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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 11:12 am
With all the differences in medical opinions on this board, I'm curious as to what the qualifications are of the ones giving opinions. BTW, Kale, I like that you put emphisis on the CAN! My sister had thrush from not rinsing her mouth after using a steroid inhaler for several days. My "medical" advice to her was to wash her nipples better LOL.
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 1:38 am
Oh I got thrush from breastfeeding my daughter when we lived in Hawaii. Thrush is common over there because of the weather (she was born in Aug.) Now I must say just about everything Amanda says is incorrect. 1. You can get a waver for immunizations and your kids can still go to public school. 2. Just from life experience I beg people to not take Amanda's health knowledge as fact-research. There are vaginal infections that cause that fish smell that are NOT caused my sex..
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 1:50 am
ROTFL amines are the smell that sometimes is described as "fishy" it often is a sign that the Normal Flora of the Vagina is out of balance. it is a Symptom, not a disease. ALSO, most of the imbalances are Selflimiting. Especially if ya eat yoghurt. this is a common cause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnerella
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 2:08 am
oh and Amanda has a skewed view of Herpes. This site should dispel the hysteria LOL It is NOT automatially an STD. snip* } By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies. http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 8:30 am
Kale, we are currently having a measles outbreak here and it was started by an unvaccinated child. Some of the other kids who passed it on were too young to be vaccinated, but there's a whole cluster at an elementary school from kids who's parents "declined" to vaccinate for "personal" reasons. Those kids have been kicked out of school until the end of this month, provided the outbreak in the school subsides.
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Cheekychops
Member
08-12-2005
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:57 am
Amanda (yet again) embellished on her "knowledge". This time about gonorrhea. She said if a woman who has it gives birth the child will be blind. The truth is infected women can pass gonorrhea to their newborn infants during delivery, causing eye infections (conjunctivitis) in their babies WHICH IF LEFT UNTREATED, can cause blindness.
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Rgw825
Member
07-29-2005
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 11:09 am
I believe it was Alex who said, did you see that show on Spike with the Chinese people. I'm almost positive he's talking about MXC, and they are Japanese not Chinese.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 11:11 am
There's a saying that's something like "a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing." Amanda's the embodiment of that.
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Caprica
Member
02-10-2007
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 3:51 pm
I really wish that Amanda would stop talking like a she is a nurse or a doctor.I get that she is not stupid but her incorrect info is driving me nuts.
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Stopthemadness
Member
07-15-2005
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 3:54 pm
I love that show Rgw. It is so funny.
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Guinevere
Member
03-15-2001
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 3:56 pm
At least Amanda has heard of HPV. I was shocked that many of the others apparently hadn't.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:26 pm
LOL I meet people a lot that think they know medical stuff because they've "read it somewhere". It is always scarey. I have to say though. measles is a Selflimiting nonlife threatening condition and HAVING some of those childhood diseases are starting to show a resistance to other diseases and cancers. but that is just barely being looked at. I think that the Risk of the poisons in the vaccine are more longterm life threatening than the measles
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Guinevere
Member
03-15-2001
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:39 pm
I take other people's medical advice with a grain of salt, generally. I'm particularly suspicious of people who claim expertise just by observing someone on tv and/or the internet. That doesn't strike me as very ethical behavior, for a medical professional.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:47 pm
Well, it is a little more complicated than that in real life. I've had Nurses trying to argue with me as to procedure and diagnosis. Sometimes being fully educated in One field, does not mean you have a FULL grasp of another. I'm sure Amanda can type out almost every disease and condition and probably could tell us a little bit about each. But the intricacies of the conditions are lost on a layperson. HECK, i freely admit it when it isnt something i know and I'm just guessing/extrapolating
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:52 pm
Did you notice Amanda work in "health care insurance", so that's probably why she has heard a little of everything but doesn't seem to know the full picture on anything.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 6:39 pm
This time about gonorrhea. She said if a woman who has it gives birth the child will be blind I thought she was talking about Herpes II and she is correct. They give the woman a shot or something or drops in the babies eyes if the woman is having an oubreak at the time of delivery. Possibly they give the baby eyedrops for precaution anyway. I think for most part she is correct when she is talking about this stuff, but she should keep it to herself because the others don't want to hear it. I'm curious about her working in health insurance. I thought she worked in the legal profession..maybe something to do with health insurance or doctors then?
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 6:58 pm
i posted links to correct info. She is incorrect in everything she said on each topic. If the lady next to her in the hospital had SARS or Whooping cough, they'd be in isolation. typing a document does not give a person the ability to guess a diagnosis based on a cough.
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Kadaisy03
Member
02-17-2008
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 3:42 pm
Today, I learned from Natalie, that rubber tires come from cement. Oh Natalie... 
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 2:21 am
Allison believes the Bishop in chess moves in an L direction. (I sell chess sets and i can promise you the Bishop moves diagonally )
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Stopthemadness
Member
07-15-2005
| Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 9:41 pm
The biggest "fact" they have wrong is that they are making "good TV". Heck, most of what they do can't be shown on regular TV, and the rest of it is pretty crappy.
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:40 am
Nat: There's 27 letters in the alphabet. Ryan: No, 26. Nat: 27 She counts them out. ....X, Y, and, Z She counts the "and" as a letter.

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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:51 am
I did hear that right! Alli telling someone about the Bishop moving in an L pattern : holy horses, batman! Not the way I learned it. They also still think they will fly to NY for the early show. and some think they are the "good people" (Natalie for one) and that God is on their team (in the BB game).
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:07 pm
Matt and Chelsia think that Big Brother is usually on from June to August each year.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:18 pm
They are close and that's kinda an easy mistake... July to Sept vs June to Aug. It's still three months in the summer, so they ain't that far off. 
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 5:23 pm
still wrong. BB has never started in June...it has never ended in August.
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