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Chocolate has antioxidants
New research published in the Medical Journal "Lancet", shows that eating chocolate could prevent cancer and heart disease and contrary to popular belief also fights tooth decay.
Research conducted by scientist from Holland's National Institute of Public Health and Environment shows that chocolates contain antioxidants called Catechins and Phenols. These antioxidants could prevent heart diseases and cancer.
Until now tea was thought to contain the largest amount of these antioxidants but this new research indicates that dark chocolate has four times as much as compared to tea. The researchers found that dark chocolate had 53.5 mg of catechins per 100 gm, milk chocolate contains 15.9 mg per 100 gm, and the black tea contains 13.9 mg per 100 ml.
Chocolate like the red wine - which is said to protect against heart disease, also contains phenols. These reduce the presence of free radicals that damage cells and DNA. Phenols are said to prevent fat like substances in the blood stream from oxidizing and clogging the arteries.
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Atherosclerosis, or the formation of plaque in the arteries, is caused by oxidation of LDL (low density lipoproteins ) that 's one of the cholesterol particles. At first this leads to subtle damage, and then eventually to the formation of advanced plaque. The buildup of plaque can lead to clogging of the arteries, a major cause of heart attack.
By acting as a deoxidizing agent , the phenols prevent clogging of arteries, thus averting heart attacks. The researchers also believe that the cacao plant, from which chocolate and cocoa is derived, boosts the immune system and also restricts the formation of the type of cholesterol which damages heart.
Researchers believe that most of the bad effects of eating chocolate are either overstated or entirely false. For example, chocolate also has not been proven to cause cavities or tooth decay. Rather, it helps thwart mouth bacteria and stop dental decay.
Tooth cavities start when streptococcus mutans bacteria produce a sticky molecule called glucan. This helps the bacteria anchor themselves to teeth and form plaque. These and other bacteria in plaque convert sugar to acids, which eat away the tooth's surface and lead to cavities.
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Research shows that the cocoa butter in the chocolate coats the teeth and may help protect them by preventing plaque from forming. The sugar in the chocolate does contribute to cavities, but no more than the sugar in any other food. Scientists believe that antibacterial agents in cocoa beans offset its high sugar levels. Cocoa bean husk, the outer part of the bean, which usually goes waste in chocolate production in a potent source of these agents. Research has also shown that parts of cocoa bean, the main ingredient of chocolate, thwart mouth bacteria and stop dental decay.
Also, eating chocolate neither causes nor aggravate acne, as is the general belief. In fact recent research has shown that eating chocolate or not eating it does not produce any significant changes in the acne conditions in human beings.
However, as in the case of any other food, eating too much of chocolate may cause health problems. The cocoa butter in chocolate does contain saturated fat, which can increase blood cholesterol levels, and high cholesterol may contribute to heart disease.
Chocolate is high in calories and eating too much therefore make you fat, increasing your risk of heart disease. Over eating of chocolate can also lead to obesity.
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Migraine is an episodic unilateral headache accompanied by visual disturbances and vomiting. The episodic nature of the headache is most characteristic. initially during aura, there is a decrease in cerebral blood flow, particularly in the occipital and parietal lobes. Later, during the phase of headache there is a dilatation of the extracranial arteries related to the variations in 5-HT blood levels. Types of migraine
1. Classical migraine. The headache is preceded by visual or sensory aura.
2. Common migraine. This is without aura. Headache, nausea, vomiting and photophobia are the classical symptoms.
3. Hemiplegic migraine. In this type, hemiplegia lasting for a few days follows the headache.
4. Basilar migraine. Vertigo, diplopia, dysarthria with or without visual symptoms precede occipital headache.
5. Cluster headache. Bouts of severe pain around one eye with associated epiphora and nasal congestion is the hallmark and this type mostly affects males.
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Precipitating Factors Although investigation have not conclusively proved that any factor causes migraine headache some patients do recognize certian factors that precipetate an attach. Certain dietary factors like Tyramine, monosodium glutamate, excessive alcohol, excessive analgesics, ergotamine, oral contraceptives act as triger to cause migraine. Stress, menses, heat, noise, caffeine etc. can also cause migraine.
Diagnosis
Careful history is important.
Diagnostic criteria
Migraine without Aura Attacks lasing for 4 to 72 hours At least 2 of the following: °Unilateral Pain °Pulsating Pain °Moderate to severe Pain °Pain aggrevated by movement Plus at least One of the following °Nausea °Photophobia / Phonophobia
Migraine with Aura Patient should have at least 2 attachs per month and at least 3 of the following. ° 1 or more reversible aura symptoms representing cortical or brainstem dysfunction. ° 1 aura symptom developing gradually over 4 minutes or 2 successive aura symptoms. ° Symptoms lasting for < 60 minutes. ° Headache following aura in < 60 minutes.
