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| The reaction of the skin when in contact with the poisonous ivy it can be very annoying and is not foreign to complications. Learn to recognize this plant and to avoid it |
| Very much eye with the poisonous ivy |
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| The poisonous ivy is a common cause of cutaneous annoyance called dermatitis for contact and it can cause a reddening of the skin, itch, distension or blisters in the skin. |
The poisonous ivy is a common cause of cutaneous annoyance called dermatitis for contact and it can cause a reddening of the skin, itch, distension or blisters in the skin. Most of the persons are sensitive to the action of the poisonous ivy (poison ivy, in English) and to other poisonous plants. The irritating substance is the same that called urushiol finds in other spices, resinous oil.
The reaction of the skin provoked by the poisonous ivy generally is not serious, but it can cause a lot of inconveniences. The treatment consists of taking care of the affected area relieving the itch until the reaction disappears.
Symptoms
The symptoms include reddening of the skin, itch, distension and blisters. Sometimes the eruption has a given linear appearance the form in which the sheets touched the skin. If you touch other elements that have been in contact with poisonous ivy, like clothes or a pet, the eruption can be different in his appearance.
The reaction appears generally between 12 at 48 hours after having been exposed to the poisonous ivy, and can last up to three weeks. In severe reactions, new eruptions areas can appear several days after the initial exhibition. This can seem like that the cutaneous reaction is expanding, but in fact it is for the speed in which the skin absorbed the urushiol.
The skin must be straight in contact with the plant to be affected. Although to scratch does not expand any more the urushiol, the gérmenes who can hide under the fingernails can generate an infection.
Causes
The poisonous ivy is a very common grass and it can grow like a shrub, a plant or a creeper. The sheets change in his form, although they usually have three tops, someone are brilliant. The poisonous substance, the urushiol, is oily and for the same it is difficult to clean. Only one small quantity of this substance can cause a reaction. That's why, it is easy that, still if it does not touch straight a sheet but his clothes or some element touched it and then you have contact with this, it can develop an eruption.
The eruption is not contagious in if. The fluid of the blisters they do not contain urushiol.
When to look for medical help
Consult his health provider if the reaction in the skin is wide or severe, if the annoyance affects sensitive areas of his body, like eyes, mouth or genitals; if the blisters secrete pus, if it has top fever to 100th F (37,8th C) or if the affected area is not improved in a pair of weeks.
The complications develop when a person scratches the annoyance with dirty fingernails, what can cause the second bacterial infection. This can cause that the eruption secretes pus. If this happens, call his doctor. The treatment for this is with antibiotics.
Treatment
The annoyance for poisonous ivy generally eliminates herself one to three weeks after the contact. To treat the inconveniences, there can be used home-made methods and medicines that are on the counter. If the annoyance is extensive, his doctor can prescribe a córticoesteroide to lower the inflammation.
Prevention
The expression “Sheets of, allow three to be” it is familiar for many persons for a good reason. It is a reminder of being removed from plants that have sheets of three tops. The best way of avoiding an annoyance of this type is to identify these plants and to stay removed from her. If it goes of excursion to some forest or natural place, try not to leave of the footpath. When it is jardineando, uses gloves when it is eliminating weeds. Also in specializing shops they sell creams that they absorb urushiol and it minimizes the reaction of the skin for poisonous ivy.
| This group of volunteers works hard in Virginia against ela illness |
| Together to prepare the cancer |
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| Pilar Alfaro. Foto:Álvaro Ortiz/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The Hispanics who live in the metropolitan DC area are lucky to be provided with a series of organizations that give support and resources to patients and relatives with a health condition. Without embrago, in other areas, this is not like that.
This is what happened in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where there was no Latin organization that was delivering support to patients in his language. That until the American Society of the Cancer (SAC) helped to shape the group of volunteers ‘Together to Prepare the Cancer”.
The group presided by Pilar Alfaro, takes less than one year in functioning and they already organized a symposium for the day of the Mother, in which the Doctor Elmer Huerta was the principal orator. “The wonderful of the event was that the Doctor Garden and other doctors spoke about the cancer, about the heart and about diabetes. Also there were survivors' testimonies and little more than 100 persons helped. For being the first one it was well, thanks to the support of Riguey King, of the SAC who basically created this group”, says Alfaro.
— What are the biggest needs for the Hispanic community of Fredericksbur as regards the cancer?
“ Information, and I believe that that it happens everywhere. That's why we must instruct the people and that they educate in his language. Not only on illnesses like the cancer, but in many others. Also, the Hispanics have a high percentage of es this illness or suffer some another illness for ignorance”.
