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| The halitosis generally causes shame in the one who suffers it |
| How to fight the bad breath |
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Washington Hispanic
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| A poor dental hygiene or illness periodontal (of the gums) can be a halitosis source. |
The halitosis generally causes shame in the one who suffers it, but there are ways of preparing his appearance with hygiene and avoiding his causes. Although there is times that it is caused by more serious health conditions, and there the help of a professional is necessary.
It is common to see in the drugstores and supermarkets a big quantity of products to fight the halitosis or bad breath.
Nevertheless, these products help with this problem only temporarily.
It is a necessary knowledge that certain meals, conditions of health and some habits collaborate with the bad breath. In many situations, it is possible to improve the mouth smell with dental hygiene. But, if the halitosis persists, it is necessary that it sees his dentist to determine if a more serious condition is the cause of the problem.
Causes
Most of the sources of the halitosis come from the mouth and his causes are numerous. Between them we find:
Meals. After there are processed the different particles of the food that we consume in the mouth, these can cause a sickening smell. The garlic or the onion are the most well-known, but other vegetables can have the same effect.
Then that this food is digested, the oils pungentes or piquant they are absorbed by the blood stream, which are transported to the lungs to be eliminated, and that's why the breath can smell badly up to 72 hours after being emaciated.
Dental problems. A poor dental hygiene or illness periodontal (of the gums) can be a halitosis source. If one does not brush the teeth every day, in addition to using dental silk, pedacitos of meal they will remain between the teeth, generating bacterium and expressing hydrogen steams sulfídrico. Immediately afterwards, the bacterial badge forms in the teeth. If this bacterium is not eliminated, the badge can irritate the gums to cause caries. Possibly, small hollows can form between the teeth and the gums full of badge, worsening the problem. The same happens with the false teeth that are not cleaned in frequent form.
Mouth dries. The saliva helps to clean and dampen the mouth. On the other hand, a dry mouth allows to the dead cells to be accumulated in the language, gums and the mouth walls. On having decomposed, the cells provoke bad breath, what is common to make sure on having woken up in the morning. To sleep with the open mouth can worsen the problem, and some medicines, the same that the nicotinism, chronic dry mouth can provoke.
Illnesses. Chronic infections to the lungs and pulmonary abscesses can produce a sickening smell.
Other conditions, like some types of cancer or other metabolic disorders can provoke a distinctive smell. The renal flaw can cause a smell similar to the urine. At the same time, the smell of the persons who suffer from gastric ebb also they have bad breath.
Conditions of the nose and the gullet. The area of the bosoms paranasales also because the mucus discharge from this area towards the rear part of the gullet can cause mouth smell. Infections to the gullet the same, as the bronchitis and other respiratory infections of the airlines.
Tobacco. To smoke dries the gullet and it causes its own unpleasant smell. Also, the persons who smoke have more probabilities of suffering illness periodontal.
Severe diets. The persons who stop eating in sudden form have bad breath after the ketoacidosis presents, that is to say, the chemists' sintetización to him during the fasting.
Home-made remedies
Next some suggestions to improve or to prepare the bad breath.
Clean the teeth. Especially after eating. Take a toothbrush to the work to brush after eating. Insure of at least two times brush the teeth a day, at least two minutes every time.
Use dental silk. To be cleaned between way of the teeth helps to eliminate meal particles and tackles in difficult places.
Wash his/her/its language. After the language brushes in soft form it will eliminate the dead cells, bacterium and dirt. Try to come as behind as possible without provoking arcades.
Take water. To support the humid mouth, take neither water, not sodas nor coffee. The chewing gum also can help, preferably one without sugar to stimulate the saliva production.
Change the toothbrush. Change it every three or four months, and choose one with soft silk.
Go to the dentist. At least two times a year a mouth review be done.
| Most of the cases are for consuming incidentally common medicines |
| Parents must pay more attention to avoid infantile poisonings |
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| The most common poisonings of the children happen with medicines. |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
Despite the warnings in some packings, tens thousands of American children in preschool age meet to the emergency rooms every year for accidental poisonings with medicines, supplements or other products.
In fact, investigators of the safety Commission of Products, in Maryland, revealed to the Consumer of Bethesda that in 2004 more than 86 thousand boys younger than 5 years were treated in an emergency room by accidental poisoning.
In more than half of the cases, the children had consumed a product that, for law, had to have packing resistant to the children.
The results suggest that the design of these packings might be improved, as indicated the investigators in a report published in the magazine Pediatrics.
The authors also advise to the parents to support all the potentially poisonous substances out of the scope of the minors, this way have or do not pack resistant the children.
A series of poisonous substances that can be in the hearths needs packings resistant to the children, they include the oral medicines, some medicines of free sale (like the aspirin and other analgesics) and other products for the hearth, like solvents and antifreezes.
Nevertheless, many other potentially dangerous things that are in a house are not contemplated by the regulation. For example, the detergents or other cleaning products, personal hygiene and many medicines of sale under recipe and supplements.
In the and study, investigators thought that 55 per cent of the poisonings were including to a regular product, mostly an oral medication.
In the cases in which it was taking responsibility for the poisoning to a product without regulating, those of cleanliness were the most frequent. ”" In spite of the advances in the last years and to the decrease of the fatal poisonings without intention, the poisonings keep on being a worry of important public health", wrote the experts Robert L. Franklin and Gregory B. Rodgers.
