Causes of Diarrhea

Diarrhea is the condition of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. Every day, the digestive system, particularly your small and large bowels (intestines), must process nearly nine quarts of fl uid! Of course, that does not all come from the water, coffee, tea, juice, or other beverages that you drink, which typically account for only about two quarts of this total. Your body actually produces the rest of this fl uid, in the form of saliva, digestive juices from the stomach and pancreas, bile from the gallbladder, and an additional one to two quarts of fluids produced in the intestines to aid in digestion.

Normally, your bowels can effi ciently handle both the fluids that you drink and those your body produces. Problems arise, however, when viruses, bacteria, certain foods, sweeteners, or disease irritate or alter the lining of the small or large bowel, preventing the absorption of this fluid.

Some common conditions that cause diarrhea: Too Much Fluid, Viral and Bacterial Gastroenteritis.

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Three Types of Alzheimer's Disease

There are three known basic types of Alzheimer’s disease (AD):

• Early- onset AD is a rare form of the disease that afflicts people younger than 65. Less than 10% of people with AD have this type. Memory loss, behavior changes, and premature aging characterize this type. Because they experience premature aging, people with Down syndrome are particularly at risk for a form of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Early-onset Alzheimer's appears to be linked with a genetic defect on chromosome 14, to which late-onset Alzheimer's is not linked.
• Late- onset AD, the most common form, accounts for about 90% of cases and usually occurs after age 65. Geneticists are working hard to make the connection between genes and AD. There are several suspect genes. Late-onset dementia is also called sporadic Alzheimer's disease. 
• Familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD). This form is inherited. In affected families, at least two generations
  have had the condition. FAD is rare and  accounts for less than 1% of all cases of AD. People may display symptoms of FAD as early as age 40. The presence of a positive family history in the late onset cases is considered as a risk factor, but a clear autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance is rare.

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Alzheimer's Disease - A Brain of Clumps and Plaques

What is Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a condition in which the brain slowly shrivels and dies. Nerve cells in the brain stop working, and brain signals that are essential for life do not function properly. Although some people believe that dementia and decline in the later years are inevitable, geriatricians—who study and treat diseases of older adults—strongly disagree. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are considered illnesses and are not part of normal aging.

People with AD gradually lose judgment, thinking, and reasoning ability, or cognition. Personality and behavior change. The person may become anxious, agitated, and delusional. The progressive loss of intellectual abilities is called dementia. As the disease progresses, the individual needs help in all phases of life, including bathing, eating, and using the restroom. Families and friends of people with AD are especially affected. Seeing their loved ones change from the person they once knew to a stranger is emotionally devastating. Most scientists now agree that AD is a genetic disease. They have located the genes that may cause some kinds of early- onset AD. Researchers throughout the world are working on connections between the environment and genetics in the many types of dementia.

There are three basic types of Alzheimer’s disease:

1. Early- onset AD is a rare form of the disease that afflicts people younger than 65. Less than 10% of people with AD have this type. Memory loss,behavior changes, and premature aging characterizethis type.
2. Late- onset AD, the most common form, accountsfor about 90% of cases and usually occurs afterage 65. Geneticists are working hard to make the connection between genes and AD. There are severalsuspect genes.
3. Familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD). This form is inherited. In affected families, at least two generations
   have had the condition. FAD is rare andaccounts for less than 1% of all cases of AD. People may display symptoms of FAD as early as age 40.

Here are 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's (source: http://www.alz.org) :

1. Memory loss that disrupts daily life.
2. Challenges in planning or solving problems.
3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or at leisure.
4. Confusion with time or place.
5. Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships.
6. New problems with words in speaking or writing.
7. Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.
8. Decreased or poor judgment.
9. Withdrawal from work or social activities.
10. Changes in mood and personality.

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General order to do first to stroke patients

Initial measures applied to all stroke patients are necessary to stabilize and assess the patient, and prepare for definitive therapy. All current and, probably, future stroke therapies for both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke are best implemented as fast as possible, so these things need to be done quickly.

