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Psychologists explain that the person with healthy mentality is not inclined to colour dreams

Scientists from university of Texas advise to reflect on the health to people who regularly have colour dreams. Psychologists say that usually people have black-and-white dreams. And here people who regularly see colour images — potential patients of psychiatric clinics. Professor Bravin Stent has conducted research with participation of volunteers at the age of 25-47 years which it has divided into 3 groups. The first group included people with a schizophrenia, into the second group — owners of hereditary signs of this disease, in the third — mentally healthy people. Experiment has shown that schizophrenics in 20 times have colour dreams, including nightmares is more often. The patients possessing hereditary signs, also have mainly colour dreams. Absolutely healthy people are inclined to see black-and-white dreams.

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There is little else that triggers such a visceral reaction from parents than the words “head lice,” especially when they are uttered in conjunction with an outbreak in their child’s classroom or summer camp.

But when it comes to these creepy, crawly, head-dwelling creatures, there is nothing to fear except fear itself, say researchers in an updated report on the diagnosis and treatment of head lice in the August issue of journal of Pediatrics.

Yes, head lice are gross, but they are not a health hazard or a sign of poor hygiene. They don’t spread any disease, and controversial no-nit policies, which state that if your child has any sign of lice or their eggs (nits) they should be kept home, should be abandoned, they say.

“It’s only a bug on your child, not in your child like the flu or pneumonia,” study author Barbara L. Frankowski, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, says in an email. “Healthy children — which includes children with head lice infestation — should be in school learning.”
Treatment-Resistant Head Lice

The new report was last updated in 2002, and since that time, there has been a growing concern that lice are becoming resistant to some common over-the-counter treatments such as permethrins (like Nix) and pyrethrins (like A-200, Clear Lice System, Pronto, R & C, and Rid).

“They are still a good first-line treatment for most since they have been proven to be so safe and are available over the counter, [but] if these products don’t work and you are sure you have the correct diagnosis and have used the product properly, then you would want to talk to your health care provider about second-line prescription medications,” Frankowski says.

Another option is wet combing with a fine-toothed lice comb to make the lice easier to catch and remove, or suffocation (petroleum jelly or another product is massaged into your child’s hair, he or she wears a shower cap overnight and doesn’t wash their hair until the morning).

“Wet combing and suffocation methods are more time consuming, but can be helpful for parents who wish to avoid chemicals,” she says. “None of the methods are 100% effective, and often need to be repeated for two or three cycles,” she says. This includes nonprescription products.

There are some newer treatments available that target lice that have developed resistance. “There are several prescription options like Ulesfia, Ovide, ivermectin, and your health care provider can help you weigh the risks and benefits for your child,” she tells WebMD. While effective, these treatments may have some risks attached to them, and need to be studied for longer periods of time. Another prescription product used to treat lice is lindane shampoo (Kwell).
Diagnosing Head Lice Is Tricky

Diagnosis of head lice is not a slam dunk, and misdiagnosis of head lice may play a role in treatment resistance, says Cindy DeVore, MD, a pediatrician and school physician in New York State and the chair-elect for the Council on School Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“Parents may misdiagnose head lice when they see flecks of dandruff or debris and mistake it for head lice in the face of a classroom parent notification of lice,” she tells WebMD in an email. “Because self-treatment has been available, involvement of physicians in the care of a child with head lice tends not to occur, and overuse and misuse of OTC medicines likely have complicated sorting out what is actual resistance and what is simply inadequate, inappropriate, or under-treatment.”

Treatment should only be started if there is a clear head lice diagnosis, she says.

Bernard Cohen, MD, chief of dermatology for Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, agrees.

“Despite resistance to treatment, I think the most common cause of spread and treatment failure is failure to identify and effectively treat all infested kids.”
Preventing Lice Not Easy Either

So if diagnosis is tricky, and lice are starting to outsmart some of the more common treatments, what about prevention?

Lice can’t hop or fly. Instead, they crawl from head to head. “Totally preventing head lice is probably impossible, if you have a normally active, social child,” Frankowski says. “Head lice is a normal risk of childhood, just like colds and scraped knees.”

