1 Quit Smoking For Good

post by ableh

Weight gain by people who want to quit smoking is a problem that needs to be addressed. Gaining weight might be a miserable and stressful experience for smokers when combined with nicotine withdrawal symptoms. People who are on some smoking cessation programs will have the nicotine slowly removed from the system. This they accomplish by resorting to different tools and methods like nicotine replacement therapies, nicotine gums and patches, herbal patches, etc. People who smoke are aware of the harmful effects of some of the chemical agents and carcinogens that are present in cigarettes and cigarette smoke.

They would be getting into some smoking cessation program only when they happen to be diagnosed with some dangerous problems. In the hope of gaining a few extra days to spend with there friends and family, they might put in a decent effort. It is almost sure that you will quit the habit of smoking when your doctor informs you that you are going to die soon if you do not stop smoking. A strong mental commitment regarding the decision to quit smoking is the key to quitting the habit of smoking. Combine that mental commitment with natural health products, nicotine replacement therapies or other methods and you improve your chances of giving up smoking. One of the many concerns of smokers is gaining weight while in a smoking cessation program smoking. Actually, when you smoke, the blood circulation on your body increases and when that happens, you would be burning those calories.

Do not try to divert your cravings by resorting to eating and filling yourself. Do some exercises, and you will not gain any weight. The fact that quitting smoking without gaining weight is just one aspect, but the fact that nicotine is very much addictive, more addictive than cocaine and heroin, is another matter. Quit the habit of smoking so that you could breathe better and live longer, and you will not contract any respiratory problems or some types of cancers. Some of the lethal chemicals like formaldehyde added to tobacco cigarettes only make it deadlier and addictive than nicotine.

When you do not smoke you do not gain much weight, and the nicotine and toxin levels in your blood will drop to the required or normal levels. You will start breathing easily and comfortably than before, the food you eat will taste better, and you won't smell like hell. Also, you can cut back on the chances or risks of cancers and heart diseases. There are around 600 recognised toxins contained in cigarettes; some of them are cadmium, propyleneglycol, turpentine, formaldehyde, benzoapyrene, butane , benzene, arsenic, acetone, ammonia and zyklon, which is also called hydrocyanidic acid. Smoking does not constitute a natural habit; rather it is an addiction and disease. People smoke not because they are bored. Actually, it is a kind of subconscious effort to cope with stress. Smoking has been banned in work places and public places If you quit, you will stay alive healthily, and life is too short.

0 Lung Abscess

DEFINITIONS
Lung abscess is defined as the death of lung tissue and the formation of cavities that contain dead cells, or fluids due to bacterial infection.

CAUSE
Most lung abscesses arise as a complication of aspiration pneumonia caused by anaerobic bacteria in the mouth. Patients with lung abscesses usually have a periodontal problem (the tissues around the teeth).
A number of bacteria originating from the gap down to the gums and cause lower respiratory infections. The body has a defense system against this kind of infection so that infection only occurs when the body's defense system is on the decline, such as those found at:
- Someone who is unconscious or very drowsy because of the influence of sedatives, drugs or alcohol abuse
- Patients with nervous system diseases.
If the bacteria can not be destroyed by the body's defense mechanism, then there will be aspiration pneumonia and within 7-14 days and then developed into necrosis (tissue death), which ended with the formation of an abscess.

Other lung abscess formation mechanism is bacteremia or endocarditis valve trikuspidalis, due to septic emboli in the lungs.

In 89% of cases, the cause is an anaerobic bacterium.
The most frequent are Peptostreptococcus, Bacteroides, Fusobacterium and Streptococcus Microaerophilic.

Another organism that is not too frequent cause of lung abscess are:
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Actinomyces and Nocardia species
- Basil Gram negative.

Causes of non-bacteria can also cause lung abscesses, among others:
- Parasites (Paragonimus, Entamoeba)
- Fungus (Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Histoplasma, Blastomyces, Coccidioides
- Mycobacteria.

SYMPTOMS
Initial symptoms resemble pneumonia:
- Fatigue
- Loss of appetite
- Decreased body weight
- Sweating
- Fever
- Cough with phlegm.

