Chronic Diseases Need Serious Attention
Disease May 3rd, 2010
Skin diseases this one was rarely heard, even though the disease is quite serious. If allowed, psoriasis can trigger other diseases, such as cardiovascular disorders and diabetes.
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease (immune system attacking the body itself). This disease is chronic and recurrent, and marked with reddish spots on the skin with scales firmly bounded roughly, coated layers, and transparent.
“Psoriasis can affect anyone. From the age of infants to seniors, men and women regardless of socio-economic background,” said Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Psoriasis Care Foundation (YPPI) Valy Ongan dr.
Psoriasis also can attack the joints and cause inflammation is called Psoriatic arthritis. In fact, recently the psoriasis expert Prof. dr FKUI Berny RSCM states Wiryadi risk psoriasis patients suffer from metabolic syndrome such as obesity, cardiovascular disorders, and diabetes.
Although this disease is not contagious, must lower the quality of life of sufferers, even Psoriatic arthritis can cause permanent disability for life.
“Today is the prevalence of psoriasis of the 1? 3 percent (even more) of the Indonesian population,” he said.
If Indonesia’s current population of about 200 million, meaning there are approximately 2? -6 Million people with psoriasis that only a small portion was undiagnosed and untreated medically. According to Dr Cecilia R Padang PhD FACR, 30 percent of patients with psoriasis also suffer from inflammation of the bone at risk (psoriasis arthritis).
In this condition, the state of bone around the joints, slowly but surely eroded / erosion, so the bone can be bent (malformation). In addition, psoriasis can also cause swelling of the fingers. The effect is worse is the patient must be hospitalized because they could not move, or the body can not move the total.
“If forced to move the pain will be felt incredible people. As a result, the quality of life and productivity will greatly decrease the patient and his mental condition, too shocked,” he explained.
Psoriasis is a disease that is much deeper than just skin diseases gatalgatal and red-red in the patient’s body. If the psoriasis is only attacking the arm, said it was still light and only a small problem.
However, many psoriasis patients found that even patients suffering from prolonged up in despair if there is a recurrence of moderate to severe levels throughout the body. When severe, back or other body part the patient is almost closed with red scaly skin, as well as from the legs, buttocks, thighs, arms, neck, ears to the scalp.
Itching and burning when the patient will relapse to suffer greatly. When the skin is very dry conditions (overdry), when he will perform the activities, the knee or calf and arm people with psoriasis will be difficult to move. The difficulty of this motion not because of pain, but because the skin is thickened and scaly causes such as obstructed movement difficult to move like a tape attached to the skin.
In fact, it often happens that dry skin is cracked or split and bleeding. Just like cancer, until now the cause of psoriasis is not yet known with certainty. However, many factors pencetusnya found, for example, psychic stress, focal infection (infection of certain body parts such as tonsillitis or tonsillitis), trauma, endocrine disorders, metabolic disorders, the use of certain drugs, alcohol, and smoking.
“Psoriasis is a skin disease is not contagious, once again not contagious,” said Valy.
There is no a case of psoriasis that occurs because of contact with other psoriasis sufferers such as shaking hands and hugging. Psoriasis is a genetic and autoimmune disorders, not infectious diseases, especially contagious.
“Although the patient was treated seriously and want to get well, psoriasis will always return or loss of life arising from the first tercetus,” said Valy.
He added, drug-free time or ointment is only a matter of days in patients with psoriasis. For example one week drug-free life, then rise again appear reddish in the same place or move the place, even with higher numbers.
Psoriasis as a chronic disease, was never recovered but remission. Remission is a period in which the skin clean of the disease for a certain time. In Indonesia Psoriasis Foundation (YPPI), a patient can achieve remission up to 30 years, but finally psoriasis recurrence. Because of the many triggers psoriasis, it is difficult to determine with certainty the cause of psoriasis.
