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October, 2009:

Illnesses In Excessive Heat

When generation of heat exceeds the body’s capacity for heat loss, core temperature rises. Heat illness occurs either when the environmental temperature is high, or when sweating is impaired or its efficacy as a heat loss mechanism is reduced by high ambient humidity. Susceptibility to heat illness is exacerbated by increased muscular activity, other undercurrent illnesses, increasing age and drug therapy (particularly phenothiazines, diuretics and alcohol).

A considerable degree of acclimatization occurs over a period of several weeks in individuals who move to a hot climate or who regularly work in a hot environment. Adaptive mechanisms include stimulation of the sweating mechanism with increased sweat volume and reduced sweat sodium content, and secondary hyperaldosteronism to maintain body sodium balance. The risk of heat-related illness falls as acclimatisation occurs. Heat illness can be prevented to a large extent by adequate replacement of salt and water, although excessive water intake alone should be avoided because of the risk of dilutional Sodium reduction from the body
A spectrum of illnesses those occur in the heat:

Heat cramps
These painful muscle contractions occur most commonly in the legs of young people following vigorous exercise and profuse sweating in hot weather. There is no elevation of core temperature. Salt reduction can occur as a result of persistent sweating.

Heat syncope
This is one type of faint and is related to distant blood vessel dilation in hot weather.

Heat exhaustion
Heat exhaustion occurs with prolonged exertion in hot and humid weather, profuse sweating and inadequate salt and water replacement. There is an elevation in core (rectal) temperature to between 37°C and 40°C.if remains Untreated, heat exhaustion may progress to heat stroke

Heat stroke
This occurs when the core body temperature rises above 40°C and is a severe and life-threatening condition. The symptoms of heat exhaustion include headache, nausea and vomiting. The patient’s skin feels very hot, and sweating is often absent.

The patient should be managed in hospital with rapid cooling by spraying with water (to increase evaporation heat loss), fanning (to increase convection heat loss), and ice packs in the axillae and groins (to increase conduction heat loss). With appropriate treatment, recovery from heat stroke can be rapid (within 1-2 hours) but patients who have had core temperatures higher than 40°C should be monitored carefully complications before discharge from hospital. Clear advice to avoid recurrence, and avoidance of heavy exercise during recovery, are important.

The Model Disease Of Glamour Models!

AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODELUsually young generation of this time is   now very much enthusiastic to build up their career in glamour world. They are coming to various fields such as music, dance, theatre, fashion modeling, interior designing, acting in film industries etc. etc. Ramp modeling is always considered as the basic foot step to enter in the glamour world. Many actors and actresses became famous in the film industry; their starting was from modeling or ramp modeling.
The first need to become a ramp model is to obtain good slim figure. Because without slim figure nobody will allow you. So Girls doing their in this sector are very conscious about their figure; doing their regular exercises, maintaining strong diet control. Some are very over conscious about their figure and they create some problem to themselves. I have dedicated this article for them…

What does these overconcious girls do?  They do extra loaded physical exercise to burn extra fats from their body (although ninety nine percent of them are look like malnourished!). Strong diet controlling goes on along with exercise.

This strong and harsh life style may lead to the disease-Anorexia Nervosa- the fear of taking food…

There is marked weight loss, arising from food avoidance combination with excessive exercise, or even due the self use of laxatives to clear the bowel. There is profound body image disturbance so that, despite being thin, girls still feel overweight and are terrified of weight gain. The alternative causes of weight loss are usually absent. These are intense and pervasive, and the false beliefs that display a morbid fear of fatness. Despite this they recurrently refuse to take food it; if forced, it is often found that they follow the corrective measures themselves such as self-induced vomiting. Usually they found with Anxiety and depressive symptoms.  Extreme starvation is associated with a wide range of physiological and bodily changes. All organ systems may be affected, although the heart, kidneys and brain are mostly affected.

Why they do it?-This is actually unknown but it is thought it is professional and environmental factors also sometimes includes social pressure on women to be thin.

