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 Herbs: nursing mothers should drink 1 cup of chamomile tea twice a day. Give a bottle-fed infant 1 tbsp of tea three times a day mixed in formula or water. Fennel has been traditionally used to treat colic. nursing mothers can drink 1 cup of fennel tea, on its own or mixed with chamomile, up to three times a day, or give a breastfeeding baby 1 tsp of the tea four times a day. nursing mothers can also drink 1 cup of ginger tea twice a day to relieve colic in their infants.
HOMEOPATHY
The remedies below can ease the distress and pain of a recent, acute bout of colic. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The oldest was in a nursing home, bedridden and psychotic, and the youngest brother had also been placed in a nursing home, where he died 1 year after admission.
The patient's symptoms began when he was 40 and gradually became worse. His original weight had been 165 lbs, but had fallen to 130 lbs due to muscle tissue loss. He was so weak that it took all his energy just to survive: to eat, dress, and look after himself. He was tired all the time. He walked with a jerky limp. He had no hallucinations, but his cognition was affected. |
Bill Sardi
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 Lancet 357: 9274, 2001] A nursing journal article asks: "Why are we still promoting breast self-examination?" [International Journal nursing Studies, Jan. 19, 2006]
Reliability of estrogen receptor tests
Even testing for estrogen receptor status is not foolproof. This is a laboratory test that measures the percentage of tumor cells that are sensitive to estrogen. Somewhere around 10 to 20% of the tumor cells must be sensitive to estrogen before the test is judged to be positive. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Thirty years ago, Swedish researchers decided to start testing nursing women to find out whether these ubiquitous chemicals could be found in women's breast milk, and, if so, whether levels of flame retardants in breast milk were rising. They discovered, to their alarm, that levels of PBDEs in nursing moms have doubled every five years. In 2003, a study of twenty first-time American mothers found that PBDE levels in U.S. women are much higher than those found in Swedish women, indicating that Americans' exposures to PBDEs may be particularly worrisome. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| The oldest was in a nursing home, bedridden and psychotic, and the youngest brother had also been placed in a nursing home, where he died 1 year after admission.
The patient's symptoms began when he was 40 and gradually became worse. His original weight had been 165 lbs, but had fallen to 130 lbs due to muscle tissue loss. He was so weak that it took all his energy just to survive: to eat, dress, and look after himself. He was tired all the time. He walked with a jerky limp. He had no hallucinations, but his cognition was affected. |
Devra Davis
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 Throughout the building, we can be inside and feel like it's outside," said Kim Nunez, a thirty-nine-year-old nursing student.3
In 2006, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment designated the nursing school one of its Top 10 green projects for the year. Yet there's still a ways to go. As of March 2007, the Denton Cooley Building, across the street at the same institution, included a hospital-based McDonald's complete with french fries, hamburgers, cheeseburgers and other unhealthy offerings. One green building does not an entire revolution make. Still, it's a start. |
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| NATUROPATHY
Diet: A nursing mother should eliminate any food allergens and saturated fats from her diet. Eat plenty of cold-water fish such as salmon, mackerel, and herring. A non-nursing child should also eliminate allergenic foods such as cow's milk.
Topical: Massage the head with calendula lotion and vitamin E oil alternatively. Allow the oil to remain on the scalp for 15 minutes then shampoo and gently comb away the loosened scales. This treatment works well for adults as well.
HOMEOPATHY
The homeopathic remedies suggested below can be helpful in clearing up mild cases of cradle cap. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 If the government had decided that those in mental hospitals would be eligible for benefits but those in nursing homes would be ineligible, there would have been an immediate shift in patient populations out of nursing homes and into mental hospitals all across the nation. However the new programs decided it would be just the opposite of that: coverage for nursing home residents but no coverage for those in state mental hospitals. The number of state mental hospital patients declined more between 1965 and 1966 than at any time previously.25 The next year saw an even greater decline. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Here are some words of caution for those of you who have someone in the hospital or a nursing home or retirement center. You have probably already figured this out yourself, but, if not, pay attention. Don't leave your loved ones in the hospital or nursing home without you being there, because the nursing staff and physician assistants are screwing up. They are giving your loved ones the wrong medication, forgetting to turn them in bed, not paying attention to them and not giving them enough water. Often, they are just feeding them foods that are going to make them sicker. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Relationship Between Attendance at Breakfast and School Achievement among nursing Students." Journal of nursing Research 10, no. 1 (2002): 15-21.
