How to escape from sinusitis

Besides that, a cold nose "gives a leak," we usually treat with special attention. Nasal spray and paper towels - that's the solution. Oh, shake their heads ENT doctor if it is not frivolous, it would not be so many cases of sinusitis!

Our expert - Head of the ENT department GKB number 59, MD, Professor Michael Leyzerman.

What is hiding in his bosom?

If the runny nose lasts longer than a week and is accompanied by a headache and feeling of heaviness in the forehead and cheekbones, so trifling ailment turned menacing sinusitis - inflammation of the sinuses. If bacteria or viruses impressed frontal sinuses - developing sinusitis if maxillary - sinusitis.

Called internal sinus bone formation, resembling small caves communicating with the nasal cavity. They are imbued with the nerves and blood vessels through which the blood flows to the brain. Therefore, inflammation in these departments is fraught with abscess, meningitis and even tragic consequences. But, fortunately, in the depths of such an infection is getting rare, as before on her way there are obstacles in the form of two two frontal and maxillary sinuses located, respectively, over the bridge and on both sides of the nose. But to infection just will not work - for this to happen, you need an important condition - the presence of edema of the nasal mucosa. During a cold it just happens, and then the mucus (sometimes with pus) does not come out naturally, and accumulates in one or less immediately in both maxillary sinuses. And can start sinusitis.

Preventive methods

However, the infection can not only get through the nose, but also through blood. This is possible when flu, sore throat, measles, scarlet fever and other infectious diseases, and sometimes even with caries. There are other risk factors that facilitate access to remote parts of the infection of the nasal cavity. They are all states that violate the nasal breathing: a deviated septum, chronic rhinitis, adenoids, and so on. D.

Accordingly, to prevent disease, the time necessary to treat dental caries and other infections to monitor the adenoids and finally align the nasal septum.

Disease prevention can be considered and proper treatment of banal cold, which consists of regular nasal washing with antiseptic solutions and the application of vasoconstrictor drops during the first 2-3 days of illness (but no longer - or later have to treat vasomotor rhinitis). And it is important to blow your nose, and eyedrops. Cleaning the nasal passages should be in turn: first finger holding one nostril, then the other. If you blow into both holes at once, infected mucus from the nose can get into the sinus. And apply a drop of need, tilting her head to the side, which buried the drug.

The doctor knows best

But if, despite your best efforts, your nose and out through the week was "wet spot", you need to hurry to otorhinolaryngology. It distinguished itself from the strong sinusitis rhinitis easy.

In the initial (catarrhal) stage of the disease are usually thick, clear nasal discharge, unpleasant feeling of heaviness over the eyes and nose. The temperature rises slightly (up to 37-37, 3 ° C), and watery eyes. Often patients complain of weakness and fatigue.

Launched catarrhal sinusitis can go to the purulent stage. In this case, all the signs of inflammation (pain, fever) have become more apparent, appear dull greenish nasal discharge. After blowing the nose discomfort usually disappears briefly. But sometimes a person is experiencing only a bad headache, which is taken as a migraine. Therefore, accurate diagnosis should be a doctor. Only he can decide whether the patient needs an x-ray or CT scan, or a diagnostic puncture sinuses.

Treatment depends on the stage

Catarrhal treat sinusitis, usually antibiotics. To reduce the swelling of the nasal mucosa using vasoconstrictor drops and antihistamine drugs.

When the sinus moderate, particularly in those cases where there are multiple lesions sinus (not only maxillary, and frontal and latticed) method can be applied YAMIK: using sinus catheter introduced into the nasal cavity, creates a controlled (i.e. positive the negative) pressure, helps to pump out the pus from the sinus and syringe to remove it. Plus method - the complete absence of pain. However, it is much inferior to the efficiency of the traditional method of treating sinusitis - by puncture, because by any other means other than the puncture, you can not enter directly into the tools maxillary sinus, where is the source of infection.

Therefore, if the disease is passed into the purulent form the most reliable means - a sinus puncture and washing it with antiseptic solutions, followed by administration of antibiotics.

Failure to puncture - "puncture" the patient

Puncture of the maxillary sinus known since the XIX century and still successfully applied. In combination with antibiotics, physiotherapy and local media, this method (through the use of anesthetics quality is not as painful as one might think) most of the time in minutes can cope with sinusitis.

However, many patients are afraid of fire as this procedure and somehow convinced that it is enough to do it once, so you have to repeat it regularly.

