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As others have said , the anaesthetic does sting and then it's numb. There is a risk of having a scar that looks worse than the mole does. One of my friends has a huge ugly scar on her knee. A Plastic surgeon would be the person likely to give the best looking result. If the mole is not though to be cancerous you may have difficulty getting it removed on the NHS, I know when I last did dermatology all the cosmetic procedures including mole removal ( providing it was not thought to be skin cancer) had to be paid for privately but I think it depends on local policy.

very sorry. run free Frodo

You can get cartmel sticky toffee pudding in Dafna's cheesecake factory on Smithdown Road in Liverpool. You can also get it online http://www.stickytoffeepudding.co.uk/ or smaller ones on here http://www.plumgarths.co.uk/index.asp?page...ng&option=8 I saw the sticky toffee pudding sauce in Waitrose! Yum Yum!

I have found that waitrose work out about the same price and food is much nicer! I might start getting ocado deliveries as no Waitrose near here. OH has one 10 mins walk from him. Snow - I buy buttermilk in Asda and Tesco. RMF I am irritated I bought a tumble dryer in May from Debenhams online. The first day since then that I could be in for the promised 4 hr delivery slot was today. they phoned last night to say delivery will be between 9-1. Great I thought as the bathroom light is bust and so is the living room bay window curtain rail so I can go out and ger new ones after the delivery. Phonecall at 11am with no apology just ' it's the delivery drivers, your unit will be delivered between 12 and 5!! Not impressed! I don't even have any milk left for cups of tea!

Charlie staffie quivers. Mainly her back legs. Perfectly healthy dog with no problems.

Home birth possibly, bit unassisted - NO WAY. Having seen some very normal births occur and babies being born flat and needing resuscitation I'd never have an unassisted birth. If u look at the stats from developing countries where many babies are born without assistance the death rates of mums and babies are shocking. Some of this will be due of course to worse antenatal care but not all. Not worth the risk IMO. Incidentally it is as far as I know illegal for anyone other than a midwife or dr to assist in the birth so that goes for relatives/husbands and friends helping.

Copper tape you can buy in a roll from B &Q. You can also get copper matting in rolls and in round shapes to go under pots - maybe this would work under a food bowl? http://www.greengardener.co.uk/slugextra.htm

I think we paid £3.50 at farmer's market for the rabbit in Wimbledon. My local butcher in Liverpool sells them too

passata is a tomato sauce thing u can buy most places. it's sieved italian tomatoes.buy italian plum tomatoes and sieve them. lots of them

The medications given in vascular dementia are similar to those given in heart disease and after stroke in that they are given to thin the blood to try and prevent further problems. Then other meds to control blood pressure and cholesterol. If Alzheimers is diagnosed then there are specific drugs that can be prescribed ( the ones that there has been the furore with with NICE!). Good luck

we got a wild rabbit from the local farmer's market near wimbledon park, not cooked it yet tho, it's in the freezer. OH says 1 rabbit , gutted and skinned and chopped up roughly into pieces with bone in 1 bottle red wine, 2 cloves garlic ( smashed up with peel on), fresh thyme and basil and black pepper. marinade for at least 24 hours brown rabbit in oil in a pan put passata, celery, carrots, onions (baby potatoes if wanted) into casserole dish, add rabbit and add marinade removing garlic first. cook slowly in oven on low heat for 3 hours until rabbit is falling of bone. You can then either remove rabbit and reduce sauce or thicken with cornflour etc.

you can refuse yes but you'd have to pay privately for it and sometimes the local private people are the same ones as in the NHS so you may have to go further afield. re testing for vascular dementia. There aren't really any tests that conclusively say yes it's definitely that. Diagnosis is based on a mixture of blood tests to disclude other causes of memory problems ( thyroid, vitamin deficiences to name 2) as well as looking for risk factors such as high cholesterol, formal testing of brain function and memory through questionnaires and standard questions- these are then scored and the score will give info about the severity of memory problems, CT/MRI of the brain to look for any vascular problems. Your best sort of specialist to look for is a psychiatrist who deals with people over 65/old age psychiatry. I may be able to get access to a list as a dr, otherwise it'll have to be an internet search or thru someone like BUPA I'm afraid. Cost - no idea, sorry There isn't really any treatment for vascular dementia, it's a matter of decreasing the probability of further vascular events(infarcts- it's often a combination of lots of tiny strokes in the brain). Dementia can be a mixture of alzheimers and vascular dementia.