• O2 via nasal cannula (routine oxygen delivery in ischemia might improve outcome).
• Intubation may be necessary if the patient shows arterial oxygendesaturation or cannot “protect” their airway from aspiratingsecretions. However, intubation means that the ability to monitorthe neurological exam is lost. The best approach in such patientsis to prepare to intubate immediately, but before doing so, take a moment to be sure the patient does not spontaneously improve or stabilize with good nursing care (suctioning, head position, etc.).
• Consider putting the head of the bed flat. This can significantly help cerebral perfusion. 
• Consider normal saline bolus 250–500 mL if blood pressure is low.
• If the blood pressure is high, antihypertensive treatment.
• Determining the exact time of onset is critical for establishing eligibility for acute therapies, especially TPA. It is very important to be a detective. You will usually be told a time by the  paramedics or ED triage nurse, but be sure to recheck the information you receive from them. If possible, try to speak personally with first-hand witnesses, nursing home staff, etc.
• In most cases, the onset is not observed – the patient is found with the deficit. In that case, or in patients who awaken with symptoms, the onset time is the time the patient was last seen normal. However, if the patient awoke with symptoms, be sure to ask if the patient was up in the middle of the night for any reason (often to go to the bathroom) – as sometimes this puts the patient in the time window for treatment.
• Examine the patient and do the NIH Stroke Scale. The initial stroke severity is the most important predictor of outcome
• Do a non-contrast head CT. This will immediately rule out hemorrhage as blood is bright on a CT.
• The result will determine the first major branching point in therapeutic decision-making.
• Obtaining the CT is often the major impediment in preparing for thrombolytic therapy, so efforts should be made to shorten “door to CT” time, which should be below 30 minutes.
• In some select centers, emergent MRI can be done very quickly and substitute for CT, but this is the exception.
• If the CT shows no blood, try to get the artery open TPA is the only FDA-approved treatment for ischemic stroke, and you should immediately begin to determine if the patient is eligible for this therapy, and prepare for its administration.

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Stroke 'Mimic' or Real Stroke?

Distinguishing stroke 'mimic' from real stroke has not been well studied.  It's not unusual for patients to show up in the emergency room, worried they are experiencing a stroke. But other medical conditions, such as tumors, systemic infections and hematomas, can actually "mimic" a stroke.

All of the following may present similarly to a stroke. In all cases, the distinction can be made by an emergent MRI scan, which will showabnormal diffusion-weighted signal in most stroke cases, but not inmimics.

• Seizures. If a seizure has a focal onset in the brain, the patient may be left with weakness, numbness, speech, or vision problems for a period of time (usually less than 24 hours) after the seizure. Patients with seizures at onset are usually excluded from clinical trials of new stroke therapies.
• Migraine. Patients may have unilateral weakness or numbness, visual changes, or speech disturbances associated with a migraine headache (“complicated” or “complex” migraine). The best rule of thumb is not to make the diagnosis of complicated migraine or migrainous stroke unless the patient has a history of previous complicated migraine events similar to the deficit displayed in the emergency department.
• Syncope. This is usually due to hypotension or a cardiac arrhythmia. Stroke rarely presents with syncope alone. Patients with vertebrobasilar insufficiency may have syncope, but there are usually other brainstem or cerebellar findings if syncope is part of the stroke presentation.
• Hypoglycemia. Patients with low blood sugar may have symptoms that exactly mimic a stroke. The important thing is to check the blood sugar and, if low, correct it. If the symptoms do not resolve with correction of the hypoglycemia, the symptoms are probably from a stroke.
• Metabolic encephalopathy. Patients may have confusion, slurred speech, or rarely aphasia with this condition. They usually do not have other prominent focal findings.
• Central nervous system tumor. The location of the tumor would determine the type of signs and symptoms seen. A tumor, unlike a stroke, usually does not present with sudden focal findings, unless accompanied by a seizure.
• Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). This infection tends predominantly to affect the temporal lobes, so patients may have signs of aphasia, hemiparesis or visual-field cuts. Onset can be rapid and in its early stages may mimic a stroke, but fever, CSF pleocytosis, seizures and decreased level of consciousness are more prominent with HSE.
• Subdural hematoma. Depending on the location, this may cause contralateral weakness or numbness that may mimic a stroke. A CT scan can make this diagnosis, but the subdural hematoma, if small, may be subtle.
• Bell’s palsy (peripheral seventh nerve palsy). The important point here is that the forehead and eye closure are weak on the same side. One can have a stroke involving the pons and produce a peripheral seventh nerve palsy, but usually there are other signs and symptoms such as weakness, a gaze palsy, or ipsilateral sixth nerve palsy.
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). This may cause vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and a sense of imbalance, usually with turning of the head in one direction. This characteristic syndrome is due to labyrinthine dysfunction and not stroke. However, as with syncope, the presence of any brainstem or
  cerebellar signs should alert one to the possibility of a stroke.
• Conversion disorder. Patients may develop neurological signs or symptoms of weakness, numbness, or trouble talking that are manifestations of stress or a psychiatric illness.

