Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Eczema patients face increased risk of accidental injury

My eczema exploded upon taking Niacin as part of a clinical research trial. I never did take any drugs to combat it. I pretty much controlled it by applying coconut oil on it for a week.
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/news/2014/10/Silverberg-accident-prone-eczema.html
Intense itching and dry, irritable skin aren’t the only problems adults with eczema face. They are at greater risk of accidental bone fractures and other injuries, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.
This is the first study to find adult eczema is a risk factor for fractures and other injuries.
The increased odds of accidental injury could be directly related to the side effects of steroids and sedating antihistamines commonly prescribed to treat the skin disorder or the under-treatment of severe cases, study authors suggest.
“Many eczema patients who are prescribed medication for itch are often given sedating antihistamines or steroids, but those medications may come at a price,” said Jonathan I. Silverberg, MD, PHD, MPH, assistant professor in Dermatology, Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine and senior author of the study. “Sedatives cause fatigue, and steroids can lead to bone density problems and osteoporosis.”
The study, published Oct. 29 in the journal JAMA Dermatology, validates what Dr. Silverberg sees regularly at the Northwestern Multidisciplinary Eczema Center.
“Last month three of my patients with eczema cancelled at the last minute because of injuries,” he said. “One fell and almost got hit by a bus, another was hit by a car and then another missed her appointment because she was in a car accident. You can't make this stuff up.”
More than 10 percent of adults have eczema, which also is called atopic dermatitis. A third of those people report a moderate- to-severe form of the skin condition. The itch eczema patients experience can be maddening.

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