—? What another activity estean programming?
“ The next programmed event is for the members of the church. We have thought in how to come to the people and a good form is to use the churches, and to do an event for the priests, with the target that they then take the message to the faithful and to give them bookform material. Also, we will do another event dedicated to the whole family so that they are informed. If someone estea been interesting in group joining to nuetro, we always look volunteers or the people who wants to contribute ideas, not necessary doctors or nurses. For that they can call (540 295 7507 or to the 1 (800) 227 2345 ".
| Acquire his pets in hostels or breeders who enjoy good reputation |
| Does he want to have a pet? |
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| The different types of animals and of race possess attributes and different temperaments. |
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Washington Hispanic
If he wants to have a pet, he must know that there are some considerations of health that it must take into consideration.
The experts suggest that, before acquiring a pet, it is necessary to take into consideration the following thing:
Analyze the different types of animals and his race to select the one that better adapts himself to the needs for his family and for his hearth. Evaluate carefully the such routines of the family as the work, the school, the social activities and the trips to choose the pet and the race that better adapts itself to his hearth and local community.
Know how it must interact of way adapted with his pet. The different types of animals and of race possess attributes and different temperaments, therefore it must treat them and take care of them in a suitable way.
No pet with hair is hipoalergénica. Even the dogs of little hair or without hair that they improve themselves as hipoalergénicos they produce alérgenos, proteins that unleash allergies that are in the dandruff, the saliva or the urine of the animal.
Bear in mind that a good hygiene is vital for the families that have pets. Everybody must wash its hands after playing or being in contact with a pet. The hearths must have free areas of animals, such as the rooms or any place in which babies or children are fed or are to alone, like rooms of game and the room of the child. Bathe to the pets that have very much hair of a regular way to reduce the spread of gérmenes and the quantity of dandruff that they produce. The reptiles can carry salmonella and other potential infections, therefore they should not take to hearths in which there are children younger than five years or children with flagging immune systems.
Acquire his pets in hostels or breeders who enjoy good reputation. This offers to him the safety of which his pet is healthy and from which it has all the recommended vaccines.
So soon the pet comes to the familiar nucleus, remember the annual reviews with the veterinarian to reduce the risk of fleas, parasites and infections that could propagate in his hearth.
| To his health |
| The challenges of the new secretary of Health |
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Washington Hispanic
After several months of suspense opposite to the appointment of the official who was going to occupy the office of higher status in the field of the health of the country, knowledge calms me that finally this position has a face: that of ex-governor of Kansas, missis Kathleen Sebelius, who was confirmed not long ago less than one month.
Missis Sebelius was the last one of the presidential office to be named in the first 100 days of the administration Obama and the expectations are very high.
His arrival must not have been easy for her since the health department needed urgently a head that was at the head of the virus of the porcine flu and missis Sebelius entered straight the battlefield to face this controversial world virus.
Although the virus keeps on advancing and bringing victims in the entire world, missis Sebelius seems to be at the head of the situation and the organisms that are under his charge, it to try to fight and to implementing preventive and curative measurements.
Nevertheless, the new health secretary has also other big priorities, being the biggest of all, that of implementing the mentioned health reform that the President Obama has got into debt in extracting forward for fortune of all of us.
The President realizes well that a sick country cannot go out forward and that if to this crisis that we cross now, we add a health crisis, very quickly we will stop being the world potency of all these years.
Who we work in the field of the health and that know about the big gaps, difficulties and needs in this field for most of the inhabitants of this country and especially for our Latin community, we are attentive to the new politics, insurance policies and guidelines that the new health secretary is going to propose so that the country has a real health reform.
We neither want already to keep on having almost 50 million inhabitants without a medical insurance nor want emergency rooms saturated with patients who have never had access to preventive care of his health and who come to the hospitals when there is already little or nothing for doing.
It calms me to know that missis Sebelius has demonstrated in the past a personal interest in a reform in the health and that although like governor of his state it did not manage so much how he was waiting in this aspect, at least now it will be able to advance to a step more accelerated with the support of the President Obama.
In a speech pronounced recently by her before a group of nurses, missis Sebeilus he reaffirmed his commitment to improve the health quality in the country; be able to be that this way it is and that it turns into a real pioneer of the new reform of health so that us convirtamos in example for the entire world on how supporting a healthy nation, with access to wide medical care and of quality without his population having to compromise gigantic sums of money and without having to come to the emergency rooms to take care of his health.
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