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Symptoms of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Respiratory disease
The deficiency of alpha-1 AT predisposes to progressive damage of lung tissue by the protease activity especially when added contributing factors such as smoking. Cigarette smoke is a potent stimulator of protease activity, accelerating the damage that occurs in the lungs.
The deficiency of alpha-1 AT causes emphysema, a chronic lung disease characterized by destruction of alveolar walls and permanent abnormal enlargement of respiratory bronchioles and alveolar sacs. In this disease, emphysema, these areas are often located at the bases of the lungs but is usually diffuse emphysema.
Affected people, especially smokers, complain of exertional dyspnea, progressive. Read the rest of this entry »
Benefits on The Mediterranean Diet
The traditional food of southern Europe is based on the consumption of cereals, fruit and olive oil, which makes it very suitable for addressing cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and even dementia.
During the Third International Conference on Mediterranean Diet, held in Barcelona, ??Spain, showed interesting findings suggest that the elements of this diet, in addition to its good taste, providing protection to the heart and brain, mainly.
This feeding prevents cognitive impairment in the elderly, ie, concentration, attention and activities that require learning and understanding. This is because it is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids from olive oil. The information was obtained through a study that included 278 individuals over 65 who live in Casamassimia, southern Italy. Although this study is not conclusive, provides a hypothesis about the possible protective role of olive oil in senile mental disturbances. Read the rest of this entry »
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Therapies Based On Energy
Biological therapies in CAM use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods and vitamins. Some examples include the use of dietary supplements, the use of herbal products and other therapies using so-called “natural”, although not yet proven from scientific point of view (eg, the use of shark cartilage cancer treatment).
Some uses of dietary supplements have been incorporated into conventional medicine. For example, scientists have discovered that folic acid prevents certain birth defects and a regimen of vitamins and zinc can slow the progression of eye disease called macular degeneration associated with age.
[Edit] Methods of handling and body-based
The methods of manipulation (or manipulation manipulative therapy) and body-based complementary and alternative medicine emphasize the manipulation or movement of one or more body parts. Some examples include chiropractic, osteopathy and massage, but noted that many of the therapies that are included in these 3 terms are also common practice and fields of competence of a health profession, science, formal and conventional as well as physical therapy medicine manual or osteopathic (DO by physicians), so there clearly differentiate whether these therapies applied a physiotherapist / doctor or a layman, massage, chiropractor, compositeur or healer: in the first case we are talking about conventional medicine or scientific and the other alternative.
[Edit] Therapies based on energy
Main article: Energy Therapy
Therapies based on energy are one of the five types of complementary and alternative medicine according to NCCAM. As one of the areas of complementary medicine that causes more controversy, there are groups who feel that their effectiveness is due to the placebo effect. NCCAM divides biofield therapies when power is intervening own body and therapies bioelectromagnetic when using external equipment or an implement capable of producing energy, such as Tens or generating electrical impulses, magnetic or electromagnetic fields, among others. This second group of therapies is the most accepted by many conventional medical specialties, to be more supported by technological developments that require preliminary investigation. There are also certain definitions and classifications that are beyond the generic definition of NCCAM and try to generate new forms of classification, even though they could fall into any of the above categories. This is the case of therapies that work with cosmic energy, or orgone energy quanta.
Pregnancy In The Best State of health
When we talk about family planning, we often focus exclusively on contraception. But also we can use this plan to, once we decided to go for a baby, do it with all guarantees to carry out a safe pregnancy. Of these guarantees, the main deal is to pregnancy in the best state of health. This means that whether we consider ourselves healthy women as if they have any chronic diseases or are following drug treatment, should we make a preconception consultation to serve as guidance to our gynecologist and help us to avoid the odd scare. Read the rest of this entry »
The “Traveler’s Disease” In Children
A recent American study analyzed the ‘diseases of travelers’ most frequently related to younger and found that the health problems suffered by children are often different from those affecting adults after international protests. The results of this work published out in the latest edition of the journal Pediatrics.
As noted study leader Dr. Stefan Hagmann, Bronx New York Hospital-Lebanon (United States), one of the main issues is that children tend to travel less prepared than their elders. It is worth mentioning that this work was based on nearly 1,600 children from 19 countries who had traveled to 218 different destinations.
Other outstanding features is that small family often require medical care to return before the adults, and are usually admitted because of their condition or undergoing treatment for longer.
