Health

It may be too soon to think about eating again, after a day of indulging in turkey, pie, sweetened yams, and anything else you could cram in. But for many, the dishes left behind are an entirely separate phenomenon. That said, adding food poisoning to your hangover is not the ideal way to spend a holiday weekend. However you want to consume them, it's best to be aware of each dish's shelf life. Here, we have broken down the longevity of the top Thanksgiving dishes based on guidelines from the US Agriculture Department.

Kelly Yeoman, from Bristol, had day case surgery to have fluid-filled sac on her ovary removed (pictured left and right, riding her horse). She was re-admitted 2 weeks later after getting infection in bowel yet an operation failed to fix the problem. She is 'severely faecally impacted,' and she's at risk of suffocating (inset shows a scan of her lungs) or needing a colostomy bag.

The 26-year-old, from Louisiana, shared a snap on Instagram with her 7million fans (right) which caused concern. A second picture posted yesterday (left) also showed Lindsey's breasts appearing to look different in sizes. It caused many to question if the shape of her chest is healthy and normal. A study recently revealed about 47% of women have breasts that are not equal sizes. 'In reality, no female has entirely symmetrical breasts,' said a cosmetic surgeon.

One minute Shannon Everett (right), 22, from Cwmbran in Gwent, South Wales, told her mother, Nicola Everett (pictured left), 46, and fiancé Ioan she loved them and the next her heart stopped beating, all while giving birth to baby Nico (pictured left). Shannon, who suffered an amniotic fluid embolism and delivered Nico while unconscious, was unable to hold her baby for almost two weeks as doctors put her in an induced coma in hospital (inset) in an attempt to save her life. Although her family were relieved when Shannon, who is also mother to three-year-old Mika, woke up, they were devastated to discover she thought she was a teenager and could not remember her two children or fiancé.

Gabby Marler's allergies include peanuts, dairy, eggs, wheat, and dust mites, among many others. The Queensland toddler's reactions can range from swelling and vomiting to losing consciousness. Gabby's mum, Tiffany, vacuums and mops their Caboolture home daily to try and contain it. But Gabby still must wear special cotton-footed leggings so that she doesn't have a reaction. Now her family is trying to raise money to build her a 'safe home' home.

Currently, pumps are made of tough material, and the blood has to run through them, increasing infection risk. But this new device developed by Boston Children's Hospital lightly squeezes the heart to help it keep pumping blood. It could prevent lopsided pumping that causes the other half of the heart to fail. It could also allow patients to forego debilitating post-surgery drugs. The device proved successful on pigs (pictured), and researchers believe it can work for humans.

Modern Family star Sarah Hyland has opened up to her fans about one of the common side effects she still deals with five years after her kindney transplant. The 26-year-old actress received a kidney from her father in 2012 to cure a condition called dysplasia, when the organs do not develop properly. Now, she is on a habitual dose of prednisone, an immunosuppressant drug to prevent organ rejection and infections. One of the common but harmless side effects is known as 'moon face' swelling. On Saturday, Hyland posted an Instagram Story (pictured) laying out how she deals with this on a day-to-day basis while juggling her career.

Ten puppies rescued from Puerto Rico may have exposed more than 200 people at an adoption party at a New Hampshire pizzeria to a rare bacteria. Chili (left) and one other puppy have died and one has tested positive. There have been no reports of symptoms in people, and the remaining seven puppies, including Ollie, Chance, Zorro and Benny (right) seem to be healthy. 

Paula Teixeira (right), three, from Zamora, Spain, has Ondine Syndrome, which causes her to stop breathing the moment she falls asleep, putting her at risk of death. Her mother Silvana (pictured left), said: 'Since Paula came home, we can't sleep as we used to before. One of your eyes is closed and the other is wide open thinking is everything okay. She will always need a person to watch her sleep. Always, all her life.' Although Paula is well enough to live at home and go to school, she must frequently go to hospital (inset).

Dr Tara Lynn Frankhouser (pictured) didn't fully understand the postpartum depression she saw in her patients in her North Carolina practice until she went through itself after she and her husband Charles (far right, center right) took home their first child (right). Now a mother-of-three, she bravely tells of all she went through in a published autoethnographic study on the pressures guilt and denial that many new mothers experience, in the hopes that her account can help clinicians empathize with and thoroughly screen their patients.

