#spacing November 2012 ~ Men's Health Medicine

Friday, November 30, 2012

Understanding Phobia

What is Phobia?

Phobia is a persistent, excessive and irrational fear of a specific situation, activity or object involving the feeling and thought of being harm that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.

Phobia is a sense of endangerment to oneself.

Phobias are the most common disorder affecting more than 10% of people in America. More women are affected by phobias than men.

In most cases, people are able to recognize that their fear is irrational and therefore take steps to overcome their phobia.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders report, only about 10 percent of recorded cases become life-long phobia.

Symptoms of Phobia

When you are in a fear situation or by simply thinking about it will lead you to a response.

This response is symptoms associated with Phobia. These common symptoms are,

• Dizziness

• Breathlessness

• Nausea

• Trembling

• Fear of dying

In some severe cases, these symptoms escalate into a full scale anxiety attack and the result of which you begin to isolate yourself, disrupting your normal daily life.

When you reached this stage of constant concern with imagined illnesses or imminent death immediately seek medical help and professional advice.

Types of Phobia

There are three types of phobia,

1. Social phobias

Fear of social situations.

2. Agoraphobia

Fear of being trapped in an inescapable place or situation.

3. Specific phobias

Fear of a specific object (such as snakes or spiders).

And there are four types of specific phobias,

1. Natural environment

Fear of lightening, water, storms, etc.

2. Animal

Fear of snakes, rodents, spiders, etc.

3. Medical

Fear of seeing blood, receiving injections, visiting a doctor, etc.

4. Situational

Fear of bridges, leaving home, driving, etc.

When to seek treatment?

• When phobia causes intense and disabling fear, anxiety and panic.

• When you recognize that your fear is excessive and unreasonable.

• When you avoid certain situations and places because of your phobia.

• When your avoidance interferes with your normal routine or causes significant distress.

• When you have the phobia for the last six months.

Treatments for Phobias

There are several methods of treatment for phobias.

The effectiveness of a treatment will depend on you and the types of phobia have.

Exposure Treatment

You will be exposed gradually and repeatedly to your fear situation.

Confronting with your fear object for an extended length of time without the opportunity to escape will help you to overcome your fear.

The goal of this method is to help you face your fear and realize that the fear object will not harm you.

Counter Conditioning

In this method, you will be taught how to response to the fear situation positively.

You will learn relaxation techniques to replace anxiety and fear or panic in the face of your feared situation, gradually your phobic response fades.

Counter-conditioning is used when you are not able to handle exposure treatments.

Challenge Negative Thought

Learning to challenge unhelpful negative thoughts. It is an important step to overcome your phobia.

When you are in a fear situation, your negative thought tend to influence you on how badly you will be affected if you are exposed to this situation you fear.

At the same time, you underestimate your ability to response and cope.

The anxious thoughts that trigger and fuel phobias are usually unrealistic.

Start by writing down any negative thoughts you have when confronted with your phobia


Posted by: Mo Salle

Friday, November 23, 2012

The Benefit Of Manuka Honey

Manuka Honey has had a reputation as a “healing” honey and contains a natural occurring active agent that support good health and health-promoting properties such as,

• antibacterial

• antiviral

• anti-fungal

• anti-inflammatory

• antioxidant

• antiseptic

• stomach-healing

• and wound-repairing

The health-promoting properties make Manuka Honey an amazing "superfood".

Unlike most honey, Manuka Honey contains an extra natural occurring active ingredient.

This extra additional component is stable and does not lose its potency when exposed to heat, light or dilution.

Manuka Honey comes from nectar collected by honey bees that pollinate the Manuka trees (Leptospermum scoparium) grown uncultivated throughout the East Cape region of New Zealand.

New Zealand is the only country in the world that produces Manuka Honey.

Manuka honey contains both peroxide (PA) and non-peroxide activities (NPA).

PA derives mainly from hydrogen peroxide that commonly found in most honey, while NPA is denoted by Unique Manuka Factor (UMF®) and is found only in Active Manuka.

PA and NPA have a synergistic action, both combined offers greater effect than the sum of its parts.

UMF® number indicates the strength of its non-peroxide property, the higher the UMF® number, the greater the effectiveness.

Example, UMF® 20+ has twice non peroxide strength when compared to UMF® 10+.

UMF® is the registered name and trademark of UMFHA (Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association) in New Zealand.

To carry the UMF® brand, the producer of Manuka Honey Brands must hold a current UMF® license with UMFHA.

Genuine UMF® Manuka Honey complies with all five of the following criteria:

1. UMF® is clearly printed on the front label.

2. Packed into jars with printed in New Zealand label.

3. A New Zealand company licensed by UMFHA to use the name UMF®.

4. The UMF® licensee’s name printed on the front label.

5. With a rating of UMF® 5+ or more.

Every batch of UMF® manuka is independently tested and certified in New Zealand.

