Showing posts with label irritation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irritation. Show all posts

3/03/2009

Solution to itchy skin and tired

The more dehydrated the skin more sensitive to irritation becomes. In addition, wool, warm and gender contribute to areas that appear irritated and itchy.
On the one hand, chose to wear soft materials like cotton.

On the other hand, avoid applying too much force with your moisturizer, massage and gentle movement is equally effective. Preferred products fragrance free, hypoallergenic and specially formulated for sensitive skin.

Also, look for products with green tea extract to soothe the itching and reduce redness. Another solution? Find a humidifier in your bedroom to add moisture to the air. If you continue to itch after a few days, it would be advisable to consult a dermatologist.

As moisturize dry skin and flakes

When it's cold, we tend to drink more coffee. Too much caffeine, like the
Lack of moisture caused by heat, dehydrate the skin throughout the body.
Do not scratch or rub the skin when it dries it just get more irritating the affected area.

A better strategy is to use creams for the body that contains citric acid and antioxidants. In addition, we reduced the amount of coffee and takes at least six glasses of water per day.

9/25/2008

Allergy or irritation to the eyes?

Many children complain of itching, tearing or discomfort in your eyes. Faced with these symptoms vague and unspecific, very often their papas not resist the temptation to administer drops.

Usually the relief is spectacular and the symptoms disappear. But this solution is not as simple as it sounds, since many eye drops containing corticoldes and can exacerbate a viral infection corneana or cause glaucoma; also trigger an infectious process more complicated.

It is for this reason that you never have to use eye-drops in an indiscriminate manner, at least not without first consulting with the pediatrician or ophthalmologist if the picture is complicated.
Meanwhile, and until able to consult with your pediatrician, you can use the eye with bathrooms shared tea or chamomile tea, which is an excellent anti-inflammatory and nonallergenic.

3/03/2008

Eczemas and Herpes

The eczema is maybe the most frequent and broadcasted affection. Few people will have that in the path of your life they have not suffered it, or at least they have not suffered a secondary eczematización of another affection; the first, maybe, were the dermatitis of the infant's diapers.

In essence, the eczema consists on a petty one, sometimes very petty, sobreelevación of the due skin to the appearance of a light quantity of liquid, forming a minuscule cavity among the cells of the epidermis. If those blisters are very pequ'ñas, is palpated much better than s even. He/she usually accompanies of cigar, often intense and durable that, when being scratched the blisters they break, the skin becomes moist, the injuries ooze and easily they are infected. They appear two new phenomena then: of a side, the skin reddens (erythema) and you swell lightly (edema); of other, the secondary infection gives place to the formation of petty cortexes, in general yellow (impetigo), to the increase of the cigar, to the extension of the injury and the secondary infection of the infection, with what the box, initially plain, has suffered an important complication. In summary, the eczema consists on this triad: blister, cigar-scratched and wet injury. If you are not blister you are not eczema.

The lawsuits of the eczema are very numerous and therefore they are several the types of the same one. To practical goods, the most important form is the secondary eczematización of a previous injury. Among the most frequent they should be known:

- The infant's eczema: almost always to an irritating local factor. The gauzes of the children, for very clarified that they are, they always contain alkaline remains of soap or detergents, when not of bleach. These remains are dissolved when becoming moist the gauze with the boy's urination and they act as an irritating agent of first command on the infant's brittle skin. The consequence is the persistent redness of the buttocks, periné and pubis, and not rarely the step to the eczema phase.

- The dermitis of the laundry, more characteristic of women, in the one that for different lawsuits, mainly the continuing dampness and the alkaline detergents, a decrease of the submitted of the skin of the hands exists that often accompany of secondary eczematización.

- The contact eczema, own mainly of the labor pathology in that very diverse you substantiate they act as sensitizing agents, for allergic mechanism, and they cause the formation of blisters. Among the most frequent we should mention those of the hairdressers (for parafenilendiamina), bricklayers (for chromium), waiters (for nickel), etc. The contact eczema also takes place often in the face for the use of cosmetics or I eat reaction to some medicines of local use, mainly some powdered sulfamides.

Among the vesiculous other affections, the most important, mainly from a popular point of view, you are the herpes. Numerous affections have received such a name. The herpes simplex consite in a petty blister that accompany of a discreet reddishness and edema of the neighboring skin and that secondarily it usually infects. In some people he/she appears mainly with a certain frequency or record in mucous, mainly the labial (cold sores) or genital. Your therapy is easy, but difficult to avoid the relapses when you couch to it.

A very different and much more serious form is the herpes zoster, in which a line appears, sometimes very long, of petty blisters located in the itinerary of a nervous edge and that they translate an affection of the same one in fact. Your path is dilatory and you sometimes go accompanied, particularly in old people, of very intense pain.

