Rhazes’ Concepts and Manuscripts on Nutrition in Treatment and Health Care.
Rhazes’ concepts and manuscripts on nutrition in treatment and health care.
Anc Sci Life. 2012 Apr; 31(4): 160-3
Nikaein F, Zargaran A, Mehdizadeh A
The use of nutrition in medical practice has a long history dating back to 6000 years. The great Persian chemist, physician, and philosopher, Rhazes (865-925 AD), wrote over 200 books in different branches of science. Some of his work drew attention to the notion that nutrition is an important part of treating diseases and health care procedures. Rhazes formulated highly developed concepts of nutrition and wrote several special books about food and diet such as manfe’ al aghzie va mazareha (Benefits of Food and its Harmfulness), teb al moluki (Medicine for Kings), and Ata’me al marza (Food for Patients). His writing included detailed guidance about eating fruit ma iaghdam men al favakeh va al aghzieh va ma yoakhar (Fruit Before or After Meal), and other food types keifiat al eghteza (Temperament and Quality of Foods) and al aghziat al mokhtasareh (Brief Facts about Food). Considering the time that these books were written, they have had a great influence on approaches to nutrition in the history of medicine, so Rhazes can be considered as a pioneer in the scientific field of nutrition. HubMed – eating
Concurrent caecal and transverse colonic tuberculosis masquerating synchronous colonic carcinoma.
BMJ Case Rep. 2013; 2013:
Demetriou GA, Nair MS, Navaratnam R
We present a 46-year-old Somalian woman, who attended our hospital, with 1 week history of worsening epigastric pain and vomiting, worse after eating on a background of 3 months history of four stones loss of weight, malaise and decreased appetite. CT scan of the abdomen revealed an annular 10 cm long mass of the right transverse colon with a second mass of the caecum raising concerns of a synchronous colonic cancer. She underwent an extended right hemi-colectomy due to the development of obstruction from the transverse colon lesion. The histology revealed caseating, transmural granulomatous inflammation consistent with tuberculosis. She had an uneventful recovery and was discharged on the tenth postoperative day on antituberculosis (anti-TB) medications. She reports complete resolution of her symptoms 4 months after discharge. HubMed – eating
Convergent dysregulation of frontal cortical cognitive and reward systems in eating disorders.
Med Sci Monit. 2013; 19: 353-8
Stefano GB, Ptá?ek R, Kuželová H, Mantione KJ, Raboch J, Papezova H, Kream RM
A substantive literature has drawn a compelling case for the functional involvement of mesolimbic/prefrontal cortical neural reward systems in normative control of eating and in the etiology and persistence of severe eating disorders that affect diverse human populations. Presently, we provide a short review that develops an equally compelling case for the importance of dysregulated frontal cortical cognitive neural networks acting in concert with regional reward systems in the regulation of complex eating behaviors and in the presentation of complex pathophysiological symptoms associated with major eating disorders. Our goal is to highlight working models of major eating disorders that incorporate complementary approaches to elucidate functionally interactive neural circuits defined by their regulatory neurochemical phenotypes. Importantly, we also review evidence-based linkages between widely studied psychiatric and neurodegenerative syndromes (e.g., autism spectrum disorders and Parkinson’s disease) and co-morbid eating disorders to elucidate basic mechanisms involving dopaminergic transmission and its regulation by endogenously expressed morphine in these same cortical regions. HubMed – eating
Imbalance of serum IL-10 and TGF-? in patients with pollen food syndrome.
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr). 2013 May 6;
Ma S, Yin J
BACKGROUND: Pollen food syndrome is one of the main causes of food allergies in adults. However, the intrinsic immunological mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS: Forty pollinosis sufferers [23 with a food allergy (PSFA) and 17 without a food allergy (PS)] and 17 non-atopic healthy controls were included in this study. The PSFA group was subdivided into an oral allergy syndrome group, a systemic reaction group, and an anaphylactic reaction group according to their symptoms after eating the suspected foods. Serum IL-10 and TGF-? levels of all participants were determined by ELISA. Clinical characteristics of the patients were also evaluated. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in age, sex, pollen-associated symptoms, duration of respiratory disease, and positive parental history of atopy between the PSFA and PS groups. Compared to healthy controls, serum IL-10 levels of both the PSFA group and PS group were significantly lower (p?0.01), but TGF ? levels were significantly higher in the PSFA group (35.3±5.6ng/ml vs. 31.2±6.6ng/ml, respectively; p=0.037). Within the PSFA group, IL-10 levels in the anaphylactic reaction subgroup were significantly lower compared to oral allergy syndrome subgroup (1.87±0.47pg/ml vs. 1.40±0.30pg/ml, respectively; p=0.027). More severe food allergy symptoms were associated with lower serum IL-10 levels. In contrast, the highest serum levels of TGF-? were found in patients from the anaphylactic reaction subgroup. CONCLUSIONS: With the exception of a defect in regulatory cells represented by the reduction of IL-10, other potential immunological mechanisms (e.g., Th17 or IL-23 together with TGF-?) may be involved in the development of pollen food syndrome. HubMed – eating
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