This is what causes many psoriasis sufferers undiagnosed and untreated medically. Not to mention the economic factor and ignorance. One example is the case of Achmad affecting humans Jonah in Karawang, Yusdika in Malang, and Melissa in Palangkaraya.
Generally they do not know what diseases they suffered. Even if they were examined at the clinic, and doctors had diagnosed it, but they will be difficult to treat, because in the periphery (regions) governments are not prepared clinic for treatment of skin diseases reddish (Erithroderma) such as dermatitis, eczema or other skin diseases, especially psoriasis.
“At the clinic, skin ointments are available on average is hydrocortisone cream, which is only effective in atopic dermatitis in infants, but not for other dermatitis,” explained
Exces Eat Can Having Cancer
Cancer May 3rd, 2010
Snacking or snacking has become a common practice and often do a lot of people. Generally, frequent snacking just before dinner or late at night. As a result, not a few who feel guilty after eating their favorite foods. However, excessive food consumption can provide health-damaging consequences.
Binge eating is different from snacking in general. Binge eating is eating in a certain period, with higher numbers and more quickly than people in general, until the perpetrator felt really full.
These disorders not only excessive eating habits, but the patient also could not control and do not have the power to stop the habit. In fact, they describe the food as a “friend”, so that the weight gain that leads to drastic obesity.
Some medical problems that can arise due to this disease is type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, hypertension, heart disease and some cancers. The teenager is one of the most potential to become binge eating. This disease affects a person mentally and physically.
Before you worry about whether included in the category of binge eating, you can see gelaja-binge eating following symptoms:
Eating large amounts when not hungry
Eating alone to cope with emotions
Feeling guilty, angry, or ashamed after overeating
Eating much more rapidly than usual
Eat until full
If you are one category of binge eating, it is important to seek help because of course will give a negative impact on your health. First consult the dietitian who can tell you about how to eat healthy foods and can help suppress your desire to eat.
If you think you do not want to eat too much, there is still a good idea to follow the pattern of daily meals. Eat 5-6 small meals a day. This serves to stop hunger and suppress your appetite. Eat as often as possible will also prevent you from overeating habits. When you feel the need to snack, you can eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables.
Avoid junk food or candy and other foods you normally consume. Often when we think we are hungry, when in fact we just thirsty. Bring a bottle of water each time you travel, because it can help you to suppress your appetite. Water is not only good for you, but it also makes you healthier life.
Beautiful faces and Therapy Mulus with Scrubber
Acne May 3rd, 2010
TO get a pretty face to look attractive, various treatments are often performed, ranging from traditional to modern. One of the latter treatment is the therapy began to rage scrubber, which serves up the horn skin, remove acne, and skin rejuvenation. Such as whether treatment with this scrubber therapy?
At the age of adolescents and adults, various skin problems often arise. Starting from acne, black spots, to smooth wrinkles, wrinkles around the eyes. Acne itself up is still an “enemy” we face the biggest. Moreover, the growth of acne can make us less confident.
According to Dr. Nadia Yusharyahya SpKK, the factors causing the appearance of acne is hormonal influences (age), skin hygiene, foods that contain fat and descendants. “When parents when young acne, it would be possible decline in children,” said Dr. Nadia.
Mencegahh acne is not really a difficult case. For example by doing maintenance such as cleaning the face with soap, and make a healthy lifestyle. “This is a package for health,” Dr. Mochtar Wijayakusuma Tampah. Acne is usually easy to appear in many areas containing oil glands like the back, shoulders, chest, and face.
Facial skin can be divided into several types, including normal skin, dry skin, mixed skin and skin allergies. Differences due to skin type lifestyle, diet, way of thinking is not right or wrong, is not enough rest or less, use of cosmetics that are not appropriate, organ disorders, hormonal and a hostile environment, such as pollution, chemicals, and other on. This is what ultimately led to skin disorders such as dull skin, acne, premature wrinkles, black or brown spots, the appearance of dark circles in the eye and others.
