Woman Holds Her Heart In Her Hands!

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A woman held her old heart in her hands  while the new transplanted Heart was beating inside her!

 

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Woman Holds her heart in her hands

Penny Smith holding her own heart. The photo became an Internet sensation when it was posted on the site Imgur with the caption: “This is my friend Penny. She is holding her own heart. She has survived cancer and crippling heart failure but never lost hope.”

 

She held her own heart in her hands, then became an Internet sensation, but Penny Smith of Lake Elsinore, Calif., is just happy to be alive — and overwhelmed by the attention a single photo of her has received.

The photo of a hospital-masked but clearly smiling Smith, cradling her first heart while the new one beats in her chest, was posted on social media site Imgur by a nursing school friend, and immediately drew attention

 

Smith, 35, received her heart transplant in September 2012. She had known for years that she might one day need one.
“I was 3 and a half when I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma and I went into remission at age 6,” she told the Daily News. “From there in 1994 I developed a heart problem, which my mom knew about. (The doctors) had told her when I went through chemo that I would have it.”
Doctors monitored her condition closely over the years, but, Smith says, “I went downhill in 2007. I couldn’t breathe, I could barely walk.
“So they put me on more meds, and I ended up going into the hospital for my heart transplant.”
Smith’s operation took place at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego last fall. “I went on the (transplant recipient) list Aug. 17 and got my heart on Sept. 13,” she said.
Doctors left her chest opened up initially, she said, because the donor heart was too big. “I was in there for four months (recovering),” she said. “I had two cardiac arrests.”
Smith doesn’t know her donor’s identity, just that he was a young male.
The amazing photo was taken months after the operation, in January.

 

“That was in the hospital in the pathology lab,” Smith said. “I was saying goodbye to my heart, actually, because I felt like it got me through half of my life and I needed to say goodbye to it. So I was saying goodbye, and getting to know my new heart.
“My doctors made me wait because they didn’t think I was ready. I wanted to be able to hold it, and they didn’t want me to drop it.
“I was happy to see it again-well, see it for the first time, I guess.
“My husband even got to hold it. It felt really weird for both of us, but it was amazing to get to hold something that was once in someone.”

 http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/woman-holds-heart-hands-article-1.1243180#ixzz2IWtzkBHC

 

Ibuprofen Ban Details.

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I have received inquiries whether Ibuprofen is banned and if so the details.

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Ibuprofen.

FDA has been cagey.It is banned , but it is not said in so many words.

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Ibuprofen is produced industrially as a racemate. The compound, like other 2-arylpropionate derivatives (including ketoprofen, flurbiprofen, naproxen, etc.), does contain a stereocenter in the α-position of the propionate moiety. So two enantiomers of ibuprofen occur, with the potential for different biological effects and metabolism for each enantiomer. Indeed, the (S)-(+)-ibuprofen (dexibuprofen) was found to be the active form both in vitro and in vivo.

It was logical, then, to consider the potential for improving the selectivity and potency of ibuprofen formulations by marketing ibuprofen as a single-enantiomer product (as occurs with naproxen, another NSAID). Further in vivo testing, however, revealed the existence of an isomerase (alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase), which converted (R)-ibuprofen to the active (S)-enantiomer.[40][41][42]‘ ( Wiki)

Obuprofen action and composition is identical.

These cause skin, allergy, Blisters,Male Dysfunction,Kidney Failure.

‘SIDE EFFECTS AND SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS
The most frequent side effects occurring with Ibuprofen are gastro-intestinal disturbances; reactions range from abdominal discomfort, nausea and vomiting, and abdominal pain to serious gastro-intestinal bleeding or activation of peptic ulcer.
CNS-related side effects include headache, dizziness, nervousness, tinnitus, depression, drowsiness, and insomnia. Hypersensitivity reactions may occur less frequently and include fever and rashes. Hepatotoxicity and aseptic meningitis which occur less frequently may also be hypersensitivity reactions. Ibuprofen can provoke bronchospasm in patients with asthma. Ibuprofen may cause cystitis and haematuria. They may also cause acute renal failure, interstitial nephritis, and nephrotic syndrome.
Other side effects include anaemias, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, eosinophilia, agranulocytosis, abnormalities in liver function tests, blurred vision, changes in visual colour perception, and toxic amblyopia.
Precautions: Brufen should be given with care to the elderly, to patients with asthma or bronchospasm, bleeding disorders, cardiovascular disease, a history of peptic ulceration, and in liver or renal failure. Patients with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis, diuretic-induced volume depletion, or renal insufficiency require local synthesis of vasodilating prostaglandins to maintain renal perfusion, and therefore these patients are at greater risk of developing renal dysfunction due to NSAID-induced inhibition of renal prostaglandin synthesis.
Care is required in those who are also receiving coumarin anticoagulants. Patients who are sensitive to aspirin or other NSAIDs should generally not be given Ibuprofen.
Ibuprofen should be discontinued in patients who experience blurred or diminished vision, or changes in colour vision. Patients with collagen disease may be at increased risk of developing aseptic meningitis.’

COMPOSITION

200 mg Tablet                : Each sugarcoated tablet contains 200 mg ibuprofen
400 mg Tablet                : Each sugarcoated tablet contains 400 mg ibuprofen
600 mg Tablet                : Each filmcoated tablet contains 600 mg ibuprofen
Paediatric Suspension
(100 mg/5 m

http://home.intekom.com/pharm/knoll/brufen.html

In a confused sort of way it is banned .

The Drug Companies are very powerful and they will not easily let go.

Read my blog on Lybril contraceptive.

I am posting another blog on the list of banned drugs in India.

 

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Interactive Sites on Medical Information.Click On The Ailment.

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The tutorials listed below are interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains the procedure or condition in easy-to-read and understand language. You can also listen to the tutorial. 

JUST CLICK ON YOUR PREFERRED AILMENT
These tutorials require a special Flash plug-in, version 6 or above… If you do not have this in your PC, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of the software before you start the tutorial.

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