Stay Fit Face Extreme Weather
HEAT and erratic rains make the immune system weakens. It takes extra care to ward off illness in the midst of these extreme weather.
Sunny summer morning, not long afterwards it was raining. Weather extremes, so sebuatan to weather these uncertain. This is one of the impacts of global warming (global warming). Not only makes people uncomfortable with the weather difficult to guess this, these extreme weather also provides a broad impact, serious and diverse. One is the health impact.
Rise and fall of global temperatures could lead to the emergence of some diseases. Not only children, the elderly were not spared from the threat of an attack of some diseases. Professors from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Peter Staats, saying that while climatic changes occur, the body adapt to cope with weather changes from dry season to rainy season. The original hot air dried and then, suddenly becomes cold and damp. "These conditions which cause discomfort that makes the body susceptible to disease," he said.
In line with Dr. Peter Staats, a general practitioner from Omni International Hospital in Tangerang Alam Sutera, Dr. Grace Hilza, said that generally the season of transition or change of weather, we weaken the immune system so that some diseases may arise.
"Some of the diseases that commonly occur, such as influenza virus infection, diarrhea, typhoid, and several other common infections such as strep throat and the other," said Grace.
Influenza or commonly known as flu, is no longer a disease peculiar to the community. Some people even experience flu season not only in the extreme. Influenza caused by a virus that attacks the human immune system. This virus can infect humans go through cough and sputter. Although harmless, the flu often interfere with daily activities, as someone who often feel lethargic flu, colds, and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by coughing. However, with adequate rest, the flu will usually heal by itself. Except for patients with severe flu, you should immediately visit the doctor. In the event of transmission, it is not all that many diseases occur when infectious turnover this season.
Grace explains, infectious disease depends on whether or not a cause. When the cause of viruses and bacteria, would be contagious. Since the virus was highly infectious, can be through droplet infection (such as sneezing, coughing, etc.). However, if the disease caused by bacteria, usually entering through food or direct contact.
Any diarrheal illness often occurs during extreme weather like this. One reason is because the number of dust and dirt that have the potential to trigger the occurrence of diarrhea that is closely related to the usual food consumption patterns contaminate food and beverages.
"Pain is experienced when these extreme weather, because the power of a weakened body. Weather changes suddenly to cause the body temperature is changing drastically, "said the doctor, who also serves as the Omni International Hospital Manager Markomm Alam Sutera this.
Grace suggested, when the weather extremes that occur now, it may take extra health. Therefore, it should boost the immune system, with a break such as enough sleep, stay up and avoid a lot of smoke. Besides the consumption of nutritious food to eat. If necessary, you can add a supplement if the food we eat to feel inadequate in terms of vitamins. Do not forget to eat enough vegetables and fruits.
Fluid intake are also required attention. Keep the body not to dehydrate the body, which means not less drinking, especially when the weather is very hot and dusty. "And that also important is to maintain both a personal and environmental hygiene," advises doctors graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University YARSI Jakarta.
Try not to snack at random, began to feel resistance when the body begins to interfere or declining. Especially for children, would be better if the time to bring lunch to school, or for you it never hurts to bring supplies to the place of work.
Besides the prevention of dietary intake, it is also important to exercise regularly. This exercise is necessary to increase endurance. Principle, if the break is, the consumption of nutritious foods, exercise regularly, then our body resistance will be increased so as not to easily contract a disease.
"However, it would be better if we avoid contact when there is a close friend or family we are suffering from diseases such as influenza, typhoid fever, or diarrhea," he advised.
Do not forget to keep hygiene and environmental agencies. Like hand-washing habits. Although trivial, proved effective hand washing prevent us from diseases such as typhoid fever or diarrhea.
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Vulnerable Young Girl Seduced Drugs
CHILD you show enough signs strange lately? Maybe he was thrown into darkness world drugs or alcohol. How do I fix this?
Certainly no one who was willing heart pieces fall into negative things and reprehensible. The fact such a nightmare for any parent. However, the ignoring and considers that it would not be possible or not true is also a fatal error which should not be done. From a variety of drug charges, apparently the last people to know most is a drug addict parents.
This proves that parents are still paying less attention to children so as not knowing what the child outside the home. When knowing the child do it after the kids perform aberration in a long time. To note that new facts had proved a stunning, you're a teenage girl trapped drug was more likely than boys.
