Question 1

how could u respond if your friend is on diet?

Accepted Answer

Join them: Congratulate them, notice any weight loss, and especially, offer to be their fitness partner. Exercise makes it much easier to stick to a diet and is good for you all by itself.

Question 2

if someone doesn't respond to chemotherapy, what happens next?

Accepted Answer

Tumor progress: Chemotherapy used in many different ways.  It can be used with RT to minimize recurrence after surgery and improve the procedure in  a neoadjuvant setting, used post op in an adjuvant setting to reduce recurrence and as a  therapeutic in metastatic Ca. While prolonging survival in mets, it has resulted in no cures.   Failure to  respond to chemo leads to progression and a terminal event.

Question 3

are there common conditions that respond well to acupuncture?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Acupuncture has been used an alternative modality for management of various ailments in the U.S. And at times as the primary modality in far east countries.  Typically, muscular type pain seems to be responding better to acupuncture that nerve coming from nerve tissue.

Question 4

what happens if i've failed to respond to naltrexone?

Accepted Answer

Modify Treatment: Consult with your pain specialist in this situation.  Never self adjust medication use without expert guidance.  If you "failed" treatment your physician may consider adjusting your dose or switching you to another medication.  Again, never self adjust any medications, especially in this class of drug as it can result in serious consequences.  Addiction and pain management specialists are best.

Question 5

how come the body responds to spicy hot foods?

Accepted Answer

Symptoms please?: Bloating, irregular stools, and fullness may reflect diet (check your fiber intake), alterations in the population of healthy gut flora we each carry, food intolerances, maldigestion due to problems of the small intestine, pancreas, or biliary tree, changes in GI motility (how well your GI tract mixes and moves food along), various infections, and even irritable bowel syndrome. Testing is easy.

Question 6

what makes my baby respond to my navel stimulation?

Accepted Answer

An intact CNS: I means that your fetus has an intact Central Nervous System that can receive a stimulus and respond to the same. In OB medicine, it is called a "biophysical profile test".

Question 7

what does your body do to respond after an amputation?

Accepted Answer

The cause was worse: Hopefully now that the offending limb is gone a body's response is first of focused healing, rather than fighting the greater insult/threat  of infection/gangrene/ischemia it was dealing with before the amputation.  
Phantom pain seems to be associated with the duration of the pain prior to amputation.   Physical therapy is critical to avoiding bad habits caused by limb loss.  Pursue rehab.

Question 8

what will happen if you do not respond to chemotherapy?

Accepted Answer

Poorer results: Chemo is used in an adjuvant and neoadjuvant situation, the latter to enhance treatment prior to resection.  In either case failure to respond to chemo means the tumor will become more aggressive and shorten survival.  At present other therapies including immunotherapy can make up for the chemo failure using newer drugs like the checkpoint inhibitors.

Question 9

when our kids are bullied, how should we respond? @drpam

Accepted Answer

It affects everyone: Parents should be proactive.  We have sen so many tragic examples of what happens when we are not involved as a community.  You should contact the principal and have an active intervention.  
This may help
http://www.Stopbullying.Gov/topics/get_help/index.Html.

Question 10

can your genes determine how you will respond to toxins?

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Yes: This is a work in progress.  Some genes (present or absent) determine the efficiency or even presence of enzymes which can chew up toxins in your body.  There are certainly many to be discovered that will help in this as well as determine the effectiveness of drugs.  This whole area is termed pharmacogenetics.

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