Bronchial Asthma

The bronchial asthma or asthmatic illness, are a respiratory process whose main feature is the breathing difficulty, called dyspnea, as a consequence of a decrease (stenosis) in the diameter of the petty bronchi and bronquiolos.

The affection is frequent and diverse. The factors of aggression of the air higher channels as a result of the industrialization and of the urbanization, with your atmospherical and microbial pollutions, and the development of new, industrial, labor products and medicamentosos that wrap our environment, they explain at statistic level the increase of the frequency of the asthma that are of quotidian observation in the practice of the medical query.

The great complexity of this illness as for your nature, your pathophysiological components and the unchaining factors, demands from her a disciplined work, patient and, in some occasions, almost fruitless, since, although you have been able to arise in start of an unique and precise lawsuit, later on your persistence and development can be due to a retinue polietiológico, in occasions difficult or impossible of figuring out in your true value.

The same as the pel and the digestive mucosa, the quarrel-traqueo-bronchial mucosa is a tissue of protection of the organism. These three tissues can be, in the same individuals, object of aggressions that, for similar mechanisms, they drive to edema reactions and inflammation; you explain to it how often the asthma associates in particular to certain type of cutaneous manifestations, that which give us the testimony of a land or a special constitution, such as eczema, urticaria and angioedema.

Another aspect that should be kept in mind is the patent fact that you are, in general, the whole mucosa of the respiratory channels, and not only that of the bronchi, the one that participate of this special reaction; you explain to it with how much frequency the asthma crisis comes preceded by rinitis symptoms, and that like you are logical to suppose, they obey the same mechanism.

Therefore, the asthmatic sick person's alcoholatura feature is the hipersensibilidadexagerada of your mucous traqueobronquial, in front of extraneous agents or endogenous factors. This sensibility can be detected by the general methods of diagnostics of the allergic illnesses and for other explorations or biologic complementary exams; you prove farmacodinámicas espirográficas, cellular and bacteriologic exam of the bronchial secretions, psychic context of the patient, etc.

What involve a true difficulty is the patent fact that rarely, the sensitization is unilateral, that is to say polarized toward a single alérgeno; it can happen that a polisensibilización already exists toward several alérgenos from the start of the illness or that the patient goes being sensitized to other, in the course of the time. On the other hand, the factors irritating inespecíficos and direct, and the microbial infection can, in turn, to prepare the one in route to the causal alérgeno; and inversely, the alérgeno can only be responsible for the bronchial "irritation" and to prepare this way the bed to the infection. If to we add it the surety of laimportancia of the psychological core or psicofisiológico of the patient, without forgetting the influence of the hormonal mechanisms, and the interaction of all these causal mechanisms that you/they are entangled and they are favored mutually, we will still have a shallow idea of the complexity of this affection and of how ambiguous and inaprensibles can be, sometimes, the roads for which the physician tries to find the important possible lawsuits and initials.

2/22/2008

Diarrhea

You are named diarrhea to the expulsion of feces of liquid or doughlike consistency, generally associated to an increase in the number of the sedimentations throughout 24 hours.In the diarrhea eciste always an acceleration of the intestinal transit, associating in having determined cases an intestinal faulty absorption and even an exaggerated hypersecretion of your mucous glands. Now then, an acceleration of the transit of the small intestine can exist if diarrhea. You are it due to an offset on the part of the colon that can raise the time of permanency of the fecal materials, until your due dehydration in that. From the clinical point of view, we can classify the diarrheas in three big groups: dummy diarrheas, acute diarrheas and chronic diarrheas.

In the dummy diarrheas, when describing the jam fecal, determined types of constipation they can cause an expulsion of feces of doughlike or liquid consistency, with increase of the number of the sedimentations, what could be confused with a diarrhea.

The acute diarrheas, are characterized by your sharp presentation in totally healthy people. Not they have anything of specific, since they can be many the lawsuits that provoke them. The acute diarrhea generally takes place for the food intake in malas conditions: already for bacterial toxins in the same ones, already for bacterial contamination. In other occasions, you are the same energy the one that can be toxic, as the ingestion of certain species of mushrooms. For some patients, the allergy toward having determined foods can be the unchaining lawsuit d euna acute diarrhea. Finally, we should also remember that an excessive power supply with the help of irritating foods or of excess of drinks, it can be the lawsuit of an acute diarrhea.

When the lawsuit of the diarrhea has been the food intake in mala conditions, the first symptoms appear at the few hours of having ingested them, being noted general uneasiness, with sensation of tightness inside the abdomen. Later, pains appear in retorcijo form, indigestion sensation, frequent eructation, with repetition d ela eaten constituent of the diarrhea, accompanied by a revolting state and even of vomits. Little depsués, the patient notes you win imperious of evacuating and you make it ejecting great quantity d egases, with doughlike feces at the beginning and flowed later, of very bad odor.

