Old man of the sea (or 'heroic informatics')

The seas have long been an information and communications channel ....

My source: AWADmail Issue 408 April 25, 2010
From: Steve Patterson

Subject: Old Man of the Sea
Def: A tiresome burden, especially a person, difficult to free oneself from.

Outside of the Arabian tradition, the Greek mythology includes Proteus and Nereus, both titled old men of the sea, and shape-shifting gods, to boot. Heroes in search of secret information had to wrestle one of these gods, as the sea touches even the remotest shore, and the flow of rivers was always bringing more information to them.

Image source: Gallery Lui-Ko Proteus, 2003, oil, canvas, 60x80 http://www.unesco.kz/lui-ko/

Wageningen MultiMedia Research Centre

I am away for a week and will be e-free. Amongst reading materials I'm packing Learning Drupal 6 Module Development. Last evening I came across Wageningen MultiMedia Research Centre (WMMRC) a treat to explore for when I return. Rather than a more complete educational Drupal distribution there are some specific modules that might work as a plug-in:

• ClosedQuestion
• Proteus
• LinearCase

The publications are extensive and of relevance too.

(Bye for now ... There's a post scheduled for 1st June on Proteus)

Call for Proposals to Phase 3 Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW)

Last month I posted the advanced notice about this call for proposals, which is now fully released and has been publicised on the SPARC / KT-EQUAL network:

Dear All (but especially researchers who are desperate to secure research funding)

The Call for Proposals to Phase 3 of the cross-research council multi-health agency Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) initiative was released today.

Details can be found at:

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Calls/LLHWPhase3/MRC006680

This is a very significant opportunity, well worth close scrutiny and consideration and, hopefully, subsequent action.

If you have any uncertainties about the programme or its requirements then I am sure that the representatives of the research councils will be very pleased for you to make contact with them.

Importantly this is a call for multidisciplinary research, a requirement which must be wholeheartedly embraced for any proposal to stand a chance of being eligible for consideration.

It's time for action!!

Best wishes

Peter Lansley
Professor Peter Lansley, BSc, MSc, PhD, MCIOB, FCOT
Director, KT-EQUAL – Knowledge Transfer for Extending Quality Life
School of Construction Management and Engineering, URS Building,
University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 219, Reading, RG6 6AW, UK
p.r.lansley at reading.ac.uk
http://www.sparc.ac.uk

What's good for art students ....

Never take the stylus or brush
in your hand if you have not first
constituted in your mind all that you have to do.

Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, 1435-36

My source: 16 May 2010, Visit to The British Museum, Italian Renaissance drawings.

Is this my excuse for taking so long with a new website?

Curriculum design and the value of whitespace

The best websites are often variously described as clean, slick, easy to navigate and access. They are considered 'best' often as a consequence of appreciating the need for whitespace. This means of course that they are also minimalist, uncluttered, easier to style consistently and they often have plenty of free space. The Google site and resulting interface is a prime example, to the extent it has become a recognised brand characteristic.

The pressures on curricula almost preempts the phenomena of student cramming. Without careful planning and discipline curricula can be jammed so full that there is no slack, no whitespace.

As a result there is also no space to reflect (Clouder, 2009).

Reference:
Lynn Clouder (2009) Promotion of Reflective Learning, Teaching and Assessment through Curriculum Design, Occasional Paper 10, Connecting Reflective Learning, Teaching and Assessment, Edited by Helen Bulpitt and Mary Deane, Higher Education Academy. p.11.

Additional links:
Whitespace programming language

Drawing - the stage of conceptual design

The health career model
- drawing -
for health and social care professionals, et al.. ...

"The Italian word for drawing, disegno,
also encapsulates the stage of conceptual design.
The ability to imagine a design
and then develop it on paper was an increasingly valuable skill."

The Purpose of Drawing: The British Museum, May 2010.

Additional link:
Disegno: Italian Fine Art Drawing

My source: 16 May 2010, Visit to The British Museum, Italian Renaissance drawings.

63rd World Health Assembly unanimously adopts the WHO global Code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel

Dear HIFA2015 colleagues,

Please find below a press release from the Global Health Workforce Alliance. In the words of Dr Mubashar Sheikh, GHWA Executive Director: "The world is now a significant step closer to ensuring health workers are available and accessible to all".

PRESS RELEASE: 'Sixty-third World Health Assembly unanimously adopts the WHO global Code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel. Alliance members and partners applaud Member States. The Alliance 21/05/2010.

[Photo: WHO/Jess Hoffman. Dr Pierre François Unger, State Councillor of the Canton of Geneva, addresses delegates at the opening of the Sixty-third World Health Assembly.]

'Geneva, 21 May 2010 - In a historic move today, the Sixty-third World Health Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to adopt the voluntary WHO global Code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel. With this step, the world's nations acknowledge the global dimension and complexities of the health workforce crisis and the interconnected nature of both the problems and the solutions.

'With this resolution, Member States commit themselves to the voluntary principles and practices for the ethical international recruitment of health personnel taking into account the responsibilities and rights of source and destination countries, other stakeholders, and those of the migrant health personnel themselves. The Code provides ethical principles applicable to the international recruitment of health personnel in a manner that strengthen the health systems of developing countries.

'A drafting committee was established on the first day of the Assembly and after three days of negotiations, stayed up till 4:30 am on Thursday, 20 May 2010 to seek consensus on a draft resolution that retained the principles and spirit of the Code while also representing a way forward for all countries.

'The draft was unanimously accepted at the tenth session of Committee A late evening on 20 May 2010 and brought long awaited joy and celebration to the many organizations and individuals, campaigners and professionals, institutions and Member States who had been working tirelessly since the last three years to see a meaningful and equitable resolution on the Code be adopted at the World Health Assembly.

'"The process was not always easy, but there was commitment from all Member States to see a resolution adopted. This helped to keep the process moving and the results are there to see" says Alliance Board member, Bjarne Garden, Assistant Director, Global Health and AIDS Department, NORAD, a member of the Norwegian delegation.

'"This brings to fruition the pioneering work seeded by the Alliance three years ago with the creation of the Health Worker Migration Initiative bringing together the Health Worker Migration Global Policy Advisory Council and WHO led team of technical experts. It is the result of the work of multiple stakeholders who have effectively rallied around together. The world is now a significant step closer to ensuring health workers are available and accessible to all", says Dr Mubashar Sheikh, Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance.

'World Health Organization (WHO) has played a key role in coordinating the process. "The Code sets out a roadmap for implementation. Within 2 years WHO will provide guidance to countries on monitoring implementation of the Code, and then report to the Assembly on the progress against implementation. The Code is voluntary, but progress on implementation will be monitored and reviewed" explained Dr Manuel Dayrit, Director, WHO department of Human Resources for Health.

'Health personnel migration has been a clearly identified priority for the Alliance since its inception. During the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in March 2008, the Alliance endorsed the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action, which sparked broad interest in the creation of the Code.

'Progress on the code has been achieved as a result of consultations and discussions, particularly at all six WHO Regional Committees and national consultations, involving participation by a wide range of stakeholder groups. The UN ECOSOC meeting and the G8 Summit in July 2009, and the UN General Assembly in December 2009 had strongly supported and encouraged WHO to move forward in finalizing the draft code of practice. The 126th Session of the WHO Executive Board, January 2010, had discussed a revised draft of the Code and recommended that it be submitted to the 63rd World Health Assembly.

'At this momentous milestone, the Alliance and WHO call upon Member States and all its partners to reinforce its spirit of working together as they now gear up to implementing the code. The Alliance remains committed to facilitating the process and supporting sharing of information among Member States and all stakeholders.'

