Hello, have you
ever had a tummy ache?
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You may wonder what is
it that's causing my pain
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is it stomach or muscle or
appendix, or something else
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causing it.
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Well, I think you will
enjoy our program this time
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because we'll be answering some
of those questions, stay by.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself to Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are many
structures inside the abdomen,
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any one of them can have pain.
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When you consider the great
array of structures and organs
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some them solid and
some of them hollow,
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and any one of them can
have different kinds of pain.
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Then it's no wonder
that physicians sometimes
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and surgeons really struggle
with a diagnosis of what is
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causing this pain.
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I have a list of
a number of these,
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and I'm going to be
with you about some of these
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and trying to help you
to understand many of these
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things that can cause pain,
not that you will be a surgeon
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after we've finished our program
or able to diagnose every
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pain that comes up inside
the abdomen, but maybe you'll
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be a bit more knowledgeable
and we would like to
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try to help you to
understand these things better.
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Now to assist me in presenting
these myriads of things
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that can cause a
problem inside the abdomen
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I have asked my co-worker
and my friend Rhonda Clark
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to help me, and Rhonda
what do you do at Uchee Pines?
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- Well, I work in the
Lifestyle Center doing telephone
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counseling with individuals
who call with health problems
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or health questions,
I also work as a teacher
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there at the school.
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- Teaching lifestyle principles
to lifestyle educators and
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lifestyle counselors students.
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- Yes!
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- And sometimes I'm sure you
council with the patients there.
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- Occasionally yes as I
have opportunities and build
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friendships with them, I'm
always glad for the opportunity
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to help them.
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- But mainly if someone
call for counseling on the phone
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you may be one of those who
is standing by the telephone
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to give counseling.
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That's good, now before
you came to Uchee Pines,
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you did some really fun things,
one of the things that I have
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been most interested in
that you have done is the
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organ transplant program. - Yes!
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- You worked
with that for awhile
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- I did, about eight years
I worked with the donation end
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in organ transplantation,
counseling with families who
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had lost a loved one, and
offering them the opportunity
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to donate organs if
that was something that they
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or their loved ones had
wished for and found it to be
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quite a rewarding experience,
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I had always thought of organ
donation as being something
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that would benefit the
person who received the
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organ transplant, but I
learned in my time there
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often it was very beneficial
for the family who gave consent
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for organ donation, feeling
that maybe something good
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came out of a tragic situation.
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- Yes, I can certainly
believe that would be true,
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what kind of organ donation was
the most common do you suppose?
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- Kidney donation was the
most common, now partly because
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we have two kidneys that we
can donate and so that increases
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the number of kidney donations,
and surprisingly the kidneys
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are quite hardy in the donation
process and some individuals
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that would be the only
organ that they could donate
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that would be the kidneys,
so we saw that most frequently.
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That happens to be what
organ is making up the greatest
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number of
individuals on the waiting list,
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so it was a blessing
that, that was the organ
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we were most
likely to see donated.
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- Today you are going to be
talking about some things about
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pain inside the abdomen.
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- Yes!
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- What things can you tell
us, and how can you instruct us
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on pain inside the abdomen?
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- Well abdominal pain comes
from many different causes.
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Dr. Thrash you know as a
physician that it can sometimes
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even come from a part of the
body that isn't in the abdomen
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at all, but they refer
to it as referred pain.
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But most likely there is
some sort of inflammation
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occurring in one of
the organs of the abdomen,
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or perhaps some sort of
distention, or stretching
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of an organ that is
caused due to an obstruction.
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Another cause of pain in
the abdomen is a loss of blood
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supply, one of the more serious
causes of abdominal pain.
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What I wanted to share with you
today is if you are experiencing
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abdominal pain, what kind of
information would be important
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for a physician to know,
to help diagnose the cause
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of the abdominal pain.
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Abdominal pain can
have very benign causes,
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hunger can give us abdominal
pain, gas, but it also can be
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a sign of something
serious and should seek some
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medical advice if you are
experiencing abdominal pain.
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One of the first things
that the physician will ask you
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is when did the pain begin?
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Was it associated with
any other type of activity or
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did it just seem
to come on by itself?
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They will ask you
where the pain is located.
