Archive for August, 2009
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Symptoms Of Acute Bronchitis Contagious
Acute bronchitis – acute diffuse inflammation of the bronchi. Refers to one of the most common respiratory diseases. In acute bronchitis bronchial mucous membranes swell, their blood vessels dilate and blood overflow (congestion) on the surface appears fluid, including the mucosal epithelium and blood elements (white blood cells, red blood cells). In severe cases of acute bronchitis is affected and other sections of the bronchus. Acute bronchitis lasts from several days to several weeks.
Acute Bronchitis Contagious
Prevention of bronchitis: tempering the body, increase immunity, prevention and thorough treatment of rhinitis, tonsillitis, inflammation of the paranasal cavities of the nose (sinusitis), the removal of harmful factors (smoking, industrial dust, cooling, etc.). For the prevention of chronic bronchitis requires careful treatment of acute bronchitis. In severe bronchitis prescribed order antibiotics.
Symptoms and course of acute bronchitis.
Starts on the background of a cold, laryngitis. The concern gnawing pain behind the breastbone, dry, sometimes productive cough, a feeling of weakness, fatigue, increased temperature. With a heavy flow temperature can be high, generally greater malaise, dry cough with more difficulty breathing and shortness of breath. Pain in the lower regions of the chest and abdominal wall associated with overexertion of muscles when you cough. Over time cough becomes wet, began to retreat mucopurulent, or purulent sputum. Breathing hard, dry and moist rales finely. Acute symptoms usually subside by 3-4 day and a favorable course completely disappear in 7-10 days Revatio. Accession bronchospasm leads to a prolonged duration and facilitates the transition of acute to chronic bronchitis. (more…)
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Acute Cor Pulmonale
What is cor pulmonale?
Condition overload hypertrophy and right heart that occurs in chronic nonspecific lung disease, pulmonary embolism, and so on. The basis – increasing the pressure in the lesser circulation. There are acute (within a few hours, days), subacute (within a few weeks, months) and chronic (many years) the development of cor pulmonale buy Mevacor. By his lead: diseases affecting the lung tissue (chronic obstructive bronchitis, emphysema, pneumosclerosis, pulmonary infarction, extensive pneumonia), and changes of the musculoskeletal system, providing ventilation (severe curvature of the spine), the primary lesions of pulmonary vessels.
Acute Cor Pulmonale
Symptoms and course of cor pulmonale.
In acute and subacute cor pulmonale – symptoms typical of infarction pneumonia. Are growing signs of right heart failure, swelling of neck veins, increased liver. In chronic cor pulmonale marked dyspnea, cyanosis, increasing the number of red blood cells, hemoglobin in peripheral blood, slowing ESR, buy Revatio. Recognition is carried out on the basis of clinical data, changes in electrocardiogram and chest radiograph.
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Symptoms (manifestation) lobar pneumonia
Lobar pneumonia
Symptoms (manifestation) lobar pneumonia.
Lobar pneumonia manifested by sudden onset (patient calls the day and time), chills with a spectacular rise in body temperature to febrile figures, cough (initially dry, and then with a viscous rusty sputum), dyspnea, chest pain, palpitations. On examination: herpes on the lips, chin, on the wings of the nose, shortness of breath, behind the chest when breathing on the affected side. The body temperature goes up to high numbers, and kept for several days, and then decreases rapidly within a few hours (crisis).
After the crisis the patient’s condition improves, he begins to recover quickly. Under favorable conditions, the crisis comes at the 7-8-th day of illness. In this period can be an acute heart failure (decrease in blood pressure, increased heart rate and weakening, etc.), it is important to take into account nurses. It should be ready kordiamin, camphor, mezatona, caffeine, adrenaline to raise blood pressure, and oxygen, antibiotics such as Noroxin (Norfloxacin) and Keftab (Cephalexin).
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Birth control pills
Modern means of contraception such as birth control pills, have made a revolution in contraception. This can be explained by the fact that the effectiveness of the birth control pill is 99%. You can not write that the effectiveness of birth control pills is 100%, this does not guarantee neither manufacturers of birth control pills. Even if a woman forgets to take a pill, the risk of pregnancy is very small. Because even after a fairly long break admission control pills to become pregnant it is very difficult.
types of birth control pills
It is difficult to say that the pill does not cause any irreversible changes. On the contrary, among the opponents of birth control pills perception that women’s contraceptives are harmful to her body men’s health. In fact, a violation occurs and the cycle of the strongest hormonal failure. Rather, this view can be attributed to the counterfeiting of birth control pills, and poor quality products. Among women who used high-quality birth control pills, no serious complications or abnormalities have been identified.
