Humor the panacea
Health Care May 16th, 2011
There are various ways you can do to combat depression and negative thoughts, one of which is through humor or jokes. But it turns out there are many health benefits derived from humor.
Humor is known to be a panacea to relieve stress, depression or bad mood. As quoted from Beliefnet.com, Saturday (11/20/2010) there are some health benefits of humor for someone, namely;
1. Humor can make relaxed
As exercises in general, humor that makes people laugh will be working to combat chronic stress that makes a person feel relaxed or relaxed. When people get the humor, it will decrease the autonomic nervous system that makes the heart more relaxed.
2. Humor can relieve pain
Dr. Elias Shaya, head of psychiatry from Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore revealed by watching a comedy or involved something akin to a joke can reduce the pain experienced by someone.
Also known someone who got stimulus humor after surgery can reduce pain and reduce the potential for drug delivery.
3. Humor can enhance the immune system
The study, led by Lee Berk and Stanley A Tan of Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Califormia in 2006 discovered two hormones, namely beta-endorphin (reduces depression) increased by 27 percent and human growth hormone / hGH (which help the immune system) increased 87 percent when watch a funny video.
This shows that humor or jokes fun can increase the body’s ability to fight viruses, foreign cells and harmful chemicals.
4. Humor reduces stress
Researchers from Loma Linda University also find humor and jokes could help reduce levels of three hormones associated with stress are cortisol (stress hormone), epinephrine (adrenaline) and also hormone dopac. Thus researchers suggest positive ways such as humor to reduce harmful stress hormones.
5. Humor reduce fear
Humor is the most fundamental happiness tool. Physiologically humor to mask her fear experienced by a person at the same time. So, humor can change one’s perspective about the painful memory of the past and replace it with happiness.
Insomnia with Cancer
Cancer April 3rd, 2011
Did you know, stayed up late can cause various serious diseases. And, really staying out could be replaced with a nap?
If you’ve undergone a healthy diet and regular exercise, but doctors found several serious illnesses in your body, it could be your sleep pattern that became the base of the problem.
According to dr. Andrew Prasadja RPSGT. , Sleep Health Practitioner of the RS Mitra Keluarga Kemayoran, stay up an activity in which someone deliberately reduce the hours of sleep.
“In contrast to insomnia, yes. Sometimes people often equate it with insomnia because both are related to sleep. If the insomnia, the disease trouble sleeping, easily awakened in time to sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, or woke up and could not sleep anymore. This activity happens every night, causing an infected tergangggu activity during the day, “said Andrew.
Negative Impact
People who are accustomed to staying up late (less sleep), usually will feel some effects such as:
- The condition of unstable emotions so easily offended, easily depressed, sensitive.
- Ability kongnitifnya disturbed that the accuracy, analytical ability, and creativity diminished.
- Sympathetic nervous system (the nervous system stress) increases and can cause blood pressure, blood sugar and appetite increases as well. So, for people who are in a diet program or did not want his body fat, it is advisable to not stay up.
Disturbance in the above not only applies to adults, but also children. “Many parents think, to maintain the condition of her son’s body to stay healthy is by keeping her diet. Actually, this idea is not quite right. It is better, parents also maintain hours of sleep a child with a tight, because your metabolism work harder when we are asleep, “advises Andrew.
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Medical Check Up It’s Important
Health Lifestyle April 2nd, 2011
Better to prevent than cure, better routine medical check-up (MCU) prior to undermine disease undetected.
Some of us may still consider medical check up as secondary needs or can be ignored. Whereas regular health checks or medical check-up (MCU) is needed to detect health problems early. According to dr. Prasna Pramita, Sp.PD., of the UB Women and Children Hospital, Jakarta, the MCU should be done once a year, especially for those who are aged 40 years and over. By doing the MCU, the abnormalities or health problems can be immediately detected and addressed.
Most simple tests
Standard Package periodic health examination usually includes a physical examination (diagnose and complaints of patients), laboratory tests, x-ray thorax, and the treadmill. “That’s a minimum examination, but if you suspect there is another complaint, may also be other additional checks, such as abdominal ultrasound and tumor markers,” said Prasna.
Physical examination include blood tests. “For example, see the levels of hemoglobin (red blood cells) and levels of leu-kosit (white blood cells). If leukositnya increases, there is an infection, but infection is still unknown where. If the patient like weakness or dizziness, it could be because it has a low Hb level. Now, with MCU, can be roughly and looked for the handling, “he continued.
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Missing Teeth pain, too Comfortable Vacation
Disease April 2nd, 2011
Have you ever imagined, holiday disrupted because of that attack tooth ache? Well, how to recognize and cope with dental pain due to sensitive teeth?
Soon, the holidays are looked forward to going to arrive. Various plans would have you prepared, ranging from location to plan a vacation hunt culinary favorite. But has it ever occurred to you, experiencing tooth pain while on vacation with your family? Dental pain can make you could not enjoy a long vacation you have planned. Especially if your teeth sensitive tooth pain because you never realize his arrival.
Sensitive teeth indeed raise a sense of pain disorder that comes when consuming food / drink that is too sour or sweet. This disorder is often taken lightly, but the effects can be long. Your vacation can be messy and not fun anymore. You even busy cranky. Dream eat favorite foods and beverages during the holidays can-can drift due to sensitive teeth.
Tooth sensitivity is a general term used to indicate the existence of hypersensitive dentine, namely the opening of dentin due to thinning of the layer-mail or drop gum. People with sensitive teeth will experience a sense of pain, especially when consuming food or drink that sour or sweet. And, all those potentially experiencing sensitive teeth, and many were not aware already experienced it.
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Can Babies Given OTC
Health Care April 2nd, 2011
Babies who are young, said dr. Waldi Nurhamzah SpA, usually very seldom sick when he was born in good health. “Durability is obtained from the mother during the pregnancy, simply create defend itself from germs interference for the first few months, especially if you get milk.” As is known, is a drug-free milk for young infants most efficacious. So, your child still needs to free drug. Meanwhile, a rather large baby, durability start to decline until the disease vulnerable from the outside, especially if he had never given milk.
Generally, the frequent complaint of parents of young babies is a diverse pattern of BAB; sometimes green stool, diarrhea, mucoid, frothy, and a lot of gas. In fact, such incidents are commonplace because at that age the ongoing adjustment of the digestive system. Until, parents should not worry too much, especially if their babies are breastfed. In fact, your baby did not need the drug, let alone to have taken to the doctor everything.
So, Bu-Pak, when the little one aged 2 months of diarrhea, for example, “do not rush given the drug, because maybe it is the pattern of large bowel movement.” In fact, in infants who are a little big too, if the diarrhea, the first step but not giving liquid medicine. “Although doctors have been prescribing medication, parents should dare to ask why the drug should be given. You see, most of diarrhea in infants do not need medication at all,” explained Child Health Sciences faculty at the Faculty of Medicine, UI. Another thing when mencretnya accompanied by vomiting and little visible limp, must be immediately taken to the doctor, not given free medicines. Read the rest of this entry »
