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Anorexia is The Lack of Appetite
anorexia has a significant impact among adolescents and their causes are the prevalence of certain physical standards for the female body ideal
Our domestic problems are reflected in the way we eat. This is a truth almost intuitively that to be punished does not need more than a few seconds of reflection, how we eat when we are stressed? What do we eat when it is summer and we’re on vacation?
However, beyond these cases are more serious than have their origin in ourselves and in our psychology. We talk about anorexia, an eating disorder with an incidence much higher in girls than in boys and in women than in men.
Anorexia.
By definition, anorexia is the lack of appetite. You can be casual, as when caused by gastroenteritis, or result from depressive symptoms, in which case more serious. As we know, anorexia has a significant impact among adolescents and their causes are the prevalence of certain physical standards for the female body ideal. In the long term poor diet can lead to problems such as decreased bone mass, neurological damage and all the problems that can result from malnutrition.
How to detect it.
Most of the test to use for the detection of anorexia in adolescents include questions how are you:
Do you avoid eating with others and a delay to the time of going to the table?.
“She is very fat despite a normal weight or losing a lot?.
“Hide the food in napkins, strip or keeps in his room? -
Are you still standing? Walks and runs “whenever possible? Does repetitive leg movements while eating? Is always as active as possible?
Do you resist going to the doctor and rejects the medical examinations? -
During the meal: – Does it show clear signs of tension and hostility?, “Begins by cutting the food into small pieces?, Are complaining that the food is too large or too hot?,” Pecks and eats very slowly?, Looking “covenants” on the food that results can eat little? , You often leave the table?
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The Most Common Symptoms Of Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids or piles are a series of veins in the rectum and anus that become swollen and become very annoying.
Almost everyone over a period of his life suffering from hemorrhoids, but the main causes of hemorrhoids, not to mention that there is some inherited component are:
* Long periods of constipation or diarrhea.
* Great efforts when defecating.
* Hemorrhoids in pregnancy. The effort at the time of childbirth hemorrhoids produces many pregnant women.
* Stay long periods of sitting or standing.
* A poor diet low in fiber promotes constipation.
* Obesity.
The most common symptoms of hemorrhoids are:
* Bleeding haemorrhoids. Little bleeding when defecating, including feces or on paper wiping. In this bleeding external hemorrhoids usually accompanied by pain or itching and no internal hemorrhoids.
* Pain or discomfort when sitting.
* When the veins inside the anus become inflamed and are beyond the anus (prolapse occurs). This vein bulging is very annoying when you are sitting.
The treatment of hemorrhoids is essential for improvement and especially to reduce symptoms of hemorrhoids so bothersome, so we must:
* When going to the bathroom try not to keep quiet and go at the time that we need. We should try to defecate without great efforts and to promote bleeding and prolapsed internal hemorrhoids. Cleanse the anus with paper or soft tissues and, if possible accompanied by warm water. In case of prolapse try (once the area clean) finger to accompany the hemorrhoid inside the anus.
* When you feel very itchy or itching in the area is good warm water baths for about 10 minutes. It also relieves itching to ice, but we will not use this remedy because the cold weather does not help remove the blood clot that forms the hemorrhoid and if relief but does not facilitate the improvement of the hemorrhoid.
* The use of creams for hemorrhoids usually relieve the pain or itching, but not good either prolonged use.
* As mentioned in many of our items, chamomile is a natural anti-inflammatory and analgesic, so a bag of chamomile in warm water on the external hemorrhoid ease enough.
* Another home remedy is the paste of spinach (finely chopped spinach mixed with oil). The properties of spinach decongest and soothe the hemorrhoid discomfort.
* We must balance a diet rich in fiber, but be careful, say balance, since too much fiber can lead us to go to the bathroom too often and very hard stool, all counter with hemorrhoids.
* Avoid very spicy foods or very spicy, is a “hell” for the hemorrhoid.
* In extreme cases will be necessary to operate the hemorrhoids surgically. Today there are several methods of disposal, such as clotted through laser sclerosed by injection or surgical removal of a lifetime.
If hemorrhoids or piles make you suffer a lot and these tips for home treatment of hemorrhoids and natural and do not relieve hemorrhoids, you should visit your doctor.
The Symptoms Of Cold Sores Or Oral Herpes
Cold sores or oral herpes is caused by a virus that affects the majority of cases the lip but also can produce symptoms within the mouth and nose. The herpes simplex virus type 1 is responsible for this type of herpes and contagious.
The big problem with this virus is that a high percentage of the population is infected but asymptomatic, that is not suffering from the symptoms and not know it’s bearer, and its transmission is very simple (fluid exchange a kiss, using of everyday utensils such as cutlery, glasses, etc.) it should not be alarmed, as it is a virus so widespread that almost all of the people and bears. Read the rest of this entry »
People Who Walk Slowly, More Prone to Cardiac Death
Walking slowly not only delay the arrival at destination: According to a French team, the greatest who walk slow are nearly three times more likely to die from heart disease than those who walk faster.
The message to the general population is to maintain fitness in old age would have important implications and preserve life and function (muscle).
The expert said the study, published in BMJ, also suggests that a test of walking speed can know better the health status of older patients.
Previous studies have associated the slow gait with an increased risk of death in a given period, as well as to falls and other adverse health consequences, but none had shown the highest risk if the concentrated heart disease or other cause .
Infectious Gastroenteritis by Food Poisoning
Staphylococcal
Episode of acute vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhea caused by eating food contaminated with staphylococcal enterotoxin.It occurs in outbreaks, when people with skin infections (fornculos, etc..) food handlers and contaminated, and after they are exposed to room temperature.
Typical mediums include foods such as custards, cream pies, milk, processed meat and fish.
The incubation period (without symptoms) is 2 to 8 hours after ingestion of food containing enterotoxin. The disorder is brief, with recovery in 3-6 hours. In very young children, elderly or chronically ill may be more severe disorders of fluid and salt balance. The intravenous fluid replacement produces dramatic improvement.
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