Caring for Life

How important are our Nails?

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:22:14 +0000

“The nails can be windows to a patient’s overall health, and while the nail itself is dead tissue, the areas under the cuticle and beneath the nail are alive,” stated Dr. Scher. “These areas are particularly vulnerable to infection and damage, which is why it is important to see a dermatologist with any nail changes, so that the problem can be diagnosed and treated.”

Cosmetics

Keeping the nails healthy and neat looking has become an important grooming ritual for both men and women as the number of consumers that frequent nail salons and use nail cosmetics at home has increased.

“Nail cosmetics and salon services are generally quite safe, but there are potential problem areas associated with the use of nail cosmetics and salon services: infection, allergic reactions and mechanical damage to the nail,” said Dr. Scher. “While these are fairly rare occurrences, they can be serious and consumers should take some simple measures to guard against these potential health concerns.”

Contracting an infection is the most serious health risk related to nail cosmetics, particularly from manicure and pedicure tools and implements that have not been properly sterilized. Viral, bacterial and fungal infections may be transmitted to unsuspecting consumers from improperly sterilized implements.

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MRSA

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:14:00 +0000

In “Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment options of skin and soft tissue infection caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureaus,” a clinical overview published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Farley observes that the spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is no longer a concern only in hospitals. It has become a complex community and public health concern about which clinicians, including nurse practitioners, must be increasingly cognizant. In a review of 40 years of research, Farley provides nurse practitioners and other clinicians a unique roadmap to understand, recognize, and potentially prevent transmission of MRSA as he highlights current thinking about MRSA risk factors, the skin and soft tissue infections hallmark of community-acquired MRSA, and the current best methods of diagnosis and treatment.

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What is the Cold Chain?

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:03:54 +0000

Vaccine Storage and Handling also known as “The Cold Chain” refers to the storage of vaccines between +2° C to +8° C from the time a vaccine is manufactured, to the time it is administered. The purpose is to maintain vaccine potency and minimize wastage. Administering vaccines that lack potency due to a cold chain failure can result in a poor immune response and lack of protection for the client. Certain vaccines such as live virus vaccines are particularly labile to temperature abuse.

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Tips To Safely Handle And Prepare Stuffing This Christmas

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:49:00 +0000

Clean: When preparing stuffing, wash hands and surfaces often. Bacteria can spread throughout the kitchen and contaminate hands, cutting boards, knives and countertops. Frequent cleaning can keep that from happening. Always wash hands with warm water and soap for 20 seconds before and after handling ingredients for stuffing such as sausage, giblets, shellfish, vegetables, bread, rice, pasta and fruits.

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How much damage is smoking doing to your health?

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:52:40 +0000

Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.

Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.

Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.

Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.

its time to stop

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What is a pulse Oximeter

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:05:37 +0000

Pulse oximetry is a simple non-invasive method of monitoring the percentage of haemoglobin (Hb) which is saturated with oxygen. The pulse oximeter consists of a probe attached to the patient’s finger or ear lobe which is linked to a computerised unit. The unit displays the percentage of Hb saturated with oxygen together with an audible signal for each pulse beat, a calculated heart rate and in some models, a graphical display of the blood flow past the probe. Audible alarms which can be programmed by the user are provided. An oximeter detects hypoxia before the patient becomes clinically cyanosed.

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Is this the answer to Acne Treatment

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:58:19 +0000

The FDA approved narrow-band, high-intensity blue-light therapy for treating acne. Now widely advertised, this is probably the best-known light therapy for acne treatment. Blue light works by killing the acne-causing bacteria, P. acnes, and is being used to treat inflammatory acne vulgaris that has not responded to other acne therapies. The blue-light products of today do not contain ultraviolet (UV) light, which was a staple of former light therapy used to treat acne. UV light can damage skin and is no longer used to treat acne.

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Your Health is your wealth——–Stay safe!

