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Studies show that at age 55 women are nearly twice more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than men. A report from the Alzheimer’s Association projects that 10 million baby boomers will get Alzheimers.

Understanding Alzheimer

It is practically living with the diagnosis and gradual decline of irreversible progressive dementia. This is characterized by mental capacities, accumulated competencies and memories of a lifetime gradually slipping away. The common problem for seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s disease is that they begin to forget that they forget. The progressive destruction of the brain is creepier than cancer. Cancer maintains self identity while Alzheimer completely loses self and the world without even knowing it. They initially suffer loss from cognitive domains. This may result to communication problems with their carers and families, behavioral problems and safety problems.  Behavior problems may be characterized by wandering, increased agitation, aggression and reversal of day to night. Often it is manifested through untidiness and errors in judgment. Alzheimer is also known to be passed on genetically or through cerebral vascular damage cause by degenerative effects of aging or due to stroke.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/earlyshow/heartbeat/main3946635.shtml

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A new study revealed stress being linked to cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among women. It is characterized by a slow growing cancer found in regular Pap test. Sometimes it grows without giving its host any symptoms. Stress decreases any person’s ability to fight off or clear the virus. Try to relieve yourself of stress. If there is anything you would want to complete then hire a Virtual Assistant to help you with your daily task. Avoid stress and learn to live a healthy life.

Reference: http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Study_Links_Stress_to_Cervical_Cancer_14100.html

Female circumcision is very common in African countries being part of their culture and ritual. This widespread practice of female sexual mutilation in Africa was believed to be affecting the health of women. This also occurs in other parts of the world like Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The number of mutilations in 1979 was estimated to reach about over 80 million. It is difficult to estimate the number of women across the world who may have suffered because of FGM. There is simply no medical, hygiene or health reasons for women to be subjected to FGM. This persists only as a deep rooted traditional practice among African and Middle East countries supported and sustained by women and men who strongly believed that it’s a requirement to mark the transition from childhood to adulthood.
 

Female genital mutilation is the process of partially or totally removing the external female genital organs for cultural or nontherapeutic reasons. The practice appears to be linked primarily to the groups desire to subordinate women and to control their sexuality. FGM is commonly performed upon girls between the ages of 4 and 12. Some women who were subjected to FGM are suffering from the complications of the procedure.
 

Types of FGM

1. Sunna Circumcision

Is the removal of retractable fold of skin or the tip of the clitoris.

2. Clitoridectomy

Is the removal of the entire clitoris and the adjacent labia.

3. Pharonic circumcision

Is the removal of all part of the labia minora and labia majora then stitching it up allowing only a small hole to allow for urine and menstrual blood to flow through.
 

Wrong belief of FGM ritual entrapment

They believed it enhances female fertility. This is done mostly as a social practice. They assumed women as naturally unclean and masculine because they posses a vestige of the male sex organ which is the clitoris. Women who have not undergone FGM are believed to less likely remain virgins before marriage and faithful during the course of their marriage. They are believed to more likely demonstrate masculine levels of sexual interest and activity.

Human rights perspective

FGM is a manifestation of gender-based oppression and women violence.

Aftermath of FGM

FGM usually results in pain, humiliation, psychological trauma and loss of sexual pleasure. It is associated with short term effects of infection, shock, injury to neighboring organs and severe bleeding. Long term effects include infertility, chronic infections in the urinary tract and reproductive system and increased susceptibility to hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS.

 

 

Wounds infested with maggots or fly larvae appeared to have lower rate of infection and mortality during the Civil War. The larvae of blowfly can be obtained from specialized laboratories at a cost per bottle of 200 maggots. Wounds for debridement may be chronic wounds that do not require surgical intervention. Maggots perform highly selective debridement of necrotic tissue. This makes them able to maintain a suitable level of bacteria in the wound.

The procedure

Maggots shall be contained over the wound more securely than leeches. They must not be allowed to migrate. Use two hydrocolloid sheets with a hole approximating the size of the wound. Apply the bottle of maggots to the wound. Cover it with mesh material. The second hydrocolloid sheet must be place over the first to secure the mesh material. Maggots shall be allowed to stay in the wound for 48 to 72 hours only.