The Draft Resolution, dated 20 May 2010, is available here:
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/themes/migration/wha_A63_A_Confpaper_11.pdf

Key elements of the draft code (as described in The Lancet, 15 May) are:

• Establishment of voluntary global standards for ethical international recruitment of health personnel, balancing rights and obligations of source states, destination states, and health personnel.
• Promotion of coordination of national policies and international cooperation among states and their partners in health professions and civil society.
• Recommendation that states strive to meet their domestic needs for health services with their own human resources through planning, education, and training for health workforce.
• Recommendation that states ensure that international migration should have net positive effect on developing countries through technical assistance, support for health personnel training and retention, twinning of health facilities, and specialised technology and skills transfers.
• Recommendation that states establish voluntary financial mechanisms to support efforts of developing countries to strengthen health systems.
• Recommendation that states protect rights of migrant health workers through fair labour practices. In all terms of employment and conditions of work, migrant health personnel should enjoy same legal rights and responsibilities as domestically trained health workforce, without discrimination.
• Recognition that health personnel have ethical responsibilities to cooperate with local authorities in interests of patients, health systems, and society.
• Recommendation for national data collection and information exchange on health personnel migration, including establishment of national centre for information exchange, expansion and coordination of national research, and periodic reporting to WHO.
• Promotion of compliance through periodic state reporting to WHA of measures taken to implement the code; and recommendation that WHA periodically reviews the code's implementation with input from non-governmental sources.

Allyn L Taylor & Lawrence O Gostin. International recruitment of health personnel. The Lancet, 375(9727)1673-1675, 15 May 2010
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960596-X/fulltext?_eventId=login&&version=printerFriendly
(free access after free registration)

My source: HIFA2015 with photo addition

Discover the 7 Types of Body deodorizer

You've put on deodorant body, but only in a matter of hours, no longer seemed scent? Maybe it was caused by a type of perfume you are really not meant to last long. Here are seven types of fragrances based on levels of the fragrance.

1. Eau de Perfume
This perfume has a low alcohol content. The aroma is strong enough and durable, can last approximately 3-5 hours if applicable. The price is also slightly more expensive than any other type of fragrance. Freshener type is suitable to use when the show at night.

2. Eau de Toilette
These types of perfuming high alcohol content, so the flavor mild and not too sharp. The aroma can last three to four hours so suited for lightweight aktivtas. This species is usually available for men.

3. Eau de Cologne
Cologne is a type of light perfume. This species was once very popular, but it's been replaced with other well-known perfume oil with a higher concentration and certainly longer lasting fragrance than cologne. Now, he is still favored by many women to refresh the body after bathing.

4. After Shave (A / S)
After shave is the type of balm or perfume containing aloe (Aloe vera). Usually used for men to soothe the pores after shaving. Alcohol content also serves to close the pores again.

5. Soie de Perfume
The content of high oil concentration in this type of deodorant. The aroma can last approximately 3-6 hours if used, so it can make a scent in your body is more durable. However, this rare type of deodorant in market due to its exclusive nature of manufacturing.

6. Pure Perfume
Pure Parfume is an extract containing deodorant fragrance oil and alcohol are very strong. This type of fragrance can last for more than six hours. Not all types of deodorant brands to offer these products and are usually very rare and expensive.

Oily Skin Treatment Tips Part 2

Oily skin more sensitive to chemicals. Obviously we do not want more problematic skin conditions for use of care products that do not necessarily match.

Using natural ingredients for oily skin be the best solution. No need to spend a lot of cost, you can get the ingredients in the kitchen alone. Here are some natural ingredients for oily skin:

1. Cucumber Mask
Material:
- 1-2 cucumber fruit has been blended
- 2 tablespoons yogurt

Mix these ingredients together, then dab on your face and let stand for 30 minutes. After that, rinse with cold water.

Cucumbers pentralisir useful as oil and overcome acne.

2. Tomatoes
Material:
- 1 tomato
- 1 / 2 lemon

Mix these ingredients with a little hot water. Then rub with a circular motion on the chin, cheeks and forehead.

Nutritious tomatoes to balance excess oil production in the skin. While useful for a refreshing lemon skin.

3. Keeping your diet
Eat foods rich in protein, vegetables and fresh fruits. Limit your intake of foods high in sugar and fat and avoid eating junk food and fried foods that contain lots of oil. These foods stimulate the production of oil became more of. Also multiply drinking water for the skin hydrated and toxins were more easily get out of the body.

Ensuring You Have Nursing Skills Through 2030 ...

In Computing 20 May 2010 Andrew Charlesworth (p.24-26) writes about a report from Gartner the IT industry advisory group warning of a gap in mainframe skills due to the imminent retirement of experienced IT staff. The report notes:

"Increased focus needs to be to be on the preservation of detailed and specialised expertise that goes well beyond basic knowledge."

Nursing faces its own challenges in terms of skill gaps and loss of skills due to retirement. In contrast to the mainframe IT market the skills needed is in the orchestration of basic nursing care.

This is an ironic state of affairs as there are many forces acting to deprofessionalise nursing. Demographic trends is one. This is happening amid decades of specialisation and the production of - profession establishing - models and theories of nursing (care). Some of these are, however, quite complex and removed from the rudiments and tenets of basic nursing care.

The real irony here though? Well, as the demographic wave washes over many nurses themselves, the care they may subsequently need and receive will - just like mainframe skills - be the harvest from seeds they have also cast, or are sowing right now.

Ensuring You Have Mainframe Skills Through 2020, Gartner, Mike Chuba, Research VP.

Prognosis for NPfIT remains uncertain - 21 May 2010 - Computing

While the coalition government’s Programme for Government reiterates previous commitments around technology and civil liberties, IT procurement and broadband rollout, it is noticeably silent on the future of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with no mention of Conservative promises prior to the election to dismantle the "NHS supercomputer" or the Liberal Democrats' pledge to scrap large parts of the NPfIT.
...

Prognosis for NPfIT remains uncertain - 21 May 2010 - Computing

The health career model, reflection, curriculum development

There are many new insights and remembrances available in the content of -

Occasional Paper No 10 (PDF access)
Connecting Reflective Learning, Teaching and Assessment
October 2009 by Helen Bulpitt and Mary Deane

We tend to speak of reflection as if it is merely a case of being in the right place at the right time:
in front of a mirror or other reflective surface.

Among the issues raised in OP #10 (which I will expand and explore further) are:

• the need to embed reflection in learning, teaching and assessment at the curriculum design level;
• the existence of an optimal curriculum design that can foster effective critical reflection (Clouder, 2009);
• reflection to meet specific learning outcomes can be said to be 'reflection to order' (Dalley, Chap 2, 2009);

As this short list shows reflection is a complex and serious component and activity of learning. A central problem is in the assessment and marking of reflective writing (Deane, Chap 5, 2009; Dalley, Chap 6, 2009). Marking a piece of reflective writing what would we look for:

• Observation
• Structure
• Reasoning
• Critical review
• Argument
• Personal disclosure
  
• Writing?

There really is the basis for a paper here on the health career model, reflection and there on the horizon - curriculum development.

Image source:
http://www.reelcollectibles.co.nz/stargate.htm

HEA Mental Health SIG, h2cm & reflection

The HEA mental health SIG presentation yesterday on Hodges' model was very well received. The other sessions were also very interesting and of direct relevance to my role in the care of older adults and mental health. The other sessions were on national dementia strategy and a study of competencies, plus the use of a book club in student learning. I hope other opportunities will arise to spread word of the health career model at other events. The trip (British Museum and an hour in the National Portrait Gallery inc.), networking and dialogue that ensued was very enjoyable. The next meeting will be later in the year and may be in Glasgow, so check their site and I will see if I can post future details on W2tQ.

In addition to the potential of the model being recognised, I also had to defend some points and assumptions that I have carried for a long time:

• The Care Programme Approach and flexibility of community mental health nurses to employ the model;
• associating 'audiences' to specific care domains (as per the - dated - introductions to the model - click on the images);
• the level of the model - the fact it is 'high level'.
  

I say defend in the sense that I continue to hide behind the slogan: the website and this blog represent a call for research, evidence and verification of the model (I did this yesterday!).

Is my proselytizing virtually, to placement students and at events such as the HEA justified, or the result of over-valued idea? This model definitely has a role to play. It is one of many tools, in a way it is the toolbox.

Browsing the HEA website and other SIGs I found one devoted to reflection. As we wrapped up in the afternoon Charles Kasule (Communications & Resources Officer) brought in an occasional paper produced by the group:

Occasional Paper No 10 (PDF access)
Connecting Reflective Learning, Teaching and Assessment (250KB)
October 2009 by Helen Bulpitt and Mary Deane

This is a brief (pp.76) but very useful introductory reader on reflection. Reflection is central to the creation and application of the health career model being one of the original purposes. My presentation included a 15 minute powerpoint breather when we collectively reflected on dementia care across the model's care (knowledge) domains. I will read OP #10 and share my thoughts here over the coming months. Should anyone be interested in exploring reflection in theory, practice, or both please get in touch. Finally, I am very grateful to Bill Penson the mental health SIG facilitator for the slot and the HEA for making this and other occasional papers freely available. More to follow ...

