9/15/2009

Intensive treatments for smoking cessation


According to research presented at the Annual Conference "Snuff or Health, held recently in New Orleans, USA, treatments to quit can succeed even in the most smokers and less motivated to quit. Twelve centers followed 600 smokers who were not motivated to quit their addiction. However, the participants underwent therapy, we first tested the severity of their addiction.

Thus, the authors find that these smokers needed intensive treatment. This included advice to motivate patients and a combination of drugs including the antidepressant bupropion and nicotinic replacement therapy (inhalers, nasal sprays, nicotine patches or gum). The conclusion was that those patients taking the antidepressant showed marked improvement. Thus, 14% of smokers who received bupropion showed motivated to quit their habit. However, only 8% of addicts who were taking a placebo he wanted to continue treatment.

Moreover, the researchers found that in the first group, the levels of cotinine (a metabolite of nicotine that is used to measure the level of this substance) in urine were reduced by 20% while in the placebo group only decreased by 8%. The researchers concluded that even the most addicted smokers can leave their habit. However, these patients require a greater percentage of nicotine replacement treatments to be effective.

Influenza vaccine nasal spray


According to studies presented at the World Congress on Antimicrobial Agents held in Chicago, USA, from the middle of this year begin to market the influenza vaccine in a nasal spray in that country.
Marketed in Switzerland only since October 2000, the new vaccine called 'Nasalflu' has just been compared to the injectable vaccine in 240 people, 110 of them over 60 years. In terms of effectiveness, responded to all criteria imposed by the European authorities to the vaccine by intramuscular injection.

The spray vaccine revealed even have an advantage over the vaccine injection: due to its method of administration, resulting in the nostrils of the body a strong response against the virus. This additional effect of the nasal spray vaccine prevents virus replication in the nose and throat, which would prevent contamination of people living or working in the patient's environment, largely impacted by the projections of the virus during the sneezing.

Tips to eliminate bad breath


Doctors can not reach agreement about the source of bad breath. Some argue that occurs with certain dysfunctions stomach, - others, however, say that it originated in bacteria lodged in the tongue. Recent studies assert that stress worsens the halitosis, it determines that your mouth is dry, preventing the saliva rinse the area and act as a natural antibiotic.

The key to treatment is good oral hygiene. The use of mouthwash or hydrogen peroxide mixed with water, 50/50 helps remove food particles and neutralize the odor. A regular assessment by a dentist can help prevent, identify and treat potential problems. The use of vitamin C may be beneficial especially in those patients who smoke. Vitamin C gets worse halitosis.

Causes of aging


At the same age, some people look older than others. There are many habits that can lead us to look older. Then, the list of habits that make us older and we get younger.

Habits that lead to premature aging:

Smoking
• Premature aging of the skin.
• bronchitis and cancer.
• Low morale.
• Lowers the libido. Stress
• Arteriosclerosis.
• Myocardial infarction.
• looks tired and stiff.
• Skin opaque.

Alcohol
• Accelerates physical and mental deterioration.
• It affects vital organs, especially the liver.
• Composition of blood
• Cholesterol and the hemoglobin level may affect aging in men. In women, the amount of bilirubin in the blood and protein.

Habits that keep us young:

Exercises
• Reduces blood pressure and stroke risk.
• Increases lung capacity.
• Protects the bones against osteoporosis.
• Increases muscle mass and reduces fat.
• Improves the overall appearance. Sex
• Prevents the appearance of heart problems.
• Increases life expectancy.
• Improves the overall appearance.

Food
• A healthy diet and better integrate natural body, softens skin, erases wrinkles and dark circles, tones and prevents hair fall.

How to avoid summer diarrhea


"Eating fresh, clean and well cooked.
"Take water, boiled or two drops of bleach per liter.
-Wash hands thoroughly with soap after using the toilet and before eating.
-Wash raw vegetables and fruits before eating.
-Fat milk and other dairy products that are pasteurized and well preserved in cold.
-When cutting raw meat, wash the knife before using it again to cut something else.
"Do not consume fruit juice made from unpasteurized milk purchased.
"Careful to entering the water, some may be contaminated mirrors.

Improve your skin with Vitamin C


According to a study in dermatology, loss of elasticity and density of the dermis is one of the effects produced by chronic sun exposure. Topical application of vitamin C stimulates dermal collagen synthesis improving photodamaged skin.

The specialist conducted an investigation with 10 women aged 50 to 60 years, treated daily for six months with cream of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) 5%, which were compared to an equal number of volunteers, under the same conditions, using the cream without the vitamin.

Skin biopsies taken at end of treatment were studied by light and electron microscopy. Although they all could see the damage from sun exposure, skin treated with vitamin C had a greater number of elastic fibers and fibroblasts metabolically structured assets, compared with skin treated with placebo alone.

Causes of back pain today


Back pain is a common symptom of our modern society. The sedentary life, new types of work and even the use we give to leisure time have led us to beat back. Most of these pains can be prevented by correcting the posture, lifting objects from the floor correctly and strengthening muscles.

This type of pain is called mechanical back pain, which results in a spasm in the paraspinal muscles or scoliosis. The acute and severe pain in his lower back, relieved in the supine position (lying down) with the hips may be due to a herniated intervertebral disc. To confirm the diagnostic test is performed computed tomography.

Benefits of birth control pills


Besides revolutionizing sexualualidad of women and allow them to plan their lives, the pill has other benefits. According to researchers at the Medical Center of Duke University, the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced by up to 50% when taken the contraceptive pill containing the hormones estrogen and progestin.

In addition, the researchers argue that when a woman swallows pills with high levels of progestin, the risk of contracting the disease is reduced by 50%. The conclusion of this study is that oral contraceptives protect against ovarian cancer, and that the protective effect of progestin is a scientific result that could lead to the development of new drugs against ovarian cancer.

9/08/2009

How to have healthy nails: Helpful Hints


• Soft nails that bend.
Normally, due to lack of minerals like calcium and iron. This problem can also occur when a woman enters menopause.
Solution: Consult a dermatologist to assess if you need to prescribe a vitamin or mineral.

• Nails that open.
It is a very common problem among people nervous. The stress and dryness have much to do. The person with scaly nails drink little water and that lack of moisture makes drying the substance that binds together the layers of the nails. Solution: Increase water intake to two liters Diario and if the problem persists, see a dermatologist.