Therapy Scrubber
Scrubber therapy has been known since 2000. Therapy would be more effective if combined with ultrasonic and acupuncture. Scrubber itself serves to remove the skin or horns of dead skin (which usually cause acne) on the skin without using drugs and is painless because it is so fine that does not damage the skin tissue. Scrubber therapy is usually performed for 15 minutes. High frequency used depends on the amount of dead skin or a case of each patient.
After the scrub, preferably ultrasonic therapy apparatus is functioning pushing vitamins into the skin tissue. Types of vitamins that are used depending on the patient’s complaints, such as for acne or black spots. By using ultrasonic therapy apparatus which can output frequency ultrasonic waves of 20,000 Hertz per second that can penetrate the skin tissue, so it can open the blockage in blood vessels, increasing metabolism, and accelerate the absorption of active ingredients that skin needs.
This ultrasonic therapy can tighten the skin and prevent wrinkles eliminate eye bags, dark circles on the eyes, eliminate acne and scar, and eliminate and prevent black spots or stains on the face. In addition, ultrasonic also able to tighten the body and breast, and remove fat in specific locations.
Acupuncture therapy is a complement. Its function is to balance the energy lines in the body, how it should be functioning again and nerve metabolism, so the disorder or illness can be overcome. Stimulation with acupuncture needles and electrical equipment or electrical stimulation of acupuncture would lead to control pain, improve immune system, regulate hormone production, skin sensitivity of the mucous membranes, improve blood circulation and muscle relaxation sportis.
Facial skin treatment must be routine, not be just a come directly recovered. To obtain maximum results, therapy should be done scrubber 12 times with a routine two times a week.
“Any treatment done, remains the most important is the pattern of life, diet, and mindset. That is the main key,” messages from Mochtar. So, he added, there must be cooperation between the patients with a doctor, can not rely solely on the treatment of a doctor.
Scrubber therapy, you do not need a lot of money, enough to Rp110 thousand packages scrubber, ultrasonic, and vitamins. But for some severe cases, the treatment must be supported with drugs.
“Treatment of acne depends on the case. If mild enough to care from the outside, but if the weight had to be helped with medication from within,” added Dr. Nadia.
Difficult to Detect Rare Diseases
Health News April 26th, 2010
Every disease should be cured. But not everyone is lucky enough to get the right treatment for the disease difficult to detect until the patient must undergo a critical care or died.
Many cases of a rare disease that has not been detected but was complicated by other illnesses. So many victims of a rare disease who died in vain because it can not be detected.
“Most of the rare diseases causing chronic varied. If you can not cure the condition will lead to deteriorating health,” said Carol Dezateux, Institute of Child Health, University College London, as quoted from the TimesOnline, Tuesday (16/3/2010).
This rare disease sometimes have symptoms like other common diseases such as nausea and weakness. But if common diseases can be treated is not the case with rare diseases. Because of the difficulty of detection, a rare disease will be fatal for the patient.
As examples of a rare disease who experienced Katy Frost (14 years) is nearly dying and needs to get a breath of surprise to wake him because of he loss of appetite.
Initially, Katy was a summer vacation with friends in the year 2005 went to a place called the Isle of Wight. It was so bad and going fast. On the first night of vacation, Katy became not eat. On the second day he ate little and became very sleepy. Katy slowly losing consciousness when he was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Emergency treatment carried out at Southampton General Hospital. Doctors still wondering what happened diseases if dehydration, infection or meningitis attack. Doctors at the hospital was finally call the experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital for fear of organ failure occurred in Katy body.
“Officers tried to find out what happened to Katy that may be related to problems that had ever happened in the past. But the whole time he’s getting looks worse and worse,” said his mother Cora Durkan.
Katy had a dying condition and should undergo cardiac shock and lisrik in 14 other places to protect the brain. Katy’s body must be equipped with a small pump equipment containing drugs so that stable blood pressure and heart better.