Sputum may contain blood.
Foul-smelling sputum is often because the bacteria from your mouth or throat tend to produce foul odors.

When breathing, the patient could also feel chest pain, especially if there has been inflammation of the pleura.

DIAGNOSIS
Diagnosis of lung abscess can not be enforced only by symptoms that resemble pneumonia or physical examination alone.
Allegedly a lung abscess if symptoms that resemble pneumonia occurred in the following circumstances:
- Nervous system disorders
- Abuse of alcohol or other drugs
- Impairment of consciousness because of various reasons.

Chest X-rays often can show the existence of lung abscess. Lung abscess appears as a cavity with an irregular shape and inside it looks border air and liquids.
Lung abscess due to aspiration of the most frequently attacked the posterior segment of lung lobes or superior segment of lower lobe lung.
Lung abscess wall thickness varies, can be thin or thick, the boundary can be clearly or vaguely. The walls may be smooth or rough.
A clearer picture can be seen on CT scans.

Culturing the sputum from the lungs to help determine the organism causes abscesses.

TREATMENT
For complete healing required antibiotics, either intravenously (through veins) as well as per-oral (by mouth).
This treatment was continued until the symptoms disappeared and chest X-rays showed that the abscess had healed. To achieve these improvements, antibiotics are usually given for 4-6 weeks. In the large cavity (diameter more than 6 cm), usually long-term therapy needs to be done.

Clinical improvement, ie decrease in body temperature, usually occurs within 3-4 days after administration of antibiotics. If within 7-10 days after administration of antibiotics fever does not go down too, meaning there has been a failure of therapy and diagnostic tests should be carried further to determine the cause of the failures.
Things that need to be considered in patients who respond poorly to antibiotic treatment is bronchial obstruction by foreign objects or tumors, or infections by bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi resistant.

In lung abscess without surgical complication is very rare. Indications of surgery is usually a failure of medical therapy, suspicion of tumor or deformity congenital lung.
The procedures performed are lobectomy or pneumonectomy.

The mortality rate due to lung abscess reached 5%. This figure is higher if patients have immune system disorders, lung cancer or a very large abscess.

0 Breast Cysts

DEFINITIONS
Breast cysts are fluid-filled sac found in the breast.

CAUSE
The cause is unknown, possibly involving a mild injury to the breast.

Cysts most commonly found in women approaching the menopause.
But the cysts can occur in postmenopausal women, especially if they hormone replacement therapy.

SYMPTOMS
Sometimes cysts cause breast pain.

DIAGNOSIS
Diagnosis based on symptoms and physical examination.

Palpable cysts slippery, could move, firmly bounded, and sometimes pain when pressed.

- Checking the usual done to ensure there is a breast cyst: Mammography
- Ultrasound breast.

TREATMENT
To reduce pain, fluid from the cyst can be taken using a needle.
If these fluids contain blood, brown or cloudy, or re-collected within 12 weeks after the liquid is taken, then the entire cyst must be removed surgically because of the possibility of malignancy can occur in the cyst wall.

0 Magic, Children It Got Four Kidneys

post by ableh

London, A kidney patient's daughter makes the doctors were amazed. At the time of surgery, the child's abdomen was found in four kidneys and two of them new kidney.

Angel Burton since birth suffered serious kidney illness, so he was sentenced to have surgery at the age of five years. However, the doctors made in the abdomen Angel was stunned because there were four kidneys. Two of these new kidney that grow perfectly attached just above the kidneys ever.

Remarkably, this pair of new kidney to replace the role of the kidney was ever so Angel can now be free and fully recovered from a kidney disease. After three years of the discovery of a new kidney, Angel who is now eight years old in perfect health condition. It truly has been given the miracle that has transformed his life.

According to medical experts, Angel experienced the phenomenon is very rare. He has a condition called duplex kidney. Simply put, this disorder causes a person has two kidneys on one side of the abdomen. Children who have duplicate on two kidneys is called bilateral duplex kidney.

In the case of Angel, the two kidneys experienced duplication and merging with one another. However, each kidney has a ureter or a separate line so that it can be said Angel has four kidneys and four ureters. The doctors believe if the previous inspection kidney was not detected due to the additional position just above the old kidneys.

