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Can fluoxetine meant for pets substitute human medication [closed]
Fluoxetine is sold without prescription for pets as 20-mg capsules. Can a human safely consume the doctor-prescribed dose by using the fluoxetine intended for pets long term?
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What are the effects of quadrobics on your body? [migrated]
Recently I've learned of a new trend called quadrobics, which refers to a sport where you run and jump on all fours like an animal. It seems to be especially popular among kids. Since we're bipedal ...
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Are standard medical exam questionnaires meant to invite discussion?
Let's say a patient goes to a medical examination. The doctor starts verbally going through a standardized exam questionnaire, for example, something like:
Mini-Mental State Exam
MIDAS test for ...
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Why does 100F feel hot?
Why does an outside temperature that corresponds to my natural body temperature feel hot?
Shouldn’t it feel just right?
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I am trying to calculate Albumin-Creatinine ratios for research, why is the result so high?
Below is a breakdown of the ACR calculations.
From National Kidney Foundation: ‘ACR is calculated by dividing albumin concentration in milligrams by creatinine concentration in grams’
Data Example:
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Does the lactic acid in yogurt hurt the enamel of teeth?
I got seemingly contradicting messages concerning the impact of lactic acid from yogurt on teeth
From this article
Balances PH levels in the mouth – The types of bacteria that can cause dental ...
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Is trauma to the abdominal wall classed as somatic pain or visceral pain?
I'm writing a fictional story set in the real world with fight scenes in it. If I understood correctly after doing some research, abdominal wall trauma should be classed as somatic pain if the wall is ...
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Does plasmapheresis remove medications from the blood?
In plasmapheresis, blood is drawn with an IV, and spun in a machine to separate the lighter plasma from the heavier red blood content. The plasma is stored, and the red blood content is mixed with ...
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Myocardial and Pacemaker Action Potential
I recently learned the Myocardial and Pacemaker Action Potentials and had some doubts regarding them.
Do structures other than the SAN and AVN (Bundle of HIS and purkinje fibres)exhibit the pacemaker ...
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Why the T1 recovery & T2 decay are independent? [closed]
I was thinking that the decrease in transverse magnetization results in the recovery of longitudinal magnetization.
However, recently, I found it was wrong. I saw a diagram
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What happens to the scrotum of neutered dogs?
I am not sure which stack this belongs on. The only other stack I could find that has questions regarding veterinary medicine is the Academia Stack Exchange, and I feel like the medical stack is much ...
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how saturated fat increase lipoprotein number?
What is the physiological mechanism by which consuming high levels of saturated fat (but not unsaturated fats) causes higher lipoprotein numbers as measured by ApoB test?
The answer expected to refer ...
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Current state of Dyslexia Research RE Perception/Cognition with respect to Group Theory in Mathematics (The mathematical theory of symmetry, roughly) [migrated]
What is the current state of dyslexia research with respect to the study of symmetry in mathematics, which (roughly) mathematicians call Group Theory?
I ask for the following reason: the mathematics ...
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Why do blood vessels have M3 Receptors that can only be stimulated exogenously?
I'm going through pharmacology and this detail that our lecturer sort of brushed over sort of baffled me?
As far as I understand, endogenous means being stimulated by the body as part of a synapse, ...
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Urolithin A for Alzheimer's?
Recently there have been items in the general media about a study carried out at the University of Copenhagen and the American Institute of aging concerning some possibly beneficial effects of the ...
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