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| The overexposure to the beams UV of the sun can cause serious problems to the skin |
| Eye with the burns of the sun |
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Washington Hispanic
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| It is possible to prepare these burns and the consistent medical problems on having protected the skin when it is outdoors. |
The ardor of the skin only is compared to his reddish color. The burned ones by the sun, when king passes too much under the star, hurt in a time, recodando the imprudence with every rubbing.
But eye, because the consequences of the burns for the sun do not limit themselves to the discomfort of the affected skin. The intense exhibition to the sun increases the possibility of suffering certain types of skin diseases, like premature aging, you stain, queratosis actinic and cancer of the skin, which more serious declaration is the melanoma.
It is possible to prepare these burns and the consistent medical problems on having protected the skin when it is outdoors, it is already that it is sunny or not. If for some reason it is burned anyway, there exist several home-made remedies and treatments that can relieve the discomfort or accelerate his recovery.
Symptoms
The signs of the burns for the sun include reddening of the skin, feverish skin to the tact, pain, distension, small blisters, headache, fever or fatigue (in the case that the affected area is extensive, what is called a sunstroke).
The whole epidermis of the body can suffer burns, even behind the ears, the helmet or the lips. The eyes also can experience these symptoms, especially for the fact of being extremely sensitive to the ultraviolet light. After some days, the body begins the process of sanación, period in which the skin "is" "skinned", I process in which the damaged epidermis is replaced by new textile.
When to see the doctor
See his doctor if the affected area presents blisters or covers an extensive part of the body, if there are a high fever, intense pain, confusion, nausea or shakes; if it does not improve in a pair of days, if an infection appears, if the pain does not stop or if pus appears.
Complications
When the skin is damaged due to the intense exhibition to the beams of the sun, there increases the risk of suffering illnesses of the epidermis, infections or cancer.
The infections happen when the blisters break, causing a bacteria invasion. See his doctor in the case that presents signs of infection, which include pain, reddening, distension or leaked.
Another complication is the premature aging of the skin. This produces the weakening of the connective textile, what reduces the elasticity of the epidermis; thin, dry, venous and freckled skin, especially in the face and the shoulders. Also, it can generate brown injuries in the face, in the back of the hands, breast and back.
An additional problem is the actinic queratosis, which brown injuries imply to dark brown and which often is the step previous to develop cancer to the skin.
With regard to the cancer to the skin, this one takes place when the beams ultraviolet change the ADN of the cells of the epidermis. It is more common to develop this illness in the head, face, lips, ears, neck, breast, arms and hands, and in the legs.
Finally, the sun also can damage to the eyes, especially the retina. If preventive measures are not taken, this can provoke cataracts.
Home-made remedies
To relieve the pain provoked by the burn by the sun, continue these advices:
Take an antinflamatorio, like iburoprofeno until the pain stops. Use it with precaution when that thing about to children or adolescents.
Apply cold compresses, like a humid towel to the affected skin.
Apply a cream humectante, a lotion with aloe edge or a cream of hidrocortisona to treat the dryness and the pain.
If there are blisters, do not break them, since this slows down the sanación of the skin.
Take a lot of liquids.
Skin the skin in delicate form and apply cream humectante.
Prevention
Avoid the sun of 10 of the morning to 4 of the evening. The exposed areas of the skin be covered, solar blocker always uses and use glasses of the sun when it is in the street.
| Organization in the county of Montgomery looks empoderar for the adolescents |
| How to avoid the pregnancy in adolescents |
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| We try to give him value to what it is to be a woman, to protect what is she, because there it is that they begin the changes. Foto:Andrea Alemañy/WH. |
For Andrea Alemañy
Washington Hispanic
Three of every ten Hispanic adolescents remain pregnant women before fulfilling his 20 years, it informs a recent study of the National Campaign to Prepare the Juvenile Pregnancy (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy). In our community several organizations exist without lucre ends fighting to change these statistics.
Between these there is Community Bridges, who from 1997 promotes free the leadership and empoderamiento of the girls in 13 schools in the county of Montgomery in Maryland. Ann López, executive director of the organization, says that this one focuses in girls who recently have immigrated to the United States, since his recent arrival they promote challenges different from that of the girls who were born in the country.
The organization needs from voluntary women ready to share with the girls and to teach them that it is possible not only to dream, but to make them real. For more information about the organization or about his volunteers' program, they can call (301 585-7155.
