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| The preventive use of antibiotics in animals to avoid illnesses they can have a negative effect in the health of the persons |
| Quite on the use of antibiotics in the food |
For Andrea Alemañy
Washington Hispanic
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| If he is going to buy meat, which is of animals of open farms (free range in English). photo: AP. |
The evolution of the large-scale cattle production has a benefit, the meat is cheaper. But also it has meant the need to use antibiotics to prepare the spread of serious illnesses in the animals.
A negative effect of the use of antibiotics in animals is the creation of resistance of the bacteria in those that consume them. Namely these microbes can do more fortresses to themselves and possibly cause sharper infections in persons and animals.
The problem is that, in these difficult times, it is attractive to buy more economic meat, but this is usually the one that has more possibilities of having being treated by antibiotics unnecessarily.
That's why the organization Pew Charitable Trust has created a campaign to make sure that the Administration of Drugs and Food (FDA, for his initials in English) should control not therapeutic use of antibiotics in the animals.
The problem
Not therapeutic use of antibiotics in the animals does not mean that sick animals will not receive the necessary medicines, if their not not use of a preventive way. “One is giving them antibiotics only because there are many animals in the same place”, says Laura Rogers, director of the Campaign of Pew for the Human Health and Industrial Agriculture. “This is not a correct way of using a drug of the FDA”.
The Department of Agriculture of the United States (USDA) says that with only some changes in these farms, such how to give to him to the animals more spread, then less antibiotics might be used.
The effects
Robert Martin, Executive director of the Commission of Production of Agribusiness tells that the excessive use of drugs in these animals will affect the way in which the human body reacts when we need these medicines to treat some illness, since the bacteria might become immune to these medicines.
“ It is necessary to preserve these medicines because there are no new drugs”, says Laura Rogers. “We all need these antibiotics and to think scares that if there is one it sprouts of salmonella, the cost for the individual and for the system of health might be catastrophic”.
The animals exposed to antibiotics cannot be sacrificed up to two weeks of having consumed them, says Rogers, but although the persons who buy this food are not consuming straight the drugs, they are still in risk. Really for this reason it recommends to buy meats that it indicates that the animals were raised without antibiotics, to cook good good and to wash his/her/its hands to avoid the contamination.
“ Really to protect you and to your family, you have to take a kitchen as an operations room”, says the expert.
The recommendations
The Doctor Lance Price, the director of the Center for Metagenómica and Human Health recommends the following measurements to protect the family:
- Buy animals meats 0que they have not been raised by antibiotics. There have no to be "organic" products, which are costlier, but it must indicate that the product should free this one from antibiotics. The tag “naturally raised” also uses the minimal number of antibiotics. But eye with the one that it indicates that the product is "natural", because this does not mean that it is more healthy.
- Communicate with his representatives and support measurements to eliminate or to limit the use of antibiotics in animals.
- Cook well all his food, especially the chicken, pig and meat. Between these three, the chicken is the one that can be more contaminated.
| Consulate of this country in DC offers primary medical resources |
| Preventive health for Bolivians |
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| Aída Bejarano wants to help the Bolivians of the area. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
This Thursday, the 13th the Station of Preventive Health was inaugurated officially in the Consulate of Bolivia of DC. This program, which is an effort as a whole with the Clinic of Preventive Health of the Hispanic Institute of Prevention of the Blindness, looks that the persons gain access to the community resources and to the insurances of health that exist, in order to contribute to the quality of life of this population.
The station answers that other programs, like that are offered successfully in the consulates of Mexico and El Salvador.
Doctor Aída Bejarano is the coordinating committee of the station, and she tells that the persons, after an evaluation of his needs, will be able “to find a primary medical center, or what we call medical hearth, as where they should live or should work and his conditions of eligibility, of way to help them to navigate the system, find services of preventive health and access to specialists”, he tells.
— For what can wait the persons who should be attended at the station?
“ A needs survey is applied to the persons and based on that they are faced with regard to what the clinic is most adapted to which to speak. Also we think about how to identify if there are children or adults who are eligible to health insurances, depending from which they live. A third point is to prepare chronic illnesses across information about excellent topics like diabetes, cancer, hypertension and sexually transmitted diseases, between others”.
— What another innovation does it offer?
“ We are going to incorporate an educational program and cancer prevention as a whole into the American Society of the Cancer, which includes minichats, presentation of videos, educational group chats, intervention one to one, and promotion of access to preventive examinations to low cost or free, like papanicolau, mamografías, of prostate and of colon. If the persons have questions they can call (202 232 4827 or (703) 533 8872 ".
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| Celebrate the life, fight against the cancer |
Agenciaa
Washington Hispanic
Today the Hispanics are being affected by the cancer in disproportionate quantities compared to the rest of the Americans. The valuation of mortality of the cancer of bosom and cervical it is major in the Hispanic women, the cancer of the prostate represents 30 % of the types of cancer diagnosed in the Latin men, and the cancer caused by the cigaret is in increase between the Latin Americans.
The good news is that the cancer incidence between the Hispanics can get ready. But nevertheless, the Hispanics are less inclined than the North Americans to do to him analysis and regular medical checkups which can detect the cancer in his early stages, which is when the treatments can increase the survival indexes.
Really for this reason the Division of the South Atlantic Ocean of the American Society of the Cancer threw the Hispanic Campaign for the Prevention of the Cancer.
“ We promote and distribute a new series of public announcements that not only educate the Hispanics about the prevention of the cancer, but he allows them to know that the American Society of the Cancer offers a wide information status and supports to programs so much for those who suffer from cancer as his relatives, ”there affirms Elmer Huerta, the director of the Cancer Preventorium in Washington Cancer Institute.
The preventive campaign of the American Society of the Cancer has produced a titled leaflet: “What is the cancer?” which presents information adapted culturally about the causes, prevention, and treatment of the cancer. The leaflet will be used by other community agencies in his educational programs on the cancer.
The Hispanics who have been diagnosed by cancer, as well as his relatives and friends who want to support them can obtain information across the American Society of the Cancer (ACS) to 800-227-2345 or navigate the electronic page www.cancer.org. On the campaign it can go to the web site www.celebrelavida.com.
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| Lacking vitamin D in children |
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| The cause has direct bearing on a little time that the children spend exposed to the sun. |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
Close to 70 % of the children in the country they obtain few vitamin D, what puts them in risk of suffering for weak bones and illnesses to the heart.
The body produces vitamin D when it is exposed to the sun. The experts who discovered this shortcoming said that the cause has direct bearing on a little time that the children spend out playing. “It would be good that the parents were extinguishing the television and the video games and leave that the children play out. Between 15 to 20 daily minutes it is sufficient”, said the author of the study, Michal L. Re-lick.
A test of this is that there have been brought more cases of a disorder of the development of the bones caused exactly by vitamin lack D.
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