Prevention of Migraine
Preventive measures are to be considered when migraine attaks occur more than two or three times a month and disturb normal activity. Preventive medication is continued for 6 months and gradually withdrawn.
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piyas kitni lagti hai Not much general health kaisi hai Normal hai koi aur problem like Bp aur heart trouble all normal frequency of urine kya hai din aur raat donon main 3 - 4 time day time, 1 - 2 time during night, frequency is much more during winter
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Impetigo
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Impetigo (Pyoderma) is a superficial infection of the skin caused primarily by group A streptococci and occasionally by other streptococci or by Staphylococcus aureus.
This condition is seen most often in young children, tends to occur during the warmer months, and is more common in semitropical or tropical climates than in cooler regions. The infection occurs especially often among children living under conditions of poor hygiene.
Minor trauma, such as a scratch or an insect bite, may then serve to lodge bacteria into the skin and cause this infection. While the bacteria causing impetigo may have been caught from someone else with impetigo or boils, impetigo usually begins out of the blue without any apparent source of infection. Impetigo is best prevented, therefore, by attention to adequate hygiene.
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The usual sites of involvement are the face (particularly around the nose and mouth) and the legs, although lesions may occur at other locations. Individual lesions begin as red papules, which turn quickly to vesicular and then pustular lesions that break down and coalesce to form characteristic honeycomb-like crusts. Lesions generally are not painful, and patients do not appear ill. Fever is not a feature of impetigo.
Bullous impetigo is a distinctive form of impetigo characterized by the presence of more extensive, bullous lesions that break down and leave thin paperlike crusts instead of the thick amber crusts of impetigo.
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Precautions:
Impetigo is contagious when there is crusting or oozing. While it's contagious, take the following precautions: Patients should avoid close contact with other people. Children should be kept home from school until the lesions crust over. Use separate towels for the patient. The patient's towels, pillowcases, and sheets should be changed after the first day of treatment. His or her clothing should be changed and laundered daily for the first two days. Usually the contagious period ends within two days after treatment starts.
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Hepatitis
Hepatitis is a type of Liver disease. Most commonly caused by viral infections which are of different types – Hepatitis A virus, B virus, Delta virus, C virus, Non-A, Non –B virus, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Bar virus, Herpes simplex virus, Yellow fever virus.
Hepatitis A virus
Is highly infectious. Spreads by faeco oral route. Poor sanitation aids in its spread. In occasional out breaks water, milk, and shellfish has been the source of spread. In this form a carrier state does not exist. The disease is usually mid as compared to Hepatitis B infection.
Hepatitis B virus
In this type of hepatitis the main source of infection is blood, and the spread my follow transfusion of infected blood or blood products or infection with contaminated needles. Tattooing and acupuncture can also spread this disease. Close personal contacts such as sexual intercourse and specially in the homosexuals is also an important cause of infection. It can be also spread to child from mother at or soon after birth.
Hepatitis B vaccines are available to protect against this infection. This vaccine is ineffective in those already infected with this disease. Vaccination against Hepatitis B forms part of compulsory vaccination of infants in the first year of life. Three doses are needed at 0, 1 and 6 months interval.
Hepatitis B Vaccination
Hepatitis B infected individuals carry this infection throughout life. Some are just carriers without having any symptoms of any illness. Some may have acute illness and some develop chronic liver diseases. These persons are at a much high risk of developing Liver cancer in later life.
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Delta virus
The delta virus is an RNA containing partial virus which has no independent existence. It requires the hepatitis B virus for replication and has the same source and mode of spread. It causes progressive chronic hepatitis and eventually cirrhosis.
Non-A, Non-B, C and E viruses
Non-A, Non-B and C hepatitis is caused by several viruses. The mode of transmission in humans is similar to those of hepatitis B virus. In developed countries Non-A and Non-B & C hepatitis is now cause of 90 % of the post transfusion hepatitis. It can also be spread by other blood products.
Hepatitis E virus is an enterically transmitted virus that occurs primarily in India, Asia, Africa, and Central America. This agent, has epidemiologic features resembling those of hepatitis A. The virus has been detected in stool, bile, and liver from infected patients as well as from experimentally infected nonhuman primates. Studies in humans and experimental animals have shown that HEV is excreted in the stool during the late incubation period.
The commonly recognized cases occur after contamination of water supplies such as after monsoon flooding. An epidemiologic feature that distinguishes HEV from other enteric agents is the rarity of secondary person-to-person spread from infected persons to their close contacts. In outbreaks of waterborne hepatitis E in India and Asia, the case-fatality rate is 1 to 2 percent and up to 10 to 20 percent in pregnant women. The most feared complication of viral hepatitis is fulminant hepatitis (massive hepatic necrosis).
