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A few words on pulmonary embolism

 What is it?

It is usually a blood clot traveling circulating in the blood and clog an artery supplying the lung branching.

Mechanisms

Pulmonary embolism is the major complication of phlebitis. She was afraid every time that forms a clot that blocks a vein of lower limb veins (calf or thigh). An infection of a vein wall or a hypercoagulable blood can cause blood clots especially if there is a station at bed time. This is the danger facing surgery, the bedridden, new mothers who have suffered obstetric complications.

The clot is often the place where the wall of a vein is injured. The involvement may be accidental (broken leg or hip) or pathological (ulceration, infection). Pulmonary embolism symptoms here.  The vascular lesion may be as a result of operation (sequel intervention on the stomach, uterus, prostate, all highly vascular organs). The actual formation of clot is the result of a disorder of movement: the blood does not flow at normal speed, it is no longer enough fluid, prothrombin time (a substance involved in blood clotting) is too high.

If the clot adheres poorly to the vein, it stands out. During his journey through the vascular system, it may get into the vena cava, reaching the right heart and ultimately penetrate into the pulmonary artery, following his size, he led the mouth life, one of its branches or only an arteriole. If you are interested in a few pulmonry embolism pictures check them here.

What is sarcoidosis

What is sarcoidosis?

Sarcoidosis is an immune system disorder that can attack any organ. However, it is most often the lungs and lymph nodes, particularly those of the rib cage, which are affected first. Sarcoidosis is characterized by the presence of small areas (microscopic) or masses of inflamed cells called granulomas. The granulomas can grow and form larger groups in an organ which they affect the functions. We fear detect granulomas within the body, for example on the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles (air passages) in the lungs. They may also manifest as skin lesions. Sarcoidosis affects both eyes and the liver, spleen and less frequently, nerves, heart, brain, salivary glands, lacrimal glands, bones and joints.

What are the symptoms of sarcoidosis?

Sarcoidosis can cause various symptoms or cause no symptoms. Sarcoidosis is not contagious. The patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis may have a dry cough, shortness of breath and chest pain, or fatigue, weakness and weight loss.

The disease, when not localized in the lungs, can also bring the following symptoms: general malaise, loss of appetite and / or weight loss, fever, arthralgia (joint pain), rash, bloodshot eyes and scaly blood.

How do we recognize sarcoidosis?

The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is based on medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, pulmonary function and chest radiograph.

The elimination of other diseases whose symptoms are similar and a biopsy of affected organs will confirm the diagnosis. Sarcoidosis is not a type of cancer.

Is it widespread?

Sarcoidosis occurs in men as in women, but more often in the past, usually between the ages of 20 and 40 years. People of African descent and Scandinavia are more likely to develop this disease. The incidence is 1-40 victims per 100,000 persons in the United States, 20 cases in groups of 100,000 people in Great Britain, and 3-50 cases per group of 100,000 people in Europe.

How does one deal with sarcoidosis?

Many patients recover completely without treatment. When treatment is recommended, medicines called corticosteroids are used to reduce inflammation.

A few sarcoidosis pictures and images.

Pinworm symptoms

The pinworm, or Enterobius vermicularis, is a small parasitic worm that lives inside the large intestine in humans. Measuring only 3-10 mm in length, it causes intense anal itching, especially at night.

Pinworms usually infest people attending overcrowded schools, living in large family groups or in unsanitary conditions, or those who eat undercooked food. Moreover, they are not necessarily a sign of poor personal hygiene. They are very often found in institutional settings such as dormitories, psychiatric hospitals and shelters. The pinworm symptoms are many.

The pinworm is the most common parasite among children in North America and it is estimated that one third of Canadian children have pinworms at some point in their lives. A few pinworm pictures can be found here .

What is botulism

- Botulism is a foodborne illness that affects humans and animals resulting from the ingestion of neurotoxins produced by Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium strictly anaerobic found in sediments and marine based sources.
- Neurotoxins known as botulinum toxins inhibit the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. They are the most powerful poisons known at present.
- Botulism symptoms results in progressive paralysis down.

- Botulism is a rare disease because of its "under-reporting" but not exceptional in France (twenty cases each year) and is not contagious. The disease is described at any age.

- Human botulism is included in the list of notifiable diseases (Decree 86-770 of 06.10.1986 amended by Decree 87-1012, 96-838 and 98-169).

