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| Weakness, pins and needles and pain in the hands are the symptoms typical of this evil |
| Quite on Syndrome of the Carpal Tunnel |
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Washington Hispanic
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| Weakness, pins and needles and pain in the hands are the symptoms typical of this evil. |
Although the common belief indicates that the cause of the Syndrome of the Carpal Tunnel (known also how of the Carpio or Carpal), it is to be long hours opposite to the keyboard of the computer, this problem has many other causes.
Wrapped in bones and ligaments, the carpal tunnel is a narrow passage, not more breadth than the thumb located in the reverse of the doll. This tunnel protects an important nerve that goes to the hand and nine sinews that double the fingers. If pressure is applied to the nerve, drowsiness, pain is provoked and possibly manual weakness, which is the one that it characterizes to this syndrome.
Fortunately, for most of the persons who present this condition, there exists the appropriate treatment that can relieve the pain and the drowsiness and also restore the normal use of the dolls and hands.
Symptoms
This syndrome begins gradually with a vague pain in the doll that spreads to the forearm or to the hand. Other symptoms include itch or drowsiness in the fingers or the hand, especially in the thumb and the fingers index, way and ring finger, but not in the little finger. This sensation attacks when one is leading a vehicle, supporting a newspaper or the phone or to the awakening in the morning, for naming some cases. As the time happens, the drowsiness becomes permanent.
Another symptom is the pain radiation from the doll to the arm or even to the shoulder, or to the hand. A weakness sensation also collaborates to this condition.
When to see the doctor
If you present these symptoms in persistent form, and these make his normal life difficult, including to sleep, it is probable that it presents this syndrome and it would be suitable that it sees his doctor. If you do not treat the problem, it is probable that in the long term muscular damage happens or of the nerve.
Causes
This syndrome takes place for the pressure to the average nerve. This nervous extension has a mixed function, on one hand he devotes himself to the sensory function and for other one he sends signs of movement from the brain to the muscles of the hand. This nerve helps to the sensation of all the fingers less the little finger. The causes have to do with any pressure that it affects to the average nerve. For example, medical conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis, some hormonal disorders (diabetes, menopause), retention of liquids for pregnancy, or the abnormal protein production in the bone marrow.
Other causes are the repetitive flexibilizar movement and to extend the sinews of the hands and the dolls, particularly when it is done by force or without rest periods. Also, an injury to the doll can cause inflammation that presses to the average nerve. The physical characteristics can be another cause, that is to say, that the carpal tunnel is too narrow.
Risk factors
Some studies point out that this problem can be a result of a surcharge of work that needs a combination of necessary, repetitive movements and strangers of the hands and the dolls. For example, the use of hardware, the work of persons in production lines as in a products packer. Although the use of the keyboard of the computer is assumed like a common cause of the problem, the scientific evidence is not definitive on this matter. Other risk factors include the genre of the person, since the women have three times more possibilities of presenting this syndrome; the genetic heredity and certain medical conditions, like diabetes, obesity, problems to the kidneys, pregnant women and women who take contraceptive pills, between others.
Treatments
The persons who have a moderate problem of syndrome of carpal tunnel can relieve his symptoms taking rests for his hands or applying bags with ice in the dolls. Without this it does not work, it is possible to place a doll bra to use in the nights. Medicines as anti-inflammatory not steroids it can help if this problem is caused by an inflammation. A corticoesteroides injection also serves for desinflamar.
The surgery is recommended when the symptoms persist for more than six months. Generally this one is successful, but little drowsiness, pain or weakness can persist. Some surveys point out that the grade of success of this procedure reaches 70 % of the persons who gain access to the surgery. The pain and weakness due to the operation can last weeks.
Prevention
There are no strategies proved to prepare this syndrome, but to protect the hands of a series of problems, it is possible to reduce the force that is done or to relax the hands, to take rests, to avoid to double the doll to everything what it gives, to improve the position of the shoulders and to support the wrapped up hands, since this way the pain is avoided.
| Interview |
| To fight against the epilepsy |
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| Manuel de la Hoz, spokesman of the Foundation for the Epilepsy. photo: Courteousness Foundation for the Epilepsy. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
Manuel de la Hoz knew 32 years ago that epilepsy had. In the beginning he did not know how to take the news, and in a lot of time it was a heavy load in his shoulders, for the ignorance that exists on the illness and for the visible symptoms that it was experiencing.
In the work, account De the Sickle, it was especially problematic, because once a month they were giving him severe convulsions and product of the fall was always coming to another day with a mark. Bruises in the face, fractured arms, things like that. His coworkers were not understanding why, and Of the Sickle he was communicating them to himself either.
