Juliet Cohen asked:


Preeclampsia/eclampsia is a complex hypertensive disorder of pregnancy affecting multiple systems. Preeclampsia is a condition that pregnant women can get. Preeclampsia and eclampsia are complications of pregnancy. In preeclampsia, the woman has dangerously high blood pressure, swelling, and protein in the urine.

Mild pre-eclampsia at term is less likely to recur (5-10%) and when it does, it’s usually mild again. After severe pre-eclampsia, recurrence rate is about 20-25% in subsequent pregnancies. After eclampsia, about 25-30% of subsequent pregnancies will be complicated by pre-eclampsia, but only 2% with eclampsia again.

About 7% of all nulliparas develop preeclampsia. The disease is most common in mothers under the age of 20, or over the age of 35.

Other risk factors include poverty, multiple pregnancies (twins, triplets, etc.), pre-existing chronic hypertension or kidney disease, diabetes, excess amniotic fluid, and a condition of the fetus called nonimmune hydrops. Eclampsia is the final and most severe phase of preeclampsia and occurs when preeclampsia is left untreated. In addition to the previously mentioned signs of preeclampsia, women with eclampsia often have seizures. Eclampsia can cause coma and even death of the mother and baby and can occur before, during, or after childbirth. Eclampsia can cause coma and even death of the mother and baby. Low levels of vitamin D may be a risk factor for preeclampsia. Preeclampsia can prevent the placenta from receiving enough blood, which can cause your baby to be born very small.

It is also one of the leading causes of premature births and the difficulties that can accompany them, including learning disabilities, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and hearing and vision problems. With mild preeclampsia, treatment may be limited to bed rest, with careful daily monitoring of weight, blood pressure, and urine protein via dipstick. Increased dietary protein has been suggested to reduce the incidence of pre-eclampsia. Magnesium can be injected into the veins to prevent eclampsia-related seizures. Hydralazine or another antihypertensive drug to manage severe elevations of blood pressure. A large trial of low-dose aspirin has confirmed that it has a place in prevention of pre-eclampsia. Close monitoring by practitioners will help decrease the complications of these conditions.

Preeclampsia and Eclampsia Treatment Tips

1. Monitoring fluid intake.

2. Calcium supplementation has also been suggested

3. Fish oil supplementation may help prevent preeclampsia.

4. Close monitoring by practitioners will help decrease the complications of these conditions.

5. Magnesium can be injected into the veins to prevent eclampsia-related seizures.

6. Hydralazine or another antihypertensive drug to manage severe elevations of blood pressure.



Bruce

Peter Finch asked:


There are a lot of people in this world who are differently abled. There are a lot of people in this world who have invisible disabilities and looking at them one would be very surprised to know this. For such people dating with their disability can get a little difficult. But there is a way around this now!

A sad but true fact is that today visibly disabled people are the fairly stigmatized and this includes obese people. These very same people probably have skills that are superior because of their disability. But they get discriminated against despite this talent. For people afflicted with invisible disabilities, things can get more complicated.

So then how does one go about dating with disabilities? Surf the net, find dating for the disabled sites where you can meet similarly afflicted people, get registered and you are ready to date. Get some pointers from disabled friends who are already in to dating.

A good way to start would be to initiate a conversation and find out what needs to be done with respect to the disability in question. You can move on to more intimate conversation if you are able to convey that you are open to communicate about your disability however sensitive the topic may be.

Dating with disabilities can be an exciting and enriching experience if you go about it with the right attitude. There will be stares and there will be awkward dates but you will learn from each experience. Each date will show you what you can expect from other disabled or differently abled people and you will be able to take the experience of one date to the next.

There are certain points that you should keep in mind when dating. Keep your personal information to yourself till such time as you are comfortable with the person and you feel you can trust him or her. If there is talk of meeting outside the safety of online dating then ensure that the place you pick is very public and stick to your own mode of transport. Keep friends informed of your whereabouts.

While dating or chatting online, keep personal data confidential. Keep a separate email account just for this type of communication and steer clear of people whose pester factor runs high. There are those who think they must keep on chasing are those you must stay away from. Look out for inconsistent answers to your questions.

Remember most dating sites are for free and if any are asking for money then read the fine print carefully. Keep your options open and discuss with friends if need be.

Dating with disabilities is fun if you take it with the right spirit and the right sense of caution. Your dates will be as enjoyable as you want them to be. So go on, get into the dating scene today!



