Showing posts with label infections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infections. Show all posts

10/05/2009

How to avoid vaginal infections


1) Eat natural yogurt with no sugar and make douching (enemas) with him before bedtime.
2) Eat lots of garlic raw, cooked as it loses its disinfectant properties.
3) When the toilet, always wipe from front to back to prevent intestinal germs pass into the vagina.
4) For underwear, choose which is one hundred percent cotton. Avoid tight panties, preventing perspiration of the skin.
5) Do sitz baths daily alternating hot and cold water, ten minutes each.
6) Avoid sweets. In other fungi and bacteria love sugar, low proliferation and defenses.

9/03/2009

Vaginal Infections: Symptoms and treatment


Abundant secretions and odor and pain during sex, almost always betray the presence of an infection that requires medical attention. As vaginal infections may not be found in a routine gynecological visit is very important to know your symptoms and communicating with your doctor. An infection that is not more dangerous time of what is believed. For example, bacterial vaginosis is associated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy complications and possible postoperative infections, why is so important to detect early and treat it.

Infection: Bacterial vaginosis.
Symptoms: Flow scanty white or greyish and foul odor. Possible irritation and itching.
Treatment: The gynecologist prescribes specific remedies. Avoid self-medication because it can worsen the situation.

Infection: Fungal infections.
Symptoms: The fungus Candida invasion is the most common. The flow is similar to cottage cheese and often itch.
Treatment: Eating yogurt containing "lactobacillo acidophilus" can prevent the risk of future infections.

Infection: Trichomoniasis.
Symptoms: It is a parasite that is usually transmitted during sexual intercourse. It can cause itching and pain when urinating and during sex.
Treatment: It is best to early treatment involving the prescription of a drug, both women and their partners.

Infection: Herpes simplex virus.
Symptoms: Itching and stinging treble on the vulva and vagina.
Treatment: There is no permanent cure, but the prescription antiviral drugs can stop the outbreak.

Infection: Human papillomavirus.
Symptoms: vaginal warts can cause itching or burning during intercourse.
Treatment: Some types of papillomaviruses present a risk of developing cervical cancer, so it should be surgically removed.

7/30/2009

Bacterial vaginosis


The bacterial vaginosis (BV) is associated with early sexual debut and number of couples and sex per week, suggesting that infection is associated with sexually transmitted diseases, say doctors. In fact, the prevalence of BV was lower in those women whose partners used condoms during pregnancy, a stage where they often reduce the frequency of intimate relationships.

The main symptom associated with VB is malodorous vaginal discharge, but about half of those affected do not respect any symptoms. BV is a sexually transmitted infection linked to either the transmission of bacteria such as Gardnerella vaginalis through bodily fluids or because these fluids, their physicochemical characteristics, alter the ecological niche by promoting the development of vaginal syndrome.

11/13/2008

How to care for the navel of the babies

After cutting the umbilical cord is a rest of about three centimeters, once dry, will fall. To make the wound heal properly, every time the baby is wet or you change the diaper, and at least once a day, we have to clean up the stump with a gauze soaked in alcohol at 70 degrees (sold in pharmacies as well) and allow to dry.

Needless wrapped in gauze and put ombliguero. Nor should apply creams or powders, and try to put the diaper below the wound so that it does not rub the umbilical area. If there is no infection (the skin is not red or pus, and there is no fever), you should not worry that the injury late in the disappearance.

10/02/2008

How to treat a burn

Whenever a child is burned, we must first consider the extension of the affected area. If your size is large, it is preferable to take him to a health center. But if, as often happens, there are only minor injuries, can be treated at home. To relieve pain, it should put the affected area under cold tap water for fifteen or twenty minutes.

No other home remedies should be applied as oil or lard, or ointment of any kind. These may come to infect the wound and, therefore, cause other problems unrelated to the burn itself.
The superficial burns, first degree, which only produce a reddening of the skin, it is not necessary sold after wash well with cold water.

As for the blisters, they are not supposed to open. The skin should not be lifted, but left as it is sold with care and with a special gauze, not too tight.
When it comes to blisters on his feet, caused by the friction of shoes, do not give them a cut, but if they are larger than a coin, it should consult with the doctor.

To avoid infections, first of all must be thoroughly washed with injuries and rubbing alcohol. It should put an antiseptic and cover with a gauze estirilizada subject with an adhesive tape.

Tonsillitis - throat infection

Many kids are prone to tonsillitis several times a year. The fever will go up and vomit all you eat, I have a headache, and in some cases, drowsiness and smell of acetone in the breath. When submitting vomiting, we should not force them to eat.

