Showing posts with label spasms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spasms. Show all posts

9/29/2008

Bronchospasm

The decrease in the light of the bronchi takes place in different clinical situations, of which one of the most common is asthma. In asthmatics was ranked the mechanism of contraction of smooth muscle that covers the bronchial wall, which makes it possible to speak of spasm or bronchospasm.

Bronchial noises audible at a distance, can be wet or dry. The first was heard as a "gurgling" that often changed with the cough. They represent a hydro-air conflict between the inspired air and secretions or phlegm. Are perceived more for inspiration.

In contrast, dry, such as bronchospasm, are seen more often during exhalation become more protracted than normal (2 to 1 on the time inspiratory), due to the difficulty in the air outlet.

The dry rattle does not necessarily include liquid secretions in the bronchial light, but these can be added.

The asthmatic, suffers from an initially more difficult to expel air from the lungs to breathe. Then if the situation worsens, and further extends the disorder, may also include an inspiration. This is especially true with the first signs of fatigue or muscle fatigue, when the respiratory muscles begin to falter after an intense and prolonged effort.

Bronchial occlusion, a further cause difficulty of entering air, which expires by a negative intrathoracic pressure much higher. This is seen most often, a sinking as the skin between the ribs and the sternum.

When disappears, it can be improved by either a worsening, and that is not generated the difference in pressure causes the air inlet.

9/08/2008

How to relieve back pain

Pain in the lower back. Sudden and intense pain in the lower back is almost always the result of spasms in the muscles that support the spine.

• to ease, relaxes muscles acostándote on his back with knees slightly bent. Put pillows or other support behind the head and the upper back, in order to raise the shoulders. Put another medium low to keep the knees bent legs. In this way, the muscles of the back are totally in a relaxed position.

If pain persists, the solution accelerates with a smooth and safe. Acosta on the back, incurs a knee slowly toward the chest as pain allows. Keep the position about 10 seconds. Repeat the exercise five times, then do it with the other leg.

3/03/2008

Urticaria

The habones more or less big, pale and flanked of a reddish halo, generally very pruriginosos, of brief evolution, relapsing sometimes and that they can be disseminated by the whole surface of the skin, conatituyen the type of dermatosis called urticaria, for your similarity with the eruption that take place to the contact with the deadnettles. Besides the roncha and the cigar, the urticaria bud can accompany of other alterations, such as vessel spasms or intestinal, fever, tachycardia, hypotension, algias articulares, nauseas, among other.

The appearance rhythm and disappearance is extremely variable, and you give it place to two very well-known classes of this illness: the acute urticaria, with intense buds of disappearance in some hours or in a few days; and the chronic urticaria, with ronchas daily and in general less persistent pruritosas.

Of the meticulous, and sometimes difficult studio, of the lawsuits that can explain the intimate mechanism of this afecciñon, you concludes that the skin, in this case, the same as what happen for the mucous respratorias, has acquired a shade of sensibility or of answer in front of agents or diverse factors. If you are it due to specific alérgenos, and they act as such, in the maypría of the cases, those of alimentary type, or to hormonal psychic stimuli, physiques or infectious, at the same time that medicamentosos, constitutes an etiologic facet that the physician's sagacity will attempt desbozar.

If we add the importance that you/they sometimes acquire the local infections of the organism, centered in the intestine, appendix, kidney or teeth, we understand how difficult it can be the exhaustive studio of this illness.

In the case of the giant urticaria, angioedema or angioedema, you are from a similar eruption to that of the described urticaria, but with areas bigger and much deeper edematosas that invade the subcutaneous structures, besides the dermis. However actual base doesn't exist to consider these two processes like essentially different entities, since the same factors alergénicos are not able to unchain them.

If you affect the face, the edema it can end up acquiring such a big size that you impede the opening of the lids, and you are particularly important, due to the graveness that you had, the larynx edema, for the asphyxia hazard that you involve if you are not on time and meetly; you explain to it that, sometimes, you have to appeal to the tracheotomy.

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).