Brett

golfzmark asked:


I just turned 22 and have been diagnosed with a learning disability since I was a little kid. I figured that as time went by I would eventually out grow it and become a “normal adult”. Well it hasn’t quite played out as I planned. I’m currently enrolled at Oregon State University but I’m having a very tough time as I struggle greatly in memory, SPELLING, and communication. It is really starting to pull me down. I come from a very successfully family and I’m VERY motivated. It’s so hard when I can’t get a basic job because of my awfully communication skills and poor writing ability. I feel like I’m letting my family down and more importantly MYSELF. If anyone has been in the same boat as me or has a good knowledge on adult learning disability please provide information on how I can go about overcoming this monster. Thanks

-A lost and confused individual
I thank those who have provided there insight on what to do. To Kyles comment, the main thing that has kept me alive is my support system, my family is very supportive and understands the situation I’m in as my older brother is also struggling (not as bad). I can honestly say that I would not be here today if it wasn’t for this support system. None the less I Will try to support myself more and take it one step at a time.

Jeremy

peterhutch asked:


Bed-wetting is very common in younger kids, in fact, it is so common that it is even considered normal before age 5,” Greene says. “Nighttime dryness is the last part of toilet learning that kids achieve,” he adds. At ages 6 and below, bed-wetting only needs to be addressed if the child is feeling really bad about himself as a result, he says.

When one of your children is a bed wetter, it can be a very sensitive topic. You want your child to know it’s just a part of growing up and that there’s nothing wrong with them. You have to ***** down on siblings who like to give them a hard time.

“As adults, when the bladder gets full, it sends a signal to brain to wake up or you start dreaming about water or going to bathroom and then you wake up, but for kids the signal isn’t quite strong enough to get them awake,” Greene says.

Bed-wetting can be both uncomfortable and embarrassing for a child. Thankfully, almost all kids outgrow it in time. But chances are you will feel compelled to do something while you wait. What follows are the best bed-wetting remedies currently available—other than time.

Many children with bed-wetting will improve with time and for reasons that are not understood. It is important to tell your child that it is a temporary condition. Many children who wet the bed do not feel very good about themselves.

Sometimes parents can place blame on their children who bed-wet, either knowingly or unknowingly. It is important to be patient with a child who bed-wets. A child does not wet the bed on purpose.

In all children, the development of bladder function control and night-time urine production is a slow process, so most children are affected up to the age of three. In fact, bed-wetting is quite common up to the age of eight. In most cases there’s a delay in the development of the normal pathways of bladder function control within the brain and nervous system, which eventually mature.

Primary nocturnal enuresis is the most common form of bedwetting and is experienced by over five million children in the US alone. While many people attribute bedwetting to behavioral problems or stress, the truth of the matter is that bedwetting is often an inherited trait.

Chronic bed-wetting is thought to be related to (1) a physically and/or neurologically immature bladder and/or (2) a deep sleeping pattern. Apparently these children often sleep so deeply that they are not aware of the message the bladder sends to the brain saying it is full. It is presumed that bed-wetting is an inherited condition. Usually a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent or other family member(s) will have had the condition. Also, children with attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities or allergies seem to be more likely to be bed-wetters than children in the general population.

Don’t blame the child or punish them, but take practical steps, such as putting a waterproof sheet on the bed. An enuresis alarm can help condition the child into getting up at night to pass urine. These can be purchased from ERIC (see below) or borrowed from a local enuresis clinic. However, one in three children relapse after a few months.

Ending the bedwetting is not the only objective of a proper correction. The enuretic(bedwetter) has the opportunity to sleep better and more normal as the result of a proper correction. This enables them to have a better quality of life and can enhance their self-esteem and self-image.

Bedwetting usually resolves itself by the age of about seven or slightly later. About 1 in 7 children aged five, and 1 in 20 children aged ten wet the bed. It is more common in boys than girls.

Bedwetting can also affect children older than six or seven. With advice from your GP, parents can try various techniques to sort out the problem. It’s very important not to punish the child or make them worried about the bedwetting.



Melissa

Mira And Mark Halpert asked:


5 Steps to Improve Standardized Test Scores’ Success

Standardized reading tests are a major challenge for many students, especially for those with Dyslexia or Learning Disabilities. The math tests are very difficult for students with reading comprehension issues because the questions are either ambiguous and or very wordy.