• Nails ribbed (corrugated).
Reveal problems with the bones: arthritis (especially cervical), back problems and a source column and rheumatism.
Solution: Consult with an orthopedic surgeon to assess the situation and can begin treatment as soon as possible.

• Fungi in nails.
Desquamated nails in frequent contact with dust or dirt, are the best candidates to fungi.
Solution: The condition called mycosis, antifungal ointment is applied with a cotton-tipped applicator, a drug that should always prescribe a dermatologist.

• Yellow nails.
Is usually attributed to the nicotine in snuff, but the truth is that nicotine stain on all fingers and, at most, two nails. If all nails are stained using it because it was very dark glaze over a long time and have left the trail. There is therefore a symptom of some alteration.

• Nails black or blue.
Often reveal an alteration of the liver (hepatitis, for example) or to heart, especially if black takes on a bluish tint.
Solution: Refer immediately to your dermatologist or general practitioner to decide whether he needs to see a cardiologist.

How strong bones


1) An adequate calcium intake.
Consumed since adolescence is the most effective way to earn a good bone mass. Consumption of 500 mg daily increased by 20 percent of bone building. In the menopausal stage is necessary to consume between 1,000 and 1,500 mg per day. It is best to incorporate calcium naturally. If you can not do, you will need supplements that are prescribed after menopause.

2) physical activity.
It is imperative to have a healthy bone. People with osteoporosis in the vertebrae should not do weight-bearing exercise or those that might cause a fall, while those who have it can not perform any physical activity because, as striking against the bone, it will keep good sound. It is best to make 4 or 5 hours of exercise per week.

3) Sunlight.
When the body is exposed to sunlight through a photochemical reaction, which produces vitamin D enables calcium to be absorbed by the tissues.

9/07/2009

Tips for preventing osteoporosis


Ironically, osteoporosis is a disease that can be prevented more easily, just a diet rich in calcium and an active lifestyle. And so why is it so common? First, because prevention should begin in adolescence, since bone erosion is a silent process that occurs within a few years, second because, sometimes, doctors who treat people with fractures are investigating whether a patient can osteoporosis.

The importance of calcium:
The deposits of this mineral should be filled during adolescence and early adulthood, because at age 25 of bone density reaches its peak and it is considered that the process of building bone ends at age 30. So if no one takes the calcium needed every day, the body runs the risk of having a deficiency of this mineral. The best prevention is to have good nutrition and active lifestyle to maintain healthy bones throughout life. For those who think that this is a female disease, we say you are quite wrong because men are not immune to osteoporosis,
While it is true that women are more likely to suffer.

Data to take into account:
• 5 to 1 is the rate at which a woman suffers from osteoporosis in relation to man.
• 1 in 4 women over age 50 have osteoporosis.
• 50% of women over 75 with osteoporosis will suffer a hip fracture.

The benefits of fruits


The great religious and philosophical traditions have always alluded to the importance of eating fruit. This is the most perfect food, which consumes less energy during digestion and that, in turn, better for the body.
Easy to digest, the fruit provides sugars and helps cleanse the body.

When you wake up and throughout the day, while I can stand comfortably, eat nothing but fresh fruit or freshly squeezed juices. The more you resist no other food in the fruit body, the body will have more hours to clean. By eliminating coffee and other elements that often poison your body from the early hours of the day, you will notice a new flow of vitality and energy, which currently can not even suspect.

The 4 states of consciousness


• State of wakefulness.
It's the one we normally have every day. You know you're awake. Intellect is working, think and reason. It also has awareness of the physical environment.

• State of reverie.
It is intermediate between waking and sleep soundly. No rest. In his mental energy is expended. The intellect is not working, but there is some awareness of the physical world.

• Deep sleep.
The mind is relaxed, completely blank. There is no awareness of oneself as an individual entity. The identity of the ego disappears, as does the awareness of "I'm doing ..." and the physical environment.

• Meditation.
Just as in deep sleep, there is no awareness of the body or external physical reality, nor the time and space. But in meditation, consciousness is transcendental as teachers, the person achieves an identification with the Divine or Heavenly.

Achieve perfect skin with a steam bath


• Be prepared to treatment.
Bend with a large towel covering both the container and the head itself. Keep your face about twenty feet away for about 10 minutes.

• Short Breaks.
If you have a lot of heat can rest for a few seconds and continue. Then, it should wash your face with cold water.

• Benefits.
The steam opens the pores and provides a thorough cleaning. It also stimulates peripheral circulation providing more oxygen and nutrition to the tissues.

• Contraindications.
Avoid application to sensitive skin or prone to cuperosis (who flush quickly to any source of heat).

How to cure and prevent felons


■ What is the felon?
Popularly known as felon to a process that, in medicine is called paronychia. It is an infection of the area bordering the nail, but when it reaches deeper may affect the fingertip.

■ Why should this infection so upset?
It is usually caused by a common bacterium called Staphylococcus, although it can also be caused by fungi. Whitlow occurs because there is a previous injury to the lining of the nail, known as the cuticle. This layer protects the skin from friction with the nail. Humidity, soapy products and small wounds are factors that can damage the cuticle and, therefore, promote the cause of the infection.

■ If the finger swells means there are a felon?
Probably so. The main symptoms are swelling and pain. In chronic cases, ie where the felon does not just heal and the symptoms recur, the nail is deformed and loses the color of their edges. Paronychia causes intense pain that increases when you press on the toe.

■ Is it easy to heal?
If the infection is recent, often resolved by applying warm moist compresses, rest and elevation of the affected finger. As this is an infectious process, if necessary resort to a more complete treatment is given antibiotics, either locally or via general. If still no obvious improvement occurs in 24 to 48 hours, it is necessary to have surgery to remove the nail and thoroughly clean the area.

■ Does this mean that can cause complications?
If not treated properly can be complicated so the infection spreads to deeper areas. In this case, the swelling goes sometimes collapsing the blood vessels supplying the final part of the bone, making it originates necrosis, a process that will degrade the bone. It is also possible that it could spread to the tendons or other surrounding areas. In this case, it is essential for a quick surgical operation which usually requires general anesthesia.

3 tips to prevent felons:
1 - First place, especially in boys, avoid his finger to his mouth constantly. Those who have this bad habit are likely to be felons, because the continuous contact with saliva causes a softening of the nail bed, thereby reducing their ability to protect against infections.