“Although most lice infestations are spread by direct head-to-head contact, many advise teaching children not to share combs and brushes,” she says. That is OK, but “not using helmets for safety because you are afraid of lice is never an option,” she says.

“Most cases of head lice are community acquired, often at sleepaway programs or parties, and not uncommonly in the summer,” Devore says. “Parents should do regular surveillance of young children, checking the napes of necks, behind ears, and throughout the scalp, looking for signs of live lice or “nits” cemented to hair shafts close to the scalp that are not readily pulled out,” she says.

And “if there is a significant outbreak in a classroom of more than 20% of the children, the parent can check with the primary care physician to see whether use of a permethrin rinse on an uninfested child might confer some protection until the infestation in the classroom calms,” she says.
Not All In Favor of No-Nit Policies

Although the researchers do stress abandoning no-nit policies to avoid prolonged, unnecessary absences from school, other organizations, including the National Pediculosis Association, still support them. The nonprofit group states that not removing nits is the main reason treatments don’t work, and if children with hatching nits are readmitted to school, the head lice outbreak will continue.

“While absence from school or child care is a loss of educational opportunity and an encumbrance to working parents, readmitting an infested child is not the solution,” the group states. “A policy for head lice must consider not only the infested child, but also his or her peers who have already been successfully deloused or who have not yet been infested.”

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Drinking alcohol may help keep rheumatoid arthritis at bay, possibly because it dampens the body’s immune response, new research suggests.

Alcohol consumption may also protect people who already have the autoimmune disease from developing a more debilitating form.

“This actually isn’t a new concept. There have been other articles [stating] that alcohol might be protective,” said Dr. Guy Fiocco, assistant professor of internal medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and director of rheumatology at Scott & White in Temple, Texas. “[But] I don’t think we’re going to be advocating alcohol to prevent rheumatoid arthritis.”

Nor do the study authors advise drinking as a cure for arthritis. “We would wish to point out that, at the moment, that our findings are preliminary, and would not recommend that patients drink alcohol with the specific purpose of treating their arthritis,” said Dr. James Maxwell, lead author of the study and a consultant rheumatologist at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust in England.

“We would also remind patients to observe recommended government limits for alcohol consumption,” he added.

According to background information in the study, published online July 28 in Rheumatology, previous studies were mostly conducted in mice. The benefit of ethanol exposure for these rodents seemed to be due to higher levels of testosterone, the researchers wrote.

For this study, the authors compared 1,004 healthy participants to 873 people with rheumatoid arthritis. Both of those groups were divided into four groups: nondrinkers, those who drank 1 to 5 days a month, the ones who drank 6 to 10 days a month, and those who drank more frequently.

“We found that arthritis was progressively less severe as alcohol frequency increased, with a definite difference compared to nondrinkers even in the least frequent alcohol consumption group,” Maxwell said.

The teetotalers had quadruple the risk of having rheumatoid arthritis compared with those who drank in the highest category.

And the more often one drank, the less damaging the rheumatoid arthritis tended to be, including healthier joints as shown on X-rays and less inflammation.

The association was seen in both men and women, though it was stronger in males.

Although no one can pinpoint a reason for the link with certainty, “essentially we think that alcohol may be having an effect by reducing the immune response, which leads to joint inflammation, and also that it may have a mild pain-killing effect,” said Maxwell.

“There’s a little information that alcohol can suppress the immune system,” added Fiocco. “What’s been reported is that people who drink excessive alcohol actually have higher levels of the cytokines that lead to the inflammation and moderate amounts of alcohol actually may lower these levels.”

This finding is slightly different than what is reported in the current study (that the severity of the disease decreased with more alcohol).

Because the researchers assessed drinking frequency, rather than the amount of alcohol consumed, it is not clear how much alcohol might be helpful, they said.

And Maxwell stressed that their preliminary findings need to be replicated in the future.

“There are limitations to any research which asks patients to report their exposure to something (such as alcohol) over a period of time,” Maxwell added. “We would therefore recommend that a future prospective study should be performed to further assess the impact of alcohol consumption on rheumatoid arthritis, a study recording alcohol consumption at the time rather than asking about it later.”

