Erratic weather, as happened recently was rarely makes the body susceptible to disease. Especially if you are doing intensive activities while the body is not fit. Various factors that most often causes infection in the throat and nose, resulting in the emergence of flu symptoms such as blocked nose, and head felt dizzy.

Flu or commonly called the common cold, can affect your daily activities. Immune system becomes weaker and make us easily get sick. But do not worry! You can use some simple ways to stay fit. One of them is using vacation time effectively.

Influenza virus can attack all age groups. The highest infection rates occur among children age. The number and severity of disease deaths occur in people aged more than 65 years of age or patients with certain diseases due to be vulnerable to any infection.

Factors Causes and Symptoms

Frequent colds or influenza is known as an acute viral infection in the respiratory tract. Occurs in epidemics or pandemics. The infection is caused by several strains of influenza viruses, namely influenza virus A, B, and C. Virus incubation period lasts for 3-10 days. It is characterized by inflammation in the nasal mucosa, pharynx, and conjunctiva. Then, influenza accompanied by headache, muscle pain, sore throat, cough, fever, chills and weakness.

Flu is a disease caused by viruses and usually attack when the conditions of our endurance was not good. Especially during the rainy season. Normally this virus is transmitted through saliva, which had been infected. And ways of transmission can be from coughing or sneezing of patients suffering from the flu.

The incubation period of the disease is approximately one to four days (an average of two days). In adults, the infection attacked since the days before the onset of influenza symptoms until five days after the onset of this disease. While the children can spread the virus to more than ten days. Characteristics that appear from this disease of the incidence of respiratory disorders such as sudden fever and nasal congestion. For some people who previously had lung and heart problems, influenza can cause disease pneumonia secondary.

Flu is a disease that has symptoms that stage throat, head and chest. But it is not sequential stages. You might first hit on the head or throat. In some cases of influenza marked by cold and accompanied by high fever. The patient usually will also feel the pain in the throat. All of these symptoms are also accompanied by headache, abdominal pain and a husky voice. In some cases, influenza is also accompanied by nausea, coughing and vomiting. Even for severe cases patients usually also have diarrhea.

Influenza viruses are constantly changing, the fox, then you can do is treat the symptoms and prevent complications did not occur. Giving vitamin C is proven to accelerate the healing process. If fever accompanies the additional needed energy supplies unutuk food and vitamin B for the metabolism of calories. Improvements needed terhdap infection vitamins A and C and iron for the formation of antibodies that the body needs to strengthen durability.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Diagnosis is done by recognizing the symptoms of the patient. Usually the symptoms that arise from the patient will we know. In addition, there are also checks droplets from the nose to the lab. The main treatment by improving the general condition of the patient.  For patients who complained of headaches will usually be given paracetamol.  Rest is the most appropriate way to treat this disease. Because the general condition of the patient’s rest can be much improved. Especially for you who like to work, it is recommended to temporarily stop your activity.

In addition, multiply water consumption. If under normal conditions you eat 6 to 8 glasses a day then when the cold then you should increase water consumption up to 10 cups. Water can wash away the virus from your body in various forms such as sweat and urine. To overcome a sore throat can also take tablets for throat antiseptic.

Keep in mind, the patient is not supposed to touch the sugar-containing foods such as cakes, ice cream and other sweet foods. Content of sugar in the blood will lower your body resistance against infection, it is advisable to consume fruits, juice or juice. Since the beverage contains vitamins will speed up the recovery process of the body. Most people recover within a week.

Last but not least, the community needs to consider the composition of a drunk cold medicines for drug component in accordance with flu-like symptoms experienced. The selection must be appropriate medication and should not be wrong. General flu drug is a combination of several active substances. For example, combinations of analgesic / antipyretic plus a nasal decongestant, analgesic / antipyretic plus nasal decongestants and anthistamin. The use of flu drugs not intended for long-term. If the flu symptoms are not reduced, or increasingly heavy after taking cold medication for three days should immediately consult a doctor or health care units.

