Anxiety Drugs Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)
- Isocarboxazid (Marplan)
- Phenelzine (Nardil)
- Tranylcypromine (Parnate)
HOW DO THESE DRUGS WORK?
This group of antidepressants has been used since the 1950s. They increase the brain
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Anxiety Drugs Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)
Friday, June 11th, 2010Natural Alternatives to Allergy Drugs: Butterbur
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Natural Alternatives to Allergy Drugs: Butterbur
This plant extract is commonly used in Europe for the treatment of hay fever. A prospective, randomized, double-blind study compared butterbur to fexofenadine (Allegra) and placebo in 330 participants with allergies (allergic rhinitis). The butterbur group took one tablet (8 mg of the active ingredient petasine) three times daily. Both fexofenadine (Allegra) and butterbur were superior to placebo in relieving symptoms. Another study found butterbur extract to be effective in relieving nasal symptoms associated with allergies. It was also shown after five days of use to significantly reduce the allergenic substance histamine. In addition, a randomized, double-blind, parallel group comparison found butterbur to be as effective as cetirizine (Zyrtec) in treating seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever).
DOSAGE
For allergic rhinitis, use a standardized extract containing 8 to 16 mg of petasine taken three to four times daily. Also, a whole butterbur root extract at a dose of 50 mg twice daily has been studied and can be used as well.
SAFETY
Butterbur is well tolerated. It can cause digestive upset, headache, fatigue, and itchy eyes.
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Allergy Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives. What Are Allergies?
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Allergy Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives. What Are Allergies?
Allergies are a very common health problem in the United States; approximately one out of five people is affected by hay fever.With this condition sufferers react to substances in the environment such as grass or tree pollens. This is usually seasonal. Some people react year-round to things such as dust mites, pet dander, or mold. Common symptoms include sneezing, runny nose, congested sinus, watery and/or itchy eyes, and sinus pressure and pain. Allergies can also cause sinus headaches, fatigue, inability to focus, itchy mouth and throat, sore throat, sleep problems, asthma, eczema, and a variety of other health problems. (more…)
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Gastrointestinal, Inhalation, Cutaneous Anthrax Disease Symptoms
Sunday, January 17th, 2010What is anthrax?
Anthrax – an infectious disease of the groups of zoonoses, characterized by fever, lesions of the lymphatic system, intoxication, and flows in the form of skin, rarely intestinal, pulmonary, and septic forms. Is caused by anaerobic bacteria – a fixed, large size, stick with chopped ends. Outside the human and animal forms spores, which are very resistant to physical and chemical effects. Channel anthrax – sick or dead animals. Infection of Human contact often carried out by (for cutting animal carcasses, processing of animal skins, etc.) and by eating food contaminated with spores, as well as water, soil, furs, etc.
Anthrax - an infectious disease of the groups of zoonoses, characterized by fever, lesions of the lymphatic system, intoxication, and flows in the form of skin, rarely intestinal, pulmonary, and septic forms
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What Paratyphoid A and B?
Saturday, December 26th, 2009What Paratyphoid A and B?
Paratyphoid A and B – acute infectious diseases, the clinical picture is similar to typhoid fever. Pathogens – moving from a sort of salmonella bacteria that are resistant in the environment. Disinfectants in the usual concentrations kill them after a few minutes. The only source of infection in paratyphoid A are sick and bakteriovydeliteli, and when paratyphoid in them can be and animals (cattle, etc.). Ways to transfer more fecal-oral, less food or water (including mushin). The rise of morbidity begins in July, reaching a peak in September-October, endemic. Susceptibility of high and does not depend on age and sex.
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Natural smallpox vaccination
Sunday, December 20th, 2009Natural smallpox vaccination
Smallpox is natural – refers to quarantine infections, characterized by general intoxication, fever, rash pustulopapuleznoy, leaving scars. The causative agent, found in the pit contents, refers to the virus, contains DNA, is well propagated in culture of human tissue, is resistant to low temperature and drying. The stricken a danger from the first days of illness before dropout crusts Revatio. Transfer agent is mainly airborne and air-dust by. Currently, smallpox eradicated throughout the world.
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Prevention and symptoms of malaria disease
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Prevention and symptoms of malaria disease
What is malaria?
Malaria – a group of vector-borne diseases. Characterized by acute attacks of fever and anemia. Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites, vectors – blood-sucking female mosquito genus anopheles.
The source of infection – a sick man and a carrier of the parasite. The disease is common in South-East Asia and Africa.
Prevention and symptoms of malaria disease
Symptoms, signs and course of malaria.
The duration of the incubation period with a three-day malaria, 14-20 days in the south, 7-14 months in the north, with tropical malaria 8-16 days. Many patients often appear prodromal (initial) symptoms: weakness, weakness, appetite loss, sleeping, chilling with mild fever, headache, and pain in muscles and joints buy Revatio. It lasts 2-3 days. Then a typical febrile seizure. A typical attack starts with a chill: of course cold, the tip of the nose and lips bluish. Stunning chill 30-40 minutes followed by heat. The temperature rises to 40-41 degrees Celsius. The patient’s condition deteriorates. Concerns are emerging, shortness of breath, severe headache, dizziness, back pain, extremity. Skin is dry, often grayish-yellow color, tongue coated white bloom. Palpation of the abdomen is painful. After 6-12 hours the heat is replaced by then. Critical temperature drops to subnormal. Interictal There comes a pause, the duration of which is connected with the periodicity of the process schizogonic – asexual reproduction in the human malaria parasite: 1 day at 3-day or 2 days at 4-day malaria.
Seizures may occur at any time of day. The number of paroxysms in the fresh, primary malaria reaches 8-12. In some cases, the parasites die and recovery occurs in the other – the circulation of the pathogen in the blood continues and possible early and late relapses.
Since the first attacks of malaria are increasing the size of the liver and spleen. There is growing anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, increased ESR. The most difficult proceeds tropical malaria, in which there is a threat of malaria coma (severe general intoxication, altered mental status, meningeal phenomena) due to the impact of parasites on the central nervous system.
Recognition of malaria.
Diagnosis is based on clinical and laboratory data and epidemiological history. All patients with suspected malaria conducted microscopic examination of blood (thick blood smear and). Detection of parasites is the only indisputable proof. Applied research and serological methods (XRF, Phragmites).
Treatment of malaria.
Sent to the fact that acute bouts of nausea, destroy gametes – reproductive cells of malarial parasites to stop transmission of infection and relapse. Medications are used quinine and 4-aminohinolinovye derivatives (primaquine, do Lago, fanzimif, etc.) on certain schemes.
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Q fever
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Q fever
What is Q fever?
Q fever. – Acute rickettsial disease characterized by general toxic phenomena, often with fever and atypical pneumonia. Pathogen – a small organism. Very resistant to drying, heat, ultraviolet irradiation. Reservoir and source of infection are various wild and domestic animals, and ticks. Infection of people are in contact with them, consumption of dairy products and airborne dust by. The disease is detected during the whole year, but more often in spring and summer. KU-fever is widespread across the globe, natural foci are found in 5 continents.
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Infectious mononucleosis (Filatov’s disease)
Monday, November 9th, 2009Infectious mononucleosis (Filatov’s disease)
What is infectious mononucleosis or Filatov’s disease?
It is believed that the agent – filterable virus Epstein-Barr virus. Infectious mononucleosis is possible only with very close contact with the patient’s healthy, is by airborne droplets. Most sick children. The incidence observed throughout the year, but higher in autumn months.