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Pull out those earplugs to your iPod if you’re studying for a test or performing a task. And turn off the stereo. What you hear while trying to concentrate can be distracting and impair your ability to memorize and recall information.

That’s the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Wales Institute, who say they’ve found that listening to music seems to impair task concentration as well as the ability to remember.

Nick Perham, PhD, and colleagues at the Wales Institute in Cardiff signed up 25 people aged 18 to 30 to examine their ability to recall information while listening to various sounds.

They were asked to recall a list of eight consonants in a specific order in a test known as serial recall. They were tested under several different conditions: in a quiet environment, while music was playing that they liked, and while music was playing that they disliked.

They were also tested while a voice repeated the number three or spoke single-digit numbers randomly.

The study participants performed best while in a quiet environment or while listening to a voice repeating the number three over and over — what the researchers called a steady-state environment.

“The poorer performance of the music and changing-state sounds are due to the acoustical variation within those environments,” Perham says in a news release. “This impairs the ability to recall the order of items, via rehearsal, within the presented list.”

Perham concludes that to reduce the negative effects of background music when recalling information in a specific order, people “should either perform the task in quiet or only listen to music prior to performing the task.

“Listening to music you prefer prior to, rather than at the same time as task performance, does increase performance,” he tells WebMD.
Music vs. Performance

The researchers say their study does not necessarily negate findings by scientists in the 1990s that concluded, among other things, that listening to the music of Mozart increased concentration, the so-called Mozart Effect.

“Those studies are more to do with therapeutic interventions rather than performing tasks while background music is being played,” he tells WebMD. “However, this seems to refer to listening to music prior to task performance to increase mood and arousal, and this is definitely not the case when trying to recall information in order while background music is playing,” Perham says.

The researchers say their findings “may have implications for studying skills in which students typically [study] for examinations while listening to music.”

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A group of British scientists made a breakthrough in modern oncology. Researchers led by Professor Ray Wood of the University of Mildeksa created a drug for injection, which is able to stop the spread of cancerous tumors, and even later to reduce their total number.

According to scientists, the new drug is particularly effective for the treatment of complicated forms of cancer, like breast cancer, ovarian, colon and pancreas. The vaccine was created based on the discovery that some of the most aggressive tumors produce hormones that are usually found only in pregnant women.

Human chorionic gonadotropin hormone (hCG) is a determining factor when using a pregnancy test – namely the presence of this hormone has a positive result.

Professor Wood has found that some form of hCG is also produced when certain types of bladder cancer, as well as half of the cases, pancreas, exactly as in the tumors of the ovary, colon and breast cancer.

With the new drug, there is a reprogramming of the human immune system, which subsequently began to destroy the hCG. This process leads to a significant reduction of tumors, as well as in blocking the spread of metastases in the body.

The vaccine has already passed the first stage of clinical trials and has yielded positive results. It assures the professor Ray Wood, a new unique drug came on the market within five years. Wood believes that only in the UK alone, the vaccine each year will save tens of thousands of sick people.

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Ask any parent, that he would prefer for the child: heavy flowing illness or innocuous response to the vaccine with a guarantee of protection against subsequent infection?

It would seem that the answer is obvious. So why do many educated mums and dads, the word “vaccination” to this day causes a seizure?

Perhaps still need to use the same “blessings of civilization” that the entire civilized world? ..

Questions from our correspondent on the modern vaccine meets Vasily Fedorovich Uchaikin, Academician, Chief Pediatric infectious disease of the Ministry of Public Health.

Vaccine – a preparation of attenuated live or killed microorganisms, their metabolic products, individual components of microbial cells. We can say that the vaccine – it is a kind of medicine. Only the usual drug given to patients, and vaccine – for healthy people. Apply vaccine to enhance the body’s resistance to infectious diseases, as well as for the treatment of certain diseases. Introduction of foreign substances (antigen vaccine) causes specific changes in the immune system, resulting in formation of protein molecules – protective antibodies. They who create in the human body resistance to infection, ie immunity.