They must offer fresh liquid in installments of one hour after the last vomiting. As for the recurrence of infections, we first need to confirm if they are produced by beta hemolytic streptococcus, and this is done through a crop of pharyngeal exudate.

If positive, will be carried out by the same study to the closest relatives (mother, father, siblings). Usually, usually located a healthy carrier who, like the little sick, you should indicársele penicillin. In any case, the angina "repeat" are not sufficient to raise a tonsillectomy (tonsils operation).

10/01/2008

How to prevent child sinusitis?

Irritant cough at night, nasal obstruction and a tendency to get many colds are the most common symptoms of inflammation of the sinuses in children.

The most prone to sinusitis are those who have some small disorder of the upper respiratory tract: deviation of the nasal septum, polyp of the nasal mucosa, hypertrophy of the adenoids, allergic rhinitis ..., all these processes that encourage repetitive colds.

Is not chronic
During childhood, the sinusitis are more larvae into adulthood, and rarely come to chronic or complicated by an infection (sinusitis suppurated). The latter cause headache, fever and a runny nose or nostril of a greenish-yellow exudate, symptoms similar to those of adults.

The diagnosis is made by radiogafía, and treatment must be provided by an otolaryngologist. If there is a hypertrophy of adenoids, it is imperative to remove after six years.

Attacking time
It is not difficult to prevent the child suffering from sinusitis again. Often it's enough to clean the nasal passages with saline solution when acatarrado, and remind you to blow often. A child with sinusitis should not dive.

9/25/2008

Animals annoying in summer

Children have very different attitudes compared to animals. At about love and leaving others running, but none of them is immune to suffer a bad experience.

Bites from dogs and cats: The bites of domestic animals do not cause serious damage if the animal is vaccinated against rabies. If this information is unknown, we must wash the wound immediately with plenty of soap and water to remove all traces of saliva that was able to stop the aggressor and urgently go to the hospital to perform the cure for the doctor and evaluate the need for a reinforcement antitetanus.

Snakebites: There is a very large number of poisonous snakes. Faced with a bite reptile (certainty is the footprint of two separate punctures), you have to put at rest to the child, reassure and immobilize the affected part. Disinfect the wound and put a band of about 10 centimeters, which slightly compress the member, above the bite, loosen 30 seconds every 10 minutes and you have to monitor pulse under the band.

If possible, apply cold, as it decreases the spread of poison and dampens inflammation. We need to alert the police to indicate which school has the poison antidote, and transfer the child to the hospital urgently.

Scorpion bite and spiders: always act immediately. Immobilize the wounded, and apply a cold compress band constrictor that superficial venous circulation, but not deep. Can be given an ointment with steroids and antihistamines, while the transport to the hospital and also give children an analgesic, which calms the child.

Bee and wasp: When a bee stings, you should remove the stinger with tweezers and then put ointment antihistamines. If the stings are multiple, occur in the mouth or you have allergies, you should go immediately to the hospital.

If this is a sting in isolation, there will be pressure to the wound area (like a pimple) to quit the poison or sting. Relieve pain by applying cold water and baking soda. Clean and disinfect the wound.

9/11/2008

Antibiotics for fertility

A recent study on human infertility identified a disorder common and easy to treat among men: the leucocitospermia. Inflammation, often caused by an infection, which causes white blood cells from entering the prostate, interfering with the ability of movement of sperm.

Dr. Emmett Branigan, a specialist in fertility, found that 53 percent of men who had problems of infertility, failed to fertilise his partner after respond positively to a treatment of antibiotics. If you're having trouble conception, Dr. Branigan recommends a test of semen that includes a check of white blood cells.

It also recommends that men who seek to initiate a family ejaculate frequently, preferably once a day to remove the prostate old sperm and other substances.

9/08/2008

The best way to be clean

As we know, it is vital lead a proper daily cleaning, but an endless number of products that have come on the market can distract our attention from what we really need to stay completely clean and fresh.

To care and cleaning of the skin, the best choice turns out to be antibacterial soap. A study by a dermatologist Europe discovered that this type of soaps eliminates 65 percent more germs and bacteria on our skin that a common soap. Dr. Borek indicated that their hands are a major route of transmission of many diseases, as the closely with someone else, various viruses such as influenza, have the opportunity to spread. Washing two or three times a day your hands can greatly help to prevent the spread of many of these viruses and infections.

