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I want to know what are the effects of swallowing another mans ejaculation.
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If you are practising safe sex you shouldn't do it.
But, there is no real harm in swallowing semen if the man is free of sexually transmitted diseases. Aside from sperm, ejaculate primarily consists of fructose, water, citric and ascorbic acids, enzymes, protein, and zinc. Though the nutritional value of semen is almost non-existent, knowing exactly what one is ingesting may help in the swallowing process during oral sex. The consistency of semen is generally somewhat thick and sticky, but should not linger inside the throat any longer than, for example, pudding.
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My periods have not returned since the birth of my baby, I had a normal delivery and only breast fed for one week. My baby is bottle fed with formula milk. When should my periods return as I am concerned, I know that I am not pregnant?Y
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I believe it's usually 6 weeks but can be many weeks after. With my daughter it was about 13 weeks - I did not breast feed.
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Can eating white bread be related to a large swollen stomach?
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Yes. The bleaching agents used in the flour can cause a reaction in the gut or certain people that could cause this. Or it could be some other allergy. Try avoiding gluten too.
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What enzyme is present in cancer cells, which, scientists believe, allows the cancer cells to keep growing? MORPHOGEN, GLUCAGON, OXYTOCIN, or NUCLEOTIDE
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Telomerase - see http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1997/151-25/15125-17.pdf#search=%22cancer%20enzyme%22
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What exactly is a cervical transforaminal ESI?
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Cervical Transforaminal ESI (epidural steroid injection) is a technique where a small quantity of steroid is placed around one or more nerve roots under x-ray guidance. This technique permits the selective delivery of the steroid around the nerve roots.
http://www.cascadepaincenter.com/cervicaltsfesi.html
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Is there any cure for hidradenitis suppurativa? or something which can improve my life? thanks
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This site has good info on your problem http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic259.htm
This site lists all the drugs most often used.
The ideal treatment of HS should provide a high likelihood of cure with a low recurrence rate and minimal inconvenience and loss of work time. Medical management is recommended in early stages, whereas surgery should be performed as early as possible after the formation of abscesses, fistulas, scars, and sinus tracts (see Surgical Care).
Initial treatment consists of the following:
Practicing local hygiene and ordinary hygiene
Instituting weight reduction in patients who are obese
Using ordinary soaps and antiseptic and antiperspirant agents (eg, 6.25% aluminum chloride hexahydrate in absolute ethanol)
Applying warm compresses with sodium chloride solution or Burow solution
Wearing loose-fitting clothing
In one series, radiation therapy with single doses of 0.5-1.5 Gy to total doses of 3-8 Gy was given as a treatment option for HS. The use of x-rays in depilating doses for temporary epilation has also been suggested. The possible beneficial effects of laser epilation do, however, suggest that hair removal may be of independent importance.
In one study, nearly one quarter of patients were unable to list any measure that helped their condition, despite an average disease duration of nearly 19 years. This outcome indicates that the available treatments for HS are, on the whole, still unsatisfactory. Surgical approaches, which were used in almost one half of patients, were included in those treatments.
Surgery is the sine qua non treatment, especially in persons with chronic HS. Wide surgical excision, with margins well beyond the clinical borders of activity, remains the most definitive surgical therapy. With this technique, sufficient resection of the lesion is the most important issue. Surgery has hitherto been considered a curative treatment, but specific studies have suggested otherwise, and, although recurrence rates may be lower with more aggressive surgery, recurrence continues to be reported. After radical excision, the disease recurred in 33% of the patients. Surgery can be regarded as the treatment of choice in the chronic and recurrent stages of the disease.
More limited surgical intervention, consisting of unroofing abscesses and sinus tracts, with vigorous curettage of the base, and secondary-intention healing can be valuable in some cases.
Nonsurgical procedures are important both before and after surgery. If the disease is diagnosed and treated early, secondary systemic complications can be prevented and the extent of surgery can be limited.
Numerous helpful and relatively minor surgical techniques include drainage, exteriorization, curettage, electrocoagulation of the sinus tracts, and simple excision of the troublesome areas with direct closure. More extensive procedures include placement of local cutaneous flaps, musculocutaneous flaps, pedicled and free flaps, and skin grafts.
Local incision and drainage of purulent lesions are often required in the acute phase, and, although these procedures are helpful in providing short-term relief, recurrent inflammation is almost inevitable. Deroofing of sinus tracts and curettage of fistulous tracts have distinct roles as preliminary treatments before more definitive intervention, particularly in the acute phase of perianal disease. An alternative surgical approach may be used in so-called bridging lesions. These lesions have 2 distant cutaneous orifices connected by a subcutaneous fistula. Periorificial fusiform skin incisions are made parallel to the skin folds, followed by a viral blue dye injection for accurate visualization of the fistula tract, and the subcutaneous tubular fibrotic tissue is completely removed en bloc.
When disease is chronic and extensive, removal of the affected area and the adjacent apocrine glandular zone to 2 cm beyond the diseased portion is the best option to minimize recurrence.