Nursing: Art and Science ... Fra Angelico to Leonardo

I arrived in London at noon in preparation for the Higher Education Academy mental health SIG meeting tomorrow at King's College, which includes a presentation on the health career model.

The afternoon was spent at The British Museum exhibition Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance drawings:



Early in the life of W2tQ visits to the Tate in London and Liverpool prompted a blog post or two.

Visiting this stunning exhibition even before I fastened and feasted on the first drawing, the subtitled walls announced the various exhibition themes and for me instantly suggested links to health care:

Drawing the father of our three arts -
architecture, sculpture and painting
Georgio Vasari. Lives of the Artists, 1568.

sculpture equates to medicine-surgery

painting to nursing

our care models provide the architecture and palette*

We all draw (model) individually in thought and reflection, these are then shared in our various collaborations and engagements, media forms and records.

Do we need a 21st century renaissance
in the study and appreciation of models of care?

Additional links:
Financial Times: Review

*Red, Green, Blue, (Black & White)
There are a few more prospective posts arising from this museum visit - time - will draw them out.

Holistic bandwidth (and the dangers) of political care

The attack on MP Stephen Timms here in the UK highlights not only the ongoing importance of personal safety for public service personnel, but how much politicians value their constituency work. It is no accident that these sessions are called "surgeries".

The politician meets not just a citizen, but a political obligation and duty to care. In the media reports it was interesting to hear of how much satisfaction MPs get from their constituency work. Listening to the reporting and debate prompted me to realise that although politicians vary in how well they engage and empathise with their constituents the problems they are asked to deal with covers a broad holistic spectrum. Consider this listing written by Tony Wright MP:

• The education system
• The transport system
• The social services
• Health services
• Housing
• The environment
• Government bodies
• The justice system
• Immigration and asylum
• Finances and employment
• Trade unions
• The media

I am a community nurse five days a week.

Our MPs are community politicians one day a week with 'Constituency Friday'.

So to The Rt Hon. Stephen Timms (and his staff) I wish you a speedy recovery and congratulations on the extent of you and your peer's constituency work.

Holistic in a word and deed.

Congratulations also to the Green Party on the success of their leader Caroline Lucas MP.

The Health Career Model: POLITICAL domain resources

Anhidrosis disease and tips to treat

Description
Anhidrosis is the inability to sweat normally. Although this may not sound like a serious condition, anhidrosis can be life threatening. When not sweating, causing heat and sometimes heatstroke.

Anhidrosis - hypohidrosis sometimes called - can be difficult to diagnose. Mild Anhidrosis often not recognized, and dozens of factors can cause the condition, including skin trauma and certain diseases and medications. Anhidrosis treatment involves addressing the causes, if one could be found.

Symptom
Signs and symptoms of anhidrosis include:
- Little or no perspiration
- Dizziness
- Muscle cramps or weakness
- Drain pump
- Feeling the heat

Treatment
Anhidrosis that affects a small portion of the body is usually not a problem and did not require treatment. However, if it occurs in all parts of the body can be life threatening. Although there is no specific treatment for anhidrosis own, treatment may be available for the cause of the problem, not specifically for anhidrosis.

McCune-Albright syndrome disease and tips to treat

Description
McCune-Albright syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by abnormal pigmentation of skin, bone disease and endocrine (hormone-production systems). Bone disease can cause weakness and bone deformities in the legs arms and skull. Endocrine diseases may cause early puberty and increased growth rate in excess (gigantic). Patients affected by various characteristics of different degrees of illness.

Symptom
Symptoms in people include: fractures, bone disorders, foot defects. Other symptoms include, gigantism, a broken bone.

Treatment
There is no specific treatment for this disease. However, the possibility of bone surgery can resolve this issue.

Male Infertility disease and tips to treat

Description
The cause of male infertility include abnormal sperm production, impaired sperm delivery, general health, lifestyle, and certain environmental factors. A number of tests and treatment options allows to diagnose and solve most of the causes of male infertility.

Male fertility is a complex process involving many factors, including the release of hormones that trigger the growth of reproductive organs and sperm production. To get pregnant partner, a man must be able to provide healthy sperm into the vagina are able to reach, penetrate and fertilize her eggs.

• Sperm must be properly formed and able to move towards the egg for fertilization occurs. If the form and structure (morphology) of abnormal sperm or movement (motility) is interrupted, the sperm may be unable to reach or penetrate the egg.
• There must be enough sperm in their semen to create a possibility of pregnancy. Normal sperm concentration greater than or equal to 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen. A count of 10 million or fewer sperm per milliliter of semen indicates low sperm concentration (subfertility). Rarely, a man can not produce any sperm at all.

Your doctor may use several tests to try to determine exactly what caused the problem. Around half of men infertility cases, the cause of the right was never found. But even when the cause is not entirely clear, the treatment may still help. Causes of male fertility disorders or function, including sperm production, sperm disrupted shipping, lifestyle, and environmental exposure.

Symptom
The main sign of male infertility is the inability to knocked up wife. Perhaps no other obvious signs or symptoms of male infertility. However, if the male infertility caused by hormonal problems, may have signs and symptoms such as reduced hair growth on face or body, or low sex drive.

Treatment
Male infertility treatment depends on its cause. In all cases of infertility, women's pairs will also need to be evaluated and may need treatment. In some cases, the treatment of female partner can compensate for male fertility problems. Doctors may try to enhance fertility by improving both the underlying problem (if one is found) or to try treatments that can help. Sometimes the exact cause for infertility could not be identified.

Otosclerosis disease and tips to treat

Description
Otosclerosis is the abnormal growth of bone in the middle ear that causes hearing loss. The exact cause of Otosclerosis is not yet known, estimates that there are a component of medical disorders, which descended through the family.

In normal conditions, the sound vibrations received by the eardrum will be delivered to bone loss. Each hearing will deliver a bone vibration to the next bone. The stirrup bone is the smallest bone in the body's vibrations to the cochlea or continue the snail's house.

In Otosclerosis is happening is the lack of vibration that causes hearing loss, the disorder continued to worsen over time. Otosclerosis is the most frequent cause of middle ear hearing loss in people aged adults. These abnormalities worsened gradually, usually beginning in the early to mid-adulthood. This is more common in women than men and usually Otosclerosis affects both ears.

Symptom
Hearing loss, hearing loss is slowly deteriorating, a hearing will function well in a quiet area.

Treatment
No drug has proved effective for the treatment of Otosclerosis. Although hearing aids can be used by most patients, the natural hearing is preferred by the people. Therefore, the operation became the most effective method for improving hearing loss caused by Otosclerosis.

Vernal conjunctivitis disease and tips to treat

Description
Vernal conjunctivitis is the inflammation caused by allergic reactions. This disease is often happened to someone with a family history of allergy. This disease generally appears during the summer and spring. This condition causes the eyes to itch and shed tears. Lower eyelid surface became rough and covered with lumps of whitish mucus. Area around the cornea becomes rough and swollen. This causes vision to be disturbed.

Symptom
Common symptoms suffered by, among others, the eyes burning, pain when looking at bright light.

Treatment
The patient attempted to avoid rubbing because it will cause irritation continues. Can also compress the eyelid with a clean cloth and cold water.

Nasal polyp disease and tips to treat

Description
Nasal polyp is a benign growth of cells in the nasal mucous membranes. Possible reasons are hypersensitive or allergic reactions in the nasal mucosa.

Symptom
Patients usually complained of nasal congestion, decreased sense of smell, and respiratory symptoms. As a result patients with nasal voice.

Treatment
The main goal of treatment is mengatasii polyps and avoid the causes or drivers of polyps. Operations performed if polyps interfere with breathing or associated with tumors.

