Beauty and eating disorders

The health is a delicate equilibrium between the good organic operation and the harmony in the social and psychic plans of the human being.  Never this affirmation turns out to be more clear that when we attend to the eating customs of each culture and historic moment.  In spite of the fact that the medicine and the biotechnology have reached levels of beating never suspected, ours seems to be a was especially criticism to maintain a healthy equilibrium.

Beauty and consumption The culture of the consumerism imposes al present individual the need to adapt its agency to certain canons of beauty.  The man and the present woman should be small, medium, loosen or extra-loosen.  The immersed variety of physicists to be classed in only four standards?  If thus was, ¿why cost for the health?  The growing incident of eating disorders as the Bulimia and the Anorexia are an answer to that questioning one.

Undoubtedly it is the woman the most affected one by this badly cultural one.  Studies of the York University (Ontario) showed that the women that more adapt to the parameters of present beauty are those that present a more dissatisfied personality.  They are also the ones that greater incident of eating inconveniences accuse.

Beauty and thinness The ideal of female beauty of the posmodernidad is brutally thin.  Tax since the most tender infancy by the most sold wrist of the world (that whose name are you thinking), crystallizes in the image of the super-model that sell for the most powerful organizations of the fashion of the entire world.

But it is clear that to achieve and to maintain that state supposedly ideal does not only cost a terrible effort and economic resources, but can lead to numerous problems of health.  Beginning for the eating disorders, these can result in diverse social and personal plans.

It is known that a woman that loses a high percentage of lipids will have serious difficulties to be embarrassed.  Many of them will incur in difficult hormonal imbalances to re-establish.

Special diets Under the stimulus to descend of weight something can be lost more than grease.  Diets desbalanceadas and a compulsive use of gymnastics extenuantes can endanger the equilibrium between that mass grease and the lean mass (proteins, mineral, etc.)

Though the loss of lipids has shown to be useful to reduce the risk before pathologies as the diabetes, the hypertension, etc., an indiscriminate loss of corporal mass can turn out to be harmful.  The irresponsible publication of states to make thin has placed in the hands of the population, especially the female one, a weapon that can be very dangerous.

If we return al first concept of health, this is achieved with equilibrium.  And that equilibrium includes all the aspects of the human being: the organic one, the psychological one, the social one and the spiritual one.  If the present culture prioritizes the social aspect, imposing a physical image that goes against the health, is a culture of the illness.  This constitutes an authentic paradox in a was of the historic development of the humanity in which the science and the technology put in our hands privileged tools to achieve the welfare.

Bronchial asthma, illness of children and adult

The bronchial asthma is the most frequent chronic illness in children and very important also in the adults.  It is calculated that between 3% and 5% of the population suffers it, although in children the frequency arrives al 11%.  This leaves to see that many of the patients affected in the infancy to stop suffering the illness after the adolescence.

The costs that generates the illness are vast, represented in expenses of the processing (medicines, hospitalizations, etc) and workdays lost, so much by the patients as by the parents of the children affected.

Without any doubt, the management that the doctor indicate for each patient particularly should be followed al foot of the letter so that the situation can be handled satisfactorily.  Nevertheless, it is not the doctor the only person in whom the responsibility falls that the sick one of asthma can carry a normal life.  In this cause is necessary to compromise parents of family, patient, professors and everyone who live together with the affected.

One after another, scientific studies have verified that the people with greater degree of knowledge of the illness enjoy a quality of a lot greater life that those that do not know the nature of their affection and therefore the reason to be of their processing.  For all this, is necessary that the asthmatic patient and its family know in detail the fundamental aspects of this company.

What is the asthma?  The asthma is a chronic respiratory illness, that its name of the Greek one drifts asthma (difficult respiration).  It is characterized for episodes, of various intensity, duration and frequency, in which the person affected presents difficulty to breathe, accompanied by sounds of high tone, similar to a whistle and that the doctors call “sibilancias”.  These episodes, or attack, they are unchained for an allergic reaction of the respiratory ways that does that diverse agents produce an inflammation in the bronchial tubes, complicating the step of air al lung.

What is an allergy?  An allergy is an inappropriate reaction to the exposition to substances that normally should not produce a harmful effect.  For example, an allergic person al hair of the animals, can present reactions as sneezes, nose covered, bud in the skin or asthma attacks when be in contact with a dog.  Who is not allergic, can caress, to play and even to live together with the animal without this unchain any reaction.

Why the allergies occur?  A genetic predisposition exists to suffer allergies.  The doctors call this condition as “atopia”.  The to be atópico implies that is itself in allergic risk to present reactions, including the bronchial asthma, when has contact with certain environmental factors.  In the case of the asthma, can be told that the atopia is a “factor of risk” to develop the illness.

