Showing posts with label syndromes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label syndromes. Show all posts

10/05/2009

Carpal tunnel syndrome


The use of computers was an old disease intensify few suffered. Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when we spent many hours using the keyboard or mouse. Its main symptom is intense pain in the wrist, which may worsen if not the cause. For pain relief, natural recipe prepare the following:

Ingredients
• 6 tablespoons of clay
• 1 tablespoon lime dead
• Maceration water thyme
• Alcohol rosemary Preparation

Previously, prepare the maceration adding two or three tablespoons of thyme in a glass of water and let stand for 24 days. Mix six tablespoons of clay and a spoonful of slaked lime water with thyme, mashing into a paste. Anointed all over the wrist and let it work overnight. It is best to wrap the wrist with a bandage.

3/23/2008

The 10 Today Illnesses

1. AIDS
Twenty-five years since you were identified for the first time and you still are not cure for the Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. AIDS continues being among the strongest murderers in the world, especially in the industrialised countries. A recent studio confirmed that the illness probably began with a jump from the chimpanzees to the humans.

2. Alzheimer
Not it is necessary to confuse it by heart with the ullage that you affect most in your last years, Alzheimer is an illness neurodegenerativa that are manifested in a different way in each one that suffer it. The exact lawsuit has understood each other and it cannot be treated efficiently.

3. Common cold
Even with a thousand million dear cases in the United States every year, the physicians still know very little envelope the nasal secretion, nasal engorgement and I sneeze. On the average, the children have from 3 to 8 caught a cold per annum and they continue having them during the whole childhood. The parents are usually contagious of the children. The colds are the most communio reason for which the children miss the school and the parents to your work. When somebody has a cold, the nasal secretion you are acknowledged of the viruses that cause it and the sneezes, the same as to sound or to be dried the nose, they spread them. A cold you can acquire inhaling the virus in the event of being seated near somebody that sneeze or when being played the nose, the eyes or the mouth after played book credit something infected by the virus. The time and the chicken consommé are often the only prescription that you help.

4. You seize to prepare
The humans don't have defence for the powerful flu to prepare transmitted by the birds, you are an official fear for the health that you can mutar in a variety that can be transmitted among human. The death rate for the infected humans is around 50%, but up to now most of the humans have been infected by the direct contact with the infected birds. However, a recent series of cases seems that one could book credit extended among people.

5. You itch
The pike is the intake of substances different to the foods. The mud, the dirt, the ice, the starch, the animal feces, the paint and the hair balls are only some few examples of what are known that the children and the adults eat with pike. In some cases, nutritional specific deficiencies, as the anaemia ferropénica and the deficiency of zinc, they can unchain this vehement unusual desire.
6. Dysfunctions autoinmunes
The dysfunctions of the immune system show up when the immune answer is inappropriate, excessive or you are not such an answer. The dysfunctions autoinmunes are developed when the immune system destroys the normal tissues of the body, that which are caused by a reaction of similar hypersensitivity to the allergies where the immune system reacts to a substance that, usually, you would ignore. The dysfunctions autoinmunes cause destruction of more than one or more types of tissue of the body, abnormal increment or changes in the feature of an organ. This dysfunction can only affect an organ or a tissue type or it can affect multiple organs or tissues.

7. Schizophrenia
The experts consider to the schizophrenia the most mysterious in the mental disturbances, this you cancel the capacity of the diseased one to distinguish logically between the reality and the fantasy. The symptoms vary completely among the patients including illusions, hallucinations, you speak disorganized, motivation ullage or emotion. The experts in the field are not still exactly safe of which your lawsuit is and some physicians consider that the brain can be unable to process the information in the correct way.

8. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A version of this extraneous brain disorder is the acquaintance as "bad of the crazy" cows and it can be contracted eating flesh of infected cow. The Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a brain damage form that cause a quick decrease of the mental feature and of the movement. You are developed in most of patients by reasons that the physicians still have to understand and you cannot avoid.

9. Syndrome of fatigue chronicle
You are an affection of fatigue or strong and prolonged (you tire) attrition that it are not alleviated with the recess and you are not caused in direct form by other illnesses. The Centers for the Disease control describe the syndrome of fatigue chronicle as a dysfunction different with symptoms and physical specific signs, being based on the discard of other possible lawsuits.
More information in MedlinePlus.