These girls need guided self-help and improved interpersonal relationship to ensure her the physical well-being, whilst helping to increase body weight to the normal range by addressing abnormal beliefs and behavior. The friends and the family can play the most vital role in this sector. Sometimes hospitalization is needed.

One study showed about 20% of girls with anorexia nervosa has a good outcome, a further 20% develop a chronic disease and the rest have an intermediate outcome. There is a long-term mortality rate of 10-20%, either due to the complications of starvation or from suicide.
So, sweet glamour girls! Can you understand the out come of your over figure consciousness? Excess anything is bad- what do you think?

Stress Removing Theory

stressNow a day we pass our time 24/7 in super-aggressive, super-tensed global civilization, always to keep up with and keep on forward. Employees are persistently ordered to carry out additional tasks in the midst of job uncertainty. Almost 3 percent workers miss work per day for anxiety at place of work- The AIS (American Institute of Stress) informs.

Employees experience stressed to rush push and run all the way through working day to carry out more because of job insecurity and financial crisis. Over and over again they become with a reduction of productiveness due to Feeling worried, upset and stressed out.  Some often get out of control, angry very fast and react excessively.

constrained stress can  increase blood pressure, alcohol intake and drug abuse, gloominess and even create  suicidal tendency among the workers  If overlooked and kept  unmanaged or mismanaged. Non-attendance, less efficiency, high turnover in medical and other insurance costs- these are the effects of stress in the workplace.  Organizations are always unbeaten with hitting the highest point of performance, augmented efficiency and prosperity which become positive in arranging a job environment that is friendly to the workers emotion.

Permanent changes are slower than the temporary ones.  First generate a plan, set in motion with little but noteworthy one and be enthusiastic to try all the different ways.  Work out with what desires to modify. Be knowledgeable, consign and start on.  Not more than single step, you can develop into more creative and decrease stress by creating little noteworthy changes.

Be conscious about how much you run and on urgency.  Try to talk slowly.  Know how to be remaining silent.  Never more than single discussion in a particular time. Always pay attention more and talk fewer.  Your connection with others will be in deeper level. It will forward you to the level of synergy.

Use some time in isolation and quiet.  Let the bad temper, weirdness, excessive venting, humming ness and argumentativeness vanished.  Passing some time in silence daily will make you to be linked to your soul.  It releases the opportunity of profound internal harmony. Breathing deeply will cause you to notice energy, liveliness and raised power of soul.

Try to be kind enough to forgive. You will find nobody in the world who is always right. It is very normal to make mistakes.dont blame yourself. Blaming is always a bad attitude. First of all Learn to forgive and forget yourself.  Then learn to forgive others against whom you have an accusation. Then mental peace will be easily available to you. Remember Life is very small.

When you are in bed at night, try to forget everything that bothered all the day.
Last of all always try to be positive. The ornamental power of life is optimism.  Never hope, always try to make a better world.

Rehabilitation Of Elders: The Upcoming Burning Issue

ENGCourseRehabilitation aims to improve the ability of people of all ages to perform day-to-day activities, and to restore their physical, mental and social capabilities as far as possible. Acute illness in older people is often associated with loss of their usual ability to function, and common disabling conditions such as stroke, fractured neck of femur, arthritis and cardio-respiratory disease become increasingly prevalent with advancing age.

Disability is an interaction between factors intrinsic to the individual and the context in which they live, and interventions at both a medical and a social level are needed in response .Doctors tend to focus on health conditions and impairments, but patients are more concerned with their effects: the limitation of their activities and restricted participation in everyday life.

Rehabilitation is a problem-solving process focused on improving a patient’s function. This includes not only physical function, but also psychological and social functioning. It covers:

Assessment. The nature and extent of the person’s problems are identified from a comprehensive assessment using the framework in. Specific assessment scales such as the Elderly Mobility Scale or Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living can be used to quantify components of disability.

Goal-setting. Goals set are specific to the patient’s problems, realistic and agreed by the patient with the rehabilitation team.