Then means that the asthma is hereditary?  Not necessarily.  So that an allergy develop, does not suffice with the predisposition to suffer it, but is also indispensable that the person affected be exposed to the substances that unchain it and that medicamente they are known like alergénos.  Of the same form, cases of asthma in subjects can appear that not tien

What is a factor of risk?  They are the conditions that can contribute to that occur a determined event.

In the case of the asthma different risk factors types exist according to if do more prone to the person to suffer the attacks or if directly are the causes that themselves of start to one of these episodes (board 1).

Why age appears the asthma?  The majority of people that suffer bronchial asthma they begin to suffer the illness since the infancy.  Without still it be known with clarity the why, almost the half of these patients no longer they suffer it al to arrive at the adult age and 25% percent of the remainders they present very light symptoms.  When the suffering is detected in an adult one must consider two possibilities: that have had the illness since the infancy but this have not been diagnosed, or that be a matter of a reaction to some element al that be exposed in the work (irritating, chemical substances, gases or particles that float in the air).  This last situation is known like employment asthma.

A person by an asthma attack can die?

He figures 1.  Decrease of the flow of air through the bronchial tubes after the caliber of the same al is diminished to be inflamed the air mail during a crisis of asthma.  To) normal lung B) Lung during crisis of asthma.

Yes, although is very rare that this happen.  Nevertheless, it is an illness that causes serious damages al to interfere with the normal life of a person.  A sick one of asthma can be discriminated, remote and impeded to participate in some activities if does not be a matter of adequate way or if the people around him do not understand the nature of their problem.

¿How begins an asthma attack?  When an asthmatic one is exposed to the presence of an allergen, unchains itself in the in the respiratory ways, specifically in the bronchial tubes, an inflammation that diminishes the caliber of the same (figure 1).  Of that way the step of air is blocked al lung (above all the exit) and this produces also the sibilancias, as well as happens when blows itself for the peak of a bottle.

Flu

What is the flu?

The flu, or influenza, is a respiratory infection caused by the type influenza virus TO and type B.  Is more common in the autumn and winter.

The flu is highly contagious; generally, the virus enters the body through the mucous membranes in the mouth, nose or eyes.  When a person with flu coughs or he sneezes, the virus is disseminated for the air and can be inhaled for any person that be found close.

In the majority of the communities, are the children in school age the first in acquiring the flu, that then they carry it to their houses and to other groups.  In a light season of flu, near the 10 al 15% of the population themselves infected.  In a more severe season of flu, 20% or more than the population can contract flu.

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Is dangerous the flu?

A case of strong flu probably send an adult or healthy boy to the bed for 3 to 5 days.  Then, the person will recover completely, but the cough and the exhaustion can persist during days or weeks.

Nevertheless, the flu can be a serious illness.  Each year, until 40 million Americans they contract flu, and near 150.000 they are hospitalized.  During passed epidemics in the United States, the influenza and its complications have caused between 10.000 and 40.000 deaths.

The people above the 65 years and those people of all the ages with chronic illnesses (such as diabetes, heart illness, asthma and HIV) they are more prone to be made ill seriously with flu.  These people are also more prone to develop other serious infections such as pneumonia.  If you are an elder or has a chronic illness, he should call his doctor before the first sign of symptoms of the flu.

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What should do if I have flu?

The rest is important to help to be improved.  Besides, if it remains at home, there is less risk that Ud infect other people.  The flu continues being contagious during 3 or 4 days despúes that the symptoms appear.

Also it should drink great quantity of you flow you.  The hot liquids can alleviate the sensation of congestion.  A soothing one of the pain, as for example acetaminofen, can be taken for the pains and the fever.  Never him of aspirin to children less than 12 years that have flu (or any illness that suspect is caused for a virus) owed al risk of a serious adverse effect known as Syndrome of Reye.

The doctors can prescribe a medicación antiviral, which should be taken inside the 48 hs after the apparition of the first symptoms, to reduce the duration of the fever and other symptoms related.  Nevertheless, this medicación is only assets against the influenza type A.

How do I give me account if I have flu?

Generally, the flu attacks 1 to 3 days after the exposition al virus.  Many times, the beginning of the flu seems to be sudden: the people describes to feel:  “As if it had been struck for a truck”.  The common symptoms of the flu include fever and chills, muscular pain and in the articulations, cough, headache, pain of eyes, exhaustion and weakness.  Some people also experience nasal congestion and pain of throat.

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It can be cured with antibiotics?

Not. As the flu is a viral infection, cannot be treated with antibiotics.  The antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria and, consequently, they are only useful for the processing of bacterial infections.