The antibacterial soaps also leave a layer on your skin that inhibits the development of bacteria for several hours, avoiding too bad odor caused by sweat.
Moreover, most of the toilet soaps contain moisturizing creams that help prevent dry skin.

But if your skin is very oily or greasy, it is important to avoid as much as possible their use. In this case what is most appropriate that uses soap neutral as it helps remove excess fat from your skin, especially in areas of the face and neck. To this end, there are soaps on the market with astringent lotion that will give you better results. It should be noted that using a toilet brush can benefit even more cleaning your work.

If you use shampoo, we recommend that you do only three or four times a week, since excessive use can lead to your hair is greasy. Select a shampoo right for you, there is one for each type of hair. The use of a lotion for after afeitarte will make you feel even cooler.

7/27/2008

Diarrhea frequent in children

The gastroenteritis are, after processes respiratory infections more prevalent in boys. As everyone knows, one of the typical symptoms of this disease is diarrhea.

Until five months the baby has defenses that his mother gave him, but from this age should make theirs. Vaccines and disease will develop its immune system, gastroenteritis and will have an important role in this process. Therefore, diarrhoea caused by infections are more common in the first five years.

But why the concerns especially gastroenteritis? The reasons are that the digestive system is immature young child to defend themselves and, furthermore, this body is more vulnerable because it has two points of contact with the outside world: the mouth and anus. Outside swarm germs responsible for the most common infections, bacteria (colis, salmonella ...), viruses and parasites. And is that harmful microorganisms are housed in all places.

If we could observe a small device with a view to enabling these microscopic beings, which would not only live in the dirtiest places like stagnant water, grass or floor, but also in toys and ... even in our hands!

In babies, the infection is established easily through the hands of adults, especially those who are preparing their food. When more grandecito and takes all the mouth, the objects are the most important source of pathogens. Later, the consumption of contaminated water or vegetables will lead to the typical epidemics of gastroenteritis, and therefore to diarrhoea.

Is it possible to avoid them?
Hygiene is crucial in preventing diseases. But neither is having little to like in a bubble, since only through contact with germs develop defenses that will enable it to combat them.

In addition to the sudden nature of acute diarrhoea, gastroenteritis can cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fever, sore retortijones and belly. Lee may be liquid or paste, smelling acid and mucous, even blood and pus. Whenever these symptoms appear immediately consult with the doctor.

Risk factors in pregnancy

Thanks to scientific research we know that certain substances or circumstances may cause alterations of embryonic development, resulting in birth defects in the future baby.

The agents that can alter the development of the embryo and fetus are considered risk factors. But to understand the meaning of the term "risk" is not simple. In fact, it is relatively common that some people deem as an overstatement considering the substances or adverse circumstances for the baby.
Even trying to document the overstatement with comments (which are very harmful) as: "I know a woman who, 42 years old, has had a healthy boy and beautiful" or "A friend had rubella during pregnancy and had a healthy child ".

The advanced maternal age and suffered rubella during pregnancy are important risk factors, which does not mean that all women who suffer from mature or rubella during pregnancy are to have a baby with abnormalities.

No agent, a side that is, causes birth defects in all the children of all women exposed to it.
What we mean when we talk about risk factor is that among pregnant women who come into contact with any of those factors will have a larger proportion (which is different for each factor) of children with birth defects among the group Women who were not in touch with these actors.

Statistics
For example, according to some statistics, the frequency of children with Down syndrome among mothers under 35 years is 0.72 per thousand boys born, while among women over 35 years is 7.54 per thousand. That is, they have ten times more risk of having children with Down syndrome than the younger ones.

When we say that the maternal age is a risk factor, we are not ensuring that all women over 35 years will have children with Down syndrome. The same applies to infections during pregnancy, alcohol, to snuff, contact with animals ... The problem is that we can not know who is going to affect a particular agent and who is not.

5/20/2008

Prescriptions with fennel

In the kitchen

- The hearts of the fennel eat up and they have a very similar flavor to that of the celery.
- The seeds, on the other hand, are used a lot in the Italian cuisine as aromatic condiment and for your medicinal virtues.

In therapy

- The therapeutical, more general application, is in infusion form starting from the seeds of the fennel or, a tincture of the same ones.

Infusion against the diarrhea

- To arrange a root handful in a cup of hot water without you end up boiling. To leave in rest some minutes. They can take up to three cups per day.

Syrup for the cough

- Trozar the fresh grass and to squeeze the juice. To blend with a quantity similar of honey. To boil 30 minutes and to take a spoonful three times a day.