Stroke is a clinical diagnosis, supported in some cases, but not all, by an appropriate abnormality on brain imaging. Despite its limitations, the clinical assessment directs immediate management of the patient with suspected stroke. For patients to receive time-critical treatments (such as thrombolysis, medical or surgical treatment of intracerebral hematoma, reversal of anticoagulation), they must be brought to hospital rapidly, assessed quickly and accurately, and promptly sent for the appropriate investigation.

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What Is a Stroke?

The term “stroke” usually refers either to a cerebral infarction or to non-traumatic cerebral hemorrhage. Depending on the population you are seeing (ethnicity, age, comorbidities) the ratio of infarcts to hemorrhages is about 4:1. A stroke happens when blood flow to a part of the brain stops. A stroke is sometimes called a “brain attack.”

There are two major types of stroke: ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.
Ischemic stroke occurs when a blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain is blocked by a blood clot. This may happen in two ways:

• A clot may form in an artery that is already very narrow. This is called a thrombotic stroke.
• A clot may break off from another place in the blood vessels of the brain, or from some other part of the body, and travel up to the brain. This is called cerebral embolism, or an embolic stroke.

Ischemic strokes may be caused by clogged arteries. Fat, cholesterol, and other substances collect on the artery walls, forming a sticky substance called plaque.

A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel in part of the brain becomes weak and bursts open, causing blood to leak into the brain. Some people have defects in the blood vessels of the brain that make this more likely.

There is currently no 100% sensitive and specific test for cerebral infarction in the emergency department, so that the diagnosis is usually made on the basis of a characteristic history, exam, presence of comorbidities, and the absence of seizures or other stroke mimics. CT scanning is usually negative in the first three hours, or shows only subtle signs that have low inter-observer reliability. If available, MR imaging, or detection of an occluded artery by transcranial Doppler or arteriography (by CT, MRI or intra-arterial catheterization), can be confirmatory. Parenchymal or subarachnoid hemorrhage, on the other hand, can be reliably detected by emergent CT scanning.

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Efficacy and benefits of soursop fruit

Soursop, a native fruit from the West Indies, Central America, down to Brazil and it is a common fruit in tropical Asia nowadays.  Soursop is a fruit that has the most delectable flavor. Soursop is not only a delicious and healthy fruit but it is use medicinally to treat illness such as:

• Hemorrhoid.
  Take the ripe soursop fruit. Squeeze to take water as much as 1 cup, and drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
• Bladder pain.
  Half-ripe soursop fruit, sugar and salt to taste. All material is cooked compote made​​. Eaten plain, and performed regularly every day for 1 week in a row.
• Infant Diarrhoea.
  Take the ripe soursop fruit. Soursop fruit is squeezed and filtered to take water, drenched diarrhea in infants as much as 2-3 tablespoons.
• Urinary tract infections
  Half-ripe soursop and sugar to taste. Soursop peeled and boiled with sugar with 2 cups of water, filtered and drunk.
• Back Pain.
  20 soursop leaves, boiled with 5 cups water to boiling until tinggal3 glasses, drink 1 a day 3 / 4 cup.
• Ulcer
  Soursop leaves are still young enough, stick it in a place exposed to ulcers.    

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What Is Cerebrovascular Disease?