For the child, the threats include:

· They will be retained

· Being excluded from more enjoyable activities to get the second or even third dose of reading and math help

· Frequent testing that tends to reaffirm their issues

Parents are often frustrated that progress is minimal, despite a major investment of time, money and time. This article is designed to help parents understand that learning differences, vision and attention issues could all be playing a role.

Reading comprehension, attention, vision, and test taking issues can all be major contributors to your child’s success. Below we have outlined 5-steps that parents can take to help their child succeed on high-stakes tests and beyond with a holistic approach:

1- Have a school or outside professional assess your child for reading, attention and vision issues. Over 75% of our students have two of the three issues and over 40% have all three.

2- If your child has reading comprehension issues they may be a visual-experiential learner (i.e. excellent memory for places they have been and movies they have seen and learn best when they see and experience information). We call them:

GOLD Students ™ Gifted Operating with a Learning Difference

When parents view their child as gifted and learning differently, it opens up a whole new way to explain prior challenges and to help them succeed.

Two excellent books on the subject are Jeffrey Freed’s “Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World” and Dr. Linda Silverman’s “Upside Down Brilliance” that describes gifted children who learn differently.

3- If your child skips words or lines when reading, has trouble copying off the board or get headaches when reading, have their eyes checked by a Developmental Optometrist - go to www.covd.com to find one near you. There are two routes for improvement

a. Vision therapy done at the optometrist’s office

b. Exercises you can do at home

4- Address the attention issue. Some people prefer medication; our bias is to use systems that address it naturally. We encourage natural solutions to both avoid the side effects and the challenges when the drug wears off - understand that an hour of physical exercise a day can be an enormous benefit. We also use the Interactive Metronome ®, Brain Gym ® and Centering Exercises to help the student.

5- Make sure your child gets the accommodations and test taking support they need. To get an accommodation at a public school for high stakes tests, it must be part of a formal plan done in conjunction with the school - based on your child’s disability. For students with Attention Deficit Disorder, you can get the needed accommodations if your physician assesses the child and determines the ADHD significantly impacts their academic performance. Students with a combination of learning, attention and vision issues benefit from extra time and a quiet place to take the test.

Extra time is very helpful for students who learn differently

You also want to consider having your child tested by someone who understands the way the test is written and who can teach the test taking strategies that work for them.

At http://www.3dlearner.com

we started as very frustrated parents and professionals; then migrated to doing more traditional tutoring; and now see the benefits of a holistic approach that addresses:

1- Teaching the child the way they learn best

2- Addressing vision and attention issues

3- Helping the child with both the right accommodations and test taking skills



Luis

Alexi M asked:


I’ve been stricken with a desire to understand more about this, though I’m not sure why. I’m looking for suggestions on good books, online resources- basically any extensive information. Deafness, muteness, limited mobility, etc. anything really, I just want to learn more. Any suggestions on where to look would be helpful. Thanks.
I’m interested in mental disabilities too.

Danielle

Randy Hutchings asked:


There are a great many myths associated with learning disorders. They range from the absurd, all the way to the absolutely rude and hurtful. Learning disabilities impede the way people process information, whether it is in reading, writing, or in communication skills.

Many times the association of ADD or ADHD has come up, as if every case of a learning disorder is directly related. There are many myths however, that are so far fetched or just not even in relation to learning disorders, that it is easy to see exactly why people with this affliction are very much reclusive.

Start with the most absurd of the myths, laziness. The notion that someone that is affected with a form of learning disorder is just lazy cannot get any further from the truth. There is no medical association pertaining learning disorders with a lack of energy or drive.

The fact that the individual seems to have no desire to complete their work is just that, they do not. It is not for a lack of energy or drive, it is out of fear that they will mess up, and it will get noticed and in turn centers them out amongst their peers.

The same can be said for the thought of sheer rebellion. These kids do indeed stand out from the rather rebellious crowd. A child that is rebellious will fight and give trouble, where a person with a learning disorder generally does not want to draw too much attention on themselves, at least not in the school anyways.

Behavioral issues are another common belief in the mind of the unknowing. To assume that one has a said condition such as ADD or ADHD solely because they try to pass off their work or are having trouble in the classroom is to say the least ignorant. The behavioral issues are in fact the result of the lack of processing that the brain does, when it comes to the scholastic work. This is an easy way to get a person with a learning disability to become very restless.

