First aid

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What is first aid?
First aid is the initial treatment given to any injury or a wound on the body, usually given by non-experts...

 

A first aid box should have the following things -

• Band aids of different sizes
• Antiseptic solution such as Dettol
• Rubbing alcohol also called Isopropyl alcohol
• A pair of pointed tweezers to remove splinters which are superficial and have one end protruding. Deeper splinters or foreign bodies should be removed by a physician.
• Cotton - preferably sterile
• Blunt ended scissors
• Sterile bandages
• Torch or flashlight
• Tourniquet
• Heating pad
• Ice pack
• ACE bandages - for sprains and achy joints
• Acetaminophen (paracetamol) for aches and pains and fever
• Throat lozenges
• Ibuprofen, which has an anti-inflammatory action, also for aches and pains and fever
• Aspirin tablets
• Anti-allergy pills such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

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So, always keep your first aid box ready with you at home for safety...

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Laughter is the best medicine..

Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. In addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.

Laughter is strong medicine for mind and body:

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Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.
With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health.

Laughter is good for your health

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

So keep laughing :D :D hahahaha...

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Dealing with Sphygmomanometer

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 A sphygmomanometer or blood pressure meter (also referred to as a sphygmometer) is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to restrict blood flow, and a mercury or mechanical manometer to measure the pressure. It is always used in conjunction with a means to determine at what pressure blood flow is just starting, and at what pressure it is unimpeded. Manual sphygmomanometers are used in conjunction with a stethoscope.

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When using the sphygmomanometer to take blood pressure, do not pressurize the cuff higher than 150 mm Hg. Allow two minutes to pass before re-inflating the cuff when taking repeat blood pressure measurements on the same individual. This experiment can cause stress leading to a shock reaction and unconsciousness. 

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Don't do this!

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Most of the people pick their bad habits from their teenage, that have effects on their health for long... Here, is a brief of some of the common bad habits seen among teenagers...

1. Watching TV for unlimited time.
2. Taking drugs through mouth or by injections.
3. Drinking and Smoking.
4. Taking junk food.
5. Irregular sleeping.
6. Showing emotions at extremes.
7. Showing insecurity physically like chewing nails, scratching on body parts unreasonably etc.

 

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To get rid of your negative habits, you must first understand what creates them.
Your habits are created by your thoughts. When you were born into this world, you have no habits. You pick up your habits from the influence from your surrounding and your own life experiences.
Your parents, your friends, your teachers, your boss, your peers… basically anyone can affect your habits by influencing your thoughts. Once you have a certain thought in your mind, your mind will start to send signals to your emotion and hence you will take a certain set of action, which is your habits, to produce a certain results.

Unless something ‘bad’ happened, you’ll keep on cycling the same pattern over and over again. if you want to change your habit, you must create a new thought and emotion in your mind to replace the existing pattern.
It is not like computer, which you can simply press on the delete button to delete away files that you don’t want. Your mind works differently in ‘deleting’ negative thoughts or habits that you don’t want. you’ll have to start by replacing your old patterns with new ones.
Some people procrastinate all the time. They choose to watch TV instead of investing their time into reading development books. They get instant gratification of feeling joy when watching TV. This will reinforce their thought pattern that watching TV is good and reading books is something they don’t like.
This cycle will keep on going until one day, something forces them to change. Such as if they did not change their habits, they’ll be in dept. When this happen, they’ll forces themselves to take different set of action that will lead to different results.

So, This is how you can change your habits and behaviors...

Article source: http://www.health24.com/

Smoking

Smoking is a very common habit, seen in most of the individuals... Do you know that SMOKING kills over 400,000 Americans each year ( as told by the site http://www.doctoryourself.com ).

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Meaning: Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled ( www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking ).

Sources: cigarettes, pipes, cigars, bidis, hookahs, vaporizers and bongs.

Danger:  The toxins from cigarette smoke can go everywhere the blood flows," said U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS. ( http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12369.php ).

What is Addiction? A smoking addiction means a person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking would cause severe emotional, mental, or physical reactions.

Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. It is absorbed and enters the bloodstream, through the lungs when smoke is inhaled, and through the lining of the mouth (buccal mucosa) when tobacco is chewed or used as oral snuff or for non-inhaled pipe and cigar smoking. ( http://ehealthmd.com/content/what-smoking-addiction )

Direct effects: Increase in the rate of heart beat, diminishes muscle gains from exercise due to lower levels of oxygen, feeling generally less energetic than a nonsmoker ( http://www.livestrong.com/article/380495-direct-effect-of-smoking-on-muscle-gains/ ).

Indirect effects: Heart Attacks, Strokes ( brain attack ), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lung Cancer, Cancer of the Mouth etc. ( http://www.1sthealthinsurancequotes.com/long-term-health-effects-smoking.html )



Methods of prevention: Smoking is a 100% addictive habit. Eliminating the regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address both the habit and the addiction by changing your behavior and dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms. ( http://www.helpguide.org/mental/quit_smoking_cessation.htm )

Steps of non-smokers: Non-smokers should try to make the smokers, leave their habit of smoking by explaining all the above points to them...