Natural Health Care

Archive for February, 2012

The April issue of the “Mayo Clinic Health Letter” offers recipes for salads that serve as a full meal and are low in calories, but satisfy, are tasty and rich in nutrients.

To begin, fill a bowl with 2 or more cups of green leafy vegetables. While lettuce (iceberg, butterhead, red or green) would be the normal basis for the salad, there are other alternatives, such as lettuce, arugula, watercress, cabbage, Belgian endive or red, green and white kale or cabbage, Chinese cabbage, chard, mustard greens, turnip greens, kale, lettuce and spinach lamb.

Vegetables and fruits: Choose two or more, for a total of 2 cups. Among the alternatives that add texture, flavor and the opportunity to chew are: artichokes, asparagus, beets, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, onions, jicama, peas in pods, peppers, radishes, squash, apples, apricots, berries, fruits citrus, grapes, mango, melon, peach, pears, pineapple, pomegranate and watermelon. Read the rest of this entry »

If you knew that you can prevent cancer by changing your diet a little, you prove at least? Read on and discover what foods can help ward off the danger of this disease and make your meals are much healthier.

Food is the fuel that allows each part of the body to function properly. Therefore it is very important to select them well. Just as there are foods that if not chosen and prepared in the proper way increase the chances that you have high blood pressure or diabetes when you have the predisposition to them, there are others that, on the contrary, help you stay younger longer, to lose excess weight and even fight cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Antibiotic treatment is recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria in the following groups:

– pregnant
– People who are having surgery anywhere in the urinary tract
– men who are about to undergo prostate surgery
– Persons having received a kidney transplant
– people with abnormal structure or obstruction of the urinary tract Read the rest of this entry »

Prevention

If you drink several glasses of water a day can help prevent this disease. This may stop the growth of bacteria to purge your urinary tract. Drinking cranberry juice daily may also slow the growth of bacteria by making your urine more acidic. However, this has not been definitively proven by medical studies.

To prevent intestinal bacteria from spreading from the rectum to the urinary tract, women should always wipe with toilet paper from front to back after bowel movements. Read the rest of this entry »

Symptoms

Asymptomatic bacteriuria causes no symptoms.

Diagnosis

Your doctor will determine who has asymptomatic bacteriuria according to laboratory studies of urine sample at least 100,000 bacteria per milliliter of urine. Care must be taken to collect the urine sample because the skin bacteria can contaminate the sample. Read the rest of this entry »

It is called “bacteriuria” to the appearance of a significant amount of bacteria in urine. The presence of bacteria in the urine means that there is an infection in a urinary tract (the system that carries urine from the kidneys through the ureters into the bladder and finally to the urethra). A urinary infection can cause various symptoms, from pain or burning when urinating to pelvic pain, back pain, fever and chills. Read the rest of this entry »

Genital warts are a highly visible sign of a HPV infection, a contagious sexually transmitted disease effecting both men and women which is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during sexual intercourse with an infected partner. Genital warts are highly contagious. Never have sex with an infected person. It’s important to note that genital warts are different from the other warts that commonly show up on people’s hands.

Genital warts are not something most people feel comfortable discussing. There is a wealth of genital warts information online if you’re not comfortable seeing your doctor. In fact, you can consult with a doctor and get prescribed treatment online. A special cream will be posted to your home for you to apply, saving you the embarrassment of going to your local pharmacy.

While genital warts are a symptom of a sexually transmitted disease, they are painless. They may itch or have a discharge though. Be careful to prevent transmission to a sexual partner. All the genital warts information online stresses that no treatment is 100% effective in eliminating warts and preventing them from coming back in all patients. If one treatment does not work, you can be prescribed another treatment. The warts may also simply go away on their own. You will need to refrain from sexual activity until the warts go away.

When it comes to a heart attack, no time to lose! A new test that measures levels of troponin 1 in the blood, could help determine whether the patient actually suffers a heart attack several hours earlier than current tests allow. As in these cases every minute counts, this is a great advantage for physicians and patients.

When Ferdinand went to the hospital emergency room, complaining of severe chest pains, I did several tests including an electrocardiogram and a blood test to determine the level of troponin 1. The result was negative, but Fernando had to wait more than 12 hours for the cardiologist on duty to report that luckily was not a heart attack. Well, perhaps very soon as Fernando patients can be diagnosed much more quickly.

A new study by researchers at the University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany, showed a highly sensitive type of troponin 1 that might be more accurate than current tests in less than three hours! Study results were published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read the rest of this entry »

An apple a day keeps the heart healthy …

The apple is a fruit most comprehensive because it provides vitamins, minerals and fiber that help the body stay healthy. In addition, researchers continue to search for new benefits and have found a new relationship between apple consumption and heart health. Here we tell you more details on these findings, as well as how to select and maintain this delicious fruit.

Did he know the witch who tried to poison Snow White with a tempting red apple the true nutritional value of that delicious fruit? No wonder there is a saying in English that says “An apple a day Keeps the Doctor Away,” in Castilian mean: “Eat an apple every day keeps you healthy.” Read the rest of this entry »

If you have a chronic health problem and you think that stops you from exercising, keep reading because this article may interest you. Here we tell you what kind of physical activities will help not only prevent but also to improve the symptoms of diseases such as those affecting the heart, diabetes, hypertension and cancer, among others.

You might have read or heard recommendations about the benefits of exercise and all the good it can bring to your health, but still costs you create a routine and doing it, among many obligations and issues that you must attend every day. Quiet, this is a very common situation, and especially if you suffer from any chronic illness that put you off. Some people stop exercising because they are no longer physically able to do it, and abandon the effort. Read the rest of this entry »