Fortunately Katy survived after being diagnosed MCADD (Medium Chain Acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency / em-cad). This disease can pose a risk of complications such as seizures, difficulty breathing, coma to sudden death.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer in the UK tells us what is experienced by Katy MCADD which could prove fatal. These conditions make it vulnerable to disease and various symptoms such as nausea, drowsiness and asthma.
The disease occurs because the enzyme the body does not work perfectly. When in the process of eating, the body should break down stored fat to produce energy. But the problem is happening in your body it lacks Katy is one of the enzymes needed to do so.
Therefore he does not get energy from fat and body rely on glucose. When the body does not eat regularly sleep came. While fat deposits that can not be processed eventually become toxic and cause nausea, diarrhea.
Control is to monitor the diet and regularly consume glucose when you’re sick. If not diagnosed, can make patients MCADD coma to sudden death.
Katy cases only a few of the examples of rare diseases that initially seem trivial but can be fatal berakiba. Katy including 1 from 3 million UK residents who suffer from rare diseases.
According to Sir Liam, at least there are 6000 rare diseases in less than 5 years which hit 10,000 people in the UK. This figure is more and more when calculated globally. Generally this rare disease attacking the nervous, metabolic disorders, cancer, muscle disease and heart defects.
Nearly half of those who have a rare disease difficult to get the right diagnosis. And the problem will come when these rare diseases has led to serious complications and threatening the lives of sufferers.
European Organization for Rare Diseases found that more than a third of cases of Duchenne muscular dystrophy diagnosis initially got an error. For the case of Fragile X syndrome is almost as much as 40 percent of diagnoses. This syndrome causes brain damage, which causes mental retardation and other rare diseases.
Therefore, according to Sir Liam, medical progress is needed in order to diagnose a variety of rare diseases quickly. So that patients can avoid the risk of complications or death in vain because they have not had time to be saved.
Dirty teeth caused Sore gums
Health Care April 26th, 2010
Inflammation of the gums or in medicine is called gingivitis, usually caused by dirty teeth. Gingivitis may also be caused due to errors in brushing teeth. Outside of these two causes, there are still secondary causes other. But clearly, kengganan for dental hygiene absolute beginning gingivitis.
Without realizing it, some people think little sores and other oral cavity diseases such as bad breath and bleeding gums to cavities. Sprue by many people known as the wounds on the mucous membranes in the mouth. Typically, the wound in the mouth area is not within. If not accompanied by complications due to infection by more virulent bacteria, sores will heal themselves without a trace. The infection usually begins with the appearance of fluid-filled bubbles in the mouth. This bubble could burst and form a wound that will feel pain. In fact, recent research indicates a close link between the accumulation of bacteria in the oral cavity with other severe illnesses, like diabetes, heart attacks, blood infections, up to about babies with insufficient weight. Gingivitis is recognized to be the main factor cases of teeth and tooth supporting tissue damage. The longer plaque and bacteria that resides in the teeth that will cause inflammation of the gums is called gingivitis.
That gingivitis gingivitis medical term is a state in which there is a change struktual the gums. Marked by a change in shape and color of the gums. Even so, if left unchecked, this mild inflammation can develop into periodontitis. This means, inflammation around the teeth. At this stage of gum chipped teeth and form pockets of infection. As a result, the immune system to fight against the bad bacteria as the widespread and growing plaque around the gums. If this is not addressed, bone teeth, gums, and teeth buffer network will be destroyed. The teeth will soon be dated or revoked. You certainly do not want this to happen in your mouth, if this happens to you, immediately to the dentist to carry out checks.