If their doctor does not consider that Ud require antibiotics to treat its infection, insist not.  The inappropriate use of antibiotics contributes al resistant bacteria stumps development to antibiotics, which represents a great problem for the public health.

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I should call al medical if I have flu?

If Ud feels seriously sick, should always call its doctor.  Only its doctor will be able to tell him if Ud has a condition that require a processing, or if the rest and the to take you flow you is everything that needs to be improved.

As it was discussed previously, the people above 65 years and those people of any age with problems of chronic health should be put always in contact with their doctor if they are infected flu.

At times, the people with flu can develop other serious infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis, or infection ótica.  It should consult its doctor immediately if:

* Colorless, thick mucus Coughs or sanguinolento.  * Has symptoms such as recurrent fever, pain in the chest, facial swelling, severe pain in the face or front or pain ótico.

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What should I do to avoid to catch the flu?

To prevent the contagion of the flu, or to reduce the severity of the same one, should be applied a vaccine for the flu each autumn — especially if Ud has more than 65 years or has a problem of chronic health.

The vaccine against the flu is its better opportunity of protejerse against the flu.  Nevertheless, the vaccine is not always cash since the stumps of influenza for which it proteje cannot be the same that walk patrolling in its area.  Then, no matter how more Ud have vaccinates itself against the flu, Ud of all forms to be infected.

If Ud is pregnant or if Ud is allergic to the eggs, should ask its doctor about if Ud owes or not to receive the vaccine of the flu.

There are also simple things of common sense that Ud can do to try protejerse of the flu:

* It is Maintained far away, if is possible, of the people that have flu since the virus is disseminated when a person with flu coughs or he sneezes.  * He Wash his hands often to reduce his risk to contract a resfrío or flu.  * He Avoid to smoke cigarettes of other people, and if Ud smokes, try to leave it * Try to maintain a healthy way of life:
continue a good diet, sleep well, maintain low the levels of stress and drink a lot of water.

What is the pneumonia?

What is the pneumonia?

The pneumonia is an infection that produces a serious inflammation in the lungs.

How occurs?

• The pneumonia is produced when the lungs are exposed to different germs to the ones that they are found there normally.  A pneumonia can be caused for infection to some of the following:
• The person was exposed to great quantity of virus or bacteria.
• Infection by mushrooms
• after to have been sick for example with flu (influenza, which weakens the immune system and affects the covering of the respiratory ways)
• If you have a permanent chronic illness as diabetes, chronic bronchitis or cancer, that do more sensitive to all kinds of infections.

Which are the symptoms?

• Fevers and chills
• Cough
• Difficulty to breathe
• Pain in the chest, above all al to inhale
• muscular Pains
• Cough with a little phlegm, at times with blood

¿How much time the effects last?

In general, will begin to be felt better after 2 or 3 days after to have begun the antibiotics.  If you are a healthy person, should return to its normal state after approximately a week.  If you have other medical problems, is possible that late more in being felt better.

¿Which is the processing?

The doctor determines the type of medicine according to her age, other how sick, medical conditions is the person and by means of the results of the x-rays and analysis of laboratory.  In most cases herself her antibiotic prescription and rest in the home.  The most common pneumonia nowadays is the viral form that affects especially youths and adults over 50 years.

Skin Cancer

The excessive exposition to the ultraviolet radiation (UV), whose main source is the sunlight.  The degree of exposition to this radiation depends on the intensity of the light, of the time of exposition, and of if the skin has been protected.  The people that live in areas where are exposed all the year to an intense sunlight they have greater risk.  Being long time to the elements by motives of work or diversion without being protected with adequate clothes and solar protection enlarges the risk.

- The lamps and cabins bronceadoras are other sources of ultraviolet radiation that can cause a greater risk to develop a cancer of the skin not melanoma.

- The exposition to certain chemical products as the arsenic, the industrial tar, the soft coal, the paraffin and certain types of oils.

- The exposition to the radiation as it produced by the radiation therapy.

- The wounds or serious inflammations or prolonged of the skin, as can be the serious burns, the skin that covered the area where was produced a serious bony infection, and the skin damaged certainly inflammatory illnesses.

- The processing of the psoriasis with psoralenos and ultraviolet light administered some patients with psoriasis.

- The xeroderma pigmentoso, a frequent very little hereditary condition, reduces the capacity of the skin to repair the damages that suffers the DNA as a result of the exposition to the sunlight.  The people that have this inconvenience develop a great number of cancerous tumors of the skin, at times since the infancy.

- The syndrome of the nevus of cells you base them is a frequent likewise little congenital condition, that causes multiple cancerous tumors of cells base them.  Most cases, although not all, they are hereditary.