Mother-of-two Danielle Matier (pictured), 31, from Derby, told how she was forced to give up on her dream of breastfeeding son Jack, now six, because her size 40KK breast would often cover his entire face. Mrs Matier, who also has a daughter Willow (left as a newborn), two, has now launched an online campaign to raise money for surgery to reduce her breasts to a more manageable D-cup. She also explained how the size of her breasts has left her feeling self-conscious and with severe back and neck pain.

Aaron E Carroll, a nutritionist and physician at Indiana University, and Liz Weinandy, a registered dietitian at Ohio State University, explain why there is no point restricting yourself from indulgence.

Lou Manza is a Professor and Department Chair of Psychology at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. He has spent years studying the psychology of people that follow cults. Charles Manson (inset), who died November 19, famously attracted a coterie of men and women to do his bidding, which included committing a string of murders in the late-1960s. Among those, the Manson 'family' like Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten (pictured right) admitted to killing the actress Sharon Tate (left).

Macauley Bratherton (left), 20, from Denbighshire, Wales was only ill for a few days when he was taken to hospital, and died soon after, having contracted influenza A and pneumonia. Now his parents, Mick and Linda (right) and his sister (center) ask people to get flu shots to help themselves and those ineligible to prevent the same thing from happening to others

Rockhampton mother, Nikki Flood (pictured left, right and inset with her family), 37, has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and is facing the heartbreaking prospect that this Christmas with her family will be her last. She spoke to FEMAIL about her agony, but also her refusal to give up. 'I won't give up because I'm a fighter,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

Georgie Weatherley, 30, from Gloucestershire, a mother-of-two, suffers from painful tremors and struggles to move because of a rare illness that makes her limbs stiffen, like a statue. This illness has been a personal disaster, and she even considered leaving her fiancé to spare him the trouble of caring for her. Luckily, the family stood by her, and her daughter even thinks the illness, although debilitating for her mum, has brought the family closer together.

Just five months after their 11-hour operation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, once-conjoined twin girls Erin and Abby Delaney are heading home to North Carolina for Thanksgiving. Erin was discharged at the beginning of October, and has been staying with their mother Heather in the nearby Ronald McDonald House. Their father Riley, however, has been traveling back and forth between the ward and his work in Raleigh. On Monday, surgeons declared Abby had recuperated enough to go home. Pictured: Erin and Abby with Heather after their c-section birth in July 2016 (left); Erin and Abby together after their surgery in September 2017 (right); the whole family on Monday as they prepared to be discharged from the hospital.

Kia Gott (right), from Bradford, is in a high dependency unit and recently had her fourth limb amputated. The Countess (left), who is patron of Meningitis Now, wrote to her family wishing them 'peace, strength and hope' as the youngster recovers. Kia became ill two months ago (pictured inset before) and is facing skin grafts, hearing and sight loss, and 90 per cent brain damage all while being weaned off a drug stronger than heroin.

Dr Gabriel Hendow's surgery has recently been rated Overall Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission — the only sole practice in the country to achieve this rating — which found that ‘patients were treated with compassion, dignity and respect’. Dr Hendow (pictured) is based in the heart of Hull’s Bransholme estate, one of Europe’s largest council estates. While most sole GPs have about 1,900 patients on their books, Dr Hendow (pictured left with one of the patients who nominated him Noel Till and Practice Manager Tina Cheyne) has 700 more than this, and single-handedly treats each one.

Samantha Leyland (pictured right and bottom left when ill), 41, from Staffordshire, has Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD). This causes aggressive growth of internal scar tissue (shown top right) which causes her organs to 'cement' together. She has needed to have six major surgeries since her diagnosis in 2010. It has resulted in the loss of her right kidney and parts of her bowel and a hysterectomy. She is now speaking out about the condition which she says is rarely talked about.

Julie Shaw (pictured in left in hospital), 54, from West Yorkshire, was told disease had spread to her lungs and liver and warned there was just a 5-10% chance of chemotherapy working. Her daughter Katie brought wedding forward from June 2018 to September this year (Julie and Katie pictured right and inset). Julie began drinking organic juices which she claims stopped the cancer spreading. Now four months after her diagnosis, scan shows tumour growth has slowed. She is fundraising for special low-dose chemotherapy in Germany costing £15,000.

