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 The baby may also be treated with phototherapy, where the baby is placed under artificial lights for at least 12 hours a day. This almost always works and the benefits are usually seen within two days. If this does not work, or if the level of bilirubin is too high even for this procedure, than an exchange transfusion is the treatment of choice. With this treatment, the dangerous blood in the baby's body is replaced with blood that does not have a high level of bilirubin.
In children or adults: Adult or early childhood jaundice is usually related to a problem of the liver. |
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 Various phototherapy devices use infrared LED lights to bathe the wound in healing light. The cellular DNA responds by speeding up the repair process.
Avoid junk food during the healing process, especially processed fats such as hydrogenated oils and homogenized milk fats. They interfere with healthy cell wall construction.
Colloidal silver can be used topically to prevent infections. It works better than antibiotics and offers no opportunity for bacteria to build up resistance. Some people take colloidal silver internally as a replacement for antibiotics (that topic is a whole article). |
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 However, another study reported that women with GDM using glyburide had a higher risk of preeclampsia and infants had an increased risk of phototherapy [69]. Although the use of glyburide has been suggested as a cost-effective, patient-friendly alternative modality to insulin therapy, more studies of maternal and neonatal safety are needed.
VII. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Moderate exercise can be an important adjunctive therapy in the management of diabetes in pregnancy, particularly in GDM. |
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| Narrow-band ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy delivers light wavelengths that treat psoriasis while minimizing the rays that cause burning. Patients usually get three treatments per week. Skin clearing takes at least four to eight weeks.
Narrow-band light therapy can result in total skin clearing in some cases, but skin lesions typically return approximately four to 12 weeks after the treatments are discontinued.
•Psoralen UVA (PUVA) therapy uses ultraviolet A light and a medication {psoralen) that makes the skin more sensitive to light. |
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| Psoralen phototherapy (PUVA), taken orally or applied topically with subsequent UVA therapy for one to two years, is effective. There is also a repigmentation technique that involves the activation and migration of skin cells containing melanin from hair follicles. This is only effective on areas of vitiligo that have hair.
Steroid creams: Triamcinolone, which is mid potency, can be used daily for three months. |
| Treatment depends on the exact nature of the liver problem, but may include phototherapy or addressing liver dysfunction.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Before treating jaundice, a professional consultation is recommended. Herbal treatment should be carried out under the supervision and observation of a medical doctor, and is best combined with acupuncture. Stronger herbal decoctions than those described below can be prescribed by an experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctor. |
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 Later, he was able to secure evidence that a simple mindfulness-based practice might accelerate the treatment of psoriasis using phototherapy,44 or even fortify immune system functioning while shifting the "emotional set-point" in the frontal cortex.45 Could it be that the cultivation of Buddhist mental virtues led over time to a physically healthier body and even brain?
By the 1980s, programs modeled on Kabat-Zinn's approach, now known as MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), were being set up in other clinics and hospitals. |
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 These include computer assisted stereotactic surgery, laser instrumentation (carbon dioxide, argon, and Yag), ultrasonic aspiration, operative phototherapy, etc.
However, consider the following:
* 90% removal of tumor (100,000,000,000 cells), leaves 10 billion cells
* 99% removal of tumor (100,000,000,000 cells), leaves 1 billion cells
Thus, no matter how good the local surgical therapy is, the patient is still left with at least 1 billion tumor cells!
There now remains the combination of therapies: follow up the initial volume reduction therapy with something else. |
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A, Koderhold G, Kreitner M, Hypericin in phototherapy. In: J
Photochem Photobiol B - Biology 36(2):113-119. 1996.
Laux G, (1995) Kontrollierte Vergleichsstudien mit Moclobemid in der Depressionsbehandlung. Munch Med Wschr 137:296-300.
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Berlin.