zitac is cimetidine and zantac is ranitidine, 2 different drugs which work in a similar way to decrease stomach acid.Both can be used in dogs. Charlie has luxating patellas, one has been operated on and the other is ok for now. she limps intermittently. When her leg was bad ( before surgery) she started by limping intermittently and this then became more often until she was doing it most of the time. Xrays showed she had some arthritic changes in the joint due to it luxating intermittently. Hers was pretty obvious on examination once she was limping on it most of the time. Hope it goes ok for Mich

re phone bills if u look here http://www.telediscount.co.uk/index2.php it is 10p per min to Irish mobiles and 1p per min on a landline. you have to dial another number first and then the numbe r u want I use it to phone S Africa at 4p per min. Lots of other countries cheap too There's a link on there saying u can get cheap calls from ireland too which might helpa Sarah a bit

If mum is breast feeding she should avoid the foods whilst she is too

I love it and I was watching the Murray match on Henman hill last week, the atmosphere was fantastic! I may camp out next year to try to get centre court tickets. I'll have to remember to go in the ballot this year too!

I'm not sure. Skin testing and RAST ( blood testing) is inaccurate as children can react to the skin test but not to a peanut challenge . This is where they are brought into hospital and given tests with nuts gradually, starting with touching some, then touching to the lips and then to the tongue and then eating some with careful waiting and watching between each stage for a reaction. In most children it is not worth performing allergy tests until they have come into previous contact with the food but peanuts may be a slightly different case in that there are often small nut traces in lots of food. The recommendations are to avoid peanuts until aged 4-5 in kids who have parents with bad nut allergy so I'm not sure what allergy testing at a young age will achieve as it won't necessarily tell u the severity of allergy accurately and avoidance is recommended. hope that helps a bit. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11859

Charlie our staffie has one of these http://www.collarways.co.uk/khxc/index.php...f=m-d-Harnesses it's one of the few we've found that doesn't rub under her armpits

the zitac will have been prescribed to protect the stomach from any side effects of the anti inflammatory I would think. It's a common thing done in humans for people on things like aspirin, steroids and diclofenac/ibuprofen which can affect the stomach and can cause ulcers and gastritis. The anti gastritis drugs help protect against this.

Murray is a rescue ( from sproggie on here) and a while ago was still very timid. He doesn't like being held still but does enjoy sitting on my lap briefly for a stroke and is becoming a licky boy!

I only have a tiny yard but have put troughs and hanging baskets up and am growing courgettes, strawberries, french beans, cucumber, tomatoes and sugar snap peas, peppers, chillis all in pots! I ate my first 2 strawberries today. last week I ate my rocket and mixed salad leaves, also in pots. so you don't have to have a big garden!

Doesn't sound totally typical of shingles. You tend to get the rash in the same area as the area of the skin that's sore so the rash around the mouth is not likely to be related.The rash tends to affect a small area on one side of the body and usually appears a few days after the burning sensation starts. The rash looks like small blisters. The anti virus drugs work if you see a dr soon within 48 hours after the rash appears. I am proud of Murray rat today. We went to the vet with his sebaceous cyst and he let me hold him while the vet squeezed very hard and pushed all the gunk out - would have made a nice pic for manky body parts but I had my hands full! He just licked my fingers! I have courgettes growing in my pots in my tiny yard - pics in gardening thread! I have 6 radley bags, the passport holder, trolley case, purse and umbrella. One I paid full price for ,the others were presents or half price or less in outlet shops. This is my favourite bag http://www.johnlewis.com/230167349/Product.aspx

Talking to other doctors some patients want children but it's 'not convenient' at that time, therefore an abortion is more convenient. Around 40% of all pregnancies in the UK are unplanned. I don't sign the forms myself but have to point the patient in the direction of someone who will.

from what I've read, the simian SV40 virus has shown to cause certain tumours in rodents with little evidence for this in humans. SV40 has been found in certain types of human cancers, but it has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers. There have been a few large scale trials ( one with over 700 000 participants) which have not shown any increased cancer risk in people who had the vaccinations compared to those who didn't so a link hasn't been proven. -SV40 has also been found in patients who did not receive any vaccinations possibly containing SV40 so there is a suggestion it may be transmitted in other ways. All very interesting!

Mixing with many drs every day I'd disagree that drs disagree about just about everything, that's a huge generalisation! Most of the time we seem to agree. I'd like to try and understand the science theory behind vaccines triggering such a huge range of diseases, a very difficult thing to either prove or disprove I would think. Certain diseases i will accept, in a minority of cases. I find it surprising that people trust homeopathic vets more than traditional ones as surely they both make money from treatments and so neither will be unbiased. http://www.clinicalanswers.nhs.uk/index.cfm?question=147 official guidance from 2004 is that 5 vaccines gives lifelong immunity for tetanus. Both A&E depts I've worked at will only give it if patient is unsure how many they've had or the wound is high risk.