Have you heard about electromagnetic pulses? It is a high-intensity, broadband, short-duration burst of electromagnetic energy. Researcher from Henry Ford Hospital found that it can be used to reduce pain and inflammation especially for knee osteoarthritis patient that are main cause for disability. The electromagnetic pulses from a portable device can reduce the calcium level in cartilage cells. This will reduces inflammation. The research also guarantees that this method has no side effect to patient. The researchers still look at the consistency of the relief, calculate time for patient relief and if there’s any affect to other joints.
Source :- Yahoo Health

Let’s hope this method can solve knee osteoarthritis. Invention of this method will help to prevent the patient from disability and loss of independence.

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Nowaday, the children obesity is one of dangerous disease. According to Pediatrics studies, children can get obesity as early 3 years. In the study, it found that childhood obesity should be prevent earlier than currently thought, perhaps even before birth.
There are many risk factors for children to get obesity:-

1. Family factors. Mother that has diabetes or depression highly will affect their child.
2. Eating solid meal in early age. Some of parent teaches their children to eat that food before 1 years of age. It is not good for their stomach.
3. Poor sleep also gives effect on their body function.
4. Sometimes parent not do natural breast feeding. It is not good because natural milk will give best immune for your children to fight bacteria and prevent obesity
5. Watching television in their bedrooms also risks that make your child get obesity.
6. Fast food not good for young children. Too much sugar beverages can make they get obesity in an early young age.

The best way to reduce the risk is changing behaviors. Mothers must know the important to breast feeding rather than buy milk in the shopstore. Parents also need to change their children behavior and attitude to prevent their child to get obesity.
Source and Reference :- American Academy of Pediatrics Website
As a parent, we must take care about this. Children obesity will give many big disease that can’t cure if you not prevent in early age.

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Have you seen a person that can’t sleep? Based on research there are one in five people has the problem.
This disorder symptom called insomnia. The person also wake up too early from their sleep and not feel refresh after a night’s sleep. The normal amount of sleep is around 6-8 hours per night and most of us need at least 3-4 hours sleep at night. For older people they will sleep less than six hours. The insomnia will give bad effect on your health because your bodies don’t get enough resting and sleep. The person affect with this problem will be tired in the daytime and can’t focus on their activity. Some of them needed a pill to get sleep but they can addict with the drug.
There are a number that causes of insomnia such as :

1. Stress. Tension in workplace or school can make insomnia. People who are work hard think about their work in night and can’t get sleep. There are person that always worry about being late awake in morning and their sleep will interfere.
2. Depression includes poor concentration, persistent negative thoughts and tearfulness.
3. Sleep Apnoea occurs for snore people. Most of them are obese people and it may wake up in the night.
4. People who take much alcohol drink get broken sleep. Drug such as cocaine, ecstasy, and cannabis also effect on sleep cycle .
5. People who do little exercise need to sleep less because they don’t use much energy.
6. You need a good environment to sleep. Bright or noise place will interrupt your sleep. A quiet dark room is the suitable place to sleep.
7. A day activity also effect on your sleeping. Avoid watch scary or violent stories before bed.
8. Eating during the night also can cause insomnia. Too much caffeine or smoking contribute to poor sleep.

That’s all the cause of insomnia. It can occur to everyone and we must pay attention about it.

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Do you ever get serious pain in your back that make you cry? Backpain is a rare pain that can cause your body jammed. This pain will be divided upper back pain, into neck pain, lower back pain or tailbone painIt comes from weakness of the muscles and affects the spine. Most of us don’t know that we must do some back stretching exercise to reduce the risk to get back pain. There are some basic exercise, you can do but never push too hard. Do it slowly.

1. You can do back stretching exercise daily. Do it slowly about 5 minutes with walking. Your muscle will be warm and reduce the effect to get injured.
2. Knees to shoulders exercise slowly
3. Reverse sit up also good exercise to warm your muscle.
4. You can use back strengthening exercises if your muscle is already good.

