Signs of Anemia

Data of World Health Organization (WHO), saying two billion world population affected by anemia. Signs of anemia include pale skin, feeling tired, short breath, easily broken nails, poor taste, and front headache. However, sometimes there are no complaints when patients experienced mild anemia.

Other signs of anemia is when the hemoglobin (Hb) in the blood of less than 13 g% for men and for women less than 12 g%. While anemia for children age 6 months - 5 years, Hb content in the blood of less than 11 g%. Children aged 6-14 years Hb content of less than 12 g%.

Function of iron substance as carrier pigment oxygen in the blood. While the oxygen necessary for normal function of cells throughout the body. When blood shortage oxygen, the function of cells throughout the body can be disrupted. Iron substance comes on nutritious foods such as meat, especially red hearts, yellow eggs, fish, chicken, red beans, spinach, and bread wheat. Often Feed iron substance is reduced because of the food that can hamper the absorption of iron substance in the body. Or, poor control to the food.

Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee are a food sources hamper Feed iron substance. Community habits after eating don’t followed by drinking water, fruit juice, or eating fruit. Instead, they prefer to consume tea or coffee. Tetrasiklin drugs such as antibiotics, pain medication stomach, and something for pain medicine, such as rheumatism, is also a cause of hamper feed iron substance.
Other diseases causing signs of anemia are cancer, kidney disease, goiter, the problem forming heme(pigment forming color red in the blood contains iron substance), infectious disease germs, telasemia, heart aberration, rematioid, great accidents, meningitis, immune system disruption, etc.

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November 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Causes of Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a condition of decreasing bone mass significantly resulting in low bone density.
Below are nine groups that have high risk as causes of osteoporosis, including porous bones.

1. Hyperparatiroid Patient
Hormone paratiroid can be attacked tumors. This it effect on the cells osteoclat. As a result, the cells will have increased osteoclast activity. This condition causes people to taste the decline suppressants, cutback in muscle strength, stomach pain, and porous occur when the bone continues.

2. Hypertiroid Patient
Causes of hypertiroid or basedow are too much rate tiroksin hormone produced by thyroid. Consequently, the exchange of substances in the body increases far above normal. Organizer metabolism and body become too active. For to counterbalance, there was a process demineralization bone that is more active.

3. Nervosa Anoreksia Sufferer
People anoreksia nervosa (aberration eating patterns) will make a restriction consumption of food is not fair. Anoreksia people are individuals who have a high awareness of the nutritional aspects. But the distortion of knowledge of nutrition, so they are not able to practice the concepts of nutrition information is received because of that, osteoporosis disease is easy to attack them.

4. Breastfeeding and Pregnant
Pregnancy process, calcium absorption in the intestine mother will be increased to meet the needs of calcium for the baby. The consumption of calcium daily in the capital low, the calcium needs of the baby will have to be fulfilled from the existing reserves of calcium in the bones of his mother. The same can also occur during breastfeeding. Distance of pregnant that too short will accelerate bone calcium loss. With the pregnancy, which set the distance (such as 2-3 years), is expected calcium status of mothers will return to normal before the next pregnancy and breastfeeding.

5. Wrong Eating Patterns
Eating patterns that cause osteoporosis is eating patterns with very low calcium and vitamins A, D, and K. Adequacy of vitamin should be addressed from a natural source, such as vegetable-old green leaf vegetables. Avoiding the consumption of too much protein can also prevent osteoporosis. The fiber food is consumed in excessive also less good for the body.

6. User of Kortikosteroid Medicine
Kortikosteroid drugs when used in a long time will result evil to users. These drugs can cause injury to stomach, disrupt blood sugar, skin elasticity setback, cataracts, the growth plume outside the proportion of the additional, easier to have someone infection, swelling in the face and feet, hypertension, and the fragility of bones (osteoporosis).

7. Smoker
Diseases that arise because of a smoking habit is one of aberration osteoporosis. Predicted, the substance in cigarette causes breakthrough esterogen in women and hormone testosteron in men on excessive. As a result, the amount of hormones in the body will decrease. With the decreasing both types of hormones, the maintenance of bone clearly be affected.

