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December 15 2009

Learn to Prevent Acute Bronchitis

Your health is one of the most important factors you should consider in today’s world. It is important that you have to maintain a healthy body in order to function normally and productively in today’s society. It is also important that you have to know how to care for your health to prevent certain diseases from becoming worse.

Respiratory disease is very common today. Asthma from other forms of respiratory disease, there are millions of people who suffer from various types of respiratory disorders. You should consider the fact that your respiratory system is one of the important systems you need in your body. This is why you need to know how to take care of your respiratory system to enjoy and live a normal and productive lives.

However, there are some cases where people may suffer from respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis. Bronchitis is a respiratory disease that affects the bronchial tree in which the bronchi become inflamed lungs. Tobacco smokers and people who live in areas where there are high levels of air pollution particularly affected by this disease. If you are one of these people, you have to know how to prevent bronchitis from affecting you.

First, you must understand that there are two types of bronchitis. The first is called acute bronchitis if the can survive only 10 to 12 days. The second type of bronchitis is chronic bronchitis in place may take up to three months to two years.

In acute bronchitis, it was quite easy to prevent this particular respiratory disease from affecting you. Particularly acute bronchitis caused by viruses and bacterial infections. However, there are some rare cases in which bronchitis can be caused by the fungus. People suffering from acute bronchitis may experience a cough with mucus constantly, feeling fatigue, shortness of breath, mild chest pain, mild fever, vibration in the chest when breathing, and they too will experience the cold.

The virus that causes bronchitis can be the same virus that causes the common cold. In acute bronchitis caused by a viral infection, there is no specific treatment is usually required. All you need is lots of rest, and drink plenty of non-caffeine and non-alcoholic beverages.

However, if acute bronchitis caused by bacterial infection, usually an antibiotic drug will be involved with the above-mentioned treatment. If possible, homes should have increased the patient humidity by using room humidifiers.

Usually, acute bronchitis only lasted about 10 to 12 days. However, it may be followed by or associated with the flu or a cold. Sometimes, a cough will continue during the process healing bronchus in the lungs. However, if the cough lasts longer one month, it is recommended that you should consult with your doctor as soon as conditions other than bronchitis can cause a cough.

Some people say that prevention is better than cure. This is very true. Just ask yourself about why suffering bronchitis and get it treated rather than prevent it happening. Bronchitis can prevented. You always need to wash hands thoroughly. If you are a smoker, stop smoking in order to prevent bronchitis occurred. It is also recommended that if you live in an area where there are high levels of air pollution, you should try and install some curtains or air conditioner and filters in your house so you breathe cleaner air.

Bronchitis is a respiratory disease that can cause discomfort in your life. This is why it is important that you need to know about the signs and symptoms of bronchitis so you know if you have and also for you to see if it’s time for you to consult with your doctor about it.

Always remember that bronchitis is a preventable disease. All you need to do is build a good and proper hygiene inside your house, try to reduce or stop smoking, and installing air filters in your neighborhood to let you breathe fresh and clean air. These are some things you should remember to let you know about bronchitis and also know how to prevent it from affecting you.

December 11 2009

Pollution and Dust, the trigger Asthma Children

Environmental cleanliness is one of the key to prevent children from asthma. A recent study reported that exposure to pollution and dust from the infant may increase the risk of asthma at the age of three years.

Asthma is known as a disease is not contagious, but can be derived. That is, if one or both parents suffer from asthma, chances are his son also had asthma or take “talent” asthma.

The good news, “talent” is not going to manifest into asthma if pencetusnya factor avoided. Well, the factors that can trigger asthma can be diverse and different in each person, such as food and dust. Medical experts believe that asthma is strongly influenced environmental cleanliness. The more dirty air and the surrounding environment, the more easily the children experienced allergic airway inflammation which then triggered.

An American study reported that children from infants often traffic pollution exposure and higher risk endotoxin have asthma. Endotoxin is a component of bacterial toxins that are (poison), which can trigger the immune system response someone. Well, this endotoxin was also found in dust in the room.

In this latest study, the research team from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine found that there mengik at 36 percent of children aged three years when the baby is often exposed to air pollution particles and endotoxins in the dust. Mengik is loud sound heard when breathing. Conditions that are also often referred to these ends is the beginning marker of asthma and lung disorders.

Mengik symptoms seen in 11 percent of children who are exposed infants allergen (allergy triggers) low-yield inside and outside the room. While children who are exposed to traffic pollution and high levels of indoor endotoxins higher figure, namely 18 percent. Exposure to endotoxin alone showed less impact on children.

“There is a clear link between exposure to particle air pollution and traffic mengik endotoxin with protracted emergence as a three-year-old child,” said research team leader, Patrick Ryan.

Ryan added, the two sources of this exposure (especially if high levels) can synergize each other so that the long-term exposure may harm lung health of children. Lung health disorders in children usually take up to children aged 18 or 20 years.