The modes of contamination of botulism

There are currently three different modes of contamination of botulism:

- Food-borne botulism resulting from ingestion of food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum and botulinum neurotoxin in which has been produced. It is the only mode now in question in France. The toxin is ingested directly with the food contaminant, usually homemade preserves.
- Neonatal botulism linked to the formation of endogenous toxins after germination of spores of Clostridium botulinum in the intestine. The intestinal flora of the newborn is incompletely formed and / or functional and therefore did not inhibit the growth of bacteria.
- Wound botulism caused by the development of Clostridium botulinum and toxin production in contaminated wounds. The toxin then passes directly into the general circulation.

A fourth form of botulism was identified later. It is a botulism adult intestinal colonization botulism neonatal similar in its pathogenesis. It appears in children and adults who have undergone bowel surgery or suffering from a large imbalance in their intestinal flora. Some botulism pictures here

Papilloma virus

What is HPV?

There are more than 100 types of human papillomavirus (HPV). It is a virus that can infect many parts of the body. Some types of HPV are transmitted sexually and cause anogenital warts in both men than women. The types of HPV that infect the anogenital region are not the same those that infect other areas such as fingers, hands and face. Other types of human papilloma virus that are not associated with anogenital warts are rarely cause cervical cancer in women or penile cancer in men. Some HPV types are designated "low risk " because they rarely develop into cancer. Those who are most likely to lead to cancer are designated "risk high. It is important to note however that most women with type high risk HPV will not develop cervical cancer.

What are the signs and symptoms of HPV?

Most people who have an HPV infection in the anogenital region do not know that they are infected. Most HPV infections occur without symptoms and disappear without treatment within a few years. However, in some individuals, human papilloma virus infections can persist for many years.

HPV causes he anogenital warts?

Some HPV infections, of low risk types can cause warts anogenital. These are usually flesh-colored and soft to the touch and may appear as small bumps or flat bumps resembling a cauliflower. They are usually not painful, though they can cause itching. They are usually found in more than one place and they can be cluster in large groups. Sometimes they may be present but not visible if they are internal (ie d. inside the vagina or rectum) or if they are on the skin but so small they can not see them. Anogenital warts does not develop into cancer.

Human papilloma pictures

Body and physical or somatic and psychological

If we think about health, disease, respectively, we see the human person as a sum of parts (systems, organ) or as a whole. In the first case, try to medically treat the different parts that do not work well, often ignoring interactions with other parties and, especially, how each illness feels, pain, diagnosis or treatment.

But we can look at any "patient" as a person who has a body and a psyche that are always interacting. We can think that a psychological state produces organic disorder or pathological condition as a result of certain psychological experiences.

Sometimes, after medical investigation is laborious to find a physical cause of a symptom that upsets us. When we hear phrases like: "is the substance of nervous," is psychogenic origin, "is due to stress." There are different ways of saying that in terms of somatic, organic, no one cause, but no symptoms, and the real cause of is psychological. In this category there are many diseases that are fully or partially caused by mental states. From eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia so common in adolescence, psychogenic vomiting occurred in an infant, child or adult, to enuresis, sexual disorders or diseases of the skin to dizziness, headaches, asthma, insomnia, infertility ... After finding a road map together with the patient in case we had not thought of. A separation, a bereavement, an accident or an event that you consider important may not be a source of disorder.

In these cases, psychotherapy is the solution of the problem. But it is hard to find a solution for the therapist is among the last to reach the person who suffers. Psychotherapy is not magic but a way to help the patient to express in words the pain his body was not physically separate but both of them consider him to make connections that do not think so then they can bring in feelings which consciousness has been ignored, minimized or suppressed.

Sure, in many cases you need both medication and psychotherapy or counseling. It is also important to remember that children at early age, and adults can benefit from psychological help tailored to their age and condition.

In addition, in many cases of chronic illness, disability, accidents are very traumatic psychologically speaking, or psychological help is recommended for the patient or his family.

Diathermy dream is possible to show that in youth

Dr Ciortan Ionica, director of the Center for Functional and Aesthetic Medicine Hera Body Care, talks about the device that all women are in love.

Discussion with Dr Ciortan Ionica, director of the Functional and Aesthetic Medicine Hera Body Care (IC Blvd Bratianu No 2-4) came to the clinic where aesthetic medicine may benefit from therapies interested constantenii developed by Western system, having as excellent sound support, true tips for spear of medical technology. As Dr assured us Ciortan Ionica, the largest service center in Constanta Functional and Aesthetic Medicine (equipped with unique technology in Romania) guarantees at affordable prices, amazing results in the maintenance and restoration of health stations in beauty and rejuvenation .

