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Standard Medical Treatment

Standard medical treatment for Crohn’s disease includes drug therapy such as anti-inflammation drugs. Most patients are given drugs that contain mesalamine, to control inflammation. The possible side effects can be nausea, vomiting, heart burn, diarrhea, and headache.

Then there are Cortisone drugs and steroids know as corticosteiods. Prednisone is the common name of one of these drugs. When the disease is at its worst, Prednisone is often prescribed in a large dose. This is a drug with very serious side effects.

Next we move on to immune system suppressors. Wow, just what a person with a debilitating condition needs. The side effects are nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, while it lowers immunity.

Also, antibiotics are used to treat bacterial over in the small intestines. One or more of these can be prescribed: ampicillin, sulfonamide, cephalosporin, and tetracycline.

Medication for diarrhea and abdominal pain may be necessary.

After all the medication two-thirds to three-quarters of patients with Crohn’s disease will require surgery at some point. Surgery removes part of the intestine to help people with the symptoms. It is not a cure. Many times people have more than one operation, as inflammation tends to return to another area.

Some people need to have their entire colon removed. The operation is called a colostomy. This means that all wastes that exits the body will be collected in a pouch worn over the opening, near the beltline. The majority (not all) of patients can live a normal life.

Another Story

Study

A new study found that Vitamin D, which is found in supplements such as cod liver oil, counters the effect of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University and the Universite de Montreal who presented their findings about the inflammatory bowel disease in the latest Journal of Biological Chemistry.

“Our data suggests, for the first time, that D deficiency can contribute of Crohn’s disease,” states Dr. White a professor in McGill’s Department of Physiology, noting that people who live in northern countries, and receive less sunlight then is necessary for the formation of Vitamin D in the body, are more vulnerable to Crohn’s disease.

What is important to note is that Dr. White’s interest in vitamin D is that it mitigates cancer. All of his results point to vitamin D’s effect on the immune system. The body’s innate immune system is the body’s first line of defense against microbial invaders. In Crohn’s disease Dr. White stated “It’s a defect in innate immune handling of intestinal bacteria that leads to an inflammatory response that may lead to an autoimmune condition.”

Connecting the dots will tell you that if one natural nutrient helps it means that there are multiple benefits from a healthy diet. Most of these nutrients will exceed your expectations, offering you a compete array of what you need for sustainable good health.

Find out more about the other story, and the people who healed themselves, by using natural methods. We will continue this article with the websites and information that you need in our newsletter “The Healing zone.”

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Healthcare in America consists of finding the pharmaceutical formula to save us from self destruction. We have never seen anything like it. This is being played out in research labs of pharmaceutical companies. Its real name is “Go for the gold,”

Pirates

Yes, amigo you’ve created a monster called a drug for everything. They hold your health hostage and you pay the fee. Their business model is sheer genius. Megalomaniac is the word that should comes to mind as you watch the pharmaceutical industry advertisements.

Spin Doctor

The pharmaceutical companys are the masters of spin. They have to be to survive with their track record.

A Glimpse at American Health

Americans are not doing as well as you would think. Considering all the pharmaceutical fixes we should be a healthy nation. Another way to look at it is with all the pharmaceuticals we need we are an unhealthy nation. The arsenal of drugs grows by the year, yet health is declining. Pharmaceutical overload is what this nation is facing.

According to the numbers released by the National Center for Health Statistics on the health of Americans in the first half of 2009, a third of us are not feeling well. The percentage of people who reported having excellent or very good health has been declining.

Most American’s don’t know what well feels like. Well is not the absence of symptoms, or being able to get through the day without collapsing. Well is being able to feel amazing, and be able to joyously get through the day. Now the numbers look different.

Normal

It is open season in allopathic medicine. The hunting for disease is going to bring good yields. The supply of pre-diseases will bring a fury of pharmaceutical activity. We have gone beyond the judicious use of medication. Now we are in the assault phase. Trying to win a war by attacking something that you think may occur will produce a deadlier outcome. We are in the dawn of a new age. We have shifted our thinking to consider this normal.

Rise and Fall

The pharmaceutical industry is getting a boast from newly minted doctors, who are not resisting. These are the health care soldiers of tomorrow, who are going to lead the assault on killer diseases with one drug after another. The advances in treating have had a direct action on both a resurrection of older diseases in a new and more dangerous form, and the emergence of new and baffling conditions.

The rise of the pharmaceutical industry with the complicit help of the F.D.A. and other government entities are not creating a better world. We are in high gear at the demolition derby.

The blame for this extends to the public. We are in most part the creator of our health and have control over it, it is a hands-on task. Part of the solution is obscure by our dependence on the healthcare system. The over hyped industry that under delivers. We risk our lives by looking to an outside source to take care of an inside job.

 Partial Protection

Getting physical, not getting a physical, is what will keep you healthy. If you are pondering the healthcare overhaul you are at the wrong place in your head. The best way to equip yourself is to shoulder your own health care.

At the very most healthcare is after care. The kind you get when you eat, and drink too much, and forget to get 40 winks

Weight loss in a pill sounds strange. It says you can fit everything you need to be slim in a capsule an inch by a half inch. This makes it sound as if the path to weight loss is a pill away.

Get Real

There was a study called the Scout trial which is important for the field of obesity. It seems that this study contradicts what has been a long-held presumption, which is weight-loss drugs are more than just cosmetic. These geniuses assumed that a little pill will actually reduce serious health problems in the obese.

The Scout study was the first to test this presumption, to see if a diet drug could reduce the risk of a heart attack. The finding was that sibutramine actually increased cardiovascular risks in some patients. Now they think this could raise questions about the safety of other diet drugs. I guess Pfen-fen didn’t do it for them.

Why would anyone medicate people on a presumption? Allopathic medicine has taught the public to fear sunlight, while promoting untested drugs.

Surprise

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended that the appetite suppressant sibutramine should no longer be prescribed by doctors and that pharmacists should no longer dispense the drug.

The European reaction to the dangers of the drug Merida, which contains the ingrediant Sibutramine was to pull it from the market. Since the studies indicate that people with specific health problems had more heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events that people taking a placebo.

The F.D.A. suggested a stronger warning label on the diet drug Merdia after a study showed the risks. This should not be surprising, since sibutramine seemed to significantly increased blood pressure and heart rate in numerous people. It seems no one keeled over on the spot, so why not let the drug pushers profit.

The F.D.A. recommended people on sibutramine should see their doctor to discuss an alternative, the same doctor that already prescribed this looser of a pill. In the mean time they can safely discontinue its use.

Obstacles

The real obstacle is sibutramine promotes weight loss with meager results, and no proven safety record. By having people think weight loss is one pill away, we are sticking to a failed method. Currently pills have no place in the management of obesity.

They help fuel a pill mentality and earn drug companies ill begotten fortunes. The diet pill industry should be falling to pieces. However, the trend is still the same supplying the public with a  magic bullet. While the drug companies should be shaking in their booties, they are reeling in a fortune. The only thing the magic bullet will do is shoot us in the heart.

The race is on to find the weight loss solution in a pill. A glimpse into the future will show, the lure for a pill to control weight will be a quest for the holy grail. The arsenal of weight loss medication will not change in the foreseeable future. One lawsuit after another has not brought change.