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Pakistan Threatened by Disease

pakistan healthAfter suffering floods more serious in its history, Pakistan is now facing a new enemy: the diseases. According to data from the Organization of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of patients by disorders linked to the catastrophe has not ceased to increase in recent days.

“From a week ago, we have found an increase in the number of diseases in the country,” has announced Paul Gardwood, spokesman for the UN Agency.

Between 17 and the September 24, “it has been diagnosed in 486,000 people with different disorders,” said. According to their words, problems such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, skin disorders or malaria have been the most frequent.

In fact, in the regions of the center and the southeast of the country, possible cases of malaria (do not have been confirmed by laboratory analysis) are multiplying.

In the south, always in the words of the spokesman WHO, are the skin disorders that do not leave to increase. The inhabitants of this area live in shelters, where the moisture causes skin, important as eczema or scabies. In addition, there are also significant hygiene problems.

In the north, where a large portion of the population has been able to return to their homes, there has been, in contrast, “a sharp increase in respiratory illnesses” with the arrival of the cold.

“Between 17 and the September 24, we have registered nearly 90,000 cases of serious respiratory infections, which have led the 18 percent of the consultations in a single week”, has indicated Gardwood.

“In total, between July 29 and the September 24, more than 6.2 million people have been treated in the country because of one of these four diseases,” he stressed.

The United States warned last week of the risk of epidemics – primarily of cholera- in flooded areas, due to the existence of stagnant water.

Benefit of SunMany times we are taking medicines and to go to doctors, without knowing that there are things easier and more natural, which also needs our body. There are even people who maintain a color of skin more white avoids sunbathing! This is a serious mistake! The sun ray is basic for many things. Some of the benefits of taking sunbathing often are:

  1. Sun ray will activating pro-vitamin D to use in our body as Vitamin D.
  2. We will strengthen the immune system.
  3. We will strengthen the skeletal system.
  4. Ultimately the nervous system, improving depressions (influences the segregation of neurotransmitters as serotonin), stress (endorphins) etc.
  5. Raises the threshold of pain, avoiding that other possible problems we make life more difficult.
  6. We will have the muscles in the form as a result of the above and a better figure.

In short, our health we appreciated markedly. Sunbathing at certain times of the year is not easy to do it because the change of weather, but there are some tricks that can help us.  In the cold months is sufficient expose the palms of hands for 15 minutes a day. This is because the skin of this area is especially sensitive to the sun, absorbing all their properties.

Another point of strong penetration of the sun ray is the mouth, in this case, just a minute to the day with an open mouth leaving the Sun light on the tongue. In addition to take the sol as in the palms of hands, which will on all the body, avoid many diseases of the mouth.

We cannot ignore the needs of ourselves, let alone to disregard our health. Here are some things to consider besides a few things that have been or will be writing by us in this site.

Protect Your Skin with a Solar Filter

  • Applies some type of filter decreasing the risk of skin cancer, in addition to that you can avoid the wrinkles.
  • Don’t leave to the sun between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, because it is the time when the sun’s rays are strongest.
  • Used clothing to protect your skin from the sun.

Don’t Forget to Intake Calcium

  • Osteoporosis is the disease that weakens bones
  • Cause 1.5 million fractures a year and is one of the main reasons why the older women end up in nursing homes.
  • From the 25 years until the 50, you need 1,000 mg of calcium a day, and once arrive in menopause, you need 1,500 mg if you are not taking hormones. (If these taking, you need 1,000 daily.)
  • With a periodic review in which you apply the bone density test, the doctor can determine whether you should of medicine to save the bone tissue.

You Need Medical Check Up

  • Become regular medical check up
  • Planned each are going to annual testing, as the analysis of Smears (PAP Smears), mammograms, medical check up for skin cancer, cholesterol test, colonoscopy and electrocardiogram.

Orangerie VersaillesIn this time, with all the technology, it seems that every time less dependent on the memory for everyday things and we forget how important it is exercised. Not only is important to have the basic information in our own “hard disk”, but to delay the loss of memory. Read this article and discover some simple formulas to exercise your memory and delaying some diseases that come with age.

You bet when you were child could mark memory phone numbers of almost all your friends, phone numbers of the offices of your parents and even the number of aunts and grandmothers. Today how many number you can remember memory without reviewing your data bank? Takes pen and paper and make a list of telephone numbers, addresses and the names of the people who know. Forget your computer, of your phone, your iPod and your iPhone. Concentrate on your memory. Perhaps after this exercise can write 10 data, perhaps 5 or in the worst cases, none.

Surely won’t want reach old and have trouble remembering the years wonderful you have lived, or forget things that have marked your life, or simply does not remember what ate in the morning and what did yesterday afternoon. The lack of memory is a problem that can cause alarm. The good thing is that with exercises for memory, you can avoid that your memory you betrayed and delete it completely.

What is the key to have good memory? Undoubtedly, the exercise the brain, because, like any other muscle, if not trains, is “oxidized”. Now this has become a challenge, because we have calculators, computers and telephones that do not to think nor memorize nothing, for us to do the minimum effort. However, that comfort can switch an account of recovery later in life. The remembering helps prevent diseases such as Alzheimer, the senile dementia and loss of cognitive abilities that can occur from the 50 years.

Researchers at the University of Warwick (UK), in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine Federico II, in Italy, has discovered that people who sleep less than six hours each night are a 12 percent more prone to death of premature death than those who rest each night between six and eight hours recommended.

This study, published this in few last day in the magazine specialized on ‘Sleep’, offers evidence unequivocal of direct links that exist between a dream of short duration (less than six hours each night) and an increase of the possibilities of suffering a premature death.

The authors of the work also indicated that sleeping too much (more than nine hours each night) can also be a cause for concern because contrary to what happens when you sleep shortly, when sleeping too does not increase the risk of death, but can be a significant marker of a potentially fatal disease still unknown.

The research analyzed the relationship between the level of usual duration of the dream and mortality reviewed 16 studies of the United Kingdom, United States, Europe and East Asia. This study included more than 1.3 million patients, which were followed for 25 years, a period in which were recorded more than 100,000 deaths in this group.

The results showed clear evidence that there direct links between the dream short and too long and the increased risk of premature death, compared with those participants slept between six and eight hours on average.

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