Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts

8/10/2010

The best prevention for hypertension


To avoid problems in cognitive functioning, hypertensive patients should be treated since the beginning of the disease.
Hypertension may cause cognitive functions reduce the amount of blood flow to different organs. This occurs over a period of between 7 and 20 Aryans. Symptoms may be triggered (memory and concentration problems) from 75 years as a result, 70 percent of older hypertensive patients should be admitted for observation. Medical specialists in hypertension and cardiologists gathered at the Congress of the European Society of Hypertension to assess cognitive impairment as a result of this disease. The experts conducted a study with nearly 1000 hypertensive patients with an average age of 78.

They were analyzed by specialists in neurology and psychology, and the results showed that 53 percent of patients who continued treatment step had less effect on cognitive functions. In conclusion, all said they found the most effective solution was to make the treatment of hypertension since the early signs and thus prevent this result in older adults. According bs specialists, per 1000 patients treated for high blood pressure five years, will prevent at least 20 people come to dementia.

9/07/2009

Tips for preventing osteoporosis


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

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

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

How to cure and prevent felons


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8/29/2009

Tips to prevent cellulite


Modern medicine and cosmetology offers many tools for the treatment of cellulite: liposuction massage, special diets. However, different results can be achieved not all be identical in each case.

The WHO says: Cellulite is easier to prevent than cure.

According to WHO, in today's world there are 250 million people suffering from obesity, which paves the way for cellulite. Every 10 years the number of future victims of cellulite is growing by 10%. American experts have concluded that, from prevention "education" of the "orange peel" of the body from childhood are more likely to avoid it. Because fat cells grow and divide, from the fourth month of fetal life and up to five years, and only increase in size thereafter so that the structure of skin and subcutaneous tissue is laid down in this time.

It can also happen the appearance of cellulite at puberty and pregnancy so beware doing light exercise at these stages to prevent its development.

8/06/2009

How to prevent bone pain


It is often confuse osteoporosis with arthritis. So often those affected expect a joint pain and numbness, but those are symptoms of arthritis. Osteoporosis is asymptomatic and does not cause pain until a fracture appears. For this reason experts advise not to wait any symptoms and consult with your doctor to know your risk factor by age and nutrition.

• If your bones do not move, do not receive any messages that warn them to be kept strong.

• Although you can not see the answer to the exercise of their bones, they are always in development.

• Your diet should be rich in calcium and vitamin D (as this determines the nutrient calcium)

• Even if you have always had a sedentary occupation, you can now begin to make different types of exercises to prevent osteoporosis.

Prevent Osteoporosis


Approximately 5% of the body is composed of minerals. Among them is vital calcium, located primarily in bone and teeth, and the remainder used for nerve conduction, allowing the muscles receive the signal to contract and relax.

Finally, it helps the blood to clot. When the body does not get enough of this mineral for a balanced diet, you need a supplement for extra balance. This equilibrium is jeopardized by certain factors that affect its absorption and retention. These are:

• Excess alcohol alters the absorption of calcium.

• Regular consumption of large doses of aspirin and anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the levels of calcium

• Oral contraceptives tend to deplete the body reserves of calcium among other minerals.

• Smoking increases the needs for calcium and vitamin C.

Again demonstrates that the health and movement go hand in hand, in this case to keep bones strong and to secure a solid foundation for any life plan.

8/04/2009

Preventing cancer naturally


Undoubtedly cruciferous are great allies of health. To make the most, here are some tips:

• For the salad of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli should be cooked in advance, but not too much.

• If the heads of cauliflower and broccoli are high, should be divided and cooking.

• These allow the use of vegetable sauces vinaigrettes, mayonnaise sauce, yogurt or combinations between them.

• The leaves of cabbage and cauliflower can be added to the broth.

• When using the cabbage in any form, remove the bottom of the thickened midrib of the leaves.

• Incorporate the cabbage diet, at least three times a week.

7/23/2009

How to prevent stretch marks and wrinkles


Beta-carotene is one of the precursors of vitamin A. When ingested, the body absorbs it and goes directly unchanged in search of free radicals. Only a small part is converted in the liver into vitamin A.

Therefore there is no risk of hypervitaminosis. Its action is involved in the proper maintenance of skin, nails and hair. Helps improve the elasticity of the tissues, prevents stretch marks and wrinkles. Normalize dry skin and reduces the damage from the sun.

7/15/2009

Ringing ear: treatment and prevention


■ What's the buzz in your ear
The tinnitus, or ringing sound is a sensation that can be located in one or both ears or in the middle of the skull of a person and can be intermittent or permanent, and low or high intensity. This symptom has the particularity of being totally subjective, so no one other than the patient can know exactly what degree of annoyance that it causes this sound. However, we can say that depends on the kind of buzz, there will be more or less discomfort in the listener.

