Showing posts with label medicines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicines. Show all posts

11/13/2008

Oral contraceptives and medical

There are some medications that can interfere with the normal intestinal absorption level of birth control pills or who, after entering the body, can block its action. In those cases did not meet the contraceptive effect may be searched and unwanted pregnancy.

• Among the psychotropic drugs, barbiturates are not consistent at all with oral contraceptives. Must be sought an alternative method. The same is true with other minor tranquilizers, except benzodiazepine derivatives.

• A drug used in treating tuberculosis, Rifampicin, decreases the effectiveness of low-dose pills. So it should be replaced by others with higher doses.

• Certain antibiotics such as penicillin and its derivatives, as well as tetracycline, may decrease the absorption of the tablets in bowel.
Monthly in this section, we will identify, in each case, the alternatives. But if any reader has the urge to tell if the medication you are taking in prolonged treatment can interfere with a contraceptive, with taste we will respond by mail about your particular case.

9/11/2008

Against Blood Sports

If you suffer from numbness in hands and fingers after playing baseball or volleyball or after a hard day of rowing practice, can be caused by blood clots. Dr. Michael Dake, chief of cardiovascular radiology at Stanford University, said that tronarte arm movements in heating or sporting activities can cause clots in his shoulder.

Fragments of the clot can travel through blood vessels until their hands, causing numbness. This injury (relatively rare) not life-threatening, but may end up causing more severe circulatory problems in his hands.

Dr. Dake believes a surgical procedure that can repair damage to blood vessels in the shoulder, and can be used drugs to dissolve clots and restore the sensations at the hands and fingers.

9/01/2008

Anti-vampires

A plant as small as garlic has great healing properties, apart from that, as indicated by tradition, attracts good luck. Already knew the Sumerians 2,300 years before Christ. The used in infusions to eliminate fever.

In the sixteenth century was used as a remedy against vampires and evil spirits. In Greece, pronouncing the word garlic (skórdo) conjures bad luck in Latin America se cree que garlic cure male impotence, and its properties are proven against respiratory problems, skin and heart disease among others. It serves as a remedy for almost everything.

The only thing that brings disrepute is the intense smell that leaves after Inger; why it is advisable to eat fresh and fasting. If not you dare with the garlic clove can find their active pills in pharmacies and herbalists with identical medicinal properties.

8/05/2008

Medicines are bad for children

There are times when drugs are not suitable for children, producing side effects quite important.

Eruption, hives and swelling of the skin with small blisters, are the most common symptoms of allergy to any medicine. At times urticaria is accompanied by swelling in some areas of the skin (angioedema).

In exceptional cases, a drug awareness, produces vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, sneezing, asthma attack and significant fall in blood pressure.

The best way to prevent curtain disorders, involves the rational use of drugs. We must avoid self-medication, especially with small. Once that occurs awareness, is treated with antihistamines, and in some cases, associations with this steroids.

After the urgency there should be a consultation with the pediatrician header. This will indicate how long should ingest antihistamines or educate parents in the event of a return to repeat these symptoms.

Drugs that cause allergy, should not be used again.

4/30/2008

The lemon against common illnesses

You are known that, the fruits have many properties besides being flavorful desserts, for example. In this case, we will be in charge of of the lemon, as solution for those more common ailments.

This fruit, has multiple applications for the care of the health. The following recommendations are the best test in it.

I catch a cold or sinusitis:
To arrange different times per day some lemon drops in each nasal grave. This cure can I will accompany drinking broth of onions with the attaché of the juice of a lemon.

Digestive problems:
The lemon juice calms the stomach distress, the flatulence, you help in the indigestions and in the liver dysfunctions and blister. It can merge it with an infusion of chamomile if the dysfunction is digestive and with boldo or lion tooth if you are hepatic.

Headache:
To apply on the field aching lemon slices. When these warm, to delete them t to replace them for other new ones.

Muscle aches:
For pains like for example of sciatica, lumbalgia, hematomas, pains of legs and of column, to massage the field corresponding with lemon juice.

Eye infections:
For the aflame view or in the event of conjunctivitis, to arrange in the eyes juice of dilute lemon with tea of chamomile.

Ailments in the nervous system:
The tea of lemon tree sheets works as sedative and antispasmodic. To prepare it it is necessary to boil three fresh sheets of lemon tree in 300 cc of water, to allow to rest and to filter. To take before go to sleep.

