Blisters look like small bubbles on the skin, which usually contain clear fluid, but can sometimes be filled with pus or blood.

Cause

The commonest cause of a water blister is friction, for example new shoes rubbing against the back of the heel. Blisters also characteristically appear with chickenpox. Burns, including sunburn, can also cause blistering of [...]

Small babies are relatively immobile, so they cannot escape from environmental dangers. They are therefore at risk of sunburn, scalds, animal bites, and so on. As they become mobile, they begin to explore their environment, always reaching for things and usually putting them in their mouths. Beware therefore of the cords of electrical appliances, of [...]

OUR MARITAL HEALTH/OWNING AND OPERATING YOUR OWN SEX CLINIC: CONDUCTING THE EVALUATION

You have taken several tests already. Review those tests as a couple. Remember that the scores are not the issue. The process of learning and discussion is the key point.

Six Sex Drawings

Add to your tests, tapes, medical examination results, and the seven super marital [...]

Super Marital Sex Rule: Your parents’ marriage affects your own style of being married, but it must be a starting point, not a goal to be achieved or an end to be avoided.

I love my parents. But I’ll tell you one thing. I will never understand how they stayed together.

HUSBAND

We are seldom allowed a view [...]

Although the condition of pilonidal sinus may involve the clefts between the fingers, particularly in barbers, the problem usually occurs just above the cleft of the buttocks.

Once thought to be mainly due to a congenital defect of a blind track or sinus in the skin, it is now mostly accepted that the condition is acquired [...]

Some laxatives are merely stool softeners. They act like soap and break up hard faecal masses. They have little to condemn them, except when combined with the irritant purgatives.

This irritant group is the most commonly abused. These act by stimulating the nerves in the bowel wall causing overactivity of the muscles.

Prolonged use may cause degeneration [...]

“Should we have him circumcised, doctor?”

Countless doctors are asked this question each year. Often the answer is determined by the doctor’s state of anatomical completeness rather than by scientific fact.

Circumcision is a widespread religious practice which somehow has, in some communities, become a social habit.

Most American Anglo-Saxons are circumcised, and this is also the custom [...]

Symptom

A wound that is deeper than it is long or wide

Home care

Wash the wound carefully and apply a nonirritating antiseptic.

If no foreign body remains in the wound, cover the area with a sterile bandage and inspect it regularly for signs of infection.

If a [...]

What is it?

After the age of 50 or so we all lose the ability to remember things as well as we used to and memory loss is to some extent normal and inevitable. It is also rather annoying. There should be little deterioration in memory before the age of 70 or so, but after 80 [...]

I f you’ve been feeling run-down, the problem could be your thyroid gland. Research suggests that hypothyroidism (thyroid deficiency) is far more common than previously believed. One study found signs of the disorder in 8% of women and 3% of men.

Hypothyroidism is especially common among older people. Over age 60, up to 17% of women [...]