■ Treatment
In severe tinnitus, its eradication depends on determining the root causes of the disorder. So, treating the ear infection or wax plug, for example, the buzz disappears. However, when the nerve problem is, the situation is much more difficult to reverse.

■ Prevention
Avoid the evils that result in the emergence of this disorder. This is accomplished by taking a good food, caring for the ears, and taking other measures to prevent these diseases. Finally, once you receive the tinnitus is important to get a quick diagnosis and effective to treat this table as soon as possible, especially when it affected the discrimination of sounds.

5/10/2009

Preventing anemia

To avoid the occurrence of anemia, it is important that the vitamin increases energy intake and in relation to the needs of the body, variables at each stage of growth.

The growth and development of children is not uniform, but walking in stages more or less marked. The first, which goes from birth to four years, is called the first filling phase, from five to seven is the first spurt, the second filling is the period between eight and ten years, and finally, from eleven to fifteen, more or less, is on the second growth spurt.

For a healthy child, usually from 10 to 15% of calories eaten each day to the needs of its growth. During times of growth spurt, we need to give a diet rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, especially iron and especially calcium, which favor the formation of tissues.

What is that needs are covered with an adequate and balanced diet, but sometimes an overload of activity, exercise intensity, the concerns and excessive school work, quick breakfast or an insufficient and monotonous diet can adversely affect their health. Which decrease the amount of protein and iron coincide with increased needs in their development, leading many children to suffer from anemia.

The symptoms of this disease are overlapping and hence has to pay attention to the behavior of the child. The first sign that could give a clue is the tiredness. This is caused by a decrease of iron in red blood cells when to make an effort, carries oxygen to tissues.

Besides tired, you can submit more irritable, complaining of a headache too often suffer from insomnia, poor concentration, muscle cramps, etc.. Other symptoms are unusual paleness and dryness of the skin and mucous membranes, weakness in the nails or hair loss. Treatment. Once detected the possible anemia, the doctor prescribe a specific preparation of iron. Only those children have to take it with a large and anemia were administered before or after meals for three or four months, to stop a tank in the body. One caveat: while the treatment, the stool will be blackened.

2/03/2009

How to prevent gases in children

The emission of gases through the mouth or anus due to an excessive accumulation of air in the digestive tract. The origin may be in some bad eating habits that cause unconscious swallowing of air or poor digestion.

This is common in children who eat a hurry, eating disorder and "pecking" often between meals, which some ill-digested vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower or cabbage, or consuming too many sodas.

In cases where sales were accompanied by other symptoms (upset stomach or pain, diarrhea, constipation) should be carrying the boy to the pediatrician as soon as possible to make a more accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment applied to the case.

11/17/2008

As affects asthma in pregnancy

The evolution of asthma is not usually aggravated by pregnancy. However, some pregnant with affection can suffer very serious exacerbation of the disease during the fresh hopes.

Potential effects.
They have been found in severe asthmatic patients, with a deficit of respiratory function, increases the number of premature births and children of low birth weight. These complications are more common when there are repeated access of asthma during pregnancy.

Most of the drugs that are administered by inhalation does not appear to have detrimental effects on the baby. However, its use in pregnancy, like that of any other medicamenteo, is recommended only when the expected benefit outweighs the risk potential for the future baby. The dosage, controlled by the specialist, should correspond to the minimum levels that will be effective.

You should never self.
Sometimes, to treat acute asthma attacks are used steroids orally or intravenously. There are no data on fetal malformations caused by these drugs, which could have an adverse effect if used continuously over time.

In any case, it is important that any asthmatic patient who plans to become a mother so check with your gynecologist. It is also necessary for its allergy to assess its overall condition, for which values the need for medication. But by no means can we say that the patient-asthmatic few exceptions, can not get pregnant with freedom.

10/01/2008

Hips, to prevent the dislocation

Some babies are born with a congenital hip dysplasia, a disorder that, if not treated in time, can lead to dislocation. In these children, the cavity that contains the head of the femur (cotilo) is not properly developed to hold it, and the femur is predisposed to get away with ease away from the joint.

Usually the disorder is detected when the neonatologist conducted the first review or through an X-ray or ultrasound of the hips that he practiced all newborns, and the correction may start long before the child begins to walk.

The treatment should be done by a brace. It is quite usual to recommend to parents the placement of two diapers to correct the defect, but this can be dangerous.

Only serves in some cases, in others can lead to a definitive hip dysplasia or even a dislocation. It is sometimes necessary to use diapers orthopedic.