Vaginal uneasiness:
If you exist vaginal flow or itch, to carry out seat bathrooms with water and lemon juice.

The lemon: the rich fruit medicine in vitamins

The lemon, fruit of the flavorful and refreshing lemon tree, is very rich in minerals (potassium, magnesium, calcium, match, sodium, iron, fluorine, sulfur, silicon, copper and iodine), and a valuable font of main vitamins for the health.

These vitamins are:

- The vitamin C. of disinfectant great power and with action antióxida in front of the toxics
microbial and medicamentosos.

- The vitamin P. which facilitate the capillary permeability. In your absence, the capillary ones
(very fine vessels), they become brittle and they can break, causing small
haemorrhages.

- The vitamin B1. you are preventative and curative of the "beriberi" (illness cutos symptoms
they are paralysis, edema and cardiac inadequacy). This vitamin also intervenes, in the one
metabolism of the hydrates of carbon.

- The vitamin PP. you prevent the "pellagra" (illness that are characterized by the
skin inflammation), the gastric bad digestion and the mental alterations. This
vitamin is fundamental for the health of the skin, the digestive system and the system
nervous.

The nutritional components of the lemon are not overworked in the vitamins. You possess citric acid, malic, formic and oxalic, which leave an alkaline residual where the microbes don't proliferate.

At cardiovascular level, you exercise a beneficial action in the cases of arteriosclerosis, hypertension, varices and capillary brittleness. The citric acids help to oxidize and to delete the fats that block the work of the heart and they are not a great solvent of the toxics of the blood plasma.

The lemon is also counteracting of the engorgements, pneumonias, flu, bronchitis inflammations of the throat, cold, hoarseness and other.

You also normalize, the altered features, you neutralize toxins and you help to your deletion, reinforcing this way the feature protector of the liver.

To be refreshing, antiseptic, diuretic and to contribute vitamin C, the lemon is useful in the cases of fever: you help to excrete the toxics that have not been deleted.

4/23/2008

The drops: you cause and modes of prevention

The enormous majority of the adults bigger than 60 years, they suffer a drop at least per month. This not always to a physical clearly estimable problem and hence, you are very important to be about to delimit the problem and to avoid it. When a grown-up suffers a loss of the balance followed by a drop and this repeats, it is usually frightened and to limit your exits or walks fearing that the event repeats again. This way, you don't only increase the risk that ésto happens, because you weaken your muscles, but rather you also cap your social life that are always counteractive from the psychological point of view. The certain thing is that the fears are not necessarily groundless; the drops can you turn accompanied by wounds or fractures, mainly in the women that are those more affected to this age by the osteoporosis. In consequence, the important thing is to pay carefulness to this type of accidents and mainly, to be about preventing them.

Physical causes that motivate the drops in the grown-ups exist. Some are friendly, other not so much, because they respond to a natural deterioration physique. But, methods that you/they help to withdraw the risk the most possible thing always exist.

The biggest adults usually take diverse medicines and the quantity and combination of these it can be the origin of the problem. You are important that the physician is the so much of all the medications that take the patient and your quantity.

The depression and other psychological problems, they usually take to delay the mobility and more and more difficult tornarla.

The problems articulares like the artrosis, the arthritis and your consequent pain and nuisances, the inferior members usually harden and to facilitate the drops. Medicines and effective treatments exist to counteract or to reduce the symptoms.

The debility of the muscles, due to long illnesses or the sedentarismo, they cause muscle weakness that should be diagnosed by a traumatólogo and treated.

The neurological affections or illnesses like Parkinson, the senile dementia or the cerebral thromboses, they can cause dizziness or fadings and they need a specific treatment with medicines.

The loss of the vision or hearing influences strongly in the mode of moving and in the possibility of suffering accidents. In general, these problems can be solved with headsets, glasses or ophthalmological operations.

You are important to also highlight that frequently, in the places where they happen the accidents you are in the own home. For ésto it is elementary to control those barriers that can block the movement and to cause drops, I eat the electric cables for example, the floor of the bathroom because it is usually wet or the to exit or to enter of the bathtub, the fact that you have good illumination, and if stairways exist in the house, you suit to cover them with a stuck carpet or some nonskid other material.

Medicines that attempt against the sex

If your libido is falling, you are possible that you are due to some of the following drugs that you/they can affect the sexual desire. You consult to your physician about if alternatives exist to replace them.