Angel's mother, Claire Burton (32), who live in Louth, Lincolnshire, bore the fruit of his heart in 2001. After several months, Angel's condition began to deteriorate drastic. The doctor then did a check on Angel and diagnose the presence of bilateral reflux, which means the valve on the bladder can not function normally. Urine will flow to the kidneys and cause infection.

Angel conditions continue to be monitored and he routinely tests and scans to avoid possible infection. At a time when examined, kidney Angel suffered serious condition so that he was sentenced to have surgery.

Angel was undergoing surgery at Sheffield Children Hospital in October 2007 to install an artificial valve. However, doctors at the time of surgery was found to grow new kidneys. This new kidney and then to grow well and replace the old kidney function. Angel was now completely recovered and healthy life.

0 Losing Weight - Taming Your Trigger Foods

post by ableh

When you practice healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle on a regular basis, you can indulge yourself now and again with those foods you like without worrying. The trick is learning two important ways to keep control of these trigger foods without letting them kick off a big eating binge. Incorporate these techniques into your routine over the next 30 to 60 days to take charge over those trigger foods.

Method 1 - Exclusion

One technique we've discussed in the past is keeping temptation away from you. If your trigger foods aren't in the house, then you aren't going to binge on them. So take advantage of this and set a time period such as one or two weeks during which you won't buy your trigger food at all. This is not a permanent thing, remember that we're all about moderation. What this time period should do is allow you to use up your current supply and still have some time left without the food in your house.

Now sometimes a whole two weeks without buying or having a favorite treat can feel like a hard decision to make. If you're feeling like this is too big of a commitment, remember what we've discussed about breaking problems down into smaller pieces. Habits are built out of day-by-day steps, not instant yearlong epiphanies. Focus on making a decision for today, a decision not to go out and buy any more of your chosen trigger food. At the end of the day, you can feel confident about having made a measurable, positive step.

Once you've made this first step, the trick is to keep building on it a bit at a time. After making two individual one-day choices, commit to it for two more days. Once you manage that, and you will, increase it again and again until you've met your exclusion time commitment. Remember that this isn't about depriving yourself, but controlling things to your best benefit. The first step in control is deciding how much you can have, and in this case it means deciding when you can't have any.

Method 2 - Mastery

As we've mentioned, keeping something away from you is the best way to avoid overindulging. However, this is only a means of putting off the problem. If we're putting it off until we have the means to deal with it, that's a good thing. If we just keep putting it off without trying to come to grips with it, it's a bad thing. Doing so doesn't provide a sense of closure to the issue, only distance. In such cases people often end up depriving themselves so much that they end up going on worse binges than before, which just puts them back where they began.

In the Habit Changer philosophy, the key isn't perpetual denial but managed control. Once we've learned how to control our environment and exclude our trigger foods for a little while, we can start reintroducing them and enjoying them properly.

So start thinking about your favorite trigger food. Think about all the reasons why you like it and how good it is. As you do, consider that a lot of the enjoyment actually comes from that first bite. This is particularly true with treats like chocolate - the first taste is delicious and enjoyable, while the rest almost seems to come on automatic.

If you feel you're ready for it, get a very small amount of your food of choice, and have one bite. One bite isn't going to wreck your diet; this isn't rationalizing, a small 200 odd calorie treat is well within your allowance of small meals during the day. Have the one small bite, using the portion control methods we've learned. Eat it slowly, savor it, and then have a glass of water after to help provide a comfortable fullness.

Remember that food is not actively trying to sabotage you. It's just food, and you can choose when and how you will eat it. The key is always to approach things from a perspective of moderation. One bite of candy will not wreck your diet, so take out one bite, put the rest away immediately, and have your bite. It can be hard to deny yourself the extras, but it is just as hard to lose the weight you put on when you overindulge. Find simple ways to master your trigger foods, and you will find them all the more enjoyable for it.

0 British Scientists Discover the gel to Prevent Transmission of AIDS

post by ableh

War against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), continues to progress. A number of scientists led by Professor Robin Offord and Olivier Hartley of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, recently, successfully developed a kind of molecule that is believed to protect humans from HIV / AIDS virus.