Diapers kept the baby with her legs open (in frog posture), to compress the femur cotilo and it can acquire a normal configuration. When you walk, ending the problem corrected.

Gas, in how to prevent kids

To prevent gases should feed the baby by putting semierguido, and ensuring that your nose is free so you can breathe well. Where once it was over, he puts on his shoulder and given a few pats on the back, without problems may expel the air that has swallowed.

There are babies during the first three months of almost non-stop crying, especially at night. In most cases, is not an explanation for this malaise, and it is said that the child has colic.
It is more common in babies who drink bottle that breastfed infants.

These children are flatus and eliminate many gases. Sometimes, if you change the lactose-free milk on the other, better. But it also may be submitted by cramping another series of causes, such as starvation, overwork or food insecurity. If parents are tense and anxious, the child will show more restless and more vulnerable to these uncontrollable crying.

Therefore, we must listen and reassure parents to take away his anxiety, explaining that they have their babies is normal, frequent and that will gradually disappearing without leaving sequels.

9/29/2008

Preventable stretch?

Since the striations are considered scars, no surgical treatment to make them disappear, except those who are in an area of skin to be removed in a reduction of abdominal surgery or breast.

Therefore, the only thing we can do is to prevent its occurrence avoiding the relaxation of the skin, especially in states where it increases the factor of hormonal steroids (pregnancy, puberty, etc.)..

Control the excessive increase in weight of the kids who start adolescence is an effective measure. While it is true that at this stage must be properly fed, there is no reason to be fat.

Vaccination: What are the most important vaccines?

Vaccination is an effective means for the prevention of infectious diseases in infancy, which must be specially treated with the utmost importance for parents, doctors and teachers.

Vaccinate is to introduce into the body, antigens from bacteria or virus killed or attenuated, that trigger the receiver, an immune response: antibodies that are produced acting in defense of the individual against a subsequent contact with the infectious agent.

The vaccines most important are:

- BCG: is the vaccine must be administered at birth.

- Pentavalent: this corresponds to the diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and hepatitis B. should be administered at two, four, six and fifteen months of age. Should be vaccinated against hepatitis B at the age of twelve, if children were not previously.

- Triple bacterial: against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. Should be administered at the age of five.

- Polio. It is given to the two, four, six months and one year of age.

- Triple viral: against mumps, rubella and measles. Should be given a year and five years as well.

- Varicella: is administered each year.

- Double bacterial: against diphtheria and tetanus. It is given to the twelve years

- Tetanus. It is administered every ten years from the twelve, with particular emphasis on pregnant women.

- Hepatitis A: should be given to the fifteen and twenty-one months.

- Pneumococcus C7V: it must be administered to two, four and twelve months.

9/25/2008

Prevent anemia and pallor

• PREVENTION
Pallor and anemia
Some children have skin white in nature, but in other pallor may be a sign of anemia.
In this case, its color is white, not shades of yellow. To make sure the diagnosis is right, just to see whether the conjunctival of the eyes, mucous membranes of the nose and lips, as well as nails and the palms are also pale.

The most common cause of anemia is the lack of iron, needed to form hemoglobin. Sometimes this gap arises after an infection or other illness, or because the diet is poor in this mineral element.

But it also can cause anemia, bleeding, worms or some metabolic disorder that prevents the absorption of iron. In any case, the child should be examined by the pediatrician.

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.

9/22/2008

Alopecia cure?

Until recently, anti-baldness remedies wore the label of magical elixir. At present, circulating in the market thousands of potingues manufactured with all sorts of substances, placentas, plants, algae and hundreds of formulas in the miraculous converted potion that promise eternal hair.

One of these products is Viviscal, a compound of extracts of marine origin with "proteins, mucopolysaccharides cartilaginous fish, minerals and amino acids briquettes" according to its prospectus says.

Another was Capivax, a Chinese cure of plant origin. Their effectiveness is yet to prove. Even the modern-drug treatments mainly based on the administration of minoxidil-only produce a growth of hair on, and not all patients.

And within the world of cosmetics, large firms have shampoos and treatments to combat the fall. One of the last preparations in the market is the Aminexil, a molecule antifibrosis related minoxidil, or that firms like Kérastase Vichy (L'Oreal) are already marketed.

For some specialists, however, the best solution is prevention. And a key factor is food. There are substances such as vitamins and trace elements in group B that are necessary for development, formation and growth of hair. The low consumption of oats, barley or wheat conducive to its downfall. And the snuff and alcohol are triggers for a loss of these substances which, if not replace, weaken the hair.

Maintaining a diet rich in vitamin A, B complex, proteins and carbohydrates can help delay the alopecia, and, in the same way, frequent massages and heat promote the reduction of the fall, and that increases vasodilation and metabolic activity.

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.