Child Trends. "Guide to Effective Programs for Children and Youth: Child and Adolescent Trial for
Cardiovascular Health (CATCH)," December 31, 2001. http://www.childtrends.org/Lifecourse/ programs/ChildandAdolesentTrialforCardiovascularHealth.htm.
DesMaisons, Kathleen. Little Sugar Addicts: End the Mood Swings, Meltdowns, Tantrums, and Low Self-Esteem in Your Child Today. New York: Three Rivers Pressj 2004.
Donnelly, Shannon. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Not long ago, one of my best friends suffered a difficult surgery for cancer and spent his last years paralyzed in a nursing home. During the many visits I made to the nursing home, I never failed to come away with a deep appreciation for the health I still possess in my old age. It was not uncommon for me to go to the nursing home to visit my friend and hear that one of the new patients in the home was someone whom my friend and I knew from our earlier days. Too often, they had Alzheimer's and were housed in a special section of the facility. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 SIGN OF THE TIMES
Approximately half of nursing home residents older than 65 years are incontinent. In fact, incontinence is often a major factor in the decision to place an elderly person in a nursing home.
Not all leaking problems are the same. For example, if a little pee drips out when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or exert yourself, it may be a sign of stress incontinence. In this condition, the muscles under the bladder can't hold up to the stress of the bladder filling up with urine for any one of a number of reasons. For example, the urethra doesn't close properly. |
Stacy Malkan
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 I came home one night after work and watched the TV news while nursing," Mary recalled. Texas Tech University had conducted a study of breast milk in 19 states and found that all the milk samples were contaminated with perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel.
"I'm sitting there on my couch nursing my daughter and I was stunned. I thought breast milk was as pure as it came as a food source for children. To find out there's all sorts of stuff in there: pesticides, mercury, lead ... I was up all night thinking about it."
Makeup Call
Michelle Hammond wasn't quite sure what to think. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Normal doses of supplementary vitamin K given to the nursing mother do not seem to elevate breast milk levels of vitamin K. The second reason is that the newborn's intestines may not contain the bacteria that synthesize menaquinone (vitamin K2). Finally, infants may not have fully developed their vitamin K conservation cycle.
Why Newborn Infants May be Deficient in Vitamin K
Vitamin K levels in breast milk are low. Bacteria to make vitamin K in the large intestine may not yet be ready.
The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be developed. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Curtis Bakal, one of the senior radiologists in the department, switches the image on the screen to the man's chest X-ray and briefly describes his case: "Seventy-eight-year-old male, history of prostate cancer, brought to the ED from a nursing home with shortness of breath. He's a DNR." Translation: Sometime in the past, the man recognized his condition was terminal, and he signed a "do not resuscitate" order, which means he did not want any heroic measures taken as he neared death. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Use during pregnancy or while nursing only after consulting a physician. The drug is not to be administered to children under 12 years of age. precautions and adverse reactions
General: Spasmodic gastrointestinal complaints could occur as a side effect to the drug's purgative effect. Long-term use leads to loss of electrolytes, especially potassium ions. This may lead to hyperaldosteronism, inhibition of intestinal motility and enhancement of the effect of cardioactive steroids, which in rare cases may result in cardiac arrhythmias. |
| While there is little data in regard to excretion of THC in breast milk, THC has been reported to be concentrated and secreted in human breast milk and absorbed by nursing babies. THC concentrations were determined in the breast milk and fecal samples from the babies (n=2). One of the mothers had a milk level of 60.3 ng/mL of THC and its metabolites compared to a plasma 7.2 ng/mL. This was one hour after administration of THC. The fecal sample from a baby showed 347 ng of THC that was absorbed and metabolized by the neonate (Perez-Reyes & Wall, 1982). |
| The drug is contraindicated in pregnancy, nursing, and in children under 12 years of age. precautions and adverse reactions
No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Individuals with gastric sensitivity may experience queasiness and vomiting following intake of preparations made from the drug with high tannin content. Liver damage is conceivable with administration of the drug over extended periods, particularly with children, due to the possible hepatotoxicity of the hydroquinones released. |
| Bittersweet Nightshade is contraindicated in pregnancy and nursing mothers. precautions and adverse reactions
Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. Toxic effects should not be seen in dosages under approximately 25 gm due to the low alkaloid content of the stem. overdosage
The unripe berries have caused poisonings among children. More than 10 berries cause nausea, vomiting, dilated pupils, and diarrhea. Lethal dosage is estimated to be 200 berries. |
| COLT'S FOOT FLOWER, HERB, ROOT, AND LEAF
Administration during pregnancy and while nursing is contraindicated. precautions and adverse reactions
COLT'S FOOT FLOWER, HERB, AND ROOT
Because of the possible hepatotoxic and carcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloid content, the administration of the blossoms should be avoided.