Cerebrovascular disease is the term applied to a large number of diseases with pathology in the blood vessels of the brain or the vessels supplying blood to the brain. Atherosclerosis is one of the conditions that can cause cerebrovascular disease. Another form of cerebrovascular disease includes aneurysms. In females with defective collagen, the weak branching points of arteries give rise to protrusions with a very thin covering of endothelium that can tear to bleed easily with minimal rise of blood pressure. Cerebrovascular disease, including Stroke, is the third-leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability among older Americans. Below is a simplified classification of cerebrovascular diseases where neuroprotection is required:

Cerebral ischemia
   Global cerebral ischemia due to cardiac arrest
   Focal cerebral infarction
   Carotid stenosis or occlusion leading to cerebral ischemia
Cerebral hemorrhage
   Hemorrhagic infarction
   Hypertensive hemorrhage
   Hemorrhage due to rupture of intracranial arteriovenous malformations
   Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to rupture of intracranial arterial aneuryms
Spinal stroke
   Cardiogenic thromboembolism
   Hypertensive encephalopathy
   Diseases of cerebral blood vessels: e.g., atherosclerosis, vasculitis

Stroke is the term commonly used to describe the sudden onset of focal neurological deficits such as weakness or paralysis due to disturbance of the blood flow to the brain. The term is applied loosely to cover ischemic and hemorrhagic episodes. An ischemic stroke occurs when a thrombus or an embolus blocks an artery to the brain, blocking or reducing the blood flow to the brain and consequently the transport of oxygen and glucose which are critical elements for brain function.

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The characteristic symptoms suggestive of asthma

Persons with a genetically determined allergic constitution are at risk to develop a number of diseases. At the moment, it is not understood why a certain allergic patient develops asthma, while another allergic person develops rhinitis or eczema.

The key symptoms of asthma are coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing and chest tightness. Asthma is an ongoing disease caused by inflammation of the airways, making it difficult to breathe. If the symptoms are severe and persistent, this can even lead to chest deformities.

The characteristic symptoms suggestive of asthma are

• wheeze
• chest tightness
• shortness of breath and 
• cough

especially if these symptoms are:

• recurrent 
• worse at night or in the early morning, or 
• obviously triggered by exercise, irritants, allergens or viral infections.

However, the symptoms and signs of asthma vary widely from person to person and the absence of typical symptoms does not exclude the diagnosis of asthma. In children, a chronic or recurring cough, in the absence of any wheeze or associated atopic features, is unlikely to be asthma.

In young children, asthma is merely a non-allergic disease that is triggered by viral infections of the airways, often labeled as asthmatic bronchitis or wheezy bronchitis. However, the older the child gets the more allergy becomes involved, and from the age of 5 years, most children with asthma have an underlying allergy. Because both asthma and allergic rhinitis are diseases that affect the airways, controlling rhinitis will help control symptoms in people who also have asthma.

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Lemon for Hemorrhoids Medication

Lemon contains elements of chemical compounds such as limonene, linalin acetate, acetic geranil, fellandren, sitral and citric acid. 100 grams of lemon fruit contains: - 27 milligrams of vitamin C, - 40 milligrams of calcium, - phosphorus 22 milligrams, - 12.4 grams carbohydrate, - 0.04 milligrams of vitamin B 1, - 0.6 milligrams of iron, - Fat 0 , 1 g, - calories 37 grams - 0.8 grams of protein - 86 grams of water.

Some diseases can be treated with lemon such as tonsillitis, Malaria, Hemorrhoid, laryngitis, influenza, cough; heat pain, Constipation, Late menstruation, stomach pains during menstruation, dysentery, stomach Heartburn, Stomach Nausea, Tired, body odor, facial wrinkles.

Attempting to cure hemorrhoids without surgery is not an easy thing. Natural remedies play an important role in relieving hemorrhoids. When compared to medicinal remedies, natural remedies are cheap, available and their effect lasts for a longer duration. There are various natural remedies to get relieved of hemorrhoids, but one should keep in mind that there is no guaranteed success - some cases improve, some are cured, others don't. 

One important natural method to get relief from hemorrhoids is using the juice of a lemon. Divide the whole lemon into four parts with out removing the skin. Pour half liter of water and boil it for fifteen minutes. Allow it to cool and consume this mixture as and when required. One cup per day will help you in passing fecal smoothly. This cup of lemon juice contains bioflavonoid rich in quantity and also vitamin C. This juice helps in strengthening the blood vessels and also the capillary tubes.

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Garlic as Alternative Treatments for High Cholesterol

Garlic contains many nutrients. This plant serves to maintain health and ward off diseases, ranging from worms to cancer and other degenerative diseases. Another benefit to improve memory and immunity, and prevent premature aging.

