General Medical issues thread

[whatmeworry]

Working a contract at a girls school which caters K-12 and have noticed years 5-6 very large percentage have glasses, and the other years glasses almost non-existence.

Is this normal?

I have heard some of them select High Schools have higher percentages of students that wear glasses. Something to with the smarter kids constantly on devices is the theory.

 

[Flying mermaid]

She has multiple times, been extremely low weight. Habitual user of laxatives and a GP shopper.

TBH I think she needs to hospitalised. Just hard on a weekend to find the right help.

definitely needs specialist help, but the difficulty is she needs to be willing to accept it. If she is willing, I would be finding someone that has experience with eating disorders, but also that your sister feels comfortable with. If they are not working well together it is OK to try someone else. A hospital would be fine if her eating disorder has made her ill and she needs to be stabilised, but I am not sure it is the right place to get this sort of treatment.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Working a contract at a girls school which caters K-12 and have noticed years 5-6 very large percentage have glasses, and the other years glasses almost non-existence.

Is this normal?

probably takes until Year 5 or 6 for kids to be identified as needing glasses and then they move to contact lenses.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

If you google Psychologists eating disorders it come up with Sydney Melbourne etc, I just did Sydney and there is a really good list of psychologists and centres ( some hospital based ) that only cater to eating disorders. Maybe start looking into these places, but the hard part is getting her to agree to going for treatment.
Best of luck.

 

[wandering_fred]

I have heard some of them select High Schools have higher percentages of students that wear glasses. Something to with the smarter kids constantly on devices is the theory.

Latest theory I have come across is the lack of "outside" time where the focus is longer distances as opposed to an excess of closer focus.
Don't worry in due time (50-60 years) the vision will be corrected by cataract surgery.

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[QF WP]

Sounds an unusual sample, unless there was some program in which they all participated. My wife was the instigator together with our pediatric ophthalmologist Prof Glen Gole to form a committee to petition to have optical testing become mandatory for Prep in Qld - and it is done.

 

[QF WP]

Just to show that it happens to us all:

 

[drron]

At school I always sat in the front row.Didn't realise until I was 17 and began to drive that I needed glasses.I thought they must have put those signs beside the road for a good reason but I couldn't read them.Then I got glasses.

 

[Pushka]

Just to show that it happens to us all:

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Nooooo. Basal cells are pretty common though. Isn't Hugh great with his total lack of ego.

 

[OZDUCK]

Latest theory I have come across is the lack of "outside" time where the focus is longer distances as opposed to an excess of closer focus.
Don't worry in due time (50-60 years) the vision will be corrected by cataract surgery.

Happy wandering

Fred

There was an interesting study a few years ago comparing the eyesight of students in Asia compared to those in Australia. The conclusion was just as you said "outside" time made a significant difference.
Nearly 90% Of Asian Kids Suffer From Myopia, Study | Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and Medicine News Updates From Asia

 

[straitman]

Nooooo. Basal cells are pretty common though. Isn't Hugh great with his total lack of ego.

I certainly have had more than my share cut out.

On a happy note I have just been for my annual checkup at the radiation clinic and have been told they don't want to see me again.

 

[Pushka]

I certainly have had more than my share cut out.

On a happy note I have just been for my annual checkup at the radiation clinic and have been told they don't want to see me again.

Dad was in the Navy for 15 years mainly on an aircraft carrier. Of British origin he had fair skin (thanks Dad) and in those days there was no such thing as sun protection nor ear protection. At around 45 he started having surgery for Basal and Squamous cancers. And was deaf. All of his treatment was paid for as a result of Naval service but by the time he died his face was a patchwork of surgeries and plastic surgeries and he lost an ear - the actual ear due to the skin cancers. I seem to have escaped these and as I hate getting hot even as a child I avoided the sun so never lay out in the sun.

 

[wandering_fred]

Basal cell carcinoma does put a crimp on visits to the Red Cross for blood/plasma donations though

Happy wandering


Fred

 

[cove]

WF they wont take my blood either. It is chemically enriched to keep my ticker running.
I wanted to donate but they say NO.

 

[Major]

I am up to about 40 BCC's and SCC's. 1 Melanoma and about 4 Bowens cancers. A couple on the ears involving minor skin graft.

Also due to fair skin as well as teenage and early twenties spent on Sydney's Northern beaches and beer gardens.

 

[Cossie]

A few bits and pieces chopped off here and there as well, it's all my Mother's fault, she was a red head!

My blood isn't liked either, because I spent more than a total of 6 months in the UK in the eighties........

 

[Flying mermaid]

Mr FM has had heaps taken off as well - childhood growing up in Brisbane, plus has a bad family history. What his dermatologist is using every couple of years is a cream that turns his face red and then kind of peels. Gets rid of all the little ones that are building up - looks awful while it is working and he has to be careful of the sun while using the cream.

 

[Major]

Mr FM has had heaps taken off as well - childhood growing up in Brisbane, plus has a bad family history. What his dermatologist is using every couple of years is a cream that turns his face red and then kind of peels. Gets rid of all the little ones that are building up - looks awful while it is working and he has to be careful of the sun while using the cream.

Efudix/Efudex https://www.skincheck.com.au/skinclinic/efudix/

Dreadful stuff. I used it once and told my skin bloke I would not use it again. He can freeze and cut as much as he likes but I will not use that cream again.

 

[Pushka]

Mr FM has had heaps taken off as well - childhood growing up in Brisbane, plus has a bad family history. What his dermatologist is using every couple of years is a cream that turns his face red and then kind of peels. Gets rid of all the little ones that are building up - looks awful while it is working and he has to be careful of the sun while using the cream.

I have sun warnings on plaquenil. I thought I'd avoided the sun when I'd been on it for 2 weeks but I developed the weirdest and brightest sunburn ever.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Efudix/Efudex https://www.skincheck.com.au/skinclinic/efudix/

Dreadful stuff. I used it once and told my skin bloke I would not use it again. He can freeze and cut as much as he likes but I will not use that cream again.

yes that's the stuff. Mr FM doesn't mind it, although he looks totally awful while it is doing its work...