2 - The wet environment on the other hand, it facilitates the spread of germs like staph, that by lowering the defenses of the advantage to attack zone.

3 - Another essential care is to cut your fingernails, but not exaggerated. The edge of the nail should protrude a little from the area that meets the finger and the side edges must be cut to just below the level of the fingertip. If you cut more deeply, to grow embedded in the fleshy portion of the finger.

Scarlet Fever: Symptoms and treatment


• Characteristics:
It differs from the rest for various reasons, the main one is the only eruption of bacterial origin.

• How to develop:
A microorganism that causes it is called beta-hemolytic streptococcus is a normal inhabitant of skin and throat and produces pharyngitis. In some cases a sort of toxin that is distributed throughout the body and causes high fever with spots on the skin. The characteristic rash of scarlet fever is that it covers large areas. There is but only swollen glands in the neck and high fever.

• Treatment:
Being a bacterium, it is medical with antibiotics, but in reality does not change much medication changes because when the eruption occurs, the bacteria is already eliminated by the body itself.
It has now become a less common disease.

Rubella: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
It is also a rash illness.

• How to develop:
The incubation is two weeks on average before the onset of the rash. The contagious period is two days until the disappearance of the rash. What differentiates Measles Rubella is essentially accompanied by lymphadenopathy (swollen glands in the neck, armpits and groin). In addition, the rash may be itchy. In some cases it is difficult to differentiate measles rubella.

No mortality or complications, but women who have had this disease in childhood and become infected during pregnancy, the baby comes what is called congenital rubella syndrome, which has a wide range of severity. If this occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy may lead to death since fetal malformations. If it occurs during the last trimester of pregnancy, can cause strain on the hearing (deafness) in the eye (cataracts, mirooftalmía, blindness) or microcephaly. It is therefore very important that before scheduling a pregnancy, women do a test to detect antibodies in the blood and in case of lack of them, receive the vaccine. The disease itself can affect any age but is most common in childhood.

• Treatment:
consists only of antipyretics. The swollen glands last one week and then return to normal.

Measles: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
It is a rash illness caused by measles virus. It occurs most frequently in childhood and mainly affects children under one year. The disease is characterized by fever, headache, feeling ill, all symptoms common to all viral diseases, the second or third day the rash appears that in this case begins on the face and spreads to the trunk and then to the extremities. The spots are reddish, the size of a grain of rice.

It is characterized as enantemática, and also affects the mucous inside the mouth are a few small white dots are called Koplick spots. Another feature is the triple cold: no runny nose, eye irritation and laryngitis. It is a mild disease and has a mortality rate of 1 / 1000. Before the vaccine virus was escalating on a biennial basis. Every two years the number of cases grew. With vaccination cycle was lengthened to four or five years. When you increase the number of cases, mortality rises to one in 500, and even goes one every 100. This disease is most sensitive in under a year and among the adults they may have respiratory or neurological complications.

• How to develop:
The incubation period is two weeks prior also. The infection occurs two days before the spots appear on the skin and up to four or five days after the outbreak. After 7 days the rash clears and there's no sequel.

• Treatment:
is to control fever without neglecting bacterial complications that require antibiotics.

Chickenpox: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
Can occur at any age, but the group most affected is children between 5 and 10 years, so that the scope of transmission is more conducive school. It is highly contagious, so if someone who has had chickenpox is near a patient is likely to be attacked by the varicella zoster virus. It spreads through contact with secretions from the skin but also affects and respiratory droplets of saliva that are expelled when habar can carry the virus.

While this condition does not reproduce the virus can remain in the body for the rest of life, housed in the nerve ganglia. It may happen that at the time when defenses are low is produced, which is a concentrated eruption somewhere in the body.

• How to develop:
The incubation period is about two weeks. The infection occurs from one day before appearing in the vesicles, until the same are covered with scabs, which is about 5 to 7 days after the eruption. The blisters usually appear on the trunk and spread to the extremities in a centrifugal movement. They do not appear all at once but must first fever peak and then an outbreak of blisters, the next day another peak of fever
and another outbreak of blisters and the next day the same. The cycle is characterized by a pink stain on it then displays the gallbladder. This then breaks down, the crust is covered with yellow or brown and when the scab falls is a scar that usually disappears with time.

• Treatment:
It is usually indicated none for chickenpox. There are antiviral drugs such as acyclovir that is active and inhibits virus replication, but as a harmless disease is not given any treatment. The only case that is of some seriousness is that of newborns or immunocompromised patients (patients with cancer or AIDS), who already have weakened immune systems.

More discomfort passes itching. In children must be careful with superinfection, because scratching, bacteria from the skin get into the small wound that is infected gallbladder and producing what is called impetigo. To relieve itching powders are used menthol and antipyretics to control fever peaks. In some cases it is necessary to administer some sort of anti-allergic, prescribed by the physician. Also the use of water d'alibur helps keep skin clean and prevent superinfection. Permanent hygiene is desirable, so that the bath itself is not contraindicated even if the problem can be occasioning injuries drying, because if you rub the skin with a towel break the blisters.

Aspirin should not be given in cases of chickenpox because it increases the risk of Reye syndrome, a neurological disease in which there is a commitment by the liver and consciousness. So it is convenient to control the fever with other medications.

9/03/2009

Foods to improve eyesight


Food is a key point. Experts indicate an excess of these products may cause early difficulties in vision.
For example, excess alcohol, caffeine, tea, canned food, cheese, cigarettes, coffee, eggs, chips, fruit juices, ice cream, milk, red meat, sugar products. To reiterate: the excess is causing difficulties, nothing better then to be fed with products that strengthen the muscles for greater clarity in vision. According to research, the favorite diet program to see better:

• A salad a day.
• Raw vegetables, steamed or cooked a little each day.
• Herbal teas and all sorts of herbal teas.
• Fasting for a day, drinking only water and vegetable juices.
• Fish or fowl to replace red meat. If you are a vegetarian, to use soy derivatives.
• Brown rice
• Vegetables.

Factors that produce fat and weight gain


• The very low calorie diets: these schemes, eventually, make it harder to control weight, because when it drastically reduces the consumption of calories, the body will not only lose fat but also muscle. Also, people who make the "starvation diets" tend to over-eat again. It is much more reasonable to include exercise and make a mildly hypocaloric diet (low fat) to achieve a slow weight decrease and even increase muscle mass.

