Antidepressants Blog

When you check the chemical names of what is in your painkiller against the above list, you may not find one or more of the ingredients. A likely reason is that the missing ingredient is a sedative. Ask if you are not sure. If you have been prescribed a painkilling mixture that includes a sedative, I suggest you ask for a change. The sedative will just make you more sleepy and used without doing anything for your pain. If you want to have a sedative to help you relax it is better to take it separately. You will then be able to adjust your dose of painkiller according to your pain and your dose of sedative according to your degree of relaxation.

My advice is similar if you are prescribed a painkilling mixture of morphine and alcohol. If you are taking morphine in liquid form, ask whether it contains alcohol. If you want alcohol, you will probably prefer to take it separately in a form that you enjoy and in the amount that suits you, rather than mixed with your painkiller.

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Infantile scurvy is seen in children artificially fed without a Vitamin Ñ supplement.

There are groups who believe that large doses of Vitamin Ñ are beneficial to health and indeed can treat or prevent a large number of illnesses.

Orthodox medical and nutritional experts do not accept this.

If you eat a proper diet, it is not likely that you’ll suffer from a Vitamin Ñ deficiency.

However, it is worth noting that certain foods such as potatoes, which are rich in Vitamin C, also contain an enzyme, ascorbic acid oxidase.

When vegetables are heated slowly, the enzyme becomes active and destroys the ascorbic acid. But if the vegetables are rapidly blanched by immersing in boiling water, then the enzyme does not render the Vitamin Ñ inactive.

The  group vitamins have been claimed to be of use in nervous disorders and as a good pick-me-up for debility, nervous exhaustion and that run-down feeling.

Vitamin Bl, or thiamine, is found in cereals, meat and eggs. A lack of thiamine produces the disease known as beri-beri, a condition seen in World War 2 in prisoners of war fed on a diet of white rice and little else.

Now in our society, the same disease, which affects the heart and the peripheral nerves, is seen mainly in those addicted to alcohol.

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