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Allergic Conjunctivitis, Eye Allergies - Symptoms, Treatment and Self-management 2008-03-08 03:32:00 My Health - Allergic
conjunctivitis which is not infectious is a reaction to material such as pollen. Eye will become reddish quickly to be followed with hives and tearing eyes.SymptomsRed eyesExpansion of blood vessels (become big) in sclera.Very severe eye irritation – eyes feels burning.Eye tearingSwollen eyelidsTreatment
Best treatment is to avoid exposure towards allergen materials. Treat by pressing with cold fomentation on the eyes or taking antihistamine can relieve the discomfort sensed.Self-managementSit in the house when pollen number or humidity is reported above average or during windy day.Take drug that proposed by allergist / immunologist by suggested dosage.Be sure window is closed while traveling.Avoid from touching the eye with your hands.Stop cosmetic use for the eyes Read more:Allergies
Allergies to Medications - Symptoms and Treatment 2008-03-08 03:24:00 My Health - Allergic to medications is caused by hypersensitive immune system. Body becomes sensitive when exposed first time to drug. Second time exposure or further will trigger immune reaction. Allergic reaction may be divided from side-effect or light irritation (skin rashes, irritation, nausea) to the effect that can bring to the deaths such as anaphylactic shock.Penicillin and related antibiotic are the ordinary cause this allergy case. Best way to avoid allergy is to avoid from using this medications.SymptomsIrritation.Skin rashes.Irritation on the skin or eye.Wheezing / rhonchus breathing sound.Lip swelling.Anaphylaxis symptoms include:Nasal cavity obstruction.Difficulty to breathe.Coughing.Skin becomes bluish, including lips or nails.Headache.Confused.Pain / rigor abdomen.Nausea, Read more:Allergies
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Food Allergies - Symptoms, Treatment and Self-management 2008-03-08 03:13:00 My Health - Food allergies is a state where symptoms will occur because of immune reaction and induced by some type of foods. Allergic to food can be notice by the situations like:Intolerants to food.Intestinal disturbance syndrome.Physical stress.Food poisoning.When allergy had happened, you must avoid those foods that cause the allergy to prevent it from becoming severe.SymptomsItchy throat.Anaphylaxis (could cause death).Stomachache.Nausea.Vomiting.Stomach rigor.Irritation in the mouth, throat, eyes and skin.Irritation / urticaria.Angioedema to eyelids and lip.Nasal cavity obstruction / runny nose.Suffocating / rhonchus sound (wheezing breath sound).Treatment
Treatment main objective is to reduce symptoms and avoid allergic reaction from recurring. Light symptoms do not require any treat Read more:Allergies
Allergic Rhinitis (Allergic breathing) - Symptoms, Treatments and Self-management 2008-03-08 03:04:00 My Health - Allergic
rhinitis is a symptomatic occurrence after being exposed to seasonal pollen of plants in air. Hay fever involves allergic reaction to pollens such as fungus mould, fur and dust. Pollen that is carried by the wind is small and more often to cause hay fever. Very hot, dry and windy weather enhance pollen sum in the air.Signs and symptomsMucus production.Irritation inThroatNoseMouthEyesSkinCough.Headache.Runny nose / sneezes.Asthma / rhonchus sound (wheezing breath sound).TreatmentPrevention is the best treatment.Take antihistamine to relieve light to medium symptoms.Decongestant can also help to defuse symptoms like nasal cavity obstruction.Self-managementUnder are listed some ways to reduce the exposure to pollen and mould:Close windows at night to prevent pollen or mou Read more:breathing
Know and Handle Allergies Effectively 2008-03-08 02:50:00 My Health - Allergy means 'activity change'. It also known as hypersensitive reaction and happens when body defense system reacts to foreign substance that enters the body through the skin, lung, swallowed or pricked. This reaction actually does not need to happen. It often happened to those who have family’s history that suffer allergy.Allergic reaction may be mild or serious and happen in a twinkling of an eye or few minutes after exposed allergen, but some possibly could happen after several days or few weeks. Anaphylaxis is a very serious allergic reaction and can happen abruptly within a few minutes after being exposed to the allergen. It brings to anaphylaxis shock and can cause death within 15 minute if not getting medical treatment.The term 'allergy' was created by Vienna pediatr Read more:Allergies
