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February 11th, 2012 — Skin Diseases
40 is probably the point in your life where you will realize that you’re technically getting old, and this is especially true if you have older children at this point. Life can really start to speed up from this point on, and what makes it worse is that 20 years came and went in an instant. Focus on your aging now, and work to enjoy your elder years by implementing some of these tips.
Take additional calcium supplements with your vitamins. Calcium gets more important to your body the older that you get. Most adults need about 1,200 mg of calcium each day. If you do not get the amount that your body needs, your bones are going to get brittle and weak. Continue reading →
October 8th, 2011 — Hair
• It means you have two X chromosomes in women with the practical.
• washing your hair too often it is caused by.
• is caused by too much brushing or combing.
• hair dyes and perms, permanent damage may result.
• This may be due to wear hats and wigs.
• Straight hair will be thicker regrow it.
• Permanent your head will help it grow back.
• there is no sign of an overactive brain.
• There is not a miracle cure for you to wait.
• Internet and scan your miracle cures for baldness, from going to all sorts of
mechanical devices to be herbal lotion. Perhaps the most useful first step you can take to avoid the imaginary. These days, there are various options. You can change it to accept and live with (- most men with term to his baldness, and they come to fight, at least in a society that equates it with maturity and strength, and that’s a tall order), you can find some way. Would you like wigs, hair thickeners as a cosmetic treatment to try, or you can try to gene therapy. The last option is hair replacement surgery. High blood pressure drug minoxidil, which can increase some people’s thick hair was a side effect of treatment was improved for the first time. This lotion can be applied directly to the scalp. Someone really knows how it works, though, and it is not effective for everyone. Studies show that only 20 percent of women between 18 and 45 have moderate re growth using drugs, while another 40 percent experienced minimal re growth.Early hair loss, it is best to work with young people. A major disadvantage is that you are using minoxidil indefinitely or will it continue to fall, the new hair. Other drugs, finasteride, which was developed for the treatment of prostate cancer, has been shown effective, but only for men. Surgical techniques for hair restoration has been much improved in recent decades, but it is still an option that requires careful consideration.
There are two main options:
• Hair transplantation – tiny punch holes of skin containing a hair transplant follicles from the body (head, such as the back, is still well-contained), and thinning of the layer in the area. Some surgeons use only one or two complete master of the needle used for sewing. But women have more diffuse scalp hair loss is likely, this technology is not possible. There has been very successful with the synthetic fibers implanting.
• scalp reduction – inserted under the skin from the scalp areas that still have hair, and then expand the device, redundant bald areas are removed. Alternatively, flaps of hairy scalp of the head and moved around.
October 8th, 2011 — Hair
Women (and men), the common type of hair loss is a condition called telogen effluvium, which is a complete master of the skull and the body and elsewhere around the diffuse (or widely spread out) are falling.
It is usually an acute stress reaction of the body as a physical or hormonal systems, drugs, or reaction.
Situation, there may be age, generally begins fairly suddenly and gets better on its own within about six months, although for some people it may be a chronic problem. The trigger telogen effluvium by its growth, and because the density of thinning hair and a bald patch, rather than general, terms and conditions for women to be diagnosed as overanxious or neurotic.
Fortunately, it is often a good time. Telogen effluvium is a phenomenon related to hair growth cycle.
Growth cycle of hair growth phase (called anagen, that continues for about three years) and resting phase (telogen, which lasted about three months) is the alternative. Telogen hair follicle during the anagen phase of hair will remain until it is a new push by the increase.
A one-to-date, nearly 15 percent of the telogen is the complete master. But suddenly the pressure of a body at the same time, enter the telogen phase, which can trigger a large number of short hairs. After nearly three months later, this will be a complete master of the shed. Begin to develop a new fully master, it can thicken the hair density again.
Some point in their lives, many adults have an episode of telogen effluvium, reflecting episodes of illness or stress.
Other women’s hair loss is androgenetic alopecia in general, which is related to the body’s hormone levels. A large genetic predisposition, which may be inherited from the father or mother.
Androgenetic alopecia, more than 40 years, many women and men is roughly 50 percent (the current pattern of balding men, can be seen as the main cause of age), and is likely to be affected.
Research shows that 13 per cent of women before menopause have some degree of hair loss, and it’s much more common in the future – research on a piece of that 65 years of age many as 75 percent of women are particularly affected.
androgentic baldness hair loss because it is a chemical called dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, which androgens (male hormones that all women and men in production) to an enzyme called 5 alpha reductase activity is constituted by.
This enzyme also a lot of people to DHT, which is extra fine and thin hair to create hair follicles may be, until eventually they completely pack.
Female pattern hair loss if different from the typical receding hairline and crown loss in men is. Instead, androgenetic alopecia causes damage mainly on the head with the top and sides of a general thinning hair in women.
One of the other women’s hair loss is a condition called alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that affects more than the percentage of population. This is in the hair follicles are attacked by white blood cells. The hair follicles become very small, and the production slows down dramatically, so that no visible hair growth for months and years may be.
After a while, as before, such as hair, go back or not reborn can regrow in the area. The good news is that hair follicles are still alive and in all fields, again gear used;
October 5th, 2011 — ADHD
kindergarten teacher in medical practice to maximize your hair, because I was convinced that he was able to come up with ADHD. They knew little about his life, although his mother is Alice, I hope that I have prescribed medication because it was class, his behavior became increasingly destructive force. Alice came to visit the first, armed with the standard form, indicating that he had high scores for the ADHD.
Assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders, ADHD, especially hyperactivity, inattention, impulsivity, and is currently registered. Rating scales are commonly used for clinical trials, and the child’s behavior or symptoms, often enough to be treated with medication is not recommended. But we must ask: medical and other fields “What are the symptoms”, we only symptoms, causes, and are not to be treated. For example, to cough bacterial pneumonia, and antibiotics in the treatment, no.
This behavior is actually a behavioral control, emotions and attention, which may have a problem with symptoms of ADHD. So the question arises: instead of “we control the symptoms,” “What specific child, self-control is more difficult?” “For what we want to help promote self-control” do not follow
Typically, ADHD is a single housing as a “problem” child. However, extensive research has shown that the child’s self-control and the relationship between the construction of power plants. Family relationships: discover the essential first step. Resolve family conflicts can be placed close to the child’s only symptom management. While “Epigenetics” for some of the growing chain a strong genetic influence on ADHD, genetics and child development and family environment research on the complex interplay is set to perform.
For example, the spring study shows that a gene that allows it to be the risk of ADHD. But if the person lives in a house filled with conflict, may actually have ADHD. I’m more positive, there is only one gene, it means that it will be a mess. Genetic risk can be saved to the resolution of family conflicts. it losses the weight.
Psychiatrist Bruce Perry, diet, physical activity and other necessary first step to appear, “said the damage there.” Brain activity is really good. Extra-curricular activities, if carefully planned and well thought out, are an essential part of treatment. This is an enjoyable activity is translated by some home tutoring or therapy.
Michael Phelps’ ADHD story with a lot of.Swimming is probably not the right choice. Horseback riding, martial arts, drumming and dancing and other activities which serve as an example of this type of quiet can.
Inattention and hyperactivity in children with the help of two stages, and symptoms of impulsivity, the administrator functions, and family conflict is detected. Third, can be considered as a drug.
The drug
October 3rd, 2011 — Obesity
What is Obesity:
Obesity may be characterized by an excess growth of fat in tissues of the body known as obesity. It occurs when BMI(Body mass index) is more than 25.
Overweight is usually due to obesity but can arise from other causes such as abnormal muscle development of fluid retention. Obese individuals different not only the amount of excess fat that they store but also the regional distribution of the fat within the body.
BMI(Body Mass Index):
= Total body weight
Surface area of body(total height).
Factors Of obesity :
There are too many factors for the obesity , the factors are as follows,
A) Age: obesity can occur at any age and generally increase with age. infants with excessive weight gain have an increased incidence of obesity in later life. about one third of obese adults have been so since childhood.
B) Sex: women generally have higher rate of obesity than men, although men may have higher rates of overweight. Most of the women affected by the obesity.
C) Genetic factors: There is a genetic component in the aetiology of obesity. Twin studies have shown a close correlation between the weight of identical twins even when they are reared in dissimilar environment.
D) Eating habit: this is the another main causes for the obesity. eating habits meals, preference to sweet, refined foods and fats are established very early in life. The composition of the of the diet , the periodicity with which it is eaten and the amount of energy delivered from it are all relevant to the aetiology of obesity. A diet containing more energy than needed may lead to prolonged post prandial hyperlipidaemia and to deposit of triglycerides in the adipose tissue resulting in obesity. It has been calculate that children whose requirement energy 2000 Kcal.
Prevention & Control:
Controlling obesity is widely defined as approaches to maintaing weight within the healthy limit of body mass index of 18.5 to 25.9 kg/m2 through out adulthood.
It should also include prevention of weight gain of more than 5 kg in all people. Those person who are suffering from over-weight, a reduction of 5-10 percent of the body weight is must be the initial or primary goal.
Prevention of obesity must be taken within early childhood. It is much difficult to control obesity in adult more than in children. The controlling of obesity or lose the weight can be taken by the following way-
A) Dietary changes: The proportion of energy dense food such as simple carbohydrates fats should be. The fiber content I diet should be increase through the consumption of common in refined foods. The fiber containing foods are –oesbgul, legnine,cellulose nemi cellulose etc. these type of food also can prevent constipation and other intestinal disorder.
Such as- 1) Colon cancer
2) piles.
Besides adequate levels of essential nutrients in the low energy diets should be ensured. The essential nutrients are essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, essential minerals. The reduction of diets should be as close as possible to existing nutritional patterns. The most fundamental consideration is that the food energy intake should not be greater than what is necessary for energy expenditure. It must requires modification of the patients behavior and strong motivation to lose weight maintain an ideal weight according to his/her physician suggestion. Pure drinking water can also reduce the fat of the body. So who are attempting to lose/loss weight they can drink water for this reason.
Unfortunately most steps to reduce weight in obese persons by dietary advice remain unsuccessful.
B) Increased physical activity: Regular physical exercise is the key to an increased energy expenditure. Daily walking and other exercise are important part of weight reducing programmed.
C) Other: Appetite suppressing drugs have been tried in the control of obesity, they are generally inadequate to produce massive weight loss in severely obese patients.
Surgical treatment (e.g gastric bypass, gastroplasty jaw wiring to eliminate the eating of solid food have all been tried with limited success)
The most important things of all to control obesity or loss body weight – to diagnosis the cause of obesity accordingly take the treatment from doctors.
In short one should not expect quick or even tangible results in all causes from obesity prevention programs.
Health education has in important role to play in teaching the people how to reduce over weight and prevent obesity. A fruitful result will be to indentify those children who are at rise of becoming obese and find way of preventing it.