- Antihypertensive: as diuretics, locking beta and locking of calcium channels. They can cause a decrease of the desire
or inability eyaculatoria.

- Tranquilizers: They can retard or to inhibit the orgasm or, simply, to leave it too much sedado like to have desire.

- Drugs against the cholesterol: They can reduce the sexual desire or to cause erectile dysfunctions.

- Diuretics: Occasionally, they can cause problems eyaculatorios or erectile and to reduce the sexual desire.

- Some stimulants as the tobacco plant or the alcohol: For ejempo, you have been proven to only smoke 2 cigarettes before the sexual act,
you diminish the flow of blood considerably to the penis.

4/10/2008

The tobacco plant doesn't kill alone of cancer - info cigarettes

You are at least 20 illnesses associated to the usage of cigarettes. The respiratory ones and the cardiovascular ones are the most frequent. But complications also exist in other organs.

The stars of the classics of Hollywood didn't seem to fear you. Humphrey Bogart in the memorable scenes of Casablanca or Rita Hayworth in Gilda demonstrates it. They smoked a cigarette after another with cavalier, indifferent, seductive air. Today they would maybe continue challenging to the statistical data on lung cancer, in ascent in the entire world. And to the bound other illnesses to the tabaquismo, more than twenty according to recent studios.The lung cancer appears as the great demon when you are shot against the tobacco plant. According to the figures of the World Organization of the Health (OMS) it causes 1,6 million deaths per annum in the world. The incidence of the lung cancer is 16 times general ledger among the smokers, the boss of Cancerology of the Foundation informed Campomar, José Mordoh.But little you are spoken of other organs that suffer the destructive goods of the nicotine and they can derive in bad irreversible.They would be more than 20 the derivative complications of the usage of tobacco plant: tumors, affections of the respiratory or cardiovascular system are the most serious, the boss of Oncology of the Hospital alerted Alvarez, Mario Bruno.Although so good epidemiological studies don't exist as those that speak of lung cancer, several experts consulted by Trumpet they enumerated other wrongs that, in general ledger or pettier measure, they associate to the cigarette.Among the tumors, the physicians give tacan those of mouth (in the pipe smokers a bigger incidence of cancer of the inferior lip is noted, for the permanent contact with the heat), those of larynx, pharynx, esophagus and stomach.The bladder cancer would also have relationship with the tabaquismo, according to recent investigations. Of this it is spoken little, but you were proven that your incidence is bigger among smokers. The toxins are deleted for via urinary and they concentrate on the bladder, the vice-president of the Association explained to Argentina of Cancer, Oriel Alva. Some kidney cancers could also have to do with the tobacco plant.The cigarette is also responsible for respiratory illnesses as the chronic bronchitis or the emphysema, a wrong that you impede the normal oxygen uptake in the organism. And you also affect the cardiovascular features.The boss of Docencia and Investigation of the Foundation Favaloro, Branco Mautner, detailed: The nicotine doesn't only affect to the heart, but to the whole arterial system.Cerebrovascular accidents and obstruction of the arteries of the legs that can end in leaks and gangrenes, are only part of the complications that threaten to who, for different reasons, they cannot resist to the cigarette.These wrongs usually arise starting from the 50 or 60 years, in people that consume more than 20 cigarettes per day. The tobacco plant needs 25 or 30 years of share before the damage becomes visible, Bruno said.But the newly born ones can also be victims. The babies of smoking mothers are usually born with under weight, and this drift in a quantity of complications.The devote of the tobacco plant are not always of agreement, but the solution, for the physicians, you are plain: To abort the cigarette is the easiest and cheap form to diminish the mortality for cardiovascular illnesses - Mautner pointed -. To leave is difficult. The ideal thing would be to avoid the youths to begin to smoke.For Mordoh, you are about a very important public health problem. You get the carefulness that people smoke more and more in spite of the fact that the risks are very well-known. This demonstrates the great stress level and, also, the pressure of the tobacco companies through the publicity.The topic is not new. But the statistical data of OMS don't seem to scare those who continue filling ashtrays.

We can affirm without exaggerating that the tobacco plant in form of cigarettes is one of the most addictive and murderous drugs. Regarding the first of this qualities, you are necessary to remember that the neurofarmacología of the nicotine is extraordinarily similar to that of the cocaine. Experienced fellows to who it were given intravenous injections of nicotine thought of most of the cases that had been injected with cocaine or amphetamines.

