Be sure patients can identify nuts
When using dietary avoidance to treat nut allergies, be sure that the patient can properly identify peanuts and tree nuts.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Are there therapeutic uses for lucid dreaming?
Patients who lucid dream are able to change their dreams at will, as if switching the channel on a television.
Is a child’s snoring the root cause of his ADHD?
Unrefreshing sleep can lead to prefrontal cortical dysfunction. In children, this can manifest as behavioral problems, difficulty controlling emotions and difficulty with attention and hyperactivity.
Don’t let patients tan their lives away
Teen girls will come up with 100 reasons to use tanning beds. We as health-care providers need to give parents one really big reason to say no.
Drug-testing a teenager without permission
Advice for dealing with parent requests to drug test their teen without the child’s knowledge or consent.
Fewer pediatric deaths occurring from unintentional injury
Overall, the number of children who died due to accidents decreased 29% from 2000 to 2009.
Prenatal meth exposure linked to behavioral problems
At ages 3 and 5, children who had been exposed to methamphetamine in the womb had greater emotional reactivity and higher levels of anxiety and depression than their unexposed peers.
Hypnosis for pain management, anxiety and behavioral disorders
Medical hypnotherapy today is most commonly used for pain management, treatment of anxiety or psychosomatic illness, and treatment of behavioral disorders.
Simple solutions for a common sleep complaint
Combating daytime sleepiness is often as easy as turning off the TV before bed.
Behavioral therapy reduces hot flashes after breast cancer treatment
Women who develop problematic hot flashes after breast cancer treatment, a contraindication for hormone replacement therapy, experienced significant improvement in quality of life after receiving behavioral therapy.
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