Sciatica (siatika)
Disease February 15th, 2010
Sciatica (siatika) is pain radiating from lower back down to the thighs, calves, heels and soles of both feet on one side or both sides of the foot. The pain can be “blunt” as cramps or “sharp” as tingling and burning, continuous or relapsing-remitting, but more and more severe pain. The pa
in may increase when you sit, cough, sneeze or laugh. Instead, walk, lie down, and movements that stretch the spine (like a shrug) may reduce pain.
For
Sciatica caused by irritation or inflammation of the sciatic nerve, the largest and longest nerve in the body that extends from the lower back through the back of the hip joint and branching to both thighs, calves, ankles and feet. This act sends nerve signals from the brain to the muscles and convey sensory information from both legs to the brain. With the inflammation, this function will be disrupted to some extent.
Sciatic nerve inflammation can be caused by various conditions, among others:
* Shifting disc herniation or spinal cord that out occupies the space occupied nerve and pressed.
* Piriformis syndrome, occurs when the piriformis muscles (small muscles that are deep in the buttocks) becomes stiff or tense, so pressing and irritate the sciatic nerve.
* Lumbar spinal stenosis, occurs because of narrowing of the spinal tract on the lower back region of sciatic nerve pressure.
* Spondilolistesis, occurs because the shift of one segment of the spine that is no longer parallel with the top and narrow at the exit hole nerves.
Who’s Affected?
Each person can get sciatica, but the elderly are more vulnerable because of the spine and body in general they have experienced the ease of degeneration of the conditions above. However, the age group 30 s.d. 50 years is the most frequently rerkena because they are more active than the older age. People who are overweight and less fit, people often sit for long periods, pedestrians, runners, athletes lift the weight, and pregnant women are also vulnerable experience. Sciatica in pregnant women generally occur in the late trimester of pregnancy when the enlarging uterus pressing the sciatic nerve. The pain usually disappears after delivery.
Therapy sciatica
Handling of sciatica is usually done by identifying the causes of irritation and eliminate them. The handling is more productive than simply eliminating the inflammation course.
Operation is rarely needed, except to remove a part of the disc herniation and the experience to correct spinal tract constriction. Siropraksi therapy, massage (massage), acupuncture and moksibasi (acupuncture with heating) can eliminate the cause of sciatica in some people.
Stretching and movement specific exercises can also eliminate sciatica. Exercise can reduce inflammation and accelerate the blood circulation so as to accelerate the healing process. Your doctor may provide anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants and analgesic to relieve pain.
For their own treatment at home, you can try to reduce the pain with ice therapy and warm water. You can put a heating pad (heating pad), a warm wet towel, or a bag of ice to the skin in the lower back area approximately 15-20 minutes. When using ice, add water into the bag of ice to be flexible to follow body contours. Do not put ice directly to skin.
Prevention
Some causes of sciatica are not preventable, such as disc herniation due to aging and nerve pressure due to pregnancy or fall. The following tips can reduce the risk of sciatica due to causes that can be prevented:
* Use the lifting technique is correct. Lift with your back straight so that the pedestal body in the pelvis and right leg, place the object close to your chest. Use this technique when lifting any object, as heavy or as light as anything.
* Avoid / stop smoking because of accelerating disc degeneration.
* Exercise regularly to strengthen back and abdominal muscles that act to support your spine.
* Take a good posture when sitting, standing and sleeping. A good position to reduce pressure on the lower back.
* Do not sit for long periods. Selingi on foot and other activities.
Way up the Breast
Health Care February 15th, 2010
Many women who have problems sagging breasts. The breasts are no longer tight due to many reasons, among others:
* Pregnancy. Enlarged breast tissue during pregnancy will go back off as no longer needed. This process is called breast involution, which occurs after weaning a child or after persalinanan for breastfeeding mothers who do not. When the network is smaller, the surrounding skin does not come shrink so that makes it look flat and saggy. With time, the fat will come back to the breast, but not completely eliminate the sagging. It is important for you to know that your breasts sag occurs both in women who are breastfeeding or not.
* Aging. Starting age of 30 women reduced skin elasticity. Soft tissue that supports the breast and lymph mamari degenerate. Relaxation due to the rapid aging experienced by large-breasted women. Gravitational forces do not seem too friendly to big breasts.
* Obesity.
* Losing weight drastically.
* Another cause is often unknown.
In medicine, sagging breasts have a scale of 0 – 3. Scale of 0 means fast breast (the nipples erect, taller than the skin penopangnya). 3 Scale means the nipples pointed straight down.