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus disease and tips to treat

Description
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (nph) is increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain that affects brain function. Normal pressure hydrocephalus (nph) is a form of hydrocephalus, also known as "water on the brain," which means there is too much fluid pressing on the brain. Nph can occur without a known cause, or may be caused by any condition that blocks the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Fluid-filled chambers (ventricles) of the brain expand to fit the increased volume of CSF. They press down on and damage or destroy brain tissue. They were pressing and damaging or destroying brain tissue.

Risk factors include:
- Bleeding from blood vessels or aneurysms in the brain (subarachnoid hemorrhage)
- Closed head injury
- Meningitis or similar infections
- Operation of the brain (craniotomy)

Symptom
Symptoms often begin slowly. Early symptoms include:
- Changes in gait, including inability to begin walking (gait apraxia)
- A sudden fall
- Weakness legs

Symptoms increase when there occurs:
- Apathy
- Dementia
- Difficulty paying attention
- Impaired memory
- Less spontaneous behavior
- Do not have mood (flat)
- Disturbance to speak
- Urinary or bowel incontinence

Treatment
The aim of treatment is to improve symptoms. Treatment of choice is surgery to place a tube called a shunt that routes the excess CSF from the ventricles of the brain. Treatment may vary depending on the symptoms and how much to set them free therapy.

Interstitial nephritis disease and tips on how to treat

Description
Interstitial nephritis is a kidney disorder in which the space between the renal tubules have swollen. Inflammation of the kidney may affect the ability to filter waste. Causes, incidence, and risk factors: Interstitial nephritis may be temporary (acute) or may be chronic and worse from time to time. These disorders most often caused by side effects of certain drugs. These disorders may be more severe and more likely to lead to chronic or permanent kidney damage in older people.

Symptom
Interstitial nephritis can cause mild to severe kidney problems, including acute renal failure. Around half of the cases, people will have decreased urine output, and other signs of acute renal failure.

The symptoms of this condition include: blood in urine, fever, mental status changes (drowsiness, confusion, coma), nausea, vomiting, or swelling of the body.

Treatment
Treatment focuses on the causes of the problem. Avoiding drugs that cause this condition may relieve the symptoms quickly. Limiting salt (sodium) and fluid in the diet can control swelling and high blood pressure. Also limiting protein can help control the buildup of waste products in the blood (azotemia) that can cause acute renal failure. Corticosteroids or anti-inflammatory medications can help in some cases.

Psychosomatic disorders and tips to treat

Description:
Psychosomatic disorder or somatization is a psychic disorder that causes physical disturbance. In short, is a psychosomatic physical illnesses caused by negative thoughts and / or emotional problems. Emotional problems such as guilt, feel they have the disease, stress, depression, disappointment, anxiety or other negative emotions. This disruption not only occurs in adults, children can experience it.

Please note that the mind can cause physical symptoms. For example, when someone is scared or worried can spur rapid heartbeat, palpitations, feeling sick, shaking (tremor), sweating, dry mouth, chest pain, headaches, and breathing fast. Physical symptoms through brain nerves that send impulses to various parts of the body, and the release of adrenaline into the bloodstream.

Symptoms:
Characterized by the existence of psychosomatic complaints with a variety of physical symptoms. However, patients generally experience or complain about some of the following symptoms:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Burp
- Stomach ache
- Pain
- Itchy skin
- Dizziness
- Pain during sexual intercourse

Treatment:
There are two kinds of treatment for psychosomatic disorders, physical and mental treatment. Physical treatment tailored to the illness. While mental treatment can be done with hypnotherapy, medicine, or with the help of a psychologist.

Afrophobia disease and tips to treat

Description
Afrophobia is the kind of phobia against the indigenous peoples of West Africa or Sub-Saharan Africa. This is often associated with fear of domination of "racial" or cultural pollution from non-African nation.

In contrast to anti-Semitic, Afrophobia is basically a cultural phenomenon and has no strong religious dimensions. However, like anti-Semitism, afrofobia happening in many communities throughout the world, with varying severity, ranging from personal antipathy and bigotry and informal society and discrimination against slavery until the community pemarginalisasian systematic marginalization and oppression.

Rotavirus disease and tips to treat

Description
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants and children worldwide. Most children with rotavirus was attacked at the age of 2 or 3.

Most patients with rotavirus infection can be treated with extra fluids to prevent dehydration. Occasionally, severe dehydration requires intravenous fluids in hospital. But if not addressed can lead to dehydration and death.

Symptom
Immediately taken to the doctor if the following symptoms in children:
- Bloody diarrhea
- Often vomiting for more than three hours
- Body temperature reached 38.9 degrees Celsius or higher
- It seems lethargic or in pain
- Dry mouth, crying without tears, little or no urination at all, unusual drowsiness (dehydration)

In adults:
- Often vomiting during more than two days
- Vomiting blood
- Blood in bowel movement
- Body temperature reached> 40 C
- Excessive thirst, dry mouth, little or no urination, dizziness (dehydration)

Treatment
There is no specific treatment for rotavirus infection. Antibiotics will not help viral infections. Usually, the infection itself off within three to eight days. Treatment can be done is to prevent dehydration by giving ORS. If severe dehydration may require intravenous fluids in hospital.

Prevention
The best prevention is to wash hands before eating.

Nekatoriasis and Akilostomiasis disease and tips to treat

Description
The cause of this disease is hookworm, americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale Nector. The life cycle of this worm from the worm eggs which starts out with feces - into larvae rabditiform - these larvae turn into larvae live in soil filaform after a week - to penetrate human skin - continues into the lungs - worms live in the small intestine - expelled through faeces, so it goes. Although these circumstances do not cause death, disease can lower body endurance.

Symptom
Symptoms of the disease can be known from the eggs or larvae in fresh faeces issued sufferers.

Treatment
Treatment is the provision of nutrition and suplemasi iron preparations. Can also with anthelmintic.

Dementia (senile) disease and tips to treat

Description
Dementia (senile) is a syndrome characterized by various disturbances of cognitive function without any interruption of awareness. Disturbances occur only in intelligence, memory, language, problem solving, orientation, and concentration. Most of huntington disease, Parkinson's, HIV, and trauma (accidents) on the head.

The early stages, patients with difficulty maintaining mental performance. Impairment of mental performance will be increased as experienced increase stage dementia patients. Dementia (senile) usually attacks people aged 50-60 years. Symptoms of dementia disorders are usually not realized by the patient nor the people around him.

Symptom
Is a syndrome characterized by various disturbances of cognitive function without any interruption of awareness.

Treatment
If not too late, dementia can be cured with medical therapy. Given medical therapy that is giving emotional support to patients.

Marfan syndrome disease and tips to treat

Description
Marfan syndrome is a disorder of connective tissue. The main function of connective tissue is to hold the body together and provides direction for growth and development. Composed of fibrous connective tissue, cells and extra cellular fluid. Extra-cellular fluid, and fiber is called the matrix.

In Marfan syndrome, connective tissue is damaged and does not act properly. Because connective tissue is found throughout the body, Marfan syndrome can affect many body systems, including the skeleton, eyes, heart and blood vessels, nervous system, skin, and lungs. Marfan syndrome affects men, women, and children, and have been found among people of all races and ethnic backgrounds.

In many cases of Marfan's syndrome is unknown. Marfan syndrome is caused by damage (mutations) in genes that determine the structure of fibrillin, a protein which is an important part of connective tissue.

Symptom
Symptoms of this syndrome can be detected in the long term. This syndrome affects the skeleton, eyes, heart and blood vessels, nervous system, skin, and lungs.

Treatment
There's no specific cure for Marfan syndrome. However, various treatment options can minimize and sometimes prevent the complications. Specialist will develop an appropriate individual treatment programs; approach the doctor uses depends on systems that have been affected.

Inflammatory ear disease and tips to treat

Description
Chronic inflammation of the middle ear or chronic otitis media supurative is a chronic inflammation of the middle ear with the hole (perforation) in the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and a history of discharge (secretions) from the ear (otorea) more than two months, either continuously or loss arising. Society used to call this illness with the term "congek".

Symptom
Exit fluid (sometimes like snot) from the ear hole. This fluid can get out continuously or occasionally.