The composition of the birth control pill
Birth control pills consist primarily of hormones made by artificial means. Among them, estrogen and progesterone. In a few days each menstrual cycle, these 2 hormones are produced in the body naturally by women, as well as continuously throughout pregnancy. Estrogen and progesterone delaying the formulation of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating (FSH)-type. These 2 hormones LH and FSH stimulates follicle maturation, ovulation occurs as a result. During pregnancy ovulation does not occur because of the lack of elaboration of these 2 hormones LH and FSH. On this principle, and action based birth control pills.
Types of birth control pills
* The most famous and popular birth control pill is a combined form. The composition of the combined birth control pill is composed of 2 types of hormones, estrogen and progesterone. They are accepted within 21 days, with 1 or 5 days beginning of menstruation and ending reception of 21 or 25 day. It must be remembered that it is necessary to do a seven-day break. During this period, depurant bleeding. Some manufacturers of birth control pills, in addition to the active birth control pills, put in a stack and inactive, which should be taken in the seven days of treatment. When you receive a combined birth control pill may not occur ovulation. Combined birth control pills affect the mucous membrane of the uterus, leading to its unsuitability for embryo implantation. Also cervix increases in size due to the expansion of the uterine muscle, thus formed a barrier to sperm.
* Usually in a standard pack of mini birth control pill contains about 28 active pills. The composition of the mini-pill is just a synthetic progesterone hormone. These mini-tablets lokaliziruetsya only in the cervical mucous membrane. Ovulation Mini birth control pills do not prevent. Accept the mini birth control pill every day, 1 tablet, even during menstruation. (more…)
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Pulmonary infarction
What is pulmonary infarction?
Disease, developing as a result of clot (thrombosis) in the pulmonary artery, or sliding it from the peripheral veins (thromboembolism). By that predispose surgery, postpartum, heart failure, fractures of long tubular bones, malignant tumors, prolonged bed rest. Closure of thrombotic vascular clearance leads to increased pressure in the pulmonary artery and contributes to hemorrhage in the lung tissue. Joining the bacterial infection causes inflammation of the site (pneumonia).
Pulmonary infarction
The symptoms and course of pulmonary infarction.
Identify the caliber, the location and number of closed thrombotic vessels, baseline lung diseases and heart. The most frequent symptoms: shortness of breath suddenly appeared (suddenly increased), chest pain, pallor tinged with ashy skin, cyanosis, a violation of heart rate (frequency, ciliary arrhythmia, extrasystoles), decrease blood pressure, changes of the nervous system, increase body temperature, cough with mucous, or bloody sputum, hemoptysis. You may heard the noise of friction pleura, melkopuzyrchatye bubbling rale on a limited area.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis
What is idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis?
The disease is characterized by bleeding in alveolus with subsequent fibrosis and thickening mezhalveolyarnyh partitioning, accumulation gemosiderofagov. It autoimmune genesis, but the cause is not clear autoagressi; a part of the patients revealed a high level of pretsipitinov to cow’s milk.
Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis
The clinical picture.
Start gradually. Note the crisis occurring with obstructive or pneumonic symptoms, and accompanied by severe anemia. Usually heard melopuzyrchatye bubbling rale. In the blood - retikulotsitoz, normoblastoz, mikrosferotsitoz, erythrocyte sedimentation rate increase in the resistance of normal erythrocytes, and usually negative direct test Kumbsa. X-ray usually reveal numerous miliary shadows, more abundant in the middle zones (
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
What is bronchial asthma?
Chronic disease with recurrent attacks of suffocation or asthmatic status due to bronchial spasm, swelling of mucous, increased allocation of bronchial mucus. Provoked spasm of bronchial nonspecific allergens: pollen (flower pollen, field grasses, trees), dust (house dust, cat hair, dog, etc.), food (eggs, citrus fruits, fish, milk, etc.), medicines (aspirin , analgin, etc.), mechanical and chemical substances (metal, wood, silicate, cotton dust, vapors of acids, alkalis, smoke), physical and meterologicheskie factors (temperature and humidity, barometric pressure fluctuations, the Earth’s magnetic field and etc.), mite allergens, insects, animals, nervnopsihicheskie impact.
Bronchial asthma
Underlying disease – a hereditary, congenital, and (or) acquired defects in bronchial sensitivity.
The symptoms and course of bronchial asthma. Signs. Types of asthma.
There are 2 forms of bronchial asthma – infectious-allergic and atopic from suffocation attacks of varying intensity, between which the status of the patients may be satisfactory. Attack may begin flux of liquid from the nose, uncontrollable cough, difficulty release sputum, short-winded. Breathe – a short breath – difficult, slow and spasmodic, accompanied by a loud, sibilant rale, heard in the distance. (more…)
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Aspirating bronchitis and pneumonia
Quite common in infancy, disease due to a violation of an act of swallowing (dysphagia) or, less frequently, with the presence of traheopischevodnogo fistula, esophageal
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