Please ask the help of a professional if you need to do this kind of wound debridement

Author and epidemiologist, S.Jay Olshansky Ph.D. said that genes exist to facilitate growth, development, reproduction, maintenance and repair. Its sole function is to sustain life. Its failure ultimately leads to a lot of disorders and diseases people commonly associate with aging. Lifestyle is the key factor that creates the occurrence of failing genes. Practically diet, smoking and inactivity facilitate the aging process. Aging brings tissue degeneration, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, low energy levels, decreased stamina and loss of muscle mass. HGH is found at higher levels in our bodies when we were young. Actually keeping high HGH levels is the secret to reversing the aging process.

HGH is found at higher levels in our body when we were young. It is the one responsible for the rapid growth and high metabolic rate we experienced as teenagers. Actually keeping high HGH levels is the secret to reversing the aging process. HGH is called somatotropin. It is produced by the pituitary gland, released and carried into the blood flow. It in turn stimulates other glands to release hormones of their own. That is what we see with visible physical characteristics of face and hair. HGH is primarily released in pulses that occur during the initial phases of slow wave sleep. The pituitary secretes HGH every 90 minutes more at night than during the day. These are the symptoms of low HGH levels: lack of positive well being; increased anxiety; reduced energy; impaired psychological well being; poor general health; impaired self control; unexplained depression; increased social isolation; memory loss; reduced lean body mass; reduced mineral bone density; increased body fat; reduced muscle bulk and strength; decreased exercise performance and increased waist to hip ratio. Obesity, depression and hypoglycemia is also said to reduce HGH secretion.

HGH actually starts a steady decline at 21 or 30 years of age. The total 24 hour growth hormone production rate is dramatically reduced by 500 mcg at 20 years of age, 200 mcg at 40 years of age and 25 mcg at 80 years of age. This is because HGH levels are age related. Growth hormones production declines 10-15% from age 20-70. Endogenous HGH secretion varies with sex, nutrition, obesity, physical activity and disease states. The greatest concentration of receptors naturally occurs in the liver. A person who weight train and engage in resistant exercises stimulates HGH production. HGH can shed body fat, increase muscle tone, boost your energy, reduced wrinkles, help you sleep better, improve sex drive and performance, improve immune and heart function, and improve brain function. Giving an injection once a day with HGH is still very different from the life cycle of the natural secretion.

The downsides of HGH treatment are joint pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Growth hormones increase the connective tissues around the body. There were cases of hypertension and brain swelling which is called as cerebral edema. There might be a change toward glucose tolerance and development of diabetes but there is also high risk for cancer. So we go back to the basics of living a healthy life: diet, exercise and less stress.

 

 

Leeches are hermaphroditic ectoparasites of the class Hirudinea. The most commnly used medicinal leech is Hirudo medicinalis. The salivary glands of leeches is known to improve blood flow, treat soft tissue swelling, periorbital hematoma, cauliflower ears, ecchymoses and purpura fulminans. Usually they are reserved to cases that are not amenable to surgical correction like gumboils and facial discoloration.

The procedure

Leeches are allowed to feed until they fall. That would be approximately 15-120 minutes time range. The wound continues to ooze due to the action of several substances present in the leech saliva. The leech has the ability to ingest 8-10 ml of blood. The wound ooze further to another 50 ml blood from the bite size. Success rate is known to be 70-80% of cases treated.

Place a drop of blood at the desired site of attachment. This will facilitate application of the leech. Encircle the site with surgical towels. Leech migration should be closely supervised.

Complications:

Leech therapy complications are usually associated with wound infection and bleeding. This often requires blood transfusion. Success rate normally drops to 30% in the presence of clinically significant infection. Immunosuppression or arterial insufficiency in the flap predisposes the patient to infection. The saliva of the leeches has anticoagulant properties. The leech bites are usually painless. Their bites usually leave a Y shaped scar to the area. A small risk of infection or allergy may also exist after the treatment.

Preparation:

Clean the skin area with normal saline. Barrier can be made with a 4x4 gauze sponge. Make a hole cut in the center of it. Then reinforce with towel. The leech transfer shall be made by the use of forceps and guided to the correct spot of the skin. Sometimes you need to prick the skin to draw blood. The leech will then show interest and start to feed.

What causes infection?

The leech will detach itself when full. If you pull it, mouth parts of the leech may be left in the wound and cause infection.

How to discard leech?

The detached leech is then placed in a cup covered in alcohol and discarded in an appropriate biohazard container.

