Healthy Tips

Ginger efficacious to reduce swelling and Muscle Pain

2011-01-19T21:26:00.000-08:00

Ginger is included in medicinal plants at the same time nutritious food seasonings. One of the most well-known properties of ginger is so warm ginger are often mixed into drinks.

Ginger is also known to contain natural anti-pain so that pretty much anyone who uses ginger oil as a pain reliever and is also swollen.

Research suggests ginger contains anti-inflammatory compounds and volatile oils that have the effect of analgesics and pain relievers. At least it has been demonstrated in experimental animal research.

Recently, the scientists try to find out the benefits of ginger in humans. The study was conducted of 74 adults. All respondents were asked to perform sports activity, to trigger muscle pain and inflammation (inflammation).

Over the past 11 days, the study participants were asked to consume two grams of ginger and the rest got a placebo. Ginger is consumed a day after the exercise.

Interestingly, the group of participants who received ginger mention sore muscles and pain experienced reduced by 25 percent, especially 24 hours after exercise. The respondents also said that experienced swelling decreases.

This is in contrast with the results of previous studies that say eating ginger before exercise had no effect on muscle soreness and oxygen consumption during exercise.

Garlic Efficacious to Overcome Hypertension

2010-12-15T16:07:00.000-08:00

Efficacy of garlic in preventing various diseases has long been a concern to scientists. Besides as anticancer, garlic was also able to cope with high blood pressure (hypertension).

Doctors in Austria recommends garlic in addition to medical drugs for patients with hypertension. They have performed experiments on 50 patients with hypertension to consume garlic supplements, while also continue to consume medical drugs.

The patients who received four capsules of garlic extract per day have lower blood pressure compared with patients receiving placebo pills (pills with no active ingredient).

Previously, research has also shown that garlic extract effectively lower cholesterol and high blood pressure in hypertension patients are not handled.

Garlic supplements have long been associated with decreased levels of blood pressure. In this study we tried to see the benefits of garlic extract as an adjunctive therapy in addition to hypertension drugs from a doctor.

Nevertheless, the researchers explained that garlic supplements can be consumed only after getting a doctor's advice since garlic can thin the blood and cause interactions with some medical drugs.

Antibiotics Can Trigger Allergies

2010-12-14T16:00:00.000-08:00

In addition to side effects, there are a number of people who experience allergic reactions after taking antibiotics. If someone had known previously allergic to certain antibiotics, is certain he will not be given these antibiotics.

Allergic reactions caused can vary. The most common is itching of the skin or urticaria. Dangerous, if there is edema, or swelling of the throat that makes someone like choking.

Other reactions, there is a trigger asthma symptoms, like shortness of breath. Other serious reactions are Steven Johnson syndrome, which makes the whole surface of the patient's skin inflamed. Even then arise such as chicken pox vesicles throughout the body. If this condition occurs, the patient must be treated immediately because the situation was an emergency. However, the most extreme is the anaphylactic shock appears to lead to death.

Penicillin class of antibiotics, usually cause allergies. That is why, the doctors more willing to give penicillin when the patient was in the hospital who has the tools to emergency conditions.

Given the possible side effects, including allergic reactions and harm resistant, Dr.Hudyono give some advice before taking antibiotics.

Consumption of antibiotics in accordance with prescribed by physicians, for both dose and duration.
Include all information to the doctor if you have a history of allergy to antibiotics.
Do not take the initiative to use antibiotics on their own will because of the illness is not necessarily the same as previous illnesses.
Do not give antibiotics to other family members while their cases are quite similar. Antibiotics were not necessarily suitable for them. Especially if the later family members have allergies that could endanger themselves.
No request antibiotics to doctors. Remember, antibiotics used for bacterial infections and not viral infections. So if the flu caused by viruses, does not need antibiotics.
Change the mindset that whatever illness if not given antibiotics would not be cured. The truth is, antibiotics are used in accordance with the bacteria that infected him.

Sprue and its cause

2010-12-13T15:59:00.000-08:00

Thrush is a small thing, but it can disrupt your daily life, especially in digesting food or drink daily. Many factors can cause canker sores. Many others say that canker sores caused by vitamin deficiency, but not only that. Thrush can be caused by local or systemic factors.

Local factors, for example, could have about your oral hygiene over the years, such as cavities, tartar, use of false teeth or the way you brush your teeth to cause injury. Other causes could be a result of diseases of the digestive tract known as gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD), which is one of the variations in diseases of the digestive tract, where stomach acid can flow back up toward the esophagus and may reach the oral cavity.

Then nasal diseases such as polyps, sinusitis, and allergic rhinitis can also cause thrush because of the droplet / droplets of fluid / mucus from the nasal cavity into the oral cavity. In fact, smoking to drinking and eating certain foods may cause canker sores.

During this time, a common cause of thrush in the population is alcohol, soft drinks, coffee and tea, or food and other beverages in which the patient should be able to recognize themselves on the food / drinks that trigger canker sores because if you eat food / drinks are the sprue will arise. Drinking or eating foods that are too cold or too hot can cause canker sores.

