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Senstivity & Health?

JJM 777 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_pruritus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_urticaria


No, people can be acutely or chronically hypersensitive to gluten or nuts, for example. Acute and temporary hypersensitivity usually comes from overdose of the substance, so the person has temporarily too much of the substance in his body, and cannot tolerate more of it until the rate goes down with time. Chronic hypersensitivity can have a similar explanation, the person continuously gets too much of the substance from some unrecognized source such as a specific shampoo brand. Or then his intake of the substance is typical all the time, and the reason for hypersensitivity is an untypically small ability of his body to break down the substance, for some reason.

There are no easy thumb rules in medicine, otherwise we would already have a quick and effective treatment for all possible health disorders, I guess. Woo-woo marketmen such as homeopaths love to claim that a specific poorly tested and documented treatment heals any sickness, which is not true and would be proven to be not true, if a large group of sick people receive the treatment, and then we count how many of them are still sick after the treatment. This is when it becomes officially approved medicine, if we count the heads and are satisfied with the statistical success rate of the treatment.
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Thanks. Yes there may not be easy thumb rule in medicine. I think I am missing one angle i.e hypersenstivity followed by hyposenstivity and again followed by hypersenstivity as disease progress. Let us take a case of diabetes2. Initially a diabetic is very senstive to insulin which can be followed by decrese in its senstiveness i.e. insulin resistance. Later he can become very senstive to insulin(though it is also increase in disease.
 
Kumar said:
Odds/adversities can be there everywhere. Car accidants does not mean car is bad thing.
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I think the point is to mock the idea that that which is harmful, in statistically negligible amounts is unlikely to magically make you better. Thus if you are hit by a blue Ford Mondeo, diluting a piece of it to the point where you have a sub molecular amount by volume, is as absurd as diluting Wolfsbane to cure a stomach upset because it is poisonous in high doses and makes you violently sick.

It's irony, something we do quite well I think in our comedy.

No one's saying cars are a bad thing, just that homeopathy is quackery as it stands atm.
 
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Kumar said:
Whether variations in senstivity occur in health, disease & cure?
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If you mean sensitivity with regards to a response to pathogens, it is based on the genetic variability of your immune system, your immunisation status, and if you have been exposed to a similar pathogen before.

Sometimes you are going to catch the virus that gives you the common cold.

It takes two-three weeks for your acquired immune response to kick in to direct specific antibodies against the pathogen, so it will take about two to three weeks for the common cold to be 'cured'.
 
Calrid said:
I think the point is to mock the idea that that which is harmful, in statistically negligible amounts is unlikely to magically make you better. Thus if you are hit by a blue Ford Mondeo, diluting a piece of it to the point where you have a sub molecular amount by volume, is as absurd as diluting Wolfsbane to cure a stomach upset because it is poisonous in high doses and makes you violently sick.

It's irony, something we do quite well I think in our comedy.

No one's saying cars are a bad thing, just that homeopathy is quackery as it stands atm.
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Whatever but I have not seen anyone is intentionally doing it. All in this line are quite confident. It exists in people at mass since long back. Most govenments also support it. There seems to be some miss or weakness in understanding it.
 
Tatyana said:
If you mean sensitivity with regards to a response to pathogens, it is based on the genetic variability of your immune system, your immunisation status, and if you have been exposed to a similar pathogen before.

Sometimes you are going to catch the virus that gives you the common cold.

It takes two-three weeks for your acquired immune response to kick in to direct specific antibodies against the pathogen, so it will take about two to three weeks for the common cold to be 'cured'.
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Yes but people still get acute symptoms from common cold. Usually, Common cold is also not a chronic problem.
 
Kumar said:
Whatever but I have not seen anyone is intentionally doing it. All in this line are quite confident.
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That's because it's a confidence trick.

It exists in people at mass since long back.
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So do many things that aren't true.

Most govenments also support it.
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No.

There seems to be some miss or weakness in understanding it.
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No. It simply doesn't work.
 
PixyMisa said:
Well-informed people will opt to have homeopaths arrested.


I have no idea what this means.
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That is your calculation neither of government nor of people using these. If we take like that, all those who sell those medicines which are found to be harmful on field trial, should also got arrested.
 
Kumar said:
Simply pls tell, how senstivity--hypo or hyper is related to disease, immunity, health, healing, acute & chronic states? So thought, accumulations, resistances, tolerances, insentivity addictions, withdrawl symptoms, latency, depandances, silent death, suspetibility,chronicity, autoimmunity, allergy,neuropathy,IR....may be relevant?
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Nothing in this list (even when spelt correctly) is a homeoquackic term. The question is how to "understand homeopathic terms in logical sense"? What homeoquackic term would you like deconstructed?
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Nothing in this list (even when spelt correctly) is a homeoquackic term. The question is how to "understand homeopathic terms in logical sense"? What homeoquackic term would you like deconstructed?
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Sorry, that is not the issue in this forum. Simply concentrate on senstivity side.
 
Kumar said:
Please avoid absolute remarks till science is not A&F.
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Okay. Homeopathy was first discussed in 1796. It is now 2011.

There is no evidence that any homeopathic remedy works. None.

And the theory behind it is illogical, based on what we know--scientifically speaking.
 
Emet said:
Okay. Homeopathy was first discussed in 1796. It is now 2011.

There is no evidence that any homeopathic remedy works. None.

And the theory behind it is illogical, based on what we know--scientifically speaking.
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Whatever. Fact are well known to both sides.
 
Kumar said:
Whatever. Fact are well known to both sides.
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Kumar :jaw-dropp really? Are you really saying that the homeopaths know the facts, but that they carry on with homeopathy knowing there is no scientific backing for it and that it does not work at all?
 
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