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Food poisoning is a disease caused by eating contaminated food. Food contamination can occur due to the following situation :-

Using raw materials contaminated with germs.
Prepare food that is not clean.
Using dirty equipment
Serve food in a way that is not clean.
Store food in a way that should not be

Signs and symptoms of food poisoning are as follows: -

Nausea and vomiting.
Screw and a stomach ache.
Diarrhea
Abdominal pain

Here are some steps to prevent food poisoning. Among them are: -

1. There are Three steps to know whether they are damaged or stale food known
a. See: Appearance of different food than normal. See the expiry date and the form (canned food).
b. Smell: Make sure it does not produce an unpleasant taste and unpleasant.
c. Taste: Has a delicate flavor and stale.
Do not eat if there is anything like the above.

2. Pilihlah makanan yang masih panas dan segar.
Yang tidak terdedah.
Tidak berbau masam dan busuk
Tidak berlendir
Tidak berubah warna
Tidak berasa masam
Makanan yang dibungkus dengan bahan yang bersih
Makanan yang diambil dengan peralatan yang bersih

3. Wash hands with soap and water
Prior to his food.
After using the toilet
After playing
After holding the dirt or contaminated materials

It is hoped that these guidelines will help to prevent us getting food poisoning.

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Have you heard Pankreatitis? Pankreatitis is the inflammation that occurs in the pancreas. It occurs When the pancreas swell, dirembes enzymes – which are usually active in the small intestine and become active in the pancreas gland, pancreas tissue, but began to erode. This resulted in injuries to the pancreas.

Pankreatitis may occur in acute (sudden, in the short term) or chronic (continuous, in the long run), but both can be dangerous and can lead to fatal complications. Most acute cases are acute pankreatitis. Pankreatitis disease is mostly mild cases. Chance of recovery are good. However, some patients with severe acute pankreatitis, where inflammation, tissue damage and infection of the pancreas occurs. Likely that other organs are also affected, such as kidney failure or involvement of lung infection. Pankreatitis acute severe to be treated immediately to prevent complications and death.

Pankreatitis cause
The main cause of acute pankreatitis are gallstone and alcohol abuse in a long time. Both of these reasons contributed to 80 percent of cases of acute pankreatitis. Abuse of alcohol in the long term can damage the cells of the pancreas and cause inflammation of the pancreas. Gallstones can also block the bile duct or pancreatic duct, causing digestive fluids accumulate in the pancreas.

Other causes are more rare such a stomach injury, after ERCP procedure (procedure to remove gallstones from the bile duct), drugs, pancreatic abnormalities, and triglycerides (a type of fat) in the blood.

Signs and symptoms of complications

l upper abdominal pain – pain is usually severe, although it is the main symptom of most people consider this as gastric pain.

l Pain that spreads to the back of the body – pain is usually spread to the organ where it is the pancreas.

l pain after eating or drinking – Pain gets worse after eating or drinking, especially after eating food containing high fat.

l Nausea and vomiting – Ordinary occur.

Other symptoms are fever, abdominal distention, rapid heart rate, less water retention and low blood pressure. If not treated promptly, symptoms will worsen and can lead to kidney failure, difficulty breathing and blood pressure becomes too low, patients may experience a shock.

Treatment

Pankreatitis acute treatment depends on the circumstances and causes of pankreatitis. Physical examination, blood testing and examination of images used to assess the situation pankreatitis mengdiagnos and acute. After that, the doctor will carry out treatment and treat the cause pankreatitis support.

To get more info about pankreatitis, check with your local hospital. It is important to get early protection.

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Emergency case is a disease or injury that is life threatening or may cause infirmity if immediate treatment is not give. There are example of emergency cases such as :-

1. Convulsion/fits
2. Heart attack
3. Accidents
4. Non-stop bleeding
5. Injuries to the head or back bone
6. Asthmatic attack
7. Chocking
8. Fainting
9. Bleeding during pregnancy
10. Snakes or insect bites
11. Poisoning
12. Eye injuries
13. Exhausted due to vomiting ordiarrhoea

There are many more emergency case that are not in the listed but you must aware about it.

A Guide to helping an emergency case :

• Do not panic during an emergency
• Give first aid treatment if you know and take the victim to hospital or clinic immediately, OR wait for help to arrive
• While waiting for help, avoid crowding around the victim
• Make sure the surrounding is secure and comfortable
• If there’s a bleeding cases due to an accident, bandage and apply pressure with clean cloth to the point where bleeding occurs. Avoid contact with the victim’s blood
• If the victim faint, lay the patient int the lateral position in a safe environment

That’s some basic guide to help you manage emergency cases. It will help the patient.

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There’s a broucher from hospital that I’ve collect about patient home care advice from Influenza A (H1N1). Let’s read together

Influenza A (H1N1) has spread extensively in the community and everyone is at risk of being infected. Each and every person must take precaution to prevent the further spread of this contagious disease. If you have any signs and symptoms of influenza-like-illness (ILI), you are advised to stay at home and refrain from going to work, school, public places or use public transport for you will likely spread the infection to others.
The information below can help provide safer care for sick persons at home during a flu outbreak

1. Home self-care

• Consume medication as instructed by your doctor.
• Get adequate rest. Bed rest can help you feel better.
• Drink plenty of fluids (such as water, broth, sport drinks, juice, soup) to keep from being dehydrated
• Be watchful for emergency warning signs which will indicate when you need to seek medical attention
• Maintain good ventilation in shared household areas (e.g keeping windows open in restrooms, kitchen, bathroom, etc)

2. Patient Advice for Infection COntrol at Home

Practise Cough Etiquette
• Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing with tissues and clean hands with soap and water or an alcohol based hand rub after that. Used tissues should be disposed appropriately in disposal bins.