This is just a simple exercise. It can eliminate your back pain but need time. It won’t cure you completely. Always consistent with the exercise and get advice from the expert. It will make your muscles strong and reduce your belly fat.

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In some country, the hot weather is bad. It can reach 40oC and the condition is bad. The dry condition will affect your health. There are many disease such as fever, dehydrate occur in this season.
This is some basic tips to keep good health in hot weather

1. Always wear cool clothing such as natural fabrics. Use hats and umbrellas when you have outdoor activity.
2. Use air conditioning to make your body cool.
3. Pull the curtains to prevent direct sunlight and open windows at night.
4. Avoid outdoor activity especially in hot hours. Check the information about weather forecast before doing outdoor activity.
5. Avoid physical activity especially in hot location.
6. Avoid hot meals. It will effect your blood circulation.
7. Always check with your doctor if get fever symptom.
8. You must need to drink enough water. Drink isotonic water to prevent dehydrate especially when you need to do outdoor activity.

That’s all. Always take care about your body in hot temperature. If not, your body will get problem.

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Some of meals can give itchy in our face. For some individual, food allergy will make they feel uncomfortable in their daily life. The people will suffer to a food protein because of adverse immune response. Food allergy is a reaction within immune system and 4% children effect on these symptoms.There’s no cure in food allergy.
People who suffer with food allergy will give abnormal response in their immune system. Food allergies is dangerous and can cause illness and can be fatal. The chemicals in the food can cause the various symptoms of food allergy.The symptoms of food allergies are anaphylaxis, diarrhea, nausea, itchy skin, swollen airways, cough and shortness of breath.

Tips if you have food allergy :-

1. Always check the ingredient at the label of food product. Avoid food contains potassium metabisulfite, sulfur dioxide, sodium sulfite and sodium bisulfate.
2. Get advice from food expertise. They know what you must and must not eat.
3. You must give information about your food allergies to your family and friends.
4. Avoid food with high protein such like prawn, crab, nuts, etc..
5. Identify what you can eat and not. Avoid eating them even it is your favorite meals.

Food allergy is danger, you must always know
Source: http://www.medicinenet.com

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Gastric is a pain in the stomach. It is very painful in ulcer and a gnawing in stomach. This painful will wake patient during the night after eating and it may occur some 2 to 3 hours later on. Gastric is occurring because an imbalance amount of stomach acid secreted and the natural defenses of the stomach mucosal lining. Most of patient get severe gastric pain because delay in eating. Others gastric ulcers symptoms are abdominal bloating, loss appetite, fatigue, nausea and weight loss. There factors for begin gastric ulcers include uncontrollable using of aspirin, smoking, increasing age, blood clotting problem and mechanical ventilation.

There are some basic tip how to treat your gastric ulcer :-

1. You need to drink more fresh water to clean your ulcer. There are good recommend for you to drink hot water after meal and make sure you get enough water daily.
2. Avoid eating chilly because it will effect your stomach. It also will increase acidity in your stomach.
3. Eat in schedule. Don’t forget to eat especially in lunch time.
3. Eating garlic can help to prevent acid in your stomach. For quick relieve, try 2-3 cloves of garlic.
4. Apple cider vinegar can help relieve the pain.
5. Aloe-vera juice also good to treat gastric ulcers especially by drinking this on a empty stomach.
6. Avoid sleeping after eating because it will double gas and acid in your stomach.
7. Avoid stressing. Stress is a main reason for many diseases and you need to control it for curing these diseases.

If you get the symptom, call your health care. They will perform an endoscopy and imaging studies to determine if you has a gastric ulcer. He/she will provide you with prescribe drugs that will lower acid secretion in your stomach.

