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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There is little concern that in cases of head and neck cancers occur in people middle-aged or younger in the U.S., increase as the popularity of oral sex habits in recent decades.

The main drivers of this cancer is human papillomavirus virus (HPV). The virus can be transmitted through certain types of sexual activity.

“There seems to be pretty good relationship with the increasing number of sexual activity, especially oral sex, is associated with increased HPV infection,” said Dr. Greg Hartig, professor of ENT and head and neck surgeon at the Faculty of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin, in Madison.

While Dr. William Lydiatt, professor and chief of head and neck surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, said that the overall incidence of head and neck cancer will come down, mainly because fewer people smoking. Tobacco and alcohol are the major traditional risk factors.

But the incidence of tonsil and base of tongue cancer has increased over the last decade, he said. And they are the ones who are more likely tested positive for HPV. Read the rest of this entry »

Deciding to quit smoking need to fight hard. Especially for those who have long been addicted.

If a couple, including heavy smokers, of course, that habit often makes you upset. As the people closest to, you can help him succeed ‘turn off’ the smoking habit for good.

Although in the end, the decision to stop smoking remains available to it, your support is an important component to help him achieve the goal. One important thing to help couples achieve the goal to stop smoking is to provide support to him continuously.

Here are simple strategies that you can apply at home, taken from the pages of Modern Mom.

Invite to join the community stop smoking
Hearing stories from others who had already been able to quit smoking, can help the him go quit. Invite a couple to join in the community stop smoking. Hearing the success of other people to stop smoking can make them optimistic do the same.

Offering support
Ask him what kind of support she wants from you. Anyone who wants to quit smoking, usually require different support.

For example, there are who want you to always remind him not to smoke, while others may regard it as nagging. Couples may want to hear the warning that sympathetic, distract him or give a gift when he managed to pass a cigarette. So, try to find the kind of support he really needs to help quit smoking.

Smoking Activities
Plan an activity that is free of cigarettes with a partner, such as cycling. Such activities can help him achieve the goal to stop smoking.

If the couple used to go to places together with my friends who smoked constantly, try to plan to do different activities. Take the him to a new place that the temptation to smoke less.

Help him to change routines
A smoker must deal with in a balanced way, physically and mentally, addicted to tobacco. There are certain moments in a day – like after meals or while drinking coffee – she always made time to smoke cigarettes. You need to help solve this problem. For example, you can take a walk together after dinner so she was not interested in smoking.

Give praise
Wish you good if he managed to avoid and give him praise. Try to capture the small details. Plan some sort of gift to give to him because you quit smoking. For example, he could use the money that normally would he spend to buy cigarettes and spend it on holiday weekends.

prostat-cancerProstate cancer is the most common cancer in men. This even is the second most deadly cancer. But there are some great ways that men can do to prevent prostate cancer.

How to prevent a disease usually confined itself to be able to do something fun, such as reducing the consumption of red meat, fried foods or other things that became a favorite with many people.

But as reported by Askmen, Friday (19/11/2010), there are several ways of prevention of prostate cancer is still engrossing, among others:

1. Eating tomato sauce marinara
The main ingredient of marinara sauce is a tomato that is a source of lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant that has been shown to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer in men..

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Heavy smokers could undergo CT scans for detecting lung cancer early. This screening test can help fight cancer killer.

Obstacles are deciding who should get a CT scan, and how often the test will last?

This question is important because the act of CT include radiation exposure risk for recurrent and many false signal that triggers a person does not need to perform testing, even surgery.

ct-scan“This discovery has important implications for public health, with the potential to save the lives of many people among those at greatest risk for lung cancer,” said Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr. Harold Varmus, who released the study results this Thursday ( 4 / 11). “We do not know the ideal way before doing this investigation.”

Specialists from the American Cancer Society – which did not recommend screening because of lack of evidence – is planned to evaluate this finding based on all data published in recent months.

“Until then, the best advice we can give is to encourage people to have conversations with their doctors, about whether lung cancer screening is right for them,” said chief medical officer Dr. Otis Brawley.
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