Prevention
Some of the following efforts be undertaken to prevent the incidence of middle ear inflammation, such as: reducing air pollution levels especially in the home by not smoking, improved sanitation facilities by ease of getting clean water and adequate ventilation of the room, improving the immune system by eating clean food that healthy and nutritious , improved personal hygiene, not carelessly scraped ear, treatment of upper respiratory infection and paranasal sinus infection completely and appropriately handling of nasal allergy.

For infants and children with congenital defects ceiling cracks reconstruction surgery and therapy efforts continued to reduce the incidence.

Treacher-Collins Syndrome (TCS) disease and treating tips

Description
Treacher-Collins Syndrome (TCS) is a hereditary condition that causes facial defects. Treacher-Collins Syndrome (TCS) is caused by a defective protein called caramelized. More than half of all cases are expected because of new mutations because there is no history of illness in the family. This condition can vary widely in severity over generations.

Symptom
- The external ear abnormal to almost completely disappear
- Loss less
- Very small jaw (micrognathia)
- Big Mouth
- Defects in the lower eyelid called Coloboma
- Scalp hair that extends to the cheek
- Cleft palate

Treatment
Treatment consists of testing for hearing loss treat every school so that children can. Plastic surgery can overcome the defects in the chin and other defects.

Pinguecula disease And Treating Tips

Description
Pinguecula is a common condition of non-cancerous growth of the mucous membrane lining the eyeball and lower eyelid (conjunctival). The cause is unknown, but chronic sunlight and eye irritation may affect the development of this disease.

Symptom
In a small pinguecula yellowish spots appear on the conjunctiva near the cornea.

Treatment
Usually no treatment is required. Lubrication by artificial tears, and sometimes temporary use of mild steroid eye drops can help.

SARS Disease And Treating Tips

Description
On March 11, 2003, the WHO announced the existence of new infectious diseases rapidly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam, called SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Subsequently, on March 15, 2003 the Director General of WHO declared that SARS is a global threat or a Global Threat.

Symptom
Symptoms of the disease at first like the flu and can include: fever, myalgia, lethargy, gastrointestinal symptoms, cough, sore throat and other non-specific symptoms. The only symptom that is common to all patients with a fever above 38 C (100.4 F). Shortness of breath may occur later. Symptoms usually appear 2-10 days after exposure. In most cases the symptoms usually appear between 2-3 days.

Treatment
Approximately 10-20% of cases require mechanical ventilation. Antibiotics are ineffective. Treatment of SARS so far remained dependent on the anti-pyretic, supplemental oxygen and ventilatory support. While for suspicious cases of SARS must be isolated, preferably in negative pressure rooms, complete with costume safety for any necessary contact with patients.

Multiple lentigines syndrome disease and treating tips

Description
Multiple lentigines syndrome is a disorder of derivatives that can be identified with an increased number of lentigines (freckle-like spots). Affected people have lentigines as the most obvious sign. This is largely located in the back and neck. Affected people also have wide-set eyes (hypertelorism), prominent ears, nerve deafness (partial), and cafe-au-lait spots (light brown birthmarks).

Symptom
Symptoms can diketauhi of family history who developed lentigines, freckles on her neck, wide eyes (hypertelorism), abnormal sternum or breast bone, slow growth and delayed puberty.

Treatment
Treatment is directed at symptoms. Level of hearing loss should be prioritized and provided with hearing aids. Other treatments may be associated with puberty to get to the normal changes that occur.

Paraphimosis disease And Treating Tips

Description
Paraphimosis is a serious condition that can occur only at men and boys who have not or are not circumcised. Paraphimosis means foreskin stuck behind head of the penis and can not be pulled back into a normal position.

Sometimes men are not circumcised their foreskins pulled back during sex, when they urinate or when they clean their penises. If the foreskin is left in the back of the head of the penis is too long, the possibility of experiencing swelling of the penis so that the foreskin is trapped behind the penis head.

Sign
- Foreskin interested to the back of the head of the penis
- Pain in penis

Treatment
Good treatment for paraphimosis is to be circumcised.

Candidosis disease And Treating Tips

Description
Fungal diseases due to Candida sp. Many attack the skin and vagina. Generally harmless, though can create inflammation.

Symptom
Her presence is marked by thickening of the skin, a white curd like discharge, inflammation, and pain during urination or intercourse.

Treatment
Fungal disease can last for years. After treated with anti-fungal, it usually will subside, but then relapsed again. This raises the perception that the refractory fungal disease.

Parathyroid Gland Cancer And Treating Tips

Description
Functioning parathyroid glands control the calcium in the body. There are four parathyroid glands, each of which there are two in each lobe of the thyroid gland. All glands are located at the base of the neck.

Parathyroid cancer is a type of cancer is extremely rare. Both men and women is potentially cancerous. This disease usually occurs in people older than 30 years. The exact cause of parathyroid cancer is unknown. People with multiple endocrine neoplasia type I have an increased risk of this disease.

Symptom
Symptoms of parathyroid cancer primarily caused by hypercalcemia (high calcium levels in the blood), and can affect various parts of the body, among others:
- Pain bones
- Broken bone abnormalities
- Frequent urination
- Often thirsty
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Lack of appetite
- Constipation
- Fatigue
- Muscle weakness
- Kidney stones

Treatment
Surgery is the recommended treatment for parathyroid cancer. Sometimes surgery is difficult, if not known whether or not cancerous parathyroid tumor.

If tests before the surgery can find the suspicious gland, surgery can be unilateral (done on one side of the neck). If it is not possible to find the problem gland before surgery, the surgeon will see both sides of the neck.

Corrosive oesophagitis disease And Treating Tips

Description
As the name implies, the disease attacked the throat (esophagus). In this disease caused by inflammation of the esophagus had burns due to corrosive chemicals. Examples of chemical substances, among others; strong acid, strong base, and organic substances. Strong base causes nekrosi melt while strong acid causes necrosis lumpy.

Symptom
Pain when swallowing, vomiting, pain in the stomach.

Treatment
Patients who experience difficulty when swallowing is assisted by installing a nasal gastric tube to incorporate nutrients into your body. However, if the liquid organic substance into the stomach, already issued by the fluid is stimulated to vomit.

Painful Bone Disease And Treating Tips

Description
Bone pain is pain in one or several bones. Bone pain may occur by some cause or condition, among others; bone cancer, cancer that spreads to bone, bone infections, accidents, or mineral deficiency.

Symptom
Pain in bones

Treatment
Treatment depends on the cause. Your doctor will prescribe antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, or pain relievers.

Tips To Treat Joint Pain Diseases

Description
Joint pain can be caused by various types of injuries or conditions. No matter what the cause, joint pain can be very annoying. This is very common suffered by people aged over 45 years.

Joint pain could also be caused by bursitis (inflammation of the bursae). Fig bursae are fluid-filled sacs that cushion and pad bony prominences, allowing muscles and tendons to move freely over the bone.

Other causes of joint pain include arthritis, aseptic necrosis, cartilage, bone tumors, fractures, or tendinitis.

Symptom
Joint pain in legs, hands, knees.

Treatment
Adjust medication causes. To restore the medical condition of the patient usually emnyarankan to reduce activity. Besides medication that can be done such as warm baths, massage, and stretching exercises should be done as often as possible. Drugs that can be consumed, among others, anti-inflammatory medications that can help reduce pain and swelling.

How to Overcome Disease Stendhal Syndrome

Description:
This condition is regarded as someone who has a strange disease is going to suffer if they see a beautiful work of art. In a short time the person will experience dizziness, rapid heart beat, confusion and hallucinations.

Naming the disease is taken from a French writer, Stendhal (pseudonym of Henri-Marie Beyle), who describes his experience with during his visit to Florence, Italy in 1817 in his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.

Symptoms:
Dizziness, rapid heart beat, confusion and hallucinations when viewing works of art.

Treatment:
Not clearly known treatment for this disease. Possible psychological therapy can help relieve the sufferer.

Know more details about Mobius Syndrome

Description:
Mobius syndrome (also spelled Moebius) is a congenital neurological disorder characterized by facial paralysis and inability to move the eye. Most Mobius syndrome are born with a full face but can not close their eyes and have no facial expressions.

Most people with Mobius syndrome have normal intelligence, although their facial expressions appear to seem foolish. The name is taken from disease discoverer Paul Julius Mbius ie, a neurologist who first explained the disease in 1888.