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:14:36 +0000

Condoms are highly effective against the most dangerous of sexually transmitted infections—HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. They are also effective against unintended pregnancy as well as against gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis. Condoms use is also associated with a lower rate of cervical cancer, an HPV-associated disease. It is vital that sexually active youth have access to condoms to protect their health and their lives.

However, the last eight years have seen ultra-conservative, far-right ideologues attacking condoms and their effectiveness, while at the same time making the outrageous claim that providing young people with information about condoms leads them to have

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Drug test Kits——-The Facts

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:09:47 +0000

Drug Testing has become increasingly common over the last decade. Many employers now test their employees for illegal drugs and alcohol as a measure to improve safety within the workplace. On-site drug testing kits are used in many healthcare settings to monitor abstinence or to offer prescriptions and increasingly, parents or partners are home drug testing their children or family members to help deter drug use in the home.

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Surgery Cleanliness

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:03:04 +0000

Health and Medical facilities had become a big question in today’s advancing world. Qualified doctors need to be approached so that they provide special treatment and prescribe medicines to achieve overall wellness. With the growing importance of this issue it has become necessary to include health care education in the school curriculum of students

Equiptment needs to be up-to-date well maintained, clean to express the position of professionalism of the Qualified Practitioner and putting patients at ease when they enter a frindly and clean environment

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Anger is bad for your health!

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:35:24 +0000

An emotion commonly expressed in response to irritating, threatening, unpleasant, or frustrating situations. Anger typically manifests itself in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses (e.g. increased heart rate and pupil dilation), and sometimes in overt acts of aggression. Anger is a natural and healthy response that has evolved to enable us to deal with threats, but uncontrolled anger in sport is often associated with poor performance. When an athlete becomes angry, the cause of the anger often becomes the focus of attention. This may lead to a lack of concentration on the task at hand and performance deteriorates

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Are paper Toilet seat covers beneficial

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:28:57 +0000

The paper toilet-seat cover can be a guardian angel for the backside, but only if the seat is dry to begin with. When the cover is placed onto a seat that´s wet, it ferries bacteria and viruses from the toilet seat up to your bare skin.

The good news is that you´re unlikely to contract a disease merely by sitting on a pathogen-covered toilet. Neither viruses like influenza nor the bacteria responsible for illnesses such as strep throat are dangerous unless they come in contact with the mucus membranes
-something easily prevented by washing dirty hands with soap before touching your mouth or eyes (which you do already, right?). Most sexually transmitted diseases cannot survive once exposed to air (exceptions are the herpes virus, which can live for a few hours, and hepatitis B, which can linger for seven days). To catch a disease, the seated party would have to have some sort of break in the skin to allow the virus to enter. So if your bum is flawless and you don´t mind the yuck factor, go ahead and take a seat.

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Baldness

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:00:44 +0000

What is baldness? In medical terms baldness is known as Alopecia. Baldness is the loss of hair and the scalp becomes visible. This condition is more prevalent in men than women. Hair loss is mainly due to age, illness, heredity, changes in hormones etc. In male pattern baldness the loss of hair is on the front portion of the head, which is known as the crown. Some men lose all their hair on the head too. In female pattern baldness too, the hair gets thin all over the head or mainly in the crown and front position. In female pattern baldness, it is very rare to see fully bald women.

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Bird Flu

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:41:05 +0000

Bird flu is not a very common disease and hence there are many wrong notions about it. It is not well known to everyone that there are several types of this influenza virus and the way it is contracted is also not generally known. It would be useful for everyone to have some basic knowledge about the bird flu virus. With the onset of the flu season, the spread of bird flu is of considerable worry to people in many countries. Bird flu is type A influenza virus that attacks not only birds but pigs and other animals like chicken, turkey etc. can be infected by it as well. Human beings are usually infected by A, B and C types of influenza virus. When people live close to pigs and poultry, it is possible for genetic changes and sharing to happen.

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