COLT'S FOOT LEAF
Colt's Foot leaves may no longer be brought into circulation in Austria. In Germany, dosages cannot exceed an intake of 10 meg pyrrolizidine alkaloids with 1. |
| Pregnancy: Because a mutagenic effect in vitro and a carcinogenic effect in animal experiments have been demonstrated for estragole, oil of basil should not be administered during pregnancy or while nursing.
Pediatric Use: Basil oil should not be given to infants or small children. dosage
Basil Herb:
Tea: 3 g of drug with 150 mL hot water.
Basil Oil: Until the final determination of the drug's carcinogenic potential, one should completely forgo its administration. literature
Balambal R et al., (1985) J Assoc Phys (India) 33(8):507.
Czygan FCh, Balsilikum - Ocimum basilicum L. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Some drugs ingested by a nursing mother, such as lithium, can make the infant low in energy, phlegmatic, and passive. Other tranquilizers can make the infant excitable. What happens during womb-life can help set the stage for addiction two decades later. The critical period occurs when the key brain synapses are being built, which, in humans, starts from the sixth month of pregnancy and goes on after birth to age 2 or 3. The drugs, if ingested by the mother, can create an imprint that resets the set-point of hormones and physiologic chemicals (for example, later we lack serotonin or thyroid). |
Bill Sardi
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| International Journal nursing Studies, Jan. 19, 2006]
Reliability of estrogen receptor tests
Even testing for estrogen receptor status is not foolproof. This is a laboratory test that measures the percentage of tumor cells that are sensitive to estrogen. Somewhere around 10 to 20% of the tumor cells must be sensitive to estrogen before the test is judged to be positive. About 200,000 breast cancer patients have this test done annually, and some labs use a 10% cutoff point, while others use higher numbers. [Washington Post Dec. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| In fact, incontinence is often a major factor in the decision to place an elderly person in a nursing home.
Not all leaking problems are the same. For example, if a little pee drips out when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or exert yourself, it may be a sign of stress incontinence. In this condition, the muscles under the bladder can't hold up to the stress of the bladder filling up with urine for any one of a number of reasons. For example, the urethra doesn't close properly. As a result, even slight pressure on the bladder can squeeze out some pee. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Vitamin K
Recommended dietary allowance (RDA):
Pregnant or nursing: 65 mg per day Food sources: parsley, brown rice Herbal sources: alfalfa, nettles, kelp
Calcium. Calcium is the only mineral whose requirement doubles during pregnancy. Low dietary intake is associated with preeclampsia,64-65 a potentially dangerous (but preventable) condition characterized by high blood pressure (hypertension), swelling, and/or protein spilling into the urine. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Fran turned to the student's advisor, a Professor of nursing.
She nodded.
Fran thought about a response. Phrases like "the integrity of evidence-based medicine" came to mind. But what was the point, aside from further alienating her colleagues and leading the student toward a nervous breakdown? Religious beliefs are particularly resistant to proof.
"That's all the questions I have," Fran murmured, studying her notes carefully. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Treating diabetes and heart disease requires a very different strategy from nursing an elderly patient through a bout of pneumonia. Yet, our entire system is still structured around the outmoded model of acute care.
As more and more physicians grow dissatisfied with medicine, many of them are coming around to the idea that being in a salaried group practice might not be so bad. Doctors who work for the VHA and the Mayo Clinic and staff-model HMOs like Kaiser are a self-selected bunch of idealists. They tend to be more interested in practicing good medicine than in making a lot of money. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Mercury exposure is most damaging to developing fetuses and nursing babies, where it can cause severe problems with nerve development. Mercury consumption is also damaging to children and adults. Mercury damages the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys, and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth. Most of the exposure to mercury in America is from eating fish and shellfish. Fish and shellfish accumulate a highly toxic organic form of mercury called methylmercury.
Quiz
Refer to the text in this chapter if necessary. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Therapy pets are now are used in schools, mental institutions, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and children's hospitals.
Loving touch opens the heart. It is the kind of touch that gives without expecting anything in return. It is the kind of touch that can create miracles. Each one of us has this healing gift; it is only a matter of acknowledging that you have it, which is a prerequisite for being able to use it. Give your touch freely and without reservations, for it is one of the few gifts that can make you truly happy, too. |
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