Family Health

How to take care of Sinus Infection

2010-08-02T01:37:00.000-07:00

There are many ways you can take to take care a sinus infection. Apart from antibiotics, there are others as well namely antihistamines, decongestants, leokitrienes, mucolytics, nasal saline irrigation and steam inhalation as well as steroids.

Antihistamines are recommended if the doctor has determined that your sinus infection is caused by an allergy. Majority of them do not have to be prescribed by a doctor so you can easily get this off the counter. The only limitation with antihistamines is the side effects. Those who take it will usually feel groggy or sleepy while some may experience dryness. To counter this, decongestants are added to the ingredients of the antihistamine like those normally found on those that are prescribed by the doctor.

Then there are decongestants. These are also available over the counter and in prescription form. These are designed to relieve congestion, nasal pressure and nasal swelling by reducing the blood flow to the membranes that in turn will improve air flow, lessen breathing through the mouth, decrease pressure in the sinus and head as well as ease discomfort.

The one thing it cannot do is relieve a runny nose. Sadly, it also has side effects such as increased blood pressure and heart rate which means patients who have high blood pressure or heart problems have to consult a doctor before taking them.

Leokotrienes are anti-inflammatory prescription drugs that are used to prevent inflammation in the airway and sinus cavities. It has been proven useful in helping patients who have sinus infections due to asthma. The side effects associated with this drug include dryness of the nasal passages, headaches, bleeding, crusting, upset stomach and skin rashes.

The doctor may also recommend the use of mucolytics. This is also used in treating cough because it destroys or dissolves mucus which makes it difficult for the person to breathe. These are available in tablet or liquid form. You can also inhale it when this is placed inside a nebulizer.

This is usually given in high dosages as this is the only way to achieve easier drainage. Once this is done, it will be easy for the body to expel through coughing. If not, this has to be done with the help of suction.

Your doctor may also recommend nasal saline irrigation and steam inhalation. This is the only one that does not have any side effects. It is safe and non-addictive. This works almost immediately especially when what you are dealing with is indeed a viral infection so you can stop using it after 3 to 5 days.

Steroids are also used to get rid of sinus infections. In fact, there are two kinds and the one used for inflammatory conditions are known as glucocorticosteroids. This can be administered orally, applied to the skin or by injection.

The side effects associated with it include increased appetite, weight gain, upset stomach, increase blood sugar and blood pressure, sleep disturbance, mood swings as well as fluid retention. These gradually disappear of course once you stop taking it.

As you can see, there are other medications around that doctors can use to help you fight off your sinus infection. They will have to determine first what is causing it rather than through trial and error because this can lead to complications and you surely don’t want that to happen to you.

Why my baby crying for along time?

2010-07-30T03:20:00.000-07:00

baby crying for a long time can sometimes make parents panic and worry. Is it normal baby crying for a long time?
If the baby is examined by a doctor and otherwise healthy, the baby keeps crying still get into the normal phase.
There is a tendency to have a crying baby is different when you're sick or feeling hungry, so parents should use their instincts to determine whether the baby should be checked to the doctor or not.
Quoted from Babycenter, Friday (30/07/2010) a study showed that the crying baby's developments follow a pattern known as the crying curve (Crying curve), which occurs during the first few months of life.
Usually the baby will often cry at the age of 2-3 weeks and reached a peak at the age of 6-8 weeks. Then after that will begin to decline and reached its lowest level during 4-month-old.
Sometimes babies cry more in the afternoon at night. This is because at the time the baby had to release tension after a long day.
Infants are also susceptible to colic is defined as uncontrollable crying baby. There are several things that could be considered that the baby is likely to experience colic, which is a baby aged less than five weeks, crying for more than three consecutive hours and for three days or up to a week.
If the baby is crying for no apparent reason and it's hard to be appeased, should parents do not express frustration with shaking the baby. Because if it is too hard shaking of the baby, can cause brain damage and can lead to shaken baby syndrome .
Crying is how babies communicate with others, especially parents, this is because the baby could not communicate in other ways. For new couples to be parents, would be difficult to interpret what the meaning of the crying baby.
There are 10 reasons why babies cry, namely:

   1. Hungry baby
   2. The baby uses a diaper was full or dirty, so the baby felt uncomfortable.
   3. Sleepy baby and needed to sleep.
   4. Babies want to be picked up.
   5. Experiencing a problem in the stomach, such as colic or flatulence.
   6. Surrounding environment is too cold or hot.
   7. Feeling cramped or too small, for the clothing or bed.
   8. Babies will grow teeth
   9. Want more stimulation or arousal.
  10. Babies feel ill or uncomfortable.

Parents should not allow the baby continued to cry, because if the baby cried harder can cause hormonal chain reaction that ultimately can stimulate the adrenal glands to release stress hormones.
If this incident continues then it could generate a lot of stress hormones that can damage a baby's brain.

