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Many people are ashamed to talk about IBS even if they are suffering from severe symptoms.  That is why it is difficult to find people talk about it openly.  Therefore, the problems related to IBS tend to be kept as secret.  In fact, even in the medical field similar sets of symptoms were only discovered in 1992.  If you suspect that you are having IBS but you are not sure of the symptoms, here are some of the common symptoms being used by doctors to diagnose the IBS.

First of all you need to know that IBS is not a fatal disease.  Nobody has died from IBS before, so you can be sure that you are not going to die due to IBS.  However, it was found that IBS is a disease which can’t be cured.  The good this is it won’t jeopardize your life and you can actually control the symptoms through various ways.

It was also found that up to 20% of the population are suffering from IBS.  A lot of people have the perception that they are actually having a disease related to the bowels.  When they undergo a medical check-up, only then the real diagnosis is revealed. The most common symptoms of IBS are diarrhoea and constipation.  These symptoms are mainly triggered by the wrong food intake, stress and bad lifestyles.

Sports

On the other hand, do not leave out the exercise, as we know it provides great benefits in the immune response, but must be careful because if done excessively, the body will weaken and be exposed to microbial attack . It is best practice from 3 to 4 times a week for 20 or 30 minutes, you can opt for walking, swimming, jogging or spinning.

Drugs

Now, another way to strengthen our defenses is with drugs that have the same principle of vaccines, ie contain lots of microorganisms inactive. To be administered not develop disease, the immune system “learns” to detect the microbes, and when they come to infect our body will be trained to successfully destroy them. Read the rest of this entry »

It is important to know that there are different types of cells such as lymphocytes (defended by producing antibodies), neutrophils (attack all types of foreign body), eosinophils (activated to attack parasites or in case of allergies), and monocytes and granulocytes (responsible for digestion to eliminate foreign microorganisms.)

Especially in elderly, poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol and stress are factors favoring a weakening of the body and cause the immune system does not react to external aggression, resulting in frequent and severe infectious diseases .

Therefore, it is very important to look after various aspects which we state below. Read the rest of this entry »

Although their mission is to defend the attack of infections, there are times when the immune system weakens and loses the battle, which usually occurs due to poor diet, lack of exercise, aging and stress.

The immune system protects our body from external aggression works as a sort of magnifying glass that circulates throughout the body to recognize foreign elements (also called antigens) and react against them, which include viruses, bacteria, fungi, transplanted organs and tissues another individual or tumors. Read the rest of this entry »

Indigo naturalis is a herb used for thousands of years in traditional medicine of China for inflammatory conditions, with both external and internal use, an ointment base of the “indigo naturalis” or “qing dai”, a dark blue powder used by the traditional medicine proved effective for the treatment of psoriasis.

This is an illness that western medicine is relatively efficient but because it is labeled as a chronic disease that affects the skin, therefore there is no cure, only palliative treatments.

But traditional Chinese medicine to amaze with their ancient knowledge that are opening to the world as one of the most widely used alternative medicine today, and in regard to the ‘indigo naturalis’ is one of the remedies that have shown efficacy against the scourge of psoriasis.

The study was conducted in ‘Chang Gung Memorial Hospital’ and ‘Chang Gung University’ in Taoyuan (Taiwan), published in the journal Archives of Dermatology.

Was conducted among 42 patients with disease resistant to treatment, were applied indigo naturalis ointment in plaque psoriasis and one side of the body, by way of control were applied another doctor not the other parallel plate side.

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Drinking Water
This is my third collaboration for yoga news in the column on health issues and this time I have the pleasure of talking to an interesting and very controversial water.

It is obvious that we had neglected to water.
By 2025 three quarters of the world’s population have access to potable water.
Now every day we buy the water, thinking it was unthinkable a generation ago or a way to play the future.
To distill and purify the water and we are trying to light water inert (dead) and mineral concentrations far removed from its original state.
Water is the nutrient most abundant in the body, occupies 2 / 3 of its weight. There are people who make extraordinary efforts to achieve a balanced diet, organic, fresh, healthy and natural, but making poor quality water daily. When a person is in a state of energy deficiency, have a weak Read the rest of this entry »

Is inflammation of the skin of the entrance to the ear (ear canal). It is very common in children, especially in summer (also known as swimmer’s ear or otitis pools) and is a common reason for consultation earache.

How do you produce?

The external otitis due to the action of a microorganism that alters the defense mechanisms of the external ear, which are primarily the integrity of the skin, the same acid pH and wax. The excess heat and humidity favor the alteration and the softening of ear wax and skin of external auditory canal (EAC), which together with microtrauma, such as those produced by scratching, facilitate the growth of microorganisms mentioned and skin inflammation.

What Are the Symptoms?

The initial symptom is itching and makes the child from scratching, this can cause wounds sometimes become infected. Then you have the pain, often intense, throbbing sensation, which increases the pressure over the hole of the external ear and to manipulate, chew, talk or laugh. It is rare that children has a fever or are severely affected, except for pain.

How is it treated?

The main thing is to relieve the pain with pain medications (acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc..) And can help dry heat. Read the rest of this entry »

Yoga is an extremely expanded trend in alternative medicine. The resulting learn simple, affordable and tranquility and well-being generated by the return of alternative therapies (with acupuncture) most popular today.

Even the yoga varies in different ways. Not so long ago we talked about in eye yoga. This time it is the turn to facial yoga exercise that seems funny and ridiculous, but is an excellent technique to reduce the effects of aging.
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The benefits of tea are well accepted within the scientific community, and although often questioned coffee consumption, the fact is that the latter also houses many health benefits. In terms of cardiovascular health such as the benefits of the compounds of the wine are evident.

This has been demonstrated Dutchmen a team of researchers who publish their work in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which have shown that moderate consumption (and even beyond what is allowed) of tea and coffee means better business cardiovascular body.
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Now comes the winter half of the planet. In Latin America are going through an autumn that will result in a few months in winter, and as always, this translates into thermometers not stop raising its gradient.

The fever is most common when you start the winter and even in autumn, as the temperature changes can cause allergic reactions at all endure, that are perfectly capable of leading to a flu-like not very nice, which often leads to fever.
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