Conditionally vaccines can be divided into several groups. Inactivated vaccine – is when pathogenic, ie disease-causing bacteria are subjected to heat treatment or chemical attack. In this very source of infection is killed. This is the vaccine most long-standing origin, they are not very into technology. An example of such vaccines – pertussis, a vaccine against typhoid fever, a number of vaccines against influenza.

Live vaccines are made from neutralized virus strains (organisms), no longer capable of causing disease. Among the live vaccines belong to a vaccine against measles, rubella, mumps, yellow fever.

Polysaccharide, split vaccines (for example, some of suppressing anti) differ in that easily carried the majority of vaccine recipients. Of the pathogenic bacteria isolated a protein that is responsible for formulating the so-called protective, ie, protective immunity. This is the new more modern technology.

Fourth group of vaccines – recombinant vaccines. This is a completely new generation of recombinant vaccine technology.

- How important do you think is in the modern, especially urban, Child Vaccine?

- Vaccine – this is the greatest achievement of human thought. On the relevance and effectiveness can be compared with the chlorination of water. For many centuries, mankind has not suspected that the bacteria is easily transmitted through water. Therefore, from cholera, typhoid, dysentery wiped out entire towns. When, finally, used in domestic water were treated with chlorine, the number of intestinal diseases had declined. Unfortunately, this discovery had no impact on infections that are spread in a different way: for example, airborne droplets or contact. Their prevention has assumed Vaccine, “invented” about 200 years ago. Then, during a raging epidemic in London smallpox English physician Edward Jenner was the first in the world for the prevention of child inoculated cowpox virus. Baby did not get sick while in the hearth of the epidemic.

However, the scientific revolution, this experiment did not produce. The subsequent history of vaccination did not develop as smoothly. At various stages she met strong opposition, including from the church. But little by little, people began to understand that the vaccine – the most economical and easiest way to protect themselves from infection.

Modern Vaccine led to dramatic results. With the help of vaccination completely eradicated smallpox. Significantly decreased the number of measles among children (before and killed up to 30% of babies ill in the age of 3 years). It is safe to say that where there is a vaccine against the disease – as in the cases of poliomyelitis, measles, diphtheria, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A and B – is very real total elimination of these diseases and even the complete destruction of the natural wild strains that cause infection.

- However, many mothers are still afraid to make children immunized. The benefits of vaccination, they seem to know, but fear that the child’s body may react to the medication injected undesirable manner. On the basis of this bias and how to win?

- In my opinion, most moms simply fear for the baby, the body which introduced an alien substance – the vaccine. When the doctor prescribes a sick child medicine, such as antibiotics, mother meekly agree not thinking about that one, they are treated, the other – maimed. A vaccine for some reason just cause fear and distrust, even though its task – to prevent infection.

Of course, any vaccine – rogue substance for the body, so one or other reaction to its introduction (prituhanie the injection site, redness, pain, mild fever) – an absolutely natural process, although it is rare.

It is a mistake to believe that “children’s” infectious diseases – chicken pox, measles, mumps – easier and safer perebolet than move vaccinated against them. Dangerous misconception.For example, rubella is a greater threat to pregnant women: in most cases, diseased pregnancies ends in miscarriage or birth of a child with congenital deformities.

Meanwhile, complications from the vaccine are extremely rare and usually associated with its individual components and quality. And the danger of the organism’s reaction to the vaccine is incomparably lower than the risk of most infections.

- But probably still smoke without fire and any contraindications to vaccination are available?

- By current inactivated, subunit vaccines – virtually none. To live vaccines, contraindications, of course. This immune deficiency, pregnancy, acute form of any disease. If a child is very cold, it is better to wait a week. In chronic disease vaccination is not dangerous. Perhaps with the exception of severe diseases of the nervous system, brain. Although in this case, the child must be vaccinated, but only in stationary conditions.

- please remind mothers of the major changes that have taken place in the modern vaccination calendar.

- Until recently, we profilaktirovali with vaccine only seven infections: tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps and polio.