• Alcoholic beverages: What does the label on your beer? Zero fat, right? However, alcohol provides calories, every gram of alcohol 7 kcal bñnda agency and taking into consideration that each gram of fat provides 9calorías, one can conclude that caloric intake is almost as fat. Furthermore, when excess calories ingested from food, accompanied by alcohol, are deposited as fat.

• The combination of sugar and fat: Apparently, the duo of sugar and fat tends to increase the volume of the abdominal area this way: when the sugar reaches the bloodstream, the body responds by releasing insulin flow. This insulin causes fat cells are activated and cause to be posted on them fat and sugar as fat as such wings. Thus, fat burgers and chocolate toñas go directly to stored in them. Reduce fat in your diet and this will not happen as often. And if you eat fat, try not to combine them with sugar.

Sounds dangerous to hearing


• The loss of the ability of a noise-induced hearing may result in a very loud sound that lasts a short time (an explosion, for example) or chronic exposure to moderate levels of noise (loud music, engines, machines, etc. ).

• Adolescents are most exposed to high intensity noise, for example, music discos, rock concerts or car radios.

• If several hours after being exposed to loud noise ringing in the ears feel, or have had trouble hearing what they say about her, maybe her ear and suffered slight damage.

• Faced with the loss of hearing, a study called "audiometry" to determine what part of the ear is the problem.

Tinnitus: Symptoms and treatment


■ How can we define a buzz?
The ringing or tinnitus is a sound sensation that can be localized in one or both ears or in the middle of the skull of a person and can be intermittent or persistent and low or high intensity. This symptom has the distinction of being totally subjective, so that no one but the patient can see exactly what the degree of discomfort that this sound causes it. However, we can say that depends on the type of buzz, there will be more or less discomfort in the listener.

■ "Then we can talk about different types of drones? Yes On one side are the bass, which are those that appear to accompany the decreases auditory
conductive. Among these problems prior to nerve can mention the wax plug, acute otitis media, or a hardness in the movements of the ossicles, among others. When this low level hum is virtually no annoying, because the ambient noise is often more powerful than the power of tinnitus. But when it is quiet, the buzz can turn into a nightmare.

■ And what is the other type of tinnitus?
It's sharp, often accompany nerve damage, with consequent loss of hearing. Its origin can be brought about by intrinsic factors (neurological disorders, cerebral circulation, brain hemorrhage, excessive increase of cholesterol) or extrinsic (high-intensity noises, like a jackhammer or an explosion). Undoubtedly, this picture is more severe than the low hum because in this case, the disorder occurs with hearing loss, a phenomenon that often make it difficult to understand the sounds, interfering with communication.

■ Is there a treatment for this problem?
In severe tinnitus, its eradication depends on determining the root causes of the disorder. In other words, treating the otitis, the wax plug, for example, the buzz disappears. But when the problem is the nerve, the situation is much more difficult to reverse.

■ We sometimes hear ringing serious sporadic Why should?
Usually are associated with tubal dysfunction. That is, to a malfunction of the eustachian tubes, which often occurs when we sound our nose, for example. This is completely normal, and goes as easy as it comes.

The 7 main benefits of vitamin E


Vitamins are organic substances essential for the normal functioning of our body. Necessary for growth, vitality and well-being, they are hidden in tiny proportions in all natural foods. Like his companions, vitamin E provides that portion of health that keeps us alive by a long list of benefits. Among them, the most important are:

• Youth.
This vitamin slows cell aging caused by oxidation.

• Strength.
Supplies oxygen to the body to give more resistance.

• Protection.
Defend the lungs from pollution with the help of vitamin A.

• Prevention.
Dissolves blood clots.

• Anti-fatigue.
Reduces symptoms of stress and exhaustion.

• Action diuretic.
By having this quality, lowers blood pressure.

• Anticalambres.
Decreased chance of pain and muscle contractions.

Treatment to remove kidney stones


■ How are the calculations?
They are formed by the merger and solidification of certain substances that would normally be eliminated in the urine. The reasons for this not to happen may be due to various factors such as climate and food intake napropiada. In the case of climate, when warm produce excessive perspiration, which reduces the flow of urine: having less urine is more difficult to remove substances that accumulate in the kidneys.

As for food, is harmful inadequate fluid intake, which can predispose the body to stone formation. They also favor the formation of stones some urinary tract disorders, such as lack of certain vitamins, particularly vitamin A metabolic deficiencies and to the familial predisposition, in the event that there is a history of this type.

■ Does the intensity of pain depends on a factor?
In general, the pain varies with the individual who has mobility, being in direct relation to this, and according to the displacement of the calculus in the urinary tract. In these cases, according to the characteristics may be present in blood in the urine and also cause difficulties in urination.

■ What is traditional?
Drink plenty of fluids to try to induce natural expulsion or dissolution of the calculation. But in most cases, or when the estimates reach a considerable size or number, this remedy is not enough. In those cases when it is advisable to operate or bombardment by sound waves.

■ Currently, is there another way to dissolve the stones?
Yes, there is a water called "dialysis water" that is able to dissolve the stones or stones that form in the body. This water has no chemical additives or medicines but it is a physical solution.

■ How does it work?
Dlalítica Water is obtained through the application of a natural device in the form of blister, which contains macrocrystals specially treated to channel his energy through the glass. This energy comes from minerals that are inside the vial and is electrostatic in nature. How you prepare dialítlca water is submerging the ampoule in a glass of water (about 250 cm3) without opening it or break it for 24 hours. After this period water and drinking water converted into dlalítlca, which will become part of the bloodstream and other bodily fluids. Each vial has a capacity to produce forty glasses of water dialysis.

■ What are the proven benefits of this therapy?
The effects that could verify indicate that:
• removes the outermost layers of the calculations (edges), and in some cases split large stones.
• transforms the stones into sand that can be expelled without pain.
• increases the solubility of mineral salts that circulate in the blood and urine-especially calcium-prevents them from sinking and forming a new calculation or increase the thickness of existing ones.
• is a natural treatment, non-invasive and without side effects, which does not interfere with other therapies that the patient be followed.
• also works efficiently in the treatment of gallstones, gout and atherosclerosis.