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The location of pain in
the abdomen is a characteristic
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of different organs being
involved, you may be familiar
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of the lower right quadrant
pain that is connected with
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appendicitis, and the
upper right quadrant pain,
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that is connected with
gall bladder disorders.
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So where the pain is located
is quite an important thing.
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The doctor will ask about
the pains characteristics,
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is it sharp, cramping, stabbing,
kind of dull and aching,
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Those can all be important clues
as well as the duration of pain
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does it last long periods
of time, does it come and go,
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is it constant,
these all give clues.
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The doctor will ask if you've
noticed anything that makes
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the pain worse, or alternatively
are there things that you have
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found that relieved the
pain, maybe a certain position
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that you can lie in,
that helps give some relief.
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They also will ask
about any associated symptoms,
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are you experiencing
fever, vomiting, or diarrhea?
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Have you noticed any
changes in the characteristics
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of the stools, these will all
be important clues in tracking
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down what is causing the pain.
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The physician will listen to
your abdomen with a stethoscope
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there are certain distinctive
sounds that can be connected
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with various abdominal
disorders, and they will
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very carefully push on
your abdomen noticing for areas
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of tenderness and other
things that in their experience
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they have seen connected
with various disorders.
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And in addition to
questioning you about the pain
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and doing an examination,
they may order laboratory tests.
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Blood work to see if there
is a presence of infection,
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they may order x-rays,
and kind of an advanced x-ray
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a CT scan or MRI, they
may require an ultrasound
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that's often used to see if
there are gallstones present
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in the gall bladder.
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And endoscopes, a camera that's
on the end of a tube that is
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swallowed down into
the stomach, or that can be
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inserted into the
rectum and up through the colon
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those can be used to look
internally at the structure
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of the abdomen to see
if there is a problem.
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Sometimes despite
those tests nothing is found
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and the individual
continues to have pain.
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One treatment of last
resort is what is called
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exploratory surgery, where the
surgeon actually goes in to see
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if they can visualize something
that has somehow eluded them
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in all of their other
tests and examinations.
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This is something to give
you an idea of what to expect,
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if you experience abdominal
pain and hopefully will be
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helpful to you to kind
of know what to anticipate
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if you need to come see
someone like Dr. Thrash,
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and it is something to
take serious, I'm sure you would
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advise people if they continue
to have a problem with abdominal
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pain to investigate.
- Yes abdominal pain
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that lasts more than 24 hours
probably need a professional
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person to take a look at
it, it's no longer in the realm
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of simple
remedies, home remedies.
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But home remedies can
do quite a lot to relieve
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abdominal pain, one of the
definitions that I like about
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herbs is that an herb is
a plant that can be used to
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help a person heal
from something, and healing
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from some kind of
abdominal pain can be
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the function of many herbs.
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Now because there are so
many organs and structures
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inside the abdomen, I would
like to show you some of these
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on a chart that I have here
and it may look a little simple
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with this chart, but actually
there are many other things
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than the ones that I show here,
but first the salivary glands.
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Here are the salivary
glands, there are a number
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of them, one of the ones that
we find the most knowledge about
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is the parotid gland,
which is located over here
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on the side of the jaw,
and you will remember that the
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parotid gland is the one
that first gets sick with
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the mumps, then after
the salivary glands comes
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the esophagus.
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The esophagus is a long tube
it has to go through the throat,
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through the chest, here is the
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diaphragm and
enters the stomach.
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Now the stomach is located
here, and it has a little
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muscle guard at the top
called the cardia, and another
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muscle guard at the
bottom called the pylorus,
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immediately after the
pylorus is the duodenum,
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it's here where we can
have some ulcers, the stomach
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can also have some
ulcers, and this part right here
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that is shaded
overlay, that's the pancreas,
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most people are
surprised at how long it is.
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It goes all the way from
the right side of the abdomen
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the curvature of the duodenum
all the way over to the left
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upper quadrant of the abdomen
at the hilum of the spleen
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so the spleen is right over
here just under the diaphragm
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right here, and the pancreas
goes all the way over there.
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Anywhere along the line you
can have pain referred to the
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abdomen, even
esophageal pain can be referred
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into the abdomen.
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The pain from pneumonia can
be referred into the abdomen,
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and sometimes the person
thinks they have abdominal pain,
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when actually the
pain is in the chest.
