The death of someone close is always stressful and upsetting for a child. The level, intensity and duration of grief depends on a number of factors which include the age of the child, his relationship to the person who died (e.g. parent, grandparent, classmate), whether the death was sudden or was anticipated, and so on.

Young children find it difficult to understand the concept of death, and explanations must be couched in language suited to their level of comprehension. Older children experience the same grief reactions as adults. Younger children will possibly fear that they too may die. There will often be intense sadness, loss of appetite, sleep difficulties and sometimes regressive behaviour, such as increased dependency, wetting the bed at night, thumb-sucking, and so on.

It is always best to be open with children at this time. It is important for children to see parents grieving; in a sense, it makes it easier for children to express their feelings without thinking that they should act in a certain way. Like adults, their grief will usually be eased by the passage of time. They should be allowed to talk about the deceased, as a way of working through their grief.

Parents are often uncertain about whether to allow their children to attend the funeral of a family member who has died. There is no hard and fast rule, and parents have to make a decision taking into consideration all the circumstances at the time. Children of school age, and some who are younger, certainly are able to understand what funerals are about, and probably should attend.

Children may also become distressed by the death of a family pet. Parents should not try to diminish their grief by saying things like ‘It was only a dog’ or ‘Don’t cry — we will buy you another one’. It is often a good idea to allow some time to pass before replacing the animal that has died, to allow the child to experience and work through his feelings of grief.

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A brace, using a special collar is also popular to immobilise the neck and allow the injury to heal.

Cases that have persistent symptoms over many months or even years may be due to disruption of the intervertebral disc, the cushion of cartilage between the vertebral bodies.

Operations to remove these discs and then to fuse the vertebral bodies together may be undertaken. But the results are not altogether satisfactory.

The brace, although favored by many doctors, does tend to result in considerable stiffness of the neck.

The most successful form of treatment I have found is gradual active and passive mobilisation of the neck.

This should be under the direction of a doctor and carried out by a qualified physiotherapist.

Treatment may take some months, but the results are worthwhile.

Mobilisation is different from manipulation. In the latter a sudden sharp movement is carried out to break down adhesions, or to reposition subluxated joints.

This may produce good results, but in between manipulations, adhesions reform and lack of mobility occurs.

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Such substances are formed in the bowel but, if absorbed, are detoxified by the liver and can only cause trouble in liver failure.

Traveller’s diarrhoea is usually regarded as being spread by contaminated water. It is unusual in the developed countries, where the standard of personal hygiene is high and proper government measures are taken to assure a clean water supply.

There is still considerable argument about the causative agents. E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the human and animal bowel and many cases of traveller’s diarrhoea are believed to be due to virulent strains of this organism to which the local inhabitants have become immune.

Viruses may be responsible for many cases of traveller’s diarrhoea or there may be more than one culprit.

Staphylococcus is a germ which causes boils and other skin infections. Someone with these conditions may infect food by handling it and the toxin could be absorbed and cause severe symptoms if the food is eaten.

Botulism is another disease caused by such a toxin. The offending germ grows only in conditions where there is virtually no oxygen.

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Women are particulary prone to dermatitis of the hands because they are frequently exposed to water, harsh detergents and a variety of chemicals.

Men may have the same trouble with some jobs or hobbies but women seem to suffer more.

Stress and tension can lower a woman’s resistance and so can hard work. Women who work have two jobs — the paid one and home — and are often under more stress and work harder than their husbands. Those who are prone to eczema or other skin problems are more at risk.

What can women do to lower the risk of dermatitis of the hands?

Prevention is more important than cure. If rubber gloves are worn when washing up, doing the laundry or scrubbing floors, consideration should be given to wearing inner cotton gloves.

Most rubber gloves, especially in hot water, make the hands perspire. Being wet, they are prone to other skin problems such as paronychia or infection at the edge of the nail.

The cotton inner gloves will absorb this perspiration and so further protect the hands. Any chemicals should be quickly wiped from the hands and frequent washing should be avoided.

Once the rash has developed, seeing the doctor and getting some form of cream, usually a cortisone derivative, will generally result in rapid clearing of the rash, but care is needed to prevent its recurrence.

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Halvah is made from sesame seeds and honey. It has been used in the Orient for thousands of years as a popular candy. Even now, halvah is very popular in the Middle East—in Turkey, Israel-, and the Arabian countries. In ancient Babylon women ate halvah to restore their vitality and sex appeal.

A French doctor’s research a few years ago gave scientific support to the old folklore. Sesame seeds have been found to be rich in the minerals magnesium and potassium, and honey is rich in aspartic acid, one of the amino acids. A New Jersey doctor has used very similar ingredients in a prescription drug to treat hundreds of women with what he calls “the housewife syndrome,” or chronic fatigue, insomnia and lethargy in lovemaking. 87 percent of his patients responded with a startling change in their condition: their fatigue and lethargy disappeared and they became cheerful and energetic.

Sesame seeds are one of the real wonder foods of nature. They are extremely rich in calcium; in fact they are richer in calcium than milk, cheese or nuts. Their protein content is high, too—19 to 28 percent—higher than meats; and sesame protein is of a very high quality. Sesame seeds are also very rich in unsaturated fatty acids and lecithin, in B-vitamins, especially inositol and choline, and they also are a good source of vitamin E—all substances vital for the health of the reproductive system.