Vaginal Infections: Symptoms and treatment


Abundant secretions and odor and pain during sex, almost always betray the presence of an infection that requires medical attention. As vaginal infections may not be found in a routine gynecological visit is very important to know your symptoms and communicating with your doctor. An infection that is not more dangerous time of what is believed. For example, bacterial vaginosis is associated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy complications and possible postoperative infections, why is so important to detect early and treat it.

Infection: Bacterial vaginosis.
Symptoms: Flow scanty white or greyish and foul odor. Possible irritation and itching.
Treatment: The gynecologist prescribes specific remedies. Avoid self-medication because it can worsen the situation.

Infection: Fungal infections.
Symptoms: The fungus Candida invasion is the most common. The flow is similar to cottage cheese and often itch.
Treatment: Eating yogurt containing "lactobacillo acidophilus" can prevent the risk of future infections.

Infection: Trichomoniasis.
Symptoms: It is a parasite that is usually transmitted during sexual intercourse. It can cause itching and pain when urinating and during sex.
Treatment: It is best to early treatment involving the prescription of a drug, both women and their partners.

Infection: Herpes simplex virus.
Symptoms: Itching and stinging treble on the vulva and vagina.
Treatment: There is no permanent cure, but the prescription antiviral drugs can stop the outbreak.

Infection: Human papillomavirus.
Symptoms: vaginal warts can cause itching or burning during intercourse.
Treatment: Some types of papillomaviruses present a risk of developing cervical cancer, so it should be surgically removed.

Male hygiene tips


The men, having external sexual organs, it is easier for the bathroom cleaning himself.

However, not everyone knows that under the foreskin (skin covering the tip of the penis) are small glands that produce a creamy substance called smegma. Its function is not well known but if not washed off, produces an unpleasant odor, so it is recommended that children from the men learn to pull back the foreskin during bathing.

The best female guards for menstruation


Certainly for many women, menstruation is a real inconvenience. However, today is as wide a variety of ways to absorb the menstrual flow, helping to dispel the concern for one's clothes or kept clean. We tell you about hygiene methods are commonly used for these cases:

Cotton.
It is a material widely used in medicine. Allows you to clean a wound, the tail of a baby or as a protector of women.
Pros: It is so soft, soft, annoying and totally fits the body.
Cons: must be changed too often to not stain clothing.
Recommendation: it is more practical to use the days before the period and in recent days when the flow volume is low.

Wipes.
They are made with cotton pressing to increase their absorptive capacity. They come in different thicknesses and all have a waterproof bottom layer filter to prevent blood flow.
Pros: being an external environment allows free outflow of blood and does not promote infection. There are many varieties: those that attach to underwear, with wings, slender, longer for use at night, and so on.
Cons: some women find it uncomfortable, because it marks on clothing. Recommendation: Every woman should try different types until you find that it is more convenient, according to their needs and daily activity.

Buffers.
They have the characteristic of absorbing menstrual flow after it leaves the womb and before it reaches the external opening of the vagina.
Pros: is the method that gives more freedom because it is undetectable and allows entering the water. There are different sizes and fit all bodies.
Cons: in case there was a clot, he may not leave right away, staying longer in the vagina. It may cause Toxic Shock Syndrome is a rare but serious disease that can cause acute abdominal pain, fever and decreased blood pressure. It occurs in very few cases by misuse, eg if it is left much longer than recommended (3 hours) or forget it inside the vagina.
Recommendations: pay attention to the instructions-which are within the container-for proper placement and use.

Feminine Care Tips


• It is advisable to use the spray too often the bidet because it acts as a siphon that can change the balance of vaginal flora.

• intimate feminine deodorants are the solution for women whose natural flow is inherently rich and strong odor. But it is important before you have established with the specialist that this flow is a normal physiological characteristic and not pathological.

• Many women do not tolerate personal-hygiene products and in this case adequately enough to sanitize the outside with mild soap. Anyway, the vagina is kept perfectly clean thanks to the purifying of his own bacterial flora.

• Sometimes the itching is only due to an allergic reaction due to using a scented soap, nylon underwear, sanitary napkins with deodorant or intolerance to iodinated disinfectants as podophyllin.

• Soaking in water and sodium bicarbonate have a disinfectant and very effective decongestant.

• It is desirable to have a special towel to dry the genital area and not share ever.

• Avoid perfumed soaps, vaginal deodorants, bath salts and talc.

• When using the bathroom, wipe from front to back, not to accidentally move the seeds of the stool toward the vagina (these can cause dangerous infections).

4 exercises to strengthen the legs and hips


Exercise 1:
Bend and stretch.
From the off position, bend down.
-Rest your hands on the floor at an approximate distance of one meter forward. -Straighten your legs to lift the hips.
-Lift one leg, extending upward and backward. Avoid twisting the knee.
-Repeat with other leg.

Exercise 2:
Up and down like a top.
-Stand with feet together and hands at the waist.
-Turn your hips to one side and go down twisting like a top. Enough to sit down.
"Be careful not to injure their knees.
"Without help with hands, ascend turning in the opposite direction to that used to descend. You can also use the image of a screw to be unscrewed. "Repeat several times, to one side to another, up and down very slowly.

Exercise 3:
Kneel and project.
Assuming a kneeling position. Then lean forward and place your hands on the floor.
-Lift the chin and look up to the horizon and far away.

-Extend and lift one leg backwards, not exceeding the height of the back for not forcing the lower back. Repeat several times with each leg.

Exercise 4:
Stretch to the side.
-Start by lying on the side of his body.
-Support on the ground the outside of one leg, and forearm and elbow on the same side.
-Double leg resting on the ground back up to the knee and lift your top leg up sideways in the plane of his chest.
-Repeat several times, extending the right leg is raised. Then switch sides and repeat the full year.

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Intense aerobic exercise


Vigorous activities: increased oxygen consumption more than six times the level burned by the body at rest:
• Walking very quickly, three to four miles per hour.
• Biking swiftly, 8 to 10 miles per hour.
• Swim or crawl quickly.
• Exercises with scaler.
• Tennis and paddle.
• Canoeing fast, more than three miles per hour.
• Move heavy furniture.
• Cut the lawn mower manual.

