Table of Contents

PART 1 Section 1 Marriage
Making your marriage work Section 2 Pregnancy and postnatal care
Pregnancy planning
About your pregnancy
Breastfeeding and milk supply
Establishing breastfeeding
Mastitis with breastfeeding
Miscarriage
Nipple problems while breastfeeding
Postnatal depression Section 3 Children’s health
Allergy in your baby
Asthma in children
Atopic eczema
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Autism
Autism: Asperger’s syndrome
Bed-wetting (enuresis)
Birthmarks
Bow legs and knock knees
Bronchiolitis
Bullying of children
Chickenpox (varicella)
Child accident prevention in the home
Circumcision
Coeliac disease in children
Croup
Crying baby
Dyslexia and other SLDs
Earache in children
Encopresis
Febrile convulsions
Feeding your baby
Flat feet
Gastroenteritis in children
Glue Ear
Growing pains
Hearing problems in children
Immunisation of children
Impetigo
Infant colic
Intoeing in children
Measles
Mumps
Nappy rash
Normal development in children
Peanut allergy
Rearing a happy child
Reflux in infants
Roseola
Rubella (german measles)
Scoliosis
Seborrhoea in infants
Slapped cheek disease
Sleep problems in children
Snuffling infant
Squint and loss of vision
Stuttering
Tantrums
Tear duct blockage
Teething
Testicle, undescended
Thumb sucking
Toilet training your child
Umbilical hernia
Viral skin rashes in children
Vulvovaginal irritation in chidren 4 Adolescent health
Acne
Eating disorders
Osgood-Schlatter disorder
Understanding the adolescent
Understanding your menstrual cycle 5 Women’s health
Breast cancer
Breast lumps
Breast self-examination
Cystitis in women
Dysmenorrhoea
Endometriosis
Fibroids
Hair loss in women
Hirsutism
Incontinence of urine
Menopause
Menorrhagia
Painful breasts
Pap test
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Pill: the combination pill
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Premenstrual syndrome
Tubal ligation
Vaginal thrush 6 Men’s health
Erectile dysfunction (impotence)
Foreskin hygiene
Male pattern baldness
Prostate: prostate cancer
Prostate: prostatitis
Prostate: your enlarged prostate
Prostate: your prostate operation
Scrotal lumps
Testicular cancer
Testicular self-examination (TSE)
Vasectomy 7 The elderly
Arthritis in the elderly
Dementia
Eye problems in the aged
Falls in older people
Hearing impairment in the aged
Leg ulcers
Osteoporosis
Parkinson’s disease
Retirement planning
Stroke
Tinnitus PART 2 General Health - various ages 8 Prevention
Cardiovascular
Cholesterol: how to lower cholesterol
Diet guidelines for good health
Obesity: how to lose weight wisely
Smoking—quitting 9 Infections
Bacterial meningitis and meningococcus
Bed bug bites
Bronchitis: acute bronchitis
Bronchitis: chronic bronchitis
Chlamydia urethritis
Common cold
Ear infection (otitis media)
Glandular fever
Gonorrhoea
Hand, foot and mouth disease
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Herpes: genital herpes
Herpes simplex (cold sores)
Herpes zoster (shingles)
HIV infection and AIDS
Influenza
Labyrinthitis
Laryngitis
Lice: head lice
Lice: pubic lice
Molluscum contagiosum
Pharyngitis
Pneumonia
Ringworm
Scabies
Sinusitis
Tinea pedis
Tonsillitis
Viral infection
Warts
Warts: genital warts
Whooping cough
Worms 10 Eye disorders
Blepharitis
Bloodshot eye
Cataracts
Chalazion (meibomian cyst)
Conjunctivitis
Floaters and flashes
Foreign body in eye
Glaucoma
Macular degeneration
Stye 11 Musculoskeletal disorders
Backache
Baker’s cyst
Bunions
Bursitis and tendonitis of the outer hip
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Exercises for your knee
Exercises for your lower back
Exercises for your neck
Exercises for your shoulder
Exercises for your thoracic spine
Fibromyalgia
Gout
Knee: anterior knee pain
Neck: painful neck
Osteoarthritis
Paget’s disease of bone
Plantar fasciitis
Plaster instructions
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Shoulder: frozen shoulder
Shoulder: shoulder tendonitis
Spondylosis
Sports injuries—first aid
Sprained ankle
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tennis elbow
Warm-up exercises for the legs
Whiplash
Wry neck (torticollis) 12 Common general problems
Alcohol: harmful use of alcohol
Anal fissure
Anger management
Angina
Anticoagulation therapy
Anxiety
Aphthous ulcers
Appendicitis
Asthma
Asthma: correct use of your aerosol inhaler
Asthma: dangerous asthma
Atrial fibrillation
Basal cell carcinoma
Bell’s palsy
Bereavement
Bipolar disorder
Bites and stings
Body odour
Bowel cancer
Bullying in the workplace
Calluses, corns and warts on feet
Cancer
Cannabis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Circulation to legs: poor circulation
Coeliac disease in adults
Constipation
Contact dermatitis
Coping with a crisis
Cramp
Dandruff
Deep vein thrombosis and travel
Depression
Depression: medication for depression
Diabetes
Diabetes: blood glucose monitoring at home
Diabetes: foot care for diabetics
Diabetes: healthy diet for diabetics
Diabetes: insulin injections
Diarrhoea: acute diarrhoea in adults
Diverticular disease
Dry skin
Ear: otitis externa
Ear: wax in your ear
Epidermoid
Epilepsy
Fainting
Fatty tumour (lipoma)
Fever
Gallstones
Gambling: problem gambling
Gastritis
Haemochromatosis
Haemorrhoids
Halitosis
Hangover
Hay fever
Head injury
Heart failure
Heartburn
Hiatus hernia
House dust mite management
Hypertension
Hypothyroidism
Infertile couple
Ingrowing toenails
Inguinal hernia
Iron deficiency anaemia
Irritable bowel
Kidney disease
Kidney stones
Lung cancer
Melanoma
Ménière’s syndrome
Migraine
Nail disorders
Nose: stuffy, running nose
Nosebleed
Obstructive sleep apnoea
Peptic ulcer
Perianal haematoma
Personality disorders
Phobias
Pityriasis rosea
Post traumatic stress disorder
Pressure sores
Pruritus ani
Psoriasis
Reflux disease
Restless legs syndrome
Rosacea and perioral dermatitis
Schizophrenia
Seborrhoeic keratoses
Skin cancer
Sleep problems: insomnia
Snoring
Stress: coping with stress
Sunburn
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Teeth grinding (bruxism)
Tension headache
Tongue soreness
Travel: air travel
Travel: guide for travellers
Travel sickness
Tremor: essential tremor
Urticaria (hives)
Varicose veins
Vertigo: benign positional vertigo
Vertigo: exercises for benign positional vertigo

About the Author

John Murtagh, AM, is Executive Director, Education at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Adjunct Professor of General Practice at the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice , Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He is one of Australia's leading GPs and community educators. A Professor in General Practice in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University in Melbourne, Professorial Fellow in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.