Garlic bulbs consist of a few cloves (3-12 cloves) are clustered together to form large bulbs, white and shaped like a top. The name for garlic is very diverse, namely garlic (UK), knoflook (Germany), suan (China), pills (Korea), ninniku (Japan), aglio (Italy), thoam (Arabic), ajo (Spanish).

Efficacy onion recovered to prevent and cure various diseases has been known since ancient Greece. Hippocrates advocated the use of garlic to treat wounds and grievances toxic bronchitis (inflammation of the lungs). In fact, in China famous for an old adage. If you have reached the age of 50 years and then eat the garlic for 50 days, you will increase the age of 50 years. The phrase is not true 100 percent, but suggests that garlic is important for health, so it can extend life expectancy.

Some of the herbal and nutritional supplements said to lower cholesterol include garlic. According to some studies, garlic may decrease blood levels of total cholesterol by a few percentage points. Other studies, however, suggest that it may not be as beneficial as once thought. It may also have significant side effects and/or interactions with certain medications. Garlic may prolong bleeding and blood clotting time, so garlic and garlic supplements should not be consumed prior to surgery and should not be taken with blood-thinning drugs such as Coumadin (warfarin).  

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What you need to know about High Blood Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a waxy steroid of fat that is produced in the liver or intestines, fat-like substance found in the walls of cells in all parts of the body, from the nervous system to the liver to the heart. The body uses cholesterol to make hormones, bile acids, vitamin D, and other substances. Cholesterol circulates in the bloodstream but cannot travel by itself. As with oil and water, cholesterol which is fatty and blood which is watery do not mix. So cholesterol travels in packages called lipoproteins, which have fat (lipid) inside and protein outside.

High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. If there is too much cholesterol in the blood, some of the excess can become trapped in artery walls. Over time, this builds up and is called plaque. The plaque can narrow vessels and make them less flexible, a condition called atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. In fact, the higher your blood cholesterol level, the greater your risk for developing heart disease or having a heart attack. Heart disease is the number one killer of women and men. Each year, more than a million Americans have heart attacks, and about a half million people die from heart disease.

As mentioned above, high blood cholesterol causes “hardening of the arteries” so that arteries become narrowed and blood flow to the heart is slowed down or blocked. The blood carries oxygen to the heart, and if enough blood and oxygen cannot reach your heart, you may suffer chest pain. If the blood supply to a portion of the heart is completely cut off by a blockage, the result is a heart attack.

High blood cholesterol itself does not cause symptoms, so many people are unaware that their cholesterol level is too high. It is important to find out what your cholesterol numbers are because lowering cholesterol levels that are too high lessens the risk for developing heart disease and reduces the chance of a heart attack or dying of heart disease, even if you already have it.

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Immunosuppressant Drugs To Prevent Rejection of The New Pancreas Transplantation

A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who usually has diabetes (wikipedia.org). Patients with type 1 diabetes have experienced positive results from pancreas transplants. Typically, part or all of a new pancreas is surgically implanted in the lower abdominal cavity of a patient. The old pancreas is left alone; it still makes digestive enzymes even though it doesn’t make insulin. People with successful pancreas transplants may no longer need to take insulin and may have normal blood glucose levels. In addition, many of the side effects that often accompany diabetes are also prevented, or at least slowed.

The risks for pancreas transplant include:

• Blood clots (deep venous thrombosis)
• Clotting (thrombosis) of the arteries or veins of the new pancreas
• Development of certain cancers after a few years
• Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)
• Leakage of fluid from the new pancreas where it attaches to the intestine or bladder
• Rejection

The downside to pancreas transplantation is that the body treats the new pancreas as foreign. The immune system attacks the transplanted pancreas. People with pancreas transplants must take powerful immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection of the new pancreas. Drugs that suppress the immune system can lower resistance to other diseases such as cancer and bacterial and viral infections. Pancreas transplantation is most often done when a patient is also receiving a new kidney. The pancreas transplant adds little further risk and offers big benefits.
However, transplant surgery is risky. Each person needs to carefully weigh the potential benefits and the risks.

