Acne in Adolescents Aged - Like most people, by the age of 25 upwards pimples usually begin to disappear from the skin. Then, what if the acne does not disappear or even appear in the mature age?
By Jonette Keri, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and chairman of dermatology at the Miami VA Medical Center, an estimated 30% of women and 20% of men aged 20-60 years (and more) have problems with acne.
Causes of Acne
Acne in adulthood is generally caused by sebum, the oil substance produced by sebaceous glands. Sebum the pores close, and then attract the bacteria and cause inflammation. For some adults, acne caused by overly sensitive to androgens (male hormones). But the imbalance of estrogen hormones in men and women can also cause acne. For women, this can occur during pregnancy, pre-menopause and menopause. Some drugs, such as corticosteroids and cosmetics on skin buildup could also spark a pimple.
Handling Acne
Easy bother managing acne in adulthood. Most free drug on the market designed to address adolescent acne to oily skin, which is not suitable for mature skin that tends to dry. To get the best care needed patience and testing. Jonette recommend to try:
1. Cleaning. Avoid gel containing too loud and coarse grains, for abrasive and can irritate the skin, even aggravate sensitive skin.
2. Creams and lotions. Use a drug that contains retinol to clean the pores and helps reduce fine lines on the face. To help eliminate spots, acne scars dark spots, look for products containing salicylic and glycolic acids. To finish the bacteria, use benzoyl peroxide.
3. Prescription drugs. Before using, be sure to consult with your doctor. For tropical medicine usually contains clindamycin antibiotics. While for a drink, usually called tetracycline.
4. High technology: Laser and Intense Pulsed Light, usually targeting the scar, but the blue light treatment can kill the bacteria that cause acne. Such treatments can be very expensive, it is advisable to try other treatments safer and more inaccessible.
Acne Prevention
Believe it or not, washing your face there is trick. To start, try to keep the faces remain clean all day. Clean face twice daily with a special soap (for dry skin, do not use too much soap), Try to use warm water (hot water can make the skin dry). Wash your face between 1-2 minutes (do not be too long because the resulting irritation). Use your hands, and avoid using cleaning towels.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Wungu leaf, boils and hemorrhoids overcome
Wungu leaves have long been known to treat hemorrhoids or hemorrhoid. However, not only that the properties owned. Wungu flavonoids in the leaves can reduce swelling or inflammation.
Wungu leaf or leaves, also called purple (Graptophyllum pictum [L.] Griff.) Often found growing wild in the countryside or grown as an ornamental plant and the plant fence. It originates from the Papuan and Polynesian. These leaves can be found from the lowlands to the mountains with an altitude of 1250 above sea level. Grow well in an open place exposed to sunlight, with a dry or humid climate.
Salient feature of this plant is a purple leaf surface shiny and smelled dreadful. The leaves are oval shaped with pointed base and the leaf tips, while the bone pinnate leaves. Shape the plant is a small tree or shrub. Plant this shrub can grow to a height between 1.5 to 3 meters. Branches and twigs of this plant meet the stem.
There are three types of crop varieties wungu leaves. Leaf varieties are purple, green leaves, and white mottled leaves. However, that is often used as a medicine is a purple-leaved varieties. Breeding of this crop can be done by seed or stem cuttings. However, good breeding is with stem cuttings.
How to keep it fairly easily, that is sufficient watering and soil moisture is maintained. Do not forget also to provide basic fertilizer.
Water shed Art
Parts of plants that can be used as a medicine is part of leaves, bark, and flowers. The leaves contain flavonoids, alkaloids nontoxic, glikosid, steroids, saponins, tannins, and mucus.
The crackers contain calcium oxalate, forlat acids, and fats. The content of these substances resulted in this plant is a diuretic or piss shed, speed up cooking boils, has a smooth laxative bowel movement (mild laxative), and soften the skin (emollient).
Laxative properties at this leaves only a mild nature, which means making the stool soft but not diarrhea. This caused the percentage of mucus content reaches 35 percent. This fiber can help solve and prevent hemorrhoids and constipation. Many factors influence the occurrence of hemorrhoids disease. There are factors of pregnancy, heredity, and obesity.
It's just the most obvious factors that cause hemorrhoids are so pressing too hard feces and inflate the rectal blood vessels in the rectum. These factors can be prevented and treated by drinking potions wungu leaves.