Since 1997, the calendar made compulsory vaccinations are two vaccines – Hepatitis B and rubella. Admittedly, the whole world in this respect is far gone forward. In America, all children are vaccinated against rubella since 1967. Therefore, there is a disease almost disappeared. We also rubella vaccine was not, as in the recent past, all the work for its establishment had been dropped. Formally rubella is mild in childhood infections. However, ill rubella are complications, including encephalitis and other severe damage to the central nervous system. Moreover, as we have said, in pregnant women causes a severe disease affecting the fetus in utero. There is only one – vaccination. The current situation is complicated by the fact that the national rubella vaccine does not, and buy foreign – it’s expensive. But, in principle, I do not see anything wrong with that people who care about their health, will buy the vaccine yourself.

Another new for the vaccine – hepatitis B – the whole world has also long been introduced in the number of mandatory. We – also, but so far to vaccinate against this insidious and very dangerous infection in fully, we can not: the state does not allocate the necessary funding for the purchase of relatively expensive drugs. In recent years – and this, unfortunately, known only to specialists – hepatitis B has become a true national disaster.

Where we have made great strides in the fight against polio. Previously polio vaccination consisted of nine doses. Now, thanks to routine vaccination calendar epidemiological situation in our country is so improved that the incidence of polio has dropped to almost zero.

Now we have moved six times in the vaccination. To completely eliminate the complications of a live polio vaccine to the individual schedule is better to introduce the first two doses of inactivated vaccine. Then continue the introduction of live oral polio vaccine, as is done in many countries, such as the United States.

The big problem remains hepatitis A. The number of cases in our country has increased. Hepatitis A is often erroneously considered a light infection, but in fact it is a serious disease, at least a month attracts people to the bed. Liver after it recovers from 3 to 12 months.

Three years ago we began to fail twice to vaccinate children against measles and mumps. Re-vaccination (re-vaccinated before school) helps to protect those children whose immunity after the first vaccination for some reason did not work out or extinguished.

The level of graft (ie, coverage of the population received the vaccine) should be not less than 95%. Only with such a proportion are the real conditions of complete elimination of the disease. It is important that physicians are well informed themselves promoted vaccination.

- At what age is best to start vaccinating?

- In general, vaccinations can begin at any age. But the sooner we will establish a child’s immune system, the greater the likelihood that when a chance encounter with the infection, he was no longer sick.

In accordance with the state immunization schedule of hepatitis B vaccination is done immediately after birth, in the first 24 hours. But you can start vaccination and 3 months, along with the DPT (vaccine against pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus) and polio vaccine. In 12-15 months – immunization against measles, mumps and rubella (again – in 6 years). A detailed calendar of immunization can be obtained from any child infectionist.

Another important point: if the mother – the carrier of the virus, such as hepatitis B, it can refer the child through the placenta. Most often (in 95% of cases), infection occurs at birth.Therefore, if we introduce the vaccine within 24 hours after birth, the child’s illness will not develop.

With regard to influenza vaccination, then I strongly recommend to everyone without exception to make flu vaccine. Thus you will secure both itself and your children from this most common infectious disease.

- Can we say that the surge of some infectious diseases such as jaundice, associated with low levels of personal hygiene?

- Certainly. One of the reasons for this deplorable situation in our country – low level of personal hygiene. And most importantly – lack of understanding of the importance of compliance with the most elementary hygiene rules, even in medical environments. Many of our doctors still advise parents to go in the summer with a child in the village – “a cup of milk in the pair.Nowhere in the West, the doctor will not recommend to drink milk “straight from the cow, especially a child. The usefulness of fresh milk does not go to any comparison with the risk of infection with any infection.

Watch for foods that give children who need the most thorough. Very problematic situation now exists in our schools. I mean a system of breakfasts and lunches. The world has long passed to individual schools on an ad hoc meals (similar to that given in airplanes and trains) or the food, brought from home – of course, also as a boxed product. This is done solely in order to avoid possible contact with food pathogens. We have, unfortunately, such an innovation is still considered a luxury.