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Now beyond the
stomach and the duodenum,
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is the remainder
of the small bowel,
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and the small bowel is really
quite an interesting organ
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it is here where 95% of our
digestion and assimilation occur
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right in here, and anything
that simply cannot be digested
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and assimilated into the
blood stream will go over
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into the colon, in the
colon there is the re-absorption
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of water and the absorption
of vitamins and minerals,
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and the colon has an
interesting configuration.
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It starts here with
the cecum which is a pouch
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a pouch that the
small bowel empties into
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then we have the ascending
colon the hepatic flexure
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where there is a sharp,
little bit more than 90% turn
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and then the transverse
colon, splenic flexure,
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another 90% angle turn,
then the descending colon,
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the sigmoid colon which is a
twisted S, and then the rectum,
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and the anus, all these portions
can have rather severe pain
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and the pain that we get
from the colon can be crampy
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in nature, as it comes
and is very intense, and then
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it goes away for awhile,
comes again very intense,
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goes away for a little while, so
as we think about these things
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I would like to
point to another structure
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this one right
here just off the cecum,
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this is the pouch where
the small bowel enters into.
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The appendix is a
very interesting organ,
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and because it is so interesting
I have asked Dr. Don Miller
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if he will join me here and will
and will tell you some things
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about this very
interesting organ.
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Dr. Miller, you have
been at Uchee Pines for
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quite a long time,
you are home based there.
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- Long time!
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- Yes, and home
based is a little
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bit of maybe a misnomer for you
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because you haven't had a
home for quite a long time,
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you have been traveling
from one place to another.
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Or maybe you might say it
this way, it's like the promise
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of the Bible that says
any man who gives up homes
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and houses and lands here,
He will have them multiplied
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a hundred times here.
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Have you found that to be true?
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- Absolutely! I've got
family all around the world.
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I've got people who
open to me into their homes
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and say come on
in, and it's my home,
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and so I have that experience
and it's a real blessing.
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- It must be a pretty nice life
you don't have to worry about
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mowing the lawn, or washing the
walls, or keeping it painted,
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- Well sometimes it's a
long cold walk to the outhouse,
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but you know it's...
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- If the family have
that kind of arrangement
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I suppose you can use it too.
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- And if they put up
with it, I can put up with it
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I really feel at
home in the world.
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- Yes! Well it's a good thing
that we have such wonderful
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equipment that makes
it so that one can change
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time zones so many times and can
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still be at home in the world.
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- What can you tell
us about the appendix,
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this marvelous little organ?
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- It is marvelous, and God is...
I'm going to tell the people
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what you once told me many
years ago, that pain is a signal
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to the body that tissue is
being damaged and so this pain
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that we get from either a
distended colon or the appendix
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or some other part of the
body, it's a signal we don't
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want to try to eliminate the
pain, we want to find out what's
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causing my pain
and to get rid of it.
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Now the full name for the
appendix is vermiform appendix,
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it begins with a V, but
basically if you sort of
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if you pronounce the V
like a W it's wormiform appendix
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it's just a little worm
that hangs off the cecum
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just as the small
intestine empties into the cecum
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starting up the ascending colon,
and it's there for a purpose.
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It's very similar in structure
in one sense to the tonsils
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it's lymphatic tissue, and God
knew exactly what He was doing.
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He put a police force down here,
He put a police force up here
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so that you got white
blood cells always on the scene
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for things that might go wrong.
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They found now that
those who have had either a
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tonsillectomy or an
appendectomy have more cancers
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in those areas, more
cancers of the colon,
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more cancers of the throat,
so I really encourage you
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if you still have them, to
keep them, I'm going to mention
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how you can keep
them a little bit longer
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because it's the damage
that we do, but first going back
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to appendicitis.
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It is a severe pain, it usually
starts in the epigastric area
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just below the breast bone
but within a few hours move down
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to the lower right
quadrant and it is extreme pain.