To define the apocrine gland–bearing area, the iodine-starch method is used to reveal the little black spots that are usually in the vicinity of hair follicles where the sweat makes contact with the iodine-starch interface. The block of tissue excised should be adequately wide and sufficiently deep. To ensure that the deep coils of the apocrine gland are removed, the subcutaneous tissue down to the deep fascia, or at least 5 mm of subcutaneous fat, should be excised. The extent of the sinus tracts is intraoperatively marked by injecting 3-5 mL of a methyl-violet solution. Complete surgical excision is achieved when all color-coded areas are fully removed. In cases in which blue-stained areas occurred in the operative field, further reexcisions must be performed to ensure complete clearance.
Surgical excision using the carbon dioxide laser and second-intention healing are often associated with good results and minimal complications. Healing usually occurs in 4-8 weeks. It has been used successfully in patients with severe perianal HS and the complex perianal fistula disease. With the carbon dioxide laser, lesions are ablated by vaporizing the tissue in layers until all macroscopically abnormal tissue is removed. This method effectively eradicates septic tracts and pockets while preserving sphincter function. It also obviates diversion with or without proctectomy. Moreover, use of a scanner-assisted carbon dioxide laser makes ablation quicker, smoother, and more precise and allows early treatment of HS lesions that were previously managed with less-effective local conservative remedies.
Adequate excision to eradicate the disease often results in a defect that precludes primary closure; therefore, other techniques must be used to achieve wound healing.
The method of reconstruction depends on the size and the location of the defect. In lesions that can be completely resected, the surgical procedure to cover the lesions should be selected to suit the size and the site of the defect. Negative-pressure dressings are particularly useful in the treatment of contoured wounds that require closure with skin grafts. However, in lesions that cannot be completely resected, the use of a musculocutaneous flap is recommended. A reliable musculocutaneous perforator flap based on the musculocutaneous branches of the thoracodorsal vessels is very suitable for covering the axillary vessels and aesthetics of the axilla. If the defect is too large for primary suturing or local cutaneous flaps, it can be covered with polyurethane foam sheets to induce formation of granulation tissue.
Although accurate comparative assessment of the various surgical approaches is difficult because of the incomplete reporting of long-term results and the limited number of controlled clinical trials, skin grafting is generally considered unsuitable in the management of inguinoperineal disease. When compared with healing by secondary intention, split-thickness skin grafting is less preferred among patients, even those with axillary disease. Those who advocate excision and healing by secondary intention claim that this technique permits adequate disease clearance and results in a cosmetically acceptable scar, superior to that obtained by skin grafting, with little limitation of movement.
The recurrence rate in patients treated with radical surgery varies considerably depending on the site affected; the highest rate is 50% in the sub mammary region. Recently, an overall recurrence rate of 2.5% was estimated after wide surgical excision, with a median postoperative follow-up of 36 months.
Diet: Patients who are obese should be advised to lose weight.
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What was it like to be a kid in the time of Martin Luther King?
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Much as now, depends on how much money you had, what colour you were and where you lived.
In the 40's, 50's and 60's racism was much more accepted than it is today. Being black was a huge 'handicap' to making your path easy through life. Hopefully today it is less so.
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HI I was wondering if you could advise us on the best route of action concerning our situation... We are 4 students, 3 male, 1 female(me) looking for a 3 bedroom flat (my boyfriend and I will hopefully be sharing a room) in Hamilton, Lanarkshire area. The problem is we cannot find anyone in the area or surrounding areas who has an HMO licence (we have been told is against the law for four unrelated people to live together, therefore this licence is a must). Splitting up to find two 2 bed flats would be too costly and not ideal for many reasons. We have tried to come up with alternative living arrangements but our imaginations only seem to cross the outrageous options, i.e getting married (far too soon), buying a flat and getting a mortgage (unrealistic considering we are students). Any help or information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
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I might be wrong but I can not imagine any law that forbids 4 unrelated people living together.
You could approach the local council, but you might be better to go through the students union at your Uni or college?
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If I had sex with someone who might have herpes can I get it?
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Herpes is a sexually transmitted disease, so if you had unprotected sex with someone who has it then yes you might get it.
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Why do men have affairs?
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Men have affairs because they are not satisfied with their lives. They are unhappy with one aspect or another - their career isn't going the way they wanted, they don't find children as fulfilling as they thought, their wives don't pander to their every whim the way they used to - 101 reasons. It's usually a diversion, the thrill of an affair will take the attention away from the thing that's really troubling them, until they tire of it too.
It's very rare that an affair is because he couldn't resist the other woman. It's usually a symptom of feeling bored or let down that his life hasn't turned out like he dreamed - and rather than examining his life to see what he's done wrong he'll divert himself. It's not co-incidence that most affairs are with younger women - he's trying to recapture a time when he still felt hopeful for the future.
Women often blame themselves for their husbands having affairs. Rubbish. If he doesn't like how she's treating him, how she's changing, why not say so, talk it through rather than sleeping with someone else?
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