Wooden clogs chipped the foot-bones of people that were loyal to the show, according to a new study from Western University. Modern clogs are not much better for fans like Lena Dunham (left), Sarah Jessica Parker (center, with daughters Marion and Tabitha Broderick), and Rachel Bilson (right). One New York podiatrist says she'd choose heels over them for her foot comfort.

Each plate pictured here contains the minimum daily amount of fruit or vegetables for one day. Last week, the CDC released a report showing just 10 percent of Americans reach the minimum amount of fruit and vegetables a day. The vast majority (90 percent) struggle to squeeze two pieces of fruit and three cups of vegetables (i.e. two sides or a large salad) into their daily diet. We spoke to experts about the challenges, what the minimum is, and how to fit nutrients into your food - especially if you live in a 'food desert'.

A husband is calling on NHS England to issue a national policy directive and provide a trained tongue-tie practitioner in every maternity unit.

Theo Ramos, 16, of South Florida, started cutting himself in fifth grade. He says when his body started to revolt, he had no idea there was a growing movement empowering transgender people. He became a child at war with his body. He wasn't aware of words like gender dysphoria or transgender; those would come later. Back then, Theo felt that his body was rebelling in disturbing ways. He developed breasts and got his period. He felt like a boy, but every month, the cramps reminded him of reality. Pictured: Theo, born Alex, aged 13 (left); and aged 14 (right), meeting with an endocrinologist near his hometown of Homestead, Florida.

The family of Kia Gott, 11 months, from Wyke, West Yorkshire, have been warned the youngster may lose her sight and hearing, as well as suffering 90 per cent brain damage, after she became ill two months ago. Kia's aunt Terri Mitchell wrote on Facebook this week: 'Kia has had her 4th amputation and is still fighting she's a little sleepy after all her ops.'

Sharekia Winston (right), 31, from Richmond, Virginia, first developed white, pigment-free patches around her eyebrows two months after her eldest daughter Deniyla's birth in July 2006 (pictured left while pregnant), but dismissed it as a rash. After being diagnosed with the skin condition vitiligo, Ms Winston, a nurse and mother-of-three (pictured inset with her daughters Braelyn and Deniyla, and husband Derrick) endured cruel remarks from strangers, with some even asking if the disorder is contagious, causing her to pile on make-up every day to hide her patches.

In this exclusive extract of The Doctors, shared ahead of Monday's episode, Stephanie Rodas, 28, (pictured) weeps as she asks the experts for help to recover from the disease which she has battled since she was 13. Over the course of 16 years, she has teetered on the edge of viability, at one point dropping to a life-threatening 55lbs (pictured, left). Now she is seeking help, seven months after a near-fatal encounter with some painkillers. Viewers will watch as Stephanie undergoes a battery of tests. First, she will get an ultrasound and bloodwork with gastroenterologist Dr Su Sachar, to assess her metabolic health. She then undergoes an EKG and echocardiogram with cardiologist Dr. Leonard Scuderi.

Brothers Elliot Johnson (right photo, left), 14, and Henry (right photo, right), 11, from Pennsylvania fear they won't be able to walk again after the FDA pulls the drugs that have kept their rare muscle disorder under control. They suffer from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare condition that leaves more than 90 percent of patients unable to walk by 15. They have been part of a clinical trial using drugs that have shown profound improvements and left them walking, according to their mom Joanna. Elliot is holding the name of the drug Ataluren, that they have been taking for years.

Eliza O'Neill (right), eight, suffers from Sanfilippo syndrome, known as childhood Alzheimers, which results in toxic waste in the brain. The O'Neill family (left) began the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation in South Carolina to find a cure for the debilitating condition and has started a campaign to raise $100,000 in 10 days in honor of Eliza's birthday that she celebrated this week (inset).

The 37-year-old actor, famous for his appearance in the Royle Family, then sent a public tweet to the Tory: 'If I'm wrong, sue me. I double dare you.' It sparked a week-long war of words. Hunt, MP for South West Surrey, eventually hit back at the accusation and provided a range of statistics backing his claim up to dismiss Little's scathing remark. Little then responded after carefully fact-checking Hunt's disputed figures because he is 'never one to resist a challenge'. In a series of 42 tweets, he exposed the truth behind Hunt's figures - and mocked his ability to use unverified statistics to his advantage.