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How to Avoid The Risk of Diabetes?

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

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Diabetes is one of the most common diseases affecting the population, especially in those who do not have good, healthy eating habits.

Types of diabetes

- Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetics produce little or no insulin. This type of diabetes usually appears in childhood or youth and those who suffer from external sources need insulin your body to help control their blood sugar.

- Type 2 Diabetes
In this type of diabetes, the body does not produce enough insulin or can not use it properly. It is the most common variant of the disease that usually appears in adulthood. Often can be controlled with diet and exercise, but other times, it takes pills and even injections of insulin.

- Gestational Diabetes
It affects some pregnant women and usually disappears after delivery. Often recur in future pregnancies (two of every three cases). Having suffered from gestational diabetes increases the risk for type 2 diabetes later.

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Avoid Excessive Alcohol to Stay Healthy

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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The year-end festivities mark the start of the holiday period brought about many changes in the routine itself of the months in which we work. Increase out to eat out, it roasts and festivals, often accompanied by an occasional drink.

Unfortunately, alcohol has become one of the protagonists of our celebrations, even when we know the risks of excessive alcohol consumption causes. Not only limited to a nasty hangover. We can also suffer from inflammation of the pancreas, headaches, liver and gastric disorders, not to mention traffic accidents.

Thus, the better to avoid problems is to not drink, but if you do, please follow these simple and healthy tips.

• Remember that drinking is an accompaniment to food, not vice versa.

• Do not mix alcohol with caffeinated drinks because the stimulating effects of these relaxants override the alcohol and increase their impact, although less noticeable at first.

• No abuse of alcohol combined with carbonated drinks. Radicals carbonated soft drinks with bubbles allow the alcohol more easily cross the blood brain barrier, causing the toxic effect of the drink faster and accused.

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Tips to Protect Your Skin from The Sun

Monday, July 26th, 2010

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Tips before sun exposure

1. The skin should be moisturized and clean.
2. Do not use perfumes.
3. Choose the most suitable sunscreen: not a product “family.”
4. The products with sun protection are identified with the symbol “SPF” which means Sun Protection Factor (Sun Protection Factor) followed by a number. The higher the number, the greater the protection.
5. Apply 20 minutes before exposure, dry skin.
6. Rub lotion on all parts of the skin that are not protected. Make sure your eyelids, lips, nose, ears, neck, hands and feet. If you do not have much hair, put it on his head. Do not allow the product arrives in your eyes can sting.

Tips for exposure

1. Do not expose children under 3 years.
2. Use broad-spectrum sunscreen UVB / UVA.

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The Benefits of Sunlight for Healthy Skin

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

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In recent days we have seen an increasing number of people going to the beach and pool. Many of them are just going to enjoy a beautiful day and play. However, others go in search of the famous summer tan.

Unfortunately, we know that the sun, given current conditions, causes major damage to our skin and our health. Moreover, excessive exposure can cause skin cancer.

If we compare the radiation received in autumn and winter with these hot months we can say that UVB radiation increases by 5% and 95% UVA. The effects of UV radiation are dose dependent and cumulative.

In relation to the effects that can cause the sun’s rays, the doctor said that there are two types:

1. Radiation have an immediate effect
UVB: Increased vitamin D, a factor that plays an important role in setting the calcium in bones.
UVA: It produces immediate pigmentation (tanning)
IR: Has heat or thermal action
LIGHT: You have antidepressant action

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Hair Care – Prevention and Cure of Dandruff

Monday, July 19th, 2010

dandruff preventionPrevention and cure

The basis of the treatment of dandruff is the use of shampoos antiseborrea. Although it is difficult to prevent and there are no treatments that eliminate some of the causes, who have had this disease or are presenting some of the symptoms, albeit mild, can treat your hair as if they had dandruff.

In this sense, the shampoo should contain the following: salicylic acid, tar, sulfur and selenium sulfide. These should be used daily, as recommended by dermatologists.

In some cases, seborrhea has a dimension of inflammation such that stronger treatments are required, under the supervision of a specialist. Whatever the type of dandruff and the origin of this, solutions or precautions can also come from herbal medicine, especially when it is mild. In any case, you should consult a medical specialist.

Diet

Some doctors advise, for example, special diets rich in B vitamins and beta carotene, which may help stabilize the scalp. The ingestion of seafood, meat, peanuts and sunflower seeds may contribute, in the same direction, to counteract the absence of zinc, one of the generators of the disease. Also essential fatty acids (found in oily fish like salmon, sardines, herring and trout) are very useful to prevent dryness of the hair.

Hair Care:

Errors to be avoided, such as:
• Stopping abruptly dandruff treatment.
• Use a shampoo ill-suited.
• Abusing permanent or dyes.
• Acquire the habit of running his hand through his hair or, worse, constantly rubbing the scalp.

It recommends the approach to be adopted:
• Rinse the hair after each application of shampoo.
• Maintaining general fitness.
• Maintain a balanced diet.

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How to Prevention of Dehydration?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

dehydration prevention* We must offer the child water every so often and monitor the amount of urine.

* We must be strict when it comes to preparing bottles, adding scoops of milk corresponding to the amount of water and also making up well these scoops to ensure that the proportion of water and dust is appropriate.

* It is important to consult a physician if vomiting or diarrhea.