A: Our dialogue had stopped presenting apparatus utileaza aesthetic medicine department at Hera Body Care

IC: There are several devices, each having a complex series of programs can be tailored to how personalized for each client. We propose to open stream presentations with Diater One - a "masterpiece" of recent medical discoveries, a device that you can not not love him. The sessions are Diater One diathermy, whose results are stunning: up to extinction diminishes wrinkles, facial and body lifting is done (lifting the breasts and buttocks), the tone and rejuvenates skin, and not only that. Diathermy is used with success in fading scars, sports medicine in rheumatology (joint pain, etc.) and the list goes on.

A: Talk to the devices that are miracles and what we say sounds so good incite next question is: how big are the deals?

IC: Oh, when speaking about service quality, most people get scared thinking about what's good is that cost so much that they can not afford. Body Care La Hera, as I said, prices are affordable. There are very low prices, because we are working with good materials (Italy, France, America, etc.) are identical to those of the great cities of the world (which includes the cost), but are not digit customer to close the door. For One Diater talking about, I'll give an example of price: 1 minute diathermy - 4 wheels. Every customer evaluations are based on what the problem is and how many minutes are required for a meeting. Some superficial wrinkles are "erased" in a few sessions of 5 or 10 minutes while a pronounced wrinkles chip needs more meetings and more minutes.

A: This appliance, Diater One, smooths wrinkles without injections or surgical intervention?

IC: Diater One is a medical device with exceptional results in the sphere of aesthetics. When we refer to diathermy mention the spectacular new method in the field of medical aesthetics and repair, which folosteste an innovative concept - diathermy by heat from the inside out. Effect of method involves modulations introduced AC power through the tissue, after which the membrane is flexible, permeable, the cell eliminates toxins and water retention, supplying the protein and minerals. Oxygenate the skin cell and get the look of youth. Diathermy manages to produce profound changes - controls and regulates cellular activity, acting on the cell matrix (matrix having the role of regulating the biological system). Every sequence of cellular biostimulation diathermy contain 20%, 40% biostimulation and drainage, 40% thermal effects, vasodilators, drainage.

Peptic ulcer

Stomach ulcer disease is a disease frequently encountered. The ulcer (ulceration) means a defect of the skin or mucosa associated with damage to deeper layers. It is an open wound, and closure and healing processes are prevented or at least much slower.

Description of disease
Factors that cause ulcers are different. Most times it is a combination of the local and general factors. Ulcers can have size, shape and depth of the most varied. Ulcer disease is a chronic relapsing disease, characterized by the formation of gastric or duodenal ulceration. It is a fairly common disease among the population - about 7-10 percent suffer from gastric or duodenal ulcer. Duodenal ulcer is about four times more often than the stomach.

It is more common in young
Duodenal ulcer occurs more frequently in young people, while the ages of two and three gastric ulcer occurs more frequently. Also, duodenal ulcer is recorded more frequently in men. There are also so-called symptomatic ulcers, which occur due to stress, burns, after neurosurgical operations; ulcers occur after ingurgitarea medicinal preparations are as gluococorticoizii or salicilatele. Endocrine ulcers, ulcers caused by hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, etc..

Plays an important role in producing ulcers alcohol consumption and smoking, dietary errors, large intervals between meals, eating on the run and only the brushwood, as well as on the swallowing nemestecate.

What is it and how to manifest ulcer
The ulcer is actually a wound caused in the wall of the stomach or duodenum. Recently appeared interesting research which treats the nature of infectious ulcers, both gastric and duodenal cit.

- Ulcers, wounds, is in the duodenal or gastric mucosa after the occurrence of an imbalance between aggressive factors of gastric contents (gastric juice + food ingurgitate) and protective properties of the coating (and gastric mucosa, respectively, the duodenum).

- The main symptom of chest pain of ulcers are - to the left of the midline when gastric ulcer, or right in case of duodenal bulb or pyloric ulcer. Often the pain radiates to the left half of the thorax, to the left shoulder blade, even for column, dorsal and lumbar segment of it.

- Pain occurring in 30-60 minutes after a meal - or gastric ulcer in two or three hours after a meal - in duodenal ulcer. The pains are very Pars, insidious, persistent, with periodic declines and renewed, with increased strength back after that seemed to have been extinguished. Siciitoare are painful and, often, very difficult.

Painful crises are often accompanied by vomiting, the stomach was removed and gastric juice, especially, excess acid. Most times, after vomiting, the patient feels relieved, so many try to cause vomiting.

Other symptoms
Other common symptoms are heartburn, belching (rigiielile), nausea and constipation.