This is not true. Repeated puncture only necessary when chronic disease that occurs just at those last nedolechil his sharp sinusitis, abandoning of a puncture. Besides, the puncture is necessary not only to remove the pus from the affected sinuses, but also to take the material for bacteriological examination, which will determine the pathogen and to pick up an antibiotic sensitive to this microbe.

In chronic sinusitis for the prevention of exacerbations of effective alternative means. For example, the Buteyko method, which is to teach patients proper breathing technique, in which the function of nasal breathing is restored, and the problem itself often disappears.

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The elastic bandage is vital after a stroke

Squeezing the legs of a man who suffered a stroke, can save his life, according to researchers. This reduces the risk of extremely dangerous condition called deep vein thrombosis, which can lead to a pulmonary embolism and death.

deep venous thrombosis

Until recently, medicine was no medication that would reduce the risk of deep venous thrombosis Except for blood-thinning drugs from the group of anticoagulants. However, taking them dangerous for stroke victims, as it can lead to bleeding in the brain. Now scientists at the University of Edinburgh found that the prevention of a dangerous disorder cope admirably conventional compression leg. Thus, patients after strokes, which are particularly at risk of becoming a victim of thrombosis and lose their lives because of this, should be encouraged to wear bandages on his feet.

Their low cost and wide availability makes this method of preventing   deep venous thrombosis   affordable for the general population. Studies have shown that elastic bandages stimulates blood flow in the legs, preventing the blood to stagnate and form clots. Venous thrombosis may lead to pulmonary embolism, blocking blood vessels in the lungs, causing severe heart failure. Thousands of Russians die each year because of such complications.

Scottish scientists tested the effectiveness of elastic bandages on 2,800 stroke patients in hundreds of hospitals across the UK. Observations have shown that wearing the bandages in the first days after stroke significantly reduced the risk of death. (READ MORE)

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How useful the correct posture

Our mothers were right when they taught us to stand up straight and do not slouch. Scientists have found that the correct posture is good for you - it makes the pain easier to bear.

A person with   correct posture   not only makes a good impression on others, it is still better to cope with the pain. But fans slouch have hard times, as their body is more susceptible to discomfort. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the Universities of Toronto and Southern California.

Scientists have attracted a group of volunteers who are beginning to strengthen the hand cuff pressure and inflated them to that level until people began to complain of pain. So determined pain threshold . Then, the volunteers had to hold out for 20 seconds in three yoga poses.

It turned out that the dominant position of yoga, in which a man stands upright, not hunched over, legs spread wide, increases pain threshold As reported in the journal Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The researchers decided to find out whether this effect is "contagious", that is, whether one person is better to endure pain, looking at correct posture   another. To this end, participants were asked to sit down and discuss with researchers the different images of nature. Pain threshold   was measured before and after the debate.

When the researchers themselves were sitting right and volunteers stooped, their pain threshold is decreased. Scientists are not sure what is the cause of such a connection. It is possible that a particular pose, in which the hands are on his knees, and back and neck straightened, increases the production of testosterone in the body. This hormone affects the growth of the pain threshold.

So we have to continue to try to watch your posture and back - all this directly affects the health and sensitivity to pain.

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Deadly thrombosis of sedentary work

Stay seated at a desk for long periods can lead to deadly vein thrombosis. This 30-year-old woman suffered a danger to himself.

When Diane Buchan began to appear sharp pain in the calf, at first she did not attach any importance to this, and tried to ignore them. Women think that just pulled muscles when preparing for a charity bike ride. But Diana was not trained so hard to get a similar injury.

Later it turned out that the cause of pain in the calf was not a stretch, and   deep venous thrombosis That is formed in the veins of the left leg of a blood clot. After some time, the clot moved, and Diana has developed a life-threatening condition known as pulmonary embolism . Fortunately, surgeons at the last minute and were able to carry out an operation to remove a blood clot in the lungs, which could easily kill the patient. Even 30-40 years ago, pulmonary embolism was almost a symbol of the death penalty.

Until recently, it was customary to assume that the most important risk factor for deep vein thrombosis It is a surgical procedure. Further, according to the degree of danger settled flights on airplanes and contraceptives. But now it turns out that we have to fear and something else.

The study, whose results were published in the journal British Medical Journal, showed that conducting too much time in the sitting position women's doubles and even triples the risk of blood clots. Most at risk women who focus sedentary work more than 41 hours per week. This factor was the main reason   venous thrombosis And subsequent   pulmonary embolism   Diane Buchan.

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Allergies should not spoil spring

Sergei Morozov, an allergist Research Institute of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery on Taldomskaya.

Every year from mid-April, people with allergies begin in advance to experience the stress of waiting for a new season of flowering. Allergy to bloom   the most intractable, since food allergy is enough to stop taking foods containing allergens and avoid contact with the air is practically impossible.

