Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts

4/17/2010

How drugs act on the body


Sometimes we gain weight as a result of medical treatment with drugs that increase appetite and promote fluid retention and fat. These are a few:

• Antiallergics: used against allergic reactions. They also appear in some cold remedies as well as certain compounds restorative tonic.

• Antidepressants: act dispelling depression, improve mood and increase appetite.

• Antihypertensives: included in the composition of clonidine, a substance that is used against hypertension and also to deal with some headaches. They also stimulate the desire to eat some food.

• Against Atherosclerosis: These drugs reduce the presence of fat in the bloodstream and some of them, as clofibrate, provoke a significant increase in weight.

• Tranquilizers: reduce anxiety and allow restful sleep, but also "
well promote more food intake. If in addition the substance used is fanotiacina that
ca reduce psychological stress, can cause significant weight au creased.

• Corticosteroids: lí retain liquids by promoting the creased au weight. Indicated in inflammations, rheumatism, allergies and diseases intense ties affecting the blood and intestine san.

• Pill: based on hormones, the contraceptive can cause fluid retention and consequent weight gain. It is advisable to go to the doctor if you notice this effect.

12/21/2009

Alcoholism and drug abuse in young


It is common to experiment with alcohol and drugs during adolescence, including cigarette between these drugs and psychotropic drugs. Unfortunately, adolescents do not see the connection between their actions today and tomorrow's consequences. They have the tendency to feel indestructible and immune to the problems experienced by others.

Teens use alcohol and other drugs for various reasons, including curiosity, to feel good, to reduce stress, to feel adults or to belong to a group. Parents can help educate, speaking at a young age about drugs, communicating and being good role models themselves.

Signals major use of alcohol and drug abuse in adolescents:
• Physical: fatigue, continual complaints about your health, and dull red eyes and a persistent cough.
• Emotional: personality changes, rapid changes in mood, irritability, irresponsible behavior, low self-esteem or self-esteem, lack of trial, depression and a general lack of interest.
• Family: breaking rules, withdraw or fail to communicate with the family.
• School: declining interest, poor attitude, poor grades, frequent absences and discipline problems.
• Social problems: new friends who are not interested in normal activities of the home and school, trouble with the law and the shift towards less conventional styles in dress and music.

The first step parents should take is to consult with a doctor to be sure that the warning signs that reveal not have physical causes. This must be accompanied or followed by a comprehensive evaluation conducted by an adolescent psychiatrist, who recommended the treatment to follow.

9/22/2008

How to prevent hair loss

The hair loss, baldness in popular language, has always been one of the biggest obsessions of mankind. Despite the fashion of the rapados, loss of hair causes more of a complex poorly carried in men and in women.

What is alopecia? A natural process, neither more nor less. The life cycle of a human hair ranges from two to three years. While some fall, others growing up, being the normal daily loss of around a hundred hairs, which are in the sink after hairstyles, in the shoulder by the American, in the sheets ...

Over the years, however, the hair falls and loses vitality diffuse slowly and relentlessly. And, worse, do not regenerate. We talked about the common or androgenetic alopecia, which in Spain affects more than eight million people, mostly male, although women not escape its effects.

The alopecia is a common hormonal problem that manifests itself in men from puberty, and women, in different periods of his life (puberty, menopause, childbirth ...). Androgens (male hormo-nas) are the major culprits of this hair loss.

That does not mean that a large number of these hormones, like testosterone, leading to baldness, but the cells of the scalp are overly sensitive to them. This causes the atrophy of the hair follicle (root) and fall short of hair affected.

However, hereditary factors also influence. Although the exact mode of transmission is still a mystery, one can say with little margin for error, that "parents bald, bald children" The androgenetic is the most widespread type of baldness, but not the only one.

Other arrangements are telógenos of tenacity and alopecia areata. Telógenos known tenacity for the temporary fall of the hair, which responds to different causes. So, a lot of cases of this kind of disruption due to psychological problems.

In this sense, a situation of prolonged stress or neural disorder may experience problems with the cabello.Y also adversely affect some drugs (contraceptive products or chemotherapy), certain prevalent diseases (diabetes, abnormal thyroid), postoperative or diets low in protein.