Factors Causes and Symptoms
Gingivitis (gum inflammation) can occur at any age. Usually, a person Hygiene factors are critical. There are several factors that can cause gingivitis. Among other things, smoking, hormonal changes in women, diabetes, stress, cancer, AIDS, genetic factors, malnutrition, and drugs. Some medications such as antidepressants and some heart medications can cause inflammation of the gums because of the reduced flow of saliva, which actually has a protective effect on teeth and gums. In addition to severe factors such as stress, hormonal changes, diabetes, and genetics, inflammation of the gums can happen so light as food and hot drinks. But the factors that are more common is someone Hygiene factors and errors in the brush.
According Esti Drg Prasetyo from Mitra Kemayoran Hospital, North Jakarta, the cause of gingivitis is most common in the stacking rocks on the tooth from food scraps that are not cleaned. “Coral tooth comes from food scraps that are not cleaned, so there penumpukkan and become rock,” he said. If the plaque remains attached to the teeth for more than 72 hours, it will harden and form tartar. “Gingivitis is also found in many people who use fake gigii never noticed cleanliness factor,” he added. Moreover, if the false teeth were made of coarse material, so there is likely to injure the gums, causing inflammation.
Inflammation of the gums can also cause infection through the blood vessels and damage to human organs like heart, lungs, brain, and eyes. If the infection went down to the heart or the so-called percarlitis or inflammation of the lining of the heart. If the infection went up into the lungs can cause TB disease. If you go down to the eye vision problems can occur. And if the infection went up to the brain that can cause meninggitis.
There are two kinds of symptoms of inflammation of the gums, symptoms of primary and secondary symptoms. The primary symptoms are marked by the swelling of the gums. As a result the head felt dizzy and feverish. While secondary symptoms characterized by pain when touched or exposed to the gum toothbrush. As a result, the head feels dizzy or commonly referred to as migrants. In the primary symptoms, the gums will appear red when the gums have a natural color pink. “In some patients also complain of pain in his gums,” he explained.
In addition, swelling of the gums and the gums become more tender than usual. As a result, the gums are no longer attached to the teeth so the dirt easier entry. If people brush their teeth or eating, often bleeding gums and gums become more sensitive. In addition patients will also complain about the smell of mouth, especially in the inflamed gums. Bleeding gums often make sufferers reluctant to brush his teeth by causing illness, it causes plaque and food scraps accumulating thus worsening the condition of gingivitis. In cases of severe gingivitis, then at the time, especially during the morning wake up pillow is packed with blood, and especially if the patient breathing during sleep through the mouth.
Diagnosis and Treatment
Diagnosis is established based on symptoms and physical examination results. If found conditions inflamed gums red, swollen and bleed easily then it could be said if he was hit gingivitis. “Usually by knowing the patient’s condition could have known,” he explained. If the patient’s gums are symptoms as mentioned above, he certainly has affected gingivitis.
Gingivitis, or inflammation of the gums if not treated will become severe and spread to the teeth resulting in tooth loss. The situation is called periodontitis, which is a further stage of gingivitis, with inflammation of the gums that is more severe. Medical conditions that cause or worsen gingivitis should be addressed.
If the cause is drugs, excessive gum growth should be removed surgically. If there is a deficiency of vitamin C, vitamin supplement provided. As for cases caused by accumulated tartar, treatment will be done by cleaning the tartar. “Just sprayed with warm water and given antibiotics to patients who have a fever,” he explained. In addition the doctor usually will also give mouthwash to kill germs and bacteria found in the mouth.
Although this disease can be healed within 2 to 3 days but is highly recommended to patients to get to the dentist to perform scalling or tartar cleaning the interval between 3-6 months. Scalling addition, patients can also do scerentase, namely cleaning germs that can cause gingivitis contained in the root of the tooth. Because the inflammation will spread fear and cause a condition where the patient can not chew food with his teeth. Because if not treated immediately feared would be another disease that is more dangerous as periondotitis.
Even so, toothbrush remains the most important element to prevent this disease. Because simply by brushing your teeth twice a day for brushing your teeth too often it will damage the tooth enamel. Also recommended using a fluffy brush and brush your teeth carefully, not haphazard and short.
