Sorry to hear about your Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus ordure allergy, Brent.

But run together, as it were, it makes a fabulous sounding word, one crying out to be attached to some obscure psychological condition...
Less ennui and more [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz|…

Wouldn't surprise me but I don't know. It's worth noting that not all antibody positive results are allergies. Dredging up my well out of date immunology I think IgE is the key alergic response antibody…

Isn't there a group of people who have antibodies to gluten but who aren't coeliacs?

Self diagnosis of food allergies (milk, gluten etc) is extremely unreliable. When studies have been done to determine if an actual medically defined allergy exists well over half and sometimes over two-thirds of self defined allergies are not actually allergic.

That uses…

Some dairy-intolerant people can have butter and cream, because it's low in lactose (it's basically just fat). But cheese, yeah. Difficult!

Sounds awful but probable. I have been experimenting over the last few months with a few weeks of dairy-free, gluten-free, meat-free. It has been surprising to find…

...top-of-the-tree anti-inflammatory.
especially if it is a Tea Tree!

...Dalziel’s entrepreneurial attempts
you left out 'misguided' and 'overly optimistic'....

;- )

Glad to help, Mary — at Public Address we aim to be a full…

I'd better cancel those frivolous purchases, and get back to the situations vacant…

As you were…

Sigh…

No death penalty. In my day, the Chief Sub and the Deputy Chief Sub were Gestapo graduates. I served under one (work is not the right word) who had been in a gulag – probably as the guard. It just wasn’t worth the trouble to make a…

Hehe: you can recover from the need to reference. Part of my recovery from decades of sub-editing is leaving the odd typo or mispunctuation. It's therapeutic to not follow the Frank Haden…

OMG…
I think I just invented the off-your-face-smiley©

I might need to have a cup-of-tea-and-a-sit-down,
while the full import washes over me,
hold on to this moment,
life will never be the same……

I reckon, as with all magicks, when prescribing, the right names are crucial in the balance betwixt nostrum and remedy…
Voltaren® and Ibuprofen
Just sayin’…
O;- )

Picky?
I know,…

Sorry Hebe. It's stuff I read over a decade ago. I remember the content but not the authors. It probably was something I read in Nature Biotechnology in an article about development of new anesthetics and why we need them. But I…

My daughter did that as well. The ultra-short, and slightly lop-sided, fringe didn't last very long…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2PvC_PybY

There is growing evidence that growth factors (hormones) circulating in the blood maintain "youth". These growth factors increase the rate of healing after injury and it's recently been shown that they are involved in keeping the heart muscle young. As you age the concentration of these growth factors…

Judging by that wikipedia reference, yes.

Lose weight and grow younger.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Even worse if you happen to be anything other than european extraction.

Clinical trials are MUCH more diverse now. But one of the big problems is general anasthetics – they typically have much worse side-effects on the non-white male population…

Huh. I knew I reacted really badly…

Yeah everyone responds to anti-inflamatories differently and it's worth trying the range to figure out which one is least irritating. Worth noting that in general older drugs (like the basic anti-inflammatories) have more side-effects for women than men because they…

You need to find a very good podiatrist who will strap your foot and advise you about appropriate orthotics and my person custom made some to fit in…

Ouch!

Bugger. It's basically "merely" infamation. You can (and in the opinion of a plant molecular biologist :), you should) take anti-inflamatories, the trick with those is you need to maintain a steady dose over a few days even if the immediate pain goes away.…

In similar fashion, one of our daughters once found that shaving takes considerable skill.

Rob Stowell wrote:

Lovely stories. Workmates came over, suspicious. Nothing I could legitimately be doing would…

I think that's one of the fundamental paradoxes of time travel. It is one of the weird things about some photos – they become windows into an alternate reality – in this case the one where a lovely couple raise great…

Not only is it uncomfortable, it could well be seriously dangerous. A friend had a massive bleed a couple of hours after her second birth. It was life threatening even though she was in hospital at the…

Brent Jackson wrote:
Polly is adorably cute (or is that cutely adorable)
What a superb judge of children you are, sir!

Ian…

I'm glad to see toast is still considered the appropriate post-birthing snack in New Zealand. I had the privilege of watching my brother be born in 1992, and I am told…