Recent research by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America show, a teenage girl more easily tempted to drugs and alcohol than teenage boys. Why? Because, young women tend to see the benefits of alcohol and drug use.
Even the fact is, nearly 70 percent of young women who participated in the survey agreed that "using drugs to help deal with children with problems at home", as shown in the results of the study. This figure is up 11 percent from a similar survey conducted in 2008.
More than half of participants surveyed said that the drugs can also help them forget their problems. Male teens in the study also tended to claim that the drugs help them to relax in social situations and gain pleasure from taking any medication, when compared with data from the same survey last year.
The new survey also showed 11 per cent increase in alcohol consumption in adolescent girls. This increase is certainly higher than what is seen in adolescent boys (an increase of only 2 per cent). Moreover, the use of cannabis by young girls in the past year was 29 percent higher than during the survey in 2008. Meanwhile, teenage boys who consume marijuana increased 15 percent in 2009.
"Parents need to understand that teenage girls today are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol than teenage boys because they need more help on managing stress and dealing with problems," said Tom Hedrick, founder of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America as quoted by WebMD.com.
Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a nonprofit group based in New York City, United States, which aims to understand, prevent, and treat alcohol and drug abuse among children and adolescents.
"The teenager became perpetrators of the abuse of alcohol and drugs not because of persuasion teenage boys, but they themselves are seeking. And unfortunately, parents still think that the young men lakilah are more likely to fall into drugs and alcohol. They (parents) are less likely to align themselves with the signs of teenage girls, "said Hedrick Hedrick said that signs could be a warning to parents that teens involved alcohol abuse or misuse of medicines, including the falling value of the school, the changing pattern sleep, withdrawal from family and friends, as well as the lack of enthusiasm for life.
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Psychological metamorphosis Pregnant Women
WHILE pregnant, female psychological condition is uncertain. Particular attention from spouses and family help you through this time with a perfect birth.
Pregnancy is an episode of physical and psychological changes in the complex for a woman who never experienced it. For that, women who are experiencing phases of pregnancy need to "adapt" to the adjustment of eating patterns that occur with pregnancy process.
According to renowned psychologist, Dr. AP MPsi Mini Rose, the task of the mother during pregnancy is not small. Mother had to accept her pregnancy, the fetus maintains relationships with, adjust the physical changes, incorporate changes to sexual intercourse, childbirth and parenting preparation.
This homely women were classifying the psychological condition (metamorphosis) of pregnant women into three, namely in the first trimester, second trimester and third trimester.
"In the first trimester, there is anxiety, happiness mixed with pregnancy doubt between yes or no, emotional fluctuations that often occur during this period have a high risk for the occurrence of an argument or discomfort, hormonal changes, and morning sickness," commentator psychologist who is often called Mbak Romi is currently filling the show "Lactamil with You in Your Motherhood Journey" at Balai Kartini, Jakarta, recently.
For the second trimester, he added, the psychology of pregnant women calmer and began to adapt, attention began to switch on changes in body shape, sexual life, family and inner relationship with the baby at birth, and increasing the need to close with the mother figure, view and emulate maternal role. In addition, the dependence on the spouse is also increasing.
How psychologically pregnant women during the third trimester? According to Rose Mini, the stress will increase again in this phase. It can happen because the growing conditions of pregnancy. The condition is not uncommon to raise such issues are less comfortable sleeping position and prone to fatigue.
"Emotions fluctuate back the shadow of risk associated with pregnancy and childbirth third trimester," he explained.
To address this issue, he added, seek as much information from the environment related to pregnancy, discuss your feelings with your spouse or parents, encourage the couple to show a positive attitude towards your pregnancy, and encourage couples to accompany you during your examination and fetal condition.
Do not stop there, Mini Rose also advised pregnant women to fetal motion diligent attention, encourage communication, encourage couples to participate interact
with your fetus, and do various activities that can support your pregnancy, such as pregnancy exercise, breathing exercises, and others.
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Heartburn, Stomach Cancer Symptoms One
IN Indonesia, the level is still very low public awareness about the importance of maintaining the health of the stomach. In reality, stomach ulcers or a scientific term known as dyspepsia is a very disturbing day-to-day activities, both for teenagers and adults.
Typically, large urban population is less dense with the flurry of maintaining a regular eating pattern. If the body is always late to receive the intake of food, what will happen in the future?