Hematocrit and appearance of the skin should be monitored. Make sure that it is not losing  a lot of blood and the reattached body part is maintaining good circulation.

Warning: Never do this alone at home. Try to seek the help of a professional who specialized in leech therapy. There is so much at stake during the treatment. You have to coordinate with your doctor too about the therapy.

Limb lengthening procedure is supposed to correct developmental deformities or repair damage to limbs after an accident.  This mainly involves breaking your leg bones in four places and then attaching a steel scaffold frame. The frame will be attached through metal pins on the outside of your limbs. One may experience excruciating pain after the surgery and as he goes through life. Risk to infection is most likely the other worry one needs to face sometime in the future. And not only that because in case of accidents or you got a disease like herniated disc or something that needed an MRI, it can’t be performed because of the metal pins and clips whatever that was placed. The best solution is to learn to accept and love self. I don’t think I would want a man to date with me because I am two inches taller or whatever. Emotions and attractions fade. It would be nice to go out with a guy who will really love you for who and what you are.

 

Reference: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/BeautySecrets/story?id=3948348&page=1

Medical doctors knew the importance of having a C-reactive protein check. But the prescription may battle for insurance considerations. C–reactive protein known as CRP is considered as more important than cholesterol check by some doctors. Most people do not realize that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people with completely normal cholesterols. Measuring the level of inflammation in your body is made by testing the level of protein concentration released during the inflammatory process. This substance is called C-reactive protein. This is produced by the liver as part of your body’s basic emergency response system. This is more visible on stages of acute inflammation.

Don’t you know that a high CRP level doubles your risk for heart disease and stroke? This is true even if you have low cholesterol and blood pressure levels. The inflammation has very significant impact on heart disease risk. Inflammation is an immune system triggered by infection or injury. When it breaks down, it produces redness, heat and swelling. To help you grasp the idea. A fever developed in response to an infection is called as full body inflammation. This is produced by your immune system to create an unfriendly environment for germs. But when the response is intense it already causes more harm than good.

Hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis is also regarded as one form of inflammation. Usually this happens when too much cholesterol has been built up in the artery walls. It then hardens and forms into plaques. This will eventually interfere with your blood flow. A drop of that blood flow would mean decrease of flow of oxygen to your heart. This situation will likely trigger a heart attack. The most dangerous case is when plaque builds up happens inside artery walls. They then grow into the vessel wall. It pushes the artery walls outward while blocking blood flow. This cannot be seen on x-rays because the artery stays open. This may seem harmless but deadly because of their potential to become unstable.

This immune cell activity induces the liver to create CRP. CRP floods in to help attack the growing piles of dead germs or plaque. Inflammation then occurs which inadvertently worsens plaques status by increasing their unstable state. In this condition, plaque has every tendency to burst and expose the material inside to your circulating blood. This quickly cause clot formation. There is no exception to being exposed to this type of risk even those who have low cholesterol levels. At some point on our lives especially when we reach middle age, we do accumulate some kind of plaque build up in our arteries.

Research showed that CRP actually inflames the arteries. It triggers the formation of clots and plaques. This will ultimately cause a person to experience a heart attack or a stroke. This is the very reason why I was talking about high levels of CRP as predictor of future heart problems. It does have multiple, independent effects that causes heart diseases.  By the way the well established heart disease risk factors are still obesity, lack of exercise, smoking and high blood pressure. These are known to increase inflammation and CRP levels. Fat cells constantly produce CRP. Maybe you would want to be more religious in doing your daily one hour exercise even if it is only walking. If you can afford the cost for determining your CRP levels please incur the cost personally. It can be used to assess the total impact of many different factors on your heart health.

Preoccupation temporarily reduces pain. It shifts focus to the task on hand and the ability to beat deadline. We may find a way to lessen tolerance and dependency on drugs for chronic pain medications. Preoccupation lessens pain and improves mental functioning. Most people begin with exercise programs. This is a very good form of pain management. But I think we can do more than exercises and drinking medications. Please stop the stress of worrying and feeling anxious by preoccupation. Remember that the conscious mind experiences feelings that act as a continual reminder to tend to the cause of the feeling and get depressed by constantly entertaining thoughts about it.

