Posts Tagged ‘disease’

March 18 2010

Vitamin Deficiency Can Increase Risk of Eye Disease

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Vitamins are substances that are needed in the body’s metabolic processes. Based on the research results found that many eye diseases due to lack of vitamins. Because vitamins can not disitentis by the body and to provide for cons, we have a lot to consume a variety of foods contain the necessary vitamins. Vitamin is essential for the prevention, treatment and reduce the symptoms of certain eye diseases.

The following eye diseases that would be incurred if lack of vitamin:

1. Types of eye disease due to deficient vitamin A.

Vitamin A deficiency can cause night blindness pernyakit, xerophthalmia and cornea softing. The signs are blurred vision in the light of a rather dim, dry eyes, easily tired and others. Because the physiological effects of vitamin A deficiency is associated with the visual impression of the dark, he could combine the name of a substance in the eye redopsin, redopsin have an important effect on the maintenance of the visibility adjustment is good and normal, associated with the maintenance of the integrity of skin structure and accelerate the development of growth.

Foods that contain lots of vitamin A are: egg yolks, milk, meat, pokcai, tomatoes, carrots, chicory, types of fish, fish oil, animal liver and sebaginya.

2. Types of Eye Diseases for the body of vitamin B1 deficiency.

If the deficiency of vitamin B1 is prone to xerophthalmia, optic neuritis or orbital optic neuritis and others. The signs of dry eye, decreased vision, dilated pupil, slow to react to light, feels pain when eyes move, the eye socket felt tight and sore. Since the main physiological effect of vitamin B1 is the cell metabolism to accelerate the process, particularly related to the function of nerve conduction. Should be filled by consuming foods rich in vitamin B1, such as feathers rice, wheat flour, foods from beans, animal liver, beans, pumpkin, bean sprouts, potatoes, apricot seeds, walnuts and so on.

3. Types of Eye Diseases due to deficiency of vitamin B2 body.

Often, vitamin B2 deficiency can cause inflammation of the visual nerve, nodule eye, cornea inflammation, and so forth. The signs are decreased visibility, eye afraid of the light, tears flow, congestion, etc. cornea. To comply you can eat foods that are rich in vitamin B2, such as yeast, dairy foods result, beef, animal liver, soybeans, pocai and vegetables spinach, ear mushrooms, sunflower seeds, and fruits and so forth.

4. Types of Eye Diseases due to deficiency of vitamin C.

The body lack of vitamin C can cause bleeding in the eyelids, anterior chamber, vitreous body, eye retina, and even can cause cataracts, and so forth. Because the main benefit of vitamin C is to maintain the formation of substances between cells, following the oxidation of the cell structure and restore the original reaction to other metabolic reactions in the body, and has a softening effect of the blood vessels. Therefore, if the vitamin deficiency, can cause bleeding of the eye, as mentioned above.

To cope with more to eat green vegetables and fresh fruits, as it will be useful to prevent bleeding in the whole body and the eyes. Because vitamin C can weaken the light and oxygen to damage the eye’s lens (associated with the incidence of cataract disease), so multiply that eating foods rich in vitamin C.

January 10 2010

House Dust Can Trigger Asthma

Number of asthma sufferers in Indonesia continued to increase sharply Last post a few years, especially in South Sumatra. Most asthma occur in children and potentially interfere with the growth and development. Asthma itself is a disease that has many causes and factors most often because of atopy (allergy). This disease is associated with hereditary disease. If one or both parents, grandfather or grandmother astma children suffer can be lowered to the child.

Part disease in FK Unsri / RSMH Palembang, Prof. Dr. Salim Mart Eddy, SpPD-KAI some time ago. say, the factors that cause and trigger asthma include house dust mites, animal fur, smoke, smoke mosquito coil, and others. Some foods which trigger such as cow’s milk, fish, fruits, nuts and even the weather factor. “In foreign countries, people with asthma decreased dramatically, while in our area increased. Research in Palembang and test each patient’s asthma, 80 percent of asthma triggers are factors that house dust and air pollution, “he said.

In addition to the dust factor, the food industry products with artificial coloring (eg tartazine), preservatives (metabisulfit), and MSG (monosodium glutamate-MSG) can also trigger asthma. “The condition of other triggers that can cause asthma is the activity, infectious diseases, emotions or stress,” said Eddy Salim Mart.

Participants before the meeting, Eddy said, if there had been a genetic factor, then immediately conducted bermanifes prevention, environmental factors that must be manipulated. “Someone has the potential asthma should stay away from objects that absorb dust, such as carpet rugs, furry dolls should be cleaned and shunned,” he said.
Problems Asthma

Frequent relapse and recurrence of asthma complaints, so that frustrated parents eventually moved from one doctor to another doctor. This is done because often the complaints are allergies in children are often given drugs relapse, although the most expensive and best. If management is not done properly and correctly, then the complaint will allergies or asthma, and there is a tendency over naughty. Recurrent relapses will lead to increased health care expenses. But to be more attention is the increase risk for the occurrence of side effects from medication. Not infrequently with asthma get the treatment of antibiotics, anti-allergy or even a steroid in a long time.

