Jeanne Rose's Kitchen Cosmetics: Using Herbs, Fruit, and Flowers for Natural Bodycare
Author: Jeanne Ros
Jeanne Rose is one of America's best known herbalists and Kitchen Cosmetics is her most intimate guide to natural health and beauty. Over 100 of Jeanne's favorite recipes and tips provide safe and simple applications created by Jeanne for her own family's needs. Based on common kitchen and garden ingredients - from yogurt to berries to rosemary - these lotions, creams, and other moisturizers, masks, teas, toothpastes, deodorants, shampoos, and conditioners are easily prepared in the home. Shopping suggestions, herbal cosmetic techniques for the whole body, and fascinating herbal lore make Kitchen Cosmetics a valuable and charming guide to natural beauty and health care.
Since its publication in 1978, Kitchen Cosmetics has become the leading title in home preparation of natural cosmetics. It is used by apartment dwellers who buy herbs, gardeners who tend a few pots in sunny windows, and gardeners with spacious beds...a steadily growing number of people who want to 'take back' the pleasure of working with herbs themselves - and want more control over what the put on their hair, face, and body.
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Curbside Consultation in Glaucoma: 49 Clinical Questions
Author: Dale K Heuer
Are you looking for concise, practical answers to those questions that are often left unanswered by traditional glaucoma references? Are you seeking brief, evidence-based advice for common clinical dilemmas? Curbside Consultation in Glaucoma: 49 Clinical Questions provides quick and direct answers to the thorny questions most commonly posed during a “curbside consultation” between glaucoma specialists. Dr. Dale K. Heuer, and associate editors Dr. Steven J. Gedde and Dr. Richard Lewis, have designed this unique reference in which top glaucoma specialists offer expert advice, preferences, and opinions on tough clinical questions commonly associated with the day-to-day diagnosis and care of glaucoma patients. The unique Q&A format provides quick access to current information related to glaucoma with the simplicity of a conversation between two colleagues. Numerous images, diagrams, and references are included to enhance the text and to illustrate glaucoma pearls. Curbside Consultation in Glaucoma: 49 Clinical Questions provides information basic enough for residents while also incorporating expert pearls that even high-volume glaucoma specialists will appreciate. General practitioners, residents, fellows, and optometrists alike will benefit from the user-friendly and casual format and the expert advice contained within. Some of the questions that are answered: • Which imagining device should I use in my practice? • How should I set a target intraocular pressure? • What is “maximum medical therapy” for glaucoma now? • Which glaucoma medications may be used safely during pregnancy? In children?• Is selective laser trabeculoplasty better than argon or diode laser trabeculoplasty? • Which of the new incisional surgical alternatives to trabeculectomy should I consider for my patients? In what clinical settings should I consider them? • In which patients with glaucoma and cataract should I perform a combined procedure? Cataract surgery alone? Trabeculectomy first?
Table of Contents:
Contents Dedication
About the Editor
About the Associate Editors
Contributing Authors
Preface
SECTION I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Question 1: How Frequently Does Blindness Develop Among Patients With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma? With Ocular Hypertension? Philip P. Chen, MD
Question 2: Does Reducing Intraocular Pressure Really Prevent Development and Progression of Glaucoma? Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH
Question 3: What Are the Most Frequent Causes of Glaucoma-Related Medical Malpractice Suits? What Can I Do to Minimize My Risk? E. Randy Craven, MD
SECTION II GLAUCOMA DIAGNOSIS
Question 4: How Should I Clinically Examine the Optic Nerve? Felipe A. Medeiros, MD, PhD
Question 5: Which Imaging Device Should I Use in My Practice? Christopher A. Girkin, MD, MSPH, FACS
Question 6: Is There Still a Role for Stereo Disc Photography in the Diagnosis and Management of Glaucoma? Paul J. Mackenzie, MD, PhD (co-authored with George A. Cioffi, MD)
Question 7: What Visual Field Tests Should I Use in My Glaucoma Suspects? In My Patients With Manifest Glaucoma? Chris A. Johnson, PhD
Question 8: What Is the Best Method for Detecting Glaucoma Development? Glaucomatous Progression? Balwantray C. Chauhan, PhD
Question 9: What Are the Implications of Disc Hemorrhages in Glaucoma Patients or Suspects? Jody R. Piltz-Seymour, MD
Question 10: How Should I Follow Patients With Anomalous Optic Discs, Such as Those With Optic Nerve Drusen, Tilted Discs, Myopic Discs, and Discs With Pits? Jane Loman, MD (co-authored with Joseph Caprioli, MD)
Question 11: How Is 24-Hour Intraocular Pressure Assessed? Is It Important in Glaucoma Management orRisk Assessment? Robert N. Weinreb, MD (co-authored with John H.K. Liu, PhD)