In the light cases, the vomits disappear quickly, but I didn't seize the pains coliculares and the desires of to evacuate that persist during 24 or 48 hours, ending up making up to 10-12 up-to-date sedimentations. The general state doesn't usually lose temper.

In the cases of average graveness and in the serious ones, the general state loses temper. Fever that he/she can go appear preceded of intense chills. The pains in retorcijón form are almost made contínuos, and the number of sedimentations, abundant, being ejected at the end some totally watery and odorless feces. This produces a great dehydration, with forfeiture of weight that oscillate between the 8 and 12 kilograms.

In the serious cases, the face is sharpened, coldness of the extremities, the pulse exists you become dilatory and taquicárdico, with great trend to the colaspo. If the diarrheal box persists, very annoying cramps can appear in the calves and the patient case stops to urinate. The number of sedimentations can be so considerable that neither the sick person neither the relatives know how many you have made in the 24 hours; you generally take place a great irritation of the rectum and of the anus that determine some continuing and very annoying desires of having to evacuate continually.

Gastritis

You are designated with the term gastritis, to a series of alterations of inflammatory-degenerative type d mucous ela of the stomach. They are multiple and varied the lawsuits that can unchain a gastritis. So much so that, nowadays it is not considered as a specific illness of the stomach; of here that the generic name of gastritis goes always accompanied of the lawsuit or lawsuits that provoke it; for example, you are spoken of a gastritis in you ulcerate her of stomach, gastritis in the stomach cancer, gastritis in the alcoholics, among other.

They have become numerous classifications of the gastritis. The most practical classifies them in two big groups: acute gastritis and gastritis chronicles.

The acute gastritis can be exogenous or endogenous. The acute exogenous gastritis or gastritis irritativas are produced by any kinds of chemical, thermal irritant, mechanic or bacterial that can be ingested by the mouth. The most frequent are the foods and extremely warm or cold drinks, the pungent ones, the sauces, the spices type mustard, as well as the medicines with the help of salicylates, chlorides, iodides and bromides. As special cases, we should remember the corrosive gastritis, for ingestion of corrosive substances, as well as the allergic gastritis, of alimentary, bacterial or chemical origin, caused by hiper sensitization from the mucosa to these substances. As for the acute gastritis of endogenous type, you are to redial those that take place in the path of the septic processes in general, among those that it are necessary the gastritis that you/they are observed in the path of the scarlet fever, the measles, and the typhus-paratyphoid illnesses to highlight; they can, even, to take place hemorrhagic gastritis, like in the path of the yellow fever.

Now then, the gastritis chronicles, they are different. Amtes was believed that when the lawsuits irritativasz persisted during long time, the acute gastritis became chronic gastritis. This is in detuning with the clinical observation that demonstrate that many cases of chronic gastritis didn't enter antecedent irritativos that you/they explain to it. Currently he/she is enjoying great accept the hypothesis of an immunologic mechanism.

12/16/2007

How to Arm the Baby's Trousseau

Many moms, very anxious to know to their petty one at the end of the pregnancy, they are frequently polled what to include in the baby's trousseau that will arrive to the world. Here we offer a practical list to keep in mind when arming it.

The basket of the newly born debit side to include:
1 normal thermometer
1 bathroom thermometer
1 chaser
1 brush
1 pacifier
1 natural sponge
1 bottle of special colony for children
1 bottle of liquid, better soap still bactericide
1 box of sticks to clean the nose and that heard
1 bottle of oleum protector for the buttocks
1 boat of talc for the neck and the arm pits, in order to avoid the close contact of the clothes

The team of clothes understands:
4 robes of wiper of long sleeve
2 dummies figure 0
2 dummies figure 1
2 bodies
12 diapers
4 booties
4 blankets
3 bathroom towels
1 bathroom layer
4 stockings
1 muffler if it is cold

The baby's underwear should not have bellboys neither alfilarias and he/she should close with velcro or tapes.

All the plug-in (coats, dresses, pants, etc) clothes, varies according to the station and the mom's taste; but the most important thing is to shelter it of agreement with the time.
The shoes should leave free the movements of the muscles and therefore, the tendons of the feet. It is necessary to choose a rational shoe that avoids the leveling of the plantar bank vault and that it prevents the boy to twist the ankle. Until the two years it is advisable the high boot of leather with lateral rigid and hard buttresses. The later buttress is useless. It is necessary a heel from five to eight millimeters. The sole should be floppy with the very wide tip. In general it is preferable not to use of form continuing sandals or rubber shoes, those that favor the sudoración and with it, the maceration and irritation of the skin of the feet. Also, it is not very advisable the continuing use of the nylon socks in the hot times for the same reason.