Moderate aerobic exercise


Moderate activities: increased oxygen consumption of three to six times the level burned by the body at rest:
• Walk quickly, two or three miles per hour.
• Bicycling for pleasure or transport, six to eight miles per hour.
• Swim with moderate effort.
• Calisthenics vigorous.
• Table tennis.
• Golf, carrying clubs.
• Fishing standing.
• Go canoeing, one to two miles per hour.
• Care home as general cleaning.
• Cut the lawn with a lawnmower motor.

Aerobics for beginners


Activities for Beginners: should start with 10 minutes between light to moderate exercise three times a week.

• Warm up a walk for 5 minutes, then work out at the right point of your heartbeat for 10 minutes and finished with 5 minutes of stretching.

• Add one minutes of exercise per week, ie, an increase of 10 percent. In order to improve their fitness, not only to reduce their risk of disease, you should practice at least 20 minutes of moderate activity three times a week.

• For more benefits and, perhaps, to prolong their life, try to reach a more vigorous exercise regimen and intend to carry out 45 minutes a day, four or five times a week.

• Note: Check with your doctor before starting any program. Once you are comfortable with this routine.

How much aerobic exercise is recommended


What is less known is exactly how much and what type of aerobic exercise produces these wonderful effects in life. For decades, experts in fitness just thought it was exhausting work. But recent studies, carried out long term, suggest that practiced constantly, any type of physical activity can strengthen your heart, lower blood pressure and protect against a battery of diseases.

In fact, changing from a sedentary lifestyle to one a little more upbeat, provides the greatest health disparities. To enjoy the health benefits of exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of disease in the United States recommended for sedentary people, at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity three to five days a week, for example, a brisk walk. If you're short of time, the 30 minutes need not be consecutive, but it is unclear whether some short periods of activity are as useful as one long session.

What is clear is that you must push yourself if you want to see a good improvement in energy, such as climbing stairs without gasping. This means taking your heart to a rate zone training - specifically, 65 to 85 percent of their maximum heart rate - for 20 minutes to an hour, three to five times a week. To find your right spot, you first calculate your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age at number 220. Multiply this number by 0.65 and 0.85 and keep your pulse at 117 to 153 per minute, for a person of 40 years.

An easier way: If you huff and puff as much as to be unable to speak, you're beyond their reach if he can sing, go to that rhythm. Another recipe: usually you stand at least an hour a day: above this strength workout with deep breathing and sweating a little, at least half an hour for three or more times per week.

And something more promising: the latest results of a study of 17,321 male Harvard students showed that the more active you are, the more live. The men who burned 1,500 calories per week through a vigorous exercise (equivalent to five sessions of 45 minutes of brisk walking each), were 25 percent fewer deaths during the study that lasted 20 years, compared with less active men who spent only 150 calories per week in their exercises.

Unlike other large-scale research at Harvard saw men who were active less strong as golf or gardening deal, did not live. It is believed that is because one has to improve his fitness to prolong life, and vigorous activity is the best way. But this does not mean that light to moderate exercises are useless: they can improve the psychological and functional capacity. If you do not help you live more can certainly help you live better.

Benefits of aerobic exercise


Unlike strength training (that tones muscles and skeleton), this gym has a significant impact on the heart. People forget that this is a muscle and like any other, bigger, get stronger and more efficient exercise.

Plus:
• After ten weeks of training three times a week, the heart muscle gets thicker and more oxygenated blood pumped with each heartbeat.

• The muscles of the torso, arms and legs that have been working out more efficient to extract the necessary oxygen from the bloodstream.

• Together these changes increase the resilience.

• Also, the flow is optimized in part by the improvement of small blood vessels that carry oxygen to tissues and remove wastes.

• Aerobic exercise reduces risk factors for heart disease: lowers blood pressure, raises the level of HDL cholesterol, keeping the veins free fatty plaques and reducing dangerous blood clots that are the leading cause of heart attacks .

• Finally, as the aerobic workout burns body fat and increases metabolism, is one of the best weapons we have against obesity.

• Physical activity also benefits the rest of the body. Walk a mile or two per day increases bone density and lowers risk of osteoporosis.

• By helping to regulate metabolism of blood sugar, it can stop the type II or noninsulin-dependent diabetes, which is the most common form of this disease.

• This type of gymnastics accelerates the immune system, improve circulation to their cells, which makes the body better able to overcome the bacteria and viruses. In two studies from Harvard University found that those who walked 40 to 45 minutes, five days a week for 15 weeks, half of reported cases of colds and flu than other sedentary group.

• Aerobic exercise reduces also the risk of breast cancer and colon cancer. Physical activity accelerates the transport of waste through the intestinal tract, so that does not irritate the colon. Another study conducted at Harvard to 47,000 men for six years found that the most active, running at least four hours a week or playing tennis eight hours a week had half the risk of colon cancer than those who were sedentary. Even those who exercised less - ran two hours or six hours walking per week - had the third of a risk than sedentary.

• The regular exercise seems to protect against breast cancer and other estrogen-sensitive cancers, including ovarian and endometrial cancers. Research conducted at the University of Southern California found that young women who practiced jogging, swimming or racket sports at least three hours per week beginning in adolescence, reduced their risk of falling ill with breast cancer from 20 to 30 percent, those who exercised four or more hours a week reduced their risk by 60 percent.

• More difficult to measure but perhaps more importantly, is the impact of aerobic activity on quality of life. It's simple: people who practice it tends to look and feel much younger than they are. Part of Ja reason is that the sedentary lost 9 percent of cardiovascular as each decade after age 25 years, the decline in active adults may be less than 5 percent per decade.

• Numerous studies suggest that aerobic exercise reduces depression, anxiety relaxes and calms the mind. One tends to assume that rest and relaxation are the best way to energize, but gymnastics combat stress more effectively. You may feel tired afterwards, but if practiced regularly, will eventually have more energy and sleep better.

Exercise self-healing in 3 simple steps


This is an essential exercise to correct posture to work the muscles of the neck, back, shoulders, besides those involved in the inhalation and the back of the legs, helping to prevent pain, and eliminate tension and contractures.

First step:
• Lean back against the wall with knees bent and together, bent to the maximum.
• Place your arms at your sides, palms of the hands upward.
• Breathe slow, relaxing especially during inhalation.

Second step:
• Gradually, separate your knees wide out to join his feet, plant against plant, maintaining the central axis of the body.
• Stretch the neck, tucking the chin and support the back of the skull and the entire back against the wall.
• Lower flattening shoulder blades on the wall. Place your hands under your thighs.