All active UMF® manuka honey has been audited with risk management programme.


Posted by Mo Salle



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Friday, November 16, 2012

3 Ways How Smoking Affect Your Sleep

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You already know that smoking causes problems to your respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

But, do you know that smoking can also affect your sleep?

Smoking cigarette affect your sleep through nightly disturbance depriving you of your much needed sleeping quality.

That is why you feel tired even though you slept the entire night.

Here is 3 Ways How Smoking Cigarette Affect Your Sleep and prevent you from getting your quality sleep.

1. Smoking prevents you from getting quality sleep.

2. Nicotine in cigarette the likely to cause sleep
    fragmentation.

3. Cigarette smoking increases your risk of developing
    sleep apnea.

Smoking prevents you from getting quality sleep

Cigarettes contain nicotine that will stimulate your brain by increase your blood pressure and heart rate keeping you awake whole night.

The most striking effects of tobacco use are on the time you spent in quality sleep which invigorates when you wakes up every morning.

If you are a long time smokers, you are likely to experience light sleep, in particular during the early hours at night.

At night, the nicotine level in your body will drops which triggers withdrawal symptoms such as agitation causing you insomnia.

Nicotine in cigarette is the likely cause of sleep fragmentation

As a smoker, you are nicotine dependence.

As your nicotine level in your body drops, it triggers nicotine cravings which results to sleep disruptions.

Because, when you are deprived of your quality sleep, how long you sleep at night does not necessarily mean you had a good night sleep.

Too much time spent in bed does not give you invigorating benefits of sleep and it more often indicate that you are not getting enough sleep.

Heavy smokers are more likely to suffer from increased sleep fragmentation.

They would awaken in the middle of the night a few times and find it difficult getting back to sleep without lighting a stick or two.

All these attributes are sign of not getting enough of quality sleep and the condition called "sleep fragmentation", waking up several time in the late hours at night.

Cigarette smoking increases your risk of developing sleep apnea

Irritation resulting from cigarette smoke on the lining of your throat leads to night time clogging.

Cigarette smoking is the risk factors for a chronic sleeping disorder called obstructive sleep apnea or OSA.

When compared to those who do not smoked in their lifetime.

When you suffer from OSA, your airways constrict and prevent oxygen from reaching your brain while sleeping, smokers are three times more likely to develop OSA.

This leads to snoring and waking up due to gasping for air.

If this condition remained untreated, it will leads to untimely death from heart failure or pulmonary hypertension.

Smoking cigarette causes many health complications.

This should be your reason to kick the habit soonest possible.

The cause of death from smoking can be prevented.

So, stop smoking now and start improving your health.

Posted by: Mo Salle



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Friday, November 9, 2012

Maintain A Healthy Body Weight



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Presently, doctors are not relying solely on your weight.

They are also on the lookout for those who are underweight or overweight by calculating their body mass index or BMI.

Nutritionist agrees that each of us has our own healthy weight range.

If your weight goes outside this range, you will become more prone to unhealthy conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, gallstone and joint problems.

Maintaining your healthy weight range prevent such problems from occurring.

BMI is calculated by using a fairly simple mathematical formula (BMI=kg/m2), it takes into account both your height and weight.

BMI equal your weight (kg) divide by your height (m2).

Example,

Your weight = 70 kg

Your height = 1.63 m

First,

Multiply your height twice (1.63 x 1.63 = 2.66).

Then,

Divide your weight 70 by 2.66 (70 ÷ 2.66 = 26.3).

The result,

Your BMI is 26.3

Ideal BMI range is 20 to 25, you are overweight.

Five BMI weight ranges

1. BMI under 20 – Under weight. You are encouraged
   to put on weight.

2. BMI 20 to 25 – Ideal. Aim to keep within this
    range.

3. BMI 25 to 30 – Over weight. You are urged to lose
    weight.

4. BMI 30 to 40 – Obese. This range will affect your
    health and cause you future health problems.

5. BMI 40 to 50 – Overly obese. Need immediate
    weight loss, consult your doctor for advice.

BMI is a screening tool.

It is not used to diagnose any of your current medical conditions.

It is used to assess your weight and your risk for developing certain medical conditions.

Your doctor will need to perform further assessments in order to determine if your excess weight is a health risk.

According to latest guidelines, assessment of weight also involves using these three key measures,

1. BMI

2. Waist circumference

3. Risk factors for diseases and conditions associated
    with obesity


BMI allows you to determine whether you are in a healthy weight range or not.