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2 EFFECTIVE TIPS FOR MOLE

2010-07-25T03:13:00.000-07:00

At least a mole is in our body, and we want get rid of it , wether it in our face or another part of our body.
so if you want to get rid of it , there are 2 effective ways to do it.

1. Cover it up. just put a bandage or a piece of tape over it. why we want to cover it, because if we put bandage or tape it make the oxygen can't getting to it. Our skin need oxygen to stay healthy and if the mole can't get it so it will disappear. But it will take 4-5 days to remove it naturally, so don't dare to remove the bandage if not it will not work properly

2. Secongd tip is using banana, just put the banana over the mole and you can do it with tape or bandage, banana peel greatfully help us to remove mole.

So if you want to remove the mole from your body just simply follow this tips

Researchers discover moderate sunlight exposure helps prevent skin cancer

2007-02-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

by M.T. Whitney

(NewsTarget) To the surprise of scientists, while exposure to the sun's UV rays is the main cause of skin cancer, a recent study says some sunlight also can help prevent it.

The idea of sunlight helping prevent skin cancer may sound like a paradox, but the key is exposure in moderation, immunology scientists at Stanford University found.

Sunlight causes vitamin D to synthesize in the body, yielding some protection from the risk of skin cancer. The production of vitamin D is spurred on as an immunity response from the body receiving ultraviolet B (UVB) rays from sunlight.

Increased vitamin D has other health benefits to the body, but excessive UVB rays can damage the skin and raises the risk of skin cancer.

Most people can get the daily amount of vitamin D recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture by spending a half-hour to an hour outdoors, health experts told the web site HealthDay.com.

Spending some time in the sun is good for you, concurs consumer health advocate Mike Adams, author of the e-book "The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D."

"The truth about sunlight is that sensible exposure actually prevents skin cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, depression and even osteoporosis," Adams said. "Sunlight is more powerful than any drug; it is safe, effective and available free of charge. If it could be patented, it would be hyped as the greatest medical breakthrough in history. It's that good."

The study, led by Stanford professor of pathology Eugene Butcher, correlates to another study by researchers at the University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center from 2005 that suggested that people who get malignant melanoma but also have a high amount to daily sun exposure have a higher survival rate than people with less exposure.

Melanoma represents less than 5 percent of all skin cancers in the United States, but is responsible "for more than 75 percent of all skin cancer deaths," states the web site of the University of Maryland Medical Center

Cancer vaccines, little girls and the dirty business of Texas politics

2007-02-14T09:58:00.000-08:00

by Ben Kage

(NewsTarget) Controversy about Human Papilloma Virus vaccines for young girls has exploded since Scottish health authorities announced in the summer that they were considering making them mandatory for 9-year-old girls, but while that plan was upended by parental concerns, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas recently mandated the shots for girls as young as 11 or 12.

By September of 2008, all girls in entering sixth grade in Texas will be required to be vaccinated with shots of Gardasil, the only HPV vaccine currently available, provided by drug-maker Merck. Merck itself has been lobbying to make the vaccines mandatory across the country after the government approved Gardasil in June of last year. A government advisory panel recommended that all girls aged 11 or 12 get the shot before they become sexually active, and 18 states are currently considering making the shots mandatory, but Texas is the first state to actually require the vaccines.

"This mandatory vaccination policy is a huge win for Merck, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, but it's an enormous loss for the health of young girls and health freedom in general," explained Mike Adams, author of "Natural Health Solutions." "These pro-vaccine pushes are such obvious profiteering ploys by Big Pharma that I'm amazed anyone still buys into it."

Perry's stance on the vaccine is that it is the same as requiring polio vaccinations for children. Dr. Louis Cooper, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, backed up this assertion when he told the Los Angeles times that the vaccines for polio, measles, mumps and rubella that came out in the 1950s and '60s did not significantly affect disease statistics until the states made them mandatory for enrollment in schools.

Supporters of Perry's bill say Gardasil is a lifesaving drug, and point out that most insurance companies cover it. Another fact that has supporters backing the vaccine is that cervical cancer kills as many as 3,700 American women annually, and no serious side effects have yet been linked with the vaccine. There is an affidavit that Texas parents can fill out if they object on religious or philosophical grounds to their children having the shot, but many opponents say that this doesn't erase the mandate's obstruction of parental authority over medical decisions for children.

The virus known as HPV has more than 100 different strains, which are usually very treatable. Roughly 30 types of HPV are sexually transmitted and are the direct cause of as many as 70 percent of all cervical cancer cases, according to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. The fact that the virus is usually sexually transmitted is one reason why many people oppose making the vaccine mandatory. To be most effective, the vaccine has to be administered before a girl's first sexual experience, which has some conservative opponents claiming that administering the shots at such an early age is tantamount to giving permission for underage sex. Other opponents say the shots are a clear-cut case of patients' rights violation.