9/11/2008

Antibiotics for fertility

A recent study on human infertility identified a disorder common and easy to treat among men: the leucocitospermia. Inflammation, often caused by an infection, which causes white blood cells from entering the prostate, interfering with the ability of movement of sperm.

Dr. Emmett Branigan, a specialist in fertility, found that 53 percent of men who had problems of infertility, failed to fertilise his partner after respond positively to a treatment of antibiotics. If you're having trouble conception, Dr. Branigan recommends a test of semen that includes a check of white blood cells.

It also recommends that men who seek to initiate a family ejaculate frequently, preferably once a day to remove the prostate old sperm and other substances.

Therapy to prevent blindness

To better Verte. The drug therapy for glaucoma can prevent blindness, but until today, this meant multiple daily doses of beta blockers and potential side effects as impotence.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States has approved a new drug: the latanoprost (Xalatan), which is effective in a single daily dose and has much fewer side effects. "Patients are more convinced taking latanoprost regularly," says Dr. Ronald Gross, an associate professor of ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine. Unfortunately, drugs obscures the iris of the eye clear of people.

The FDA recommends that doctors use medicine as a last resort, to realize what is causing the discoloration.

9/10/2008

How drugs affect the body

(Cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy)
How you affect.
As we know, over the last decade there was a significant rise in drug use, so that even today, many men still affected by its vestiges. According to one study, higher consumption of drugs during the past two decades were cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy, so we'll focus on them.

With regard to cocaine, which can be less dependent if the seas has absorbed through the nose, that if you have you smoked or injected, but any of these forms is extremely damaging. Mangle aspirations you the inside of the nose, smoking will cause respiratory problems, and injected you produce all the dangers associated with needles without hygiene.

It's easy to become an addicted to cocaine because of their sense of well-being. However, according increase your dose, the sensations are replaced by hyperactivity, nausea, insomnia, weight loss, nervousness and chronic paranoia, among others. If you continue using it for some time, your mental state may be similar to a patient of paranoid psychosis.

Most of the time that smoking marijuana you feel very good, but you can also suffer short periods of panic attacks and anxiety. In higher doses suffer severe psychological dysfunction and confusion. Smoke for several years can cause respiratory problems and even lung cancer.

Ecstasy is regarded today as the fashionable drug. Although it is said that not addictive and is not very dangerous, is as bad as marijuana. In high doses, their bad experiences include anxiety, panic, confusion, insomnia, psychosis and hallucinations that you can leave with a poor psychological condition momentary.

There is evidence that Ecstasy can cause damage to the liver, and maybe that affects your immune system and brain cells. We have identified dozens of cases of people who have died collapsed instantly, apparently by the effects of the drug.

It is never advisable to take ecstasy, but is especially harmful if you suffer from high blood pressure, glaucoma, epilepsy or have a poor physical or mental condition.
How to recover. The only way to recover any of these drugs, leaving them completely at once. With the greatest problems that you can have is with cocaine, since one week after having left, leads a kind of malaise that encourages reuse. If you lie with her, you can reach notion of losing your personal life and live for their addiction.

Marijuana and ecstasy are easier to leave, you only need the firm intention of doing so. In fact, the only way to recover any of the three, is to have the firm conviction that every day that passes without using your body to do well. The secret is to keep motivated.

There are various institutions that help you keep that motivation, but finally you're the only one who can do it. How long you take. Apart from the fact that most drugs will kill neurons in your brain, all other damages may be gradually disappearing. We can not talk about a specific time of recovery, as the drug residues take a long time to disappear.

In the case of cocaine, the damage inside your nose may take even longer to alleviated. Unless you've been the victim of an overdose, will never be too late to stop any drug.

9/01/2008

Zombies or living dead

Zombies and doctors. Hallucinogenic drugs, ceremonial vudús, revenge, murder ...
Much more than that surround the stories about zombies or living dead. Can Happen?

