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Archive for February, 2012

According to a very comprehensive work done recently concluded that passive smoking under 5 years old have 76% more likely to be carriers of the bacteria pneumococcus, compared to 60% of children of parents who do not smoke.

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) is the bacteria that causes pneumonia in children under 5 years, they present it between six weeks and 24 months.

The means of transmission are small droplets exhaled or expelled by others when they cough or sneeze, and there are other risk factors such as overcrowding, contact with other young children in daycare, previous hospitalizations and addicted parents.

Small smoke have higher rates than the children of those not addicted to certain pneumococcal serotypes, including some contained in the heptavalent vaccine: 49% versus 30 per cent.

There is currently a vaccine 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate, which also protect the seven serotypes of heptavalent incorporates serotypes 6A, 19A and 3.

Experts said the pneumococcal developed resistance to various drugs, there are currently more than 90 variants of these bacteria, some of which can cause illnesses such as meningitis, pneumonia, ear infections, sepsis and bacteremia.

These diseases can leave some sequelae in patients who are younger, such as hearing loss, learning problems, slurred speech, delayed development of mobilization skills, lack of coordination in learning and even reach the Death.

The practice of a sport, either professionally or amateur, can lead to certain injuries or physical discomfort, if not evaluated and treated in time runs the risk of becoming chronic diseases. The most common complication is inflammation of a tendon, known as tendinitis.

Tendons are the thick fibrous cords by which the muscles attach to bones. Its main function is to transmit the force generated by muscle contraction for movement of the bones. In general, this swelling is perceived by patients as joint pain and sometimes confused with arthritis.

These symptoms can affect any tendon or body bag, but those that do are most commonly located in the vicinity of the shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, hips, knees, ankles and feet.

Unlike arthritis, do not cause deformity, but usually appear on a recurring basis. Usually tendinitis is caused by the use or overuse of these structures during work or sports, especially in patients unfit, they acquire bad posture or overload a limb.

There are some precautions you can take to prevent such ailments, such as the adoption of suitable positions, ergonomically correct workstations and the use of splints and protective of susceptible areas.

Treatments vary depending on the cause which caused the tendinitis. Sometimes, if it was caused by abuse or damage, direct, avoid certain activities. In other instances, doctors recommend immobilizing the affected area and applying moist heat, and other forms of physical therapy. In almost all patients are prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs that help reduce the inflammatory process

Environment is the most suffering smoke.

Tobacco production causes pollution of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, forest fires, deforestation, climate change and improve the city’s poor air quality …

No other consumer products causing much damage from cultivation, production use, and disposal such as tobacco, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control Snuff World Health Organization (WHO).

And not only that the study highlights the negative consequences of smoking on human health and the entire planet.

Butts waste, hazardous

Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) states that each year 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded cigarettes are the most toxic, according to the Ministry of Health of Argentina, the biggest cause of litter in the world.

It is therefore not surprising that an article published in the journal “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health” consider the butts as “hazardous waste”.

Filters from cigarette butts are made of cellulose acetate, non-biodegradable materials that pollute the environment effects can last 25 years to decompose. Studies show that American beach butts represent one-third of all waste collected.

In addition to filters, buttocks can keep toxic substances that make up the cigarettes.

Nicotine and tar can contaminate one cigarette to 50 liters of water. According to a report by the Florida State University (FSU), tobacco companies will add chemicals to cigarettes for smokers do not need to be constantly lit.

The report further showed that nearly half of FSU trash on the streets of cigarette butts. This residue can reach rivers, lakes and oceans and ingested by birds, fish and other animals can die can not digest it.

Although we take a balanced diet, symptoms such as weight, swelling in the abdomen, wind burn, constant, dyspepsia, food allergies or intolerances, we suggest that it is possible that our bodies can not digest or effectively utilize the nutrients from food.

For the food we eat can be assimilated by the body is the intervention of some substances known as digestive enzymes.
This is responsible for digesting food, breaking them down into their basic units that can be absorbed in the intestinal tract.

Although in saliva are digestive enzymes (as ptyalin), most of the activities presented in the abdomen, and especially in the small intestine.

Lack of production of this enzyme, either by disease, by the same process of aging or lifestyle too quickly and with bad food, or food so much that exceeds the body’s enzymes can lead to the emergence of various gastrointestinal disorders such as indigestion, slow digestion or slow, .. .

If these conditions persist for too long can cause a state of malnutrition, colitis or increased sensitivity to allergies. Support functions of the digestive tract enzymes might be of interest in many cases.

Medical specialists from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons pneumology and has strongly discouraged the use of electronic cigarettes to quit smoking because it has not been scientifically proven to achieve its goals, because smoking habits can not cut it if you take a cigarette in their mouths.

