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Gastroenteritis - Causes, Symptoms, And Treatment
By alien
Definition
Gastroenteritis is the irritation and inflammation of the digestive system. It is inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It is caused by a virus. Gastroenteritis is one of the most common acute illnesses worldwide. It has no effective treatment. Only prevention with this disease is the best treatment. In the United States, it is second only to the common cold in frequency of occurrence.
Causes
Many different viruses can cause gastroenteritis, including rotaviruses, adenoviruses, caliciviruses, astroviruses, Norwalk virus, and a group of Noroviruses. Viral gastroenteritis is not caused by bacteria or parasites or by medications or other medical conditions, although the symptoms may be similar.
Gastro occurs in any of the following ways:
From person to person. This may occur directly by close personal contact or contact with the faeces of an infected person, or indirectly by touching contaminated surfaces such as taps, toilet flush handles, children's toys and nappies
Eating contaminated food
Drinking contaminated water
Airborne through vomiting, coughing and sneezing (mainly viruses). Handling pets and other animals
Symptoms
Symptoms can vary from person to person. The main symptoms of viral gastroenteritis are watery diarrhea and vomiting. The affected person may also have headache, fever, and abdominal cramps ("stomach ache"). In general, the symptoms begin 1 to 2 days following infection with a virus that causes gastroenteritis and may last for 1 to 10 days, depending on which virus causes the illness.
In a normal healthy person, a case of gastroenteritis is no more significant
Extreme Monopoly Board Game Knockoff, Boca Raton edition
About two weeks ago I was at a local Walgreens in Boca Raton when I came across something unusual.
I meant to blog about it then,
but alas,
I just now got a round tuit.
Anyway,
what I found:
I amazed this even exists!
I wonder who's idea this even was?
The Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce?
Anyway,
it's clearly a knockoff of Monopoly,
as you won't find it for sale at Hasbro.
It's actually made by Late for the Sky,
which seems to make games based off Monopoly,
or should I say,
The Landlord's Game which is completely in the public domain
(wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more,
unlike Monopoly.
But Boca Raton Opoly sure looks like Monopoly,
walks like Monopoly,
and probably quacks like Monopoly,
so I wonder how they get away with this?
Perhaps by flying under the radar of Habro?
Update later this day
Apparently,
Hasbro doesn't care:
Leaders at Late for the Sky say Monopoly gameplay is not copyrighted,
meaning any version of the game can be created as long as the board, pieces
and names within the game are different from the original version.
Via my friend Jeff Cuscutis on
LinkedPinMyFaceTikInstaMeTrestWeGramBookInTokSpace,
Business
making Monopoly games based on Carolina towns
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Tesla, Edison, and who actually fought the War of Currents?
I used to think Thomas Edison was a self-aggrandizing business man who took the credit for the inventions his employees made,
and Nikola Tesla was the real deal?a genius inventor who was actually responsible for most of our technology based on electricity.
But now?
Having watched the 4˝ hour long video ?Most Everything You Know About Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is Probably Wrong?
(and yes, it's four and a half hours long!)
I'm not so sure my assessment is correct.
The long video goes deep into the history of Tesla,
Edison,
and the War of the Currents where it wasn't Tesla vs. Edison,
but Westinghouse (the company) vs. Edison (the copmany).
Tesla might have been a genius,
but not all this theories about physics and electronics were correct and later in life he went a bit ? crazy ? to say the least
(he fell in love with a pidgeon and said he created incredible inventions without having actually ? you know ? built the incredible inventions).
And Edison might have been a self-aggrandizing business man,
but he credited his team and oftem times,
his team didn't invent the technology,
but improved upon existing designs
(to the point where he learned 6,000 ways not to build a lightbulb).
And the whole thing about Edison electrocuting an elephant
(or at least animals)
to show how dangerous alternating current was?
Eh ? not exactly.
And he did not invent the electric chair.
Yes,
it's a long video,
but if you are interested at all in Tesla and/or Edison,
it's worth the time to watch.
It got me to rethink how I think about Tesla and Edison.
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Remembrance of enlightened palms past
The image at the bottom of this page reminds me of the time I used to photograph enlightened palms,
but it never occurred to me that one could enlight trees with fireflies (we don't get fireflies down here in Lower Sheol,
which may be the reason why).
The pictures I took with the Christmas lights used an exposure of a few seconds; I wonder how long an exposure was used for the firefly photo.
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How to measure ? cup of oil, part III
I just received a nice email from Muffintree14 thanking me for helping them make a recipe where they needed to meaure out ? of a cup!
They were trying to measure out 200ml of something
(they didn't specify what)
and it turns out that 200ml is about ? of a cup.
I suspect they could have just used a regular cup,
as that's 237ml.
As long as you aren't baking bread
(or other pastry-like food item)
then it probably doesn't matter that much.
Roughly speaking,
200ml is close enough to 1 cup that you might as well use 1 cup.
But then I found an image
(via Bob Anstett on TikLinkedMyFacePinInstaMeGramSpaceWeInTokTrestBook)
describing the various relationships among Imperial units,
and from there,
I found a much better way to meaure ? cups?measure out 1 cup,
then remove 8 teaspoons;
much better than the 2 ? cup measures (or 1 ? if available),
a 1˝ tablespoon and a ˝ teaspoon.
And maybe this will help someone else twenty years down the line.
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Matchbox cars seem to have gotten bigger in recent years
Bunny and I went to a local Toyota dealership to fix an issue with her car
(it turns out it was a very unusual, but very minor, issue)
and while there,
we saw this on the display floor:
Turns out,
this is not a large Matchbox car,
but a small electric car straight from a factory in Japan
(the informational flying under the windsheid is all in Japanese).
A five year old would barely fit in this thing,
much less an adult.
There doesn't appear to be any storage space of any significant size,
and sans doors,
I'm not sure this is even road legal.
And the the staff there don't even know if it's for sale.
Weird.
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I love it when abstractions are too abstract to be useful
I recently found an annoying aspect of
Xlib?it's hard to find documentation about what keys affect the state field of the keyboard event.
It's obvious that the shift keys on the keyboard will set ShiftMask,
the control key will set ControlMask,
and the CapsLock key will set LockMask
(when I would expect it to set ShiftMask since it's just locking the shift keys to ?on?),
but there's little to say what keys set the Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask, Mod3Mask, Mod4Mask and Mod5Mask.
This is problematic,
because I do need to check for keyboard events and this threw me for a loop?why are none of the keys working?
Well,
that's because my virtual Linux server on the Mac sets the NumLock key,
which causes the X server to then set the Mod2Mask for all keyboard events and I wasn't expecting that.
Sigh.
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than a common cold. However, prolonged bouts of vomiting and diarrhea can lead to dehydration and disruption of important body chemistry. Chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus or kidney problems may put you at additional risk for complications from gastroenteritis.
Treatment
Your physician may give you specific instructions about what kinds of fluid to give. CDC recommends that families with infants and young children keep a supply of oral rehydration solution (ORS) at home at all times and use the solution when diarrhea first occurs in the child. ORS is available at pharmacies without a prescription. Follow the written directions on the ORS package, and use clean or boiled water. Medications, including antibiotics (which have no effect on viruses) and other treatments, should be avoided unless specifically recommended by a physician.
Juice, soda or water does not replace electrolytes lost from vomiting or diarrhea. Children with diarrhea often benefit from dietary modifications until the diarrhea subsides.
In some cases your doctor may have you submit a stool sample to rule out a possible bacterial or parasitic infection. Article Source: http://www.articlemap.com Alien writes for Beauty tips . He also writes for health care and drugs treatment.
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