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Written in a deliberately irreverent style intended to keep the average Bobby turning the pages, Police Sergeant Darren Moor draws on his experience from twenty-eight years of policing to explain to fellow Bobbies and front-line staff how to survive whilst working such a frantic 24/7 existence. Presenting up-to-date research, he offers practical but humorous advice on avoiding infections large and small, what best to eat on rotating shifts, sleeping after nights, training your body to hopefully avoid but then recover from physical injury, and maintaining good mental health especially after traumatic incidents. There is also guidance on female and ethnic health, relationships, fire, water and social media safety, acid and dog attacks, sexual health, preserving eyesight (those damn computers!) and spotting the early signs of cancers and other life-threatening conditions which Bobbies often don't pick-up on as a result of being so knackered through never-ending shift-work.With contributions from police specialists in their field, this is a book which every Bobby should have around the home or in their kitbag to refer to when they have questions about their health.

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Publié par	Troubador Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	09 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781838598730
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Copyright © 2019 Darren Moor; Mark Hefferman;
Debbie Wade; Wayne Goodwin; Jim Ledger

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Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers.

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To my wonderful wife, Amanda, who kept on bringing the tea.
Contents
This being a reference manual means that you can delve in and explore at leisure whatever subject takes your fancy. With that in mind the contents section in this book is more descriptive than most in order to show what subjects we cover. And those subjects are …

So, What Is The Purpose Of This Book And Who Is It Aimed At?

The Medical Disclaimer Bit.

Reducing Danger & Avoiding Infection: Part One
What exactly are infections and how can we avoid them. How our body tries to protect us against infections but hasn’t been designed very well to do so. The differences between viruses and bacteria. Antibiotics and when to bug our doctor for them. The importance of vaccinations. Winter flu and why we should have the winter flu jab. The common cold. Glandular fever. ‘Strep’ and ‘stap’ infections, including MRSA. Sepsis and why little wounds can kill us if we don’t treat them with respect. Meningitis. Norovirus. Food poisoning such as E.coli, salmonella, listeria and shigella and how we get them. Hepatitis and HIV. Oh … and why we as police officers should all raise a toast with parade room tea once a year to the memory of PC Albert Alexander.

Exercise
A long Q&A with Mark, our police physio, about how we can make ourselves more resilient to injury through appropriate exercise. What to do if we do get injured. How some minor injuries can quickly become chronic and all-but untreatable if we don’t attend to them properly. Knees, backs and other bits of the body that traditionally cause problems for Bobbies. How to counteract the damage of sitting at a desk or in a police car for ten hours at a time. How we need to adjust our exercise regimes at different stages in our lives to avoid problems … ditch those sit-ups! Some suggestions as to the ideal exercise regimes for different age groups.

Food & Nutrition
How to tailor what we eat with the demands of our peculiar 24/7 existence. How some foods give us energy and enthusiasm while others knacker us out and bring us down … how some foods can encourage deadly diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure while others deter them. Other, not exactly deadly but never-the-less important, considerations about the food we eat. Free radicals and antioxidants. Super foods and super diets. The Mediterranean diet. Theories around high GI foods, serotonin, and general food combining. The ups and downs of caffeine. The dangers of dehydration. Just what is a sensible diet for the shift-working Bobby and how we should tailor different foods for different shifts. Some advice on nutrition during Ramadan. How to enjoy booze without it affecting our health or getting us sacked or divorced. Perfect poos and ‘orrendous haemorrhoids … with, of course, special consideration given to the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo.

Making Food & Exercise Work Together
How combining what we eat and when we eat it can make a difference to the results of our exercise. Carbo-cycling. How those protein shakes might just be as important as our tight t.shirt wearing members of the team always make them out to be.

Sleep
How a lack of decent sleep is likely to affect the quality and length of our lives. REM and N-REM; the mechanics of sleep and how different sleep benefits us in different ways. Some suggestions for sleeping after Nights, sleeping after Lates and before Earlies. How to stay asleep ... that constant need to wee … why? How to negotiate with our family about getting the sleep we need to make our – and their – lives better. Foods that encourage sleep and others that keep us awake. More about caffeine and how to use it correctly in respect to sleep. What to do when the stress of this job keeps waking us up. The joy of silently singing songs in the dark ….

