Hygiene is still the best defense against viruses and experts are again raising the alarm for simple yet effective precautionary measures that minimizes the chances of infection, especially for us social creatures who enjoy company of others that can carry such nasty surprises. Hand washing especially in public places where physical contact is assured is indeed a good way to protect yourself. Face masks are effective only if they are worn at all times and if everybody uses them. In the home, proper sanitation of all surfaces that are touched frequently is also a key to preventing the disease form spreading. Once a proper vaccine has been developed, they will allow us to deal better with the disease to train our immune system with a weakened form of the virus that lets it know how to deal with it best and shrug it off as a known invader. Continue reading “Hygiene – Best Flu Defense”
The flu caught everybody by surprise and suddenly, rentals of outbreak movies are soaring and people are demanding governments develop vaccines for the new flu scourge that has in a matter of months circled the globe and continues to kill people. Viruses are the most feared health risks due to their ability to mutate and change from time to time. Flu is a common illness that everybody get sick of and is normally a seasonal disease that occurs during the entry of the cold months when our bodies are adjusting to colder weather as winter approaches. Just what is it about viruses that makes them so dangerous? They are simple and quite effective at their infectious abilities, being mere genetic material encapsulated within a protective jacket of protein, ready to wreak havoc on people who have no immunity to their genetic mutating abilities. Continue reading “SWINE FLU”
The rash of flu outbreaks that has been the topic of warnings by scientists ad other health workers for some time has become more of a truth with the developments that are now sweeping the world in terms of pandemic proportions. The scourge the bird-flu is exacting on the population of this earth continues to ravage people’s lives then in comes the new Swine flu epidemic that has seemingly met forecasts/predictions in the speed at which it started to spread all over the world in the span of a few months. It started with a boy who got sick from a small Mexican town, seemingly form a rare form of flu that was unknowingly obtained from pigs that in poor countries shared close proximity in terms of living spaces to their owners. He gets sick, taken to the local clinic and then infects everybody there spreading the disease to the capital of Mexico then to the whole world. Continue reading “The Common Flu – Not so Common at All!”
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When we were still young our parents brought us to our pediatricians to have shots of vaccines to prevent certain disease from entering our body. Since babies have weaker immunity against sickness. Now that we’re grown-ups we don’t need to worry about those diseases since we already had shots before to prevent them. Wrong! You may believe nowadays that vaccines are only for babies or kids but the truth about is that vaccine are also essentials even in our adulthood. The reason is that: nobody is immune all disease and some vaccinations need continued follow-up to ensure their efficiency. In fact, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we become more susceptible to serious diseases caused by common infections as we grow older. Also, the older we get, the greater the chances that our immunity will be worned-off. Doctors say that an injection only hurts as much as a pinprick, and it’s true.
The approach and type of treatment has attracted the attention of top cancer researchers much so that they have started experimental tests on the Kanzius device. Though an actual cancer treatment machine that would be useable and safe for human use is still a few years away, the novel approach he took is making his invention the talk of the cancer research world. When asked what his expectations would be of his invention (which by the way he funded with his own money) he simply says he doesn’t need to earn money from it all, and that a cure for cancer that would make tomorrow a better one for all the cancer sufferer’s out there would be enough reward for him. He also says he hopes to see the first patient before h
e succumbs to his Leukemia, roll out of the operating room with the cancer cells gone and done for.
He has his own website at the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation which promotes cancer and features his amazing invention.
The world was stunned when an ordinary cancer patient suffering from a form of Leukemia announced that he may have produced a device that could spell a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment. John Kanzius used to be a radio operator and technician turned inventor when he got fed up with chemotherapy and the other types of treatments that are currently available for treating the many forms of cancer. He came up with the idea of using high-power radio waves to kill off cancer cells deep within the human body that promises to be non-invasive. The treatment would have a patient administered with protein attaching compounds that would attach themselves to the cancer cells and only the cancer cells that is loaded with metallic Nano-materials. Radio waves passes through the human body without harming the living tissue and this happens everyday with cosmic radiation on the form of radio waves penetrating and passing thought the human body without any harm done.
The symptoms are serious and can me interpreted as a heart attack but researchers have found that there are individuals that do exhibit the adverse reaction to bad news such as a loved one passing away. It first caught the attention of Japanese doctors in 1991 and was initially called takutsubo cardiomyopathy, modern terminology has it named several versions such as; stress cardiomyopathy, stress-induced cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome and they have since gained little knowledge on how psychological trauma can trigger such an adverse effect in humans. Researchers are identifying adrenaline as the main culprit but more research is needed to prove it as such. They have found that too much of the hormone can damage the hearts of certain individuals as they get to hear of bad news resulting in symptoms similar to heart attacks.
Telling the real heart attach from the syndrome can be difficult for they do exhibit the same symptoms but there are rarely any side effects form those who suffer Broken heart syndrome, sufferers tend to recover fast and get back with their normal lives but caution is advised so as not to under mind the possibility of a true failing heart. In a true heart attack, there is arterial blockage but in the syndrome, the blood vessels and arteries are fine but trauma may result in sluggish blood flow. Experts form the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research are continuing research in to the possible reason for the syndrome as they try to better understand why psychological trauma can produce such profound effects on the physical body.
Children are extremely vulnerable and should be checked by a pediatrician to be sure of no serious illness. With care and rest, the common flu would be over in a week or so but do expect to feel a bit worn out for more than that as your body recovered from the ravages of the disease. Your resistance to the strain of virus that caused your symptoms would increase making you a bit more prepared the next time round. The bad news is, as we have said, there are several viruses that can give the same symptoms but are totally non-related. Hemorrhagic fever and other more exotic diseases also produces the same symptoms so caution is advised and further medical checks should be done to rule out these diseases that have experienced a rise in recent years.
For most healthy individuals, the flu is simply one of those ailments that you have to go through from time to time. There are some symptoms to look out for with the common flu that might be signs of something more serious that might need more medical attention and that home treatment and resting would not suffice. The flu is something quite common and people rarely get all crazy about it. If the one suffering is younger than 3 months and fever is quite high, call the medical services without delay for infants have such small bodies and to high a body temperature is a sure sign of something that is serious especially with their fragile small bodies.
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It is a dreaded condition that people, regardless of age, wish would not happen to them. Dementia puts a person to a situation where he becomes helpless and vulnerable that he would need to have another person to care for him.
A brain disorder, dementia is characterized by loss of memory. People with this condition find it hard to recall things and have a hard time coping with daily routine. Aside from this, learning and communicating can weigh them down since any mental activity can become burdensome and in more serious cases – impossible.
Though dementia is commonly irreversible because destroyed brain cells can never be revived anymore, there are still some treatable cases. However the focus here is not the recovery or restoration of memory anymore, but more on the slowing or stopping the loss of more brain cells.