Reference :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid
http://www.usefultipsforlife.com/drink-milk-gastric
http://www.ehow.com/how_4532552_treat-gastric-ulcers-naturally.html
http://www.consultation.ayurvediccure.com/how-to-treat-gastric-trouble-and-acidity/

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In modern era, medical cost is very high. Medical expenses is rising and it make sense that many of us get problem when get sick. Most of us prefer government hospital instead of private hospital. Government hospital has limited expert and the increase of patient will make us wait and queue to get medical treatment. It is make danger especially for critical or emergency sickness.
That’s the problem that we must avoid. Private hospital is an alternative for us but their costing is very high. To pay cash for their medical treatment fee is impossible. Medical card is an alternative way to settle your private medical bills. Modern medical card not only covered medical bill, it also have with life protection. This is good if something bad happen to you but if your life is safe, you will be paid for your saving or retirement fund.
Most of private hospital accepts the medical card because they can claim more at the provider. That’s the important for us who don’t have big cash. Just show them your medical card and you will need to paid small amount from the bill.
It is the basic thing about medical card but you must know that the medical card is not a health insurance. Lately, most of individual insurance provide with medical card. You must check first before applying the medical card. Check T&C and compare their advantage because not all of the company gives good offer.

p/s :- Not all private hospital accept medical card, but most of popular private hospital accept it.

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There are some people go to gym but not losing their weight. They blame on gym company and instructor but don’t they know that are others method you must do other than workout in gym. Most of us them maybe get this mistakes.

1. Undisciplined diet. You must have a stabile dieting to ensure that your stomach just get the proper meals. More waste meal means nothing for your workout. Avoid carbonate drinks and drink more fresh water.
2. Your target is unrealistic. Set realistic target see your body change as you work to meet your goals. Don’t think your activities at gym can make you losing more in short times. Mostly the losing not good in first month. Maybe it just decreased below 10 pounds.
3. Inconsistent in workout. This is very hard to do especially if you never go gym before. There’s no guarantee you workout for 30 minutes per week and be fit. You must have schedule and consistently follow.
4. Go to gym without certificate. There are many gym classes that are not having suitable equipment. It is very dangerous because you can get hurt. Always go to the gym that having expertise instructor.

That’s some big cause why you don’t lose as your target. Let’s get motivated and you will reached your target to become slimmer than ever.

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Do you know about hyperhidrosis? This is the common disorder condition characterized because increased perspiration. It will cause excessive sweating of the hands. Hyperhidrosis is not a temporary condition, and most people have suffered with it since childhood. Not just hands, it also effect on your foot, underarm and facial. This condition will make people who suffer feel uncomfortable and embarrassing. The uncontrollable sweating can lead to significant discomfort, both physical and emotional. It can negatively affect people both socially and functionally in their daily lives. This syndrome affects 2 – 3% of the population worldwide.
From research, this condition is an inherited problem. Most infected people have a family history that gets this disease. People don’t get big problem because this condition but they suffer in their lives. Other factors that may contribute hyperhidrosis are hyper thyroidism ,obesity , infections and diabetes.
There are some basic tips for people suffer the hyperhidrosis :-

• Wear loose fitting garments made of fabric that does not stain.
• Use the group of medications known as anticholinergics, which reduce sweating
• Try garments that are designed to absorb sweat.
• Use iontopheresis.It is using electrical stimulation. The patients place hands in a bath using electrical current. This treatment need to “stun” hand to decrease the secretion of sweat.
• Expect to change your socks several times a day.
• Use absorbent insoles in shoes and replace them frequently.
• Don’t wear the same pair of shoes two days in a row; leave them to dry out and increase their life span.
• Choose a non-soap cleanser.
• Use prescription medication, especially if the rate of perspiration is heavy, or the sweating is taking place all over the body
• Use talcum powder or corn starch powder after bathing.
• Avoid foods and drinks that contain caffeine (coffee, tea, cola drinks, chocolate).

Everyone’s experience with this condition is different. So please be patient and work with your doctor to find the best treatments for your individual situation.

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