FAQs on health

I have a bad back and even walking can be too hard; what can I do to get some exercise?

 The back trouble is simply from weak abdominal muscles and poor posture. When there is something structurally wrong with your back, like a herniated or bulging disk or some muscular problem, non-weight bearing activities like a stationary or recumbent bicycle might be better than activities where you pound, like jogging or dancing. One of the best activities is swimming, because the water supports your weight and there is very little pounding, especially in your back.

 -http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55833

I am a teenager and I frequently have pimples on my face.. What should I do?
 Pimples during teenage are natural! If you want a successful home remedy for that, then you should follow it regularly, without the use of any other beauty product during the course. The information provided here would help:

• Apply distilled white vinegar (may be diluted if too strong) for the face and affected areas. Allow this to sit for 5-10 minutes just before rinsing off with awesome water.
• Lemon or any citric fruit functions excellent as a natural exfoliate, removing dead skin color cells that might clog the pours. As using the white vinegar, apply the juice of a lemon (or desired citric juice) towards the face. Allow it to dry for about 10 minutes, then rinse with cool h2o. You may feel a mild sting or burn when the lemon juice is applied. If so, diluting the juice is acceptable. 
• Increase drinking water consumption. Water assists flush toxin out and assist transport nutrients in your body. 
• Eat a appropriately balanced diet to make sure proper nutrition. Take a high quality multiple vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for nutrients missing in today's foods. 
• Echinacea or Oregon grape may be utilized to boost the immune program and fight Pimple and Acne-causing bacteria.

-http://www.ecurepimples.com/

I frequently suffer from cough and cold. Is there any solution for this? 

 Prevention: Avoiding dairy and other mucus-forming foods could help. Ice, cold water and fruit juices should not be taken. Hot spicy herbs, particularly long pepper, dry ginger or chitrak as a milk decoction, are helpful.

 Cure: Ghee can be used to soothe the throat. Powdered lotus seed with honey is helpful. Licorice combination can be used.

-http://www.baidyanath.org/dicough.shtml

I usually have very high-blood pressure. What should I do?

 Hypertension (Rakta Vata) or high blood pressure is a disorder characterized by more than normal pressure at which the blood is being pumped by the heart.

Some of the common remedies:

• Garlic Raw garlic has heating effect. It is therefore used with buttermilk. In the early stages, it is advised to use 1 mg of garlic, thrice a day. Gradually, the content can be increased to 3 gm, also three times in a day.
• In another useful form garlic, is fried in ghee with honey. This way, one can get rid of extreme smell and also it is cholesterol free. (Garlic should be avoided raw and should be mixed with herbs to overcome any adverse effect).
  -http://www.baidyanath.org/dihighbloodpressure.shtml

 We are coming soon with more FAQs on health and their solutions! 

 Please comment if you have any question regarding your health!

  

Think it over!

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You talk of wondrous things you see,

You say the sun shines bright;

I feel him warm, but how can he

Or make it day or night?

-C. Cibber

Do you know that our eyes can live even after our death? By donating our eyes after we die, can light the life of a blind person.

About 35 million people in the developing world are blind and most of them can be cured. About 4.5 million people with corneal blindness can be cured through corneal transplantation of donated eyes. Out of these 4.5 million, 60% are children below the age of 12. So, if we have got the gift of vision, why not pass it on to somebody who does not have it? What do we have to keep in mind when eyes have to be donated?

•   Eye donors can belong to any age group or sex. People who use spectacles, or those operated for cataract, can still donate the eyes. People who are diabetic, have hypertension, asthma patients and those without communicable diseases can also donate eyes.
• Eyes must be removed within 4-6 hours after death. Inform the nearest eye bank immediately.
• The eye bank team will remove the eyes at the home of the deceased or at a hospital.
• Eye removal takes only 10-1 minutes. It is a simple process and does not lead to any disfigurement.
• Persons who were infected with or died because of AIDS, Hepatitis B or C, rabies, acute leukaemia, tetanus, cholera, meningitis or encephalitis cannot donate eyes.

An eye bank collects, evaluates and distributes the donated yes. All eyes donated are evaluated using strict medical standards. Those donated eyes found unsuitable for transplantation are used for valuable research and medical education. The identities of both the donor and the recipients remain confidential.
One pair of eyes gives vision to TWO CORNEAL BLIND PEOPLE! Just think it over..

Article source: Science NCERT textbook for class X (Page No. 191)

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...

Article source: http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm

 

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.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphygmomanometer

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. 

http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/science/safety/hazards.html

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...

What is a Doctor?

A Doctor's definition in informal sense: A doctor is an angel of God, whom God sends on the earth to take care of the earth's dwellers... Doctor loves the life of an individual and spends most of his time taking care of others, forgetting his own health! Most of you must be possessing a Doctor, or a family doctor. Don't you think that he understands your problem and goes on to find some solution regarding your health? In return he wants nothing, just some materialistic money, that is not so important in front of your good health.. He wants you smile, and he tries every useful remedy in order to make you smile.... He find excuses so as to not let you know that he is going to give you an injection! He has a big heart, as he can see his patients in pain.. There is a cry in his heart always, but only sensitive ones can understand that..!
So, here lets give a HUGE THANK to our Doctors :)
We love you Docs!