In the case of the tobacco plant, the raw form of the drug (you plant), particularly if you are smoked, you are incomparably more toxic than your enabled (nicotine) purified start and administered in equivalent dose. The adverse main sequels for the health for usage of tobacco plant are of the act of smoking it, and they are due to countless byproducts of the combustion of the call tar of the tobacco plant, not to the nicotine in itself.

The directed efforts to disaccustom people to the tobacco plant usually are not effective long term, in particular when the smoker is not resolute to suffer the nuisances that it suppose you to abort the habit. The oriented proposals to make primary prevention of the damages associated to the tabaquismo in general include campaigns advertising anti-tobacco plant, expensive and of goods unwarranted disuasorios, or barriers to the usage, such as increase in prices via tax pressure that punish selectively to the neediest and you motivate the black market. The educational campaigns fail when you lack the example.

Another form of fighting with the wrongs that it cause the tabaquismo consists on offering to the consumer viable alternatives to the cigarette, for that which are still necessary to incorporate significant enhancements to the available today: you are hopes very been founded so much in the intranasal channel as in the strategy of the vapor of nicotine that you/they associate to a curve of levels nicotínicos in similar blood to that of the cigarette, avoiding most of your nuisance values.

The time that delay a device in procuring the concentration plasmatic maxim of nicotine is a key element to keep in mind, since most of the smokers seem to accept the alternatives well to the cigarette that you/they liken your psychoactive (in great measure related with the pharmacokinetics) goods and that they allow to conserve, at least partly, the ritual component of the act of smoking. Patch and chewing gums of nicotine don't fulfill those requirements. Regarding the sensorial component of smoking, the system of heating the tobacco plant without ending up burning it to extract the nicotine (vaporization), although less convenient than others from the sanitary point of view, you conserve, at least partially, the aroma and flavor that so many smokers appraise.

To trace a sensible proposal, you are important to recognize that no government effort can make disappear the tobacco plant neither the human search of your psychoactive qualities. If we have to cohabit with the nicotine, we should allocate to the science the task of deleting, as much as possible, the toxicity associated to your management. Smoking cigarettes is not the absolute modality of usage of nicotine: you are so alone the less healthy one, the most dangerous and the one that more exposes at third to noxious substances.

From a public health perspective, we believe that no strategy is more profitable and more economic than to facilitate the investigation and promotion of safer and more affordable means for the supply of nicotine, especially for the confirmed tabaquistas. With the level reached currently by the pharmacology and the technical available petitions, you don't seem exactly to continue limiting the options from the smoker to the abstinence or the severe deterioration of your health.

To put an end to that dilemma, deleting the barriers to the production and the commerce of new vehicles of nicotine, you would save millions of lives every year.

TO SMOKE YOU CAN LEAVE TOOTHLESS
You are for all acquaintance that to smoke you gives a xanthic color to the denture but in accordance with the General Academy of Odontology the smokers are twice prone to lose the teeth that the other ones.

To reach this conclusion they were carried out 2 studios separated by 30 years and on the average the smokers lost 2.9 teeth after 10 years of smoking an up-to-date pack, while the non-smokers lose 1.3 in the same time.

But according to the studio you also concluded that those that stopped to smoke also reduced the number of lost teeth, I repeat on the average.

In other news related with the tobacco plant, you were discovered that the responsible substance that the cells of the lung transform into cancerous you call you peroxide of hydrogen. Now wait it can decrease or to delete for contrarestar the damages to the health.




How to stop to smoke?
The alcoholatura thing to stop to smoke: All that you always wanted and you need to know

All that that are seriously whereas clause to stop to smoke debit side to be familiarized with having determined basis points that will allow you to make plainner this process. We will see determined points next to continue, the products that you/they can help in this process and also the combination among result / times. You will also find some commissions to make more bearable the "syndrome of abstinence."
Plan to Stop to Smoke

In the first place, to be successful in stopping to smoke it is important to have a plan and to follow it carefully. To stop to smoke can be a difficult point, and this can lead to the failure. But if one has a strategic plan and you continue it to him with carefulness, the chances of success increase considerably. Next you will find several steps that yes or yes debit side to contain your plan to stop to smoke:

