Question 1

my 23 year old experiences fainting episodes (vaso vagal ) during movies showing operations, etc. how could he prevent this?

Accepted Answer

Vaso vagal: The only method of prevention is avoid the kind of stimuli that cause these episodes. There is no specific medication to prevent this.

Question 2

what is a vagal surge?

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Increased vagal act: When the vagus nerve is stimulated, it is called vagal surge, the response is often a reduction in heart-rate or breathing. In some cases, excessive stimulation can cause someone to have what is known as a vaso-vagal response, appearing to fall into a faint or coma because his or her heart rate and blood pressure drop so much.

Question 3

what is a high vagal tone?

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Prone to relax: High vagal tone refers to ease of excitement of the parasympathetic branch of autonomic nervous system, which functions to maintain homeostasis, decrease anxiousness, slow heart, ameliorate digestion ; elimination, ; effect ejaculation ; orgasm, i.e., pleasure functions. Other branch, sympathetic, operant w. Fight ; flight for survival.  Excess vagal tone can predispose to syncope (fainting).

Question 4

what is inferior basal ischemia?

Accepted Answer

Lack of blood: Flow to the basal bottom part of heart muscle during stress & usually amenable to medical therapy.  Also may be artifactual on nuclear stress test due to diaphragmatic attenuation.

Question 5

how can you remove a basal cell?

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Information: Dessication and curettage. Effudex or carac. Cautery, freezing or surgical excision. For invasive basal cells cancers excision is usually the best. A popular technique is called moh's surgery.

Question 6

can basal cell pop up overnight?

Accepted Answer

No: Basal cell carcinomas are very slow growing tumors.

Question 7

what's basal metabolic rate predicting?

Accepted Answer

Caloric burn at rest: Dependent on what you eat (prtein vs sugar and starch, your total muscle mass.  Your muscle/fat ratio. Fat has very low metabolic activity.  Muscle burns much more calories at rest.

Question 8

what is a standard basal metabolic rate?

Accepted Answer

BMR: is the energy(calories) required to keep your body functioning at rest.

Question 9

my basal temperature is 97.07 i'm i ovulating?

Accepted Answer

Additional info: If you are tracking your morning basal body temperature then you would have to look at this number in relation to all the temperatures that preceded it to know if it's a spike for you, personally. There are tracking apps if that might help.

Question 10

what could be the causes for basal crepitation?

Accepted Answer

Lung auscultation?: If you refer to findings while examining breathing sounds with an stethoscope, basal crepitation or crackles could be due to atelectasis ( small desufflated areas of the lung), pneumonia, edema (fluid accumulation), or other lung pathology.

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