Linde K et al., St John's wort for depression - An overview and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. In: Brit Med J 313(7052):253-258. 1996. |
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 Phototherapy
If you can't get sunlight, you can treat yourself with phototherapy devices. One such device that I highly recommend is called the Litebook, which uses special LED lights that peak at the same wavelength of natural sunlight in order to give you exposure to these light frequencies from a handheld device. See the Google Video about LiteBook at http://video.google.com (search for "Litebook"). |
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 Once you are awake, you might consider using a phototherapy unit to fool your body into thinking it is sunrise. phototherapy devices supply controlled amounts of bright light that imitate the early morning light of spring and summer. Often prescribed as therapy for people who suffer from the mood changes of seasonal affective disorder and winter weight gain (see Chapter Eight), phototherapy light boxes are widely available and may range in price from around $250 to $500, which may even be covered by your health plan. |
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| Finally, if you engage in physical exercise combined with nutritional therapies and phototherapy through sunlight exposure, then you will probably never suffer from clinical depression. Physical exercise alters your body chemistry and your brain chemistry. It makes you feel happier. Exercise is healing for every system in your body; your cardiovascular system, endocrine system, digestive system, musculoskeletal system, nervous system and many others. Exercise is actually good for your brain, too. |
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 It's called vibrational medicine, and it encompasses not just the energetic nature of matter itself, but also homeopathy and the energies exhibited by water as well as acupuncture, sound therapy, phototherapy, non-local healing and many other energy-based therapeutic modalities with proven healing benefits.
In the holistic medicine world, curing cancer is an everyday event. |
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| These include using infrared phototherapy devices, massage therapy devices or even visiting a massage therapy practitioner who can work wonders for boosting circulation.
Magnetic therapy devices also help boost circulation, and my favorite therapy for circulatory disorders is acupuncture. Acupuncture is downright miraculous for boosting circulation as well as balancing the body's flow of energy. It can treat not just circulatory disorders but also nervous system disorders, musculoskeletal problems, digestive problems, liver dysfunction and many other issues. |
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 So was phototherapy, with partial improvement. (Phototherapy involves the use of a special powerful light box.) At age 45, Linda was married, sober, and free from panic attacks and eating disorders. But she continued to feel depressed and anxious, especially at social gatherings with former drinking buddies.
Once Dick prescribed Rhodiola rosea, Linda's residual depression and social anxiety improved. But the herb really proved its worth 2 years later, the night Linda met up with her friends for a birthday bash. |
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 There is probably a phototherapy effect that goes well beyond the biochemistry of vitamin D production. Even if you're just looking at vitamin D, there are so many healing benefits of vitamin D that it's worth promoting sunlight exposure for that reason alone. Vitamin D regulates the growth of cancer cells. It impairs the proliferation of cancer tumors in the body, and at the same time it is extremely important for absorption of calcium in the small intestine. |
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 The dark history of modern medicine
But the future of medicine is in disease prevention, healing modalities, and energetic medicine -- phototherapy, electromedicine, vibrational nutrition, homeopathy, and so on. The future of medicine is in true healing. And I believe that in the future, people will look back at the time period we're in right now and be amazed. They'll say, "How could these people have just poisoned the entire population with chemicals, and even advertised them on TV!? How could people even call themselves doctors when all they did was write prescription drugs for people? |
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 Some regular exposure to natural sunlight could help, for example. phototherapy, or light therapy, can have a dramatic impact on depression. Consumption of superfoods, such as what's found in Berry Green, is also outstanding for treating depression. Depression is not a "brain chemistry imbalance. |
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 Advanced medicine makes conventional medicine and Western medicine obsolete, and it includes therapies like phototherapy, sunlight, nutrition, sound therapy, vibrational medicine, electromedicine, mind-body medicine, energy healing, and other similar modalities that were once considered experimental, but are now well-known to be both safe and effective at supporting the health of the patient.
The term "junk science" is used by defenders of conventional medicine to discredit everything outside conventional medicine, regardless of whether or not it is based on sound scientific ground. |
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 In severe cases, a doctor may prescribe an oral steroid (such as prednisone, prednisolone, or hydrocortisone) or the use of phototherapy (procedures involve the use of ultraviolet radiation).
Q Allergy testing is advised, particularly for persistent rashes. (See allergies in Part Two. |
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 The drug companies have no reason to tell people they can eliminate depression through phototherapy or by eating flax seeds, walnuts, fish oils and molasses. They want people to think the only solution is a chemical solution; that if you have a symptom, you need a drug.
