Showing posts with label muscle cramps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muscle cramps. Show all posts

6/01/2009

Eating bananas prevents cramps

Alone, as an ingredient in a fruit salad, and fried up, this delicious fruit is a food rich in potassium, the nutrient that regulates muscle contractions.

Therefore, a good option for people who suffer cramps frequently, include more bananas in the diet. A small banana obtained approximately 200 milligrams of potassium, this represents 13 percent of what it should be consumed daily. This fruit also gives the agency 25 percent of the daily requirement of vitamin C, and is a very good source of carbohydrates, which makes it one of the most energetic and calorie foods.

9/25/2008

Accidents on the water with children

Facing the water, either by sea, river, lake or pool, a little prevention. The main thing is, of course, do not lose sight of the children not a single second.

Cramps: They emerge suddenly, producing a sharp pain and muscle immobilized, so can be dangerous if the child is not swimming where foot. We must explain that, if it occurs, must stop for swimming and floating, trying to relax the muscles and move with great caution in the opposite direction to the contraction. Upon leaving the water, simply a massage, and if it persists, apply heat and give it to drink water with salt or sugar.

Cortes digestion: To avoid them, we must ensure that after the meal expect these "heinous ninety minutes." However, the problem is not so much digestion as the sudden change in temperature. When you are doing digestion, the blood is concentrated in the stomach and intestine, and to enter half cold, which has rapidly spread to balance the temperature.

This can produce a swoon. To prevent this, we have to get used to shower before, if possible, or come slowly into the water, mojándose first abdomen, wrists and neck. If the court digestion occurs, it should be kept to a small reanimated and watched until the doctor.

It is not advisable to remain too long followed into the water. The bath favors the prolonged decline in blood glucose, and this may cause some dizziness. Nor should they fail to bathe the body with cold or sweaty after playing in full sun.

Living Waters: The friction with them and causes inflammation, rashes and itching. When sting, the pain is intense, and also can appear blistering fever, chills and fainting. What is immediately clean the bite and immobilize the affected area, applying hot compresses, and administer an anti-inflammatory ointment containing antihistamines. It can be a pain to the child.

Spider sea and bay: Both bites, which could be avoided if taking the children with sandals closed, producing a sharp pain. We must act to apply an antiseptic, removing the stinger, in the case of line, and immobilizing the foot in the hottest water that can withstand the child, for 30 to 60 minutes. It is recommended that some analgesic and anti-inflammatory.

In the case of the sting from scratch, we will have to consult with the doctor, because it can be a useful antibiotic ointment to the wound is not infected.
Finally, as general advice, it is important to always carry a medicine chest, have your card Welfare or private medical institute and know where we stand, what is the nearest hospital and where are the nearest pharmacy. But above all, save many scares us if we monitor the children constantly, because with them, always, is worth preventing.

2/25/2008

The Poliomelitis

The poliomelitis is an illness infecciosovírica that affect the children fundamentally, although with pettier frequency it also attacks the adults. You appear in epidemic buds in some countries and in form endemoepidémica in others. Such variances depend on the state inmunitario of a population in front of the infection for the virus of the poliomelitis.

This illness, you are caused by a virus that infect the organism through human-to-human transmissions or for via insinuation, when they act as vehicle the liquids that the man uses in your to live quotidian. These liquids, such as the water, the milk, among other, they can be infected by the own man or for waste waters that infect the conditions of drinking water. The human-to-human propagation of the virus through seemingly healthy individuals is explained by the following facts: the virus penetrates in the organism for via digestive and you nest in the pharynx and, especially, in the intestine, where you reproduce extraordinarily and you are deleted by means of the feces. You originate an illness of pharyngeal or digestive determinism, and only by one percent of the polluted ones it causes paralysis. In the remaining ones, the illness decreases to some bare anginas or an intestinal dysfunction that it cure spontaneously. The individual that have suffered this infection, is definitively immunized, because you have been formed in him a rate of enough antibodies to exercise an attestation and you activate protection. This status antigénica is the one that also believe the vaccination antipoliomielítica. The ingestion of repeated vaccine dose for virus inactivado believes a state of practically permanent defence. The inyeción of dead (bovine Salk) virus determines a reaction inmunitaria equally, although less active and durable than the vaccination for via oral type Sabin.

The contamination of a not vaccinated person, unchains an illness that begin clinically, after a period of incubation of 10 or 12 days, with anginas or digestive dysfunctions, accompanied by thermal slight elevation. In the forms non paralytics, the clinical box is reduced to this symptomatology, so not very characteristic. In the paralyzed forms they are added to the mentioned dysfunctions two clinical absolutely characteristic symptoms: fever (with elevations between 38 and 39º), and pain (localized in the extremities so much higher as inferior and you increase during the mobilization attempts) .Aparecen the espamos and muscle cramps, extremely painful and of progressive path. This period, called preparalítico, you are characterized by pain and fever whose duration is of 2 or 3 days and that you end in the paralyzed period, during which the muscular typical paralyses are set up that can affect to any muscle group, although preferably, to the inferior extremities. In occasions, the paralyzed muscles are the intercostal ones and others that have had made the pulmonary ventilation, with that which the calls respiratory forms of the infantile paralysis are constituted.

The path of the poliomelitis can be very desfavorabe, especially when the calls factors of graveness converge, among which it highlight for your importance, the respiratory form of the poliomelitis. Another factor of graveness is the participation of the cerebral trunk and still of the own encéfalo, in the process lesional.