Before discussing pancreatic cancer, you need to know what organ is the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ shaped like a sponge tube / sponge with kirakira six inches long located behind the stomach. The pancreas produces enzymes and hormones, including insulin.

Pancreatic enzymes help digest food in the small intestine, whereas insulin to control blood sugar levels. Both enzymes and hormones necessary to maintain the body in order to work properly. The most frightening disorders that occur in this organ is a cancer of the pancreas.

Pancreatic cancer occurs when malignant cells (malignant) grow, develop, and spread in pancreatic tissue. Pancreatic cancer is known as the silent disease because in the early stages of this disease have almost no symptoms. However, if cancer cells have flourished and spread, the pain usually will occur in the upper abdomen and sometimes spreads to the back. Other symptoms include sudden weight loss, depression, and decreased appetite.

Although the exact causes of pancreatic cancer is unknown, but smoking is a major risk factor. Smokers have 2-3 times the risk of higher pancreatic cancer than nonsmokers. Age also affects the existence of this disease, pancreatic cancer usually tend to occur at the age above 45 years.
Other risk factors include diabetes, pancreatitis, and cirrhosis of the liver. There was also missed a family history of the disease also has a role. Pancreatic cancer can be very fierce indeed. Many sufferers die within a year after diagnosis. Only a few, less than 4 percent that will survive five years after diagnosis.

No wonder when the National Cancer Institute says pancreatic cancer is rarely curable. If the cancer is still in the pancreas (localized), the level of recovery would be greater. Even so, this is usually a good hope in all cases only slightly, less than 20 percent.

For patients with cancer who are still measuring less than 2 cm, with no spread to lymph nodes, surgical removal of cancer patients could save at least five years. This possibility could reach 18-24 percent.

Cancer treatment, depending on a number of factors, such as cancer type, size and spread of cancer is also the overall condition of the patient and his age. Therefore, each patient can not be treated the same. Although somewhat difficult to cure, doctors still will try as hard as possible to care for patients in order to increase the quality of life, such as by surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

Usually treatment for pancreatic cancer is very unusual that the body affects the cancer cells die. Therefore, the doctor will give another drug as a combination. Treatment will give the effect of nausea, flushed skin, hair loss, loss of appetite, weakness, and decreased weight.

Intake of nutritious food is needed at the time of healing. Treatment that serves to replace the insulin the pancreas is also necessary because as the plant is disturbed insulin function. Then, how to prevent this deadly cancer? Of course the only way is to avoid factors that cause and factors of this disease.

Headaches can be caused by many things such as stress, a stinging smell or a symptom of certain diseases. But sex can also be a cause of headache, it is called coital cephalgia.

Headache due to Sexual intercourse (coital cephalgia) can occur when a person masturbates or any other type of sexual activities, for some people, a certain sexual positions can cause headaches. This condition is 1 of 360 types of headaches.

In general, men and women have the same level of this type of headache. But men have a headache due to levels of sex in particular. This is due to the fact that men tend to become more active, has excessive orgasm, and masturbates more often than women.

While  in women, it may occur over the age of 40, just beginning an exercise program or have had other headaches such as migraine headache that can cause headaches when having sex. In addition there are also studies that prove that 6 weeks after birth could be one risk factor.

This type of headache is divided into three basic types which are light, medium or fast headache but it goes on and on. There is also an orgasmic headache that can occur suddenly and severe.

Headache caused by sex at first felt only at the base of the skull, but over time can be felt throughout the head. These headaches do not happen every time when having sex, for some people it occurs after years of contact.

As quoted from Womenshealth, Wednesday (10/3/2010) sex can increase blood pressure which in turn can increase the pressure in the head and also cause tightening and muscle tension.

Sex headaches is a combination of blood pressure and muscle tension, in some cases low blood pressure of fluid around the brain and spine.