Traditional anti-allergic drugs at a constant admission cause drowsiness and other side effects. When an allergy affecting the child, the prescriptions even more difficult decision. We were constantly approached by mothers who leave in the early spring garden with children or in warm countries, where even more allergens. In recent years, developed a number of practical recommendations for symptomatic children and their parents, as a predisposition to allergies often inherited.

At the first sign of an allergic reaction, it is necessary to put a barrier between the allergens and nasal mucosa. This is best suited Nazaval. It is a safe spray of microcellulose that prevents allergens to penetrate the blood and reduces the risk of allergic rhinitis. Enough in the morning and evening to process your child's nose to protect him.

Protection of the gastrointestinal tract. It is proved that any intestinal dysbiosis increases or provoke an allergic reaction. At the time of acute advisable to follow a diet and take Enterosgel enterosorbent that prevents allergens enter the body from the intestine. Incidentally popular children American fast food - the main provocateur allergy.

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Increased iron protects against Parkinson's disease

Increasing the level of iron in the body is associated with a reduced risk of developing a serious neurological disease - Parkinson's disease. This is the conclusion, researchers from the European Academy of Bozen / Bolzano in Italy.

Parkinson's disease

Using so-called Mendelian randomization technique, scientists from Italy have decided to evaluate the dependence of the level of iron in the body of its risk of being   Parkinson's disease . They relied on three polymorphisms (presence within one species sharply differing in appearance species) in two genes - HFE and TMPRSS6.

In total, to the attention of scientists got 22 thousand people from Europe and Australia. To calculate the risk using meta-analysis, as victims of Parkinson's disease and healthy people. According to the results of a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, increasing the level of iron in the blood is associated with reduced risk of Parkinson's disease   3%.

Data from this study are important because they suggest that iron levels have a protective effect against one of the most serious neurological illnesses. Parkinson's disease is still incurable. Progresses, it causes a tremor of limbs, facial expressions and binds significantly complicates the life of man.

Medicine does not know ways to treat Parkinson's disease, levodopa but in many cases, can hinder the development of the disease. The victims of Parkinson's disease were Soviet comedian Arkady Raikin and Pope John Paul II. From disease to suffer the actor Michael J. Fox and boxer Muhammad Ali. (READ MORE)

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Hereditary disease: what parents do not say "thank you"

Species are many hereditary diseases. The probability of their occurrence can not be predicted in advance: one for children defective genes are transferred, and others are not. Still, planning offspring are kindly requested to talk with his second half of family illnesses. Otherwise, you can expect a nasty surprise.

Colorblindness
Predominantly male disease. His "carry" around 10% of men and only 1% of women. Typically, patients can not distinguish red and green. Full "color blindness" is very rare in a ratio of 1 to 30,000.

Alopecia
This is also basically male disease. Its causes are still not fully understood, but it is known that heredity plays a role. Chance alopecia is very high, if the disease is found in both the maternal relatives and paternal.

Acne
It may be inherited and is not always treatable. The skin condition in these patients is not stabilized and after puberty. It does not help even the meticulous care. Therefore, if the acne was the parents, it may well occur in their offspring.

Lactose intolerance
The inability to digest dairy products, too - hereditary disease . It is due to the lack of the gene for lactose tolerance.

Hemophilia A and B, ichthyosis, Duchenne myopathy.
These diseases occur mostly in males. Defective gene is passed from a mother to them. That it is its bearer.

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6 risk factors for diabetes

Type 2 diabetes - is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. During his pancreas begins to produce less insulin, responsible for the blood sugar level.

There are many factors the risk of type 2 diabetes:

1. Enormous role played by genetics. If your immediate family - parents, brothers, sisters - have diabetes, it is an occasion to reflect. You should have regular checkups at the doctor.

2. If a woman has experience gestational diabetes (ie, diabetes during pregnancy), and had a child with more weight, both of them have a higher   the risk of type 2 diabetes in future.

3. The presence of other complications, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels in the body, may also contribute to increased risk of   Diabetes .

4. The situation is aggravated by passive lifestyle, immobility or low activity.

5. Another factor the risk of diabetes - Unique to women. If they suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome, it also can increase the risk of developing the disease.

6. With age, people more likely to develop diabetes. If you are over 45 years old, you should measure the level of glucose in the body every three years.

To reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes you must take appropriate measures. It is maintaining a reasonable weight, healthy eating, physical activity, regular check-ups by a doctor.

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Hidden dangers of high pressure

To understand, what is dangerous hypertension.