Low IQ is a common assumption as well when it comes to the person that has a learning disability. In fact, the truth is that the majority of students that have learning disabilities, score higher in actual IQ tests than most of their peers that are not afflicted with the same conditions. It is fact; IQ has absolutely nothing to do with a learning disorder.

The idea that learning disabilities are a direct result of mental retardation is completely false. There is no direct correlation between MR patients and the conditions that are prevalent in a learning disability. Learning disabilities are not in any way a form of mental retardation. The process of receiving information to the brain is the problem with learning disorders. There is a sort of break in the connection, which inhibits all the appropriate information from coming in and being processed.

The idea of a learning disorders being related, to many of the issues that have been mentioned is simply not the case. There are already many problems associated with learning disabilities as it is, people with this sort of affliction do not need speculation as to what their problem is or where it comes from, what they need is method to fix it.

They need support to overcome this problem, for if they have none, the future of the said individual would surely be troublesome. Learning disabilities have a tight hold on students whom have not had any prior help, like from their parents in the way of home lessons that strengthen their skills in reading, writing, and comprehension. Communication is always a large issue as the process of taking in what is being said can become quite scrambled.

Helping the individuals with said disorders cope with the stress of not being the same as everyone else is a very good first step, in their way to a productive life. A really nice gesture would to be a book buddy for someone you know that is afflicted with a learning disorder, give him or her a chance to show some amazing improvements before your very own eyes. Now that is a sight to see.



Ashley

emclaffert asked:


The neuro-psych tests show what appear to be learning disabilities that were not there before. Since learning disabled people can be helped, is anyone working on this for parkinson dementia? My son, at 53, has had pd for 20 years. He is very bright but realizes his limitations. Help, anyone?

Cody

♫Sweetness♫ asked:


I will read the same book 10 times then 2 weeks later will not remember most of what i read. When i was in school i would be in class, the only student paying attention but what my teacher is saying will go in one ear out the other but i’m listening to her like what she was saying was going to save my life and i still can’t retain it.
I lose soo many job opportunities because of this, while in training for a job i can’t concentrate and have the trainer explain over and over again. I tend to be a visual person if you want me to do something right teach me hands on and let me watch you kinda thing, but if you tell me ohh boy i’m loss.
Any suggestions or pointers on how to deal with this learning disability , i’m not stupid just can’t retain info. Please help thanks

Eric

Keith Londrie asked:


It is very common to have a learning disability along with ADHD. In fact, research shows that thirty percent of people with ADHD also have a learning disability. Beyond learning disabilities, over fifty percent of individuals with ADHD have some other type of brain-based disorder. This is why depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder and other similar disorders are higher than normal in ADD clients.

One type of learning disability that almost every person with ADD will have is an integrative processing deficit. This is the ability to take in information, process it quickly and make use of it. Most people with ADD are either slower than others in doing this or have trouble doing it at all. It is not that they do not understand the information, but conflicting signals will make it difficult to fully process.

Another common learning disability in people with ADHD is working memory problems. Working memory is another term for short term memory, or information that is told to you in the moment. This can affect information you hear, read, etc. Working memory is important for doing well academically and in your work.

Another learning disability that is common in ADHD clients is problems with visual/spatial processing. This is not too surprising since most people with ADHD have problems with organizing space. Academically, this will affect subjects such as geometry and physics.

Other common learning disabilities are dyslexia, reading comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, oral expression, written expression, foreign language acquisition, syntactic processing and most likely other learning disabilities. This is why getting a thorough examination at the start is so important. An individual may be dealing with ADHD, but he or she may be dealing with a learning disability as well. And though you cannot directly do anything about a learning disability, it is good to know you have one and how it affects your ability to function. Also, you may receive academic accommodations as well as job accommodations if diagnosed with an LD.

In order to find out if you have a learning disability, it will be necessary to go through a lengthy set of tests that compare and contrast your IQ, personality and interests. If you do significantly better on one aspect of a test than another, this could signify a learning disability. For example, if you do really well on the verbal part of your IQ test and not so well on the visual/spatial section of the IQ test, you may have a learning disability.

It is not known exactly why ADD often comes with some type of learning disability. Most likely, the atypical wiring of an ADDer has something to do with it. New research is being done every day on the brain and how it works, and science definitely does not have all the answers to these questions yet.



Lynn