The map of traveler’s diseases in children is then as follows: 28 percent of children’s issues the return match with diarrhea, 25 percent, to skin problems, 23 percent to fevers, and a 11 percent to respiratory disorders, ie, that these four disorders for 86 percent of the total.
By region, skin rashes and other skin conditions occur more in cases of children returning from holidays in Latin America, such gastrointestinal problems have been observed mostly after mobilizations to the Middle East and North Africa, while regions Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa tend to cause more fevers in children who visit them.
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Smoking Can Trigger Psoriasis
In psoriasis, skin cells multiply rapidly, resulting in pain, itchy rashes. Although the exact cause of psoriasis is a mystery, a study by a team of American and Canadian researchers reveals a potential trigger of the disease: smoking.
A review of data collected in the Nurses Health Study, researchers reported the following results:
The risk of a smoker to develop psoriasis is almost 80 percent higher than that of people who have never smoked
Risk of developing psoriasis is more than 35 percent higher among people who are former smokers compared with never smokers (this risk remains elevated for as long as 20 years after quitting smoking)
Among smokers, those who smoke more are at high risk
Exposure to secondhand smoke also increases risk, especially among children
Researchers predict that treatments of psoriasis are probably more effective among non-smokers compared with smokers
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Procedures To Treat Anemia
Maybe the doctor will prescribe medicine to increase the amount of red blood cells your body produces or treat the underlying cause of anemia.
Some of these medicines are:
* Antibiotics to treat infections
* Hormone Treatment for adult women and adolescents who have heavy menstrual bleeding
* A synthetic form of erythropoietin to stimulate the body to produce more red blood cells. This hormone carries certain risks. You and your doctor will decide whether the benefits of this treatment outweigh the risks.
* Medicines to prevent the immune system destroys its own red blood cells
* Chelation to treat lead poisoning. Chelation is used primarily for children, because children with iron deficiency anemia are more at risk for lead poisoning.
If your anemia is severe, you may need medical procedures to treat it. These procedures are blood transfusions and transplantation of blood stem cells and bone marrow.
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Cancer Stem Cell
The cancer stem cell is a hypothetical type of stem cell that would form tumors while the properties of stem cells as self-renewal and the ability to differentiate into multiple cell types. One theory suggests that these cells persist in tumors as a distinct population and cause relapse and metastasis in giving new tumor growth. The development of specific therapies aimed at cancer stem cells in hopes of improving survival and quality of life of cancer patients, especially those who suffer from metastases.
Existing cancer treatments were developed mainly with animal models, where therapies able to promote tumor shrinkage were deemed effective. However, animals can not provide a complete model of human disease. In particular, tumor relapse is exceptionally difficult to study in mice, whose lives do not exceed two years.
Ways to Andminister Chemotherapy
Like other medicines can be taken different ways, there are several ways to administer chemotherapy. In most cases, is given intravenously, into a vein. This method of administration is also called “IV”. For this, a tiny tube inserted into a vein through the skin. In general, treatment is performed in the arm. The tube is connected to a bag containing the drug. The medicine flows from the bag into the vein and enters the bloodstream. Once the medicine is in the blood can travel through the body and attack cancer cells.
Sometimes an IV is placed permanently under the skin in a larger blood vessel of the upper chest. Thus, a child can receive chemotherapy and other medicines through the catheter without the need to always use a vein in your arm. The catheter remains under the skin until it is completed cancer treatment. Can also be used for blood sampling and other treatments, such as blood transfusions, without the need for so many punctures.
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Should Children be Vaccinated?
The vaccine protects effectively and, is safe, inactivated virus is similar to others with whom we have long experience. So now we can recommend its administration, but only some children, not all.
The decision whether to apply a medicine must be based on risk-benefit principle, or what is the same, that the protective effect outweighs the risk or side effects of the drug, in this case of the vaccine. Although this vaccine is safe and well tolerated, influenza A is too, because previously healthy children outweigh the illness usually within days and with few symptoms that are usually well tolerated well as fever, cough, runny nose, depression, some have headache , muscle pain, abdominal or throat.
The vaccine may also cause fever, muscle pain (more on the point of injection) and symptoms similar to influenza. Therefore, the irrigation-benefit ratio does not justify the application of the vaccine to healthy children, but those at risk for complicated influenza.
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