Important: arterial hypertension - a disease without symptoms. On it you can not realize for a long time, if not measure the pressure regularly. On the problem usually know when the arrow on the blood pressure monitor has increased too. The norm is blood pressure 120/80 mm Hg. Art., high - higher than 140/90 mm Hg. Art.

What is dangerous: OK, our vessels are elastic. They are easy to expand and contract and thereby provide blood circulation in the body. High blood pressure damages the walls of blood vessels - they penetrate cholesterol formed plaques that clog blood vessels and make them brittle.

The brain, heart and kidneys suffer from high blood pressure. If there is a blockage of the blood vessels of the heart - the heart hypertrophy (increase) of the brain - the brain atrophy (dies), kidney - the kidney smorschatsya (and will not be able to perform their function).

How to prevent excess weight - the main cause of high blood pressure.

Normally, a woman's waist circumference should not be more than 88 cm, and a man - no more than 94 cm. If these numbers are exceeded - you know, you definitely are overweight.

When overweight vessels unable to sufficiently supply the body with blood. Therefore, the endocrine system is activated, and this leads to an increase in blood pressure.

How to deal:

- Discard the salt. Salt water retention in the body, leading to an increase in the volume of water in the blood vessels and increased blood pressure. And I refuse to be the salt, not only as from the seasonings, but also on the salty foods (pickles and tomatoes, sausages, sausages and so on. D.), And blood pressure decreases by 5 - 7 mm Hg. Art. By the way, removing the salt from the diet for a month, you can lose weight by 6 - 12 kg.

- Get rid of excess weight. It proved that weight reduction reduces blood pressure by 20 mm Hg. Art.

Considered normal blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg. Art., high - higher than 140/90 mm Hg. Art.

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How to choose a tonometer

Tonometer to measure pressure - a necessary thing in the house. Mercury, mechanical, electronic - what to choose?

- Mercury tonometer - the most accurate. All medical research is carried out only this tonometer. However, a mercury sphygmomanometer is not very convenient in everyday use: they can not be used in a noisy environment; it contains mercury - a toxic substance, and its use requires special skills.

- Mechanical tonometer is also not very convenient in everyday use: the need for special skills and the assistant; We need complete silence to measure.

- Electronic tonometer - the most convenient. It does not require any effort. Just press a button, and the pressure will be measured.

Choose a tonometer with a special feature that allows you to measure the pressure of the heart rhythm disturbances, whereas in atrial fibrillation the pressure will be measured correctly.

When buying pay attention to the size of the cuff, first measure the girth shoulder. If the cuff is small in size, you will get inflated figures of pressure.

How to measure the pressure

- Measure the pressure only on the shoulder, placing a cuff on the upper arm. Pressure measurement on the finger is not accurate. Vessels fingers very small, and if they are impressed by atherosclerosis, blood pressure did not catch the pressure increase.

- Before measuring pressure, you need to sit quietly 3 - 4 minutes, leaning back in his chair.

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I do not want to live with pain

Those suffering from this disease can sometimes under the influence of pain self-harm, even kill himself. The saddest thing - the disease often mistaken for ordinary toothache. And all because of trigeminal neuralgia (trigeminal neuralgia - HS) covers the lower part of the face and jaw.

In Russia, the official from the disease affects about 30 thousand people, unofficially - is much greater. Unfortunately, doctors do not always give the correct diagnosis. Monstrous in terms of suffering twinges of accidents suddenly attacked, they can last for seconds, minutes and sometimes hours.

"The pain is just unbearable - says neurologist Anish Bar of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. - My patients say that they seemed to be cut to pieces saw. In a fit of agony they tremble in convulsions. And after the acute phase is a dull ache that can persist hours or even days. "

Nine out of ten cases trigeminal neuralgia   pressure caused by blood vessels on the trigeminal nerve. But the immediate cause of the next attack could be anything - a draft, the food, drinks, shaving and even brushing teeth. "There were cases when the pain turn gave rise to the head or a light touch to the face - says Dr. Bar. - This disease affects patients of all ages, but most of its victims are people over 50".

Special tests designed to diagnose   trigeminal neuralgia , does not exist. However, the disease can be detected using MRI and angiogram (radiograph obtained after angiography). In more than two-thirds of effective medicines against trigeminal neuralgia   are anticonvulsants (medications anticonvulsant action) that block the transmission of nerve signals. In the remaining third of the cases the patient can save rhizotomy surgery - transection of the cranial nerve roots. Effective treatment is also microvascular decompression, during which there is a division of the nerve roots and blood vessels.

