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Another name for polio is Poliomieltis. Polio virus genus of enteroviruses, including family Picornavirus.Virus resistant to physical impact and chemicals. Also, can live in feces for patients 90-100 days. This virus can also survive longer in the waste water and surface water, even up to miles from the source of infection.

Polio spread primarily through fecal contamination, especially in areas with poor environmental sanitation. Transmission also occurs through the faecal-oral. This means the food / drink that contaminated the polio virus from stool to mouth sufferers in other healthy people. While the oral-oral spread from the saliva of patients into other healthy human mouth.

Characteristic of polio is nerve damage. Damage stems from a virus that has an incubation for 5-35 days in the body. Later the virus was first developed in the wall of the pharynx (throat in) or lower gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal virus from spreading to local lymph tissue or regional. Eventually the virus spreads into the bloodstream before it penetrate and reproduce in neural networks.

Poliomyelitis has a tendency to be more damaging to the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain stem. Polio often causes nerve damage that makes the body becomes asymmetric growth of the patient. Thus tend to cause disruption of the body which is generally settled even gain weight.

Symptoms
Clinical picture of polio disease in humans varies widely, from very mild symptoms until there is paralysis (paralysis). Clinical symptoms begin with fever, weakness, headache and vomiting. Within 24 hours seen stiffness in the neck and back. The patient looks sleepy, iritabel, and anxiety. Sometimes accompanied by muscle rigidity and mild muscle aches.

In the event of paralysis (paralysis) usually begins in a few seconds until five days after the headache. Paralysis of paralyzed limbs and usually on one leg.

Medical
Treatment of poliomyelitis disease is very difficult and there is no specific, but depending penyulit happened. In addition to physiotherapy and orthopedic worth noting other organ functions.

Polio can be prevented by immunization. Virus vaccine is given as an injection die. While living through the mouth with droplets. Live attenuated virus is more effective than the dead virus. In addition to immunizing the improvement of sanitation and hygienic environment is indispensable individual.

you’re pregnant but still smokes naughty? This is a bad omen for the fetus you are carrying. In addition to disrupt neurological development and intelligence, recent studies show the baby’s blood pressure also affected.

Research conducted by senior researchers Karolinska Institute, Stockhlom, showed babies born to smoking mothers have a blood pressure problem until they are one year old. “This blood pressure disturbances disappear but instead continued to deteriorate with age babies,” said Gary Cohen, chief researcher.

Research done by comparing infants from nonsmoking mothers with infants of mothers who smoked up to 15 bars even though it was pregnant. At the age of one week, two percent of babies of smoking mothers group experienced an increase in blood pressure and 10 percent in the age of one year.

The pattern of blood pressure problems occur in infants aged one week and at the age of one year. In addition, infants born to smoking mothers also had heart problems. These disturbances are believed to bring long-term health problems. Cohen writes in the medical journal Hypertension.

Cohen explains, cigarette smoke will damage the structure and function of blood vessels, especially endothelial, vascular protective layer. But he could not answer whether this damage is permanent. “We just watched this disorder for 12 months, but plans to conduct further research,” he said.

The research of experts from the Karolinska was similar to the results of studies that examine the health of babies born to mothers drug users. “The babies could be impaired brain circuits,” said Barry M. Lester, a pediatrician from Brown Medical School who has studied the long-term effects of pregnant drug users. “The drug users are also smoke,” he added.

“The effect of cigarette smoke on fetal neural function similar to the effects of cocaine and methaphetamin,” said Lester.

Various studies prove the health problems experienced by the fetus associated with excessive production of hormones or the stress hormone cortisol, which plays an important role to regulate blood pressure and immune system. When produced excess, cortisol can damage the immune system so that the baby is more susceptible infections.

Secondhand smoke threatens the health of the fetus is not only coming from mothers who smoke during pregnancy but also including expectant fathers who are addicted to smoking so that fetal exposure to secondhand smoke.

Lung CANCER become the number one killer disease in Indonesia and the world today. Each year 1.3 million people died in the world because of this disease. As many as 70 percent of sufferers are those who smoke cigarettes. Unfortunately, lung cancer can not be detected since the beginning.

As a result, the new patients with cancer known as tumor spread to other tissues. But, in the days of nano technology as now, the impasse was solved. The experts at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to find and create the detector lung cancer advanced. Tested on 40 healthy people and 50 people who allegedly have cancer, as contained in the edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology early September 2009, the tool successfully detected a healthy lung and a grown virus.

According to Hossam Haick, researchers who are also senior lecturer at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, the tool was first made in the world. Previous instruments, including those used in medicine is the detection of cancer, which analyzes the carbon from the patient’s breath. Must be inserted into the mouth, possibly mixed with oxygen when analyzed so that the results less accurate.

Hossam-made tools of microchipemas. Chipini posted on the body to detect the amount of carbon expelled when you breathe. The amount that will thrill the gold layer in the chip, and then sends a signal to the computer to generate images. Analysis of carbon substance that will tell if the lung was cancer. In that experiment, accurate because the results deteksinya no different with the results of conventional tools

Tea fans turned out to coffee and tea have a lower risk of disease type 2 diabetes, the diabetes is not dependent on insulin and the type of diabetes is more common.

However, the efficacy of coffee and tea to protect the body does not come from the caffeine contained in them. Proved because nonkafein coffee (decaf) have the best effect to ward off diabetes. Thus published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

They based this conclusion on the results of 18 studies involving 500,000 people. Results of analysis showed that people who drink tea 3-4 cups of coffee or tea per day lowered the risk of diabetes, 20 percent or more. Even if the drink is coffee nonkafein, then the effect will be better ie more than 30 percent.

People with type two diabetes, usually begins to feel the complaint at the age of 40 years and more so when the body does not produce the insulin the body needs precisely.

Usually two types of diabetes is treated with a healthy diet and increasing physical activity. The drugs and sometimes insulin injections are also needed to address complaints diabetics.

The researchers believe the discovery of coffee and tea mengantung active substances that ward off diabetes will open a new path in the basic steps to ward off diabetes mellitus.

There is good news for people with myoma. Medical world is now able to overcome the myoma. With fertiloskopi, myoma can be removed without leaving a trace.

Anatomy of the female body is the most complicated than men. Women have a uterus where possible for a woman to bear his children. However, in the uterus were also found in many different types of diseases, ranging from cervical cancer, cysts, until the myoma.

During this illness associated with the uterus or reproductive femininity always considered scary. In fact, the people considered the highly lethal disease. In fact, all diseases of any kind, including tumors and cancers can be cured if known early on.

Similarly with myoma. Although not considered fatal, the disease continues to haunt the women. Now with the growing medical technology advanced, myoma can be cured.

Myoma is a benign tumor of the uterus occurs most often. In fact, 20 percent believed women, especially women with 35 years of age, a higher risk to suffer myoma. Myoma never occur after menopause, and even that has shrunk as for usual when approaching the menopause. Read the rest of this entry »