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Helping Kids Enjoy More Fruits and Vegetables 2008-03-05 11:52:00 My Health - It can be tough to get kids to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Don’t force the foods, but continue to offer a variety. Try these ideas:Set a good example by eating fruits and vegetables yourself. You are a role model for your kids in so many ways. Eating is no exception. When your kids see you eating and enjoying fruits and vegetables, they will too.Offer lots of choices. Give children a choice of fruits for lunch. Let them help decide on the dinner vegetables or what goes into the salad.Let your children help. Kids enjoy helping in the kitchen, and are often more willing to eat foods they help choose and prepare. Depending on their ages, kids can help shop for, clean, and prepare fruits and vegetables.Keep foods separate. Kids often prefer foods served separately. If Read more:Fruits
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Exercising at Home - Workout at Home is Easy 2008-03-03 11:52:00 No time to workout? Just do it at home.My Health - It's in our culture to constantly have open houses, tea parties and gathering with a wonderful spread of local delight that's sure to temp even the strongest willed. So make sure you take out the time to get some exercise because the battle of the bulge begins at home, from moderation and wise food choices to following an exercise regimen, it all adds up. Being busy or on a tight budget means that you will probably not have access to a gym, but this does not mean you can’t do a self styled workout at home. Here are some basic, easy to do, exercises that will go a long way towards helping you stay fit all year round.STRETCHINGStart your workout by spending a good 15 minutes stretching. Concentrate on the muscle groups that will be used Read more:Exercising
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Children Food Poisoning; Things that You Should Do 2008-03-02 10:27:00 My Health - Food poisoning is a type of gastroenteritis caused by food which has been contaminated by poison, usually bacteria. Depending to the poison’s type, abdominal spasm, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea will happen within 3 to 24 hours. If food has been contaminated by bacteria, bacteria will produce a poison which is known as toxin. Toxin provides a direct impact to intestinal layer and causes inflammation. There are various types of bacteria causing food poisoning but the usual ones are salmonella, shigella, staphylococcus and E. coli are a major cause of food poisoning among babies, especially babies who bottle suckling.For food poisoning that been caused by non bacterial material, sign of diseases also emerged if child accidentally ate chemical, insecticide or several type of p Read more:Children
Lupus Factors and Symptoms 2008-03-01 10:29:00 These are lupus factors and symptoms of lupus.FactorsGenetic factor enhance the tendency to cause auto immune problems and auto immune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid immune trouble.Some scientists believe, immune system in lupus is easily stimulated by external factor like virus. Sometimes lupus symptoms worsen when patients were exposed to sunlight.Lot of medications is reported to become trigger to SLE. Most of these drugs are said stimulating the immune system.Female hormone system is also associated with SLE. Hormone relationship with SLE however is still in study.Genetic mutation that disrupts the 'garbage disposal' system inside the body is associated with the onset of SLE.SymptomsRed rashes or face discoloration. Usually shape like butterfly at nose and eyes a
Identifying Lupus and Lupus Treatment 2008-03-01 10:26:00 How to identify lupus and the treatment for lupus.Identifying LupusLupus is chronic inflammation caused auto immune disease and occurs when body tissues are attacked by body immune system.Immune system is a very complex system inside the body, designed to fight disease transmission agents such as bacteria and impurities that enters into the body. However, for lupus patient, the system produced abnormal antibodies in the blood targeting own tissues inside the body.Because of antibody and inflammation accompanying cell can involve any body tissues, lupus have the potential to affect any body area. Lupus could cause skin, lung, heart, kidney, joint or nervous system diseases.When the attack happened on the skin, it is called lupus, but when it involves different organs, it is known as SLE.Lup Read more:Treatment