Infusion antibronquitis

- To boil a small handful of fennel roots in a cup of water during two minutes and to allow to rest. To take three cups per day, sweetened with honey.

Tea against urinary infections

- To blend: 25 g of fennel seeds, 25 g of raylike anisette, 15 g of horse queue, 15 g of birch, 15 g of lion tooth, 15 g of balm and 15 g of walnut leaves. To boil during two minutes between liter of water, two soup spoonfuls of this mixture. To allow to rest 10 minutes and to strain. To drink every time that you are thirsty.

4/13/2008

Light infections that we can be contagious

To be scrupulous with the tools of eating or with those of toilet, you don't liberate us of the transmnitirnos possibility some illness, although you are not serious.

You Seize ("Influenza"): Virus of easy transmission for work of Pflüge or drops of fluids that we dislodge when speaking. You are contagious so much direct (for contact), as indirectly (sharing an object). As any virus, you are not treated with medicines, but rather you should follow your natural own process. You have the particularity that the virus every year mute and you don't leave more option than to wait while one tries to palliate the nuisance of your effects, I eat for example, fever, cough, general uneasiness, vomits, diarrhea, among other.

Common cold or cold: You are contagious with the same velocity and procedure that the flu, previously mentioned. This virus, however, slamente cough, stoppered naríz behaves and I shed tears, often, d even or integral euna coincides in both members d a family.

Skin infections: The mushrooms (mycosis), sion easy to infect, but very selective, since each one needs a certain skin type. The athletes foot affects to the feet, while versicolor" "Pitiriasis is bounded to the torso, generally in the shoulder and in the neckline. Your reign is beaches, pools, saunas and all the objects that surround you. You tint it crural you decant for English, where in summer, heat, close contact and dampness of the swimsuits mojedos converge. The herpes simplex, (so much genital oral ocmo) don't need direct contact, although with the suitable measures you can prevent the infection.

Acarids: Mange ("Sarcoptes scabier") and lice ("Pediculus) type "capitis", in the head, pubis ("Ladillas"), or "Corporis" in the clothes. They are tremendously contagious and you are not preservative that sirrva to reduce risks.

Conjunctivitis: It can be viral or bacterial. You produce lacrimation and sleep, but you require the direct contact for your infection. The bacterial one stops with collyrium, while that of viral origin should follow your path.

3/03/2008

Deafness

You consist on the forfeiture or decrease of the auditory sense. The transmission deafness, the deafness of perception and the combined deafness exist.

The transmission deafness affects the extraneous hearing and the mean. The most frequent lawsuits in the same one are: the plug of wax (collection of ceruminous substance that when being deposited in the external auditory canal and to cork it, you drive to the deafness whose appearance is in a very sharp way and generally after an immersion bathroom, since then the water softens the plug of wax dilating it and in consecuancia it corks the referred conduit), the foreign bodies, the otoesclerosis and the extraneous otitis and you mediate. In the case of plug of wax, you are only generally the physician who can proceed to your extraction, half pr of a laundry with tepid water. To claim your extraction with pincers or ganchillos, you only drive to insert it more toward inside.

The same thing happens with the foreign bodies, especially in the children who insert in the external auditory canal rubber pieces of deleting, papers, necklace accounts, piedrecitas, lapicera mines, peas, etc., and they frequently hide this circumstance to the parents fearing one reprehended. Never debit side to attempt the extraction of the foreign bodies for inexpert hands, since the maneuvers for they are it difficult and a deeper penetration is only achieved, with possibility of to perforate the drum membrane and to produce a half otitis then. The expert should only be the manager of your extraction, or the general thing very laborious, because in occasions you/he/she becomes even necessary the general anestecia, for the fear or unruliness of the petty one.

In the case of animated foreign bodies - as an insect for example - the maximum thing that it can be made before going to the physician you are to instill in the hearing some drops of oleum, in order to asphyxiate the intruder and to liberate this way the patient of the pain that cause you the same one when moving or to even avoid that you attack the drum membrane.

The otoesclerosis is a very frequent lawsuit of transmission deafness that affect women especially and that you consist in that one of the bones of the half hearing, compound number stirrup, is fixed, without movement possibility, and in deprived consequence of transmitting the sound wave to the interior hearing. Your only tatamiento at the present time is the surgical one, by means of the replacement of the one referred stirrup by another mechanism mavible (polytene bush, tantalum wire, etc.), that you allow the step of the sound wave.