"It is an affront to the freedom of Americans and a form of medical enslavement by a system of government that is increasingly owned and operated by powerful corporations," Adams said. "Make no mistake, this isn't about public health, it's about exploiting the bodies of little girls to generate obscene corporate profits."

Gardasil is currently available at a cost of $360 per three-shot regimen, which means that the company would make billions of dollars if mandatory vaccines were implemented nationwide. Much of Merck's funds to this end are being focused through the women's advocacy group Women in Government, which is comprised of female state legislators from across the nation.

According to the Associated Press, Perry has connections to both Merck and Women in Government. His former Chief of Staff Mike Toomey is one of Merck's lobbyists in Texas; Rep. Dianne White Delisi, R-Texas, is a state director for Women in Government as well as the mother-in-law of Perry's current chief of staff, Dierdre Delisi; and Merck sent Perry $6,000 through its political action committee during his reelection campaign in 2005.

A similar proposal to Perry's mandate was brought before the government in Scotland, aimed at both girls and boys as young as 9, but was shot down by parents who complained that the vaccine was inappropriate for such young children. However, Scottish authorities are still considering the vaccine for girls aged 12 and older. Sen. Beverly Hammerstrom, R-Mich., also managed to push a mandatory HPV bill through the House and the Senate before a second vote by the House killed it.

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Cancer risk slashed fifty percent or more by sunlight, vitamin D, reveal two new studies

2007-02-14T09:55:00.001-08:00

Thursday, February 08, 2007 by: David Gutierrez

Increasing vitamin D intake through sunlight, diet or supplements may decrease a person's risk of contracting breast cancer by 50 percent and of contracting colorectal cancer by more than 65 percent, according to two recent studies conducted at the University of San Diego.

The studies used meta-analysis to pool data from multiple previous studies, in order to increase precision and be able to draw conclusions that the original data did not allow. Researchers divided subjects into groups based on their blood levels of vitamin D, and compared the incidence of cancer between groups.

"The data were very clear, showing that individuals in the group with the lowest blood levels had the highest rates of breast cancer, and the breast cancer rates dropped as the blood levels ... increased," said Cedric Garland, co-author of one of the studies.

The blood level associated with a 50 percent lower risk of breast cancer could be reached by spending as little as 25 minutes in the sun for darker skinned people, or even 10 to 15 for lighter skinned individuals.

In the other study, researchers found that the same amount of sunlight corresponded with a two-thirds lower risk of contracting colorectal cancer.

"The evidence on the anti-cancer benefits of sunlight exposure and vitamin D are no longer deniable," said Mike Adams, author of "The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D."

"The risk reduction of breast cancer is absolutely astounding, far out-performing even the most aggressively hyped cancer drugs such as Herceptin," Adams said. "Sunlight should be the number one prescribed medicine in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. It costs nothing, is extremely safe, and prevents numerous diseases including breast cancer, prostate cancer, depression, osteoporosis, diabetes and even heart disease."

The breast cancer study was published online in the most recent issue of the "Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology." The colorectal cancer study was published online in the February 6 issue of the "American Journal of Preventive Medicine."

Cancer more prevalent among blacks as cancer industry ignores sunlight factor

2007-02-14T09:51:00.000-08:00

Friday, February 09, 2007 by: M.T.Whitney

NewsTarget) Cancer rates are still higher among black Americans compared to their white counterparts, according to recent statistics released by the American Cancer Society.

Rates among black men are higher by more than one-third over whites, and the rates for black women are higher by 18 percent. Blacks will represent almost 63,000 of the estimated 560,000 deaths of cancer in 2007, the ACS reports. They also will represent 153,000 of 1.7 million new cancer cases in 2007.

"African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate of any other racial or ethnic group for most cancers," according to the ACS web site.

Mike Adams, a natural health advocate and published author, accused the medical profession of misinforming the black population about the benefits of sunlight, relating this to the higher prevalence of cancer among blacks.

"Blacks die from skin cancer at rates that far exceed whites because conventional medicine strives to keep black Americans in a state of ignorance concerning the need for sunlight and Vitamin D," Adams said. "Since dark skin pigmentation blocks Vitamin D synthesis in the skin, as many as 75 percent of blacks are chronically deficient in the anticancer vitamin. The way to save the lives of millions of black Americans over the next ten years is to tell the truth about sunlight and Vitamin D."

Most forms of cancer are more prevalent in blacks versus whites on an adjusted scale of rate per 100,000 people, however the few exceptions are cancers of the breast, skin, bladder and also leukemia, the report shows.

