It's tough enough having to avoid products with peanuts and other ingredients as a kid with severe food allergies. It's tougher when someone at school waves a granola bar in your face at the peanut-free lunch table.
That's what happened in September 2012 to a Pennsylvania fifth-grader. The boy had experienced allergic reactions to merely touching peanuts or breathing peanut particles in the past, so the act of granola-waving was more serious than for other allergy sufferers.
This week, a look at the disturbing trend in children getting picked on for not being able to eat certain foods.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on." – The Beatles, "Across The Universe" (Lennon-McCartney)
Kids + Allergies = Bullied
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Motion Sickness
Kinetosis, better known as motion sickness, is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement. But why does it happen? The most common hypothesis for the cause of motion sickness is that it functions as a defense mechanism against neurotoxins. Really, would I kid you?
The "area postrema" in the brain is responsible for inducing vomiting when poisons are detected, and for resolving conflicts between vision and balance. When feeling motion but not seeing it (for example, in a ship with no windows), the inner ear transmits to the brain that it senses motion, but the eyes tell the brain that everything is still. As a result of the discordance, the brain will come to the conclusion that one of them is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing vomiting to clear the supposed toxin.
Great...now I feel sick. This week, a look at motion sickness and how to cure it.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there." – The Beatles, "Within You Without You" (Harrison)
Motion Sickness
The "area postrema" in the brain is responsible for inducing vomiting when poisons are detected, and for resolving conflicts between vision and balance. When feeling motion but not seeing it (for example, in a ship with no windows), the inner ear transmits to the brain that it senses motion, but the eyes tell the brain that everything is still. As a result of the discordance, the brain will come to the conclusion that one of them is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing vomiting to clear the supposed toxin.
Great...now I feel sick. This week, a look at motion sickness and how to cure it.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there." – The Beatles, "Within You Without You" (Harrison)
Motion Sickness
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