The deafness of perception, affects the interior hearing and in occasions it is also retro labyrinthine, to the one it turns affected the auditory own ledge. The most frequent lawsuits that provoke it are the cranial, vascular traumatisms - arteriosclerosis - and infections - certain viruses, for example that of the parotiditis or mumps, meningitis -; the toxics also contribute to such deafness, without forgetting the calls professional deafness, characteristic of individuals whose work in noisy environments causes you an acoustic trauma - boilermakers, planchistas - and finally the call "presbiacusia" that are the deafness presenil or senile.


The combined deafness, are those quie they enter both dysfunction types, that is to say, the transmission deafness and that of perception.

The grade of deafness of a patient can only be qualified by the expert by means of the studio with the tuning forks and the audiometría. Thanks to this, a chart transmitted by an electric apparatus settle down, the audiometer, which allow the physician to trace a graph - audiogram - in the one that the hearing losses are studied in the different frequencies, from the serious notes until the acute one, to different intensities.

Once calibrated the deafness for the expert, will be this who will indicate the treatment to continue that will be able to be: physician, surgical, or based on the allocation of a hearing aid or prosthesis in the hearing that he/she believe more opportune.

Prostate Diseases

The prostate diseases, the gland organ that rodeaa the initial portion of the masculine urethra, they study, fundamentally, with urinary manifestations.

The prostate can be seat of infectious and tumorous illnesses. You have special longing for the prostate the gonocco, causing bacterium of the Blennorrhagia, the venereal illness still more frequent today; before the antibiotics, the blennorrhagia got complicated with prostatitis in 70-80% of the cases. The tumors prostáticos can be benign or malignant.

Among the illnesses prostáticas it deserves to be outstanding, for your frequency and for the problems that it outline, the call hypertrophy of the prostate. This gland that usually have the size of a chestnut, can in this illness to reach that of an apple. Due to this overgrowth, a decrease of the urethral light usually takes place that can drive to a total obstruction of the urethra, with consecutive urine retention. One of the first clinical manifestations is the decrease of the pressure of the stream of the urination; due to it, the patient when urinating, the footwear usually wets. If not you solucina, in the advance phases, with urine retention, gives place to urinary infections and an uremia.

The hypertrophy prostática is characteristic of the males in advance age, being your unknown lawsuit. It usually demands surgical treatment. As dietetic and hygienic measures, they are advisable the following ones: scarce alcohol intake, to drink few liquids, application of heat in the first floor stomach and not to take diruetic medicines.

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.

12/29/2007

Legrado - The Legal Abort in the Women

Legrado is the interrupt of the pregnancy before the fetus is viable, that is to say, before he/she has possibilities to live. To legal goods it is considered abort to the interrupt of the pregnancy before the twenty-eight weeks, or to the expulsion of a fetus that possesses less than 600 grams, since, starting from these data up, it is considered premature childbirth. Really, in the practical land, all born fetus before the seventh month of pregnancy has scarce possibilities to live, without the use of incubators. The legrado is very frequent, being calculated that 25% of the gestations aborts, without they can be necessary with accuracy this statistical data for the concealment that habitually he/she is carried out of such a circumstance, although it is of supposing that the spontaneous abortion, discounting the criminal, he/she only takes place in 10% of the pregnancies.

The lawsuits of the criminal abort can be different: alterations of the egg in the moment of their formation; big fissures of the neck of the matrix; you position bad of the uterus; inflammations or infections of the same one; you cause general, as acute infections with fever (it seizes, diphtheria, fever of Malt, typhoid, etc.) or intoxications (alcohol, big smokers, professional toxics, etc.); nutritious and endocrine bugs; and finally, have an accident or violent traumatisms.

In the abort threat, the first symptom is generally the pain, localized in the lumbar area or in the first floor stomach. Simultaneously with him, or some days petty forfeitures (point out) appear later. This symptomatology can waive and to follow the pregnancy, or this can be discontinued raising the pain and the haemorrhage then, and taking place what we could call a childbirth in miniature, being ejected a generally dead embryo. The woman pregnant debit side to think of the possible abort threat, before all signal of blood appeared during the first three months of pregnancy, being in this unwarranted case the absolute rest in bed. The remainder of the treatment should be instituted by the obstetrician. Once the abort has taken place, it requires a rest of one week, if complications have not existed.

The two main complications of the abort are the abundant haemorrhage and the infection. Both have very good treatment at the present time. Also in certain cases, the abort is incomplete, not being ejected the whole egg, but rather inside the uterus they can be placenta remains that you/they will force the obstetrician to make a legrado (shaved ice) to clean this uterine impure cavity. It is mandatory to visit one another one month after the abort.