Overall, cancer rates among blacks have decreased overall for the past century. However, lung cancer rates have increased among black women and will be again the number one killer among the combined black population. The report states that this can be associated with the higher prevalence of smoking menthol cigarettes among the black population, which offer a less harsh feel of inhalation to the throat but are possibly more dangerous to the human body than a normal cigarette. In 2003, 27 percent of all cigarette sales were menthols, but around 70 percent of menthol cigarette sales go to blacks.

Cervical Cancer Symptoms

2007-01-26T04:10:00.000-08:00

Cervical Cancer Symptoms

From Lisa Fayed,

Cervical Cancer Symptoms Women Need to Know

Cervical cancer symptoms often go unnoticed because they mimic so many other ailments. Many women pass these symptoms off as PMS or ovulation pains. Many times, however, cervical cancer has no symptoms.

When symptoms are present, they usually do not appear until the cancer is more advanced. This does vary from woman to woman.

Cervical Cancer Symptoms

Abnormal bleeding.Women with cervical cancer may experience abnormal vaginal bleeding. This can be heavy or light bleeding during the month.
Unusual heavy discharge. An increased vaginal discharge is also a symptom of cervical cancer. It may be foul smelling, watery, thick, or contain mucus.

It varies from woman to woman. It is important to report any unusual vaginal discharge to your doctor.

Pelvic pain. Pelvic pain that is not related to the normal menstrual cycle can be a cervical cancer symptom. Many women describe them ranging from a dull ache to sharp pains that can last hours. It can be mild or severe.

Pain during urination.Bladder pain or pain during urination can be a symptom of advanced cervical cancer. This cervical cancer symptom usually occurs when cancer has spread to the bladder.

Bleeding between regular menstrual periods, after sexual intercourse, douching, or pelvic exam Bleeding after sexual intercourse, douching, or pelvic exam can be cervical cancer symptoms. This is due to the irritation of the cervix during these activities. While a healthy cervix may have a very small amount of bleeding, many conditions may cause bleeding after activities like sex.

Please keep in mind that these cervical cancer symptoms are also symptoms of many other illnesses. If you are experiencing these cervical cancer symptoms, please see a doctor. He or she will most likely do a pelvic exam and may order further tests.

Top 7 Craziest Cancer Myths

2007-01-26T03:49:00.000-08:00

Top 7 Craziest Cancer Myths

From Lisa Fayed,

Myths about the causes and prevention of cancer have been floating around for years. While some have been tame, there have been some cancer myths that are downright outlandish and ridiculous. Check out the craziest cancer myths in this Top 10 style list.

1) Myth: Fellatio Greatly Reduces a Woman's Risk Factor for Breast Cancer

Truth: An email circulated with a link to what appeared to be a bonafide CNN news story claiming that a study found that women who performed fellatio reduced their risk of breast cancer. The truth is that there is no evidence that performing fellatio will reduce your risk of cancer.

2) Myth: Designer Lipsticks Contain Lead that Cause Cancer.

Truth: The FDA regulates all cosmetics manufacturing. It is logical to think that if a lipstick contained an ingredient that is sure to cause cancer, it would be pulled from the shelves immediately. This email hoax is still popping up in inboxes and striking fear in women. It is a hoax and there is no brand of lipstick that can cause cancer. Read more about lipstick and cancer...

3) Myth: Wearing Deodorant Can Cause Breast Cancer.

Truth:There is so significant data that shows that wearing deodorant causes cancer, yet people are still buying into it. The suggestion is that a chemical is absorbed through the skin through a shaving nick or cut, and causes breast cancer. Again, there has been no significant study to support this claim.

4) Myth: Piercing Your Nipples May Causes Breast Cancer in Men and Women

Truth: An injury to the breast or nipple cannot lead to cancer development. The only real medical risk factor for piercing the nipple is infection. Read more about pierced nipple and cancer...

5) Myth: Men Don't Get Breast Cancer.

Truth: Just ask Richard Rountree, the star of Shaft if men get breast cancer. Male breast cancer may be less common than breast cancer in females, but it does happen.

6) Myth: There is a Cure for Cancer, but Drug Companies Wouldn't Make Money.

Truth: If this was true, how come the family members of these drug company employees are still suffering from cancer? The likelihood of there being a general cure for all cancers is not realistic because they are caused by different factors. It is estimated that almost 30% of Americans believe this myth.

7) Myth: Forwarding Emails to Friends Will Donate Money to Cancer Charities.

Truth: Aol, The American Cancer Society, or any other major corporation does not rely on the use of email forwarding to make charitable contributions. The email sent usually contains the story of a child with cancer, perhaps with a photo, claiming that for every person your forward the email to the child will receive $.03 for treatment costs. Don't waste your time forwarding, folks. This is a cancer hoax and myth.