Read more »
Wungu leaf or leaves, also called purple (Graptophyllum pictum [L.] Griff.) Often found growing wild in the countryside or grown as an ornamental plant and the plant fence. It originates from the Papuan and Polynesian. These leaves can be found from the lowlands to the mountains with an altitude of 1250 above sea level. Grow well in an open place exposed to sunlight, with a dry or humid climate.
Salient feature of this plant is a purple leaf surface shiny and smelled dreadful. The leaves are oval shaped with pointed base and the leaf tips, while the bone pinnate leaves. Shape the plant is a small tree or shrub. Plant this shrub can grow to a height between 1.5 to 3 meters. Branches and twigs of this plant meet the stem.
There are three types of crop varieties wungu leaves. Leaf varieties are purple, green leaves, and white mottled leaves. However, that is often used as a medicine is a purple-leaved varieties. Breeding of this crop can be done by seed or stem cuttings. However, good breeding is with stem cuttings.
How to keep it fairly easily, that is sufficient watering and soil moisture is maintained. Do not forget also to provide basic fertilizer.
Water shed Art
Parts of plants that can be used as a medicine is part of leaves, bark, and flowers. The leaves contain flavonoids, alkaloids nontoxic, glikosid, steroids, saponins, tannins, and mucus.
The crackers contain calcium oxalate, forlat acids, and fats. The content of these substances resulted in this plant is a diuretic or piss shed, speed up cooking boils, has a smooth laxative bowel movement (mild laxative), and soften the skin (emollient).
Laxative properties at this leaves only a mild nature, which means making the stool soft but not diarrhea. This caused the percentage of mucus content reaches 35 percent. This fiber can help solve and prevent hemorrhoids and constipation. Many factors influence the occurrence of hemorrhoids disease. There are factors of pregnancy, heredity, and obesity.
It's just the most obvious factors that cause hemorrhoids are so pressing too hard feces and inflate the rectal blood vessels in the rectum. These factors can be prevented and treated by drinking potions wungu leaves.
Read more »
Healing Hemorrhoids Without Surgery
Healing Hemorrhoids Without Surgery - You people with hemorrhoids? maybe you're looking for hemorrhoid medications. you know, that 'hemorrhoid disease' can be treated without surgery. good news for you. refer to this article
When you hear the word operation (surgery), that comes to mind is the flash of a knife hemorrhoid sufferers are scary. Yet nothing has been horrified at this sharp equipment tore parts of the body. For patients, this is part of a struggle in an effort to rid wasirnya disease. That is why, many hemorrhoid sufferers reluctant to undergo surgery. If it is still possible, hemorrhoid sufferers would choose another way of handling.
Anus should also be repaired
Haemorrhoids is a widening of blood vessels beneath the anal mucous membrane (flexus hemorrhoidal) into a kind of tangled yarn so as to form lumps or bumps. Most hemorrhoids occur in the so called internal haemorrhoid. Because the location in this is often inconvenient sufferer. While hemorrhoids are happening outside or haemorrhoid externa number of cases only slightly, about 5 -7%.
According to Western medical concepts, the occurrence of hemorrhoids caused by obstructed blood flow to the heart forth, so that blood vessels dilate.
To perform the binding of a troubled arteries, dr. Henry needs the help of Doppler ultrasound
Slightly different from the above understanding, the concept of Eastern medicine to explain that the occurrence of hemorrhoids is not simply a backflow are no barriers, but because the structure is also one of her anus. This is supported by research, which states 90%, hemorrhoids caused by heredity. Due to genetics, meaning that the wrong structure of the anus.
In the circular muscle of the anus are grabbed continuously for 24 hours. Allegedly, hemorrhoids happen because there is a weak part of the structure of the anus. "Therefore, in treating hemorrhoids, not enough to treat wasirnya, but her anus muscle contraction must also be repaired," said dr. Niko M. Manaf, RS digestive surgeon. Kartika, Polumas, Jakarta.
Hemorrhoid conditions differentiated into four levels. The first level, bleeding only occurs with itching. The second level, bleeding and pain accompanied by the appearance of small bumps that have not disrupt the process of defecation. The third level, the bleeding with a lump that comes out after a bowel movement, but can go alone. The fourth level is marked by a bump that comes out after defecation can not go alone, so that should be helped to enter it again. In fact, dr. Niko M. Manaf add a fifth gradation, when the lump can not be pushed back. This occurs because the process of fibrosis (hardening) or the formation of thrombosis (blood clotting). At this level, patients are usually extremely painful.