The inhabitants of the Caribbean zone of Haiti could tell many stories that would paralyse us.
Films, books, comics, have dealt at length the zombie world. Almost always from a vision of thriller.

The medical science still wonders how it is possible to ensure that the will of a person is totally disabled and can be made that what is desired, the types of drugs used by sorcerers and the biggest mystery, how is it possible that a person is declared dead, receives burial, and appears years later, and live as if nothing had happened?

8/06/2008

Resistance of bacteria to antibiotics

Most of the bacterial presents varying degrees of antibiotic resistance acquired by mechanisms such as genetic variability, decreased permeability to the drug, its enzymatic inactivation and chemical modification the target on serving.

The manual resistance not only is transmitted from generation to generation between the same species of bacteria, but can spread to different strains through the transfer of resistance genes.

This makes a bacterium that is immune to an antimicrobial drug with which it had never before contacted.

5/01/2008

You delete tobacco plant and medicines to be more fertile

The nicotine is another poison that affect at the same time to your well-being that to that of your son.
The drugs, be already social (as the marijuana) or for medical (as the antidepression medications) recipe they will also affect your capacity to conceive.
As much some as others can have short term benefits, such as being able to relax you or to reduce the stress, but unless you approach the actual questions that hide behind the stress, these problems they will simply return, leaving it to you in mental form and locked physics.

If you are making some prolonged treatment due to a chronic illness, ask to the physician on possible side effects of the treatment and you search some form of reducing the dose while you are trying to conceive and during the first studios of the pregnancy in the case of the women.

Desintoxication of the body for the fertility

Now you can begin to come undone of the toxic matter accumulated during months or years.
The keys for the desintoxication are the liver and the kidneys. These eject the material of of having undone of your body through the perspiration, the urination and the excrements.

The constipation is the most typical sign in the bad desintoxication. Then to improve your digestion will be the precedence. If you have doubts on the desintoxication, you consult to a specialist physician.

The way easier and more important of being detoxified it is to drink a lot of water, generally with about 2 daily liters of water for the women and 2 to 3 liters in the men.

3/31/2008

The coca leaf is not the same thing that Cocaine

The coca leaf:
During centuries, the coca was considered as a miraculous plant endowed with extraordinary virtues. Until the Westerners, extracted of the plant the cocaine. The panacea became a fatal weapon.
The politico-economic interests took possession of the controversy and they penalized to the sacred plant, condemning her to disappear.
The coca is a shrub native of Andes that grow until 2,5 m of height, of woody shafts and sheets elipsoidales, petty and of green intense color.
The chacchar, picchar or acullicar are the act of to insert the dry sheets in the mouth and to go forming a skittle to extract of them the enabled substances and stimulants. To achieve the wanted goods, you are necessary to add an alkaline component to the mixture, usually alive lime or alkaline ash (Baking soda )
Your use transcends the mere fact of deleting the sensations of hunger, thirst or fatigue, being in fact the chacchado or "acullico" a ritual act with social deep implications for the andean man, since it perpetuates the cultural traditions and you bind people.
Your content in vitamins and determined oligo elements makes the infusion of coca to constitute a nutritious plug-in of the daily diet at the same time.
These same studios of the University of Harvard sustain that in 100 g of coca they can almost be had two grams of potassium that are necessary for the balance of the heart and they are also allocated slimming estates. Knowing that these infusions are so rich in these nutrients, they transform into energy and in medicine.
These satiated? Do you grab some coca leaves and do I list, do you feel you bad, hacete a tea of coca and do I list, do you dye desires of spending one night with all the loaded batteries?, with the coca you will be able to achieve it (not to confuse with being drugged ok )
Here in you Jump, the coca is taken of him but normal (as smoking a cigarette among friends) alone that the acullico (skittle of coca leaves is not SHARED), is a faithful azados partner, like this way tmb the fernet, the trick and depaso help you to download the food. One finishes thing to deny the myth that you can take out cocaine of the sheet you are LIE. Each 300g of coca leaves are obtained less than half gram of cocaine, contrary to all the nutritious q 300g of coca provide us.