1.Es better to begin the process of stopping to smoke in a date that have a meaning for us, I eat a birthday for example, navidad, new year, the mother's day, of the friend, of the non-smoker, etc. This way it will be much plainner to know how much you make that we don't sample the cigarette. Although you seem incredible, the knowledge when when or the process didn't begin you raise the chances of success considerably.
2.Trata of forming a support group with friends, family, partners that also want to stop to smoke. This group usually serves since they have the trustee (chequeando how long you make that we don't smoke) feature and you also serve as help in the moments of debility.
3.Haga to disappear of your life all that are related with the tobacco plant. This way they decrease the "links" that generate temptations to smoke. These products have to be outside of the house, the work, the car, and any other place in which spend more than five minutes, always insofar as possible.
4.Tenga always by hand a product to stop to smoke, or a book on the topic. You are scientifically demonstrated that those that use products or readouts to stop to smoke have double possibilities to achieve it. Exactly it is the ullage of capacity to manage the syndrome of abstinence the lawsuit number one for which people cannot stop to smoke.

Syndrome of abstinence

As we already said, the most important lawsuit for which people cannot stop to smoke is the incompetence to manage the syndrome of abstinence. This syndrome of abstinence is caused by your body when you don't receive the doses of nicotine to those that it were accustomed. Although the symptoms usually vary person to person, in general it is said that you feel:

1. Great irritability

2. I gain weight

3. Depression

4. Bigger pressure

5. Dysfunctions of dream

6. You tire continuing

As you he/she can see, the side effects of stopping to smoke are not for anything plain thing. Not he/she is casual that so much people he/she cannot stop to still smoke when they have the will of making it. Fortunately there is a wide variety of products that you/they can make the much more bearable process for the smokers and to generate, indeed, a pettier intensity in the side effects once you decided to stop to smoke. So much the native substances, as well as patch they generate benefits that mitigate the negative symptoms. Also readouts like this helps to limit the time that these symptoms extend in the time.
What do the native substances make?

The native substances to stop to smoke that make you are to double-cross to the body, making you believe that you are receiving the dose of nicotine that this wants. This way sensations of calm and relaxation are generated, and, the same as with the patch of nicotine, they go decreasing the doses as the time happens. Most of the native substances differ with the patch of nicotine as for the chemical components that contain (natural grass).
Both programas download the doses gradually until the symptoms disappear completely.
In summary

Now that you have a little clearer how the products work to stop to smoke, the proximate step is to determine which the most actual product is. For this reason we invite you to that visit our exclusive section of studio and revision of products in the market.

Good Reasons to Stop to Smoke

People's Milliones smokes regularly, but 7 of cade 10 of them have expressed your desire to leave the habit. Smoking produces illnesses like the cancer, illnesses of the heart, cerebral leaks, problems with the pregnancy, and illnesses of the lung.

When you stop to smoke:

* The probability of getting sick to consequencia of the cigarette will be pettier.
* You will have more energy and you will be able to breathe more easily.

Other Good Reasons to Stop to Smoke

If you are pregnant, your baby will breathe more oxygen and you will be healthier.

People that live with you, especially your children, will be healthier. Breathing the fume of the cigarette of other people can cause asthma and other problems of the health.

You will have more money to buy other things them not to be cigarillos.

This Is the Best Moment to Stop to Smoke

A combination of tactics that you/they work you

Get ready to Stop to Smoke

1. You fix a date.
I will leave of fumar:_______________________________
2. You change your around:
* You throw all the cigarillos and ashtrays that he/she have in your house, in your car and in your work.
* Not allow other people to smoke in your house
3. When stopping to smoke, you don't be smoked neither a single cigarette. Neither a cigarette more!

You Obtain Medicines that You/they Can Help You

He/she can buy chewing gum of nicotine, patch of nicotine, or chips of sucking of nicotine * in a drug store. He/she can request more information to your pharmaceutical.

Request to your physician that explain to you of the other medicines that you/they can help you:

* A nasal sprayer with nicotine.
* An inhaler of nicotine.
* Bupropion SR (a chip).

* Chips of sucking of nicotine were approved by FDA in octobre 2002.
You Search Help

Tell to your family, your friends, and to your partners of the work that support him.

You speak with your physician, a nurse or with another professional of the health. They can help you to stop to smoke.

Meet with other people that are also being about stopping to smoke or you call to an office network (a "hotline."

You call to the "Tuxedo Quitline" to 1-800-QUIT NOW. The call is ungrounded and him atendarán in Spanish.
Recommendations for not Smoking Again

* You avoid the alcohol.
* You avoid to be near people that are smoking.
* You eat healthy foods and you exercise.
* You maintain a positive attitude. Used can achieve it!
* If you relapse and you smoke, you don't be given for past due. You fix a new date.