Read more »
When you hear the word operation (surgery), that comes to mind is the flash of a knife hemorrhoid sufferers are scary. Yet nothing has been horrified at this sharp equipment tore parts of the body. For patients, this is part of a struggle in an effort to rid wasirnya disease. That is why, many hemorrhoid sufferers reluctant to undergo surgery. If it is still possible, hemorrhoid sufferers would choose another way of handling.
Anus should also be repaired
Haemorrhoids is a widening of blood vessels beneath the anal mucous membrane (flexus hemorrhoidal) into a kind of tangled yarn so as to form lumps or bumps. Most hemorrhoids occur in the so called internal haemorrhoid. Because the location in this is often inconvenient sufferer. While hemorrhoids are happening outside or haemorrhoid externa number of cases only slightly, about 5 -7%.
According to Western medical concepts, the occurrence of hemorrhoids caused by obstructed blood flow to the heart forth, so that blood vessels dilate.
To perform the binding of a troubled arteries, dr. Henry needs the help of Doppler ultrasound
Slightly different from the above understanding, the concept of Eastern medicine to explain that the occurrence of hemorrhoids is not simply a backflow are no barriers, but because the structure is also one of her anus. This is supported by research, which states 90%, hemorrhoids caused by heredity. Due to genetics, meaning that the wrong structure of the anus.
In the circular muscle of the anus are grabbed continuously for 24 hours. Allegedly, hemorrhoids happen because there is a weak part of the structure of the anus. "Therefore, in treating hemorrhoids, not enough to treat wasirnya, but her anus muscle contraction must also be repaired," said dr. Niko M. Manaf, RS digestive surgeon. Kartika, Polumas, Jakarta.
Hemorrhoid conditions differentiated into four levels. The first level, bleeding only occurs with itching. The second level, bleeding and pain accompanied by the appearance of small bumps that have not disrupt the process of defecation. The third level, the bleeding with a lump that comes out after a bowel movement, but can go alone. The fourth level is marked by a bump that comes out after defecation can not go alone, so that should be helped to enter it again. In fact, dr. Niko M. Manaf add a fifth gradation, when the lump can not be pushed back. This occurs because the process of fibrosis (hardening) or the formation of thrombosis (blood clotting). At this level, patients are usually extremely painful.
Read more »
Sunday, June 6, 2010
How To Diet Your Success
Most people who go on a diet knows that reducing calories is the key to successful dieting. But they do not know how to apply the theory.
Not secret anymore if many people fail to do the diet in the middle of the road. As experienced by Rudy Termini, a pensioner aged 65 years in the U.S., who struggled to lose weight during the four years.
"Three times a week I play tennis and go to the gym to go on a diet, but results have not been looking too," Termini said as quoted from Forbes, Tuesday (14/07/2009).
Termini was finally interested in participating in clinical trials for two years at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Two years of training at the site, Termini succeeded in reducing the weight of 23 pounds.
What is the secret of successful diet?
Dr. Donald Hensrud, a nutrition specialist at Mayo Clinic said reduced calorie diet is the key to success. But it will not work if the theory is not practiced.
An investigator from the National Weight Control Registry, Suzzanne Phelan have been tracking the weight loss effort that followed 6000 participants in the experiment. He also leaked the secret strategies of successful dieting.
One effective technique is to monitor more closely the number of calories and weight. This requires that records of food calories and high commitment to the diet.
Read more »
Not secret anymore if many people fail to do the diet in the middle of the road. As experienced by Rudy Termini, a pensioner aged 65 years in the U.S., who struggled to lose weight during the four years.
"Three times a week I play tennis and go to the gym to go on a diet, but results have not been looking too," Termini said as quoted from Forbes, Tuesday (14/07/2009).
Termini was finally interested in participating in clinical trials for two years at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Two years of training at the site, Termini succeeded in reducing the weight of 23 pounds.
What is the secret of successful diet?
Dr. Donald Hensrud, a nutrition specialist at Mayo Clinic said reduced calorie diet is the key to success. But it will not work if the theory is not practiced.
