Posts Tagged by doctor
AJ’s Advice – irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
| November 5, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a pretty grim condition which annoys the hell out of anyone who experiences it. While the exact causes of IBS aren’t really known, some things can trigger and aggravate the situation. IBS can often cause stomach or abdominal cramping, bloating, constipation and diarrhoea, and is essentially a difficulty with food digestion. Luckily for those people that have it, there are things you can do at home that can help, but before I get into anything: if you have, or think you have IBS, it’s best to consult your GP before making major changes in your diet and lifestyle. Your doctor will be able to advise you on the best way forward. Often, IBS can be… more
Euthanasia: legalisation to liberate Tony Nicklinson is right
| July 2, 2012 | Posted by Jeremy Dobson under national |
They have Tony Nicklinson on a technicality. At present, the difference between a lawful suicide and a killing is who delivers that final, irreversible push from the land of malady to no man’s land. A doctor would have to give Tony Nicklinson his final push to commit a rational consensual suicide; but that’s illegal. He hasn’t the physical capacity to end it himself because of his condition, except via starvation – a long process perhaps more painful than death or the locked-in syndrome brought about by a stroke that is his daily torturer. Any empathetic person can understand why Tony wants to end his life, or at least have the option rather than endure a future “[condemned] to a ‘life’ of… more
AJ’s advice – migraines
| December 31, 2011 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
Okay, so my sister gets migraines, sometimes quite regularly. I’m lucky enough to have never had one, but they can really knock my sister out – sometimes for days. So I thought I’d do some research into them and look into some treatments, and hopefully if any of you guys get migraines you’ll find it useful. So to the NHS online we go; I love the NHS online website. It’s helped me understand my PCOS a lot better. Migraines affect one in four women and one in twelve men in the UK. This means three times more women experience migraines than men, and this could be to do with hormonal variation. So a woman might experience migraines around the time… more