Characteristic ulcer disease is seasonal aggravation - spring and autumn crises become stronger and more frequent. Often these acute periods alternate with periods of remission that can last from several weeks up to several years.

How to treat this disease
It is very important that people with ulcers should be treated fairly, until clinical cure.

Of course, a full healing of this disease is not possible, it does not pass without trace, as it will remain a scar in place of ulceration (like any wound that is closed). So, through a healing clinic means the absence of disease for a long time (if you can even permanently), which appears to fibrogastroscopie scar formation, but also - on Oriental medicine positions - a normal energy balance in the stomach and small intestine meridian system , as in the whole energy system about them.

This stage is possible but much later, compared with the first two conditions (absence of pain and ulceration closing).

The two major meridians
The two meridians - the stomach and small intestine - are yang meridians and are directed gall bladder meridian. The latter strengthens the small intestine meridian, as if he would add energy, and the stomach meridian exercise a braking action, would you like it tethered. On the other hand, small intestine meridian strengthens the stomach meridian.

When the small intestine meridian is affected, is in hiperfunctie and acts as an amplifier of the channel gastric hyperacid gastritis can occur, then even an ulcer. If intestine meridian is weak, then the stomach may fall into a depression, digestive capacity is reduced and, in this case, there may be a hypoacid gastritis, and it will lead to an ulcer. Also, the channel can affect the bladder and intestine channel it, which will brake operation that meridian.

Role rebalancing methods
This is really just a very small part of the complex relations be established between existing meridians in the body and, consequently, between the organs of it. Therefore, any disease can not be a single body, and when it is treated, we should take into account the overall condition of the patient.

Currently, besides diet, medical treatment and - in serious cases (including perforated ulcer) - operations, there are methods of rebalancing the energy associated with phytotherapy and homeopathic treatment.

The results obtained by these methods are very promising, because they get really wound healing in the stomach faster than conventional treatment methods.

Child Anorexia

When we meet with anorexia in children?
We see mothers often complain that their kids "do not eat" or "do not eat enough" or "you must not eat." Their attitude shows a lot of worry, anxiety, fear that the baby is not high enough, "developed", "too weak" ... They complained of whims and child refusals, time spent in front of the whole plate, the all sorts of attempts to persuade the child to eat "whole", the punishments and rewards afima ... Some of them they were "desperate", "as it struggled for several years," they can not. " We describe visits to a pediatrician at the hospital, the analysis they have made the child in an attempt to find a cure for "his lack of appetite."

The child is also sometimes present in the consultation, whether it be the little fella is already in school. We talk about anorexia baby, sometimes associated with other diseases, such as vomiting or gastro-esophageal reflux. These mothers go to a psychologist or therapist on the recommendation of the pediatrician, family doctor, hospital staff or come alone when they realize that there is a psychological component to the origin of the disorder. Eating problems are common during childhood and adolescence but vary in intensity and mode of expression.

What can a therapist?
Hearing the mother's words, her pain psychologist or trying to find the cause of anorexia when she came. Ť ť There is always something that was the origin of the disorder, a random (a pregnancy, a separation, a death, etc.), condition (mother's depression can perhaps another disease, perhaps a family member suffering of another). When asked: "Since child does not eat?" Our mother often responds "Never was killed by eating" or "she was eating less and less every day began to decline more than food." However, as we speak, to put in words various events, situations, feelings that come to mind her mother recalls a painful moment, a "trauma" that the family past. Maybe it is something that seems unrelated to anorexia child, nor can the child has learned that the event was very small or maybe it was not yet born ... And that's when the mother's anxiety increased when her condition was affected and with it and "desire" to eat the child.

Do therapeutic
For baby, working on dyadic mother-child psychotherapy focusing on how the mother feels and reacts to the child refusing to eat, to vomit his weight loss. As the mother manages to goestioneze own mental states related to child feeding, care of in general, its ability to be "a good mother, begins to solve the problem.

For children older version is decided by the physiotherapist according to the first session. Either will work only with the mother or mother and child will come up with will work together, entering into dialogue about a relationship problem, either the child or young person will remain in therapy, if it depends on solving the problem.

In all cases but it is important to detect the dynamics of family, the ties between relatives, disclosure, any contradictions, misunderstandings, conflicts, so-called "secret" family because in them we find the source of the difficulty of eating, swallowing, the retain the food inside, manifested in children suffering as a symptom of a hidden unconscious by adults who often is considered as "not matter", "I went over ..."," he has now ...".

health quote of the day

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”