Not exact matches
Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme
anxiety, seizures,
severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and
treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.
Why they're prescribed: While antidepressants are typically used to
treat depression, they're also frequently prescribed for
anxiety disorders, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, chronic pain, smoking cessation and some hormone - mediated disorders, such as
severe menstrual cramps.
Ginger root will not be enough to
treat severe cases of
anxiety in humans or in cats.
While some pheromone and nutraceutical products marketed for their calming effects can be helpful adjuncts to the treatment of mild
anxiety and fear, «moderate to
severe anxiety and fear - related conditions are more effectively
treated with pharmaceutical drugs in combination with management and behavior modification,» Ballantyne said.
There is more
severe «cognitive
anxiety» that most individuals experience when faced with an unexpected physical
treat.
These disorders cause
severe impairment and excessive distress and are often
treated with
anxiety counseling.
Health
anxiety seems in its
severe form to be a quite disturbing and persistent condition entailing high health care costs, and it should be more consistently diagnosed and aggressively
treated.
They are able to
treat illnesses such as depression,
severe anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with both talking therapies and medication, if necessary.
«I have successfully
treated clients who are now living healthy, productive lives who have had the following problems: Trauma, victims of physical, sexual and mental abuse, families with relationship issues, oppositional teens, marriages headed for divorce,
severe anxiety, living with borderline personality disorder, and individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their partners.
I
treat a variety of clinical problems including adjustment issues, identity problems, depression,
anxiety, complex trauma, personality issues, drug abuse and
severe psychiatric illness.
Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg,
anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of
severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for
treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to
treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.
TARGET is an educational and therapeutic intervention designed to prevent and
treat traumatic stress disorders (including PTSD,
severe anxiety disorders, depression, and dissociative disorders), co-occurring addictive, personality, or psychotic disorders, and adjustment disorders related to other types of stressors.
Severe anxiety problems in children can be
treated.
I specialize in
treating depression,
anxiety, PTSD / trauma, addiction and
severe mental illnesses such as bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia.
Although previously considered a disorder highly difficult to
treat, in the past 15 years, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has emerged as an empirically supported treatment for
severe health
anxiety yielding large reductions of health
anxiety.6 Few studies have, however, investigated whether CBT is a cost - effective treatment.