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) For women, heart disease signs can be misleading - and deadly
As Morrow remembers it, the paramedics said her symptoms were likely due to acid reflux or early menopause. They said they'd take her to the hospital if she wanted, Morrow said, but suggested she relax and call her doctor in the morning.That evening, she went to look at Christmas lights. As she walked around she could feel pressure in her chest. Walking into her home that night, "it hit again."
The family called 911 and the paramedics returned.
This time, Morrow's husband insisted they take her to the hospital.
She was admitted and hooked up to a heart monitor. A nurse woke her up about 6 a.m. the next day and told her she was in the middle of a massive heart attack.
Doctors discovered she had three clogged arteries, and one of them was 100 percent blocked. More>>
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) Night sweats common, but not always just a phase
Medical conditions such as acid reflux, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetics who may have low blood sugar at night may sweat at night.If none of these conditions are the cause of night sweats, then one is left with a diagnosis of idiopathic hyperhidrosis, which is only given to someone who has had an exhaustive, but thorough work up for night sweats, but no clear cause is found.
Finding the cause of nocturnal hyperhidrosis may be a diagnostic challenge for a lot of doctors. Sometimes, the answer may come simply from food as well as other substances that one may be ingesting such as alcohol and hot and spicy foods.
If you are having excessive night sweats, you need to talk to your doctor, who can systematically rule out serious causes of night sweats. More>>
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) How To Cope With and Stop Acid Reflux
The case of Bob is relevant in the acid reflux cure. Bob is a regular guy, a family man who typically works on a 9 to 5 shift day after day. What makes Bob special, however, is that he is an acid reflux survivor. He has had the disease, and almost died of it and of the complications that followed, in 1976. While this is clearly not the end of his story, this event in Bob's life led him to discover the first remedy for acid reflux — a piece of apple! Incredible as it may sound, this wonder fruit would pave the way to a permanent cure for acid reflux.Acid reflux can certainly cause a lot of pain and discomfort. Night after night, Bob would be at the toilet, vomiting all the food he had eaten a moment ago. He could not sleep well, then, and that made him totally distracted the following day. More>>
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) Singer-actor hits a career peak as Valli
Woe to the Frankie who suffers from acid reflux, Spector says. "You have to hit the outskirts of your vocal range," he says, holding his upper gut. That means no caffeine, unless he sneaks in some chocolate. He drinks gallons of water. This is in fact Spector's second time on Broadway, although he is quick to discount his two years as Gavroche in Les Miserables, which ended at age 11. It's also his second show-business career. He started out as a child wonder, the youngest of Chuck and Beth Spector's four offspring. "He could talk at a really young age, and he'd be in the back of the car, singing the commercials," Beth Spector says. "I'm thinking, 'How can he remember these things? He's only 2.' " The Spectors took him to Russell Faith, the singing coach who in the 1970s trained another local wunderkind, Annie star Andrea McArdle. More>> - (
) Diagnosis: John Wayne Syndrome
Your poking and prodding and lab-testing have confirmed my high blood pressure and acid reflux disorder. But what you don't know is I've got this chronic disorder called John Wayne Syndrome.
Let's just call it JWS.
I read about it in Capital Press a few weeks ago.
Let's see, it probably started when I was about 4 or 5, when my family first got a TV. I watched Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, the Lone Ranger, Zorro and - best of all - Roy Rogers.
As I grew up, I would watch the Cartwrights, Briscoe County Jr. and Indiana Jones.
See the common thread, Doc? They all rode horses. And these were big, beautiful, powerful animals - the kind every kid wanted. Simply put: I grew up yearning for a pony. That was my birthday wish every year. More>>