Mental Health & Wellbeing
Wayne, police inspector and our guru in all matters mental health and trauma, discusses what we can do to keep ourselves well against the odds. A description of common mental health conditions and how they can affect us. Simple things we can do to look after our mental health. Why we react to trauma in the way we do and how we can help ourselves to counter these effects. How to keep good relationships with our partners and children. Acute stress disorder and PTSD. Adjustment disorders. And – yeah – not forgetting the importance of Bob Hoskins in police officer mental health …

Happiness
A brief look at new research into what does actually make us happy – takes ten minutes to read and might just change your life …

Reducing Danger & Avoiding Infection: Part Two
Back to all those bugs again. What to do if we’re spat upon or bitten by some idiot. Needle-stick injuries and how to avoid them. Dangerous dogs and what to do when we’re chomped on by some hound “… aaaarrrrrhhhhhhh …!” Skin conditions relating to staphylococcal, impetigo and cellulitis. Head lice and bedbugs. Scabies and ring worm. TB and Ebola. What should we carry around with us to help avoid against infection. Why a knife tube crammed with wet-ones makes such logical sense when you think about it …

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sexually Transmitted Infections But Were Too Afraid To Ask
And, as it turns out, there’s an awful lot to know, starting with some generalisations about STIs that we all ought really to have an understanding of but probably don’t. Pubic lice. Genital herpes … HSV-1 and 2. Syphilis. Gonorrhoea – both super and old school. Pelvic inflammatory disease. Chlamydia. Trichomoniasis. Genital Warts. How to reduce our chances of catching any of these horrors and what to do if we have. A brief description of why we didn’t really want to be catching syphilis during the sixteenth century …

“… I Thought I Felt Run Down Because Of The Shifts …”
A chapter on cancers and other conditions which can sneak up on us if we don’t look out for them. How we might not notice that we have some serious condition which has fatigue as a sign or symptom because we’re always knackered by shift-work. A description of those conditions – coeliac disease, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnoea. lower urinary tract infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, iron deficiency anaemia, vitamin B12 or folate deficiency anaemia and underactive thyroid. A brief guide then to cancers – what exactly is cancer, how it’s caused and how it’s treated. What we can do to lower our risk and what factors heighten that risk. A description of particular cancers relating to the police officer age group – breast cancer in women and men, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, bowel cancer, skin cancer, leukaemia, ovarian cancer, brain cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, ending with a general but never-ending rant about the dangers of smoking.

Specific Issues Relating To Female Health
A chapter about female health issues provided by Debbie, our police medical professional, aimed at the ladies but best read by the fellas as well if they want some chance of understanding their crewmate at three o’clock in the morning. Hormones, PMT, and how to reduce their effects. Endometriosis. A brief guide to ovarian cysts. Polycystic ovary syndrome. Toxic shock syndrome. Cystitis. Pregnancy within the service. The menopause. Why routine health checks are so important. Checking your boobs. The various benefits, including erotic, of regularly exercising your pelvic floor muscles ...

Genetic Health Risk Factors For Different Ethnic Groups Within The Police Family
A title, I would like to think, so long that it hopefully needs no further explanation …

Fire Safety
Jim, one of our friends from Trumpton, explains why the three fire phenomena of flashover, backdraft and fire gas explosion means that you don’t really want to be getting anywhere near that house-fire that members of the public are enthusiastically encouraging you to enter and rescue people from – however brave you might be feeling. He also talks extensively about the risk of fire and explosion at road accidents … oh, and that training which senior fire officers are given in the pointing at things, and then quickly pointing at other things, having just jumped out of their fire engines.

Dangers From Open Water
How open water can kill us as police rescuers. How the danger of cold water immersion works against the instincts of our body and turns us from rescuers to someone else who needs rescuing. Practical things we can do to help people without entering the water. The danger of strong currents, rip-tides … and coconuts …

Eyesight And How