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Food is rejected, dieting becomes the all important thing. At this time the girl’s parents may commence nagging her to eat more. To avoid this she may dawdle over meals or state that she has already eaten at school or with a friend. If she is made to eat she may go the bathroom and make herself sick or else take regular and large doses of laxatives so that diarrhoea is caused. She may exercise to excess in an attempt to “burn up” more weight.

Now when diuretic tablets are so widely prescribed, she may take these to excess in an effort to lose fluid, and so, weight.

When the weight falls well below what is ideal there is a disturbance of menstrual function. The periods usually stop and it is this symptom that often prompts either the girl or her mother to go to the doctor.

Mild cases of anorexia nervosa may be treated at home by an informed general practitioner, particularly if he has a good relationship with that family.

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Surgery and radiotherapy are both local forms of treatment. This means that they act only where they are applied and not in other parts of the body. Obviously they have a chance of being successful only if all of the cancer is within the treated area. A lung cancer starting near the heart and extending into it would not be cured by removing the lung. Radiotherapy for the same lung cancer would have no chance of controlling it unless the heart was included in the area being treated. Local treatment cannot be properly planned until the local extent of disease is known. To assess this, the doctor must firstly find out exactly what symptoms the patient is having and then examine him or her carefully. Depending where in the body the primary growth is, endoscopic methods, X-rays, scans or other tests might also be useful. For example, if a patient with lung cancer complains of chest pain, the doctor should suspect that the cancer has grown out of the lung into nearby structures because cancer in the lung itself is not painful. With or without pain, bronchoscopy, mediastinoscopy, ordinary X-rays and CT scanning are tests which should be considered before deciding to go ahead with surgery. Surgical removal of part or all of the lung should not be attempted until it is fairly sure that removal of the whole cancer is possible.

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A blood test can determine if rubella antibodies are present. If they are, the woman is immune to rubella and there is no risk to any children she may have. A history of previous infection is unreliable, as rubella may be mistaken for other infections or vice-versa.

Sometimes it is so mild, and the rash so fleeting, the patient may be unaware she has it.

If the woman shows no antibodies and is therefore susceptible, she can be given the injection but must be careful to avoid pregnancy for the next 12 weeks.

All pregnant women are now routinely checked to see if they have rubella antibodies when they see the doctor with their first pregnancy.

If they have antibodies, they can be reassured there is no risk to this or subsequent children. If

they do not have immunity, the foetus may be at risk. Immediately after delivery, the mother can be immunised and so all future children protected.

If a woman who is pregnant comes into contact with a case of rubella, what should she do? If she has had the blood test and is immune, she has no worries. If, by chance, she has not been tested, this should be done within 10 days of the contact.

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