Intervention. This includes active treatments to achieve the set goals and to maintain the patient’s health and quality of life.

Reassessment. There is ongoing re-evaluation of the person’s function and progress towards the set goals. This requires regular review by all members of the rehabilitation team, the old person and the carer.

The core rehabilitation team includes several professional disciplines like Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist, Speech and language therapist, Dietitian, Social worker, Nurse, Doctor, although others may be involved as needed, e.g. audiometry for hearing impairment, podiatry for foot problems and orthotics where prostheses or splinting are required. Good communication and mutual respect are essential. Rehabilitation is not where the doctor orders ‘Refer to physiotherapists’ or ‘Get a home visit’, and takes no further role.

The interventions used in rehabilitation can be divided into ‘hard’, i.e. hands-on treatment by therapists using a functional, task-orientated approach to improve day-to-day activities, and ‘soft’ interventions such as psychological support and education, often just as important to progress. The emphasis on the type of intervention will be different depending on the patient’s disabilities, psychological status and progress. The patient has to be an active participant in the process, working to overcome disability with the encouragement and help of the rehabilitation team.

Effective rehabilitation has a major impact on reducing disability in older patients after acute illness or emergency and elective surgery. There is good evidence that rehabilitation improves functional outcome following stroke and myocardial infarction, and in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It also reduces mortality after stroke. Rehabilitation obviously involves complex multi-component interventions and it is not clear which has the greatest effect. Is it specific therapy techniques, better delivery and organization of care, or simply staff enthusiasm? The concept of the ‘black box’ of rehabilitation has been used to describe this poor understanding of the process, and is the subject of ongoing research.

Do you know how you can be killed?

The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognised in 1981. It is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Since 1981 AIDS has grown to be the second leading cause of disease burden world-wide and the leading cause of death in Africa, where it accounts for over 20% of deaths.

HIV is present in blood, semen and other body fluids such as breast milk and saliva. Exposure to infected fluid leads to a risk of creating infection, which is dependent on the integrity of the exposed site, the type and volume of body fluid, and the viral population. HIV can enter either as free virus or within cells. The modes of spread are sexual (man to man, man to woman and oral), injectable roots (blood or blood product recipients, injection drug-users and those experiencing occupational injury) and vertical (mother to child). The transmission risk after exposure is over 90% for blood or blood products, 15-40% for the vertical route, 0.5-1.0% for injection drug use, 0.2-0.5% for sex organ mucous membrane spread and under 0.1% for other mucous membrane spread.

Now have a look to this short chart below about major spreading pathway of AIDS. I think it will be very helpful for you to remember before being engaged to any risky behaviour mentioned here:

Vertical transmission: Older gestational age; prolonged rupture of fetal membranes; any injury to the fetus; elective caesarean delivery; twin fetus

Breastfeeding: Longer duration feeding; Young motherhood; breast infection
Sexual transmission: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) especially sex organ ulcers; any form of anal sex with or without condoms; Rectal or vaginal injury; sex during menstruation; Male-male or male- female sex; Non-circumcised penis; increased number of sex partners; Linked commercial sex

Injection drug use transmission: Sharing equipment; Frequency of use; Intravenous use; Cocaine use

Occupational transmission: Deep injury and then Visible blood on device; use of previously used arterial or venous device.

World-wide, the major route of transmission (> 75%) is heterosexual. About 5-10% of new HIV infections are in children and more than 90% of these are infected during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. The rate of vertical transmission is higher in developing countries (25-44%) than in industrialised nations (13-25%). Of those infected vertically, 80% are infected close to the time of delivery and 20% in uterus. In developed nations, because of routine antibody screening, the likelihood of acquiring HIV from blood products is now less than 1:500000. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that because of the lack of adequate testing facilities in resource-poor countries, 5-10% of blood transfusions globally are with HIV-infected blood. There have been approximately 100 definite and 200 possible cases of HIV acquired occupationally in health-care workers. Infection related to health-care settings is substantially higher in developing nations, where it is estimated that 40% of syringes/needles used in injections are reused without sterilization.