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Insulin Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

Because the body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in diabetes care plan. How much insulin that need to take depends on the blood glucose level, or prediction of the level will be after a meal. Naturally, food also plays an important role in the diabetes management plan, because it contributes glucose to the blood. Usually, physical activity can lower the blood glucose level, decreasing the dose of insulin.

Most people with type 1 diabetes take insulin by injecting it with a needle and syringe or an insulin pen. The goal is to mimic normal insulin release as closely as possible. People without diabetes have a low level of insulin available in the blood most of the time. This is a background, or basal, level of insulin. After meals, a bolus of insulin is released, just enough to clear the glucose in the meal from the blood.

The type of insulin therapy should relate directly to the health and the lifestyle choices. Your chosen therapy may be as simple as keeping your blood glucose levels from shooting too high after meals or falling too low between meals. Or the therapy may be more challenging: trying to keep after-meal blood glucose levels as close as possible to those of someone without diabetes. Of course, healthy eating and regular exercise are a part of everyone’s healthy living plan.

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Common Type and Goals of Therapy for Diabetes

There are four types of diabetes therapy and its goals. Here is the short explanation.

• Meal plans therapy, goals of this therapy are, Manage weight, Manage blood glucose levels, Manage blood lipid levels, Reduce chances that you’ll need additional medications
• Exercise plans therapy, the goals are, maintain muscle tone and physical fitness, Lower blood glucose levels, Lower blood lipid levels, Increase sensitivity to medicationsc Aid meal planning in managing weight
• Oral diabetes medications : Reduce blood glucose levels by improving insulin release, reducing available glucose, and/or decreasing insulin resistance
• Insulin injections, the goals are, Make up for the body’s inability to produce insulin, Reduce blood glucose levels by improving insulin action and overcoming insulin resistance

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Things that Cause Allergies

An allergic reaction is caused by a foreign protein that is harmless to a non-allergic person. This is called an allergen. Almost any foreign protein can be an allergen to someone. Sometimes the reaction occurs after contact of the protein with the skin or after injection of the protein into the blood by a bite (e.g. a hamster) or a sting of an insect. Some drugs which are not proteins can also induce an allergic reaction. This is because these drugs (such as penicillin) can bind to body proteins, creating a complex that can induce an allergic reaction. The drug is not a real allergen, and is called a hapten ( a small molecule that binds to own proteins, being transformed into all allergen).

Allergens are usually divided into two groups:

1. Common inhalant allergens

       house dust mites, pollen pets, moulds
2. Common food allergens
       - egg, cow’s milk, soy, wheat (children below 3-years old)
       - peanuts, fish, shrimp (children above 3-years old)

However, the distinction is not really strict as both types can induce reactions by either the inhaled or oral route.

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About Allergy

Allergy is a genetic feature of the human body, not a disease, nor is it a diagnosis: people can be allergic or non-allergic. It is due to the ability of the human body to produce IgE against harmless substances, called allergens.

The term allergy is used to describe an inappropriate and harmful response of the immune system to a harmless foreign substance (usually a protein), that results in an immune response that can cause symptoms and disease in a predisposed person.

Allergy means that the body reacts in a particular way to the environment by producing a specific type of antibody. That specific antibody, called immunoglobulin E (IgE), induces a hypersensitivity reaction of the body through activating different cell types, including mast cells. Cell activation can lead to “inflammation,” which means that the body attains a state of alertness, and that in the different organs (such as the skin or the airways) swelling, redness and cell infiltration occurs. It is the inflammation that causes the symptoms. If the inflammation occurs in the skin, eczema will result. In the airways, inflammation can result in asthma (lower airways) or rhinitis (upper airways). Symptoms can also occur in other organs such as the intestine, eyes, or even the brain.

So what can you do about your allergies? Can you really get rid of those annoying, painful, and sometimes dangerous allergy symptoms?
The answer is yes.There are the traditional allergy treatment options. At the top of the list is to avoid the cause of your allergic reactions. However, that's often easier said than done.

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Diet as the cause of most children’s diseases

In theory, pediatric diseases may be due to either external, internal, or neither external nor internal causes. External causes refers to the six environmental excesses and pestilential qi. Internal causes refers to damage by the seven affects or emotions. And neither external nor internal causes refers to a miscellaneous collection of disease causes, such as diet, lifestyle, sex, trauma, poisoning, drowning, etc. Although pediatric diseases may be due to any of these three groups of disease causes, in children under six years of age, diet is, the leading cause of the commonly encountered pediatric complaints with external and internal causes aggravating the ill effects of a faulty diet.