In some rare cases, sex headaches is an early symptoms of health problems such as meningitis, bleeding within the skull, tumors, stroke and various endocrine disorders.

In women, if pain is more severe, it is usually accompanied by other symptoms such as numbness, weakness, numbness, changes in vision and disorientation.

The treatment needed is not different from other headaches. To prevent this, one can take blood pressure medicine or headache medicine a few hours before having sex and also change sex positions.

Headache during sexual intercourse can increase the anxiety and feelings of calm that would be a problem for the couple, so sometimes counseling assistance is needed.

If various ways have been tried but do not show good results then the pair could only wait. This is because the headache often just disappears by it self after a few weeks or months.

Medical researchers find a new discovery that anorexia (the male version is known as manorexia) is not limited to women and that the idea of starving yourself in order to achieve the perfect body is crossing gender lines. Manorexia is a serious eating disorder which needs to be detected at its early stages.

What is Manorexia?

Manorexia is an eating disorder. Dietary restriction is the most significant manifestation of the disorder/disease. It sometimes occur in its pure form however appears in the form of alternating crises restriction and bulimia with vomiting. The body is viewed as too big, despite been extremely thin. This physical state due to malnutrition is often times fatal.

Who is affected by Manorexia?

While anorexia is typically thought to be a disorder affecting only teenage girls or women, experts estimate that about 1 million American men suffer from manorexia and the figures seems to be rises.

At what stage in life?

Risk of manorexia is particularly said to be high during two main periods i.e. between ages 12 and 13 and then between ages 17 and 18. This latter part is made significant because it is at the end of high school when ‘serious’ dating occurs i.e. you want to get attention from girls.

How does it start?

For many it often starts as a simply attempt to get fit but it quickly turns into a deadly battle for the perfect body.

What are the underlying and predisposing factors of Manorexia?

In as much as there are biological factors, external factors like early like interactions e.g. family values, identity development and sense of worth/self esteem are vital I triggering the disorder. Pop culture is also a great influence here with some aiming to be wiry — think Mick Jagger, some want to be lean, muscular Brad Pitt, James Bond while other just want to be big and chiseled like Arnold [Schwarzenegger], the governor.”

Warning signs?

A sudden feeling of insecurity followed by a change in eating habits, an obsession with the mirror, an rate of loss of weight leading to general weakness are all signs of manorexia that should not be taken fore granted.

Are there consequences?

Since Manorexia is essentially depriving your body of nutrients dangerous consequences such as stated below may follow – abnormally slow heart rate, low blood pressure, changes in the heart muscle, risk of heart failure, electrolyte imbalance, anemia, changes in bones density (meaning your bones can break more easily, dental problems, loss of muscle tone, general weakness, severe dehydration, which can result in kidney failure, hair loss is common, death.

What should I do now?

It is important not to isolate yourself. The first thing to do is talk to a doctor. There are also a number of associations for parents of children with anorexia which offer good support and are good sources of information.

If you are going through it and you have a problem with manorexia, put away the pride, put away the ego, and don’t be afraid to seek the necessary treatment for it. It’s OK. It’s fine. Just because you are a guy doesn’t mean, ‘I can’t ask for help.’ Do not procrastinate consulting a medical practitioner as an early treatment facilitates cure.

Hopefully you never had to endure a situation of someone close to you to suffer from transient ischemic attach (TIA), also known as mini stoke, or from a stroke. In any case, you should be familiar with both kinds of stroke as they both destroy brain tissue and can produce similar long-term effects. But there are important differences in what causes them and in the symptoms that tell you which kind of stroke is happening.

Ischemic Stroke:

According to statistics, 80 percent of strokes belong to the ischemic stroke kind. These mini-strokes occur when blood flow to the brain is blocked by plaque-clogged arteries or by blood clots. This means that blood is not circulating properly inside the brain causing brain cells to die if even for a few minutes no oxygen is transmitted to them via the blood. Read the rest of this entry »