“The earlier children are exposed to particle pollution, the greater the impact on long-term health,” said Ryan, whose research results will be published in the American Journal of Respitaroty and Critical Care Medicine, early December.

Compared with lung disease acquired in adulthood, pulmonary disorders due to early exposure to endotoxin and traffic pollution can be more dangerous. Moreover, if this happens since the baby, the process of formation of antibodies immature children become more prone to respiratory allergies. Although initially just a shortness of breath, inflammation or inflammatory processes that continue to accumulate causing disease more severe asthma when the children hit.

Lung specialist from Friendship Hospital Jakarta, Budhi Dr. Space PhD, says that an asthma can be based on allergic airway which then causes inflammation. Manifestations can be diverse and in any organ. For example a person who ate seafood at the skin becomes red, meaning that he was allergic manifestations in the skin. Another example, if there are people who every morning sneezing rubbed with a runny nose, meaning the location of allergy in the nasal cavity.

“Asthma can not be cured, but can be controlled and prevented by avoiding kekambuhannya factors pencetusnya. If there are family members who had asthma, environmental hygiene should really guarded,” Budhi advice.

Mother Depression, Asthma Children often relapse

Mother is the “closest friends” children from infancy. If the mother was happy, too happy child. When the mother is sad or angry, children can suffer. Well, if you are a mother who has a child with asthma, as much as possible avoid conditions that can trigger stress and depression. What article?

A recent study conducted research team from The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center reveals America, mothers experienced depression can worsen the condition of the child’s asthma.

Study involving 262 black participants and their mothers this child, found that children whose mothers experienced more symptoms of depression, are also more often showed symptoms of asthma. So did the children of mothers with fewer depressive symptoms are also more rarely have an asthma relapse.

Studies will be published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology is deliberately focused on blacks. The problem, prevalence and incidence of asthma attacks on black race is higher than whites.

Kristin Riekert incorporated in this research investigation team, the findings also reveal the fact “unique” relationship between the number of associated maternal depression and the increased frequency of asthma symptoms in children. When the degree of maternal depression affect a child’s asthma symptoms, this was not true for the opposite. This indicates that maternal depression is a risk factor that stood alone, which can predict a series of symptoms of asthma in children. Initially thought Riekert this study will deal with the situation: “Where Oldest chicken eggs equal?”.

“In fact, the fact that maternal depression is not influenced by the frequency of occurrence of asthma symptoms in children makes us wonder, but both missed the factors which actually came first,” says child psychologist from Johns Hopkins Research Center’s Adherence.

Depression, a disorder characterized natural feelings of grief and melancholy, also often led to fatigue, memory loss and concentration problems. When a depressed mother, his spirit of caring for asthmatic children (such as reminding to take medicine every day and consult a doctor) can also be decreased.

“My mother is the backbone to implement the mandated physician instructions in the routine care of asthma children. However, if depressed mothers, this mandate can not be done so that children come to be victims and suffer,” said the head of the research team Michiko Otsuki

source: http://lifestyle.okezone.com

December 8 2009

Beware! Asthma Causes of Death Ranked Sixth

Chairman of the Board of Asthma Foundation of West Kalimantan Indonesia Region, Dr. Hj Bariah Muchtar said asthma deserves attention from all communities. Because the disease is on the sixth of 10 disease causes of death in Indonesia.

“Even according to the medical community, its cause or prevalence in Indonesian today is expected to reach nearly 10 million people,” said Hj Bariah at the inauguration ceremony branches of Indonesian Asthma Foundation Ketapang 2003-2008 period of service in the Hall Ketapang Health Service, yesterday.

According to him, asthma is an inflammatory disease (inflammation) chronic breathing on men and women of all ages. Which alone can asthma because of air pollution. That is due to motor vehicle fumes, factory pollution and because of hereditary factors and unhealthy lifestyle such as smoking.

But also remind Bariah, if asthma is not a contagious disease, so people with asthma and families do not need to panic if an asthma attack.

But according to him, asthma can be reduced with regular controls, taking medication properly, exercise properly and implement healthy living and keeping clean the air in homes. “With gymnastics, can help cure people with asthma because it can strengthen the respiratory muscles and ease breathing,” he said.

Administrative Assistant Secretariat Ketapang, Drs. Alman Rajimin present at the inauguration that rate, the foundation was in Ketapang is a step forward, and marks the Land Kayong was concerned about health issues.

Moreover, the establishment of this foundation aims to assist the government in an effort to increase the degree of healthy public Ketapang.

“Moreover, asthma affects people enough, then the prevention and control efforts are necessary,” he said, say it also to help the people with asthma.

For that Rajimin remind elected officials to be working well with the government, public and private parties. “I think, without including the many possible activities can be run well,” he pleaded.