Sesame is one of the earliest grains cultivated by man. Even now in many countries of the East, Middle East and East Europe, sesame seeds are a staple food. In the United States, you can buy plain sesame seeds or many various products made from sesame in health food stores. There is halvah, sesame seed oil, and many kinds of peanut-butter-like spreads.

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It has been long recognized that hair is a living part of your body, just as your skin, teeth or nails, and that it must be fed by your blood stream. Your blood can not deliver to your hair all the required nutrients unless it is supplied with all these nutrients from your food. But if your diet is deficient in some of the required vitamins, minerals, trace elements and proteins, then your blood will be deficient in these elements, too, and will not be able to supply them to your hair.

This is self evident—but this is only half of the truth!

It is often said that “you are what you eat,” which is also only half of the truth. The fact is that you are not what you eat, but what you assimilate. You may eat the most nutritious and best-balanced diet in the world, but if your digestive and assimilative system is out of order and can not assimilate the required nutrients and send them to the blood, then you still can be suffering from malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies.

The same is true in regard to hair growth. Books have been written on the relationship between nutrition and hair growth. You need such and such food factors in order to supply your hair with all the nutritive elements it needs for healthy growth. But if your blood vessels and the small blood capillaries in your scalp are so constricted that they are unable to supply blood to the hair follicles, then even if you eat the best food in the world and take all the extra nutrients required for hair growth in the form of vitamin and mineral supplements, it won’t do your hair a bit of good! Unless you improve the blood circulation in the scalp so that the required nutrients will be able to get to the hair roots, all your attempts to “feed your hair from within” will be futile.

That’s why the Swedish H-Pantoten tablets have been so successful. Not only do they contain the vital nutritive elements, known to science today to be essential for healthy hair growth, but they also contain certain B-complex vitamins known to be able to dilate the blood vessels so that these nutrients can travel through the blood stream to the hair roots.

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Disease signs of the pancreas are found in both irides, corresponding to the position of the gland in the body, in both left and right at 20′ and 40′. However, with extensive disturbance of the whole gland, signs even appear as well at 10′ and 50′ in the right iris.

As has already been noted in relation to stomach and intestinal diseases, there is a squaring of the first major zone, indicating an involvement of the total vegetative nervous system. It is then a question of a condition which is difficult to cure. The following is to be noted:

(a) The pancreas has its indications almost at the four corners of this ‘Sympathetic-quadrant’.

(b) This means that in the presence of the pancreas sign and the square shaped wreath, we have an incurable condition.

(c) Such corners are virtually the storm-centre in the iris in all disturbances of the digestive system.

(d) Pancreatic disturbances which relate to the glandular secretory functions of the organ show mainly in the right iris.

(e) The signs always commence at the iris-wreath and show:

i. As weakness signs with decrease in the size of the organ = trophic weakness.

ii. As lightening with inflammation = over-stimulation. With inflammatory conditions and the consequent increased blood supply and enlargement of the organ, there would be an inward depression of the iris-wreath. ,

iii. As darkening = signs of hypofunction, in the form of dark wisps, clouds or spots. In this case we usually find the tendency to a square-shaped wreath, and must regard the pancreatic insufficiency as a consequence of chronic gastrointestinal disturbances, especially where there are indications in the adjacent intestinal area. Often there will be found partly healed ulcerated conditions, which vary from scar-tissue to complete adhesions, particularly in the areas for pylorus, duodenum, gall duct and pancreatic duct, and which must be considered as cause for the pancreatic weakness.

With cancerous processes affecting the pancreas—usually the head of the gland, we find the dark jagged sign especially extending from 20′, 40′ right iris, but also appearing at 50′ right iris. Since the liver is always associated with cancerous changes as the principal organ of metabolic exchange and detoxication, we find a darkened, blurred liver area as well as a flattening of the iris rim in this same area.

It is important to make an exact examination of the pancreas area in the left iris at 20′. A weakness sign there, or a darkening of the area, indicates that there is a hereditary disposition to diabetes. If diabetes already exists, then the liver and kidney areas will show signs of encumbrance. Of course, the urine must then be examined for presence of sugar, and the patients interrogated for the presence of subjective symptoms of this illness.

As already mentioned in an earlier chapter, disease signs indicated in profile are always an expression of a grave condition. That goes especially for pancreatic disturbances, since this organ always shows its signs in profile.

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The medical care of a child is usually aimed at preventing serious illness. This is why children should be examined regularly by a doctor or other health professional. The child need not be ill at the time of these visits. In fact, if the child is sick, the routine examination may be delayed until the child has recovered. These routine visits to the doctor are sometimes called “well-child” or “well-baby” checkups. They are often planned at the same times as required immunization.

Although they are extremely important, immunizations are only a small part of keeping your child healthy. At the time of the checkup the child also should be examined thoroughly, have routine tests, be measured to find out if he or she is growing normally, and have his or her physical and mental development evaluated.

For a baby or a small child, the measurements include height or length, weight, and also head circumference. The changes in these measurements as the child grows can be charted on a graph, and compared to the normal range of child development. If the child is not growing normally over a period of time, the doctor will check to see if the problem is caused by a growth disorder or by some other disease or abnormality. If such problems are found early, they can sometimes be corrected before any lasting damage is done.

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