You Can Abort the Cigarette!!!

Most of people try to stop to smoke different times before leaving the cigarette forever. Stopping to smoke of difficult but... You Can.

3/06/2008

They obtain a vaccine model against the been administered for via respiratory

An international consortium has opened the way in the development of a cautionary vaccine against the virus from the AIDS when obtaining a model that could be administered by means of aerosols and for via respiratory.

The work whose conclusions are published in the magazine Proceedings of National the Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals that in the new test, sampled in ugly and in human in clinical initial phase, you have given positive results. This "vaccine" uses modified antigens of HIV, a substance that give place to the formation of antibodies. These antigens are used with the purpose of activating in the organism a cellular answer and humoral against the virus.

The management of the vaccine for via respiratory it would facilitate your use in programas in developing countries and you would suppose a saving of the sanitary necessary material.

For this reason, the scientists trust to continue with new clinical trials with the purpose of confirming a high inmunogenicidad again in monkeys and human in front of SIV (Virus of the immunodeficiency of the simians) and HIV.

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

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.

2/25/2008

Sciatica

You are qualified, generically of sciatica, a painful syndrome of the sciatic consecutive ledge to an infection of the same one, of your medullary roots or of the corresponding plexus. The whole syndrome turns around the symptom pain that are of acute, intense character, terebrante and continuing, with frequent increases caused by the mobilization dle trunk or of the extremities or, simply, for the cough, contractions of the abdominal press, etc. Such increases to the effort are characteristic of the sciatica for injury radicular, that is to say, of the root of the ledge. You begin in the lumbar area, the inferior member continues, with longitudinal distribution until reaching the later face of the knee or, more frequently, the ankle or the extraneous edge of the foot. The pnto reached by the pain, as well as the features of the same one, constitute important elements in the diagnostic topographical lesional that rely on the appearance of clinical such signs as the positividad of the tests of Lasègue and other that are expressive of the sensibility of the roots of the sciatic ledge to the bare traction. In all the cases, the pain is not only referred to the member's interior, but also to the skin that cover it.

The syndromes doorosos of the sciatic ledge are consecutive to the aggression of this ledge at level of your roots (radiculitis), of the lumbar (plexitis) plexus or of the proppio trunk of the sciatic one. The ciatalgias is almost always of vertebral origin, and you are exceptional the neuritis of the trunk of the sciatic one.

The vertebral injuries that study preferably with sciatic syndrome are the called hernias of the pulpy core or hernia discal, and the protusions of the fibrous annulus. As you are known, the vertebral bodies are separated to each other by your elasticity, the movements of the bony vertebral segments; you are formed by a fibrous annulus that skirt the extraneous part of the surfaces of the vertebral bodies and you contain, in your center, the call pulpy core. The excessive and not well directed efforts of the spine, associate or not to degenerative states of the fibrous annulus, they can cause the break of this and the prutión or extruding of the disk that, in turn, you injure or you irritate the nerve root that emerge at level of the injured disk. Although this is the mechanical most frequent lawsuit in the citalgias, the nerve roots can be injured by toxic processes and infections. Among the most important lawsuits in sciatica, apart from the hernia discal, we can mention the toxic share of the alcohol, the tobacco plant, the diabetes, syphilis, etc.

The treatment should be guided fundamentally in two addresses: the deletion of the lawsuit that cause the pain and the treatment of this. For you are indispensable to establish an etiologic correct diagnostic. In the hernia discal, the therapeutical objective consists on avoiding the conflict arisen between the disk and the root. You are gotten with preservative methods, such as rest physique, management of relaxants, vertebral tractions, etc., or surgical that decrease to the extirpation of the disk herniado. The surgical treatment is urgent in the sciatic paralyzing calls, in those that the pain goes accompanied by debility or paralysis of the corresponding muscle groups. The treatment against the pain can be put before the antinflamatorio, and you consist on the corticosteroides management, butazolidina, muscular relakantes, termoterapia, vitaminoterapia of the complex B, among other.