In order to raise a healthy child, it is necessary to comply with two conditions. First – relative (but not complete!) Insulation baby. No need to immediately increase the number of child’s communication, quickly increase the number of his contacts. From the first day of the birth, he gets tremendous pressure from the outside in the form of various pathogenic bacteria – through the mouth, the air close circle. Adequately respond to such a number of external antigens (ie, foreign substances), the child still can not, they just did not have time to form bodies of their immune defense. Must therefore be a gradual expansion of contacts depending on the abilities of his immune system.

The second condition – relative sterility of all that surrounds kids. Talk about washing your hands is just ridiculous. But another point. During cooking mama in contact with raw food, 100% infected by microbes, poorly washed hands and dishes, does not change the dirty towels. And then she – as a peddler of infection – go to the baby. And later surprised that a child leaving the house, picked up the infection. Therefore, when dealing with a small child about the sterility must be remembered always. And about the sterility of the global. We have, for example, in virtually every clinic is “paddling pool for toddlers. Dear parents and organizers of such “pool”! It’s a real breeding ground for infections! Water treatments in a similar capacity for the child can turn this misfortune.

Another problem – storage of food. If you prepare for future use, leave a lasting “in reserve” cooked product, the microbes in it will quickly “grow up”.

It is better not to be lazy and cook only once.

In general, in our country too many problems to ignore vaccination. Health of the younger generation in our hands, so let’s try to keep pace with the entire civilized world, where, with the greatest respect and willingness to relate to the vaccine, vaccinate their children and themselves vaccinated. Moreover, in many Western countries, in addition to those vaccines that are used by us, be sure to vaccinate against Haemophilus influenzae, which is the most frequent cause of purulent meningitis, are vaccinated against the varicella zoster. In the United States begins mass vaccination against kids rotovirusnoy infection – the most common cause of infectious diarrhea. In the near future will create a vaccine against hepatitis C, HIV infection, chlamydia infection, and many others. There is a complete confidence that with the help of vaccines could improve human health and increase the average duration of its life for several decades.

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Scientists have found that money bills are one of the most persistent carriers of influenza virus – for them it can be stored for 5 days.

Data on how long the flu virus can remain on the banknotes were received during the research laboratory of Virology, Geneva University Hospitals. According to his results, which were announced at the Congress of Toronto and then published in the press, people should be cautious in dealing with bills, especially during epidemics of influenza, because they may be carriers of the virus, which "holds" on them for 120 hours after contact with the source of infection.

To measure the duration of the virus on banknotes, and the duration of its survival, the researchers placed a few fragments of notes influenza viruses from laboratory stocks with different concentrations – H3N2, etc. H1N1i than H5N1, known as the causative agent of avian flu. The notes were placed in the same environment: they are kept at a constant temperature of 22 degrees and the same humidity, and then, after some time after exposure, they were put in culture to test for the virus.

It was found that the higher the concentration of the virus, the more time he can remain on the banknote: the H1N1 virus dilute stayed on the bill for only 2 hours, and the H3N2 virus and other types with a high concentration could be maintained on it for 1 3 days. On the duration of the influenza virus has a great influence mucus – a fact the scientists also recorded in the course of the experiment, when one dose of the bacteria are mixed with mucus, and others not. In the presence of mucus virus A, or H3N2, is able to hold out on paper for 5 days after falling at her, but without the slime disappears already after 2 hours.

However, laboratory parameters, researchers are not limited to: in order to verify the results already attained, they decided to hold the same experience, but in the natural environment.Scientists collected samples of nasal secretions in 14 influenza-infected people and put them on the banknotes. In half the cases the virus could survive for at least daily, and in five cases, he survived for another two days after infection. Taking into account these facts, should be extremely cautious with banknotes and coins during a special spread of influenza, and once again try not to take them in hand.

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Coming to the clinic even with the common cold, we sometimes hear: "To clarify the diagnosis will have to refer you to the X-ray.

