Health Journal

Heart Failure Guidelines

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dr.Ted

Heart Failure (Cardiac Failure) is a medical emergency which the amount of blood pumped by the heart each minute (cardiac output) are unable to supply the requirement of the normal body’s metabolism.

Impact of heart failure can affect the deficiency of blood supply, thus causing cells deprived of oxygen.

Heart failure disease does not mean that the heart stops working (cardiac arrest), but the heart is no longer able to pump blood for a person’s body like ussually.

Heart has two sides, left and right, so that heart failure can occur on one side of the heart, such as left heart failure or right heart failure.

Possible factors that cause heart failure disease are people who have hypertension, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), smoking, diabetes, obesity (overweight) and someone who has a family history of heart disease and irregular life style and no sports activity.

Symptoms of heart failure disease can be distinguished by that side.

Left Heart Failure caused collection of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), which causes severe shortness of breath. In the beginning, shortness of breath is felt only when someone doing the activity, but in the future, shortness of breath will also arise when patients are not doing activities. Some other sign are quickly tired (fatigue), anxiety / worry, rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), cough and irregular heart rhythm (Arrhythmia).
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Zinc Treatment for Diarrhea in Children

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Dr.Ted

Zinc is a micronutrient essential for health and growth of children. Zinc in the body will decrease in large numbers when the child has diarrhea. Zinc also improves the immune system so as to prevent the risk of recurrence of diarrhea for 2 to 3 months after the child recovers from diarrhea.

Benefits of zinc as a diarrhea treatment is to reduce the prevalence of diarrhea by 34 percent.

Zinc is an essential mineral for the body, more than 300 enzymes in the body depend on zinc. Zinc is also needed by the various organs of the body, such as skin and gastrointestinal mucosa.

Zinc is given once daily for 10 consecutive days. Giving zinc should continue even if diarrhea has stopped. This is intended to increase body resistance against possible recurrence of diarrhea at 2 to 3 months.

Dosage zinc for infants that younger than 6 months are given 0,5 tablet (10mg) per day. While toddlers that aged over 6 months can be given 1 tablet (20mg) per day. Zinc safely consumed together with Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS).
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Irregular Menstrual Cycle

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dr.Ted

Every woman who entered puberty age will experience first menstruation, called Menarche.

Normal Menstruation is a menstruation occurred during several days to one week duration each one cycle.

Normal menstrual cycle, when the period of menstruation is between 25 days to 34 days counted from the first day of menstruation before.

There are many women have a short or long cycle menstruation, both short and long cycles, show abnormalities in metabolism and hormonal system. The impact is the same, which is difficult to be pregnant. In the short cycle, women experience “unovulation” because ovum is not mature so it is difficult to fertilize. In the long cycle, it indicates the ovum is rarely produced or mothers experiencing infertility long enough.

It called normal menstruation if a women replace the women pads max three times a day, not depending on the activity that she is doing on that day. If more than that, called Menorrhagia, this situation is not normal. Conversely there is also a fixed bleed outside the menstrual cycle, this is not normal and is called Metrorrhagia.

If the bleeding stills many inside and outside the menstrual cycle, this is called Meno metrorrhagia and this is quite worrying.

Some causes of disruption of menstrual cycle:
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Ganglion Cyst in Wrist

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dr.Ted

Ganglion cyst is a lump that often appears around the joints and tendons in the hands and feet. These cysts are formed from a joint capsule or a tendon sheath.
Its size can vary. Most often appears on the wrist (80%) and finger joints.

The cause of ganglion is not known, but ganglion could occur due to a small tear in the ligament that passes through the tendon sheath or joint capsule either due to injury, degenerative process or minor abnormalities that are not known before.

Below process can cause a viscous joint fluid leak and cause lumps. These cysts contain clear viscous liquid similar to protein-rich jelly. These cysts can grow or shrink over time and even disappear. In addition it can sometimes inflame if irritated. Consistency can be soft to hard as a rock due to high pressure fluid filled cyst that sometimes diagnosed as a bone protrusion.
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When does The Best Time to Take Medicine (Part 2)

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Dr.Ted

When should I take medicine: morning, afternoon, evening, or night?

The best time to take the medicine depends on the type of medicine. Below is the time of taking medicine according to the user group.

1. Medicine for diabetes and cardiac reinforcement

The best time is at 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning. The human body is most sensitive to insulin at 4-5 o’clock in the morning, so if given at the time, the effect is best, although in smaller doses. Heart tonic effects are also higher to 10-20 times in that hour than other times. This is because the human body is also most sensitive to digitalis. It is theoretically and possible in practice can be slightly shifted due date, for example at 6 am.

2. Diuretics

Best used at 7 am. It is important to use the art of facilitating the drug at the right time because it is related to renal function and hemodynamic. In addition, in that time, the patient was awake, so don’t disturb sleep. Drugs like hydrochlorothiazide have lower side effects if used at 7 am.

3. Antihypertensive

The best time is at 9-11 o’clock in the morning. Research shows that blood pressure reaches the highest rate at 9-11 o’clock in the morning, and lowest at night after sleeping. So in general, antihypertensive drugs should be taken in the morning. Need to be careful if antihypertensive drugs taken at night because it may decrease excessive blood pressure during sleep.

4. Anti asthma

The best time is at 3-4 o’clock in the afternoon. This is because at the time the body is reduced steroid production, and may cause an asthma attack at night. Therefore, if inhaled steroids at afternoon, that is expected to prevent asthma attacks at night.
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