10. Illness of Morgellons
This mysterious illness that recently has arisen again, you show symptoms almost of science-fiction. The sick persons have the feeling of being infected for petty insects or acarids like acarids, lice, fleas, spiders, worms, bacteria or other organisms that generate you an itch sensation in the skin. He/she usually accompanies of injuries in this field generated by the one scratched and frequently it is observed in the chronic consumers of cocaine. Some in the medical community toss the blame from the illness to an illusion psicótica, but others say that the symptoms are very actual.

12/25/2007

Extraneous and Exotic Mental Disturbances

Mr. P. he/she was an eminent musician that had gone to the query of a neurologist because he/she had problems to identify the things of their environment. In some occasion they had surprised him/her giving pats in the part higher of the fire hydrants believing them children's heads or starting a conversation with the latch of a gate. After the revision, Mr. P. it left the query. Suddenly, he/she stopped in dry, it surrounded the car and he/she went to the seat that their wife occupied, you/he/she grabbed it of the neck of the shirt and for the ears and she tried to put on it in the head.

It is about an actual fact commented by the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks. In this concrete case, Mr. P. he/she suffered a cognitive acute forfeiture: their brain was able to see, to hear, to feel and to hear perfectly, but it could not emit personal judgments. This way, it inserted their wife in the conceptual same category that an umbrella or a hat.

Anasognosia
Illness that usually takes place when a traumatism damages the right part of the brain and it paralyzes the left-hand side of the body. In some cases the patient sees her paralyzed arm but she believes that she moves. If he/she is requested that he/she gets tied up the cords of the shoes, he/she will try to make it with a single hand and evidently he/she won't be able to conclude the task, but he will believe that it has procured it as if he/she had two useful hands.

Hemispheric malpractice
It is the deterioration of the visual centers of a side of the brain that causes that the sick person only sees half of the things. These patients only eat, for example, the left side of the plate, they write in the left side of the folio or they only get tied up the left shoe.

Syndrome of Korsakov
It is usually a consequence of the chronic alcoholism. It is about a cerebral injury that causes amnesia. The patient is unable to remember the new facts or tests, its memory to short term is gravely affected, he/she only remembers old facts, previous to the illness. The person believes that she has the age that had when beginning this illness and she thinks that she is living in that time. Everything that makes currently he forgets it quickly.

Syndrome of Capgras
It is a dysfunction of the identification capacity. The patient sees her spouse's face, for example, and you/he/she is safe that you/he/she is about an impostor. It seems that he/she is due to some disconnection between the physical mechanism of the visual recognition and the affective memory. The fellow sees a well-known face, but don't experience the affective reactions corresponding to the vision of a to be wanted, for what interprets that he is an impostor.

Syndrome of Munchausen
It is about one of the calls dummy more serious dysfunctions. The patient feigns to suffer illnesses by means of the ingestion of obnoxious products and she is even practiced wounds and mutilations to get the carefulness and this way to benefit of the supposed inducements of being taken care. When the patient makes the same thing with her dear beings, I eat for example with her petty children, the dysfunction calls himself syndrome of Munchausen for adjacency.

Syndrome of Tourette
The sick persons of this wrong suffer compulsive tics that can be of all type, from facial bare movements to vocal tics. In this last case, the patient is unable to control the sounds and words that you/he/she emits. Sometimes, the fellow says tacos without control in any status, to what is named coprolalia. One of each 200 subject with chronic tics can end up suffering this dysfunction of genetic origin.

Tricotilomania
It is a wrong that he/she suffers near the population's 1%. The sick person starts the hair of any body part compulsively: head, brows, chest, pubic field...

Blind vision
The patients seem completely blind, at least regarding a part of their visual field. If they are asked if they can see an object in that field, the answer is negative. But if they are forced to point out where he/she is that object, it will indicate the correct place. Somehow, their visual mechanisms have been discontinued. They can see, but they are not aware of it.

Syndrome of the Foreign Accent mark
50 cases localized in this stranger's dysfunction world that arises exist when different connections of the control rooms of the language in the left side of the brain suffer a damage. Some patients generate a language standard totally different to the own one. In certain occasions, the individual ends speaking with accent mark different to that of his country or an unrecognizable tongue, product of the mixture of several languages with those that he has had contact.