Symptoms:
It is estimated there are about 2 to 20 cases of Mobius syndrome in every 1 million births. Infants with this disorder can be identified at birth with a face mask similar to that detected at the time to cry or laugh. Babies also unable to suck during feedings. Also not able to glance at the patient, instead turning his face away.

Other symptoms that sometimes occurs is:
- Abnormalities of chest wall
- Difficulty breathing or swallowing and
- Difficulty blink

Treatment:
Have not found specific treatment for this syndrome. Until now the treatment is intended only to relieve symptoms. If the baby is experiencing this syndrome should be assisted with a special bottle to keep getting nutrition.

Tips To Treat Moyamoya Disease

Description:
Moyamoya disease is a rare vascular disorder, characterized by progressive narrowing of blood vessels in the circle of arteries at the base of the brain. The result is irreversible blockage of the carotid artery to the brain during entrance into the skull. Moyamoya disease usually attacks children, but can also occur in adults aged 20-40 years.

Moyamoya disease was first identified in Japan by Takeuchi and Shimizu in 1957. In 1968, Kudo introduced in 1969 the disease and Moyamoya used officially as a disease in 1969.

Patients most often from Japan and Korea, but is also found in patients from the United States, Europe, Australia and Africa. Almost half of the cases identified experienced by children aged 10 years.

Symptoms:
Children who suffer from this disease usually suffer a stroke is not permanent. One marker is the age and hypertension (high blood pressure). Moyamoya disease is genetically likely to occur. Possible results from genetic abnormalities heritage. Whereas in adult patients, they often blood vessels in her brain burst.

Treatment:
Surgery still remains the only one best treatment for this disease. Without surgery, the majority of patients with Moyamoya disease will experience mental decline and stroke due to a progressive narrowing of the artery.

Tips To Treat Diseases Tourette syndrome

Description:
Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder that makes people do the movement or noise could be controlled without the sufferer. For example many times with a wink, a shrug or a head. In some cases there is even a saying dirty words. This syndrome affects 1 in 100 people.

Symptoms:
Signs and symptoms of Tourette syndrome usually begins in childhood, usually appear between the ages of 7 and 10. Than girls, boys potentially three to four times as Tourette syndrome.

Treatment:
Although no specific drug, the patient can lead a normal life and many people with Tourette's does not need treatment if symptoms dilami not cause problems. However, patients can be cured by psychotherapy.

Tips To Treat African Sleeping Sickness

Description:
Sleeping sickness or African trypanosomiasis is a disease caused by protozoa of the genus Trypanosoma and transmitted Tsetse flies. Sleeping sickness is a lethal disease. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 people in Sub-Saharan African sleeping disease, or Human african trypanosomiasis, is spread through the bite of Tsetse flies. In addition to Tsetse fly bites, the disease can be transmitted from mother to child or through blood transfusions.

Symptoms:
Initial symptoms include fever, headache, and pain in joints, swollen lymph glands, anemia and kidney disease. After several days the patient experienced changes in sleep cycles cycles; sleepy in the daytime and could not sleep at night. If these early symptoms are not treated as soon as possible can result in damage to the nervous system, coma, and the most fatal consequence is death.

Treatment:
Scientists claim to find a cure for this problem. Yet still further research to improve the process.

Brugada syndrome disease and how to treating

Description:
Brugada syndrome is a genetic disease characterized by an increased risk of sudden death. The syndrome is named by Pedro and Joseph Brugada cardiologist from Spain in 1992. The disease is most likely to cause sudden death during sleep (KMST) or a sudden and Unexpected nocturnal young men in Southeast Asian region.

The cause of death in Brugada syndrome is ventricular fibrillation (a condition in which there is uncoordinated contraction of heart muscle from the ventricle in the heart). In this case ventricular muscle twitches randomly and without coordination so that the ventricle fails to pump blood into the arteries and into systemic circulation.

In many cases that occurred in Southeast Asia, this syndrome more attacking men with an average age of 30-50 years. In Indonesia, this deadly syndrome was first reported by Dr. Muhammad Munawar SpJP year 2002, published in Journal of Cardiology Indonesia.

Symptoms:
The syndrome is almost without symptoms, the patient suddenly died instantly despite previously healthy even no risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Treatment:
Although there is no appropriate treatment that can be trusted and really prevent this syndrome. Efforts that can be performed in patients with Brugada syndrome is the installation of cardioverter-defibrillator devices. Installation that does not mean much if the symptoms go undetected.

Most objects frequently swallowed baby

Have your baby chew soil found in the front yard or chewing on the curtains? When not teaching him to play whistle, you should keep an eye on anything that went into the baby's mouth. In the early stages of development, the baby likes to put something into their mouths. In psychoanalytic theory initiated by Sigmund Freud, this stage called the oral phase.

At this stage generally lasts until the age of 1-2 years, babies get satisfaction through their mouths. Starting from the breast, nipple biting, swallowing food, chewing up anything they hold.
May still be fair if you entered the mouth is the pen or their finger, as long as these objects are clean. But not infrequently they insert strange objects, so it is better if you really watched.

The following are four kinds of strange objects that attract the attention of the baby brothers to put in their mouths, quoted from Parenting, Monday (04/19/2010).

1. Crayon
In the crayons, the colors are the most exciting things for the baby. Noteworthy is the existing content, make sure that is not toxic. Generally crayons for the children did not contain toxic materials, so if swallowed will probably only give a little 'color' on baby's stools.

2. Paper
You may be annoyed if the chewing is a favorite novel or the latest newspaper headlines have not had time to read it. But do not panic, which swallowed the paper generally does not interfere with digestion. As long as they are not excessive and other dirt contamination, the paper can be considered as additional fiber.

3. Pup (own feces)
"Obviously this is very disgusting, but not too worrying." said Louis Borgenicht, MD, author of The Baby Owner's Manual. According to him, would be more dangerous if the droppings are entered into the eye, because it can cause pink-eye (conjunctivitis or redness accompanied by swelling of the membrane
eye).

4. Coin
Coins and loose bolts from baby toys to attract attention. Certain metals if not soiled by lubricants may not be poisonous, but very harmful if swallowed up. Immediately contact your doctor to get appropriate care.

Many Newborn Affected Syphilis

Atlanta - Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that usually occurs in many men who repeatedly replace the pair hooked. But now many babies are born infected with syphilis because of the mother. Syphilis is usually a lot of gay or bisexual men. However, in recent years also exacerbated by the number of transmission among heterosexuals.

According to U.S. government reports, more babies in the United States who were born with syphilis. And most of them born to mothers who use cocaine and working in the sex trade. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. This often does not cause symptoms for many years and therefore can be transmitted by people who are unaware they are infected.

When a pregnant mother who suffered from syphilis, then there is the possibility the baby will be born dead, deaf, suffered nerve damage or bone defects. But this should be prevented by giving antibiotics a month before the birth in pregnant women.

"The level of congenital syphilis in infants under 1 year of age increased by 23 percent. A total of 8.2 cases of 100 000 live births in 2005, and reached 10.1 in 2008," said team Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) United States, as reported from Health24, Monday (19/04/2010).

According to the CDC, the increase was also accompanied by an increase of 38 percent of cases in women aged over 10 years. And among the largest increase among black women.

"Syphilis among black women has been associated with cocaine use and commercial sex workers (CSW). Case of congenital syphilis is estimated to increase in coming years," said the CDC team. Primary syphilis is transmitted through sexual contact, usually preceded by a single sore called a chancre. If untreated, patients may develop a rash, fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. Final stage of syphilis is marked with brain damage, nerve, eye, heart, and other organs.

Babies Can Distinguish Toys Based on Gender

Can you distinguish a toy baby girl or boy? It turned out perfectly. In a room filled with dozens of children, a baby boy will be swiftly chose toy cars while female babies calmly took the doll. Before a child can crawl, trends are like a growing suspicion in society, that boys liked the robot-woman or toy cars and dolls.

In the study researchers gave seven different toys, and found the boys prefer toy car, digger, and the ball as well as ignoring the teddy bear. While the girls chose a teddy bear, toy-cooking dishes or other miniature colorful.