And we are going to "radiate" or take a shot that the doctor was able to accurately determine the nature of pathology. But X-rays, these amazing rays, discovered by the German physicist Roentgen more than a hundred years ago, helping not only in the diagnosis of disease – they also have healing properties. With their help, we can treat both tumor and non-tumoral diseases. In the treatment of nontumorous diseases using X-rays with a shallow absorption of radiation by tissues and in low dosages.

Usually, the X-ray resort when other means proved ineffective or when she has a notorious advantages over them, to the advantage of this method include its simplicity, the possibility of using both ambulatory and in hospital, a painless procedure. On the treatment of patients sends medical specialist (surgeon, neurologist, dermatologist, etc.), and the question of the magnitude of radiation dose, the frequency of sessions and the amount of irradiated tissue is in the competence of the radiologist. Currently, radiotherapy has been successfully used in surgery, neurology, otolaryngology, dermatology, ophthalmology and other fields of medicine. Positive clinical effects observed in 85-98% of cases.

In surgery, radiotherapy is used mainly in acute and chronic suppurative-inflammatory diseases, such as boils, carbuncles, erysipelas, panaritiums, osteomyelitis, postoperative complications and consequences of diabetes – the effectiveness of this method is 90-97%. The most efficient X-ray therapy in the initial stages of the inflammatory process: sometimes only 1-2 treatments is sufficient to suspend its development. And in case of complications of diabetes, accompanied by trophic changes in the tissues of the feet, radiotherapy often avoids surgery.

The largest share in X-ray non-tumorous diseases account for the disease osteo-articular apparatus of degenerative-dystrophic nature – arthritis deformans, periarthritis humeroscapular, spondylitis osteochondrosis, heel and elbow bursitis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. By providing anti-inflammatory effect on the surrounding joints, soft tissue, X-ray rays contribute to the reduction and disappearance of pain, increase range of motion in the joints or spine. 80% of patients noted subjective improvement in health status already during the treatment. In addition, it is possible to dramatically reduce the dose of painkillers and anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals, prolonged use of which is often indifferent to the organism.

X-ray radiation is also widely used in the treatment of diseases of the peripheral nervous system – neuritis, neuralgia, radiculitis, plexitis, herpes zoster, and many others. Typically, they cause great suffering and lead to prolonged disability. For these illnesses irradiated locally affected nerve roots, plexus or peripheral nerve trunks. Analgesic effect of X-ray in this case, connected both to the suppression of inflammation in the nerve and surrounding tissues, and with the reduction of pathological impulses.

In dermatology using X-ray treat chronic eczema, neurodermatitis, itchy skin, keloid scars, hemangiomas, etc. In chronic dermatoses, it has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, reducing sensitivity to allergens, the recovery of a metabolism in the cells of the epidermis, the normalization of power in the tissues, stimulates skin regeneration. In the initial stage of irradiation of keloid scars can get rid of the pain and itching, helps stop the growth of keloid and leads to regression growths.

Experience over recent years positive experience of the leading clinics of the world confirms the feasibility and effectiveness of X-ray non-tumorous diseases. As shown radiobiological studies, small doses of X-rays had no harmful effects on human body. And the analysis of remote results of radiotherapy in our country and abroad so far revealed no complications or adverse effects of its use.

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Tactics to combat a cough depends on its duration and nature.

It seems recovered, but a month continue to frighten others strong cough? So, properly treated. 

Some he tormented at night, the other overcomes the morning, for someone fairly sips of cold water or the frosty air that sounded painfully familiar "kha-kha" … a strategy: the more you give to develop cough, the harder it will be ostracized. And choose tactics on the situation.

The first three days of cold: it is not

Since cough, as a rule, cold does not start – just a tickle in the throat, laid his nose, it hurts to swallow. Can it be avoided altogether? The chance is, if a fast start intensive therapy: then stop aching throat infection and will not fall from the upper to the lower respiratory tract.

What to do. Rinse the nose 3-4 times a day with salt water (teaspoon of salt per glass of warm boiled water), and then bury anti-inflammatory drops. Flip your head back, to drug running down the back wall of the nasopharynx – and it will act better.