Lupus – Hard to Trace, No Cure 2008-03-01 10:19:00 My Health - More than five millions world populations face uncertain future after been diagnosed with the problem 'systemic lupus erythematosus' (SLE) or in short Lupus.Until now, there are no drug and in-depth study to tackle lupus. It symptoms which resemble other diseases symptoms also causing patient being wrongly diagnosed. So, it is not strange although lupus already have been known in medical world since 1800, but medications to control lupus is still 'borrowed' from other diseases.Lupus is difficult to be traced. Its major symptoms are joint pain, fatigue, skin rashes and fever, similar to most common diseases. Those circumstances cause patients to receive treatments for diseases they did not have. Currently, lupus patients are incurable and may cause fatality.Until when this scena Read more:Trace
Facts on Pigmentation Disorder and Skin 2008-02-29 02:05:00 My Health - Some facts on pigmentation disorder and about skin.PigmentationA kind of skin disease.Generally divided into three types which are seborrhoeic keratoses, melasma and skin tag;Seborrhoeic keratoses surfaced as black seed or life mole.Melasma - flat grey or black spot under skin layer.Skin Tag - Chocolate or grey coloured excess skin usually at armpit and neck.Pigmentation is harmless yet it causes individual skin to look dull and dirty.Treatment through surgery or cream spread.Individual aged 40 year old up risk higher to have pigmentation.Skin Skin is largest organ which have weight around six pounds, skin have the role to protect muscles and human organ.Skin need three vitamins, A, C and E to remain healthy.Balanced diet recruitment and additional nutrition is good to get he
Sunlight, Genetic Factor the Causes of Skin Pigmentation Disorders 2008-02-28 13:08:00 My Health - Skin pigmentation disorders is a kind of harmless skin disease but its presence causes facial skin of someone looks unwell, besides affecting the individual appearance.Skin pigmentation in community understanding falls into two types which are:Skin discoloration (flat black spot in skin layer or seeds like small growth on the skin), pigmentation problems are like melasma, freckles or solar lentigines.Skin blemishes or growth are like seborrhoeic keratoses (black spot that arise like mole, sprouted in clusters or colonies), actinic keratoses and skin tag (excess skin in brown or black color) usually grew on the neck, face and gap armpit.Although skin pigmentation is pertained as a skin disease, it does not raise any harm except if the methods of treatment and material used are Read more:Sunlight
Couple of Things That Need To Be Emphasized in Nutrition 2008-02-25 03:31:00 Take many kinds of healthy food type including grain, legume, fruits, vegetables, red meat and white lean, fish and low-fat dairy-products.Avoid taking fat food. Although some types of fat is needed to ensure health and regulate body temperature, but you should be careful. Fat in most food not only make you fat, but risk your health.Foods rich with unsaturated fat such as avocado pears, palm oil and olive oil are good. Also foods rich with omega-3 fat like in seafood.Lessen sugary food intake. Food with sugar usually does not contain nutrition required by the body.Too much sugar can invite risk of diabetes. In sometimes, make blood sugar level examination. This way you can plan your nutrition or diet better and perfectly.Choose foods that have lower glycemic index (GI) such as oat, legume,
Health Practice to Reduce the Risk of Disabled Baby 2008-02-24 12:43:00 Care for your pregnancy. - photo by treyevan.Disabled
or not on the embryo you are carrying is undeniably God’s act, nevertheless one actually still can strive to avoid it. If you want a healthy pregnancy and perfect baby when giving birth soon, there are few things that need to be done. It is good doing these things before you are planning your pregnancy till you are really pregnant.Stop SmokingNowadays many women smoke. If you want to have healthy and perfect babies it is good to stop this practice. Smoking during gestation period would cause the baby you carry born underweight.Eat Health
y FoodEat food menu containing five kinds of primary food most needed by the body. Daily, you must take food like wheat, vegetable, milk, milk containing products, meat and protein.Avoid AlcoholAlcoho Read more:Practice
SMART - The New Asthma Management System 2008-02-23 03:54:00 My Health - Cough. Wheezing. Chest feels tight. Breathing difficulty. These are some of the symptoms often explained by Mrs. Jeanne (not her real name) and many other asthma sufferers - sometimes everyday results of poor asthma control.For Mrs. Jeanne and millions others who already have asthma, these symptoms has become usual and tend to rise only uncontrolled properly.Asthma is a state where there is chronic inflammation to respiratory tract. When exposed to some allergy causes, respiratory tract swells and narrows, causing asthma phenomenon.Those who suffer asthma experience suffering at an average rate of three to five days of each acute attack where their asthma are uncontrolled. The fact is, about 20 episodes of asthmatic attacks undergone by every adult each year.This may seem littl Read more:Management
