kerewin21

I agree with Geordie. Your solution is not antibiotics but rather nasal irrigation! We aren't supposed to treat sinus infections with antibiotics anymore anyway, as it's not been shown to make a significant difference in symptom relief and it has been shown to cause a lot of negative side effects (there are plenty of doctors who say they've been treating sinus infections with antibiotics for years, so they're not going to change, but it's no longer considered the right thing to do). They also haven't been shown to prevent pneumonia, despite many people's claim to the contrary.

I've seen many people's lives changed simply with nasal irrigation. One popular commercial product is the Neti pot http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/Netipot/...PotGateway.aspx

Also see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/fashion/03skin.html

There have been several studies showing the benefit of this method, and there are no negative side effects other than perhaps a little squeamishness and maybe getting water on yourself.

Edited to add: If you have an allergic component, an antihistamine like allegra or claritin may help. Do you find that you get itchy eyes, runny nose or sneezing on the plane?

On the other hand, if the suit was bound to happen at some point, better it happen now than when things are down to the wire. This way it can be settled and out of the way.

Try disproving them with science...

Go to this website:

http://www.medcalc.com/growth/

Put in your baby's info and click the top circle (weight for age, 0-36 months) then click "create growth chart". That will show you what percentile your baby is in.

But what will happen to our consumer economy if people stop spending more than they have?

Always a pleasure to help a sister out!

Best of luck with your delivery, any day now!

Hugs

Sharon

I'm free the 28th in the evening!

congratulations, you are blessed!

I'm out of town until the 22nd. Let me know the next time though!

I dissected 100s of fetuses during my job in the UK (all aborted for genetic syndromes or fetal abnormalities noted on scan or via pre-natal testing) and they look fully formed (in fact ARE fully formed) at 12 weeks. All that is "missing" is size, a fat layer, organ maturity and the eyes are not ready for usage yet.

I think the cut off date for abortions should be around 18 weeks and no later. After that, a fetus can be potentially born viable (albeit there'll be problems throughout its life) and I think that's something to think about when considering cut off dates. In the majority of countries they will perform abortions up until 39 weeks IF the child has an abnormality (this includes, disgustingly enough, cleft palates) and the parent makes enough fuss.

They just keep this information hush hush because they know full well there would be a backlash if this was common knowledge. Mostly they deny it.

Abortion at 39 weeks is absolutely ridiculous. 39 weeks is full term and an "abortion" at this time would really just be an induction of labor. Attempting to suction a fetus this large out would be incredibly dangerous to the mother.

18 weeks is definitely not viable either. 23 weeks has a very small chance of making it. Over 24 weeks and there's a decent chance. Once you hit 28 weeks chances are pretty good that the baby will survive and often they will be OK.

I love dogs

They rule.

I'm a cat lover myself but you know Fluffy would've been outta there.

As the article states, hopefully it will help come up with some treatments for those who are having trouble quitting. There's a lot of personal responsibility involved too, though. The first few drinks of wine or beer gives just about everyone a buzz, but not everyone goes on to become an alcoholic.

Happy Wednesday! I love vacation!!!

Did you guys see this? Poor guy dislocated his elbow.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...lbow-front.html

I was happy with it when I had it. It was really easy to install and call quality was good (though not quite as good as a regular phone). I got rid of it because I almost never used it; I pretty much only used my cell phone.

I thought people could self-petition for removal of conditions, they just have to prove that the marriage was entered into in good faith. Am I wrong?

That's so tragic...

Better to think of how we'll recover, if we don't commit the same blunder at the polls once again this November. We as a nation to be represented by a Head of State.

Even though I'm really liberal and would NEVER vote for McCain, I would prefer him over Bush any day.

Also if you did not want it, give it up for adoption they are plently of couples who can't have kids would love to have it and give it a chance.

I'm an abortion provider so obviously I am pro-choice, but I do agree that it would be great if adoption were a better option for more people. I wish that our society would support people who choose adoption, because as you state, there are lots of families that would be happy to provide wonderful lives for children whose parents can't take care of them.

The red henna is fine, it's a natural dye. The article in the medical journal reported several cases like this, all from black henna that has chemical additives (called PPD). The cancer connection is based on increased incidence of cancer in people who work manufacturing this chemical... I wouldn't draw a conclusion that the black henna itself causes cancer.

Happy Tuesday! Last day of work and then VACATION!!! Woohoo!

Woohoo!

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I read this article in one of the medical journals this week and the New York Times picked it up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/health/1...tml?ref=science

The problem tends to be on the non-US side of things. It wasn't with the green card/NOA but when my husband tried to return from Morocco with his Advanced Parole document he had to go through an hour-long ordeal with the Moroccan policeman at the airport who makes sure everyone leaving had a valid way to get in wherever they're going. He of course spoke no English and had no idea what the piece of paper was. My husband almost missed his plane because they had to call in basically every police officer in the whole airport to figure it out. But he did eventually get through.

But these bleeding heart liberals will be the first to comlain about the cost of medical! Then in the next breath say how we need to take care of the medical needs of the world.

I think they do not understand that you cannot have cheaper health care along with health care access for all. Just no possible unless the doctors and nurses work for free.

Even if doctors and nurses worked for free you wouldn't have cheaper or free health care. Salaries for workers are a small piece of the pie; the greater costs are for medications, equipment, overhead, other staff,etc. For instance, if you go see your doctor, the cost might be around $400 to $500. Of that, about $50 or $60 goes to the doctor; the rest goes for lab tests, supplies, etc.

Something that made my blood boil as tax-payer last year. I'm not sure if our healthcare system finally just paid the bills, because we've never heard anything further about it:

Just wondering what part of it made your blood boil?

For some reason when it's a baby it doesn't bother me as much. The hospital I work at is a world leader at craniofacial surgery, so kids come from all over the world for uncommon operations like separating conjoined twins and severe cleft lip/palate repair. These surgeries are usually paid for by a combination of the hospital donating resources, the physicians providing the services for free, some foundation/charity support, and also the home governments help out a little bit. So the baby described in the story might have had the chance to come to the US for treatment (though more likely than not she would not have gotten treatment at all).