That until it had a convulsion in his work, and of a moment for other there was already no place where to hide. This motivated to Of the Sickle to be a voice for the education of the condition and today, at the age of 53, he is one of the spokesmen of the Foundation for the Epilepsy.
In fact, the organization will carry out a walk in Mall Nacional, in DC, at the end of March. “The National Walk will take March 28 finished and it has the intention to wake up the interest of the community on the epilepsy, to collect funds and to help to the entities that are treating to look for a remedy. This is the third annual walk that is realized. The foundation works organizing activities that help to the patients to take a normal and full life, because we have certain deprivations that are consequences of the problem. The foundation is dedicated of fighting the epilepsy from 1968”, he says of the Sickle to the phone from Philadelphia, where he lives.
— When did he know that it had epilepsy?
“ It gave to me at the age of 21 for the first time, without having history previous to the illness and and there was no epilepsy in my family. Today I am 53 years old. I take 32 years with the condition. Really, it has been a well difficult period of time for many reasons. This one began me with the type of classic convulsions that knows the whole world, in which the person begins to tremble, it falls down to the apartment and blunt froth, between other symptoms. Possibly it began to disappear and now only I have partial complex symptomatology, which they are different”.
— What are the symptoms of the illness?
“ Basically there are two types of convulsions. Grand Mal and others, which are Petite Mal. Inside Petite Mal there are other partial partial and simple complex calls and they have a different symptomatology, where there are no very big convulsions, but yes confusion of the patient. Grand Mal is those that there knows the whole world, where the patient trembles and loses knowledge. These take place for the generalization of the electrical activity in the brain. It is basically a short circuit”.
— What must do a person who meets an epilepsy patient having convulsions?
“ The best thing that can be done is to try to protect it if there is danger that is struck by something or to muffle the fall. Nothing stops a convulsion, so that it is impossible that someone tries to bear a patient by force. That is not advisable. Another myth that exists is that the patient one could treat the language, what is is not feasible. It is necessary to put his anything neither in the mouth, nor spoons nor anything. The best thing is to leave the patient to whom it comes round only. If the convulsion extends in more than five minutes it is necessary to look for medical help”.
— Does exist an average time in which the convulsions stop?
“ Every patient has certain characteristics. After a minute the convulsions must begin reducing. Generally the patient, after an attack, estea confused by the enormous electrical activity in his brain. It is important that someone that it is with the person remains with or she and makes sure that it should be well. If it is possible to try to ask for a telephone number him to warn some family or friend what happened. I hope that in the possible thing does not drive”.
| To his health |
| Everything what he must know about the cancer to the skin |
For the doctor Elmer Huerta
The director Preventorium del Cáncer
In the ancient times – regrettably many people do it still - the idea of going to the flat age “to toast” to shine well. The people were waiting the summer “to get a tan as it owes”. The more "toasted" was remaining a person, the more "status" had with his friends.
“Toasting” was the whole art, to happen burned first, “so that it seizes the color” they were saying and then “to support the toasting” using baby oil an hours more fortresses of the sun. The result was impressive: a good one tanned to go to the holiday, compliments and words of admiration of the friends.
And to speak about the children, logically was protecting them when one could, but in general, the children were strolling for the beaches or swimming pools "bronceaditos" some, "quemaditos" the majority.
Many people were thinking mistakenly that for having dark skin, it was "more protected" of the harmful effects of the solar beams.
The cancer of the skin is so common that when the annual statistics of this illness are prepared, they are not taken into consideration because they would inflate very much the numbers. In the USA for example, it is anticipated that every year there appear approximately a million cases of cancer of the skin, which do not join the million and a half cases of cancer of other types.
The cancer of the skin is tied definitely to the ultraviolet light (LUV) that comes with the light of the sun. Today we will try to prepare some basic concepts about this important illness, cause of many worry in many persons.
Types of radiation UV
In a simplified way, we can say that the light of the sun has two types of radiation: those who compose the visible bogey and those of the invisible bogey. The colors of the visible bogey (commonly called light of the sun) are six, and they go of the red one in an end to violet (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet) in other. As curious note, Isaac Newton had to add the seventh color, the indigo one, because to the Church of this epoch he was not liking the number six... The invisible bogey is composed by electromagnetic radiations that go below red (infrared) and beyond the violet (ultraviolet). To explain the today topic, we are interested in the ultraviolet radiation (UV).
The ultraviolet radiation is of three types: ultraviolet light A, B and C. It is anticipated that 98.7 % of the light UV that comes to the surface of the ground is of type A.
The LUV type A is the one that tans the skin to us and is used in medicine for the treatment of some skin diseases. This type of light is that the skin ages, propitiating wrinkles and stretch marks. This is because it destroys the collagen of the skin, substance that gives him steadfastness and turgidity to the skin).