Every hour, rinse your throat: furatsilinom a solution teaspoon soda, a teaspoon of salt and a few drops of iodine in a glass of water. It is useful to alternate it with the infusion of chamomile, sage, aloe.

The simplest way

Teaspoon of olive oil to hold in your mouth until it ceases to be sticky.

End of first week: it is already here

Miracles are rare, most infections can capture the position. Then begins a cough – a dry, painful, hacking. At this stage the task – turn it into moist, less irritating bronchi, then the recovery process will go faster.

What to do. Education sputum helps warm milk with butter and soda, thermopsis, liquorice root, nard, plantain. Hot tea with honey, warm alkaline mineral water (Borjomi, Essentuki) and soda inhalation are also good. Cough, hindering sleep, we should, on the contrary, suppress, taking overnight funds, acting on the cough center (usually in their composition is codeine).You can try and candy with menthol, but it does not help everyone.

The simplest way

Our grandmother stopped coughing burnt sugar. Teaspoon sugar heat over medium heat. When the sugar melts and acquire a honey color, dip the spoon in a small amount of cold water.The resulting candy is sweet and warm water – perfect remedy for dry cough.

Second week: you out!

When the mucus becomes very much, there is another problem – you can not clear his throat: too dense, thick sputum bad departs.

What to do. In this situation, help medicine, thinning mucus (Bromhexine, mukaltin, etc.). In addition, 2-3 times a day, breathe over the heated mineral water. For best effect, add to it 5-6 drops anise oil. If the sputum is abundant, sticky, you can breathe the broth over the leaves of eucalyptus and pine buds.

The simplest way

Mouled beer – means strong, though not the most pleasant. If you have a strong stomach, you can drink it in half with hot milk.

Third week: tortured unbearable!

The prolonged cough is dangerous, even if not very worried. Sputum may be less, but leaves it with great difficulty. This is a signal that the bronchi do not cope with their work, and the reason for the visit to the pulmonologists.

What to do. In protracted coughing doctor may prescribe antibiotics – but only after the X-ray and sputum analysis of bacterial flora and sensitivity to antibiotics. Another option of treatment – the impact of ultrasound: it can split and diluted sputum in the most remote areas of the bronchi.

The simplest way

In the morning, do not jump up and lie down on one, on the other side, on the back, then on his stomach. Ask your relatives do you massage: pokolachivat edge of his hand gently on the back or hands as if to shake it.

Month and more: too late to drink mineral water

Cough disappears for a couple of weeks, but then reappears with short bouts, especially in wet and cool weather. Or like about yourself when temperature drops: after a warm room gulped air from the street, lay in a cold bed. It can provoke the smell of mustard, paint, tobacco, alcohol. In sharp attacks of cough, red face, sometimes even bursting small flasks. This pattern is characteristic of obstructive bronchitis. It occurs when the bronchi lose the ability to show wetness.

What to do. Require serious medical treatment under the supervision pulmonologist. It can be supplemented with homeopathic medicines. Very effective salt cave – sessions in a room whose walls are covered with salt crystals.

The simplest way

If possible, take leave and go in the dry and hot climate, for example, on the Mediterranean coast or in the Crimea, where on a little longer. The air is saturated with negative ions, iodine and aromatic plants, in itself a miraculous healing tool.

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Use broccoli helps prevent chronic lung disease.

It was proved that the composition of this vegetable antioxidants stop the degradation of NRF2, the key components of defense system against inflammatory processes, whose concentration decreases in lung injury.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical School (USA) and the National Institutes of heart and lung (London, UK) have made such conclusions after analyzing tissue samples from the bodies of patients with lung problems, including severe emphysema, and determine the levels of biochemical substances regulating NRF2.

It was said that an increase in consumption of broccoli in patients with markedly decreased activity of the oxidative stress markers, and the amount of protein increased NRF2 vice versa.In addition, components such as broccoli sulforaphane possible to restore important detoxifying enzymes counteracting inflammation. As noted physicians, sulforaphane stimulates production of useful genes in epithelial tissues and blocked the destruction of NRF2. After the enrichment of the diet of broccoli dishes people have also noted improvement in respiratory function.

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