An enhanced protein from the human immune system proteins were shown to protect female monkeys from AIDS virus. The plan, a formula was developed in the form of gels that can be used in humans to prevent sexual transmission of HIV. In laboratory tests, the compound was able to protect cells from the HIV virus during a full day.

That is, in theory, people who use chemical gels that are protected from the onslaught of HIV / AIDS at least 24 hours before having sex. Maximum in front, side effects such gels can already known to man. Then, the drug was tested for levels of preventive efficacy at blocking HIV infection / AIDS in high-risk groups.

Furthermore, Offord and colleagues will develop a cheaper way and easy to make a molecule. As is known, HIV can produce their own cell in the human bloodstream, namely the white blood cells (leukocytes). White blood cells that usually fight if attacked by a virus, will not fight HIV.

This could occur because HIV is a retrovirus or a similar virus that can multiply in human blood. Later, the virus has attacked one type of white blood cells, including lymphocytes, called "T-4" or T-helper (helper) who is also known as CD-4 cells. To be able to infect the CD-4, HIV requires receptor - one or a group of nerve cells and other cells that function to recognize certain stimuli originating from outside or within the body - which is called CCR5.

According to research, Offord and colleagues, people who have a lot of CD-4 cells with little CCR5 is almost certainly safe from HIV infection. The cell was acting as immune system chemical messengers called regulated on activation normal T expressed and secreted (RANTES). Well, RANTES is being developed by a team led Offord to prevent HIV infection.

0 Millions of Hope for People with Thalassaemia

Thalassaemia, indeed different from the Diabetes, Heart, and Stroke who was widely known by the public. Figures do not happen too much these three diseases. But their suffering was not losing weight, because patients with Thalassaemia major can not be treated, which can be done is with a lifetime of blood transfusions

Thalassaemia is a type of anemia (anemia), congenital from birth. People suffering from thalassaemia have abnormalities in hemoglobin (the protein that carries oxygen throughout the body), so lack of normal red blood cells. Therefore he does not have enough oxygen to body cells needed to work at the time of peak activity. As a result, he feels exhausted, often experience mood swings, headaches, palpitations and having to work harder to pump blood and supply more oxygen.


DR.dr. Amalia Pustika Wahidiyat, APA (K), as Executor of Thalassaemia Centre Daily FKUI RSCM Child Health Department, stated that this disease is caused by abnormalities in globin genes alpha and beta globin gene, which globin chain production is reduced until it becomes zero. "As a result of red blood cells are easily damaged and its age becomes shorter than normal blood cells (120 days)", so he said. If abnormalities that occur in the alpha globin gene, the disease called alpha thalassaemia, while the beta globin gene disorders will cause beta thalassaemia disease. "In Indonesia, which is often found in beta thalassaemia."

Prevalence (incidence) of beta thalassaemia carriers in Indonesia ranges from 60-10%. And the need to recognize is that patients with Thalassaemia major can not be treated, which can be done is by blood transfusion in his life, surely this is a problem both from the medical aspects, financial aspects, psychological.

For this, Prodia Clinical Laboratories, in cooperation with Indonesian Thalassaemia Foundation to conduct Social Program "in 2000 for Millions of Hope". This program is one of support Prodia Clinical Laboratories to reduce the number of patients with thalassaemia major surge of Indonesia.

Dra. AMPI Retnowardani, M. Si - Marketing Communication Manager Prodia convey that on this program Prodia Prodia invites all customers and the wider community to support the implementation of the Social Program "in 2000 for Millions of Hope" and became a friend of thalassaemia, by donating a minimum of Rp. 2000, - to the Indonesian Thalassaemia Foundation account. In addition Prodia also provide 500 free checks Thalassaemia Screening Panel for the ordinary people, working with Indonesian Thalassaemia Foundation.

In order Prodia Birthdays 37th and World Thalassaemia Day, Prodia also conduct educational programs through brochures and provide inspection fee waivers amounting to 20% for Hb and ferritin Analysis Panel (as Thalassaemia Screening Examination) during the month of May 2010.

For complete information about the Social Programme "in 2000 for Millions of Hope" or Examination Thalassaemia Screening Prodia please contact the nearest clinic or laboratory can be viewed on their website