Eddy Mart According to Salim, people with asthma are at risk of anaphylactic reactions due to food allergies can be fatal, life-threatening. Food is particularly frequent cause of fatal reactions are nuts, fish and eggs. After eating certain foods packed reaction, wheezing, fainting, and disorders of consciousness. If not immediately life-threatening can be saved.

To overcome asthma sufferers who have not been to the doctor, usually, people buy medicines in the shop. Of course, these drugs have limitations. If you go to the doctor, the drug that will be used there are two kinds. The first preventive medicine (controller) in the form of suction, if he attack (attack) bersipat salve medicine. “Medicine is not very effective fighter because at any moment will recur so that the required controller medications,” said Eddy Salim Mart.

(source : Sriwijaya Post – Sabtu, 26 Desember 2009)

December 22 2009

Skin cancer

skin_cancerSkin cancer tend to have increased in number especially in America, Australia and the UK. Based on several studies, they were white people who suffer more of this type of skin cancer. It is predicted as a result of their often affected (more exposure) sunlight. In Indonesia countless sufferers of skin cancer is less common than the 3 countries, however, skin cancer needs to be understood that in addition to causing disability (ruin the appearance) is also at an advanced stage can be fatal for patients.

Skin cancer is a disease characterized by the growth of skin cells that are not controlled, can damage surrounding tissue and can spread to other parts of the body. There are three types of skin cancer that often affects most people, including a basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and malignant melanoma (MM).

# Basal cell carcinoma (BCC)

Is a type of skin cancer is most common. This type of cancer has not spread (metastasize) gets another body, but cancer cells can grow and cause damage to surrounding skin tissue. The bright colors and are often exposed to the sun heating the two suspected as the cause of basal cell carcinoma. Other factors can also cause this type of cancer is the body’s immune system is weak (good impact other disease or treatment), burns, X-ray beam.

1. Signs and Symptoms
Parts of the body basal cell cancer is usually the face, neck and scalp. The signs of this type of cancer is a bit shiny bump, pink with rose-colored edge slightly blackish, abnormalities such as scarring and abrasions / lika that does not heal.

2. Types of cancer diagnosis
Single method to ensure basal cell cancer that doctors will perform clinical and Histopathologic examination by taking a sample of skin is considered as a cancer tissue (biopsy) for examination under a microscope.

3. Therapy and Treatment
If the diagnosis has been established clearly that people develop skin cancers basal cell type, the action taken is usually surgery or removal of skin tissue (cancer) is complete, or can be with radiation action. Other methods are also often done is frozen surgery, surgical electricity, lasers, fotodinamik and with both drugs are applied or injected (chemotherapy).

# Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)

Is a type of skin cancer that affects men more especially the elderly (seniors). This is the type of skin cancer where malignant cells occurs epidermal keratinocytes, a skin cancer to the two posters. SCC of skin cancer can spread to other body gets, generally suffered by those who are tropical region.

Like BCC disease, this type of skin cancer is also suspected by the sun (dominant), Immune weak body, viruses, chemicals and scar tissue can also cause this penyekit. The signs and symptoms is a disorder in the form of lumps, bumps or wounds that does not heal. Diagnosis is established by the same method in the BCC, as well as therapy and treatment measures tend to be similar to the basal cell cancer.

# Malignant melanoma (MM)

This is the type of skin cancer is the most vicious and potentially lethal. In the U.S., the data obtained six of the seven patients died of this cancer. And the number of people affected increased from year to year. Can develop malignant melanoma mole arises from an existing or newly emerging.

1. Signs and Symptoms
This information is very important for meraka who have a mole that then either change the color, size and shape, sometimes flies Tahi itch and bleed when scratched. These cancer cells grow from melanocytes, the skin cells that function to produce melanin pigments.

Cancer is characterized by ABCD, A = asymmetric, irregular shapes. B = Border or uneven edges, too. C = Color or color that varies from one area to another. Could brown to black. Even in certain cases found in white, red and blue. D = diameter greater than 6 mm.

2. Diagnosis of malignant melanoma
Enforcement
of disease diagnosis in cases of this type of skin cancer as well as the two types of skin cancer on the (BCC and SCC), which is doing the action biopsy for examination under a microscope.

3. Therapy and Treatment
Malignant melanoma is a type of skin cancer, the most malignant, can spread into other body gets as lymph glands. Action taken on this type of cancer is complete removal of cancerous tissue by surgery, has been known to occur when the spread is required further surgery to remove surrounding tissue. If the cancer cells was found to spread to lymph glands, the glans inevitably also appointed.