Third step:
• Extend your legs forward. As it does, pull back the toes, keeping your heels together.
• Keep your arms relaxed at your sides, palms facing up.
• Keep plants upright and the inner edges of the ankles touching each other.
• Lengthen the neck and the chin a little goal, turning his face to one side to another. Then tilt your head sideways to the left and right, doing the neck.
• Repeat the exercise several times in each direction. Return to the position: initial training, with the head straight and legs bent.

Tips on how to remove the acidity


• Avoid chocolate.
He is very fat and caffeine, the closest of friends with the acidity.

• Go easy on caffeine.
Coffee, tea and soft drinks containing this substance. Try not to consume too much, because they can irritate an already inflamed esophagus.

• Drink ginger root.
It has very good effects against acidity. Take one capsule, just after lunch.

• Do not eat too much.
Otherwise, a larger amount of gastric juices will move into your esophagus.

• Take an antacid.
Choose from a counter and do not use more than two months, since it could mask other problems.

• Try not to lie.
If you feel sick, you feel worse when lying horizontally. Try elevating the head lying on his bed 10 to 15 inches by placing wooden boards (the pillows are useless).

• Do not be misled by myths.
The mint and milk are not good for relieving heartburn. Quite the opposite, make things worse. The mint makes you relax the valve that contains fatty out of the esophagus and, although initially calm milk, its calcium stimulates the stomach to secrete more acid.

• Ventilate.
Try not to snuff the smoke because it relaxes the sphincter and increases acid production.

Tips to relieve toothache


-Avoid foods very hot or very cold.

-Apply a poultice of clay or ice on the cheek, on the aching tooth.

"Put a drop of clove oil diluted in five of olive oil over the decayed tooth. Not appropriate to repeat this procedure too.

-Drink a warm, highly concentrated infusion (5 teaspoons per cup) of sauce, lemon balm, linden and ash bark. Repeat eating every three hours.

Tips to calm the tummy ache


"Take infusions of balm, anise and chamomile. Do it in small sips and not excessive.

-Make a short fast or swallow soft foods. Chew slowly.

-Apply heat to your belly. Best is a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel.

"Ultimately, an enema warm water (one liter of water or camomile tea, mixed with a teaspoon of salt).

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How to relieve sore muscles and bones


Plants are recommended rubefaciente action (producing flushing or redness), such as mustard. In general, are very beneficial for painful conditions such as bruises, sprains or arthritis.
Did you know that most of the patches that were placed by our grandmothers were poultices, Sinapis a term derived from the Latin name of the mustard?

• An option for extreme cases.
Another plant that causes similar effects is the pepper (Capsicum sp.) One of the substances it contains is capsaicin, which is capable of interrupting the flow of pain through nerve pathways. Its action is so effective that it is exploring its use in very severe pain such as migraine or some certain cancers. Anyway, we should clarify that its application (diluted to the skin) is quite dangerous. Remember, always suffering from acute pain, first consult a physician.

• Accessible and effective.
The spirit of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is considerably softer than the previous plants, but no less effective in pain of moderate intensity. The rubbing alcohol is also effective and very easy to prepare.

Easing the pain of the joints


"Make rest.

-Apply a mustard plaster on the sore area for about 15 minutes.

Joint-Bathe with warm water, previously mixed with salt (about 200 g per liter).

Perform alcohol-friction with rosemary and camphor.

"If necessary, see a naturoterapeuta to tell you what natural painkillers taken in capsules, or to receive acupuncture.

How to soothe a headache


"Put an ice pack in the area.

-If possible, avoid the glare and noise.

"Take your time to relax with large, comfortable clothing.

-Do not eat if not hungry.

-Drink teas of chamomile and feverfew.

-Perform gentle massage with fingers on both temples.

-Make a chamomile enema water with salt (between 500 and 750 cc).

Easing the pain of menstruation


"Take infusions of sage, yarrow, lemon balm and meadowsweet.

-Do warm compresses to the abdomen. For example, a cloth soaked in water with high salt and then drained. Change it every time you go cold.

-Make a hot sitz bath or bidet in the bath.

"Do rest and be calm. The pains persist till the period, and increase with the nerves.

How to treat bruises


"Shortly after receiving a blow, apply an ice pack.

-Make the painful area with rubbing arnica.

"If the bruise is strong, immobilize the affected part.

-Make a poultice of oatmeal, boiled potatoes or cabbage leaves for 45 minutes.

3 breasts surgeries according to your problem


While methods exist to maintain and enhance the beauty of the breasts are numerous, some women are not satisfied with the results. Either because their breasts are sagging, small or too large, millions of women around the world choose to leave the topic to the beauty of your bust in the hands of a surgeon.
These are the three most common surgeries:

• To enhance the breasts.
Is surgery with general anesthesia, in which stands the bust across the tissue is left in the bottom of the breast and it intersects with the skin. Thus, the area is tense and the bust is lifted. It is performed if significant laxity or to increase breast size.

• To reduce the breasts.
It is done in two cases: when a breast enlargement (breast big it operates only if the person you wish) or to a gigantomastia (yes or yes it must operate to avoid conditions such as cervical artrosisis produced by the great weight that must support the spine). Except in very young girls, the reduction is often accompanied by a rise. The amount of breast tissue that is removed between 300 and 500 grams in each breast.

• To lift the bust.
Most women who does this should do it because they suffered a great loss of weight in a short time which produced them, or because they have saggy breast fallen because of breastfeeding. Very often, the elevation is usually accompanied by an increase, with the placement of a prosthesis or a reduction. In both cases, the steps of the intervention are the same as followed in this type of operation.

Treatments for breast toning


These techniques are especially recommended for young women keep their breasts in good shape and just want to look better or prevent future problems.

• Technical hipotamizante mask.
Start with the skin preparation and application of a blister, a slight hyperemia (increased circulation). After a few minutes of action, it uses another specific ampoule containing essential oils of hazelnut, sunflower, castor bean, verbena and nutmeg. Next, apply a mask complementary hipotamizante (low temperature), which has a high power tonic. After a rest period, is removed and makes a lymphatic drainage massage with a cream based on specific bioestimulinas, mink oil, wheat germ oil and placenta lipids.