— To what the organization does one dedicate?
“ Our approach is of teaching basic workmanship that help his academic self-esteem. We treat of empoderar the girls and to create women leaders and healthy in all the areas of his lives, be already with his families, friends or fiancés. We are not a tutorships program. We focus more in helping to create goals and to identify what are the academic barriers that they have to exceed”.
— Does how having future goals help the girls to prepare a pregnancy?
“ When you really speak to them and ask them: what is what is going to prepare that?, they say to you themselves: it is not a contraception, or knowledge like using them. It is a future. And this is the same that says the studies to us. If they do not have a future, perhaps they do not take the best decisions. There is a value in the Latin community with the being mothers, but: how can we give value to our girls out to be mothers? This is the work that we try to do”.
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| New surgery for obese across the mouth |
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| Liliana Gómez, was submitted to a novel operation to reduce the obesity. Foto:AP/Reed Saxon. |
Agencies
Washington Hispanic
Doctors in the United States are experiencing with a new type of surgery for obese that does not need courts in the abdomen, and that consists of introducing a pipe of the size of a hose across the gullet to remove matter in the stomach.
The operation, in his experimental stage, believe a narrow conduit that delays the transit of the food on having advanced from the part superior to the low part of the stomach. That, according to the doctors, helps the patients to feel full with more rapidity and to they allow to eat less.
The doctors say that preliminary results of approximately 200 patients in the USA and other 100 in Europe seem promising.
After approximately 18 months, European obese patients had lost about 45 % of his corporal weight as average, said the doctor Gregg Nishi, a surgeon of the Medical center Cedars-Sinai of Los Angeles. Nishi discussed North American and European studies during a conference realized in Chicago this week for specialists in digestive illnesses.
The procedure only is realized for the time being in studies. Manufacturers of the device used in the operation propose to request federal approval if the investigation continues in accordance with the planned.
Nishi said that both studies continue. And that the results until now are lightly better than typical results with conventional operations to reduce the obesity.
Between the risks it represents the perforation of the esophagus, which can cause the death. Nishi said that that happened with a patient in another center. Apart from that, he made sure, serious complications have not existed.
Liliana Gómez, administrative coordinating committee in Cedars-Sinai, appeared between the first Americans in being submitted to surgery for obese of this type. She was proposing to submit to conventional surgery, which was including courts in his stomach, until one informed that doctors in the hospital were studying the new skill.
From his operation in August, Gómez has lost approximately 18 kilos (40 pounds).
| To his health |
| The miracle of the acid fólico |
Agencies
Washington Hispanic
The acid fólico not only protects the development of the babies against malformations like forked thorn and related abnormalities, but also he can prepare premature birth and cardiac defects, according to recent investigations.
These defects have diminished in a third from January, 1998, when the United States decided to add acid fólico to some breads, cereals and pastas.
Two recent studies, nevertheless, indicate that the vitamin can protect moreover.
In the first one, specialists in Texas analyzed the pregnancies of 35 thousand women and discovered that those who said to take acid fólico for at least one year before remaining pregnant women reduced for the half the risk of having a premature baby.
His risk of having a very premature birth, in which the baby has less possibilities of surviving, diminished moreover.
In the second study, experts analyzed 1.3 million births in Quebec from 1990 to look for heart defects, for the most common defect on having been born. They discovered that the level of serious cardiac defects, on having been born, fell down 6 % a year since Canada initiated its own reinforcement vitamínico in his food in December, 1998.
Due to the reports, the specialists in pregnancies wonder if this is the moment to ask the government the acid quantity to increase fólico in certain food to assure that the pregnant women should consume sufficiently.
Nevertheless, the nutrient can turn out to be harmful to the biggest adults: High quantities in advanced ages can suppose risk of suffering cancer.
“ The folacina assumes the role of a chameleon”, told the doctor Joel Mason of the center of nutrition of the University of Tufts, who is studying the possible risks.
The acid fólico is an artificial version of the folacina, a vitamin B that is in vegetables of green grasses, citric fruits and dry seeds. Everybody needs folacina because he contributes to the growth of the cells and, nevertheless, the body does not produce sufficiently.
A woman in process of lighting needs extra quantity, even before knowing that perhaps it is pregnant.
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