Sagging breasts into complaints many women because it reduces their physical attractiveness. The man has taste different about the breast. There are men who like big breasts, some prefer small. Some like it with a “chubby”, there is like a little flat. However, there is no man who likes saggy breasts.
That makes sebabnyan sagging breasts, many women lack confidence and made various efforts to overcome them. Here are some common methods used:
1. Operation tightening (lifting breast surgery)
payudaraOperasi plastic surgery to tighten the breast quite popular in developed countries. In the United States alone, in the year 2006 approximately 103,788 women lived (according to data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). In Indonesia, breast firming operations also are offered by specialist clinics beauty. Many celebrities and high groups that have been through it.
There are two methods of plastic surgery to tighten the breast: with interesting bark or pull the nipple.
* Withdrawal of the skin. This operation is done to reduce the excess skin from the bottom of the breast or around the areola (the part around the nipple brown). The breasts will be firm without affecting the network in it. However, surgical incision will be visible permanently. The more skin that is pulled, the greater the visible incision. Surgeon’s skills also determines how much scar will be visible.
* Withdrawal of the nipple. This operation is done to put the nipple back in place “the right”, through a somewhat circular incision at the top of the areola. The advantage of this method is the incision is not so visible, although the breast is not as tight as the skin if done withdrawal. This method makes the areola is no longer round as before.
Tightening operation is often not enough to make a beautiful breast. To further beautify the breast, usually also done additional implants (breast augmentation surgery). Implant material is the best known silicon.
2. Natural way
Natural way to tighten the breast-advertised in the media. Its products are very diverse, ranging from supplements, special bras, topical creams to massage.
* Supplements. Supplements breast can-shaped fasteners natural ingredients or chemical form of pills, tablets, candies or herbs. The supplement manufacturers claim their products are usually able to stimulate the growth of breast tissue that make it hard again.
* Tools amplifier breasts. Another form of the shape of electric bra breast that can be massaged to stimulate the natural growth of breast soft tissue.
* Cream. Breast fasteners cream usually contain phytoestrogens and other aphrodisiac for blood circulation. Use fasteners cream usually combined with massage and other natural techniques.
* Massage. There are a variety of massage techniques are offered to tighten the breast, one of them is called liposase. Liposase is an intensive massage techniques and accurate to nourish the body soft tissues, and not limited to the breast.
Is natural ways are effective?
It is difficult to refute or support it. If effective, people would no longer need to undergo plastic surgery cost is very expensive. If not, what about the people in their campaign to testify about their effectiveness? Are they lying? Natural way to tighten the breast is trillions of dollars of business worldwide. If there is no result, of the business a long time dead.
Therapy and Prevention Ambeien or Hemorrhoids
Health News February 15th, 2010
Hemorrhoid or hemorrhoids is a condition in which the veins around the anus or lower rectum swell and become inflamed. Haemorrhoid usually occurs because of straining during bowel movements. Pregnancy, age anjut, bowel problems (constipation) and too much sitting increases the risk of someone infected hemorrhoid. Haemorrhoid usually harmless, and generally disappear within a few days alone.
ambeienTanda signs or symptoms of hemorrhoid
Internal hemorrhoid (in the rectum) usually causes painless bleeding during bowel movements. However, the blood that came out with the feces can also be caused by other than piles (eg colon cancer). If you find blood in your shit, you should immediately consult a doctor.
Another symptom is the waste water that was not complete even though there is no more that can be issued. In addition, you may also feel the pain, itching or irritation around the anus. This is especially true when the haemorrhoid “sticking out” (prolapsis). You can usually re-enter the hemorrhoid through the anus and the problem is solved, but if not be incorporated and grew larger because of trapped outside the anus, you should see her doctor.
Hemorrhoid symptoms outside (around the anus) include painful swelling or a hard lump around the anus is formed from blood clots. The pain usually increases when a bowel movement or when sitting.
How to cope with hemorrhoid?
You can perform their own therapy to reduce hemorrhoid symptoms, such as by:
* Bath with warm water several times a day, especially after a bowel movement, for about fifteen minutes.
* Provision of cream / oil haemorrhoids (eg: anusol) in the affected areas, to reduce irritation and pain.
Drugs are usually not necessary to remove the hemorrhoid. A large pile and disrupting often need to be dealt with medical measures. Several techniques are usually applied actions doctor include:
* Rubber band ligation. A rubber band is placed at the bottom of hemorrhoids in the rectum. The bracelet was cut off the circulation so that the pile will disappear in a few days.