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When a toothache help garlic

Circumstances may arise in such a way that access to a dentist in the near future you will not. As a forced pause to wait until the visit to a doctor if suddenly overtaken by a toothache?

garlic toothache

Traditional medicine in such cases suggests using garlic. It is necessary to take a clove of garlic, cut it and attach to the patient gingiva. Modern doctors confirmed: spicy vegetable really helps to wait as long as a person does not get medical care.

According to doctors, in most cases, the pain is caused by tooth decay caused by caries or pulpitis. Garlic, being a very strong impact on the antibacterial agent may withdraw purulent swelling. It inhibits the growth of bacteria.

However, garlic has one unpleasant feature - this vegetable erodes the mucosa. Therefore, the garlic should be carefully used. Cut the slice of the patient to keep teeth just a few minutes, but an hour later to repeat the procedure. (READ MORE)

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Out on the street facing frostbite

It argued that earn frostbite is possible only in very cold weather. But it is not. When the street-zero temperature and humidity increased, the risk is very large frostbitten.

Therefore, everyone should know how to recognize frostbite, what to do and what to do, you should not. It is important not to waste time and take measures to rescue the victims from cold hands and feet.

How is frostbite

Reducing heat loss - the natural reaction of the body to cold. The body tries to save the vital organs - heart and mind - and all the warm blood leads to the center of the body. At this time, the periphery of the vessels begin to narrow and spasm. Reduced blood flow in the limbs, they begin to cool. Prolonged exposure to cold combined with high humidity in the body irreversible changes occur, the cells begin to fail, to die and there is tissue necrosis. Pale skin and loss of sensation - the first signs of frostbite.

What to do if you become a victim of frost

1. Be sure to remove all wet clothing.

2. With a weak frostbite when skin was white, but there is no damage, help recovery temperature. The victim of course you need to warm up to 37 degrees. This can be done with a light massage with moist gauze.

3. In deep frostbite help warm bath for 30 - 40 minutes. It is warm! Add hot water can be gradual and in any case it is not necessary to pour the boiling water, it only adds injury. After the bath, wipe dry and relax. The first two days is recommended complete rest, and on the third day, you can begin to develop the injured limb.

What you can not do

1. Do not use the traditional methods and do not rub the frozen areas of the body of vodka. The alcohol by evaporation, on the contrary, lowers the temperature of the body and only exacerbates the tissue necrosis. Take alcohol inside is also impossible, you only lose heat.

2. Do not rub the damaged limb snow, oils and ointments.

3. Do not wear tight shoes and tight gloves - they are neither legs nor arms do not get heat. All tight clothing increases the risk of frostbite.

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And if it is goiter?

The thyroid gland - it is an endocrine gland located in the neck. Given the high level of stress of modern life, you can not looking at the statistics say that problems with the thyroid gland feels the majority of the adult population. The experts, in turn, add: particularly vulnerable thyroid gland in women.

Intrigue "raskapriznichavsheysya" thyroid gland that is not immediately possible to understand exactly what it needs to be checked. Often thyroid disease   "Masked" for psychological problems. It may seem that too nervous, overworked at work, do not get enough sleep. While it is the other way around - irritation, insomnia, fatigue can be symptoms thyroid disease .

In turn, the "spoil" thyroid indicates that the body's endocrine system fails - it began producing the wrong hormones. A hormonal imbalance leads to a whole bunch of sores - from depression to diabetes. A woman, for example, complains of insomnia. And she does not sleep because disturbed hormonal balance.

Hormones, hormones ...

Hormone secreted by the thyroid gland, belong to the group of thyroid hormones, and are indicated by the letter T: is T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). They are responsible for normal mental and physical development are very important for the growth of the skeleton and body weight.

In the case of disease thyroid produces hormones tieroidnyh more or less than the body needs. If the activity of the thyroid gland is reduced, then we are talking about hypothyroidism . If too high - develop hyperthyroidism, or thyrotoxicosis .

In addition, endocrinologists say that some thyroid disorders occur without changing its function.

Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism   may occur for several reasons. The most common is the so-called autoimmune thyroiditis - a kind of failure in the body. In this state, in the body begin to stand out special proteins - antibodies that attack cells of the thyroid gland. Why - the science is not yet able to understand.

Another factor - a strong iodine deficiency (less than 25 micrograms of iodine per day). The third reason - a consequence of dysfunctional thyroid surgery or treatment of the thyroid gland. A fourth, fairly rare - congenital abnormality of the pituitary gland or hypothalamus.