An investigator from the National Weight Control Registry, Suzzanne Phelan have been tracking the weight loss effort that followed 6000 participants in the experiment. He also leaked the secret strategies of successful dieting.
One effective technique is to monitor more closely the number of calories and weight. This requires that records of food calories and high commitment to the diet.
Read more »
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Food for Nursing Mothers
Food For Nursing Mothers:
Supplies of food for lactating mothers more than the food you were pregnant.
Usefulness of these foods are:
1. Restoring physical condition after delivery.
2. Increasing milk production (Mother's Milk) and healthy enough for a baby.
Ordering Food
1. The composition of the daily meal should be balanced, which consists of staple food, side dishes, vegetables and fruit and milk.
2. Not only the staple food rice, use a variety of food substitutes such as noodles, corn, potatoes, yams, bread and so forth.
3. Side dishes use of this type of animal and vegetable species, such as eggs, meat, chicken, fresh fish, liver, fish sauce, tempeh, tofu, beans and so forth.
4. Better-colored vegetables such as spinach, kale, mustard greens, leaf katuk, carrots, green beans and so forth, because these vegetables may help stimulate spending/production of milk.
5. Pick-colored fruits such as papaya, oranges, apples, tomatoes and so on which many contain vitamins and minerals.
6. Need to drink more in number + 6 glasses in one day, would be more useful if the nursing mother to drink fluids "nutritious" such as: milk, water, beans, fruit juice, water, green leafy vegetables and so forth.
7. Not recommended drinking herbal medicine after childbirth.
8. The most important thing there is no food taboos for breastfeeding mothers.
Supplies of food for lactating mothers more than the food you were pregnant.
Usefulness of these foods are:
1. Restoring physical condition after delivery.
2. Increasing milk production (Mother's Milk) and healthy enough for a baby.
Ordering Food
1. The composition of the daily meal should be balanced, which consists of staple food, side dishes, vegetables and fruit and milk.
2. Not only the staple food rice, use a variety of food substitutes such as noodles, corn, potatoes, yams, bread and so forth.
3. Side dishes use of this type of animal and vegetable species, such as eggs, meat, chicken, fresh fish, liver, fish sauce, tempeh, tofu, beans and so forth.
4. Better-colored vegetables such as spinach, kale, mustard greens, leaf katuk, carrots, green beans and so forth, because these vegetables may help stimulate spending/production of milk.
5. Pick-colored fruits such as papaya, oranges, apples, tomatoes and so on which many contain vitamins and minerals.
6. Need to drink more in number + 6 glasses in one day, would be more useful if the nursing mother to drink fluids "nutritious" such as: milk, water, beans, fruit juice, water, green leafy vegetables and so forth.
7. Not recommended drinking herbal medicine after childbirth.
8. The most important thing there is no food taboos for breastfeeding mothers.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Benefits of Ginger as a pain reliever
LONDON - Do not underestimate the benefits of spices on this one. Consumption of ginger is believed to relieve pain in muscles due to excessive exercise, as revealed by researchers.
Taste Ginger every day can reduce the pain from sports and even gardening and housework are exhausting.
For hundreds of years, ginger root has long been used as traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as flu or flatulence.
And experts have long been known as a pain reliever. However, recent research shows that ginger is very good for muscle pain.
Lead researcher from the University of Georgia, Professor Patrick O'Connor said the ginger as something that really can eliminate muscle pain that can be accepted by many people who experience it.
Ginger is also known as anti-inflammatory drugs in animal experiments, but its effects as muscle pain in humans have not been examined closely.
Ginger is also known to contain a chemical that works almost the same anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuprofen and aspirin.
Professor O'Connor conducted two studies with each of the 34 and 40 participants who consumed a capsule containing two grams with different content for 11 days .. One group was asked to consume capsules containing ginger which has been heated while another group was asked the empty capsules.
On Day 8, participants were tested to lift the load to measure the muscle injury is on the arm including the function, inflammation and pain before exercise and three days later. Levels of chemical constituents in the body were also measured before and after practice.
Research shows, intake of ginger every day to reduce pain due to exercise about 25 percent. Meanwhile, warm ginger before it is consumed has no significant effect.
Taste Ginger every day can reduce the pain from sports and even gardening and housework are exhausting.
For hundreds of years, ginger root has long been used as traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as flu or flatulence.
