In an effort to procrastinate doing everything...okay, really simply to revise my material for next semester when I start working at hospitals (but the first one sounds less dorky D
...anyway...
In an effort to revise my material, I'm inviting each and every one of you to ask any questions you had on the human body (and mind). As long as it's medical, it can be pretty much anything- and I'll attempt to answer it as quickly as possible, hopefully off the top of my head.
ok...i have this strange looking pimple like things on my arm... they are many of them, it doesnt itch and its located on both arm between the sholder and the elbow..... i visited 2 docters but both had different answers... i will try to find a picture that looks like it...
(10 minutes later.....) i cant find any pictures that looks similar but i can give more information on it: i had the strange...um.... not-itchy rash since 10 and there is about over 100 on each arm... oh yea they are also small... i hope this is enough information...
This is a very strange question. I would have to say no. Reasons being, from whats seems to be what your stateing is it's for dogs. So the soul purpose of it is to get rid of dog fleas, not human hair...sorry, seek medical help if you really need treatmeant.
I was helping you out man. You should have directed it at strop. Obviously if you had commen sense(I know it will be tough for you) you would know that dog product would not work on man...good day.
I was tempted to answer the question about whether an itchy scalp necessarily means a lice problem. Obviously there are some questions that almost anyone can answer, and I don't think Strop would feel that we were 'going over his head' to chime in with our own opinions. No one is stopping him from applying his more advanced medical knowledge in addition to what others have said, and there are..(god only knows)..things that even Strop must not know :P
I know that. I was just testing Strop. I'm not angry or anything...If you had seen from the rest of my questions that not all of them are sensible....
No hard feelings?
Sorry, I didn't read any of your other comments before. It was irrational of me to take it out of hand. I'm just a little but tired, and pulling an all-nighter kinda sucks....bleh.
Waaahhhh, what happened to my thread, I had to do my presentation and take a flight and drama erupts!?
Just to clarify though it's all good:
a) Feel free to chime in with your own answers. b) Kingryan is the resident court jester.
noobking wrote:
strop this is a reply to the ebola answer. that was a really answer. i kinda already knew. im reading this book about the filoviruses called the HOT ZONE u should read it. it tals all about marburgh ebola Zairre ebola mellinga and alot of other strains, like the cardinal strain
Ha, yes. I've read Hot Zone- it was both gripping and somewhat disturbing. Much of my information came from recollection of that text and background reading surrounding the text, so naturally we'd have the same idea.
ok...i have this strange looking pimple like things on my arm... they are many of them, it doesnt itch and its located on both arm between the sholder and the elbow..... i visited 2 docters but both had different answers... i will try to find a picture that looks like it...
(10 minutes later.....) i cant find any pictures that looks similar but i can give more information on it: i had the strange...um.... not-itchy rash since 10 and there is about over 100 on each arm... oh yea they are also small... i hope this is enough information...
My one word gut-feeling answer from experience is a superficial folliculitis. There's any number of causes for this, and longterm folliculitis may or may not therefore fade with time, change in diet or any number of lifestyle changes, depending on what it's indicative of.
Also: Divinedarkness I know I haven't answered your question on the different types of stinging pain. So here's a quick one.
Previously in this thread I mentioned that a number of nervous networks connect from the body to the brain via the spinal cord to convey the sensation of movement, pressure, temperature, touch, vibration and essentially the perception of pain. This is known, broadly, as the somatosensory nervous system, and there are several different pathways that convey different types of senses from different receptors in the skin. Also, these pathways may be separate but are connected by interneurons at the level of the spinal cord or body part.
It's when these inputs are combined and processed by the secondary parts of the brain that we feel the various things that we put words to i.e. pain, stinging, itchiness (that one being a mystery), tickling and so forth. This is why, for example, when one is slapped (not that I have been without directly asking people to slap me for the fun of it, strangely enough), they report a "burning" sensation- the same nervous networks convey similar signals so there's an overlap in the sense but the context is different.
Particularly relevant to why stinging fades after a while is the way the network for nociception (i.e. that which gives rise to pain but actually senses damage) is wired. When these nerves are activated, certain chemicals (such as prostaglandin) flood the area, causing the surrounding nerves to also activate in a positive feedback loop i.e. it keeps itself going by stimulating itself, and will (should) gradually fade away after the initial stimulus.
