Drug to solve obesity problem

Obesity means having too much fat in our body. If your weight is greater than what is appropriate for you, then that is also considered as obese. It is usually occurs when the food we eat have more calories than what we only need. Many things that are need to considered which greatly affect our weight these including eating high-fat foods, genetic make-up, over eating and also having sedentary lifestyle.

                Obesity can increase our risk of having major medical problems like diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases, cancers and many more. And if we’ll just take this for granted, for sure our life here on earth will be shorter. As of today’s generation, medications to manage obesity are now available in the market and their main priority is to maintain your body in tone and to have a healthy weight. Some of them are:

1.       Orlistat (Xenical)- It usually acts on blocking the fat digestion and absorption in your stomach and interstines.

2.       Lorcaserin (Berliq)- It stimulate the chemicals present in your brain to help lowered your appetite and makes you always feel full.

3.       Qsymia- It is widely use by the adults as approved by the FDA for weight loss medication.

4.       Adipex-P and Suprenza- Also approved by the FDA

Before taking any medication for weight loss, you must first ask advice from your doctor to know the advantage and disadvantage of it.

Difference between the two- bad and good cholesterol

Cholesterol is simply defined as a waxy, fat-like substance which is found in our cells. Cholesterol travel through the bloodstream in a packages known as lipoprotein. Lipoprotein are made of a fat inside and coated with protein. Cholesterol can be found in the food that we eat every day. The top five food sources of cholesterol are egg yolk, dairy product, oil, red meat and fast foods.

They are also categorized as bad and good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol or also known as low-density lipoprotein tends to accumulate in the walls of our arteries which caused slowing of blood flow and tend to leads to heart disease and heart attacks. On the other hand good cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein composes the 20-30% of our blood cholesterol and they are the one that helps protects the arteries from the plaques that are about to form in their wall. According to a study, women have higher level of HDL cholesterol than men.

                Experts believe that people who are at high risk of having any cardiovascular disease will not/never lower their risk by just changing only their diet plans. Good diet and also regular exercise should always coincide. 

Schizophrenia-what we need to know!

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder wherein person suffering from this hear voices, see things that are not real and they are thinking that some people are controlling their mind. Some of their symptoms also include: movement disorder, problem in speaking and expressing their emotions, hallucinations and delusions.

There are 5 types ofschizophrenia:

1.     Paranoid type- Person with this type is thinking of false beliefs or they are preoccupied that they are being punished by someone

2.     Disorganized type- They are confused and incoherent and have inappropriate speech organization.

3.     Catatonic type- They are more on physical symptoms. Person with this type are immobile and unresponsive to outside stimulus or environment.

4.     Residual type- Less severe type. Symptoms include: inexpressive faces, monotone speech and inability to feel pleasure.

5.     Undifferentiated type- A person can be categorized only with this type if they don’t fall to any of the four types being mentioned above.

Schizophrenia can be treated through medication called antipsychotic drugs, psychosocial therapy (Rehabilitation, family therapy, individual therapy and group/support therapy), Hospitalization, Electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery.

People with schizophrenia are not violent. They are just dangerous to themselves. Suicide in the main cause of their death.

Benefits of taking aspirin every day

Aspirin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug and widely known as analgesic, and a fever reliever. It was developed in 19^th century and known to decrease the coagulation of the blood. As of our generation today, aspirin is used immediately to patients who just had a heart attack in order to prevent cardiac tissue death.

            Aside for the treatment for moderate to severe pain, therapeutic uses of aspirin also includes: for inflammatory joint conditions, rheumatic arthritis, prevention of stroke, treatment for CAD and myocardial infarction.

            Taking aspirin should be closely monitored by your physician because there are many conditions that we need to consider before taking medication like aspirin. Aspirin is not advisable to take for those patients with peptic ulcer, bleeding disorder, and people who are allergic to aspirin.

            Daily taking of aspirin is only advisable to those people who had history of heart attack and would want to prevent another attack to happen. You should seek first medical advice for daily dose of it. If you had any medical problem, include it during history taking for further management especially if its all about bleeding problem. 

Impacts of UV rays from the sun into our skin

The sun is very important because it is the sole provider of light and heat to our solar system. The earth lean on upon the energy of the sun. There are innumerable health benefits and healing power a UV ray of the sun can do to us. One of these is that the viruses or bacteria that harbor some part of our exposed skin cannot live for a long period of time if exposed to UV ray. Exposure to sun light may also increases the white blood cells count in our body. And one of the most common and important benefits of sun is activation of Vitamin D that is present in our skin which is responsible for the  proper preservation and utilization of calcium in the bones in our body.