Some data could be added, as that you contain 14 beneficent alcalóides for the body that among other sew benifician the bony development, the musculature, improves the performance neuronal, among other so many other, and NOT it is ADDICTIVE, in fact a book of a French llamdo exists \ "The Miraculous Coca leaf \ in which explain all the benefits that he/she have this millennial plant. Asu time, you are necessary to highlight that in the elaboration of the Cocaine, they are used chemical as the muriatic acid, sulfuric acid, ammonia, naphtha and another so many ones.

3/06/2008

They find genes related with the prostate cancer

For all it is known that that of prostate is in the entire world one of the types of more communio cancer in men, among other things, because your detection is based on a blood test, a method that have an error wide margin.

Now, a discovery could throw light on your early detection and therefore your prevention and cure, since they have been possible to identify seven genes associated with prostate tumors.

To discover them, they were analyzed to more than 10.000 individuals, observing that these genes are present in more than half of all the cases of prostate cancer. And some of these genes, you say the studio published in the magazine Nature Genetics, they could also help to the development of new treatments.

"These results will allow us to carry out genetic" "profiles to analyze the risk that the men have of developing the illness" the discoverers they assure. The genetic profile requires to extract DNA of the patient and to analyze it to see if you have the genetic variations that it would put it in risk of prostate tumors.

Also, this discovery will allow to hurry the development of drugs", they continue. Assuring the "obtaining of a specific medicine in one or two years."

3/03/2008

Alzheimer and Senile Dementia

The senile dementia consists on a psychic deep, global and progressive deterioration that alter the intellectual alcoholatura features and you disintegrate the social behavior in some old men (on or about in the 4 for 100). The lawsuits of the senile dementia are very diverse. The hereditary factor is the most important. You are families with a precocious deterioration of the mental abilities. They also have your importance the environmental factors, genus of life, toxics, infections, etc., and mainly the fact of being reached the brain by the general involución of the senile organism.

The symptoms are set up gradually, although sometimes, after some illness or psychic important trauma, the previous unstable balance can collapse and to show the symptoms almost suddenly.Alzheimer and Senile Dementia

The senile dementia consists on a psychic deep, global and progressive deterioration that alter the intellectual alcoholatura features and you disintegrate the social behavior in some old men (on or about in the 4 for 100). The lawsuits of the senile dementia are very diverse. The hereditary factor is the most important. You are families with a precocious deterioration of the mental abilities. They also have your importance the environmental factors, genus of life, toxics, infections, etc., and mainly the fact of being reached the brain by the general involución of the senile organism.

The symptoms are set up gradually, although sometimes, after some illness or psychic important trauma, the previous unstable balance can collapse and to show the symptoms almost suddenly.

The alcoholatura symptoms are the following ones: behavioral disorders; (day little activity, occupations esteriotipadas of the same topics constantly, confusion of memories, insomio, puerility in the whole behavior, among other) memory disturbances; (forfeiture of the uptake memory, that is to say, of proximate facts, and conservation of the evocation memory, that is to say, of old facts; the school infantile automatisms are also remembered) dysfunctions of the language (forfeiture in the elaborated ways of expression or onomastics); constant disorientation in time and later in place; weakening of the judgment and reason; fatiguability and carefulness lábil; dysfunctions of the character (jealousies, avarice, selfishness, intransigence, impertinence, distrust, mistrust, among other); and release of the inferior layers of the legal capacity (for failure of the control mechanisms).

The evolution of the process is progressive, with periods of attenuation and of exacerbation of the symptoms, toward a final state of psychic chaos, being the senile one reduced to a purely vegetative life.

The treatment indicated in these cases is fundamentally medicamentoso (hormone therapy anabolizante and drugs psicotropos, so much antidepression medications, as tranquilizers). They should also be kept in mind the conditions of life of the old demenciado in the socio-economic and environmental sense.

