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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 27768" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We use the education method. For us in Australia, we can't get malaria because we haven't got Anopheles mosquitoes, which you need to carry the Plasmodium (and when you look them up you can teach yourself to recognise the difference between your usual mozzies and Anopheles - it's how they sit on a wall or ceiling). We get people coming into the country who contracted malaria overseas, and it is possible that right up north there may be a few stray Anopheles making their infected way south to Cape York, but otherwise - not a chance. Besides, with modern medicine (which should be more widely available in Third World countries, but is not) malaria is much easier to treat.</p><p></p><p>Kidney stones - used to be a big deal. A friend of mine had a huge staghorn kidney stone, one in each kidney, because she was taking massive doses of calcium ascorbate (I mean several grams a day). In her day she had to have her kidneys sliced open so they could lift the things out. Now, they use sound waves in a machine called a lithotripter. You sit in a warm bath and they bombard your body with ultrasound, you can't hear it or feel it. And it breaks the stones up so they can be flushed out easily, no surgery needed. Maybe the pastor's friend had a kidney stone back in the bad old days when they had to operate. My sister had a kidney stone - by the time they found it on the X-ray she had already got rid of it all by herself.</p><p></p><p>You don't get kidney stones easily. Older people can get it if they have a long, slow build-up of certain chemicals in the blood. Young people haven't been around long enough to get these. And not many older people get them, either. With easier treatment, they never keep them long, either.</p><p></p><p>Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. We can do so much, so easily.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 frets about his health. One of his favourite books is his father's First Aid textbook (he hasn't found my old medical texts yet! and no, I'm not a doctor, I just studied a lot of the same subjects). difficult child 3 reads the First Aid book cover to cover, has it mostly memorised. He horrified his school nurse when he fronted up with grazed knees and was talking about "abrasions, contusions and penetrating wounds". He instructed her on the appropriate first aid treatment. But before he read it - he would panic at the sight of blood.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 27768, member: 1991"] We use the education method. For us in Australia, we can't get malaria because we haven't got Anopheles mosquitoes, which you need to carry the Plasmodium (and when you look them up you can teach yourself to recognise the difference between your usual mozzies and Anopheles - it's how they sit on a wall or ceiling). We get people coming into the country who contracted malaria overseas, and it is possible that right up north there may be a few stray Anopheles making their infected way south to Cape York, but otherwise - not a chance. Besides, with modern medicine (which should be more widely available in Third World countries, but is not) malaria is much easier to treat. Kidney stones - used to be a big deal. A friend of mine had a huge staghorn kidney stone, one in each kidney, because she was taking massive doses of calcium ascorbate (I mean several grams a day). In her day she had to have her kidneys sliced open so they could lift the things out. Now, they use sound waves in a machine called a lithotripter. You sit in a warm bath and they bombard your body with ultrasound, you can't hear it or feel it. And it breaks the stones up so they can be flushed out easily, no surgery needed. Maybe the pastor's friend had a kidney stone back in the bad old days when they had to operate. My sister had a kidney stone - by the time they found it on the X-ray she had already got rid of it all by herself. You don't get kidney stones easily. Older people can get it if they have a long, slow build-up of certain chemicals in the blood. Young people haven't been around long enough to get these. And not many older people get them, either. With easier treatment, they never keep them long, either. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. We can do so much, so easily. difficult child 3 frets about his health. One of his favourite books is his father's First Aid textbook (he hasn't found my old medical texts yet! and no, I'm not a doctor, I just studied a lot of the same subjects). difficult child 3 reads the First Aid book cover to cover, has it mostly memorised. He horrified his school nurse when he fronted up with grazed knees and was talking about "abrasions, contusions and penetrating wounds". He instructed her on the appropriate first aid treatment. But before he read it - he would panic at the sight of blood. Marg [/QUOTE]
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