How dangerous is hypothyroidism? Lack of hormone causes diseases cardiovascular - atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, heart attack or stroke. There are disorders of menstrual function, fraught with infertility. Moreover, against the background of hypothyroidism slows down the metabolic function and the man quickly gaining weight, even if it is fed in moderation.

Hyperthyroidism

Hyperthyroidism is caused by hyper-thyroid function: this enhanced production of hormones leads to self-poisoning organism. The main cause of this disease is Graves' disease (diffuse toxic goiter), is inherited. But the trigger at a thyrotoxicosis may be and if consumed too much iodine - for example, in the form of dietary supplements or food (oysters, shrimp, seaweed and other seafood).

Attention! To rid the body of excess iodine, doctors are advised to drink more water.

For a thyrotoxic state characterized by rapid pulse, nausea, flashes sweating, shortness of breath, seizures, fatigue, irritability. The emotional state of the overabundance of hormones in general is very unstable: the mood is changing rapidly, it becomes aggressive, the whiny. A person can eat a lot and do not recover easily lose weight, complains of thirst, copious and diarrhea.

The negative impact of hyperthyroidism affects the heart, it causes arrhythmia and tachycardia attacks. Often, when this condition osteoporosis, eye damage.

Goiter

Goiter   It means an increase in the size of the thyroid gland, while it can increase as a whole (diffuse goiter), or only in some of its parts (nodular goiter).

An increase of thyroid may work as normal, but at the same time, it compresses the esophagus, trachea, adjacent nerves and blood vessels, which inevitably causes health problems. Often, enlarged thyroid loses its normal production of hormones, and goes into a state of hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism.

The most common diffuse euthyroid goiter - an increase in size, but do not lose their thyroid function caused by iodine deficiency. Doctors call this crop "endemic goiter."

The first signs of goiter look like fatigue weakness, fatigue, constant headaches, pain in muscles and joints, chilliness, frequent infections. A person becomes forgetful, complaining of ringing in the ears, worse start to think. Can grow weight.

Treatment

To understand whether there is a problem with the thyroid gland, it is possible, having passed tests for hormones, as well as scanning the gland using ultrasound.

In hypothyroidism have to take hormones for life. When thyrotoxicosis appointed special thyreostatics funds or resorting to surgery. When euthyroid goitre prescribe vitamin complexes with a high content of iodine.

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Antidepressants have led to the 5-day clitoral erection

29-year-old girl was the victim of clitoral erection that lasted the whole 5 days. The cause of this disorder appeared antidepressants.

priapism

In the authoritative scientific journal Journal of Sexual Medicine reported the case of 29-year-old girl who was the victim of extreme priapism . Name and place of residence of the patient for ethical reasons not called. The paper wrote that the girl was hospitalized with erection of the clitoris   (physiological phenomenon whereby clitoris enlarges and hardens), which lasted much as 5 days.

priapism

Typically, priapism   or prolonged painful erection is a physiological problem of men and women, this disorder occurs much less frequently. Doctors found that she was part of a group of volunteers who participated in the clinical trials of the new antidepressants Wellbutrin (bupropion) and trazodone. She also took medications to increase libido, but shortly before the incident voluntarily increase their dosage.

When developed priapism, and the clitoris swelling and began to hurt, she stopped taking the medication, but the symptoms every day becoming worse. The cause of priapism is a blockage of the blood vessels that devastate the penis or clitoris with blood. Some medications can sometimes interfere with the normal operation of the nerves involved in the process of erection. Nerves "forget" to expand the artery after sexual excitement fades away. There have been cases where such an effect called antidepressants and medication for erectile dysfunction.

On examination, the patient's doctors discovered that her clitoris swelling to a size of 2x0, 7 cm. She was prescribed medication Sudafed decongestant, which she took every 6 hours. After alleviate the condition she left the hospital and was soon fully recovered. (READ MORE)

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Psoriasis provokes impotence

Doctors studying the causes of the relationship of psoriasis and impotence, came to the conclusion that the constant use of drugs containing the hormones even microdozes leads to a cumulative effect and provokes a weakening of sexual activity in men and women causes increased masculine characteristics in the form of hair growth on the face .

Typically, medicines of local psoriasis   contains certain derivatives of corticosteroid hormones. Corticosteroids, more open in the last century, known for the fact that along with the rapid clinical effect, and can have a negative effect on the body, it is proved, for example, they inhibit the adrenal cortex and inhibit sexual maturation in adolescents. That is why doctors prescribe corticosteroids are extremely reluctant to patients under 21 years. Adults tend to prescribe combination therapy with hormonal "vacation." This period usually occurs in the summer, when patients with psoriasis disease recedes, and the body can take a break from hormones.