12/17/2007

Allergy to the Medicines

In general terms, the answer of our organism to the entry of a chemical substance with therapeutical ends obeys a laws that are subject to the share farmacodinámica of the used medicine whose toxicity grade or harmfulness has been studied previously. But it is not room for doubt that, in a certain number of patients, this pharmacological share theoretically foregone it escapes from the orbit of the communio one and the individual responds from an accidental way to the oral or parenteral management of a medicine. Doing without more or less of theories ingenious and truthful, it is possible that the accidents caused by the medicines can be classified in the following way:
1-high grade of toxicity of the used medicine and whose symptoms show up in most of the cases.
2-certain patients, for different reasons and as soon as determined, but not related with the allergy, they don't tolerate, like it is current, the chemical substances. To procure a pharmacological desirable share, it becomes precise to be administered them to much pettier and more unusual dose. We speak then of intolerance.
3-in some occasions, the effects that are expected are absolutely cross to those that it was logical to wait. It is about a personal paradox and it is for example what happens, when when giving an antihistamínico that averagely produces drowsiness, the individual it responds with a nervous general excitabilidad, desorbitada and unforeseeable; we could speak then of idiosyncrasy, in the sense fully etymological of the word.
4-in other cases, the fellow can enter, immediately to the entry of the medicine, whichever it is the nature of this and the contact modality, a type of divorced reaction completely dela nature of the substance and of his share farmacodinámica. It connects it with what the physicians are accustomed to see when they speak of syndromes anafilácticos or allergic. The word allergy should be reserved for this reaction type that involves a sensitization; it doesn't import now, and here, if in the antecedents they are allergy traces or not, and if they believe to know or on the contrary to ignore, the mechanism humoral or cellular that has unchained it.
5-finally, it exists another group of patients that, in front of the entry of a chemical substance of the type medicine, they unchain shocks with circulatory immediate failure that you/they very possibly owe you to the release of a substance called histamine whose pharmacological affection is the responsible for the serious dysfunctions. The relationships that can exist among the lawsuit, the allergic etiology and the pathogenetic unchaining mechanism, the histamine, they cannot be described here.

Until another type of anomalous answers to the medicines, such as those that in fact show up when discontinuing them; still in case, until that moment, they were very supported; it constitutes it an answer rarity that, for the unusual thing, we only mention it.

The clinical boxs to that the allergy medicamentosa can give place are extremely varied, I eat for example: shock of the type anafiláctico that is the most serious in these accidents; syndrome similar to the illness of the serum; fever medicamentosa, possibly many times to the own antibiotics and whose appearance suspicion outlines the physician a therapeutical query quite difficult of resolving; alterations cellular hemáticas; asthmatic crisis, rinitis and allergic conjunctivitis; cutaneous manifestations, of the erythema type, urticaria, edema, eczema; and hepatic, renal and gastrointestinal alterations.

12/13/2007

Bach's Flowers

Bach's flowers, are coming from the area of Wales, Great Britain; and he/she is due to a compiled of 38 natural essences that you/they are extracted of wild flowers of the aforementioned place. These flowers almost always have curative estates used in emotional therapies, and their name owes to the physician that discovered this great attribute: Edward Bach, born in 1886 whose specialties besides I prescribe they were those of homeopathic bacteriologist and investigator. It is for ésto that the physician Bach discovered in the flowers, the curative substances being pioneer of this class of therapies that nowadays are used with so good results.

Edward Bach, was always interested in the illnesses, defining this state as an emotional unbalance that takes place in the person's energy field. For it, he/she decided to browse and to apply the cure by means of the mental attitude. The method used by Bach, was also very novel: instead of taking the extracts of flowers and starting from it to make the dilutions (generally used method for the homeopathy), he/she takes the dew deposited in tomorrow's flowers. This is the sufficiently powerful thing as to complete the you die set forth so that it works as medicine.

Then it classified the flowers with curative estates in 7 groups, according to the emotions to try. It is this way how they use the different groups: the first, appeal to the treatment of the fears and the second to that of the doubts. The treatment of the indifference in the current thing accepts it the third group, being the one that corresponds that of manifestations of the solitude the fourth group. The fifth group specializes in what concerns to the influences and opinions of the other ones, as well as to the susceptibility. The sixth group accepts the desperation and the depression, and the last group specializes in the excessive concern for the other ones.

Not continuous exist it is toward medicines or therapies that the patient carries out, for ende Bach's Flores any person can ingest them including newly born, babies in period of nursing, children and people of advance age. It is more, many times it is used in the newly born ones so that they adapt to the environment change.

12/10/2007

Febril Convulsion

1ro Define that it is a Febril convulsion
A convulsion is characterized by sudden muscle spasms or forfeiture of the conscience. Some convulsions are unchained by a feverish state and he/she knows them to him with the name of febril convulsions.