Question 12: Should I Measure Central Corneal Thickness in All Glaucoma Patients? All Glaucoma Suspects? James D. Brandt, MD
Question 13: How Frequently Should I Perform Follow-Up Examinations, Gonioscopy, Visual Field Testing, and Optic Nerve Evaluation in Glaucoma Patients? Dana M. Blumberg, MD (co-authored with Paul P. Lee, MD)
Question 14: In Which Patients With Glaucoma Should I Perform Neuroimaging, Cardiovascular Evaluation, and/or Laboratory Testing? David S. Greenfield, MD
Question 15: When Should I Suspect Nonpupillary Block Secondary Angle-Closure? What Are the Causes? Angelo P. Tanna, MD
Question 16: What Systemic Diseases Can Be Associated With Glaucoma? M. Bruce Shields, MD
SECTION III GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Question 17: Which Patients With Ocular Hypertension Should I Treat? Husam Ansari, MD, PhD (co-authored with Richard K. Parrish II, MD)
Question 18: How Should I Set a Target Intraocular Pressure? Gregg A. Heatley, MD
Question 19: How Should I Begin Treatment for a Newly Diagnosed Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patient? Annisa L. Jamil, MD (co-authored with Richard P. Mills, MD, MPH)
Question 20: Are There Special Issues of Which I Should Be Aware Regarding Pigment Dispersion Syndrome or Pigmentary Glaucoma? Celso Tello, MD (co-authored with Robert Ritch, MD)
Question 21: Does Exfoliation Syndrome Increase the Risk of Developing Glaucoma? Are Patients With Exfoliation Glaucoma More Likely to Progress? What Other Issues Do These Patients Have? Robert Ritch, MD
Question 22: How Frequent Is Corticosteroid-Induced Glaucoma? How Should I Manage It? Davinder S. Grover, MD, MPH (co-authored with Alan L. Robin, MD)
Question 23: What Methods Are Available to Break an Acute Attack of Angle-Closure Glaucoma? Darrell WuDunn, MD, PhD
Question 24: How Should I Manage Neovascular Glaucoma? Hylton R. Mayer, MD (co-authored with James C. Tsai, MD)
Question 25: How Should I Treat Elevated Intraocular Pressure (With or Without Glaucoma Damage) Associated With Uveitis? David Cute, DO (co-authored with Francisco Fantes, MD)
Question 26: What Treatment Options Are Available for a Blind, Painful Eye? Jonathan S. Myers, MD
SECTION IV MEDICAL THERAPY
Question 27: Is a Unilateral Trial Useful When Starting Treatment With a Glaucoma Medication? Angelo P. Tanna, MD (co-authored with Theodore Krupin, MD)
Question 28: Which Glaucoma Medications Should Be Used as Initial Therapy? Steven L. Mansberger, MD, MPH
Question 29: What Is Maximum Medical Therapy in Glaucoma Management? Simon K. Law, MD, PharmD
Question 30: Which Glaucoma Medications Can Be Safely Used During Pregnancy? In Childhood? Bhavna P. Sheth, MD
Question 31: Is There Still a Role for Miotics in Some Patients? Oral Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors? Richard K. Lee, MD, PhD
Question 32: How Should I Treat the Glaucoma Patient With Topical Drug Allergies? Jess T. Whitson, MD
Question 33: How Can I Improve Patient Adherence? Silvia Orengo-Nania, MD
SECTION V LASER AND INCISIONAL GLAUCOMA SURGERY
Question 34: When Should I Perform Laser Trabeculoplasty in My Patients With Open-Angle Glaucoma? L. Jay Katz, MD (co-authored with Scott J. Fudemberg, MD)
Question 35: When Should I Perform a Prophylactic Laser Iridotomy? Martin Wand, MD
Question 36: When Is Laser Iridoplasty Used? Jeffrey M. Liebmann, MD
Question 37: When Is Incisional Glaucoma Surgery Indicated? Annette Giangiacomo, MD (co-authored with Anne Louise Coleman, MD, PhD)
Question 38: What Can I Do to Reduce the Risks of Complications and Failure After Trabeculectomy? Mark Sherwood, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOphth
Question 39: What Can I Do After Trabeculectomy to Improve Its Success Rate? Martha M. Wright, MD
Question 40: How Do I Manage Chronic Hypotony Maculopathy? How Soon Should I Intervene? Paul Palmberg, MD, PhD
Question 41: What Are Causes of Anterior Chamber Shallowing After Trabeculectomy? Paul A. Sidoti, MD
Question 42: How Should I Manage a Late-Onset Bleb Leak? Donald L. Budenz, MD, MPH
Question 43: What Factors Increase the Risk of Bleb-Related Infection? How Should I Treat Blebitis and Bleb-Related Endophthalmitis If It Develops? Richard M. Awdeh, MD (co-authored with Leon W. Herndon, MD and Terry Kim, MD)
Question 44: In Which Patients With Glaucoma and Cataracts Should I Perform a Combined Procedure? Cataract Surgery Alone? Trabeculectomy First? Bradford J. Shingleton, MD
Question 45: What Are the Indications for Placement of an Aqueous Shunt? Don Minckler, MD, MS
Question 46: What Is the Best Surgical Approach for Managing Uncontrolled Glaucoma in a Patient Who Had Previous Cataract Extraction or Failed Filtering Surgery? Steven J. Gedde, MD
Question 47: Is There a Role for Nonpenetrating Glaucoma Surgery? Richard A. Lewis, MD
Question 48: What Other New Surgical Techniques Are Available for Glaucoma? Peter A. Netland, MD, PhD
Question 49: In Which Glaucoma Patients Should I Consider Cyclodestruction? Malik Y. Kahook, MD
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