Celiac Disease

Celiac Disease

is a digestive disorder found in patients who are genetically susceptible, with the resulting damage to the small intestine by an interference with the absorption of nutrients. The main culprit with Celiac Disease is a protein called Gluten. These proteins are found in all forms of main stream and non-mainstream wheat products. Such as durum semolina, spelt, einkorn, kamut and related grains such as rye, barley, and oats. Damage to the mucus on the surface of the small intestine is caused by a toxic reaction to the ingestion of gluten.

Effects Of:

With Celiac Disease the villi,which are the tiny hair-like projections in the small intestine, shrink and eventually disappear. This is the destructive reaction to Celiac Disease. Damaged villi interferes with the body's ability to absorb nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and even possibly water and bile salts. If left untreated, damage to the small bowel can be life threatening, posing an increased risk of many disorders.

If Left Untreated:

Iron deficiency, Anemia, Vitamin K deficiency, Vitamin deficiencies such as folate, B12, B6, or an iron deficiency, and other mineral deficiencies, Other food sensitivities.

Symptoms May Include:

Abdominal cramping,gas,and bloating.Diarrhea or constipation. Fluctuation of weight(loss or gain), fatigue, weakness, lack of energy, and all thats associated with with lack of energy.

Possible Treatment:

There is no treatment or cure for Celiac Disease. Except for a lifelong adherence to a strict gluten-free diet. When gluten is removed from the diet, the small intestine will begin to heal and general health will be improved. You may want to consider supplementation for any deficiencies. Consult your doctor about this. Lifestyle changes are in order for the Celiac sufferer. Become a label reader. If you are unsure about a certian food or ingredient, stay away and learn to identify ingredients that may contain that hidden gluten. Be very diligent. Be aware that hidden gluten can be hiding in some unlikely foods such as low or non-fat products, deli meats, soups, hard candies, soy sauce, even salad dressings. If there is no label to read such as candy in a dish, stay away, again be very diligent.

Gluten may also be used as a binder in prescription medicines. Again ask youre doctor about Gluten in medications.

Alcohol that's properly distilled shouldn't contain any harmful gluten. Research indicates that the peptide is too large to carry over in the distillation process. Beer is a definite no-no. You might want to consider staying away from alcohol altogether (like the author of this site). This might seem drastic to some but our health is at stake. Wine from the Liquor store might bother youre stomach, like it does mine possibly because of Sulfites as a preserative to give it a longer shelf life. Home made Wine wthout any added ingredients in moderation seems to be O.K.

Sometimes Gluten products are added to alcohols and Vinegars after the distilling process and should be avoided intirely. Malt vinegars are not distilled and therefore are not gluten-free. This in a nutshell is what Celiac Disease is. I might have left out some details, I'm not a doctor. But, I am a Celiac sufferer and I know what Celiac's go through.

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Managing health and safety:health survey-4

Step 4: Measure your performance

Just like finance, production or sales, you need to measure your health and safety performance to find out if you are being successful. You need to know:
■where you are;
■where you want to be;
■what is the difference and why.

Active monitoring, before things go wrong, involves regular inspection and checking to ensure that your standards are being implemented and management controls are working.
Reactive monitoring, after things go wrong, involves learning from your mistakes, whether they have resulted in injuries and illness, property damage or near misses.
Two key components of monitoring systems

■Active monitoring (before things go wrong). Are you achieving the objectives and standards you set yourself and are they effective?

■Reactive monitoring (after things go wrong). Investigating injuries, cases of illness, property damage and near misses identifying in each case why performance was substandard.

You need to ensure that information from active and reactive monitoring is used to identify situations that create risks, and do something about them.
Priority should be given where risks are greatest. Look closely at serious events and those with potential for serious harm.
Both require an understanding of the immediate and the underlying causes of events. Investigate and record what happened find out why.

Ask yourself

1.Do you know how well you perform in health and safety?
2 How do you know if you are meeting your own objectives and standards for health and safety? Are your controls for risks good enough?
3 How do you know you are complying with the health and safety laws that affect your business?
4 Do your accident investigations get to all the underlying causes or do they stop when you find the first person who has made a mistake?
5 Do you have accurate records of injuries, ill health and accidental loss?