This procedure is completed, when necessary, with machines that tone muscles. If you wish to raise an inch, added to the foregoing cream with walnut oil and plant extracts. The goal of this treatment is to prevent the loss of fat from the breast, without affecting the natural biology of the gland, it is therefore recommended for women under 30 years.

Where can do: with a doctor or a cosmetologist.
Frequency: as an essential complement to achieve the best results we recommend daily use in the home of a blister and the corresponding cream. These procedures should be performed for about five months, approximately two or three times a week.

• Mud.
Being an excellent tensor, the sludge applied in the bust produces a special aesthetic effect. It is proven that after several sessions, the skin is much more elastic and rejuvenated. As part of the procedure, practitioners usually wrap some areas where mud is applied with a thin polyethylene film. The goal is to compress the clay, causing heat and maximize its impact. After a minute, it proceeds to remove the plastic and mud.
Where can do: it can place the patient at home. Frequency: several sessions

* The cosmetic breast should not be done during periods of pregnancy and lactation.

How to avoid sagging breasts


Flabby tissue have not always mean being an adult, sometimes, heredity and lack of care can be decisive. To prevent and treat this problem there are several ways.

The best are:
• Treatment with mask: Clean the area with a few drops of sesame oil and fingers, previously soaked in rose water, extends the mask on the skin. Wipes is removed with a toning lotion. Then, put with the exception of the areola and nipple, a mask fitobiológica multitratante containing extracts of aloe vera, collagen and elastin. Area is subjected to heat lamp and cold massage with ice cubes made alternately every five minutes. The cold and heat promote the skin tone of the organ. The time of action of the mask is between 20 and 30 minutes, retires, is painted with a gel with elastin and collagen, elastic brace is placed to perform 15 minutes of exercise. After the brace is removed, clean the skin and is massaged with a nourishing cream, ending with a drainage treatment with essential oils.
Where can do: with your doctor or a cosmetologist. Frequency is recommended 5 to 10 sessions.

• Brushing: brushing the skin of the breasts by hand, using fine abrasive powder suspended in emollients and decongestant. Micropeeling This action can also be done with that dried gels cause a mild strain modeling. The products are removed with wet towels. Where can do: with a dermatologist or cosmetic specialist.
Frequency depends on the skin of the patient.

• Using the square wave
This wave causes an electrical impulse that acts on specific motor points of the pectoral muscle mass (not made on the bust), causing muscle contraction. When these impulses have some frequency surgical, are trained by muscle contraction that is more intense and, in cosecuencia, the bust is lifted. Ideal for women with mild tenderness.
Where can you do: in the doctor.
Frequency should be made between 2 and 3 sessions per week for a month and a half.

How to remove stretch marks on breasts


One of the most common aesthetic problems in women and is characteristically occur at any age, including adolescents. The most common causes are usually the continuous increase and decrease in weight, pregnancy and lactation. Then we told him what the two most commonly used techniques.

• anti-stretch mark cream: This is a natural cream with a large amount of fatty acids that has two advantages: does tissue regeneration and stimulates the melanocyte cells that mimics the stripe is better.
How to apply: the patient goes through the affected area as any other cream. Should be placed 2 to 3 times per day, for at least 6 months.

• inflatable air abrasion: a technique is performed with a device that produces an abrasive effect on the skin. This procedure allows for tissue regeneration.

How to apply: in the doctor.
Frequency: once a week ago and the results are seen after 5 or 6 months of treatment.

Tips breast lift


Female breasts many suffering daily assaults (posture, weight changes, dry skin, etc.) that are impacting on the natural beauty that has the bust. To prevent these factors affect it, it can take account of the following treatments with creams, to care for them every day:

• Moisturizers: to restore the natural softness of fabric and balance the amount of water in the skin, it is necessary to nourish and hydrate properly. Cases in which it is recommended: for women with dry skin. How to apply: the best is taking a very gentle massage, and move upward (in the sense of clockwise), holding the breast with one hand. It is best to do it three times daily, after showering. Within these creams have to distinguish two types:

1) Those that have no hormones play the role of breast moisturize. The products must be fluid and be prepared with substances such as vitamin A, E, selenium and so on.
Cases in which we recommend: dry and rough skin in young women. This cream leaves the gentle breast, but does not improve the tone.

2) Those that do have hormones may give firmness and even increase the volume of the breasts. Cases in which we recommend: premenopausal age women. This cream should always be prescribed by your doctor, because it can have an undesirable effect in the long term.

• Based on embryonic extracts and vitamins: states and lifts the bust. It acts on the supporting structure of the mammary gland, improving and regenerating skin tissue. Cases in which it is recommended: in young women or middle-aged who have a mild to moderate sagging.

• With collagen, elastin, oils and vitamins A and E: used to prevent and combat sagging bust. Cases in which we recommend: young people who still have no problems in their breasts, but want to prevent them.

• Concentrated moisturizing and nourishing is a liquid product that hydrates, nourishes, revitalizes and stimulates. Thanks to its formula restores and reaffirms the tissues. Cases in which it is recommended: for young people with firm breasts and that this cream does not turgor, but also prevents and keeps them hydrated and looking good.

• Blisters plant extracts of hops and willow has revitalizing properties that strengthen the tissues that form the natural support of the bust.
Cases in which it is recommended: for women with problems such as sagging skin extracts restored.

The placement of the creams can be accompanied by a self-massage to keep the breast form and activate circulation. They have to perform very gently to avoid damage to the weakened tissues. The best is lying, because the bust and falls further relaxes the area better. The best way is to massage the whole hand and not just with fingers. This prevents excessive pressure is exerted and counterproductive. It must start with the bottom of the armpit, always holding the breast with his cupped hand. Then proceed as when you apply a cream.

Why falling breasts?


Many factors throughout the life of the woman condition the form and beauty of her breasts. All of them result in aggression caused a greater or lesser extent in the nature of the skin, the kind of bust and care received. Most of these factors are natural and therefore affect the entire female population at some stage of life.

But there are also other factors such as excess weight, slimming sudden lack of fatty tissue and glands, pregnancy or breastfeeding poorly managed, have a genetic predisposition to certain diseases and loose skin (dermatitis and stretch marks, example) that may influence the deterioration of the breasts.

If you believe that your bust is limp and does not look like you'd like, you should consult a specialist in aesthetics to the east towards the best choice of treatment. Here, we present the wide range of methods that can help restore the bloom of her breasts.