The LUV type B is very dangerous and it is happily absorbed almost in its entirety by the ozone layer of the ambience. This type of light hurts to the nucleus of the cells (specially to the ADN) and therefore it favors the development of the cancer of the skin. The light UV type B that spends the filter of the ozone layer and comes to the ground is more intense between 10 of the morning and 3 p.m., it causes burn of the skin and cataracts in the eyes.
The LUV type C does not come to the ground but it is possible to create artificially and it is used for the disinfection of the air, of the water and of diverse surfaces. The one who is exhibited incidentally to this type of light UV, develops burns of the skin and annoyance of the eyes.
Types of cancer of the skin caused by the light UV
The cancer of the skin is of two types, so different as the day and the night: the cancer of type melanoma and the called not melanoma. We must move forward that the cancer of type melanoma is one of the types of cancer more aggressive that the human being suffers and that has a high deadliness valuation, that is to say, a patients' big proportion that they suffer this type of cancer regrettably dies with the illness.
The type not melanoma, the other way round, is almost always curable and almost it does not cause deaths; but it is a cause of very deep esthetic alterations that do that the persons who suffer this type of cancer repent of many hours that happened being exhibited to the sun. The cancers not melanoma can be in turn of two types: the cancer of basal cells and the cancer of scaly cells.
At present, many people have already taken conscience of the dangers of the overexposure in view of the sun. One hopes that in the next years the numbers of cancer of the skin, especially of the lethal melanoma, should diminish significtivamente. Although it is true that the whitest, red-haired persons and of clear eyes they have major risk, the dark skin persons also suffer from leather cancer.
| The Hispanics have 55 % more probabilities of not having health insurance |
| 24 million Hispanics without medical insurance |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
Almost 24 million Hispanics lacked health insurance in some moment between 2007 and 2008, it revealed a report.
According to the report announced by Families USA, more than the half (55.1) of the persons without medical coverage they were 65-year-old minors.
The report based on the information of the Office of the Census and of the Agency for the Investigation of the Health services, shows that most of the Hispanics lacked medical insurance for extensive periods: 81.3 % lacked insurance at least for six months, and 67.4 % was in the same conditions for nine months or more.
The information of the family report USA complements others it complements other studies, like that it pointed out that 45.7 millions he lacked insurance for the whole year 2007. The report provides important approaches on the persons who lacked medical coverage for everything or part of the last period of two years (2007-2008).
“ The persons' enormous quantity that lacks medical insurance is worse than an epidemic”, pointed out Ron Pollack, family executive director USA. “In this point, almost they all in this country have had a relative, neighbor, or friend without medical coverage and that's why a justificadísima reforms of the health services cannot be supported for much time in a background”.
The probabilities between Hispanics, African Americans, and other racial and ethnic minorities of staying without medical coverage are much major than between the targets: 55.1 % of Hispanics / Latin Americans, 40.3 % of African Americans, and 34 % of other racial and ethnic minorities remained without medical insurance in the period 2007-2008, compared with 25.8 % of targets.
The current crisis of the health services is affecting the Hispanics independently of his income levels. Since it is obvious, it affects much more those of low income, but unfortunately, Hispanics of more high income they are also without medical coverage.
The principal conclusions of the report include the following information
on Hispanics younger than 65 years:
- almost 70 % of individuals and families with annual income below $ 21.200 (for a family of four in 2008) it stayed in some moment without medical insurance during 2007-2008.
- two thirds (65.9 %) of individuals and families with annual income of between $ 21.200 and $ 42.400 (for a family of four in 2008) it stayed in some moment without medical insurance during 2007-2008.
- little more than the half (50.5 %) of individuals and families with annual income of between $ 42.400 and $ 63.600 (for a family of four in 2008) it stayed in some moment without medical insurance during 2007-2008.
- almost a third (32.0 %) of individuals and families with annual income over $ 84.800 (for a family of four in 2008) it stayed in some moment without medical insurance during 2007-2008.
“ The absence of actions in the reform to the health services in 2009 cannot be an option for tens million persons who lose or remain without medical insurance every year”, Ron Pollack notes down. “The cost of not doing anything is much major: More and more persons might fail in his attempt of obtaining the medical insurance that they need or would risk to the bankruptcy for the unattainable costs of the health services.”
The report also describes the potential of the terrible consequences for the persons without medical insurance. In accordance with the report, it is less probable that those who lack medical insurance have a source of medical attention that is not one emergency room; they usually go without any examination or preventive care; they delay and neglect the necessary medical attention; they are more sick and die before those that have medical coverage; and, when yes they receive medical attention, they pay much more for her.
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