The Sunday Post (Inverness)

THE DOC REPLIES

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I often read about superfoods. called myasthenia gravis Is this a fancy name or is there whereby the muscles something in these foods become weak, starting with which make them “super” the eyelids. compared with ordinary grub?

I’M scheduled to go for “Superfood” is a fancy

dialysis soon. How will it affect name created by marketing

my daily activities? Will I be agencies to relabel and

able to play bowls, for repackage types of food

instance? which have been known for

Starting renal dialysis is centuries to be healthy.

life-changing. You will have Typically, such foods are access to counsellin­g and found in the Mediterran­ean support from the dialysis diet and are rich in team. Haemodyial­ysis involves antioxidan­ts, vitamins and making a shunt – usually on nutrients. They typically the wrist – so that dialysis include naturally-grown needles can be inserted. If tomatoes, olives and most you are right-handed this fresh fruit and veg. These would be fashioned in your are all “super” and I’d left arm so that you could still encouraged everyone to play bowls. For peritoneal eat them. dialysis, a special tube is I lost a testicle as a younger inserted into the man due to cancer. Is it abdomen. This possible to have an implant? might impair

An implant would have no crouching down functional activity in terms of but generally most producing higher sperm or activities are still testostero­ne. The remaining possible. testicle usually takes over both MY 20-year-old functions adequately. So it nephew has been really is a personal choice for told he has arthritis in his the man whether to have one knee. Can this be correct? fitted. Any “gain” in feeling He seems very young for whole again can be offset by arthritis. ONE of my fingernail­s recently a dragging sensation and the became painful and fell off. I

Wear-and-tear arthritis can risk of infection from the happen even in 20-year-olds didn’t hit it off anything. Any implant procedure. if subjected to repeated ideas what this could be?

strain, including high-impact Injury is the most common MY eyelid has begun to sports such as rugby. It can be reason why a single fingernail droop. The rest of my face a result of certain jobs, too. would fall off. Often a foreign seems fine. I’m 70 and Infective causes of knee body or a splinter becomes otherwise feel OK. arthritis are rare but possible. trapped under the nail. If

You should go to your GP in there are any dark or case a nerve supplying the DOES Viagra have side pigmented areas under the eyelid has been damaged effects? I believe it gives me nail then you should have and to rule out any possibilit­y migraines. Are there any these checked. A melanoma of a stroke. Your doctor can alternativ­es? is a possibilit­y, although it’s a also check for a condition Sildenafil, the name of the very remote one.

Unfortunat­ely The Doc can’t directly reply to individual letters. When in doubt speak to your GP

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