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Balanced diet to prevent heart disease and blood vessel

rusman — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:31:24 +0000

Specialists in atherosclerosis have focused on Saturday at Oran, on the need to follow a balanced diet to protect against various diseases and cardiac arteries.
Professor Malika Bouchenak researcher nutritionist at the University of Orana, stated during the proceedings of the 4th congress on arteriosclerosis, that this health problem has grown in Algeria in recent years because of alteration of nutritional mode. Diet plays an important role in prevention against this disease that requires a balanced diet, “she said. She also called Anglo-Saxon as’eloigner plan known as “Plan westerns. The speaker noted that diet adopted in the Mediterranean region is based mainly on vegetables dishes whose virtues contribute fully to reduce heart disease and arterial sclerosis as arteriole, saying that Algerian society still seems to preserve scheme. Lunch said the nutritionist, is crucial for the human body especially for patients suffering from these diseases and diabetes, before turning to preventive nutrition practices of arteriosclerosis. Participants at the meeting called for coordination between cardiologists and nutritionists to better care for patients while providing a psychological interest looks like, considering the stress one factor triggering the disease that can lead to death. Participants further stressed the need for a regular sports, insofar as it constitutes a balanced diet, a complementary medical treatment. The Association of Physicians for the Prevention of Oran has organized the fourth edition of this congress which was attended by experts during two days in Algeria, Germany and France.

Diabetes can affect adolescents’ sexual maturity

yunus — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:13:36 +0000

Diabetes can have serious implications for adolescents who suffer, because if not controlled during this stage, they risk among others, failure to achieve proper sexual maturation.

The Institute for Diabetes Prevention and Education in Peru, warned that teens who do not control diabetes are not only at the risk of being small in stature, but also risk failing to achieve adequate maturity and keep the voice and body of a pubescent.

At this stage of life is at best should beware, advises Dr. Olga Nunez, of the Institute. However, in this period is usually when the children prefer to do what their contemporaries are as consuming junk food and go to bars or cafes.

“When you are diabetic and adolescents at the same time, we are talking about a stage because these kids face challenges and emotional changes have to control your blood sugar in the blood,” she says.

Therefore, parents must be vigilant that their children learn to have fun, while taking into account that they can not eat and drink the beverages the same amount than any of his friends.

This does not mean they have to feel restricted. Teens with diabetes can and should take an active social life, so we recommend you ask the support of a nutritionist who will develop a varied diet and not cutting those calories that are necessary for growth.

“Drinking alcohol, contrary to popular belief, you can lower sugar levels,” said Nunez. Adolescents with fresh blood can have a healthy life if they get involved in your treatment, take exercise, get a proper dose of insulin and thoroughly monitor their blood sugar with a glucometer.

Remember that diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by increased glucose. The food we eat are converted to it in the digestive tract and from there go through the bloodstream, then, in the pancreas release the hormone insulin. This disease has two types: I and II. The first occurs at any stage of life, the second appears after 40 years of age.

Diabetes and Blood Pressure

wawa — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:10:49 +0000

Diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (affecting the heart and blood vessels). Therefore, your doctor may have made the following recommendations:
* Monitor cholesterol levels and treat them if they are high (it may be that your target rates are lower than for people without diabetes);
* Taking drugs against heart conditions (ACE inhibitors or antagonists, angiotensin) to protect your arteries;
* Are taking aspirin low dose every day – with your doctor determine if you should AAS;
* Monitor yourblood pressure and treat it if it is high (your target blood pressure is probably lower than for people without diabetes).

What can you do to help control your blood pressure?

Ask your doctor about your blood pressure target. Monitor your blood pressure regularly as recommended by the doctor. Many pharmacies sell blood pressure monitors that you can easily use at home. If you find that your blood pressure numbers are higher than normal, tell your doctor. There would need to adopt some changes in lifestyle (see below) or take medication (or combination of drugs) to lower your blood pressure.

Some measures that help control your blood pressure:

* Follow a diet low in fat and salt (eg. The DASH diet);
* Exercise regularly;
* Maintain a healthy weight;
* Reduce your consumption of alcohol;
* Try to give up smoking.

Diabetes Type 1

west baby — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:40:55 +0000

There are two main types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes cause blood sugar levels are higher than normal. However, both can cause this effect in different ways. Type 1 diabetes (formerly called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes) occurs when the pancreas loses its ability to produce the hormone insulin. With type 1 diabetes the same person’s immune system attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Once those cells are destroyed, never again to produce insulin.

Although nobody knows for certain causes, scientists think it has something to do with genes. But genes do not generally have sufficient reason to have diabetes. Probably a person must have to be exposed to something else, a virus, for example-and type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes can be prevented and there is no practical way to predict who will gain. There is nothing that the parent or the child had done to cause the disease. Once a person gets type 1 diabetes, the disease does not go away and requires long life treatment. Children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes depend on daily insulin injections or an insulin pump to control levels of blood glucose.

Diabetes Treatment with Insulin

Ann Brown — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:42:08 +0000

Most patients achieve good control with diet alone or supplemented with oral antidiabetics. A third of insulin needed for complete compensation.

Rapid Action:
It has crystalline appearance, starts working after half an hour of injection and its effect lasts 6-8 hours.
It is not necessary to shake the vial before use.

Delayed-Action:
Its effect is less rapid but more sustained, is achieved by the addition of substances that give their retardant cloudy Intermediate action may be, acts at 2 hours after injection and its effect lasts 12 to 24 hours.
The long-acting start acting 2-3 hours and its action comes after 24 – 36 hours.
It is necessary to shake the vial gently rotating the palms, to homogenize the product.

The technique of insulin injection:
The injection should be carried out completely after loading the jeringilla. Should be flushed before the skin with an alcohol swab. With the index finger and thumb of the left hand pinch the skin and subcutaneous tissue, forming a crease where the needle is inserted perpendicular or oblique slightly by region. The injection is subcutaneous fat in there underneath the skin.

Before injection we must ensure we did not punctured a blood vessel, which is checked by gently pulling the plunger and check that no blood appears in the jeringilla.

The insulin injecting each time in a different place, this prevents hardening and bulges.

The injection sites are the anterior part of the thighs, on the outside of the arms, buttocks and the front of the abdomen.

Nurses should teach correct technique and expliacarle that she should be normal and lose their fears and concerns.