And surprisingly, many people believe just that. I have seen perfectly healthy individuals believe some diagnosis of depression, and walk around popping Prozac pills every couple of hours. I ask them, "Why are you taking these drugs?" And they say, "My doctor told me to. |
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 Instead, after reviewing the data objectively, he came to the conclusion that phototherapy was "comparable to what has been described in the clinical literature for conventional medications to treat depression. The findings are as strong or as striking. '
Bright light therapy is helpful not only for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which frequently occurs during the winter, but also for depression that occurs at any time of the year. There is evidence that light can enhance the effects of exercise as well as the antidepressant action of medications like citalopram (Celexa). |
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| Once you are awake, you might consider using a phototherapy unit to fool your body into thinking it is sunrise. phototherapy devices supply controlled amounts of bright light that imitate the early morning light of spring and summer. Often prescribed as therapy for people who suffer from the mood changes of seasonal affective disorder and winter weight gain (see Chapter Eight), phototherapy light boxes are widely available and may range in price from around $250 to $500, which may even be covered by your health plan. |
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 High doses of Naltrexone are toxic for the liver, but low doses appear to be safe.)
• phototherapy (light therapy) has been helpful in reducing itching (Nidus 1999).
Natural Therapies
Scientific literature reports the results of research using natural or alternative treatments for liver conditions. Note that the vast majority of natural or alternative treatments act by having an antioxidant effect. As with almost all disease processes, research has demonstrated that good antioxidant levels are necessary for optimum health and to protect us from the physical assaults of trauma and disease. |
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 If you are getting phototherapy treatment.
• If you are allergic to any medication, food or other substance.
Over age 60:
Unknown effect. Adverse reactions and side effects may be more frequent and severe.
Pregnancy:
Decide with your doctor if drug benefits justify risks to unborn child. Alefacept is risk category B. Efalizumab is risk category C (see page xviii).
Breast-feeding:
It is not known if drug passes into milk. Avoid drug or discontinue nursing until you finish medicine. Consult doctor for advice on maintaining milk supply. |
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 Wheatly, 1999) phototherapy. The main outcome measures in most of the studies were a reduction in total score or the response rate in the Hamilton Depression Scale.
Several studies from the early 1990s (involving extracts made with 50 % or 60 % ethanol in water, see Table 2.4) were conducted with liquid preparations (fresh plant tinctures). The amounts of dry extract administered in these studies could only be estimated from the published data. The estimated dosages used in the 10 studies shown in Table 2.4 ranged from 300 mg/d to 1050 mg/d of extract. |
| The two studies that additionally used phototherapy (Martinez et al., 1994; Wheatley, 1999) showed no additive benefit from the concurrent use of both therapies. In seven studies comparing SJW extract with a total of four synthetic antidepressants, a significant advantage was found at the end of 6 weeks' treatment for amitriptyline (Wheatley, 1997), but no significant differences were found in comparison with sertraline (Brenner, 2000; HDT Study Group, 2002; van Gurp, 2002), imipramine (Vorbach et al., 1994, 1997), or maprotaline (Harrer et al., 1994). |
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| Parrish J. phototherapy and photochemotherapy of skin diseases. J Incest Dermatol 1981; 77: 1: 167-171
40. Larko O, Swanbeck G. Is UVB treatment of psoriasis safe? Acta Derm Vener (Stockh) 1982; 62: 507-512
41. Boer J, Hermans J, Schothorst A, Suurmond D. Comparison of phototherapy (UV-B) and photochemotherapy (PUVA) for clearing and maintenance therapy of psoriasis. Arch Dermatol 1984; 120: 52-57
42. Urabe H, Nishitani K, Kohda H. Hyperthermia in the treatment of psoriasis. Arch Dermatol 1981; 117: 770-774
43. Orenberg E, Deneau D, Farber E. |
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 A society of optometrists who practice phototherapy. They offer courses on the optometric application of phototherapy and a nationwide directory of practitioners trained in its use.
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Women's health care focuses on helping a woman maintain optimal health as her reproductive system develops and matures. Alternative medicine helps to educate women in a variety of preventative steps to maintain overall health, as well as providing natural treatments for symptoms and diseases related to hormonal and physiological imbalances. |
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| Some persons have found phototherapy (light therapy) helpful in reducing itching in one study (Nidus 1999b).
In Japan, researchers have found evidence that malotilate prevented both damage to liver cells and cirrhosis that they attempted to induce in tats. Malotilate is a drug developed by a Japanese pharmaceutical company that has been shown by several researchers to prevent induced liver damage and the accumulation of collagen and morphologic changes (such as accumulation of inflammatory cells and fibrosis and reductions in ethanol-induced lesions) (Takase et al. 1989; Mirossay et al. |
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