2do - How characteristic he/she has
The febril convulsions have three principal voltage-current characteristics: in general they are brief (they don't last more than 15 minutes), they only happen once during a period of 24 hours and they attack so much the right side as left of the body. The convulsions that don't complete these three approaches are not febril convulsions and they can be an epilepsy sign.

3ro - TO that age is more frequent?
Around each 100 children's 3 or 4 they have at least a febril convulsion between the 6 months and 5 years.

4to - does he/she Leave sequels?
Although in general a febril convulsion doesn't produce damage some to the boy, it can be extremely terrifying for the parents. The boy's body becomes hard, he/she has eyepiece (blank eyes) retroversión and it doesn't respond when they speak to him/her. In other cases, the boy can fall to the floor and to shake the arms and legs abruptly.

5to - When do they show up?
The convulsions, in general, show up during the initial phase of the illness (as colds, gastrointestinal infection, angina, etc.) while the temperature ascends quickly (Here it is where I want to clarify something, generally the boy that is spastic feverish, he/she usually shows up the spastic episode before we realize that he/she has fever. I say this, because the parents get scared a lot when a boy has fever thinking that they can convulsivar...). A boy that has a febril convulsion, in general, doesn't have epilepsy (convulse repetitious), although he has a probability lightly bigger than manifesting that affection that a boy that has not had it.

6to Origin
It is not known why some children have febril convulsions and other not. The children smaller than one year that you/they have had a febril convulsion have around fifty percent of probability of having another. In some cases, the physician recommends medicines to avoid other febril convulsions.

7mo - What to make?
If the boy has a convulsion, be about protecting it so that he doesn't injure. Put to bed him in the bed or in the floor and retract all hard object or filoso of the area. Place it of side or with the head toward a side so that he/she doesn't drown in the case of vomits. Not place anything in the boy's (mainly, don't try to insert him/her the fingers in the mouth, it is a MYTH to believe that it can drown with the tongue) mouth.

If the hard convulsion more than two or three minutes, or if the boy has difficulty to breathe, request to somebody that requests medical urgent help while you stay with the boy. Otherwise, once it has ended the convulsion, call to the physician or take to the boy to the emergency room. The physician can recommend some studios to discard infections or other lawsuits.

It is important that it is about avoiding another convulsion controlling that the boy's temperature doesn't ascend when it is diseased (This is in another episode, remember that the typical febril convulsions don't repeat inside the feverish same box). The physician can recommend the paracetamol (Termofrén) management or ibuprofeno (Ibupirac, Febratic, Actron, etc) for babies and children and bathrooms with tepid water.

Not shelter too much to the boy when it is diseased or he/she has fever. The temperature can still ascend more if it is dressed with different layers of clothes (Another MYTH is to believe that the more he/she perspires, quicker it downloads the fever).

12/06/2007

Tree of the Sex in Hazard of Abatement

Very appraised by their estates afrodisíacas, in Africa it is used as the local viagra. People have used it in excess and now risk runs of disappearing.

"The citropsis disappears, people have used it in excess: it is the local viagra!", Robert looses Kungujje, a guide of the forest of Mabira, in Uganda, while it points out with the finger the call Tree of the sex, very appraised by his estates afrodisíacas.

The roots of the citropsis articulata, used in decoction, are effective "in three hours", Kasozi assures Bruham, a 49 year-old peasant and habitual consumer of this beverage. This compatriot lives near the Reservation of Mabira, to 50 km to the east of Kampala, one of the last tropical wet forests of that African country.

"We are concerned because the citropsis becomes scarce, here there is a great problem of impotence and people will have to be deprived to buy an equivalent" medicine, she complains.

"In Uganda we believe to have freedom to use the forest like a personal" petition, Robert explains to Kungujje, it guides of the center of ecoturismo of Mabira, while one of the few ones teaches
citropsis specimens that are in the reservation.

The users of the citropsis have trend to start it of root and they don't remember plantar other to guarantee their survival. "With the unemployment, the alimentary bad habits, the diabetes and the hypertension, linked to the stress, the dysfunctions of the
erection goes for that reason in increase in Uganda people it uses this plant", Maud affirms Kamatenesi-Mugisha, botanist and expert in fertility.

Around the population's ugandesa 80% it depends on the medicinal plants to cure their quotidian ailments because the up-to-date medicines are prohibitive and the clinicians are far from the villages.