Sheryl

I suggest https://www.iod.go.th/clinic-and-treatment/คลินิกเส้นผมและเล็บ-en-translation There are many possible causes ranging from hormonal to autoimmune. Adverse effects of hair products can also play a role.

I don't know what you mean by an "everyday inhaler". It contains a powerful bronchodilator and should only be used if and as advised by a doctor. But like most such medications in Thailand, does not require a prescription to buy. Ask for it as Salbutamol, they may not recognize the term albuterol. (Same thing)

Actually street food that is cooked on the spot and served right after cooking is pretty dafe. Certainly more so than restaurant buffets. It is food that has been sitting out for a while that one needs to be wary of. Especially on hot days.

I dob't know anout those lenses specifically but multifocal lens are available here. They add substantially to the cost, and not everyone adjusts well to them. If you want to explore multifocal lenses, Bangkok Pattaya Hospital would be better choice.

Some AN members have used Queen Sirikit Hospital Unless there are special factors in your case, cataract surgery is the single most common eye procedure and any opthalmologist can do it so Pattaya Memorial and Pattaya International Hospital would also be viable options. Waits at Queen Sirikit can be long.

Private hospitals run 25 - 38 K. This does not include polyp removal & biopsy. @proton quote you received is unprecedented, I can only guess they were assuming removal of a very large number of polyps...or did not know what they were talking about. Given your family history of colon cancer, personal history of polyps, long gap since last colonoscopy and that you are now symptomatic it would be worth having this done by a really good colo-rectal specialist as the skill of the person behind the scope matters. Suggest this doctor: https://www.bch.in.th/find-doctor/doctor-profile/?smid=4581 https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/chucheep-sahakitrungruang Same doctor, different hospitals. Normally BCH would be less expensive but given that Bumrungrad is running a special price now, it might actually cost less.

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There is no way to know since most cases of food poisoning are not treated at government hospitals and even when they are, those statistics do nto s[earate out food poisoning from other types of gastroenterisits. increased numbers of tourists alone could account for this. That and people deciding it is worth mentioning on social media. This tends to follow what others do. Someone reads a social media account of someone else's food poisoning and decides to post their own. I re4lly would not read too much into this. Food poisoning cases here follow seasonal trends and always increase in the very hot season, for obvious reasons (food spoils more quickly).

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more posts with misinformation, and repliues to them, removed. There have been no completed studies on use of this for cancer in humans. There is at least one clinical trial of it underway (contrary to those who claim it is being "suppressed" as part of a conspiracy). It will take time. "Some preclinical studies have indeed found promising results using ivermectin, but these studies were done in cell cultures and animals, not in humans. As such, they cannot provide sufficient evidence that ivermectin helps treat cancer in people. Further studies are needed to reliably determine ivermectin’s effectiveness and safety when used to treat cancer in humans." https://science.feedback.org/review/preclinical-studies-cannot-provide-sufficient-evidence-ivermectin-helps-treat-cancer-people/ I would add to that, that if benefit is shown further work will need to be done to determine best route, dosage etc. Thread is now closed as original question long ago answered and it has become a magnet for misinformation and conspiracy theories.

To be clear -- these studies report results in labs, on samples of cancer cells, and in animals. There are no studies yet of use to treat prostate or any other cancer in humans. That is more than a small detail. Many drugs -- in fact most - drugs that look promising in the lab and in animal studies, fail to prove useful in clinical treatment of humans. Hyping something before it has been fully tested helps no one.

No, it most definitely is NOT. Actually read the scientific articles. they talk about "possible", "potential" etc. based on findings from animal studies and in vitro studies on cancer cells. It has not yet been studied in actual human patients. That may come, but is still a ways off and results of such studies, further off still. Long way from being a standard treatment. Not yet even an experimental treatment. It is extremely misleading, and potentially harmful, to spread the idea that this is an established treatment.

I think what has changed is the proliferation of social media. ..and what people post there.

Most things that show anti tumor effects in vitro or in animals ultimatrly fail to prove effective in treating cancer in humans. Research on use of ivermectin and other antiparasitics for cancer is still in early stages (in vitro and animal studies). It is far too soon to know if it will be effective in treatment if cancers in humans (and if so which cancrrs and in what dosage etc).