Recommendations
Although the packings of infantile protection are not a 100 per cent sure, the investigators pointed out that the studies demonstrate that, with the years, they have reduced the valuations of fatal and not fatal poisoning 40 per cent.
This suggests that to add surer packings to the products at present without regulation might help to diminish even more infantile poisonings, showed Franklin and Rodgers.
In spite of everything, the authors indicated that the packings resistant to the children themselves are not sufficient. First, “resistant to the children” it is not the same that “to children's test”, therefore any boys might manage to open them.
“ The parents and the minders should always be encouraged to support the poisonous substances out of the scope of the boys, even if they have packings resistant to the children”, it concluded the team.
| He interviews Chepita Jovel, volunteer of the Red Cross of Prince William |
| “We need that the Hispanics donate more blood” |
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| n Chepita Jovel, volunteer of the Red Cross of Prince William. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
According to the American Red Cross, it is believed that 60 % of the whole of the population is in conditions to donate blood. Nevertheless, only 5 % of this one does it.
Not only that. A normal person can donate hemoglobin every 56 days, but the studies indicate that, of the persons who really deliver blood, less than two times do it a year.
It is for it that the Red Cross is in a campaign to encourage the people to whom it donates blood.
Chepita Jovel is a volunteer of the Red Cross of Prince William, and he says that the Latin Americans must do more efforts to donate blood, since it is one of the ethnic groups that less does it.
“ We need the people that it donates blood because the Hispanics are one of the groups that less donate blood and, simultaneously, they are those who more need. The people in general are not well informed”.
— What are the requisites?
“ A tattoo must not have been done in the last 12 months and in general be free of infections. To be older than 17 years and not to have donated blood 56 days earlier also sn requisites. In the form also he wonders if the person has traveled to some country abroad. Then, there is done to him a small examination of blood that is extracted across the finger to see if the iron levels are normal. If it is like that, it passes to the donation, which takes 20 minutes, and it is already”.
— Why do not the Hispanics donate enough blood quantity?
“ Because they do not know the needs. They believe that it is something that is not necessary or that they cannot do it, but in fact it is something easy if they take the time. Also they believe that, on having donated blood, they can be contagious with other infections, but that is false”.
— You not only are in charge of administering blood, but also they have at the disposal of the community a series of other programs.
“ One of the things that I do is to instruct to the community in resuscitation cardiopulmonar (RCP) and the first help. Now we need instructors, especially bilingual. There are enough work places in the county of Prince William that need that his workpeople know RCP and the first help, for example in companies of the construction. In Prince William there is a well numerous Hispanic community, and many workers do not know English and cannot take the classes in this language, for what they must study them in Spanish to be able to obtain his certification”.
— What must do the persons who want to be instructors in RCP?
“ Basically, they must approach the Red Cross or go to the web page pwarc.org and ask them to give them the information of the classes of certification in RCP and the first help. The persons must be older than 18 years and be bilingual”.
| Experts recommend not sobremedicarse if he suffers these problems |
| Excessive use of analgesics can generate more migraines |
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41-year-old Rena Cerbone, has had unsatisfactory experiences with
medicines without requerimientro of recipe that it uses at present for
to avoid migraines. |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
Does he think that these pills for the pain help him with his migraines?
If it takes too much it might worsen them.
The excessive use of analgesics can create a negative habit in the patients with migraine, stimulating more headaches that will create a vicious circle, since the person finally will need more medicines for the pain.
A patients' fraction with a lot of bad luck they even develop what is called a chronic migraine, and new investigations suggest that certain analgesics that need recipe, including drugs, increase the risk.
But eye, it is not necessary to misinterpret the problem. It is important to attend appropriately to the migraines.
The principal message is to take medicines to prepare the migraine if the tenacious headaches appear regularly, not to fall down in the habit of consumption of analgesics, as it happened to Rena Cerbone.
“ It is a double-edged sword”, mentioned Cerbone, of 41 years and Montclair resident, New Jersey, on a period when analgesic only one was relieving his migraines and then, invariably, it was causing a rebound effect detonating headaches one day later or later.
“ It was taking Fiorinal every day only to be able to work”, it pointed out.
The warning is opportune, since it is anticipated that 30 million Americans who suffer migraines often discover that the pain increases in the holidays period.
The absence of sleep, the tantalizing whims and the stress of traveling are common detonators.
Common symptoms
The migraine is characterized by palpitations in the head, normally in a side, which they can last a few hours or up to three days.
It is common that it is accompanied on nausea and hypersensitivity to the light and to the sound.
Also it is known that to move worsens the discomfort, especially if the head stoops.
Some persons perceive that they are going to suffer the migraine on having had previously a visual alteration in which there are appreciated luminous points that go so far as even to prevent the reading during some minutes, and after the vision recovers the sharp headache stays.
Nevertheless, not all the migraines are preceded by this classic "aura".
Fortunately for most of the patients, the migraines are very occasional. The studies suggest that approximately a third part of the persons who endure migraines suffer them so often that they are candidates to medicines of prevention that can limit the frequency to the half.
Nevertheless, only approximately 10 % of them uses them.
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