Improve Personal Hygiene for All :

Everyone in the household must clean their hands often, using soap and water or an alcohol based hand rub

Use paper towels for drying hands after hands washing or dedicate cloth towels to each person in the household.

Clean commonly used utensils or frequently touched surfaces regularly with household detergents.

Do not share personal utensils such as linen, eating utensils and dishes

Used linen, eating utensils should be washed with water and soap

Social Distancing

Persons with flu are advised not to leave their home when they have fever or during the time they are most likely to spread their infection to others (Patients are likely to spread the virus from one day before they develop symptoms to up to 7 days after they get sick).

It is preferable for the sick individual to stay in a separate room

Household contacts especially those who are at high risk are advised to stay at least 1 meter away from the patient, whenever possible

If a person with the flu needs to leave home, they should wear a surgical mask and practice cough etiquette and good hand hygiene.

Putting on a mask will help to prevent the spread of the flu to others

That’s some basic info how H1N1 patient control at home. As usual, take advice from your doctor.

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It is important for pregnant woman to take care their health. One of important nutrition during pregnancy is Omega-3 Fatty acid. The Omega-3 fatty acid used to make the cognitive growth for babies is in good process. Expert from the International Society for the Study Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) recommend this fatty acid to pregnant woman. The pregnant woman required to take Omega -3 fatty acid minimum 300 mg DHA per day especially in breast feed phase. The part of brain that Omega-3 affect is in anxiety/depression, auditory and visual perception and learning ability . There are 3 type of Omega-3 fatty acids

1. Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA)
2. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)
3. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)

Omega-3 supplementation could help babies growth in a deficient, underdeveloped seven-year-old. It is important for pregnant woman to take Omega -3 fatty but still need to get recommend by doctor. Not all Omega-3 product is suitable for pregnant woman. Sometimes it can create danger for mom and son healthy.

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There’s another research from scientiest to detect cancer. In British Journal of Cancer, researchers sensors could distinguish whether a patient had breast, prostate cancer or bowel,irrespective of lifestyle, gender or age.
During the research at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, there’s a large distinguish between the breath of cancer patient and the breath of healthy patients. The sensors use uses gold nanoparticles to detect levels of so-called volatile organic compounds – measured in a few parts per billion – that become more elevated in cancer patients. The device could provide an early warning system that flags the disease before tumours become visible in X-rays.

The study involved 177 volunteers healthy people and cancer suffer.As a cancer grows, the surface of cells emits chemicals. The research found that sensors could be used to detect these chemicals in the breath.

Source -AFP

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Laser method is one way to prevent pimple. There’s a laser brand called SP Dynamis that using 2 laser in one machine. This medical medicine only can be used by expertise only. The laser is useful for :-

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1. Cure pimple.
2. Vascular Lesion & Unsightly Vein Treatments
3.Skin Tightening
4.Fractional Treatments
5.Laser Peels
6.Pigmented Lesion Treatments
7.Scar Revision – Hypertrofic & Acne
8.Acute Acne Treatments

Note :- Ask your doctor before using any other’s medicine to cure your face. Maybe this treatment not suitable for your skin.

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Have you heard about herpes virus? Herpes viruses are a leading cause of human viral disease.The virus name come from Latin words means to creep.

There’s a news from Institure of Cancer Research in London found that the virus can treat patient that have neck and head cancer.
The method work using the virus that killing the cancer cells from inside and boost the immune system.
From the studies, the treatment were effective but there’s many things to look before using it as a primary method. This concept were testing to treat skin cancer patient but it not really work .

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Herpes Virus
This invention are good in medicine to save many cancer patient. This can be a good hope for those patient outside. The researcher do not guarantee this virus will success in future but I still hope there’s a best medicine to cure cancer.

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What is Depression? Maybe some of us don’t really know about this mental health problem.
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity and one of the most common mental health conditions. Depression has been affecting almost 10% of the population in the world.
There are many depression cause such as problem in workplace, family problem, financial problem or health problem. Some of people do short thing like drink alcohol or take drug. There also avoid to meet with friends and relatives. They keep on sadd and depression.This is not the right way.
Some of depression people may suffer bad health problem especially in their brain. The condition could be worse and the brain may inactive if there’s no early treatment.
Depression can be caused by this factors :-

1. Biology (body chemistry and brain function),
2. Genetics (heredity),
3. Environment (stress, trauma, etc.),
4. Medical conditions (physical problems, disease, etc.).

The best way for treatment depression is find a psychotherapy. They using various techniques to treat depression such as using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Interpersonal therapy(IPT). This kind of treatment need many session to complete before the person really cure from depression.

It is important for friends or relatives to give moral support for depression person. Never let them alone cause they need you.

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Many of us don’t comprehend the concept and garden Principe. We just think it is for beautiful courtyard only. Do you know garden can help you to outcome stress in your bodies. The environment in garden is important to get better air in your breath. There are some tips to get better health in your garden :-

1. Make sure you visit at least 30 minute in your garden per day. The environment will give you new idea and restore your condition.

2. Take a good view at garden and make sure it has space to maximise your viewing to garden.

3. Sit comfortably in the seat garden. Buy some wooden furniture to make your bodies relax and outcome stress

4. Make sure your garden in good condition. Overgrown and bad plants are likely to cause negative thoughts. It will effect on your mood day. Take your time and work at the garden. Make sure it will make you sweat.

That’s some tips how garden can help to overcome stress.

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