8. Coffee Excessive Drinker
Drinking coffee have a bad impact for our health, because it can increase the rate of cholesterol by 36 percent, the level of vitamin B6 decrease of 21 percent, and decreased bone density of 0.0023 percent. It will happen when a person drinking three cups of coffee every day for two weeks.

9. Alcohol Drinker
Alcohol can cause damage many body organs. One is the fragility of bones. This condition can occur because of the failure of the systematic nature in the maintenance of the water content of minerals calcium, which is an important element in bone density.

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November 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Tips to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Do you have family member suffering Alzheimer’s disease? Don’t be frustrated of the patient. Like you, persons with Alzheimer’s disease need help. Below are some tips worth a try by family and patient with Alzheimer’s disease.
First, create a simple daily schedule, such as schedules, foods, drink drugs, defecate, and other routines that make your routine monitoring to the patient. This schedule also allows the patient comfortable doing something, so this simply can maintain the ability of patient’s cognitive.
Second, use words that patients can be simple to understand the messages from you.
Third, call patient to discuss about the past. This helps to stimulate memory. If necessary, use tools such as memorable photos, videos, or songs that can make patients inflame remembering the past.
Third, do not ignore patient’s feeling. Note the small things that a patient takes care about. May be small things can stimulate patient to get back the memory.

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November 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »

How to Increase Sperm Count and Quality

Do you want chance to have child and ejaculation with high sperm quality? Good sperm is one of healthy reproduction signs.
Don’t be hesitated if you have much sperm will become orgasm more longtime, and will increase sex desire. If you want to be happy with your couple in sexual life and be a father, it’s better to follow tips below to increase sperm quality and sperm count.

Stop to smoke.
If you are a smoker, please stop your habit. Beside causing bad smell breath, smoking also can affect sperm count. A research indicated that smokers have sperm count less than men who don’t smoke.

Avoid to wear tight and hot trousers.
Testis need to have cool temperature compared other body parts because wearing tight underwear or tight trousers will affect surrounding temperature to be hot. Try to avoid to wear underwear when you sleep to keep the cool temperature.

Try to eat good food.
Sure or not, diet habit will affect sperm production. Try to eat low fat food, high protein, vegetables; all the various grain which good for health.

Do not often do copulation and masturbation.
Many men complain that their sperm is little and watery. This often happens, ejaculation will decrease viscosity of the sperm. If you do copulation everyday or masturbation will affect sperm count and viscosity of the sperm.

Try to stop drinking alcoholic beverages.
Alcohol can influence liver function and then will cause increasing of estrogen level. High estrogen quantity in the body will influence sperm production. Stop to drink alcohol from now if you don’t want to loss sperm count production.

Try to consume natural supplements.
The medicines produced by factory can disturb sperm production, while natural supplement is believed to be able to produce sperm count, like L-carnitine in red meal. Beside that, milk is natural amino acid which can increase sperm count production.
Folic acid then joined with zinc can increase sperm count production, L-arginine in legume, egg, meal, and sesame also have same benefit, also vitamin E and selenium can improve speed and concentration of sperm .

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October 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Danger of Sleepless to Your Health

Many activities make many people don’t have much time to sleep. It will cause negative effect to us if we sleep less than 7-8 hours especially for health. The affects of person who is sleepless are:

1. Fatter. Based on Institute of Medicine in 2006 research, hormone that result hungry person that sleep less than 7 hours is very high.
2. Hard diet. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine ask person suffer insomnia can’t do diet, because protein, cholesterol, and foods can’t be digested perfectly.
3. Diabetes and high glucose. Research in 2005 published by Archives of Internal Medicine, the person sleeps just 4 hours /day has more risk to suffer diabetes by 2.5 times more. While, 1.7 of them that sleep just 7 hours.
4. Heart risk, the research 2003, 45% of women sleep less than 5 hours is very risky being attacked of heart disease.
5. The higher tension. Insomnia cause higher tension and in the long time will attack hypertension.
6. The cause of accident. Journal of Medicine England in 2007, 20% of causes of accident during driving car are sleepy.
7. Body balance is decreasing. The research by Journal of Gerontology in 2007, the frogs that are sleepless will often fall 4.5 times more.
8. Depression. Sleepless will also suffer mental health problem like depression and stress. It can also be happened at youngster and adult.
9. Short living. Sleep and the Archives of General Psychiatry, sleepless can cause dead faster.

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October 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »