Comments on: Tadpoles https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/ I can scarcely move or draw my breath // Let me, let me freeze again to death Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Elizabeth https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6872 Elizabeth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:53:13 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6872 Check it out, the glass frog.
https://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92687?fp=1

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By: Twwly https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6870 Twwly Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:24:59 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6870 We love the bullfrog tadpoles! Bob just had a 2 year old one in a bucket (lived for a week in his bucket, then went back to the pond) and you can really see their little legs nicely.

Hope your health business gets sorted out man.

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By: Tini https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6867 Tini Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:40:36 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6867 Here comes the English version (wikipedia):

Rhabdomyolysis is the rapid breakdown (lysis) of skeletal muscle tissue (rhabdomyo) due to injury to muscle tissue. The muscle damage may be caused by physical (e.g., crush injury), chemical, or biological factors.
Physical causes.

Recognized physical causes for rhabdomyolysis are:[1]

Traumatic compression of muscles: crush syndrome (e.g., in earthquakes), car accident, confinement in a fixed position (e.g. after a stroke, due to drunkenness or in prolonged surgery), physical torture or abuse
Obstruction of blood supply to muscles: arterial thrombosis (blood clots forming locally) or embolism (clots or other debris from elsewhere in the body), clamping of an artery during surgery, generally reduced blood supply in shock or sepsis (due to any cause)
Excessive muscle strain or activity: extreme physical exercise (particularly when poorly hydrated), delirium tremens (alcohol withdrawal), tetanus, prolonged seizures or status epilepticus
Electrical: lightning, high-voltage electric shock, including electroshock weapon injuries[4]

[edit] Non-physical causes
Non-physical causes reported to cause rhabdomyolysis include:[1]

Disorders of muscle energy supply (usually hereditary enzyme problems): carnitine deficiency, CPT type I or type II deficiency, McArdle’s disease, various defects in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, phosphofructokinase deficiency, VLCAD deficiency[5]
Poisons such as heavy metals and venom from insects or snakes
Foodborne toxins, e.g. coniine from quail that have consumed hemlock (coturnism),[6] Tricholoma equestre mushrooms in France and Poland,[7] and an unidentified toxin in fish (Haff disease)[8]
Drugs of abuse,[9] including: ethanol,[10] methamphetamines,[11] cocaine,[12] heroin,[13] phencyclidine (PCP),[14] ketamine,[15] and MDMA (ecstasy)[16][17]
Medications:
statins, especially when prescribed in combinations with fibrates. Cerivastatin (Baycol) was withdrawn in 2001 after numerous reports of rhabdomyolysis. Other statins have a small risk of 0.44 cases per 10,000 patients annually, which increases to 5.98 if a fibrate is added.[18] However, other studies detected no increased risk from statins.[19]
anti-psychotic medications may cause neuroleptic malignant syndrome, which can cause severe muscle rigidity, with rhabdomyolysis and hyperpyrexia
neuromuscular blocking agents, used in anasthesia may cause malignant hyperthermia, also associated with rhabdomyolysis
medications that interfere with potassium levels (e.g. diuretics)
Infections: Coxsackie virus, Plasmodium falciparum (malaria), herpes viruses, Legionella pneumophila, Salmonella and Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Electrolyte and metabolic disturbances: increased plasma osmolality, hyper- and hyponatremia (elevated or reduced blood sodium levels), hypokalemia (low potassium levels), hypocalcemia (low calcium levels), hypophosphatemia (low phosphate levels), ketoacidosis (e.g. in diabetes) or hypothyroidism (abnormally low thyroid function)
Autoimmune muscle damage: polymyositis, dermatomyositis

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By: Tini https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6866 Tini Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:00 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6866 I`ve found something on German google. Perhaps it helps:

Rhabdomyolyse (Muskelvernichtung):
Unter Rhabdomyolyse versteht man in der Medizin die Aufloesung quergestreifter Muskelfasern. Dazu gehoeren die Skelettmuskulatur sowie Herzmuskulatur und Zwerchfell.Bei schweren Muskelzerstoerungen faerbt sich der Urin braun infolge Ausscheidung von Myoglobin, einem Muskeleiweiss, und im Serum ist die Kreatin-Kinase, ein Enzym, dass für die Muskeltaetigkeit unentbehrlich ist, erhoeht. Massive Ausscheidung von Myoglobin (Myoglobinurie) kann zu Nierenversagen führen. Leichtere Muskelschaedigungen oder Befall kleiner Muskelbezirke sind weniger schmerzhaft und koennen am Anstieg der Kreatin-Kinase erkannt werden.

Ursachen:
-akute Ueberbeanspruchung von vorher untrainiert gewesenen Muskeln
-intensives Muskeltraining kann eine lokalisierte Rhabdomyolyse auslösen
besonders unter Hitzeeinwirkung!
-kann als Nebenwirkung bei der Einnahme von Kreatin auftreten
-Anabolika
-Verletzungen, wobei durch den Unfall verletzte Muskelfasern eleminiert werden (z.B. Crush-Syndrom)
-Autoimmun-Erkrankungen
-Alkoholexzessen
-Kokain, Aphetamine (Speed)
-Schlafmittelvergiftungen
-Schlangengifte
-weiterhin wurde der Muskelzerfall beim Verspeisen des Pilzes Grünling (Tricholoma equestre) beobachtet
-Einahme von Cerivastatin (Lipobay®)
-relativ seltene Nebenwirkung von cholesterinsenkenden Medikamenten wie Statine und Fibrate

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By: peteD3 https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6865 peteD3 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:44:27 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6865 my best wishes to you, stey strong.

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By: Elizabeth https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6862 Elizabeth Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:55:44 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6862 My favorite frogs are tree frogs and coming across one in Tuscaloosa was a rare treat. Closer to the Gulf they are more common than toads and I surely love them as much as ever. They are SO CUTE.

What a fortunate child Nefarious is!

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By: Ian https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6861 Ian Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:21:11 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6861 I’m currently living in Mali, west africa, and the heat all depends on the season. When it is dry, +45 is no problem at all, but now that the rains have started and the humidity is back it is as bad as southern ontario.

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By: Sue https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6860 Sue Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:33:32 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6860 The big tadpoles are bull frogs.

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By: anselm https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6858 anselm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:42:47 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6858 Shannon-

Odds are those big tadpoles sound a lot like bullfrog tadpoles. They get pretty big, and can take three years to mature, though I’m not certain they have them as far north as you are.

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By: TheWomanMonster https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6856 TheWomanMonster Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:15:11 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6856 Hey Shannon, the health front sounds pretty miserable. Have you been checked for hormonal imbalances?

Gorgeous photos as always. I love the tadpolies!

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By: Lindsey https://zentastic.me/blog/2009/06/16/tadpoles/comment-page-1/#comment-6855 Lindsey Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:44:21 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=6889#comment-6855 those look like horse shoe crabs to me. or some kind of future mutant freakish frogs.

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