Step 5: Learn from experience audit and review

Monitoring provides the information to let you review activities and decide how to improve performance. Audits, by your own staff or outsiders, complement monitoring activities by looking to see if your policy, organisation and systems are actually achieving the right results.  They tell you about the reliability and effectiveness of your systems.

Learn from your experiences. Combine the results from measuring performance with information from audits to improve your approach to health and safety management.

Review the effectiveness of your health and safety policy, paying particular attention to:

■the degree of compliance with health and safety performance standards (including legislation);
■areas where standards are absent or inadequate;
■achievement of stated objectives within given timescales;
■injury, illness and incident data analyses of immediate and underlying causes, trends and common features.
These indicators will show you where you need to improve.

Ask yourself:

1 How do you learn from your mistakes and your successes?
2 Do you carry out health and safety audits?
3 What action is taken on audit findings?
4 Do the audits involve staff at all levels?
5 When did you last review your policy and performance?

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Attitudes to Mental Illness - 2011 survey report:part 3

Causes of mental illness and the need for special services

Introduction

This section reports on statements about the causes of mental illness and the need for
special services.
The statements reported here are:

1.  ‘There are sufficient existing services for people with mental illness’
2.  ‘One of the main causes of mental illness is a lack of self-discipline and will-power’
3.  ‘There is something about people with mental illness that makes it easy to tell them from normal people’.

Analysis is based on the level of agreement with these statements, which have been included in all surveys since 1994.

Trends over time

Figure 10 shows levels of agreement with these statements since 1994.

 

Since 1994, the percentage agreeing that there are sufficient existing services for people with mental illness has increased from 11% in 1994 to 24% in 2011, although there has been no significant change since 2009.
The percentage agreeing that ‘there is something about people with mental illness that makes it easy to tell them from normal people’ decreased from 29% in 1994 to 22% in 2011, although again there has been no significant change since 2009.
Agreement that one of the main causes of mental illness is a lack of self-discipline and willpower stands at 16% in 2011, not significantly different from the 1994 figure of 15%, and again with no significant change since 2009.

Differences by age and sex

Differences in agreement by age group are shown in Figure 11.

 The youngest age group (16-34s) had the most negative attitudes towards mental illness, being more likely than the 35-54 and 55+ groups to agree that there are sufficient existing services, and more likely than the 35-54s to agree that there is something about people with mental illness that makes it easy to tell them from normal people.
Significant differences by gender are shown in Figure 12.

 Women again held more positive views towards people with mental illness, being less likely
than men to agree with these three statements.

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Attitudes to Mental Illness - 2011 survey report:part 2

Understanding and tolerance of mental illness

Introduction

This section explores understanding and tolerance of mental illness. These statements have all been included in each survey since 1994.

Analysis in this section focuses on the understanding/tolerance dimension of each statement.

For some statements this is the percentage agreeing, for others it is the percentage disagreeing. This is indicated for each statement in the list below.

The statements included are:

1.  ‘We have a responsibility to provide the best possible care for people with mental illness’ (% agreeing)
2.  ‘Virtually anyone can become mentally ill’ (% agreeing)
3.  ‘Increased spending on mental health services is a waste of money’ (% disagreeing)
4.  ‘People with mental illness don't deserve our sympathy’ (% disagreeing)
5.  ‘We need to adopt a far more tolerant attitude toward people with mental illness in our society’ (%agreeing) ‘People with mental illness have for too long been the subject of ridicule’ (% agreeing) ‘As far as possible, mental health services should be provided through community based facilities’ (% agreeing) 

Trends over time

Levels of understanding and tolerance of mental illness were generally high.

The percentage of respondents with understanding attitudes on these statements ranged in 2011 from 74% for ‘As far as possible, mental health services should be provided through community-based facilities’ to 91% for ‘We have a responsibility to provide the best possible care’ and ‘Virtually anyone can become mentally ill’ (Figure 4).