And experts have long been known as a pain reliever. However, recent research shows that ginger is very good for muscle pain.
Lead researcher from the University of Georgia, Professor Patrick O'Connor said the ginger as something that really can eliminate muscle pain that can be accepted by many people who experience it.
Ginger is also known to contain a chemical that works almost the same anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuprofen and aspirin.
Professor O'Connor conducted two studies with each of the 34 and 40 participants who consumed a capsule containing two grams with different content for 11 days .. One group was asked to consume capsules containing ginger which has been heated while another group was asked the empty capsules.
On Day 8, participants were tested to lift the load to measure the muscle injury is on the arm including the function, inflammation and pain before exercise and three days later. Levels of chemical constituents in the body were also measured before and after practice.
Research shows, intake of ginger every day to reduce pain due to exercise about 25 percent. Meanwhile, warm ginger before it is consumed has no significant effect.
Walking on legs, a healthy step away Diabetes and Heart Disease
Are you are a lazy sport? If so, then the walk is a useful alternative to exercise no less effective. A study revealed, on foot making walking an optimal metabolism.
As is known, the body's metabolism is not working normally associated with a number of factors trigger the risk of heart disease and diabetes such as overweight, high blood pressure, lack of good cholesterol.
Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Peter T. Katzmarzyk states, the existence of a number of factors make individuals more susceptible trigger rather than someone who does not have a trigger factor.
"Many individuals who are overweight are having problems with her metabolism, but for individuals with normal weight also experienced the same problem," he said as quoted from HealthDay, last weekend.
Earlier, in the year 2005-2006, together with his colleagues noted Katzmakzyk 1446 daily records of adults, average age 47.5 years old. Participants with a note accelerometer (a device that measures how far a person walking) is divided into three groups.
The first group, individuals who walked less than 5000 steps per day, second, individuals who walked on average between 5000 to 9000 per day and the third step, individuals who walked an average of more than 10,000 steps per day.
After the record of each participant, the researcher then saw a number of factors such as sex and age accompanist. From the findings the researchers note, more than 56 percent of which has a number of steps a little problem with her metabolism. However, 13 percent of the individuals who diligently walk also experienced the same problem. Overall, one third of participants had problems with her metabolism.
Meanwhile, in the second group, researchers recorded more than 40 percent of participants in both groups have the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder. Whereas in the third group, as many as 72 percent of the participants the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder.
Researchers also recorded every 1000 additional steps contributed to the decline 8-13 percent fat in the waist, decreasing bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol. "There is a kind of trend there (the research). The research is not just a magic number, Something is better than none at all, dab something more certainly a lot better," he said.
Separately, researchers from the University of Tennessee, David R. Bassett Jr. said the new study showed significant results because of more stringent than previous research when exploring the relationship between walking and metabolic disorders.
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As is known, the body's metabolism is not working normally associated with a number of factors trigger the risk of heart disease and diabetes such as overweight, high blood pressure, lack of good cholesterol.
Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Peter T. Katzmarzyk states, the existence of a number of factors make individuals more susceptible trigger rather than someone who does not have a trigger factor.
Earlier, in the year 2005-2006, together with his colleagues noted Katzmakzyk 1446 daily records of adults, average age 47.5 years old. Participants with a note accelerometer (a device that measures how far a person walking) is divided into three groups.
The first group, individuals who walked less than 5000 steps per day, second, individuals who walked on average between 5000 to 9000 per day and the third step, individuals who walked an average of more than 10,000 steps per day.
After the record of each participant, the researcher then saw a number of factors such as sex and age accompanist. From the findings the researchers note, more than 56 percent of which has a number of steps a little problem with her metabolism. However, 13 percent of the individuals who diligently walk also experienced the same problem. Overall, one third of participants had problems with her metabolism.
Meanwhile, in the second group, researchers recorded more than 40 percent of participants in both groups have the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder. Whereas in the third group, as many as 72 percent of the participants the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder.
Researchers also recorded every 1000 additional steps contributed to the decline 8-13 percent fat in the waist, decreasing bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol. "There is a kind of trend there (the research). The research is not just a magic number, Something is better than none at all, dab something more certainly a lot better," he said.
Separately, researchers from the University of Tennessee, David R. Bassett Jr. said the new study showed significant results because of more stringent than previous research when exploring the relationship between walking and metabolic disorders.
Read more »
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