Let’s take it this way. Human feelings work like the cause-effect concept when you look for food because you were hungry. Your mind’s construct is to continuously direct your attention to what it sees as important at that moment. But during the trip to the kitchen you stumbled on your electric bill. And oh my God it reflects triple the past month’s bill! You forgot the hunger and made your way to the phone. Hunger now maybe replaced by anger. Although it rhymes they are two different things when it comes to level of responses. Now you got yourself preoccupied to reaching your electric company’s customer service. Then maybe you get to eat sometime after three or four hours of battling with customer service. This is what I mean with preoccupation.

When one cease to focus on the pain and attend to other things of relative importance or urgency then the ongoing feeling intensifies for the task on hand and collapses interest to articulating pain.  This is how I manage my chronic low back pain. I am not taking medications for my 7 level herniated disc pain. I occupied my mind with writing articles, doing Virtual Assistant works and of course early morning walks as exercise. Feeling is heightened with absorption in the memory. The idea and the mood penetrate your being. You attempt to reclaim a certain mood, recapture the idea or the inspiration, saturate the idea and stay there. Now let’s talk about the idea to set the mood.
 

Playing online is one big idea that could set your mood and get your mind to concentrate. Let’s take the case of video games. It does require your attention right. Inasmuch as we want to set our mood and preoccupy ourselves we don’t have to waste time and money by simply playing like children. We have to generate income as well as experience fun and entertainment at the very comfort of our homes. Play online casino games. The most lucrative businesses online is the gaming market. Happen to know why? It was what I explained earlier – preoccupation and senses. It makes you occupied and eliminates boredom. It makes you happy and lessens pain. But before we start playing let’s start our search for reliable online casino sites. The shortcut is to look for a site that makes reliable online casino reviews. Search for a site like onlinecasinolinks.com.

Onlinecasinolinks reflects its name. It practically provides detailed online casino reviews and over 100 online casino links on their site. It has the best online casino list. It offers information on the games that are being offered and usually played at each specific site. It also provides online gambling tips and information on the type of software they used. If you are a beginner you may read their FAQ portion or their beginners guide located at the lower left portion of the site. Maximum bonuses range from as low as $100 to as high as $1,000. This is what I saw today which was reflected at the maximum bonus page. The technique is to read the reviews from top to bottom, look at their bonus offers from top to bottom and choose. The best casino is always located at the top.

The graphics and site presentation is not irritating to the eyes. I love the way they complement and blend the colors. Their layout is not in chaos also. So you will feel absolutely good from start to finish. These online casinos are located offshore. Taxes have been the major consideration for their choice of location and not proximity to paying players. It is like taking on the idea of globalization. The servers are located in US of course to continually go live and purposes of fast uploading. Onlinecasinolinks religiously spend a good part of their waking hours reviewing these online casinos and sort of watching their moves too. Giving reviews does not only mean expressing what you think of the site. It flows and carries on the writer or reviewer’s integrity. So you can be assured that they do their work every time they make a review.

Gambling or playing online has some fantastic privileges. There are bonuses and privileges offered to online players that may proved lucrative for them. When you have decided which online casino you are going to use and what game you are going to play then start playing online and just focus to win. Get yourself preoccupied by browsing their promos and other offers. You can gain a lot by looking at each site and taking notes of their offers. Maybe you would want to make an excel spreadsheet of the offers each day. This is one way to observe the trend and normal bonuses offered. Then you can just go directly to playing at your favorite site. This will give you a very good browsing experience and of course shifts your focus from your pain to winning the game. Beat the pain by feeling happy and preoccupied.

When done you feel tired and is ready to snore yourself to sleep immediately. Betting’s other privilege is easing pain and helping you focus your mind to something. As the game intensifies the more you feel the rush and forget your pain! The answer is mere preoccupation but I don’t say this is the absolute answer to pain management. This is just one effective technique to pain management that I found works for me - preoccupation. Fun and entertainment, get occupied reading the reviews at onlinecasinolinks and play the online casino games of your choice. Now to be more lucrative, seek for the site that offers payments for referrals. This works more like an affiliate thing. This can give you extra income or maybe accumulated deposits for you to play. This is another preoccupation task to handle that is worth the time because you definitely earn out of it. The goal could be more stated this way: To get yourself preoccupied in order to ease pain by playing online casino games through onlinecasinolinks reviews with the potential to earn from referrals, win by playing and have fun doing it.