* We should not expose infants to high temperatures or direct sunlight. Of course, not ever leave a baby or a child in a closed car for a minute when temperatures are high, as they can die from the heat.

In the elderly: The elderly are also problems of dehydration, which can have serious consequences mild dehydration because they may unbalance the basic diseases. The most common cause of dehydration in the elderly is the lack of fluid intake and loss due to vomiting or diarrhea or taking diuretics.

In the elderly decreases the sensation of thirst, but thirst nullify some neurological disorders such as dementia. Other times there are alterations that prevent drinking as digestive diseases or states of unconsciousness. Also the elderly to drink water every so often, but they are not thirsty, to monitor the time and the amount you urinate, be careful with the medicines they take, making it solely on the advice of your doctor, not exposed to high temperatures or the sun without protection .

If we are in charge an old man, we must be attentive to their level of awareness and the presence of dizziness, especially when changing position or join. Other symptoms of advanced dehydration can be headache, nausea, cramps or hypotension.

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Symptoms and Special Care for Dehydration

Monday, July 12th, 2010

dehydration symptomsSymptoms of dehydration
- Sed. It is one of the first symptoms of the need for water in the body. This feeling drives us to drink the water we need. However, there are two population groups in which this mechanism is not sufficient: in infants, who can not show it or get the water they need for themselves, and the elderly, where the sensation of thirst diminishes even if they needed water intake .

- Decreased urination. Urinating less and less frequently. This is a consequence of the efforts of the kidney to concentrate urine and remove the little water as possible.

- Dry skin. The skin loses its elasticity and in extreme cases produce what he calls the “sign of the fold” by pinching the skin, the back of the hand for example, the skin is elevated, wrinkled and takes too long to return to their place.

In addition, the skin is cold and pale. The skin condition is a valuable indicator in children than in adults and elderly by the natural loss of skin elasticity characteristic of the age.

- Dry mucous membranes: as dry skin, occurs in the absence of extracellular water. Decreases or blocks the formation of mucus and dry out the nasal passages. Decreased production of saliva and mouth feel thick.

- Tiredness, dizziness and confusion. The brain receives less oxygen to decrease the amount of circulating blood. Water shortage affects the entire body, also reducing blood volume, which lowers blood pressure and cardiac output. To compensate for low blood oxygen reaching the cells, it causes increased heart rate and blood pulse.

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How to Avoid Dehydration?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

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Dehydration. What are they and how to avoid them
Dehydration is a more or less severe decrease in the amount of water in the body, which also affects the concentration of electrolytes. Children need special attention, the elderly and the sick.

What is dehydration?
Dehydration is the lack of water needed for the body. May be due to an excessive loss of fluids through sweat, vomiting, with diarrhea, to excessive discharge of urine (diuretic drug or untreated diabetes) or a lack of fluid intake. As a result, alter the body’s functions and there is a series of clinical signs ranging from thirst or dry skin to coma and death in extreme cases.

Normally, you lose a certain amount of water daily through breathing, sweating (half a liter a day) and urine, and tears, or feces. But it is not uncommon abnormal losses occur due to vomiting, diarrhea, fever, or dehydration from excessive heat. Excessive losses may also occur in the urine in certain diseases such as uncontrolled diabetes or intake of drugs called diuretics that promote urination. In other cases there may be loss of fluid from burns or internal or external bleeding.

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Sunburn and Heat Stroke Treatment

Monday, July 5th, 2010

heat strokeTreatment to minimize disruption

There are a number appropriate measures to help solve the disruption from the heat in a person:
- Lower body temperature by moving to the shade or a cool and calm.
- Keep your head high and try a little jog wet clothing or placing cold compresses on the head.
- Moisturizes doing a lot to drink water, but only if he is conscious.
- If it were necessary, seek medical help.

Photoprotection
Despite awareness campaigns and improved sunscreens, it remains to solve the problem of application of sunscreens.

The application should be half an hour before exposure and must be given very generously, evenly and with dry skin. Then the process must be reapplied at least every two hours and reapply every time we take a bath.

Collotype
The characteristics of the skin does not only reduce fat condition parameters, dry or normal. A more important aspect is the sensitivity of each person and their skin to the sun, which is what is called phototype. Each person has a different solar capital, ie support more or less of the sun.

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Sunburn and Heat Stroke Prevention

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

heat strokeHeat stroke is a problem related to the thermoregulation of the body. Occurs due to excessive exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun. Heat stroke occurs when the body loses control of temperature, which rises beyond 40 º C.

Sometimes associated with segments of the population such as children or the elderly, the fact is that most of the cases are related more to an incorrect time available to take the necessary precautions.

What are they?

In heatstroke, the body loses control of the temperature, being able to rise above 40 ° C. It causes damage to cell structures and the thermoregulatory system, including creating a risk of mortality.

The symptoms of this situation is characterized by a series of processes such as reduction or cessation of sweating, headaches, dizziness, confusion, tachycardia, hot and dry skin and may even reach to seizures or complications besides kidney failure, liver or respiratory.

It is more natural than sunlight happen by a lack of prevention and occurs more in young people taking the sun and fall asleep or play sports for a long time most dangerous times of the day. People at increased risk for these symptoms are the elderly, children and those suffering from any pathological condition.

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