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Gene Therapy Usage in Treating Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) Deficiency 2008-02-21 14:51:00 My Health - Gene therapy is a method of correction treatment for damaged gene for inherited disease sufferer. This method first used in treatment for lacks of the immune response genetic disease (genetic immunodeficiency) which is known as lacking of Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) or ADA(-). This ADA enzyme is needed to complete the formation and development of body immune system.ADA(-) disease attacks new born baby and causes death. The baby is not able to produce antibody system and complete immunization. They easily seize diseases such tetanus, diphtheria, breathing infection disease, measles, and pneumonia. Some patients might have no antibody and immune system at all. This is known as severe combined immunodeficiency - SCID. Usually, children who have disease ADA(-) SCID experience recurri Read more:Deficiency
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Gene Causes 'Itchy' Human? 2008-02-21 04:37:00 Nature in several earlier edition expose, gene has become the cause of somebody scratching their body which feel itchy especially when other people make him/her angry.The test mice which have been used in that experiment, which have no involved gene, found to not scratch their body in the same situation."It is an interesting discovery because itchiness is a common phenomenon. And clinically, it is also a big problem. But, nobody knows, which gene did involved for that sensation.Outcome of the study this suggests that there are two separate routes that produce itchiness. So long as, we are told that itchiness is a part from light ailment," said Associate. Prof. Zhou-Feng Chen, an anaesthetist from Washington University School of Medicine Pain Center.Both mice in the study react the same way Read more:Itchy
Can Become Fat Because of Friends, Couple; Study Shows 2008-02-20 03:28:00 Blame your friends if you are fat. That is the conclusion that been made by a team of researchers in The New England Journal of Medicine that obesity - like as influenza is communicable from a person to another - is a phenomenon that can spread quickly like a virus.Obesity could lead tomany health problems.Individual social network such as buddies at work or kindred at the home can influence excess body weight risk."A person chance to be obese grows more than half (57 percent) if he had obese friend, siblings (40 percent) and pair (37 percent)," said the co-authors, James Fowler from Harvard University and Nicholas Christakis from University of California, San Diego.They added: "What appears to be happening is that a person becoming obese most likely causes a change of norms about what cou Read more:Become
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Ways to Control Diabetes 2008-02-19 03:50:00 These are some ways to control diabetes problem. It involved changes of lifestyles and being more cautious.Lifestyle ChangeChange way of living can avoid diabetes and control sugar level in blood. Diabetic patients are advised to take precaution to avoid and control diabetes by doing few things as below.NutritionFoods containing carbohydrate and sugar should be reduced so that the daily calorie recruitment rate is controlled. Discuss with doctor or nutritionist a controlled diet ways.ExercisesExercise is important to help reduce body weight and also gained the heart and lung health (cardiorespiratory). Exercise must start by gradually and with doctor’s advice.Body Weight Control
Patient who have excess bodyweight will discover the sugar level in his/her body is difficult to control. There Read more:Diabetes
Treatments for Uncontrollable Urinating - Urinary Incontinence 2008-02-17 22:02:00 The woman may have to go through many tests and need to accept more than one treatment to cure this health problem. These are the common treatment for urinary incontinence:Personal/behavior treatment. The main objective is to identify any cause of the leakage to happen and try to avoid it. Any condition which gives pressure in the abdomen/chest, also to pelvic supporter organs tissues will be identified. Patient is suggested to:Lessen body weightPrevent herself from constipateAvoid lifting heavy thingsLessen beverages with caffeine like coffee, tea and some soda beveragesTreat the lung problems which cause extreme coughStop smokingTraining for bladder also will be done. Discharge urine at fix time like before exercise activity. Try to oppose the urge to go to the bathroom if feeling that t