It is only advisable to exposed skin to the sun around 8am-10am in the morning and beyond 5pm in the afternoon. It is discouraged to get exposed from 11am -3pm in the afternoon where the UV rays are its peak-time.

Exposure to sunlight is good for you if used in the right time. Its benefits are many and impressive. If you have medical problem, seek your physician first before using any sunscreens. But if you are just normal person, no need to seek medical advice just enjoy the sun because it will help you feel better, more active and you will achieve better health.

How safe is donating blood?

Blood donation is already a tradition in many cities in every country in order to use the blood to help treat someone. Is it done my collecting blood from a donor done by a medical professional. But before the procedure, the donor is being undergone by some medical assessment like getting his baseline temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. During the procedure of blood donation, a big caliber or needle is use to extract blood in order to collect about 470 ml of your blood. Then after the procedure you need to rest for a while and snack are offered for your refreshment and also to alleviate dizziness.

Many people are hesitant to donate blood because they are thinking that there are great possibility that diseases from other donor might transmit to them through the materials and equipment being use. For added information, blood donation is done aseptically by medical volunteer and every volunteer are trained to do it correctly.

Some of the things that cannot be avoided in donating a blood are having hypotension, hypoglycemia, trauma in the punctured site and others.Donating blood is very safe also if the program conducting it is one of those agency/company that has name and are trusted in your community.

Brain cells are in danger if we smoke

                As what our television always advertising “smoking is dangerous to your health”, yes the saying speaks on itself. Smoking can put your health at danger as well as with your family, your society, and to your environment. Smoking causes more than 100,000 deaths in UK each year and of these deaths, 42,000 are from smoking-related cancers, 30,600 from heart disease and 29,000 die because of chronic lung disease and emphysema.

 Many chemical are present in the cigarette and one of these is nicotine that is very addictive and toxic to our body especially to our organs. If you smoke cigarette containing nicotine, your body always want to smoke after another. If nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, it will eventually pass into your bloodstream and will reach the brain within 10 seconds and for sure will cause further damage in the brain cells. If our brain cells are in danger, our intellectual capacity will become low.

Aside from braincell damage smoking can also cause hypertension, aneurysm, lung cancer, mouth and larynx cancer and many more. Slowly quitting smoking can help restore your healthy body and aside from that, it can save your money too. Consult your doctor for some tips to avoid having so much widrawal syndrome.

Are painkillers really working?

Continual pain is the main reason why people seek immediately medical care. Do you know that pain is one of our body’s very important communication tools? It is the one that telling us that there is something wrong in our body and we need to know if effective and working painkillers are needed to manage it.

Pain is usually causes by a cut from a finger, pouring alcohol on a cut, accidentally placing hand in a stove and many more.  It has characteristics as burning, sharp, throbbing, aching, cramping, or unbearable.

Many painkillers really work to relieve pain either acute or chronic type of pain. When any part of our body got injured or in a constant pain, specific nerve endings send the pain message to our brain. Painkillers are the one who is responsible in blocking the messages in any part of the message circle and directly relieves the pain.

Painkillers are usually based on two drugs: Aspirin and Opiates. Aspirin relieves pain by healing the inflammation process and stopping the transmission of pain to the brain such as in sore throat or arthritis. While Opiates contains substance morphine which very effective and active component to alleviates pain. There are still many kinds of medication classifies as painkillers, but make sure to consult your physician because some of these are very addictive if using it improperly.

Are pregnancy tests reliable- how sure it is?

What is pregnancy test

Pregnancy Test is done to recognize if woman’s urine sample contains human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) also known as pregnancy hormone.

How is it done?

Pregnancytest kit can be purchased over the counter in any pharmacies nationwide. Equipments included in the kits are urine collection cup, dropper syringe or dipstick. If you prefer to use kits with urine collection cup all you have to do is to collect urine then using dropper place 5-6 drops of urine directly to the test disk. Then wait for some couple of minutes for the result as stated in the instruction manual.

Doing pregnancy test is not risky to our health. The only risk with this method is reading wrong result. If you happen to read a positive result, the best thing to do is to consult a physician to confirm it. If you have negative result but you doubted about it, repeat the test or just simply go directly to a doctor. Consulting doctor is the only and best step that you choose if you want to know your health condition because above all any test, their assessment are more reliable.