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MEDICAL MYTHS
(As a child, medical and crazy, we all have some)
That last statement is a genius, and a universal genius, because there is no one who can be definitely against.
But I'm sure of "doctor" is what we all need a little more.
Who does not think about the problem health tells his interlocutor? (Even up when the speaker is a doctor).
Who does not advise anyone suffering from something, do something that he has done well when he suffered from something similar?
Who ever has not tried to dissuade a patient not to take what the doctor ordered, because he, or someone you know, the same medication you have done wrong?
Medicine is as old as the human race.
In 99.9% of the time, "from day one" was empirical. In 0.01% of the time, in recent centuries, it was scientific (but still we could not get us empiricism of the head. So one might ask, by the way a mea culpa , what doctor does not act, even once a day, empirically?
All this might seem to nice, if it was not a lot of our opinions are wrong because they often use reasoning based on our "experience" rather than science, and when I do not discount the experience of pre-medical life (is that doctors are human, and, after all, having studied to learn to think like doctors, gives us the license ...).
Empiricism centuries has created a host myths, many of whom have been banished (now, for example, women can bathe, and even in the pool while they are menstruating, which was practically a suicide until no more than a few decades).
But many other myths are still alive and kicking, and still held by the same doctors (including specialists in the topics covered by the myth that produces excess fat calories is a good example, we have seen -).
For all this, from today, we try to think scientifically to eradicate most they can from the myths that still persist. I beg the readers of the blog that when a statement on issues they seem dubious medical (or mythical) communicate to me. So try to make more abundant this demystification. And I ask my colleagues for their collaboration.
not going to create a "new medicine", but it is sure going to help many people. At that believes in the myths at face value (eg the "embarrassment" and such nonsense).
1 º MYTH: "DRY HEAT IS GOOD FOR RHEUMATISM, moist heat is bad."
Maybe this is one of the oldest myths.
Since time immemorial humans observed that moisture in the days of their diseased joints were more painful than on dry days. And indeed it does. So much so that the old recommendation to heat-treat these joints more painful than usual, is on condition that the source of that heat is dry:
-Bag with hot sand, or a hair dryer, advises the doctor.
- And the hot water bottle?
- NOOO! that is moist heat.
"But my bag is not punctured. Is new and still sealed.
"But is full of water, and do you know anything wetter than water?
"Well, but ... Can I leave a few days to get me in the hot springs?
- That would be nice ...!
This conversation, much like a "crazy talk", takes place thousands of times per day for patients with joint diseases and their doctors, and many who are reading this, or some of their relatives, have been taken into like terms.
To explain the origin of the absurd (a clear example of what a "erroneous interpretation of the evidence" ).
As we said at the beginning, from the beginning of time men found that on wet days her joint pain became more intense (or hurt their old fractures, or old wounds, surgical or not). Moreover, many people came (and they arrive) to serve as a weather forecast:
's going to rain, is hurting a lot of the bunion ... (And most likely is that accompanies the worsening rain prescient).
And all will see, makes sense.
In the Southern Hemisphere, when wind is north, and in the Northern Hemisphere, when wind is south, as the wind is warm, the air pressure falls rapidly. And along with it increases the relative humidity, because these winds, warmer than they are wet.
What we perceive immediately is moisture. Our economy lacks receptors barometric (atmospheric pressure), unless one has a diseased joint, or an old fracture, or ...
Except in the thorax and abdomen, the rest of our anatomy has the same atmospheric pressure. When there is a sudden drop it, there is an expansion of our fabrics to match the new ambient pressure (which is to take two to three days), and it is this sudden expansion that produced the aggravation of the pain, and NO MOISTURE THAT, GENERALLY, accompanied the pressure drops.
Heat is good in itself because it is muscle relaxant (muscle relaxant). In the rheumatism of the spine, 90% of the component "pain" is due to muscle contracture that occurs to prevent the move, or the affected joints. The good thing is the heat, period. No matter the source of it (the end of the day we are surrounded by a layer of skin completely waterproof right?).
"What kills is the humidity ..." , is a popular voice in the land River Plate. And as the Argentinians speak in eight syllable, up is more poetic to say
"What kills is the sudden drop in atmospheric pressure ..." (definitely that last comment is not smart for us: a nonodecasílabo is counter). But after all: not elegant, but it is true. Next
demystification: "ATTACK OF LIVER"
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