"Given that boys prefer toys that can walk or move while girls love the toys that have facial features or related to parenting," says Sara Amalie OToole Thommessen from City University in London, as quoted from Health24, Tuesday (20 / 4 / 2010).

In this study involving 83 children aged 9 months to 3 years and observed during three minutes of play time. Previously, researchers surveyed 300 adults to ask what the toy that came to mind first when dealing with gender. Approximately 90 percent said cars for boys and dolls for girls.

"We are very interested to see if the boys have different preferences about color. We offer pink and blue teddy bears, but these children did not show interest in the teddy bear at all," said Thommessen.

Based on this study found girls aged 27-36 months approximately 50 percent are interested in dolls and boys about 87 percent are interested in cars than the ball. These results increase the perception of choice of sex toys ever conducted on the study in 2001. However, socialization and environmental impacts also could not be ignored, because the selection of children's toys that can also be based on what is often seen by the child.

While still a baby, a father will tend to be more actively invited joking son, while the girls spent more time to talk. When older men more actively encouraged to explore the environment, while girls are encouraged to play quietly. This makes the boys more like cars, robots or other moving toys, while girls prefer things that have facial features or the game of parenting.

Babies are allowed to cry too long, the brain can damage

London, when the new baby starts crying, there are parents who sometimes let him first and then help him. But babies who are often left to cry for too long can have problems in developing brains. Penelope Leach, a child health expert found that depressed infants repeatedly and left to cry long risk of developing problems later in life.

Studies prove that infant brains left to cry for a long time, at risk of damage in its development, which may reduce its capacity for learning.

"This is not just an opinion, but a fact that letting a baby cry potentially damaging his brain. So why should take a risk like that?" Leach said, as quoted from the Independent, Friday (23/04/2010).

What is disclosed by Leach was sparked controversy with a teacher Gina Ford who strictly apply the method to let the baby cry for 20 minutes.

Gina advise new parents to let their babies cry for the baby getting mental learning to sleep on its own.

"A baby who was too old to cry will eventually stop. This is not because he has learned to sleep alone, but because he was exhausted and had been desperate to get help," said Leach.

But Lech has argued that crying is the only way to give a signal when the baby feel uncomfortable or pressured.

If the baby cried harder to show he is stressed, and that acute stress can cause hormonal chain reaction that ultimately can stimulate the adrenal glands to release stress hormones.

According Lech, if this incident continues then it could generate a lot of stress hormones that can damage a baby's brain.

"This does not mean that babies should not cry or parents be concerned if all the babies crying. Because not bad for a baby to cry, but crying is not getting respons which could adversely affect," said Lech.

It is shared by Anastasia Baker, a director of Night Nanny reveals there's nothing wrong to leave babies to cry for several minutes. But the problem is that if parents let their babies cry too long until the baby fell asleep.

"Clearly no one advocated for leaving the baby crying in a long time. But I think you can leave the baby a few minutes and came to comfort him. These results have shown that by using this technique can help overcome sleep problems in children, and has a very positive effect on family life, "said Mandy Gurney, founder of the Millpond Sleep Clinic.

So if you hear your baby cry, better not let her cry for too long. Because this can affect brain development due to the stress hormone produced too high.

Dying For Choking Threatening Childhood

Children under the age of 3 years most pleased to enter something into my mouth because that's where they get the satisfaction. Negative effects, children die due to choking risk. Neck choking occurs when there are foreign bodies that enter and inhibit the respiratory tract so that the child choked. Any object that size could enter the mouth of a child is very likely engulfed, and then lodged in respiratory flow and cause choking.

Data Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as reported by ilansir from HealthDay, Tuesday (20/05/2010), citing 60 percent of cases caused by choking on food. 31 percent by other non-food items, and 9 percent again the cause is not listed.

When choking, children generally signaled by putting his hands around her neck. Other signs that may be accompanied, among others:

1. Not able to speak
2. Difficulty breathing or her breathing sound
3. Unable to cough
4. Lips, skin and blackened
5. Loss of consciousness or fainting

A child who choked should immediately get help, because consequences could be very fatal. During the airway is blocked, obstructed the supply of oxygen to the brain and can cause death. International Red Cross recommends the approach the five-and-five on first aid in case of choking.

1. Give five pats on the back using the palm of the hand, right between the shoulder blades
2. Give five pressures in the abdominal area using Heimlich maneuvers.
3. Perform alternating two steps above, again and again until the objects that cause choking out.

Not only children who do not know where the dangerous and is not, even adults sometimes have to die because of choking incident.

Choking can happen when someone is drinking or eating quickly or in haste and in significant amounts, when accidentally inhaled food while laughing or crying and acute alcohol poisoning, especially during swallowing and chewing ability has been weak.

When someone choke point so that no obstructed breathing oxygen into the lungs. The brain will be very sensitive if the intake of oxygen is reduced and the long run will begin to die in the time between 4 hours to 6 hours. This is where the importance of first aid.

Babies 6 Months Know Where the Good and Bad

New York- Every man is believed to already have an inherent moral stance since birth. Proven in infants aged six months was able to distinguish good and bad things before parents teach it. Professor Paul Bloom of Yale University wrote in the New York Times magazine that the baby was already preparing for a moral stance since birth.

This finding is unknown after the researchers asked the babies of all ages to choose characters that are seen as behaving bad or good. It turned out that these babies tend to prefer a good character. In addition, they also do not like naughty or bad character by the way do not want to see it and try to hit him.

Research conducted by a team of psychologists from the Infant Cognition Center at Yale University, Connecticut, this contradicts the belief promoted by the psychology of Sigmund Freud. Mr psychologist stating that newborns do not have a moral stance and require a condition to know right or wrong.

Meanwhile, in another study, researchers involved infants aged 6 months to 1 year and animated movies using the media to show good and bad characters from the stories. The result, approximately 80 percent of babies prefer good character who likes to help with ways to measure how long they view the photos from these figures.

"With the help of well-designed experiments, we can see that the thoughts, feelings and moral considerations have been formed since first year of life," said Prof. Paul Bloom, as quoted from ParentDish, Tuesday (11/05/2010).

Peter Willatts, psychology from Dundee University said the findings suggest a person can not enter into the mind of a baby and asked them to do something, but have to find out that what most attracted his attention. This shows that babies are actually able to determine what is good and bad by itself.

"We now know that in the first six months, babies learn things faster than we imagine. Sometimes what is mind and infants studied hard to understand," he said.

Staples or stitches After Caesar, Same Great Results

Varese, Italy, perform caesarean After giving birth, usually closed with stitches scar or staples (use gummed pencokot). Recent studies indicate that the second option has the same aesthetic result. The surgeons have a number of ways to close the wounds caused by C-section, ie using staples or a variety of stitches including using materials that must be removed or absorbed into the body. But only few know that whether this aesthetic results will vary if you select a different method.

For this new study, Italian researchers randomly chose 180 of women who underwent Caesarean section for selecting one of four methods of wound closure. That method is through staples or one of three types of stitches, including an absorbing stitches and stitches that must be removed. After 2-6 months found no difference between the aesthetics of the entire group including the wound healing process.

'Generally, women who must undergo a cesarean section can expect to have the same esthetic result without seeing the types of closing the wound,' said Dr. Antonella Cromi from the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy, as quoted in Reuters, Friday (14/05/2010) .

Dr Cromi adding that the results vary between patients depending on the delivery of other factors in the use of sutures or staples. Final appearance and skin healing depended on whether the patient is diligent control to the doctor or not.

For example, women with darker skin tend to have keloid compared with white women. This area can be expanded and sometimes accompanied by itching, pain and scarring. Also women who smoke and have diabetes tend to have a longer recovery time than other women who do not have certain medical conditions.

The use of staples tend to be more preferred because this method is faster and protect patients from suture needles from the accident. But on the other hand some women prefer the type of stitches that can be absorbed by the body so it does not need to do a retraction.

Benefits of Aloe Vera For Health

In addition to a variety of properties known to body, Aloe vera is also commonly called Herbal Aloe is also very beneficial for the digestive system. Aloe vera juice can also be used to treat digestive problems and intestinal problems such as gastritis syndrome. And can increase the stability of your body's immune system, and reduce respiratory problems.