Electronic cigarettes are being studied to determine their safety, the component leads.
According to the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration United States), laboratory analysis of a sample of electronic cigarettes have been found to contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze.

Let’s see how they work and which contains a controversial electronic cigarettes.

The so-called electronic cigarettes is that the battery-shaped device eject when inhaled nicotine cigarettes and seek to replicate the experience of smoking.

Do not smoke, but sprayed a substance that may contain nicotine or just like the essence of mint, vanilla or apple, steamed similar in appearance to cigarette smoke. It costs about 50 euros and the need to refill that costs between 6 and 8 euro,

Marketed as ‘Cigtronic’, ‘Cigarclean’ or ‘e-cigarette’, often advertised as a method that helps you quit smoking or help for smokers to avoid lighting a cigarette in places forbidden.

“There is no evidence that the electronic cigarette help you quit tobacco habit.” “The electronic cigarette does not stop, despite what those who claim to sell.

These products are defined themselves as non-health products, regulatory agencies do not argue, while not caused by the specific nature of medical equipment or drugs. However, according to the OCU, “it is important to regulate the use of these devices in public spaces” because they give a bad example for the younger generation.

Drug agencies (FDA, for the acronym in English) recently analyzed some of the best-selling cigarette brands and found this “poison one of them, more than nicotine that is expressed in other people, and most of the carcinogenic compounds such as nitrosamines.”

On some pages advertised as a device recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to quit smoking, but WHO itself published a note denying it.

WHO knew there was no scientific evidence yet to confirm that the electronic cigarette is a safe and effective device to stop smoking “electronic cigarette is made of metal pipe with a chamber containing liquid nicotine in a cartridge can be refilled.

Smokers were deployed but not burned, causing a lot of use to avoid a ban on smoking in public spaces.

However, the user inhales nicotine “along with other toxic muchoscompuestos that we are not safe,” said Douglas Bettcher, acting director of WHO’s Snuff-Free Initiative.

“The World Health Organization knows there is no scientific evidence yet to confirm that the electronic cigarette is a safe and effective device to stop smoking,” said Bettcher. “We still do not perform toxicological tests and clinical examination on this product.”

The electronic cigarette is not yet recognized as a legitimate therapy like gum, nicotine patches or pills to help smokers overcome their addiction to nicotine, the UN agency said.

Australian scientists recently found that this vegetable if consumed as a supplement helps control blood pressure.

It is perhaps the greatest natural remedy with proven medicinal properties experimentally.

A couple of cloves of garlic (Allium sativum) should feature in a kitchen, this is one of our favorite seasonings, but Australian scientists have discovered that eating garlic capsules help reduce blood pressure.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide, Australia conducted a study with 50 patients were given garlic in different forms: fresh, raw or powder. In analyzing the results found that garlic capsules was good to control hypertension.

Lead researcher, Karen Reid, said they discovered that fresh garlic, when cooked loses the ingredient that helps reduce blood pressure.

This is the first research that proves scientifically that garlic helps fight hypertension, a disease in the world are one billion people.

For previous studies, we know that garlic is beneficial for the heart and for centuries, Ayurvedic medicine of India has recommended the benefits of garlic on arterial health.

Science confirms

The medicinal properties attributed to garlic are checked and verified in the late nineteenth century, when Louis Pasteur demonstrated that it is a natural antibiotic.

Later, Dr. Arthur Stoll, a Swiss physician Nobel Prize winner, unveils one of the basic components of garlic: a substance called alliin.

The Aliina is the component “mother” pharmacologically inactive, odorless, resulting in the active ingredient, allicin, bactericide which was discovered in 1944.

Currently, Japanese scientists test their effects on patients with low back pain and arthritis, while in India, are developing studies showing that garlic has a preventive effect on the development of atherosclerosis and high blood pressure (hypertension).

Beneficial properties of garlic

Raw garlic has antiseptic, fungicidal, bactericidal and cleansing, because it contains a volatile essential oil called alliin, allicin which becomes responsible for its strong odor and is eliminated through the respiratory tract.

But it also has other properties beneficial to the body:

* Stimulates the gastrointestinal mucosa causing an increase in digestive secretions and bile.
* It is diuretic.
* Increased bronchial secretions, so it is said to be expectorant, antiseptic and decongestant.

* Frequent consumption causes vasodilatation (increased diameter of small blood vessels, arterioles and capillaries) that causes blood to flow more easily and decrease blood pressure.

* Therefore, regular consumption of garlic is highly recommended in case of intestinal parasites, any infectious process and for those with hypertension and cardiovascular risk.

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