In particular, children under the age of five or six are believed to have immature or weak digestion and it is this fact which accounts for most of the commonly encountered pediatric diseases, including colic, earache, cough, swollen glands, allergies, and pediatric asthma and eczema.

The fact that weak or immature digestion is the root of most common pediatric diseases has three main implications. First and very obviously, if digestion plays such a pivotal role in the health and well-being of infants and young children, then diet is extremely important both in terms of preventing disease as well as treating it. Secondly, treatment for most children’s disease should also pivot around regulating and strengthening digestion. And third, because the spleen and stomach automatically mature around the age of six or so, most common pediatric diseases are self-limiting. This means that children automatically tend to outgrow them. This is an important point which laboring parents should keep in mind when they have lost sleep for the third night in a row due to a coughing son or a feverish, crying daughter with an earache.

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Common Presenting Symptom of Hemorrhoidal Disease

Human has been blessed with an anus, it is fair to assume that he has also been doubly blessed with haemorrhoids. The word ‘‘haemorrhoid’’is derived from the Greek haema (blood)and rhoos (flowing), and it was probably Hippocrates(460 BC) who was the first to apply thename to the flow of blood from the veins of the anus.

Some estimate that up to 90% of patients may complain of hemorrhoidal symptoms at least once in their lifetime. The incidence of hemorrhoids increases with age, with males affected twice as often as females. Low residue diets seen typically in industrialized countries have been described as contributing to symptomatic hemorrhoids, presumably by causing smaller hard stools. This is clearly not the only etiology however, as those patients with diarrhea may also develop symptomatic hemorrhoids. Diets high in fiber may reduce the risk of hemorrhoid congestion. Although increased intra-abdominal pressure such as that seen in chronic pulmonary disease, prostatism, and pelvic tumors has been postulated to contribute to symptomatic hemorrhoids, the actual incidence is no greater in these patients than is found in the general population.

The most common presenting symptom is bleeding. It usually happens toward the end of defecation and is often bright red and painless. Prolapse and thrombosis may also occur. The patient may also complain of swelling and itching, but pain may also be present if there is thrombosis involving the external hemorrhoids

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Cinnamon - Herbal Treatment for diabetes

Since many years ago and now Cinnamon is one of the plants used to treat diabetes. Cinnamon is taken from the inner bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, cinnamon trees grow in mainland India, China, and Ceylon.

Cinnamon is known to have healing power comes from the oil contained within the skin. Cinnamon is used as an herbal tonic because of its antioxidant and better than six other plants that also are antioxidants such as anise, ginger, licorice, mint, nutmeg and vanilla.

Cinnamon is used in addition to lowering blood sugar, cinnamon can also be used to lower triglycerides and LDL cholesterol for people with type 2 diabetes. If you use cinnamon as herbal diabetes, you should still consult with your doctor. And one thing we remind use Cinnamomun Cassia species.

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Kidney Disease - Complications of Diabetes

Some potential diabetes complications are:

• Heart disease
• Kidney disease/Kidney transplantation
• Eye complications
• Diabetic Neuropathy and nerve damage

• Foot Complications
• Skin Complications
• Gastroparesis
• Depression

Kidney Function

The kidneys’ role is to remove waste products from the blood. Inside the kidneys are millions of tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that act as filters. Digestion of proteins creates waste products that need to be removed. Normally, as blood flows through the small capillaries, tiny molecules that consost of waste products flow through the holes with water to make urine for removal from the body. Useful substances, such as protein and red blood cells are too big to pass through the filter and they remain in the blood.

High levels of blood sugar from poorly controlled diabetes can make the kidneys work too hard, putting extra stress on them. After years of damage, the kidneys start to leak and useful protein leaks in the urine. Having a small amount of protein in the urine is known as microalbuminuria. When kidney disease is diagnosed early during microalbuminuria, there are several treatments that may keep the kidney disease from getting worse. However, when kidney disease is caught later, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) usually follows.