 Since 1994, the percentage of respondents voicing more tolerant opinions on several of these statements has decreased.

For example, the percentage disagreeing that ‘Increased spending on mental health services is a waste of money’ also fell, from 89% in 1994 to 82% in 2011. 

Agreement that ‘We need to adopt a more tolerant attitude towards people with mental illness’ fell from 92% in 1994 to 86% in 2011.
There has been a significant change in attitudes between 2010 and 2011 in two statements in this section – the percentage disagreeing with ‘Increased spending on mental health services is a waste of money’ fell from 87% in 2010 to 82% in 2011 (reversing a similar increase between 2009 and 2010), and the percentage agreeing that ‘As far as possible, mental health services should be provided through community-based facilities’ fell from 79% in 2010 to 74% in 2011

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Attitudes to Mental Illness - 2011 survey report

Attitudes to mental illness

Grouping the statements

The 27 attitude statements are grouped into four categories for analysis purposes:

1. Fear and exclusion of people with mental illness

2. Understanding and tolerance of mental illness

3. Integrating people with mental illness into the community

4. Causes of mental illness and the need for special services.

Fear and exclusion of people with mental illness

Introduction

This section explores fear and exclusion of people with mental illness. These statements have all been included in each wave of the survey since 1994.

The statements covered in this section are:

• ‘Locating mental health facilities in a residential area downgrades the neighbourhood’

• ‘It is frightening to think of people with mental problems living in residential

neighbourhoods’

• ‘I would not want to live next door to someone who has been mentally ill’

• ‘A woman would be foolish to marry a man who has suffered from mental illness, even

though he seems fully recovered’

• ‘Anyone with a history of mental problems should be excluded from taking public office’

• ‘People with mental illness should not be given any responsibility’

• ‘People with mental illness are a burden on society’

• ‘As soon as a person shows signs of mental disturbance, he should be hospitalized’

The statements in this section all portray less favourable or ‘negative’ attitudes towards

people with mental illness. Analysis in this section focuses on the percentage of respondents

agreeing with each of these statements (that is, displaying a negative attitude).

Trends over time

Figure 1 shows the levels of agreement with these statements from 1994 to 2011.

Overall, the levels of agreement with these negative statements about people with mental

illness were low, ranging in 2011 from 6% to 21%. 

The highest levels of agreement in 2011 were with the statements ‘Anyone with a history of mental illness should be excluded from taking public office’ (21%) and ‘As soon as a person shows signs of mental disturbance, he should be hospitalized’ (21%).

The percentage of people saying that locating mental health facilities in a residential area downgrades the neighbourhood stood at 17% in 2011. (Figure1).

Data source:

Table 1

Levels of agreement with several of these statements have fallen since 1994. Acceptance of people with mental illness taking public office and being give responsibility has grown – the percentage agreeing that ‘Anyone with a history of mental problems should be excluded from taking public office’ decreased from 29% in 1994 to 21% in 2011, while the percentage agreeing that ‘People with mental illness should not be given any responsibility’ decreased from 17% to 13% over the same period. There were no significant changes in levels of agreement with these statements between 2010 and 2011.

Differences by age and sex

Looking at the three age groups 16-34, 35-54 and 55+, there were significant differences by age group in agreement with several of these statements in 2011 (Figure 2). Statements from this section where there were no significant differences by age group are not shown on the chart.

                                              

In general the oldest group (age 55+) had the most negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, being significantly more likely than younger groups to agree that a woman would be foolish to marry a man who has suffered from mental illness.

 Those aged 55+ and 35-54 were more likely than the youngest group to agree that anyone with a history of mental illness should be excluded from public office.

Those aged 16-34 were more likely than the older groups to agree that as soon as a person

shows signs of mental disturbance, he should be hospitalised.

Statements in this section where there was a significant difference in 2011 between men andwomen in the percentage agreeing are shown in Figure 3.

Where there was a difference between men and women, women were less negative towardspeople with mental illness.

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