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Treatment

To relieve symptoms, your doctor may recommend rest and drink plenty of fluids (at least eight glasses per day). When fever and body aches, you can take nonprescription pain relievers. If zanamivir (Relenza) or oseltamivir (Tamiflu) are taken within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, may accelerate recovery in about a day.

Since the flu is a viral infection, antibiotics are ineffective. Children suspected of having flu and high fever should never take aspirin to treat fever. This can cause the disease called Reye syndrome. Instead, you should use acetaminophen (Tylenol). Read the rest of this entry »

Options to avoid getting influenza virus have increased in large scale in recent years.

* Vaccination is recommended for all people get vaccinated each year, including school children who want to reduce the risk of getting flu or pass it on to others. Vaccination is recommended in particular:
- all children and adolescents between 6 months and 18 years of age, especially those with long-term therapy with aspirin and therefore could be at risk of developing Reye syndrome after infection with the flu
- all people over age 50 Read the rest of this entry »

Diagnosis

Your doctor will assess your symptoms to determine if the flu or a cold. If you sneeze or have nasal congestion, you might have a cold. It is very likely that the flu causes fever, cough, chills and muscle aches, and is a seasonal virus but colds. Influenza tends to occur in the winter months, whereas colds occur throughout the year. Read the rest of this entry »

Influenza can cause various symptoms can be mild or severe depending on the type of virus, age and general health of the person. Although it is a respiratory virus, affects other body systems, making the person feel a general physical discomfort. Symptoms may include any or all of the following:

* chills
* Moderate to high fever (101 to 103 degrees Fahrenheit) (38.3 to 39.5 degrees Celsius).
* Sore throat
* Runny nose
* Muscle aches Read the rest of this entry »

Influenza is a respiratory infection caused by influenza virus. This infection is usually spread in the air or by direct contact between two people. Most cases occur during an epidemic, with the peak (highest number of cases) during the winter months nearly every year. The influenza virus is very contagious. It’s called the epidemic pandemic is particularly severe and massively extended in the population.

If compared with other viruses, influenza virus can attack a large number of people in a relatively short time. Each year about 25 million people seek medical attention for symptoms of influenza during the influenza season. In the United States, the Asian flu between 1957 and 1958 caused 70,000 deaths and influenza in Hong Kong between 1968 and 1969 killed 34,000 people. During the worst influenza pandemic in history, Spanish, died between 20 to 40 million people worldwide in less than a year. Read the rest of this entry »

Before surgery, be placed on a hospital gown and remove all jewelry and watches.

The most common location for placing the pulse generator of the CDI is under the left collarbone. Shaved and cleaned skin in this area and put a local anesthetic. If you need more than a local anesthetic to feel comfortable, your doctor may use conscious sedation, a form of anesthesia that allows you to stay awake and pain free during surgery.

I made a small incision in the area numb your collarbone. Then make a small incision into a vein (called the cephalic vein) under your collarbone. The vein is used as a corridor to pass the CDI electrodes to his heart. Some models use a CDI electrode, while others use more. Read the rest of this entry »

For what it is used

Physicians use ICD to prevent sudden death caused by certain types of cardiac arrhythmias. Your doctor may recommend an ICD in the following situations:

- If you survived an episode of ventricular fibrillation-threatening.
- If you have had episodes of abnormally fast heartbeat (ventricular tachycardia).
- If you have an enlarged heart as a result of heart disease called dilated cardiomyopathy and syncope (unexplained).
- If you have coronary artery disease, your heart pumps a small amount of blood and has a high risk of having an abnormally high heartbeat (ventricular tachycardia).
- If you have a genetic (inherited) of heart disease that can cause sudden death (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), even in young people. Read the rest of this entry »

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a medical device that is placed inside the body. An ICD is threatening abnormal heart rhythms of life (called arrhythmias), including ventricular fibrillation, which causes large muscle chambers (ventricles) of the heart beat in uncompressed or pump blood. When this happens, there is no real beats and there is no sufficient blood flow to the brain and to other organs, including the heart. As a result, a person with ventricular fibrillation loses consciousness and can die within minutes.

An ICD consists of two parts. The pulse generator looks like a small box. It is implanted under the skin below the collarbone. The box contains a rechargeable lithium oxide (lasting between five and nine years) and electrical components that analyze the heart’s electrical activity. Connected to the pulse generator are one or more electrodes, which travel to the heart. When the CDI notice an abnormal heart rhythm, a brief electrical impulse runs deep into the heart, correcting the abnormal rhythm. Many people say that the download feels like a blow to the chest, although the type of pain varies. Read the rest of this entry »

WEIGHT LOSS AND CHOLESTEROL

Remember that if you are hypertensive and obese, small decreases in weight (2-4 kg) affects very beneficial in controlling blood pressure, among other things, because obesity is a cause of relative resistance to antihypertensive medication.

And if you also have high cholesterol have been shown to:

- Being overweight is associated with elevated total cholesterol, LDL “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides and with decreased HDL cholesterol “good”.
- Obesity is a cause of resistance on antihypertensive medication.
- The distribution of body fat influences the risk of stroke and an increase of fat in the trunk and upper body is associated with greater risk than if the accumulation of fat was in the lower limbs. Read the rest of this entry »

What is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol?

Cholesterol exists in our body is the product, on the one hand, the cholesterol that is our own body and on the other, which comes across mainly food products of animal origin.

To be carried by the blood needs a special particles called lipoproteins. Among the most important are:

- The lipoprotein – LDL or low density. The cholesterol that is attached to this LDL cholesterol called lipoprotein or “bad cholesterol” because it is deposited in the walls of blood vessels. These lipoproteins increases when you eat too much animal fat, fatty cheeses, sausages.

-HDL lipoproteins or high density. This frees lipoprotein vessel walls of excess cholesterol facilitating its release. It is the HDLcolesterol or “good cholesterol”. And increase with exercise, diet rich in fiber and low in fat and cholesterol. Read the rest of this entry »