Blindness to the movement
A very strange variety of blind vision. The patient sees the static objects well, but you/he/she doesn't perceive the movement. If it tosses the coffee in a cup, it captures without problems the coffeepot, the plate, the cup... but the stream appears before its eyes like an icy and immobile column. It is a not well disabling one. The cars, people, the television images appear and they disappear suddenly at different distances, but they get lost as soon as they move. The well-known few cases have taken place after a brain-vascular accident.

Mental disturbances of other countries or exotic

Amok
It is given in the island of Java and Indonesia, it is a dysfunction in that the individual, after suffering a social (it is generally given in men) strong shame, begins to run even destroying all that finds to his step, killing the animals unceasingly and to people to that you trips in his road. The remainder of the population usually finishes it killing to be a hazard, but those that end up outliving, show a total amnesia on that happened.

Wild-man
The wild-type" "Man's syndrome is given in New Papua Guinea. It is a dysfunction of the language that appears only from among in men 30 and 35 years, which begin to speak in an unconnected way, saying extraneous things. The population screams that this man has become a wild-type man, they surround it and they simulate that they fear him/her. Finally the man finishes going to the forest, but in his road it makes petty abstractions in other towns and these stolen things the he goes scattering for the forest. To the end of some weeks he/she returns home as if it had not happened anything.

Koro
It is a mental disturbance type that is only given in China. The sick person believes that his penis goes decreasing progressively until invaginarse in the abdomen and to cause the death. In a 30 or 40% of the cases the sick person has associate a depression, but the remainder they don't have any other pathology. The patient can end up dying for this illness.

Dhat or Dhatu
It is a characteristic dysfunction of India, also called syndrome of the seminal forfeiture, it affects until a 15 or 20% of the users of the primary centers. In the medicine Ayurveda is believed that people are formed by four fundamental humors, and one of them is the semen. These humors are not regenerables and they have a border, for what the men throughout their life go by different stages, and in last o'clock they can no longer have sexual relationships. The men that have many relationships lose the semen and they age before, but the women that receive it, every time they rejuvenate more. Dhat is the problem in that the man keeps very little semen and it is manifested with a chronic fatigue, the physicians recommend them that they don't have relationships that you/they rest and that they feed well. They also believe that if the urination is clear, it is that somewhere around he/she escapes the semen, and they usually look at it for if they have forfeitures.

12/21/2007

Equine Therapy

The equine therapy is a therapeutical method that was invented to treat physical and mental different affections, in the one that the the fundamental tool to reach this goal is the multidimensional movement of the horse.

The horse possesses a march to the step that has a lot of similarity with the human march. The same sandal the integration of four professional different environments: the psychology, the medicine, the pedagogy and the sport.

The beneficial movement of the horse is known from the antiquity. In the year 460 AC, Hippocrates in their book "The Diets" already spoke of the beneficial employment of the sport of the horses. Later, in the XVII century the medicine used the horsemanship like method to combat the drop, illness that for then it created authentic havoc.

The equine therapy records of three stages. In first o'clock, named hipoterapia, the practitioner is entirely dependent of the equine therapist, that is to say that is not able to manage the horse by itself. Then, he/she spends to a second phase that is the properly this equine therapy, in which the practitioner achieves an independence of the equine therapist. And lastly, pre.deportivo, in which the practitioner achieves the complete handling of the horse for his own means. Estro is a previous income to the sport area.

The neuromuscular financial years applied during it mounts it they reinforce and they supplement the therapeutical effect and they support the regulation of the muscular shade, the decrease of the toned goods, the coordination thick psicomotríz, the corporal building-out network, the stabilization of the trunk and of the head, and the development of elasticity, agility and muscle strength.

During this activity they are carried out the financial years and games between the patient and the therapist, without forgetting the therapeutical purpose. The realized games among the partners encourage the social interaction, benefitting the area member motorboat besides the psicomotricidad.

This activity can be taken advantage of by people with neurological (cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, hemiplegias, parkinson, muscular injuries, polio, among other) pathologies; orthopedic and surgical (amputations, escoliosis, etc) pathologies;. Sequels of traumatism cranoecefálico with broadcast motorboat; cerebral palsy; (spastic, discinética, atáxica, hypnotic) autism; hiperquinesia; neurosis. psychosis. schizophrenia; toxicomanias; down (that they don't possess subluxación atlantoaxial) syndrome; illnesses neurodegenerativas; anorexy or bulimia; escoliosis (smaller than 40º); kyphosis; lordosis; lumbago; amputations; muscular dystrophies; syndromes pospolio; cardiopathies.