Prevent the Spread of Hepatitis B
To prevent the spread of hepatitis B, there are two possibilities, as with the hepatitis A vaccine (shots), and personal care.
All babies have to wear it. The first injection is given at any time between the 4th or 8th week of life, but if the mother is a carrier is administered at 12 hours of birth, the second within 30 days s and 2 months of age (depending on when administered first) and the third between 6 and 18 months of age.
Vaccination in older children and adults
They can also be vaccinated children and adults who have done so before. The vaccination takes place over six months, during which you have to put three shots over six months. Children who are not vaccinated should. Furthermore, this preventive method is known as combined vaccine is especially indicated in:
* Travelers in endemic areas A and B virus: Africa, South America, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, China and Pacific islands (excluding Australia, New Zealand and Japan).
* Gay men with multiple partners.
* Users of intravenous drugs.
* Patients with hemophilia.
* Personal health hospitals. Although most children who receive the vaccine have no problem following the same, sometimes there may be minor problems such as redness or tenderness at the injection site. The most serious problems associated with it are very rare.
However not recommended vaccine administration:
* Before any more serious illness than a cold.
* If, after one dose of vaccine is given a severe allergic reaction.
Another possibility goes through personal care, hygiene measures that everyone should follow, for example:
* Use condoms every time you have sex.
* Do not share needles to inject drugs.
* Wear gloves if you have to touch another person’s blood.
* Do not use a toothbrush or razor from an infected person, or anything else that might have traces of his blood.
* Ensure that the instruments are clean, if getting a tattoo or piercing a body part.
Most People Who Get Hepatitis A Recover on Their Own
Symptoms of the disease are common to all forms of hepatitis A, B and C. The person who gets any form of hepatitis A, B or C, used to feel like you have the flu. There are symptoms that always occur, and that only some people have. Others even have none. Either way, if you have any of the disorders that follow, it is advisable to consult a physician. If this suspicion that this may be hepatitis, will surely make a blood test.
Common symptoms
* Fatigue
* Nausea
* Fever
* Loss of appetite
* Stomach pain
* Diarrhea Symptoms that some people have only
* Darkening of urine
* Light-colored stool
* Yellowing of skin and eyes (jaundice)
Treatments
Most people who get hepatitis A recover on their own after a few weeks. However, it is very important to follow some guidelines:
* Bedridden for several days or weeks as the general state of the person;
* Follow a diet rich in protein and low in fat (for lowering the level of transmittance’s in the blood);
* Drink plenty of fluids (water or juice);
* Do not drink until you have completely recovered;
* Take the medications your doctor tells you (do not act against hepatitis, but it relieves symptoms and helps you feel better);
* Avoiding certain types of drugs like painkillers and tranquilizers.
Global Threats of Viral Infections
The developed world is familiar with global threats of viral infections that produce fear in populations both rich and the poor. The pandemic of SARS, avian flu and swine flu has cost the global economy about 200,000 million dollars. These threats arise frequently and unpredictably as a result of human contact with animals. You need a rapid response from governments, UN agencies, regulators and the pharmaceutical industry for the purposes of coordination, surveillance and vaccine production.
But the poorest people – those living on less than $ 2 per day – is often not considered important when there is a pandemic threat. They do not contribute significantly to the global economy and the health systems of their countries work with a small fraction of the advanced economies devoted to the health of their populations.
Conversely, the view that developed countries have diseases in the developing world is that only three are important: AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This stems from the power of lobbyists and the recognition that these diseases could threaten the developed world. Consequently, these diseases are a disproportionate amount of funding for research and control, while other diseases that kill, blinded, deformed and leave many more disabled persons – the “bottom billion” – have limited access to care health.
These infections are called Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD for its acronym in English). They are not very familiar in the developed world, and their names are often difficult to pronounce: filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (billharziasis) and others, particularly intestinal worms.
Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a dementia that already has more than 100 years of history. In November 1901 was admitted to hospital for mental diseases Frankfurt a 51-year-old named Auguste Deter (Augusta D), with a striking clinical picture of five years of evolution.
After starting with a Jealous delirium, the patient had suffered a rapid and progressive loss of memory accompanied by hallucinations, disorientation in time and space, paranoia, behavioral disorders and severe language disorder. Was studied by Alois Alzheimer, and later by anonymous doctors. He died on April 8, 1906 by sepsis, secondary to pressure ulcers and pneumonia.
The brain of the patient was sent to Alzheimer, who proceeded to histological study. On November 4, 1906 submitted its anatomical observation with the description of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and arteriosclerotic changes in the brain.
General Signs and Symptoms of Cancer
You should know some of the general signs and symptoms (nonspecific) of cancer. However, remember that having any of these signs or symptoms does not mean you have cancer (many other things also cause these signs and symptoms).
Unexplained weight loss
Most people with cancer experience weight loss at some point. Unexplained weight loss of 10 pounds or more (if you’re not trying to lose weight) can be the first sign of cancer. This occurs most often in cases of cancer of the pancreas, stomach, esophagus or lung.
Fever
Fever is very common in cancer patients, although it occurs most often after the cancer has spread from where it originated. Nearly all cancer patients will experience a fever at some point, particularly if the cancer or its treatments affect the immune system. This can make it difficult for the body to fight infections more Less often, fever may be an early sign of cancer, such as in the case of leukemia or lymphoma.