It is true, vitamins are also very influential in the incidence of canker sores, but usually with the times now, it's not hard to eat nutritious food so that it can prevent the onset of canker sores from lack of vitamins.

Other causes are infections. In general, the infection is a fungal infection resulting from the use of an old antibiotic that kills broad spectrum of its normal flora in the mouth. As a result, there was a disturbance of balance so that the normal flora of the oral cavity can result in the growth of other pathogenic bacteria and thrush is one of the clinical appearance. Thrush can also occur in patients pascaradiasi or chemotherapy that cancer patients.

While systemic factors are usually found because of autoimmunity or imunocompromized (decrease in immune system), such as lupus, stomatitis apthousa, and HIV. Another factor, apparently canker sores can also be caused by psychological factors a person.

So, a lot that can cause sariawan.Untuk that, if worried about canker sores that continually arise, you should consult and consult a doctor you trust to make the diagnosis. Thus, treatment can be given as the cause of your canker sores.

Prevent HIV, Get used to Healthy Living

2010-12-12T16:55:00.000-08:00

Number of children with HIV in Indonesia is high. The number of HIV-infected children increases with the increase of people with HIV and AIDS both female and male.

Because the transmission berlajan continue, and testing services to more evenly, making it easier to find out if HIV positive.

HIV prevention is needed early on. One of them with HIV recognize and mode of transmission. "The most important to provide themselves, prevent. For that we need all the community members either women, men, and know how to avoid transmission.

Early on, each must get healthy to prevent HIV. For example, by not using a shared toothbrush or use the shaving mustache together other people.

Also by introducing early to youth about healthy lifestyles, including sexual life. The number of AIDS cases according to Health Ministry data at the end of September reached 22,726 cases with 17,576 of them or 79 percent is productive ages, 15-39 years old. While the number of people with HIV / AIDS in 2009 reached 298,000 with 25 percent of whom are women.

Most of the women who contracted HIV positive husband. At the RSCM, 82 percent of women infected with her husband. Only 18 percent of other reasons.

The HIV virus can be transmitted through sexual contact, sharing needles together, pregnant mother to her baby, or a blood transfusion. But since 1992 the blood of the PMI was discreening, so forget that one.

Favorite Places Unexpected Bacteria

2010-12-08T16:48:00.000-08:00

Due to microscopic size, germs and bacteria can not we see, touch, or smell. However, whatever a thing as clean look, we can be sure that it was filled with bacteria, including on the surface of our skin. In fact, the bacteria exist everywhere. Pay attention to unexpected places following, bacterial favorite nesting place.

Restaurant menu
Maybe you think you can just clean hands before sitting at the table restaurant. However, if your hands are washed when food is served at your table? It is important that the restaurant menu contains many germs because of the many hands that have touched it.

Compact
If you are not a person who likes to share cosmetics with others, then the number of bacteria that inhabit the place of your cosmetics will be minimal. Another case if you often exchange cosmetics tools with others. That is why, get used to wash hands before apply cosmetics to your face.

Toys
When your toddler like to insert a toy into his mouth, be diligent to keep it clean. Toys are not free from dirt and dust as it should be washed regularly. For fluffy toys like dolls, you can take him to the cleaners.

Magazines in doctor's waiting room
Besides being touched by many patients, the magazine at the doctor's waiting room is generally too moist so that bacteria love to grow there. Studies show the flu virus can survive for two weeks there.

Shopping bag
Lifestyle "green" can make you sick if you are not diligent in washing and drying recyclable shopping bags are routinely taken shopping. Half of the bags tested by a team from the University of Arizona there are harmful microbes, including E. coli.

Cutting board and knife
Always use a different cutting board and knife for raw and cooked food. Cutting board and knife used for cutting raw materials, such as meat or vegetables, can be a means of transmission of bacteria.

Music can reduce desire to smoke

2010-01-19T21:35:00.000-08:00

LONDON - Health site in the UK, the NHS, has a unique way to suppress the increase rate of smokers in the country. Way, the NHS provides free downloads of how to stop smoking berfile two MP3 songs. Two songs were not any songs but songs that stimulate the brain to eliminate the desire to smoke.

England is a country with the largest number of European smokers. The country has recorded 13 million smokers who need to be overcome. Moreover, three out of four smokers are teenagers and children.

Negative effects of high-smokers in the country that caused her cancer was ranked as the top cause of death of a British citizen. More than 39 thousand people convicted of cancer each year. As many as 9 out of 10 cancer patients caused by smoking.

Through this free downloads, the British government tried to suppress the rate of cigarette consumption. This was seen as more efficient because it does not cause dependence. Basically, this causes the formation of musical suggestion in the brain to suppress the desire not to smoke.

This method would reduce costs incurred in order to suppress the desire to smoke. Of polls conducted after the initial introduction to music that, 44 percent of adult smokers to quit smoking going on 2010. UK Health Minister, Gillian Merron menganalogikan music like Mp3 stitches set of tools that help people to quit.