For those who have not removed the natural remission visible manifestations psoriasis Doctors do recommend sparing therapies. Sunlight is a beneficial effect on the recovery of the affected areas of the skin, so for the majority of patients with psoriasis sunbathing on the beach - it is not only pleasant, but also a therapeutic pastime. Seawater also helps to reduce skin inflammation. By the way, according to statistics, people who live on the coast in a warm climate, rarely suffer from psoriasis .

Residual defects on the skin it is best to clean preparations of activated zinc pyrithione, such as Skin-Cap, which is by far the most effective of non-hormonal means.

It is important to remember that the activated zinc pyrithione acts, the more effective it penetrates deeper into the affected area of ​​the skin, so psoriasis, especially in the thicker portions of the skin, it is best to choose drugs in aerosol form.

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And you test yourself for diabetes?

Millions of Russians may be living with diabetes and not know it. Experts remind that being overweight and unhealthy lifestyle - the main reasons for the formation of Type II diabetes.

Diabetes first type   It can not be overlooked, because it requires from the patient regular intake of insulin. Skip injection can lead to diabetic coma and even death. And here Type II diabetes , According to doctors, can pass unnoticed for the patient for months or even years.

Charitable Association Diabetes UK believes that in the UK the number of people who do not know about her Diabetes Type It may be a million people. In Russia, they are much more than a purely arithmetic. In diabetes, the body fails to produce insulin, a hormone that is not doing its job.

This is due to the fact that the fat stores in the abdomen, as experts believe, affect the production of a protein that prevents excess insulin affect blood sugar levels.

Almost half of the cases Type II diabetes   doctors detect the disease even after it leads to serious complications like nerve pain and visual disturbances. Meanwhile, the classic symptoms of diabetes (excessive thirst, frequent urination), and thus can not be shown.

Only in the UK alone each week doctors amputated limbs in 100 patients with diabetes from complications of the disease. Unless Type II diabetes   Left untreated, it will cause damage to the nerves in the feet (diabetic neuropathy). Also amputations, diabetes can also cause heart disease, strokes, kidney failure and blindness.

Therefore, people belonging to high-risk groups, should be screened regularly by doctors-endocrinologists. Risk factors   are: waist volume of more than 80 cm for women and 90 cm for men, overweight, close relatives with diabetes. But the classic symptoms Type II diabetes : Frequent urination (especially at night), excessive thirst, high fatigue, unexplained weight loss, itching in the genital area, slow healing of wounds, blurred in vision.

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Myths about vision: nothing worth believing

There is a genetic susceptibility to eye diseases, although some diseases can also affect the health of your eyes.

Myth 1: The old vision of the port is not at all

Eye - optical system that allows you to focus images on the retina. Through the pupil light beam hits the lens, which acts as a lens and flattening or thickening transmits an image on the retina.

Over the years, the muscles of the lens become less elastic, the lens hardens, almost ceases to thicken, and we're starting to see bad close. Make the lens more flexible by exercises for the eyes possible. It is an irreversible process, and presbyopia (age farsightedness) threatened all people without exception.

Myth 2. Myopia in children arises from the load at school

In a normal eye has a spherical shape, and is projected on the retina clear picture. In myopic child's eyeball is more elongated, and the picture is not projected on the retina. The image projected on the retina severely, kids have to hold the book close to his eyes and lean over it. When the child grows, the eyeball is too varies in size and myopia progression. To load the eye myopia has nothing, is a hereditary disease.

Myopic child needs to wear glasses, so he formed the ability to perceive the image correctly. And to do exercises to strengthen the eye muscles.

When the child grows up, stops the growth of the eyeball, and you can make a simple vision correction surgery. But if nearsighted child will not wear glasses, his brain did not learn to see the world clearly, and the operation will not help.

Myth 3. Eye diseases are inherited

There is a genetic susceptibility to eye diseases, although some diseases can also affect the health of your eyes.

In particular, diabetes and atherosclerosis - causes of glaucoma. Normally inside the eye contains aqueous humor, which constantly flows off and is absorbed into the blood vessels. If a person has diabetes, atherosclerosis, high blood cholesterol level, the outflow of intraocular fluid is disturbed. Intraocular pressure increases, squeezes the optic nerve, which may lead to blindness. And this occurs without symptoms, you do not even feel it.

People with diabetes, atherosclerosis, obesity, as well as all who are over 50, every year should measure your intraocular pressure, monitor the level of sugar and cholesterol in the blood.

Practising eye muscles

With this simple charging train muscles, making the lens convex or flat.

1. Become the window. Close one eye hand. The second eye locate the subject beyond the window.

2. Move the view from a distant targets on pre-painted dot on the glass window. Again, look at the target distance.

3. Repeat the exercise 10 times. It is best to do this complex several times a day - the time it does not take a lot, but the benefits will be tangible.

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Types of cough and treatment

You started to cough recently or continue for a long time? Do not rush to treatment before will not understand the reasons. Here's how to deal with different types of cough.

Chronic cough   - It comes and goes, but never disappears completely. Until recently, doctors could not even name the exact reason for its occurrence. Now there was a theory that the cough in some cases caused by upper airway hypersensitivity to the gas in the stomach.

Cough treatment - Some antihistamines, small doses of morphine only by prescription. For rapid relief of symptoms, use candy with menthol.

Dry, hacking cough   - If it does not stand out phlegm. Most often a consequence of colds, flu and other respiratory infections.

In most cases, it requires no special treatment, and is held by itself after a few weeks. Can to treat a cough   lozenges for cough, as they stimulate the production of saliva.

Dry cough with spasms . It can cause some drugs, especially ACE inhibitors, which are issued against high pressure. Such cough   It occurs in 15% of hypertensive patients, and they just need to change medications. In 90% of cases, the cough will disappear for a week

A painful, hacking cough . Most often a consequence of bronchitis. It is necessary to comply with bed rest and drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration. To treatment this   Cough   There are special medicines.

Painful cough, difficulty breathing . The most alarming appearance Cough , Which may be a cause of lung cancer. Rush to the doctor.

Breast Cashel s - if it produces a large amount of phlegm. The main reason for the cough - COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This group of diseases includes chronic and bronchitis, and emphysema. Most often it occurs in smokers (90%).

The treatment does not exist, but you can slow down the development of COPD. Therapy is conducted by the doctor.

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Vaccination against whooping cough - money down the drain

Adults are not the distributors of pertussis, as established researchers. Consequently, widely propagated by vaccination of adolescents and adults - a waste of time and money.

To a large extent it is the children spread whooping cough   in their environment, so that the vast adult pertussis vaccination and adolescents from the disease is absolutely not necessary as the researchers from the University of Michigan, led by Professor Pedzhmanom Rohani. Their study was published in the prestigious scientific journal Science.

It is popular in the United States rejects the view that the infected adult pertussis   have caused outbreaks of the disease in California and elsewhere. As is known,   whooping cough   caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Last month, the Medical Council has recommended to the US authorities to conduct an all-out vaccination   people older than 65 years against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough to protect children younger than a year, which is due to such a young age can not be vaccinated yet.

But Professor Rohani says he does not adults are the main carriers of bacteria pertussis . This disease is spread almost exclusively by children. Every year boleznporazhaet 30-50 million people, killing 300 of 000 victims of the disease in the majority of cases are children from developing countries.

But even in developed countries, too, when the flash, like the one that affected more than 6 400 people in California, killing at least 10 children. Vaccination against pertussis   in the United States was halted in 1978 and was not carried out in 17 years because of concerns about the impact of vaccines on children's health.

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A needle in a shin predict osteoporosis

Gently probe inserted into the tibia can predict the risk of osteoporosis in humans, in whom the disease has not even begun to develop. Furthermore, the gadget is able to determine the danger of fracture.

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The American company Active Life Scientific has developed a gadget that will allow doctors to quickly determine the strength and bone health of patients. Experimental samples of probes currently being tested in different health care settings. The probe is a needle, which is screwed into the bone accurately to determine its strength.

Needle need to enter only a fraction of a millimeter, the doctor realized how healthy and strong is the skeletal system of the patient. For example, bone density   It is considered normal if the needle stops at 20 micrometers, or 0, 02 mm. This is less than the thickness of a human hair. But if the probe is held at a depth of 40 micrometers (0, 04 mm), it indicates a significant risk of fractures.

Our bones are porous, like a honeycomb in a beehive, they have a specific lattice structure. When the bones begin to weaken, and that happens when osteoporosis , Those "cell" is increasing. This reduces the bone density So the needle tip and can penetrate deeper. The process of testing with the new gadget only takes a few seconds. And though it requires to pierce the skin and bone, the creators of the gadget assure that the patient is experiencing as much pain as the ordinary prick syringe. To test the specially selected shin bone, as it is easily accessible and is one of the largest in the body.

About 1, 5 million Russians suffering from osteoporosis, in which the probability of fracture becomes higher. This is the main cause of disability and the inability to live independently among people over 65. (READ MORE)

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