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Bits of the catheter, having been cut by the edge of the needle, can break off and get lost in the vein. Writing in the December issue of GP, Dr. Carl Northcutt of Stuttgart, Ark., relates the case of a 61-year-old male patient who was having a catheter inserted. It was noted that a Hinch piece of it had broken off. A tourniquet was quickly applied to head off the lost piece, but it could not be found. Four weeks later the patient went into shock and died, apparently of other causes. But the missing bit of catheter...
...simpler sugars: glucose and galactose. The enzyme that does the cracking is lactase. Nature intended babies to live on milk, and lactase deficiency is fortunately a rarity in the newborn, but the incidence increases with advancing age. According to Georgetown University's Dr. Stuart H. Danovitch, writing in GP, as much as 10% of the adult population may suffer from lack of lactase. Colorado...
Happy Ignorance. The blame, says Dr. Elmer Grossman of the University of California department of pediatrics, can be placed squarely on the nation's physicians. In the current issue of GP, the publication of the American Academy of General Practitioners, Pediatrician Grossman complains that too many doctors are "happy to ignore the subject" and let the mother indulge her prejudices against breast feeding...
...Success. The absence of milk during the first few days after childbirth may be due to nothing more than fear, worry, tension. "The arrival of a mother-in-law can dry up milk within hours. Physical strain, especially lack of sleep, is equally harmful," says Dr. Grossman in GP. Yet "the greatest enemies of naps are the mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more milk...
...many more than doctors report. He is not concerned with simple soreness, but with abscesses and cysts, severe scarring, lingering pain, injection directly into an artery, bone inflammation, and-most serious of all-damage to a major nerve, with consequent paralysis. One trouble, says Dr. Hanson in the magazine GP, published...