"Late for dinner, then the body is less supply of energy. In fact, the body needs energy to perform daily activities. Body energy reserves would be absorbed so tired faster, and heavier, "explained Dr. Sri Sukmaniah SpGK in the press conference" Healthy Indonesia Gastric Movement "in the Anglo Restaurant, Templates, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Thursday (08/07/2010) .
If you already like, ulcer disease was difficult to avoid. Research conducted in Indonesia and abroad also shows that functional complaints ulcer disease most ubiquitous, reaching 70-80 percent of all cases. Functional heartburn is heartburn that is not caused by interference with the gastric organs but more often triggered by a diet that is not appropriate, as well as psychological factors and anxiety. Even if explored further, ulcer disease is fatal to health.
"It's sore stomach can also become one of the symptoms of gastric cancer. Heartburn that many times and did not recover even when treated, better consult a physician immediately, "said Ari Fachrial Sham SpPD KGEH MMB.
Dr. Ari adds, "Maintaining the health not only to avoid gastric ulcer disease, but it is a long term investment, especially to avoid gastric cancer. This prevention can be done by starting a healthy diet,
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Worms Disease Still Threatens Indonesian Child Health
INFECTION worm or worms disease has always been a disease that threatens the health of children. However, it does not mean the disease is freed from its parent.
Please note, the illness is very influential worms on health, nutrition, intelligence, and productivity of sufferers. Economically also causes a loss, because the worms suck the food into the human body, either in the form of carbohydrates and proteins, leading to decreased quality of human resources.
Referring to some alarming data which states, approximately 60-90 percent of the population of Indonesia is still suffering from intestinal worms. According to data from surveys ever conducted in Jakarta, especially at the elementary school mentioned, approximately 80 percent of primary school students in North Jakarta, 74.70 percent of elementary school students in West Jakarta, and 68.42 in the South Jakarta District elementary school students suffer from intestinal worms.
P2PL director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama SPP (K) reveals that there has been three worms that always threatens the health of children, namely roundworms, hookworms and whipworms.
"Three types of worms such as roundworms, hookworms and whipworms. Hookworm was the most danger. In fact, the three worm was written by WHO to overcome the problem. Prevalence is approximately 20-30 percent of Indonesian children suffering from intestinal worms, "he said in the event program at the School of Education Danger Worms & Worm Alert National Day, at fX Lifestyle X'nter, South Jakarta, Thursday (07/08/2010).
Explaining more about the proliferation of these three worms, Yoga presents three different growing areas.
"Ring worm lives in the small intestine and enters the body through food. Whip worm develops in the colon ascendens, signed also by the food. While developing hookworm in the small intestine and enter through the food and leather, "he continued.
Life of a tail worms in the human body is certainly threaten the health of children. Did you know that there are worms in the body also suck human blood, it is most often performed by hookworm.
"One tail roundworms can suck 0.14 grams of carbohydrate, 0.035 grams of protein, while 0.005 ml of blood whipworms, and hookworms 0.2 ml of blood," he said.
Unfortunately, this one disease sometimes do not provide clear signs. This was conveyed Dr. Dani Hendarman Supandji pediatrician as well as Coordinator of Healthy Indonesia-SIKIB.
"The disease can not accompanied by intestinal worms symptoms, if the worm is not much. If on one patient if there are 5-6 worms in the stomach, it also can not accompanied by obvious symptoms and the course is to reduce nutrients from the person. Meanwhile, other symptoms can be seen with distended abdomen. Hookworm included in the category of most dangerous worms, because they can suck blood and cause anemia, other than it could make a bloody waste of water, "he explained.
Speaking on the prevention, Dr Dani would be better advised children taking the drug once a worm every six months.
"For prevention, it would be better if the children over two years every six months taking medicine for worms. Since the age of two years are usually the kids have started playing out, play ground, depending on the dose weight. However, the recommended dose of 10 milligrams per body weight. If parents do not want to drink anything, it is also the program clean and healthy if they do not, "the lid.
Freeing children from the dangers of worms that threatens, you can do to prevent worms in three steps with the "Movement 3J", such as:
Take care of personal hygiene
Wash hands with soap and rinse with clean water that flows before and after meals.
Keep food hygiene
Rinse with clean water that flows all the ingredients and cook food thoroughly.
Keep the environment clean
Keep your home and environmental cleanliness. (Tty)
