Health & Beauty

Acne is a condition that characterized most of the teenagers, but adults can also be affected this condition that can have an important impact on psychological comfort and self-image of people affected. Statistics indicate that this is actually a relatively common problem encountered of about one in five people presenting acne in adulthood, women are more affected than men. From a health perspective, the acne is called acne vulgaris during adolescence and should be distinguished from rosacea, a condition that occurs in adulthood.

Looks like acne?

Typical acne lesions are comedones, whiteheads or so-called blackhead, whether talking about the face, neck, chest or back, these are the areas most commonly affected. Comedones represent the accumulation of sebum and keratin. Primary lesions can evolve after inflammation, the appearance of papules, pustules (so-called pimples with pus) and even lumps or cysts, lesions may heal with profound appearance of pigmentation (spots) or various types of residual scars.

What are the causes?

Even in adulthood, hormonal fluctuations can occur and to induce acne. Androgens are hormones incriminated and their level may vary during menstruation, ovulation, pregnancy, perimenopause, or even from taking certain types of contraceptive pill. Women may see acne in these circumstances. Adult acne predominantly affects women, but men are not spared either. Certain drugs or hormone therapy may also be guilty for the appearance of acne, so it is useful to ask your doctor about side effects of drugs administered during a certain treatment. Also, if one parent had acne, a person’s risk of developing acne in adulthood is higher. Certain diseases such as polycystic ovary syndrome, can trigger acne in adults.

What are the solutions?

The first thing I want to emphasize is that there are solutions and acne is a curable disease! Patients often get disappointed or frustrated after a dermatologist visit that he does not manage to overcome this problem, often being in a position to have previously tried various solutions, whether on the advice of an acquaintance, either on its own initiative, with results more or less conclusive. Each patient is an individual case and, although there are some general principles of treatment, therapy should be adapted to each case, so visit the dermatologist is the first step to be performed in solving a problem. Patients should also be realistic in terms of time. Often after 1-2 weeks therapy is abandoned because the results are not seen immediately. Is a frequently encountered mistake. It is very important to keep in touch with your dermatologist and go to regular checkups to monitor the evolution and adjust treatment if necessary.

Myths about acne:

* Acne is caused by inadequate hygiene

* Stress causes acne

* Certain foods cause acne: this has not been demonstrated, but is valid if rosacea, a balanced diet is still indicated.

Acquired heart diseases during life is a leading cause of death worldwide. Such conditions can be “acquired” by an unbalanced lifestyle, diet in this case playing a critical role.

Cardiovascular diseases kill approximately two million people each year in Europe. In Britain, one in three people die due to cardiovascular disease. For this reason, it is necessary to give high priority to preventive measures and promoting a lifestyle healthy. Cholesterol is a fatty substance essential to the proper functioning of our body. It is one of the substances that make up cell membranes, contributing to vitamin D synthesis in the body to produce different types of hormones. Cholesterol is produced daily in the liver (about one gram per day), but most of the cholesterol enters the body through food.

The daily body’s cholesterol is often much less than the amount assimilated through food. In this case, an excessive accumulation of blood leads to the appearance colestol hypercholesterolemia.

Why is cholesterol harmful to your health? Being a fatty substance, insoluble in blood, cholesterol will be deposited inside blood vessels, causing thickening of their walls. The result is atherosclerosis, which is strengthening and narrowing of blood vessels, the effect being the appearance of heart disease.

But cholesterol is of several types and, fortunately, not all have a negative effect on health. LDL (low density lipoprotein) is the “bad cholesterol” and is responsible for atherosclerosis by depositing inside blood vessels. HDL cholesterol (high density lipoprotein) has the property to remove LDL deposits inside blood vessels, this being particularly important for healthy blood vessels and heart.

Increased levels of LDL in the blood is determined by the cosume of foods rich in this type of cholesterol. Generally, LDL cholesterol is found in animal products. The most dangerous food include pork, beef, chicken, egg yolks, whole milk products, etc.. Although such foods are part of our diet daily and contain vitamins and minerals essential for health, it is important to avoid eating in large quantities.