Quoted from abcarticledirectory, Friday (10/07/2009), in addition to the benefits mentioned above, aloe vera also helps to regulate the amount of gastric acid in the body. Helps the body absorb nutrients more efficiently. And can eliminate toxic substances from the body through a sewage system.

People who drink aloe vera juice can also help build a network of good digestive organs of the small intestine tissue, large intestine and stomach. Aloe vera can be consumed by anyone regardless of gender and age. Children, adults and pregnant women who drink juice regularly to maintain overall health. Some people also give aloe vera for pets.

Search Tips Milk The Right To Health

Luckily today is increasingly segmented, dairy products, which are adjusted to the health of consumers.

As we get older, the body was no longer efficient use of nutrients that enter the body. For instance the use of the content of the milk is very rich in nutrients. The most important component of adult milk needed is a source of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus and protein. Calcium milk can be absorbed by the body really well. Only cow's milk fat contains saturated fatty acids relative, so it's not good for people who tend to have vascular disease (associated with blood vessels). Well, where milk is best for you?

(1) high-calcium milk

Ingredients:
The calcium content ranging from 500 mg-600 mg. While adults need about 500 mg of calcium. So, by consuming one glass of milk per day, the amount of calcium obtained was more than sufficient. Excess calcium need not worry because the body can manage.

Benefits:
The role of calcium in the body to help reduce the risk of osteoporosis (bone loss), which is usually caused by increasing age.

Suitable for:
Men and women aged 40 years. Because both to prevent bone loss. Only, because of the tendency to attack women for osteoporosis, so women who ate the most dairy type.

(2) low fat Milk

Ingredients:
Total fat content is only about 0.4% only, or about 1 gram per cup of milk (200 ml). There are even fat-free products aka 0% fat content. The weakness of this product or tend to taste less fishy savory.

Body energy needs per day is obtained from the 50% carbohydrate, 20% from protein and 30% from fat. Requirements of fat in adult women are generally 30-50 grams per day and 40-60 grams per day for men. Of course this needs not just the amount of fats derived from milk, but also other food.

Benefits:
Reducing the risk of obesity that may occur without reducing other benefits of milk.

Suitable for:
Men and women, especially for those who have problems being overweight, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease.

(3) low fat high calcium milk

Ingredients:
Is a combination of two types of milk group; ie high calcium milk with low fat milk.

Benefits:
Milk with high calcium content needed to maintain bone health so there is no thinning, especially for adult women. While a low fat content would reduce the risk of obesity (overweight).

Suitable for:
Men and women, especially those prone to osteoporosis, obesity, high cholesterol and there is a tendency of coronary heart disease.

(4) High Protein Milk

Ingredients:
The protein requirement for adults of 48 grams per day. Of milk consumed, protein needs can generally get 15% or about 7.7 grams only. In a high-protein milk, protein content can be obtained at two times that of ordinary milk, which is about 30% or 15 grams.

Benefits:
The high protein content of milk normally obtained from the combination of protein, casein and whey protein is high. This protein combination is useful for the formation of muscle protein turnover and muscle cells are damaged.

Suitable for:
(Actually) can be consumed by men and women. Some additional material / fortification may be devoted to a particular gender. For example, the content of L-Glutamine (an amino acid that plays an important role in assisting the formation of an optimal muscle protein). Content of milk can be consumed by men who want athletic body. While the milk with the addition of L-Carnitine content (which play a role in the metabolism of the body through the burning of fat into energy), can be consumed by women who wanted to maintain her shape is still good.

(5). Low Calorie Milk

Ingredients:
Milk generally has a total content of 70 calories per 100 grams or 140 calories per glass. At low milk calories, protein, fat and carbs only have 40 calories per glass / serving (serve size).

Benefits:
Can help women (and men) who

intend to lose weight, keeps your body lean or ideal body weight and beautify body shape.

Suitable for:
Those who tend to suffer from diabetes and obesity. Because the milk is free of sugar or use sugar substitutes are more healthy.

(6). Low Sugar Milk

Ingredients:
Regular milk generally contains a total of 4% carbohydrate or 14 grams of sugar which can be obtained from sucrose or lactose. Well, low-sugar content of sugar in the milk and some even lower than 0%. Sweetness sweetener derived from sugar substitutes safe to consume, such as aspartame.

Benefits:
Reducing the risk of increasing blood sugar levels for diabetics. To intoleransi lactose / lactose in tolerance, low lactose content would make them more comfortable to consume milk.

Suitable for:
Men and women, especially those who have a tendency to diabetes so that blood sugar levels can still be controlled and well controlled. Good for those who are obese and are on a diet (no need to worry about the fat content of carbohydrates, especially sugar).

2.5 Million 'Buggy' Push Cart Children Withdrawn

Streetsboro, Ohio Company toys, Step 2 attract millions of products Buggy or stroller for the kids. Design error which allows the toy-like cars that slid out of control.

Two products made in Step 2 buggy ie Push Around and Ride Whisper has a long handle on the back, so parents can push it while the streets. However, the locking pin is reportedly easy to loose grip so that the buggy could slide itself.

Quoted from Fox News, Friday (05/14/2010), Step 2 has received at least 28 reports of accidents that release of the handle. Two of them have caused serious injuries that need medical care.

Approximately 2.5 million drawn buggy is a product marketed since August 1999 until March 2010. While products with new designs have been equipped bolt handle and cover of black plastic or white, did not withdraw. In March 2010, one million baby slings manufactured by Infantio also withdrawn from circulation. Incidentally, Infantio Step 2 is a subsidiary based in San Diego.

Apparently migraine is Derivatives Nerve Disease

Cambridge, people first learned about migraine from the time of 1500 BC (BCE). The headaches are commonly experienced, but few understand it. And the fact that migraine is a disease carried since birth and is derived from the parent. Although migraine is not life threatening, but the headaches this is a disease classified as severe and many people do not know.

"In fact, migraine is a complex neurological disease that affects the central nervous system and is accompanied by physical symptoms and emotional," said Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, neurologists from Cambridge Health Alliance-Cambridge Campus, as reported from Dailymail, Friday (14/05/2010) .

Dr. Bernstein himself attracted to specialize neurology because it is also often experienced a migraine since the age of 20 years. According to him, not many people know about the causes of migraine disease and how to overcome them. So that specialization is quite attractive.

And in his book entitled 'The Migraine Brain', Dr. Bernstein explains that migraine is caused by brain abnormalities. Migraine is not a result of mental health problems or signs of hypochondria (health phobia or worry too much with a serious illness), or patient error. Migraine is a chronic neurological disorder from birth, and in many cases the disease is inherited from both parents.

Migraine is derived from the mother

The surprise was one of five women and one of 20 men in the UK has been suffering from migraine. Migraine is the ninth leading cause of disability in the world, and is more common than diabetes or asthma. Research shows that between 70 to 80 percent suffer from migraines have a family history of migraine also suffered, especially of maternal factors.

Because this disease is caused by a genetic condition, then there is no drug that can actually cure the disease. Existing medications can only reduce and minimize the symptoms caused. According to Dr. Bernstein, who has no experience or history of migraine an exact match. This can lead to very difficult to compare the trigger migraines experienced by a person to another.

There is a myth that says that migraine sufferers should avoid chocolate and foods with MSG. This is not entirely correct. For some people this might be kind of food can be a migraine trigger, but this did not apply for all people who suffer from migraine.

Every person has different triggers. Migraine triggers may be from red wine, weather changes, lack of sleep or the stinging smell of perfume. The trigger is not only disrupt the brain, but also interferes with the work, because it triggers biochemical chain reactions that can cause some symptoms.

Unlike a regular headache, migraine also involves an entirely different experience and almost always include some reactions and physical symptoms.

85 percent of migraine patients experience continuous throbbing head, the pain is felt with every beat of heart, like a knife who stabbed repeatedly in the head. For years, doctors thought that migraine is caused by vasodilation, ie widening of blood vessels in the brain and suppress the structure-sensitive to pain.

True, for many patients with migraine, headache is one of the symptoms that accompany migraine. But the migraine itself almost never just a pain in the head, there are other symptoms that accompany it.

Migraine symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound, numbness or odd sensations in the skin, changes in vision, hunger, speech slurred, his eyes red and excessive crying. These symptoms are very diverse and complex.