Diagnosis for Uncontrollable Urination, Urinary Incontinence 2008-02-17 03:57:00 The diagnosis for urinary incontinence are as follow.Keeping a Urine Diary. Dr. Shah Reza a gynaecologist at University of Science Malaysia Hospital, said, women who are suspected suffering this situation will be requested to record how many times they go to the toilet, type of drink they take, what was done to cause the leakage or frequency to urinate."The volume of urine is also studied. Before that, health history shall be examine to make sure there was no external factor to become the cause. Others include pelvic examination, anatomical variation study or any injury which may have happened."Other Tests- Stress Test. You will be requested to cough and leakage of urine is recorded.- Dye Test. Safe dye admitted into the bladder and in case the dye is spotted at sanitary towel used, it mea Read more:Urination
What Cause the Uncontrollable Urinating or Urinary Incontinence 2008-02-17 03:41:00 These are conditions which may caused the urinary incontinence:Bladder infection. Signs of disease such as pain to urinate, often going to the toilet and also could be presence of blood in urine. Bladder and urethra infection also commonly happens to women because of their anatomy's structure. Don’t worry, this can easily be treated.Strength of pelvic organ supporter tissues. This may be because of age factor, many child births and may also because of the birth process itself, sooner or later will weaken the supporter tissues at hip. This results a disruption toward the anatomy which has become unparalleled.Weak pelvic muscles and strong pelvic muscles. - image from NIHUrinary duct system abnormality. Maybe because of the presence of fistula: an abnormal opening from urinary system into Read more:Cause
Is It Migraine or Just a Headache? 2008-02-16 11:07:00 Migraine or headache?My Health - Headache
? Do not rush to assume it as a migraine and take the migraine killer. There are several categories of headache and what you experience does not necessarily to be a migraine.To help you determine the headache you experience is regarded as migraine or not, do the following test to yourself:1. Is when you experience headache, you also experienced the pain down to abdominal area?2. Do you often feel disturbed or glare by light when you have the headache?3. Is the headache you experience is making you to not being able to do things for more than an hour during three months lately?If two out of the three questions are answered 'yes' then you are possibly to suffer migraine. For further action, avoid taking foods and drinks that can become the cause to m Read more:Migraine
Types of Urinary Incontinence and Its Complications 2008-02-15 11:49:00 My Health - These are several types of urinary incontinence and its complicationsTension / stress Incontinence. Happen to young women when the pressure in urine bladder exceeded pressure in urethra causing urine leakage when one sneeze, cough or laugh. Leakage can also occur during walk, running or aerobic exercise. The cause is, the bladder muscles or muscles in urethra has weakened.Urge Incontinence. Happened possibly because the woman bladder is being overactive or also because the nerves sends signals to bladder. This causes you to not able to go the bathroom in time when feeling the urge to urinate.Mixed Incontinence. When inability factor merge with stress and extreme urge, leakage happened either to one or both phase.Spill Incontinence. Happens when bladder muscles were inactive o
Urinary Incontinence, Uncontrollable Urination or Urine Leakage Problem; A Common Women Health Problem 2008-02-15 03:28:00 My Health
- Embarrassing. But, can be treated. Urinary incontinence means you’re not able to control your urination. The consequence is; your bottom and clothing is wetted.Although this problem affects million of peoples, it is not part of natural aging or a normal thing among women caused by the process of giving birth or menopause.Women
of all ages have bladdercontrol problems.The fact is, it is a medical-state that comes from many reasons - there are those relatively simple and there are also those are more complex. "More woman experience inability to control urinates compared to men. It’s okay if the incident happens occasionally."But if it affects your daily life, please do not be shy and ashamed to get treatment. This problem by majority is curable. Do not make age as a reason," Read more:Common
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