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"For example, a patient presents with acute bronchitis, accompanied by fever and coughing up of blood. After two weeks, the fever is gone, the patient is no longer coughing, and a chest X-ray shows the lungs are clear. Should the doctor (a) do a chest CT; (b) perform a bronchoscopy, which involves putting a flexible scope down the bronchial tubes to take a look at them; or (c) do nothing? The right answer is c—do nothing. The patient is cured." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"If you sought medical care because you were coughing up phlegm (sputum), you would be treated for catarrh ?that is, for coughing up phlegm. Unctions, potions, and worse would be plied along with pontifications as to prognosis. Some generations of physicians has produced an iconoclast or two who bludgeon the prevailing dogma until it is readied to yield to progress. The early eighteenth century was so blessed, most notably by Thomas Sydenham (1624 - 89) in London, who realized the fallacy of this diagnostic reasoning." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Other side effects include neutropenia, (a deficiency of white blood cells in the blood which can lead to infection), rash and skin disorders, chest pain, accidental/inflicted injury, influenza-like symptoms, pain, fatigue, edema, hypertension, headache, dizziness, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, back pain, depression, coughing, bronchitis, rhinitis (a condition of sneezing, coughing, wheezing and nasal discharge) and quite a few other problems.111 So we see the potential harm in mixing two or more of these drugs together. Does it have an adverse effect on the health of the elderly? Absolutely!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Certain conditions can bring on hiccoughs such as: drinking a cold drink while eating a hot meal eating hot or highly spiced foods eating too quickly coughing consuming alcoholic beverages in excess smoking crying pregnancy certain prescription drugs such as chemotherapy tumours or kidney disease electrolyte imbalances like hypokalemia or hyponatremia Hiccoughs are said to help dislodge food particles that are stuck in the throat. When a large piece of food is swallowed and our natural swallowing reflex is taxed, pressure is put on the phrenic nerve which stimulates the hiccough." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of bronchitis can include difficulty breathing, fever, sore throat, a mucous build-up, and coughing. It is important to consult a physician to determine the underlying cause of the condition. Enzyme therapy can be used to reduce congestion and inflammation and support the digestive and immune systems." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Some problems caused by these chemicals include headaches, dizziness, rash, hyperpigmentation, violent coughing, vomiting, skin irritation—the list goes on.Try to avoid buying a cosmetic that has the word "fragrance"on the ingredients label. Surprisingly, cosmetics ingredients don't fall under the jurisdiction of either the EPA or the Food and Drug Administration, and many such products sold in the United States today contain known toxins." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Formaldehyde gas can cause several health problems, such as headaches, dizziness, nasal congestion, sore throat, scratchy eyes, coughing, and immune system abnormalities. Most fabrics treated with this flame retardant continuously emit this toxic gas, to the tune of 500 parts per million at the fabric's surface. And breathing just 0.1 parts per million for an extended time period can have health consequences. This is something to think about given that children's sleepwear is required by federal law to meet flammability standards. Formaldehyde isn't confined to just your mattress." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Rhinebecky New York I arrived at my office early in the morning, as usual, but by the time I got there, the waiting room was a scene of controlled chaos, as it often is, with autistic kids and hyperactive kids bouncing around, heedless of their mothers' admonitions, and asthmatic and allergic kids coughing and wheezing. "Dr. Bock," my receptionist said, "your first patient is ready. It's Paul Avram. He's here with his mother, Lynne." Little Paul Avram was very withdrawn when he and Lynne sat down in my office for his first visit. He wouldn't look at me. His eyes were dead as marbles." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Swelling of the hands, feet, face, or other areas. • coughing, sneezing, wheezing, asthmatic symptoms, or tightness in the chest. • Muscle aches, leg cramps, or twitchy legs. • Cognitive problems, including poor focus, poor memory, or brain fog. • Emotional problems, including depression, anxiety, or anger, accompanied by associated behaviors. • Lethargy, or low stamina. • Insomnia, restless sleep, feelings of distress while trying to sleep, or chronic bedwetting. • Excess salivation, spitting during speech, or drooling." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It causes obstruction of the airway, chest tightness, coughing and wheezing. If probiotics are primarily in the intestinal tract, how would probiotics aid the lungs and help to fight asthma? Remember that probiotics have a great influence on the immune system. Probiotics are likely to play a role in asthma prevention and treatment through their ability to moderate the immune response. The "hygiene hypothesis," which was introduced in Chapter 9, explains the increase in allergic diseases over the past few decades." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Asthma is inflammation of the bronchial tubes causing airway obstruction, chest tightness, coughing and wheezing. Asthma commonly develops in people with a history of atopic dermatitis. Studies have shown that school age children with atopic dermatitis (eczema) have an increased risk of developing asthma. This is not surprising as the mucus of the digestive and respiratory systems are very similar. They share many elements involved in immune defense and show some unity in the way they function in an immune response." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "This causes symptoms such as wheezing, coughing and chest tightness. Asthma cannot be cured, but it can be controlled in most individuals. An asthma attack is a worsening of symptoms in which the muscles around the airways tighten, making the airways narrower and causing less air to flow An attack can be brought on by an interaction with an allergen or a physiological change in the body. Cells in the airways may also make more mucus than usual. This extra mucus causes further narrowing of the airways." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This may cause vaginal itching, burning, or bleeding; less intense orgasms; painful intercourse; urinary frequency (often disrupting sleep); or stress incontinence (loss of urine while coughing, laughing, or straining). When the vagina is too dry, bacteria and yeast become imbalanced, and chronic infections, irritation, and discharge can develop. If you have problems with recurrent urinary and/or vaginal infections, you need to balance your vaginal hormones in addition to correcting yeast and bacterial imbalance. All forms of vaginal estrogen stimulate the cells lining the uterus." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"After two weeks, the fever is gone, the patient is no longer coughing, and a chest X-ray shows the lungs are clear. Should the doctor (a) do a chest CT; (b) perform a bronchoscopy, which involves putting a flexible scope down the bronchial tubes to take a look at them; or (c) do nothing? The right answer is c—do nothing. The patient is cured. What Fisher found was that doctors who trained at hospitals where the pattern of care was most intense and aggressive were significantly more likely to get many if not all of the thirty-two "do nothing" questions wrong." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The town's inhabitants, coughing badly, awoke to the sound of neighbors screaming. The streets rapidly filled with people fainting, throwing up frothy blood and having miscarriages. "It felt like somebody had filled our bodies up with red chilis," is how survivor Champa Devi Shukla described it. The worst chemical disaster ever, the Bhopal tragedy resulted in over ten thousand deaths. Hundreds of thousands were injured. Birth defects, disabilities, diseases and pollution paralyze the region to this day." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The symptoms of flu include fever, chills, runny nose, sore throat, cough, headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, lack of appetite, muscle aches, nerve pain, extreme fatigue, and a general feeling of malaise. coughing and sneezing can spread this common ailment. The incubation period is one to three days. Influenza may also increase susceptibility to pneumonia, sinus problems, ear infections, and other bacterial and viral infections because it weakens the immune system." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Respiratory symptoms are coughing, wheezing, tightness, pain and dyspnea. Mucous in the sinus and nasal cavity may be present. Sneezing, runny nose and eyes are common. Some people may lose consciousness and have a drop in blood pressure. Seek medical attention to rule out an allergy if you suffer from any of these symptoms. Many people are required to carry an EpiPen, which contains epinephrine. It is used when an allergy is life threatening. A food intolerance is reproducible and causes undesirable negative reactions." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Threadworms typically cause coughing, bronchitis, gas, itching anus and vagina, stomach pain and loose stools. iv. Ascarids are one of the most common roundworm infections. It is common in third world countries, warm climates and rural communities. In some cases, no symptoms are noticed. Lung symptoms may appear such as bronchitis, shortness of breath and wheezing. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, weight loss and fatigue. 2. Tapeworms are larger parasites that range from an inch up to 30 feet." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Symptoms of dysphagia belching difficulty in swallowing choking or inhaling food or saliva into the lungs while swallowing coughing when swallowing feeble voice painful swallowing pressure in the sternum or mid chest regurgitating fluids through the nose sensation of food stuck in the throat sore throat weight loss What Causes Dysphagia? Dysphagia can occur for a number of reasons. A stricture or Barrett's Esophagus may cause difficulty swallowing. This is when the lining of the esophagus (the tube that runs from the mouth into the stomach) becomes irregular and may thicken." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"At the same time I would develop severe coughing with sputum, wheezing, and fever. Often antibiotics had to be taken before recovery would begin. After four days on Xlear, the morning headaches disappeared along with the postnasal drainage and coughing. Xlear appears to have stopped my chronic sinusitis and recurring bronchitis. I continue to use it daily. This product can be obtained from XLEAR 877- 332 1001 and from Natural Health Team 800-416-2806. Bromelain Another product to consider for asthma is bromelain which has antiinflammatory activity." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"The sick and injured became wheelbarrow hands, coughing from chronic respiratory ailments or bent over with gastrointestinal disorders. Each morning a burial detail carried off the dead and interred them in shallow graves, where ravenous dogs dug up the corpses and gorged themselves on fresh meat. No one bothered to rebury the rotting bodies. Bird guano was one of the most valued commodities in the mid-nineteenth-century world." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"And finally, its anti-inflammatory, lung-relaxant properties have proven useful in the treatment of asthma, where it eases coughing and reduces tissue inflammation. Curcumin?20 mg Curcumin is what gives turmeric its yellow color. Studies have shown that it can inhibit colon cancer cells by some 96% in a matter of hours. It also appears to have great potential in counteting the effects of prostate cancer and breast cancer. In a sense, curcumin can be thought of as natural chemotherapy—with the ability to selectively kill cancer cells, while at the same time leaving normal cells alone." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"After passing through a bout of the flu, a week of coughing up bad-smelling phlegm, or a couple of days with a high fever, many people eliminate massive amounts of toxins, and along with them, tumor tissue. Recent cancer research on gravely ill patients at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas revealed a promising treatment to kill cancer cells by giving them a cold, that is, injecting tumors with a cold virus. It may still take a while, though, before researchers discover that catching a few colds can do the same job." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Notwithstanding all her gifts and virtues, she was severely hysterical, with symptoms that included disorders of vision, coughing, paralyses, and regular spells of somnambulism. The first symptoms had come on when she was nursing her father through a long illness, and by the time Breuer began visiting her a year later, she was almost wholly incapacitated and housebound. This established, Breuer then explained the remarkable things that happened to Anna O. as he began to treat her using hypnosis. In a trance state, Anna O." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"For example, a patient presents with acute bronchitis, accompanied by fever and coughing up of blood. After two weeks, the fever is gone, the patient is no longer coughing, and a chest X-ray shows the lungs are clear. Should the doctor (a) do a chest CT; (b) perform a bronchoscopy, which involves putting a flexible scope down the bronchial tubes to take a look at them; or (c) do nothing? The right answer is c—do nothing. The patient is cured." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"These men and women had raw, red eyes, violent coughing spells that would last two to three minutes or even longer. Some of them could barely walk. "It was clear to me that this had to be related to what they were doing on the job. Some of these guys would get better every weekend and be sick as a dog again by the end of the week. I would recommend to the supervisor that they be given rest and sent to another part of the plant, where they would avoid these exposures. After a few days, their symptoms would clear, and they would return to work and the coughing would begin all over again." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Although usually benign, a gurgling stomach can sometimes signal serious GI problems, especially if accompanied by bloating, gas, 1 ¦ 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 1 cramps, or diarrhea, lhe possible problems include stomach viruses, bowel obstructions, gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, aka spastic colon), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is the umbrella It's long been known that yawning as well as coughing can be contagious. Recently, London researchers found that certain other body sounds are contagious as well." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Umbilical hernias are very common in infancy but can occur during adulthood, often as a result of obesity, multiple pregnancies, heavy lifting, or even coughing. When the hernia can be pushed back in place by a doctor, it's usually a benign sign. However, a hernia can also become strangulated or incarcerated, both very painful and potentially life-threatening situations. If you notice a belly button bump that's inside the navel, irregularly shaped, and possibly with visible blood vessels, it may a sign of Sister Joseph's nodule (aka Sister Mary Joseph's nodule)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "In fact, the lungs are affected in 70% of the people with sarcoidosis, causing chronic coughing and shortness of breath. When the eyes are affected, dry eye, vision loss, glaucoma, and significant facts .1 ii ' \«nB? Skin symptoms of sarcoidosis other eye problems can occur. < WH ' may include: Sarcoidosis can produce other . Red rashes on the face and skin problems. When it affects the body legs, ankles, or shins, it's called ery- ¦ Red lumps, particularly on thema nodosum. the legs (erythema . nodosum) Sarcoidosis often produces no ,-,. r ¦ Skin eruptions signs at all." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

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