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...physical relaxation and no mental release at all from the relentless pressure of running an establishment now spending some $76 billion a year and employing 4,500,000 people. This year he has had to bear the added strain of his wife Marge's illness. "She has my ulcer," McNamara has said casually, hinting that his worries have rubbed...
...bowel, commonly associated with nervous conditions, frothing or foaming may occur. A useful remedy: dimethylpolysiloxane with pepsin (trade name: Phazyme), which both improves digestion and combats gas formation. Some patients need enzyme medication to ensure more thorough digestion, while others should have anticholinergic drugs (like those commonly prescribed for ulcer) to slow down muscular activity in the intestines...
Nearly as many gas patients, about 20% of the total, produce either too much or too little gastric acid. Shortage of acid favors establishment of abnormal bacteria that ferment food in the intestines; this condition usually can be corrected by medicine containing dilute hydrochloric acid. Hyperacidity and peptic ulcer may lead to an excess production of carbon dioxide, and hence to flatulence, through the interaction of gastric acid on bicarbonates from the digestive juices. Standard ulcer medicines -antacids in liquid or tablet form-and diet should relieve this type of gaseousness...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
...often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200 cases of bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, the diagnosis was wrong 33% of the time, and 37 cases of bleeding peptic ulcer were missed. Among 85 cases of liver abscess, 53 were unsuspected until the autopsy...