analysis of emotional expressions in faces. Why it would be deactivated in tandem with yawn contagion is unclear, the researchers said.One thing seems clear from the study is that “contagious yawning does not rely on brain mechanisms of action understanding,” wrote one of the researchers, Riitta Hari of the Helsinki University of Technology, in a recent email. Rather, she continued, it seems to be an “‘automatically’ released (and most likely very archaic) motor pattern,” or sequence of physical actions.In the study, volunteers looked at videos of actors yawning or making other mouth movements. Meanwhile their brains were scanned using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a system that shows the amount of activity or work going on in various brain areas based on the amount of oxygen being used up there. The volunteers were later asked how strongly they had been tempted to yawn while viewing the pictures.Apart from the physical brain mechanisms of yawn contagiousness, researchers have offered different reasons as to why it exists. Some have proposed that in early humans, yawn contagiousness might have helped people communicate their alertness levels to each other, and thus coordinate their sleep schedules.This might be part of a more general phenomenon of unconscious signals that serve to synchronize group behavior, the authors of the Neuroimage paper wrote. “Such synchronization could be essential for species survival and works without action understanding, like when a flock of birds rises to the air as soon as the first bird does so—supposably as it notices a predator.”* * *

I'm going to bed.

Yawning is a result of oxygen depletion, and if you are in a room with someone who yawns, you are also depleted of oxygen and therefore yawn also.

It's psychological...all in the head. It's not contagious.

yes it is, I yawn whenever someone does it

It's your body telling you your tired because no more energy or not enough sleep.

Its so weird. I got told off at school once because the teacher saw me yawning, but I only yawned because the boy next to me yawned!! It wasn't my fault!!

That's actually an urban legend. Yawning generally happens when a person is bored; and if a situation is borig, other people will likely agree. Sometimes the quality of the air can make one sleepy, as a lot of alertness has to do with oxygen levels.

That's actually a myth. An experiment was conducted by the Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel and it was found that people aren't prompted to yawn if they see or hear another person yawn.

arrrghhhhyyawwwmmmmmmmmmm. i don't know . i'm arrrrryywaaammmmmm.shut shchh.

Just seeing that word made me yawn,dont know why its contagious just is.

Hearing someone else yawn reminds you that you need to yawn, so you do. We're always on the verge of yawning, and hearing it brings the awareness needed to follow through. That's why it's not always contagious, but only when you're already slightly tired.

because of humans are animals HM, sort of , we do derive from animal 'kingdom'-sort of ,,,once upon a time question carried along the corridor of males,dog males,mean and nasty horrid howlers as wolves Howell -aiiiihuuu,time and time again at middle of the night, hm, why wolves howl so , together in a group,shh wait on a bit,,do they try to scare some one,? HM don't think so, do you,? so why howling, hey it is animal kingdom elementary communication system evolved,,HM before your time,so you go, whats the connection-we ya awn in harmony-Ceres a news flash ,my friend-coose we derived humans from animal kingdom,yet one proof of it , is we actually ya-an n only in symphaty,

there are receptors located in the medulla oblongota (brain stem)
which detects when your oxygen level is low which in turns triggers a person to yawn, when a person yawn he/ she are inhaling deeper bringing needed oxygen to the brain. This typically happens when you are in a closed room of people such as in class. Such an environment has a limited supply of oxygen available because of the amount of people breathing in the oxygen and exhaling the carbon dioxide.