* Sclerotherapy. Chemical sekiling injected into the blood vessels to shrink the hemorrhoid.
* Freezing the infrared. A special infrared devices used to burn the hemorrhoid tissue.
* Hemoroidektomi. Surgery to remove the hemorrhoid.
Prevention
Hemorrhoid effective prevention is to prevent constipation.
* Eat more foods that contain fiber and water is very useful to soften the dirt and facilitate defecation. Fruits, vegetables and grains are a good source of fiber for health.
* Do not delay bowel movement because it will create more hardened dirt and difficult expelled.
* If you have trouble defecating, try the squat position is more natural and facilitate discharges.
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Disease February 15th, 2010
kemihInfeksi tract infection urinary tract (UTI) is a type of infection is very common. UTI can occur in the renal tract (ureters), bladder (bladder), or outside the urinary tract (urethra).
The main bacterial cause of UTIs is the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) which are scattered in the human feces and used to live in the colon. Women are more susceptible to UTIs because the urethra female urethra is shorter than men, so bacteria are easier to reach. Infection can also be triggered by stones in the urinary tract that contain bacteria colonies. In contrast, chronic UTI can also lead to stone.
Other microorganisms called Chlamydia and mycoplasmal can also cause UTIs in both men and women, but tend to only in the urethra and reproductive system. Different premises E coli, two bacteria that can be transmitted sexually, so that treatment should be the same on the husband and wife.
UTI Symptoms
UTI sufferer may complain of the following things:
* Pain during or after urination
* Anyang-anyangan (to pee, but there is no or little urine comes out)
* Color of urine thick / dense as water tea, sometimes there is blood red bial
* Pain in the waist
* Fever or chills, which may indicate infection has reached the kidneys (accompanied by pain in the lower back of the ribs, nausea or vomiting)
Medical
UTI treatment is usually done by giving antibiotics doctors. Traditionally, people often use for betel leaf water is believed to have antiseptic power. However, such traditional medicine should not be too reliable. If you feel the above symptoms, immediately went to the doctor.
Prevention
* Expand drinking water
* Berceboklah the way from front to back to prevent bacteria from the rectum into the vagina or urethra.
* Clean your vital tool before contact
* Urinate after sexual intercourse to cleanse bacteria from urinary tract
* Do not hold your pee when you want to pee
* Bathroom with bailer / shower, no bath tub with
If you Hit by Diabetes Mellitus
Health Care February 15th, 2010
When the results of your blood sugar measurements above 200 mg / dl then you may get diabetes. The signs of disorder may not appear inside of you, but you should immediately change the pattern of life. Here are some tips to manage blood sugar levels naturally:
Change diet
diabetic food
* Eat regularly with a balanced composition.
* Avoid saturated fatty foods.
* If you are overweight, do the diet to lose weight.
* Choose a healthy snack to overcome hunger among large meal (especially if the glucose falls below 100 g / dl)
* Reduce food and sweet drinks. Choose water or drink non-caloric sweet. Limit drinking soda, fruit juice, sweet tea, sweetened cream milk.
* Keep food fresh fruit, but their consumption should be spread throughout the day so that blood sugar does not rise. Limit eating fruit that contain many calories as mangoes and bananas. You may consume more watermelon, strowberi, tomatoes, oranges and pineapple that contain fewer calories per gram.
* Expand low-calorie eating vegetables rich in fiber (fiber shown to reduce blood glucose levels). Vegetables also contain vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that are beneficial to the body. Limit high-calorie vegetables such as potatoes, corn and potatoes.
Expand bodybuilding
* Expand on foot. Choose to walk rather than ride the vehicle. Select up stairs rather than ride the elevator. Parking your car farther away than usual place.
* Exercises regularly, at least every other day for 30 minutes. (However, do not exercise if your blood sugar levels above 300 mg / dl). Useful exercise for everyone, whether diabetic or not. For diabetics, exercise may be the blood circulation, reducing weight, lowering blood pressure, improve sugar metabolism, and make your body healthier overall.
Reduce stress
* Rest and sleep on a regular basis and adequate
* Reduce the workload that cause stress
* Expand leisure
* Follow the diabetic group as a support group that you remain optimistic and consistently maintain your lifestyle. (Indonesia Diabetes Association website may be useful to know the diabetes club in your town).
Consumption of nutritious supplements
* Research shows that consuming garlic and raw onions can lower blood sugar.
* Black pepper beneficial circulation so that neutralize toxins.
* Ginseng, according to botanist Edward Ayensu, also good for diabetics.