According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, only 7% of total daily calories should come from saturated fat – the animal, and you should consume less than 200mg of cholesterol per day.

Because it is very difficult to monitor how many calories and cholesterol we eat every day, you should avoid animal products that are harmful to your heart, if eaten in greater proportion than those of plant origin.

AIDS – acquired immune deficiency syndrome – was first reported in the U.S. in 1981 in Los Angeles and New York. Subsequently, AIDS has reached epidemic proportions worldwide. AIDS is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By destroying cells of the immune system, HIV progressively annihilate the body’s ability to defend against infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS are susceptible to the emergence of life-threatening infections, called opportunistic infections, caused by microbial agents that usually do not cause any illness.

Disease incubation is very long and can vary from several months to several years. Some people infected with HIV have remained asymptomatic for more than 10 years. Currently there is no vaccine to offer protection against HIV. Although there is no cure for AIDS, there are a number of therapeutic agents that slow the disease and to control and prevent most opportunistic infections.

First symptoms

Many people do not have any symptoms in the next period of HIV infection. But some flu-like shows events occurring at 1-2 months after exposure to the virus. They can suffer headaches, fever and enlarged lymph feeling. These symptoms usually disappear within approx. one week to one month and are often wrongly interpreted as another viral infection. This period of asymptomatic infection is highly variable. Some people may begin to have symptoms only after several months, while others may appear perfectly healthy for more than 10 years. During this period, HIV is actively infecting and killing immune cells.

As the immune system deteriorates, begin to appear a number of complications. One of the first symptoms experienced by many people with HIV infection is increasing nodes that lasts more than 3 months. Other symptoms that often occur after months or years before the onset of AIDS include general weakness, weight loss, frequent fever episodes and often sweating, frequent yeast infections (vaginal or oral), persistent dryness, pelvic inflammatory disease which not respond to treatment and short term memory loss.

Prevention

Since there is no vaccine against HIV, the only way to prevent infection is to avoid exposure to infection, for example, sharing of syringes and needles or unprotected sexual contacts. Safest way to prevent HIV infection is not – as many say – condom use, but limiting sexual relations to one uninfected partner (monogamy). But is it good to know that condom is a relatively effective barrier against HIV. Because of pores that exist naturally in the latex of the highest quality (and have a diameter of up to 50 times than the diameter of HIV), and due to defective manufacture, storage, maintenance, there is risk of transmission of HIV even if the condom is used.

Dry skin can make us feel irritated and also needs to be washed very often. Hence proper care should be taken of it. Dry skin is very irritating and also lets us feel as if we have paper coating on our face and also causes frequent itching. There are basically two factors responsible for such kind of dry skin. Then very first reason is the lacking of innate oil content and the second one is the deficiency of water content. Also it is worth to be noticed that skin lotions available in the market are prescribed for particular type of skin and a single skin product can never be applicable for all types of skin. Hence before going through this buying process of such products, type of skin must be ensured. Skin should be cleaned frequently to prevent it from getting dried, more and more water should be taken inside of body and more importantly, skin should be prevented from getting exposed directly to dusty environment as much as possible. Also the chemical colors should not be applied to skin as it may make it dry.

Most of the dentists have an opinion that almost all the mechanism of tooth concern can be accomplished by staying at home itself and hence not at all required to visit dentist’s clinic. There are some common diseases concerning tooth and these are decaying of tooth, gum diseases etc. However if proper attention is paid while brushing, dental flossing and threading then such diseases can be kept away for long duration. But necessarily some normal dental checkups are mandatory which lets us know regarding the healthy status of our teeth. It is a very common advice of dentists that the minimum time we should dedicate for tooth brushing is 2 minutes twice in a day. There are some necessary rules regarding tooth brushing. The angle between your gum lines and brush should be 45 degrees. Brush action should be soft and should not be harsh as it may turn to be dangerous causing numbers of problems such as gums damaging, compassion of teeth and shaky teeth.