Here are Some Facts about Diabetes & Kidney Disease

• 10-21% of all people with diabetes have nephropathy (kidney disease).
• Approximately 43% of new cases of ESRD are attributed to diabetes.
• The risk of ESRD is 12 times higher in people with type 1 diabetes than in those with type 2.
• In the US, the incidence of ESRD in people with diabetes is more than 4 times higher in African Americans, 4 to 6 times higher in Mexican Americans and 6 times higher in Native Americans than the remaining population of diabetic patients.

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Avoid Diabetes - Treatment of Obesity

For more than two decades, there has been an exponential increase in the incidence of obesity around the world. This uncontrolled rise in obesity has been a concomitant increase in the diseases associated with obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Not surprisingly, we have also seen an unprecedented increase in the number of diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.

Obesity is the result of an imbalance between food intake and disposal, and it is a consequence of the failure of one or more factors involved in any of the two processes. Once a primary cause of the failure is recognized, it is required that appropriate steps first be taken to try and correct the problem. A delicate balance between intake and expenditure of energy is required to maintain healthy weight. Perhaps for teleological reasons, the mechanisms that regulate energy homeostasis are biased in favor of net positive energy and are geared toward defense of weight loss rather than prevention of obesity. Spontaneous weight loss in the absence of disease is rare and the experience of progressive weight gain in free-living humans is common.

An elaborate network of central and peripheral neurohormonal signals has evolved to regulate feeding, one of the primal activities necessary for survival and selfpreservation. Current understanding indicates that energy homeostasis in health is predicated upon a balance between orexigenic and anorexigenic factors, both centrally and peripherally. Virtually all of the peripheral signals (e.g., insulin, PYY, leptin, CCK) are triggered by food ingestion and attenuated by fasting or starvation, indicating a response system that is tailored at satiety and meal termination. Ghrelin, the only peripheral signal activated preprandially, may be unique in its role as a rare peripheral signal for hunger and meal initiation.

The hypothalamus integrates diverse signals, including brain neurotransmitters, peripheral neurohumoral afferents, adipocyte-derived signals, gastrointestinal peptides, and other afferent inputs, to regulate energy homeostasis. The arcuate nucleus at the base of the hypothalamus expresses receptors for hormones and neuropeptides that regulate feeding. The paraventricular nucleus in the anterior hypothalamus, the major site of corticotropin releasing hormone and Thyroid Releasing Hormone secretion, receives rich projections from the ARC. Thus, the PVN integrates diverse paracrine and endocrine metabolic signals with classical neuroendocrine pathways mediated through the thyroid and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axes.

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Classification of diabetes

Early diagnosis of all infections or diseases are highly important in its cure as well as proper management. Anyone can surivive any disease when it is detected or diagnosed early to warrant timely and proper treatment.

The complications of diabetes are serious – heart disease and stroke, hypertension, blindness, kidney disease, amputation, complications in pregnancy and depression are just a few. But there are ways to fight diabetes.

The classification of diabetes includes four clinical classes:

● Type 1 diabetes (results from β-cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insulin deficiency)
● Type 2 diabetes (results from a progressive insulin secretory defect on the background of insulin resistance)
● Other specific types of diabetes due to other causes, e.g., genetic defects in β-cell function, genetic defects in insulin action, diseases of the exocrine pancreas (such as cystic fibrosis), and drugor chemical-induced (such as in the treatment of HIV/AIDS or after organ transplantation)
● Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy that is not clearly overt diabetes)

All people with diabetes have one thing in common. They have too much sugar, or glucose, in their blood. People with very high blood glucose levels share many similar symptoms:
- extreme thirst
- a frequent desire to urinate
- blurred vision
- a feeling of being tired most of the time for no apparent reason
People with type 2 diabetes may also experience leg pain that may indicate nerve damage or poor circulation. Many people with type 1 diabetes and some people with type 2 diabetes also find that they lose weight even though they are hungrier than usual and are eating more.

Know the signs of diabetes disease, you can fight it.

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Benmari - To Heal or To Recover

In the Java language "Benmari" has the meaning "to heal" or "to recover". In essence, all diseases can be treated and our efforts quite influential in determining the cure of disease. Therefore, on this web site will be presented in several articles regarding the disease and treatment. Article to be presented include some basic understanding about the disease and healing through drug therapy and healing through alternative means (alternative medication).

We hope all the articles presented on this site can be useful for those who need.

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