2/27/2008

Alcoholism

In all the cultures aficción has existed to the alcoholic drinks, for diverse reasons. On one hand, the alcohol is a substance anabolizante (you help to the alimentary assimilation) and a font of calories; on the other hand, you produce pleasant goods in the psyche: euphoria, seguiridad sensation and well-being, delete inhibitions, etc. Now then, chronic drinkers exist to who this fact doesn't cause any dysfunction neither serious problem, while other, because of the ingestion of alcoholic drinks, they come modified your social and family life, since the embriaguéz episodes go accompanied by behavioral disorders that rebound in a decisive way in the fellow's life when being reiterated.

Two factors that cause the alcoholism exist: the environmental (regional customs of towns viticultores, special professions that involve insulation, social deterministo, as the frequent care to cocktails, appetizers, among other; and popular and mythical prejudgments around the alcohol, like you could be the fact of associating the drink to the manliness) factors and the personal (to drink to compensate affective or personal conflicts, I eat a married or professional failure for example, feelings of inferiority, difficulty in establishing interpersonal relationships, among other) factors. The fundamental symptoms decrease to three classes of dysfunctions: digestive, sensitive-motors and oníricos (of the dream). The great hazard of the alcoholism in your state phase and in your chronic phase it rests in the possible acute (the delirium tremens) and chronic production of alcoholic psychosis that you/they can put an end to the integration of the legal capacity and to cause a delirious invasion of the psyche. The curative treatment of the alcoholism is based essentially on the deacclimatization, creating an aversion toward the alcohol, and supporting this cure with psychotherapy and restorative drugs, at par that they should be tried to modify the social and environmental factors that could motivate relapses.

Toxicomanias

The toxicomania can be defined as a state of periodic intoxication or detrimental chronicle to the individual and taken place by a reiterated consumption of a drug, you be this natural or elaborated synthetically. The fundamental symptoms of the toxicomania are the following ones: I want irresistible of continuing taking a drug and of being offered it by all possible means; trend to use dose every bigger time and psychic and even organic dependence with regard to the goods of the drug.

The classification of the drugs according to your use in the toxicomanias was imposed by O.M.S (World Organization of the Health) in the following way:
Drugs that certain dose always takes place, for your pharmacological specific share, the dependence of the drug. You are from the submitted controlled drugs to detective control and asylum. Examples: the opium and your derivates (laudanum, elixir paregórico, morphine, diacetylmorphine, codeine, etc.); the substitutes of the morphine (dolatina, butalgi, fenodonas, palfium, etc.); the derivative preparedness of the cannabis indicate or communio (grifa, kif, marijuana, haschich) hemp; and the cocaine (derivative of the coca leaves, in form of clorohidrato of cocaine and used powdered that are applied, as the snuff, to the nasal diaphragm).
Drugs that never cause the imperious necessity of your management, but that they believe habit. In these drugs it is not considered important the pharmacological effect and they don't need control. Examples: tobacco plant, coffee, barbiturates, etc.
Drugs that are located among the two aforementioned groups. They are those that can damage to the toxicofílicos and that in other individuals they don't not even cause habit. Examples: bromides, stimulant (as the amphetamine or bencedrina) aminas, atorácticos, etc.
Finally the psychedelic drugs are, of current (lysergic acid and derivates, LSD and LTP) great broadcast.

The axial topic of the toxicomania is the constitution toxicofílica. In fact, you are predisposed legal capacities to suffer the toxicomania when they have contacted a drug. This predisposition, named toxicofilia, it can be of two types: organic (linked to the fellow's somatic constitution) and psychic that are the most frequent and the most important. You are about a special structure of the legal capacity that have in general, the following features: disforia with big oscillations in the state of spirit, self-centeredness, intolerance to the annoying stimuli and react in short circuit. Everything leads to an anxious search of pleasant sensation in the present moment, without meditating in later consequences, and an escape of the unpleasant thing for any mean. Great toxicomaníacos part is psychopaths or neurotic and always immature legal capacities.

The cure of the toxicomanias debit side to always be carried out by means of internamiento in a specialized sanatorium where you proceeds to the desintoxicación, followed by psychotherapy. You are also necessary the family collaboration for the patient's retrieval. Anyway, the most important thing is the prevention of the toxiocomanías, so much on the part of the physicians, acting advisably when prescribing toxics, like part of the detective controls of the traffic of drugs.