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Sometimes a little test
that you can do if someone
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has the pain and they don't
know exactly where it is at
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you have them sit on a
table and they sort of hop off
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and just drop a few inches
that jarring if indeed it is
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appendicitis, will give
them a sharp stabbing pain
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at this point..., well
there are some other symptoms:
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1. low grade temperature,
sometimes constipation,
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and these things you've
got to be very careful with
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not so much the fever,
whenever anything is with itis
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it means inflammation,
inflammation means that the
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body is going to be calling
in it's army to try to fight
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the process.
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When the army is called
in it works better and faster
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and there is a bigger army
when the temperature goes up
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and so the hypothalamus in the
brain turns up the thermostat
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you've got a low grade
temperature that's a sign,
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but the constipation could
be a really dangerous thing
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if a person thinks
they are just bloated,
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let's just give them
some type of a laxative,
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a laxative could be the
worst thing in the world to do.
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So if you've got this
lower right quadrant pain,
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you've got a low grade
fever, the best thing to do is
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see the doctor.
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But now the more
important thing is,
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don't get appendicitis.
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What causes appendicitis?
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Usually a lot of fat and
a lot of sugar in the diet,
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the number one food that I can
think of that combines those two
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things in large quantities is
that famous American world wide
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delight called ice cream.
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Ice cream with all the fat
and all the sugar will form
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what we call fecula,
they are these little balls
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that will get
down into the appendix,
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now the appendix is sort of
a like a tube, a hollow tube
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lymphatic tissue, a
fecula gets down in there
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and if for some reason there
is an inflammation in the body
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and lymphatic tissue
starts to swell, it swells out
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and it swells in because
it's a tube, when it squeeze's
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down on that fecula
it cuts off blood supply,
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you cut off blood
supply, this is a key,
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matter of fact when I'm
teaching at Uchee Pines,
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I always have two
foundational health principles.
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I want you to
remember these too,
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1. The life is in the blood,
2. Perfect health requires
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perfect circulation, you cut off
circulation, you've got pain.
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A good way to demonstrate
this is to put a blood pressure
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cuff on your arm, pump
it up leave the pressure on,
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do some type of hand
exercises for just a few moments
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and you are going to find
that pretty soon you have pain
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in the arm,
sometimes very severe pain,
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release the
pressure, pain is gone.
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It's the build up of toxins,
so we have this fecalith being
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squeezed down
cutting off the circulation,
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toxins are building up, it's
going to be sending a signal
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to the body, which is
called pain, we have to fix
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this problem, you can't fix
the problem with some extremely
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simple remedy.
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So my recommendation
is to go to the doctor
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so when that
thing squeeze's down...
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So now how not to get
the feculas how not to
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get appendicitis:
1. You eat a good diet,
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a diet high in fiber,
and complex carbohydrates,
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God's way of packaging
protein in fruits, vegetables
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and whole grains,
nuts, and seeds, and drinking
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plenty of water, sometimes
a seed or something might get
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down into the appendix
and cause some problem,
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but that's usually
not the main problem.
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If a seed does,
like a grape seed,
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it points at another
problem in the eating process,
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you didn't chew your food well,
learn to chew your food to cream
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before you turn it loose,
is what one old woman said
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was her secret for
living a long life.
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So chew your food well so
that when food gets down there
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you don't get something
lodging into the appendix
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and causing an irritation.
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Eating a good diet, staying
away from refined carbohydrates
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especially sugar,
and the high fat foods,
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if you are going to have
fat eat it in it's natural form
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eating an olive or an
avocado rather than the oil
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from these things, and
you won't have quite as many
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problems with appendicitis.
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- Sounds very good, lots
of water will help that also.
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- Absolutely!
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- I have an interesting chart
that has a number of diseases
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on it, and I would like
to show you this chart now
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because it does tell us a
lot about a variety of those
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diseases that are fairly
common, you have heard of them.
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Now here is the esophagus,
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there is a cancer of the
esophagus, which is not common,
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in this country, then
varicose veins at the bottom
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of the esophagus, varicose
veins are more common in America
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because of
drinking, and in every society
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where drinking is a big
problem then varicose veins
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because of cirrhosis of the
liver may be that very cause.
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Then the stomach with
the ulcers, and the gastritis
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can be most painful,
and most uncomfortable
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and difficult to heal, those
are all things that can occur
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in the stomach and the
duodenum can have it's ulcers.
