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Acupressure for the Treatment of Diabetes

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Recientemene alluded to Su Jok therapy as an alternative to acupuncture, with a therapy that shares many fundamentals with acupressure. To stay in line, we highlight today a study in relation to acupressure, therapy may be useful in cases of diabetes.

As we know-and-review mode, acupressure is a therapy that works with acupuncture points, just that regardless of the use of needles, replacing them by the application of pressure on them.

In the study, 64 people with type 2 diabetes were assigned a diet and exercise program designed to control hypertension and hyperglycemia. However, a portion of the total was made to participate in sessions of 90 minutes of acupressure four to six times per week.

At study, participants in the latter group experienced lower levels of bad cholesterol, in addition to improved levels of good cholesterol compared with those who received no acupressure. In addition, patients in this group also showed better performance in their kidneys. (more…)

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What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome?

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

The European frightening past have gone out of fashion. Indeed, those celebrities like Coco, the man with the sack or Maria Sarmiento (to name just some of the best known) and not as it used to produce terror. In contrast, the current trend to-end to other less effective methods frictional: today the hemolytic uremic syndrome is the greatest fear for children.

“Hemolytic uremic syndrome is a contagious disease characterized by kidney failure, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, coagulation defects and neurological signs variables. Spain has a high rate of children affected by this serious disease. HUS is a common illness in young children and often occurs after a gastrointestinal infection, usually caused by a specific type of the bacterium E. coli but has also been associated with other enteric infections including Shigella and Salmonella. Go chance, this problem is closely associated with poor nutrition and, above all, with fast food or junk explains a trusted physician. (more…)

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Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Celiac

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Dilated cardiomyopathy in celiac disease. Although celiac disease is primarily an intestinal compromise, increasingly finds its relation to other systemic illnesses as autoimmune thyroid disease, diabetes and lupus erythematosus.

On the other hand, doctors have found a high prevalence of celiac disease in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, and in most cases the patients did not show the classic symptoms of the condition.

The profuse diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss were not overlapping symptoms in the patient group studied, but did have in common a picture of refractory iron deficiency anemia.

In some of the patients had progressive heart failure, and the rest was found the presence of myocarditis associated with ventricular arrhythmias, and is therefore the suspicion arises that celiac disease is closely linked with these cardiac abnormalities, being indispensable immunological studies in people that suffer. (more…)

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Classic Symptoms of Diabetes

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Should be known, they are allies in the diagnosis of new patients and elements of alarm when the patient’s metabolic control is not good.

The classic symptoms of diabetes are known as the four Ps are:

  • Polyuria or increased urine output during the day. Record is important that other diseases can also cause this symptom.
  • Polydipsia: a consequence of prior (urinating too much the patient has dehydration stimulates the thirst center in the brain and this leads him to drink plenty of fluids). You are concerned that diseases such as diabetes insipid us may also have this symptom.
  • Polyphagia or appetite exaggeration: among other things caused by the loss of calories by glucose eliminated in the urine; aqua the patient is fed, the body’s cells have no glucose (energy) and stimulates appetite.
  • Weight loss or thinning: a consequence of such difficulties experienced by the glucose to enter cells which end up eliminated in the urine (glucosuria). So far the patient, e.g. thin.
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Therapeutic Patient Education

Friday, May 14th, 2010

The classic medical identity is associated with belief that the activity of medical diagnosis is mainly an issue linked to the therapeutic action. If these two actions are key elements in the acute disease, when it comes to monitoring the management of chronic disease symptoms requires “other knowledge” that does not depend on the medical sciences. These come from the humanities means the physician-patient communication, patient teaching, and the psychology of the patient.

Its role is to catalyze the medical action, maintaining medication adherence, improve adherence to treatment. These roles teaching professionals are not a substitute for medical activity, but the center of action.

Patient education is a relatively recent health practice has been progressively integrated into the management of patients with chronic diseases. Represents the expression of a change in conceptions of health that infer that the patient can be his own medicine during a given period. (more…)

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What is Sideroblastic Anemia?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

As we all know the anemia is often caused by lack of iron in the body, a mineral extremely essential for the proper operation of it, that anemia is called iron deficiency anemia, but the truth is that not only is there this type of anemia.

Sideroblastic anemia belongs to the group and aregenerative microcytic anemia, which occur in a patient due to improper use or abnormal intracellular iron to synthesize hemoglobin. The most reliable of this type of anemia is the presence of red cells with stippling Polychromatophilic receiving siderocytes name, and may occur as a result of other diseases, infections, chronic inflammation, or malignancy.

Then there are also other types of anemia’s associated with sideroblastic anemia, who are those who have some patients who have chronic illnesses or a disability marked production of bone marrow, which is called secondary aplastic anemia, or excessive enlargement red blood cells called megaloblastic anemia, or when they do not have the correct form, in this case are crescent shaped, which is called sickle cell anemia. (more…)

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Diabetes Treatment

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Diabetes treatment has been found in stem cell therapy alternative to insulin injections. In 2010 the over-concentration of sugar in blood and pancreas, can be fought in new ways. Scientific studies have shown that autologous stem cell transplants are effective in diabetes mellitus. On one side is the remarkable study in universities in Brazil and Chicago from 2004 to 2008, where type I diabetes, also called insulin. On the other hand the private investigations and treatments performed in private clinics such as the German X-cell that has treated patients with diabetes mellitus type I and II with more than 50% successful in its results. So far this therapy does not produce a complete cure but an improvement of symptoms for a few years so they can be reduced or eliminated insulin injections because the pancreas of the patient regains some of its functions.

The stem cells for transplantation are collected from the patient’s own bone marrow, so you do not need a pool of blood in a bank of umbilical cord blood. Nor is there any impediment ethics if the person concerned prior consent, for the moment the main barriers are economic. (more…)

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Treatments and Remedies for Allergies

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The most obvious treatment for an allergy is to avoid all contact with the substance, the allergen, which causes the immune response, allergic reaction. But this is not always possible. For example, a person allergic to grass pollen will be difficult to prevent their arrival as the flowering season is everywhere, even in the city. This means that medical treatment, go to the allergist, it will be necessary.

Some of the medicines or treatments that can relieve are:

  • Antihistamines attenuate the effects of histamine, significantly reducing the most common and annoying symptoms of an allergy.
  • Corticosteroids: These are used to relieve skin problems and respiratory problems such as rhinitis (more…)
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