It gives more reliable information on the state of your current weight and the likeliness of health risk as a result from your weight related conditions, so that you can do something about it.

Weight control is an excellent effort in your long term health program.

Why you need to keep to a healthy weight?

By keeping yourself slim, fit and healthy, you will live longer.

There is a link between your body metabolic rate and its consumption of oxygen.

When your body detected that it is being starved, your metabolic rate drops as it try to keep your weight at its present level.

This reduces the demand for oxygen from your cells which in turn produced less free radical, the damaging by products of your metabolism.

You will find it harder for you to lose weight.

The longer you are overweight increases your health risk.


Posted by: Mo Salle



Tuesday, November 6, 2012

BPA Affects On Male Reproduction System

Bisphenol A or BPA is an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic resins, epoxy resins, and other plastic products.

It is found in most food and drink cans lining, plastic bottles and plastic food containers.

Scientist said that BPA can seep into food or beverages from containers that are made with BPA or into your body when you handle products made with BPA.

Exposure to BPA can cause erectile dysfunction and other host of male sexual problems that will affect the male reproductive system.

Studies have linked BPA with low sex drive, impotence and poor semen quality such as DNA damage in sperm, low sperm concentration, low sperm vitality and mobility.

A five year study by Kaiser Permanente, a California-based research centre found a link between the levels of BPA in the blood and male fertility.

The study conducted in China on 514 factory workers discovered that the men exposed to BPA had high BPA level in their urine and are two to four times more likely to have poor semen quality.

Published in November 2009, the first study on Exposure to BPA found that exposure to high levels of BPA in the workplace increases men risk of reduced sexual function.

In the second study published in May 2010 found that increasing BPA levels urine are associated with worsening male sexual function.

And in the latest study funded by the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health throws further doubt on the safety of BPA.

BPA is banned in Canada and three US States.

But The American Chemistry Council, an association that represents plastics manufacturers, defended that BPA poses no risk to human health.



Posted by: Mo Salle



References:

• Study Measures Effects Of BPA On Male Reproductive System - news-medical.net

• Evidence On The Male Reproductive Toxicity Of BPA In Humans And Laboratory Animals by Ling-Hong Li, Ph.D.

• Bisphenol A Now Linked To Male Infertility

• Kaiser Permanente



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Friday, November 2, 2012

Herpes Zoster Or Shingles

Herpes Zoster or commonly known as shingles is caused by the same viral disease as Chickenpox.

This terribly painful condition that attacks your dorsal root nerve ganglia is seen largely in adults over 50, produce blisters in areas of the skin innervated by the effected nerves.

The pain of a shingles attack would last for months.

Shingles virus is not as contagious as chickenpox but you can pass on the virus through contact one week upon the appearance of rashes.

It is not particularly dangerous to healthy person as long as the rashes do not spread to the brain but for those with immune deficiencies problems such as HIV patients or being treated for cancer, shingles can be at great risk.

What causes Shingles?

Shingles resulted from the reactivation of the Varicella virus which has lain dormant and occur many years after an initial chickenpox infection.

It is not known how or why the virus reactivates.

Trauma, stress, drugs or Immuno-suppressant diseases are the most likely causes that trigger the reactivation of the Varicella virus.

You will feel unwell with fever for a couple of days accompanied by localized pain before the characteristic rashes appear.

The rashes are red spots and quickly turn into intensely painful and itchy blisters.

They occasionally appear on your arms and legs but most times the rash is concentrated on one side of your trunk.

Hypersensitive itchiness of the skin may be present.

The blistering spots eventually burst and begin to dry out forming scabs which causes scarring.

You will experience the pain from shingles for one to four weeks but can go on for months and will turn into Postpherpetic Neuralgia.

Treatment for Shingles

At its early stages, shingles can be treated with tropical antiviral ointment or drugs such as Acyclovir.

You can take aspirin or codeine to relieve pain and to help combat the effect of relentless pain, Tricyclic antidepressant Amitryptyline is recommended.

The current methods of treatment for Postherpetic neuralgia are Capsacain, Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.

When infection occurs, systemic antibiotics are added to the treatment regime.

Complications of Shingles

In extremely rare cases, the virus may affect your head and neck and also involve your face and eyes.

When the infection spreads to your eyes and brain, corneal damage and blindness are possible.

When this condition happens you should seek immediate medical attention to prevent further serious complications.

How to prevention Shingles

As with any health issues, a healthy lifestyle and attention to your diet is required.

It is your main weapon against compromising your immune system.

To prevent the spreading of shingles virus through contact and the potentially serious infections, maintaining your personal hygiene is important at least until the rash has completely scabbed over and when it is no longer contagious.

Only recently a vaccine is made available and is recommended for people over 60.

Posted by:Mo Salle



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