Fatigue
Fatigue is extreme exhaustion not relieved by rest. It can be a major symptom as cancer progresses. Although it may occur in the initial stages of the disease, like leukemia, or if the disease causes loss of blood, which can happen with some cancers of the colon or stomach.
What are the Signs and Symptoms?
A symptom is a sign of disease, illness, injury, or that something is wrong in the body. Symptoms are felt or noticed by the person experiencing them, but may not be easily noticed by outsiders. For example, shivering, weakness, muscle pain, and shortness of breath may be symptoms of pneumonia.
A sign is also a sign that something is wrong in the body. But the signs are signs which are seen by a doctor, nurse or other health care professional. Fever, rapid breathing, and abnormal breathing sounds are heard through a stethoscope may be signs of pneumonia.
A single symptom or sign may not be sufficient to determine the cause. For example, the rash in a child could be a sign of a number of things, such as exposure to poisonous plants, an infectious disease like measles, an infection of the skin or an allergy caused by food. However, if the child has a rash with other signs and symptoms such as high fever, chills, muscle pain and irritation of the throat, then the doctor will have a better picture of the disease. In many cases, the signs and symptoms in a patient alone can not provide enough clues to determine the cause of a disease. You may be required after clinical examination and x-rays, blood tests or a biopsy.
What are the symptoms of Marfan syndrome?
The Marfan syndrome can affect in different ways. Some people have mild symptoms and others have serious problems. Most often the symptoms get worse as you get older.
The skeleton
People with Marfan syndrome are often very tall and thin, have very loose joints or flexible and can have:
* Bones that are longer than normal (eg arms, legs, fingers and toes)
* Long, narrow face
* Crowded teeth because arched palate
* Swollen sternum outward or inward as a hole
* Curved spine
* Flat feet.
The heart and blood vessels
Most people with Marfan syndrome have heart problems and blood vessels, such as:
* Weakness of the aorta (the large artery that carries blood from the heart to the body). The aorta can tear or rupture.
* Leaky heart valves, causing a “heart murmur. A large leak can cause shortness of breath, tiredness and a rapid or irregular heartbeat.
Eyes
Some people with Marfan syndrome have eye problems, including:
Myopia *
* Glaucoma (high pressure inside the eye) at a young age
Cataracts * (the lens becomes opaque)
* Dislocation of one or both lenses of the eye
* Detachment of the retina of the eye.
Situations that Provoke the Anxiety
Tourette syndrome better known as “tics or Tourette syndrome Gilles are violent contractions of the muscles, usually of the face, repeated involuntarily.
Although they can occur at any age, are more common during childhood than in adulthood, usually between four and six years, and children tend to suffer more than girls. It seems that the influence of some male hormones, like testosterone, which acts at key stages of child development, between four and seven years and adolescence, “is the origin of many of them.
In the case of children, “tics” often disappear with the passage of weeks, they arise when the little one go through a situation that is difficult to assimilate.
When there is fatigue or nervousness, these gestures are often aggravated, so it is very important to watch the child to try to discover what are the situations that provoke the anxiety to the extent possible, try to save them. In the event that the “tics” are kept so long, it would be advisable to see a neurologist.
Children suffering with Tourette’s syndrome, because they feel discriminated against at school, which can cause withdrawn behavior in the small. It is important to talk with teachers and above all, do you understand that is not relevant, and detract encourage him to keep playing with other children.
The studies find that the emergence of the “tics” occurs in two very specific personality types: small children and very anxious or who are more distracted and tend to be aggressive.
The “ticis” can be classified as clonic or tonic. In the case of the first movement is short and sudden, while in the second term is more continuous.
Malnutrition is a Major Cause of Morbidity and Mortality for Children
The pediatric ward of our first world this is a disease that occupy the small print in books and also a marginal place in the minds of pediatricians. We are concerned over the health problem of childhood obesity, its origin in the forms of life and nutrition of children and its implications for health. But we can not forget that the opposite case, malnutrition is a major cause of morbidity and mortality for children of more than half the world. One of the most striking clinical and severe, that images of the media posted to geographic locations of permanent famine and social conflict, as some in Africa, have been delivered to almost indifferent gaze of the Western society, is Kwashiorkor .
Kwashiorkor, meaning “child removed”, ie the child has stopped breastfeeding. It is a clinical syndrome resulting from a severe deficiency of high biological value proteins with inadequate calorie intake. You can begin to be evident from weaning, sometimes even earlier if maternal undernutrition is extreme, up to five years of age. Early clinical data of malnutrition are lethargy, apathy and irritability. Once late in the process, there is an inadequate growth, lack of energy, loss of muscle tissue, edema is most evident in the limbs and abdomen, and increased susceptibility to infections, leading to a high mortality rate diseases that are usually benign in other children with adequate nutrition and measles. Dermatitis is common and often scaly skin pigmentation and appendages. The black children have a sparse hair, slightly elastic, with a red-striped color or gray (hipocromotriquia). This coloration is such that they also call “red children.”
Varicose veins and spider veins
Women suffer a pain in the legs when varicose veins are called varicose veins, these bring terrible problems as well as in health and aesthetics,
Varicose veins or varicose veins are caused by poor blood circulation in the legs mostly ankles and calves because it causes the dilation of blood vessels and causes pain and fatigue in the legs. These are seen as colored thread or spider veins forms beneath the skin of red, purple or blue but it can lead to deformation of the leg.
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