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But notice right here,
this is the gall bladder,
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here is the liver of
course, it's the largest gland
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in the body, and under the
liver, actually the gall bladder
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only peeps out from the
front edge of the liver,
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just a little bit of it,
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but most of it is
in this shallow cup
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just under the liver.
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The gall bladder, because of
the things it has to deal with
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may get stones in it,
this gall bladder is about
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half filled with stones.
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Now as long as the
stones stay in the gall bladder,
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there is not problem, or
at least very little problem.
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It's when the
stones begin to migrate
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that you're going
to have the trouble.
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If they get into the
duct, then the cystic duct,
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you will get a
dilated gall bladder,
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but if they go a little
bit farther past the duct
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that comes from
the gall bladder,
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they'll get in the hepatic
duct which is right here.
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The hepatic duct
has one major duct
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that comes from the
left lobe of the liver,
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and the other major duct
that comes from the right lobe
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of the liver, and
they form together to make
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the hepatic duct, and
then comes the common bile duct
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down here, which is all
of those duct from up above
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plus the duct that
comes from the pancreas.
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Here is the pancreas,
all the way over to there
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and if this duct gets a
stone in it, which it can,
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if the gall bladder
sends a stone down this duct,
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and it goes back up
into the pancreatic duct,
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it can block the
pancreatic duct, and then
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that is a major problem.
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Major problem because the
dilation of that duct can cause
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digestive ferments from the
pancreas and even some of these
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from the duodenum to go
back up into the pancreas
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and cause a serious problem,
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that can be life
threatening in fact.
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Now what can we
do about gall stones?
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One thing is
drink plenty of water,
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gall stones are less
likely to begin to form
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if you drink loads of
water, because it just keeps
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the minerals that are in the
bowel, keeps them in a liquid
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solution, and therefore you
don't have as great a likelihood
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of having these minerals
precipitate into these stones.
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Another thing is be very careful
about the fats that you eat,
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a high fat diet
encourages gall stones,
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also if you loose weight
to rapidly, such as you decide
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you want to loose 40
Ibs. in the next 7 or 8 weeks.
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So you go on a diet
that will do that very thing,
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and you walk lots, and
you stay up late at night
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and you do all of those things
that are going to make you
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loose weight, and put a
terrible strain on the body.
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As it does so, one of
those stresses is the formation
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of gall stones, so if you
do have a fast loss of weight,
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drink loads of water, so
that you can make certain
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that the minerals and the
fats stay in a good solution
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in the gall bladder and don't
salt out to make these stones.
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Now let's go to another
problem that one may have
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with the intestinal tract,
and that is Chron's disease
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and Ulcerative Colitis, here
in the last portion of the ileum
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which is the last
portion of the small bowel
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right there in the
terminal ileum, one can have
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Chron's disease, and
also in the large bowel
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one can have Chron's
disease or Ulcerative Colitis.
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This is a serious problem, and
is usually a life long problem
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and there are a
number of things one can do:
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one is eat a high fiber
diet, it usually helps Chron's
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or Ulcerative Colitis.
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If you have bleeding,
then you will need also a high
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iron supply which means
plenty of green leafy vegetables
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and some source of acid, like
citric acid from citrus fruits
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that's a very good place
and one can absorb iron nicely
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in this way, so
we recommend that.
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Then another thing
is the use of pectin,
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pectin is a soluble fiber
and can be taken to soothe
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and to heal and to protect
the colon and the small bowel.
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So the use of the
pectin coats the lining of the
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intestinal tract and encourages
the kind of bacterial growth
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most favorable to healing
both Ulcerative Colitis and
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Chron's Disease.
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Now in addition to
these measures one should also
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plenty of exercise, one
should drink plenty of water,
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and take several herbs,
one of the healing herbs is
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Aloe Vera, it is available
everywhere, can be taken
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one to two ounces,
two to three times a day.
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In Ulcerative Colitis and
also one can take Golden Seal
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and Echinacea, and grapefruit
seed extract, all of these
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are also very
good for the colon,
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but one of the ones that I
have as a favorite is garlic.
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It tastes good, it
smells good in the house
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when the food cooking,
and one it's great pluses
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is that it will heal Ulcerative
Colitis and Chron's Disease
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to some degree, so
"May the Lord Bless You"
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with these suggestions.
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