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| Sufficiently annoying symptoms as to look for medical help |
| The keys of the enlargement of the prostate |
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The symptoms include weak flow to urinate, make difficult to begin the micturition, intermittent flow, frequent need to urinate so much in the daytime as at night |
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Washington Hispanic
The prostate gland is the masculine organ that produces the semen, this substance that transports the sperms after the ejaculation.
The gland is located behind the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the conduit that transports the urine from the bladder.
When the prostate grows, this one presses to the urethra, what causes difficulties to urinate.
Most of the men experience a period of prostate growth from middle of the forties. In this moment, the cells in the central part of the prostate grow more quickly, resulting in an enlargement of the gland. As the textiles in this area grow, compress the urethra and partially they block the fluency of the urine. The benign prostate hiperplasia is the term that the doctors use to describe the condition.
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Limit the diuretics, the antihistamines and decongestant ones.
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The treatment depends on the symptoms and can include medicines, surgery or not surgical therapies.
Also, it is an important knowledge that this problem has no relation with the cancer development to the prostate.
Symptoms
The enlargement of the prostate changes in his severity, even sometimes does not constitute a problem.
Close to half of the men with enlargement of the prostate signs or symptoms experience it sufficiently annoying as to look for medical help.
The symptoms include weak flow to urinate, make difficult to begin the micturition, intermittent flow, frequent need to urinate so much in the daytime as at night, not to be able to empty the bladder, blood in the urine and urinal infection.
Causes
On having been born, the size of the prostate is similar to a vetch. Then it grows slightly during the childhood and in the puberty it increases of size quickly. At the age of 25, the prostate is completely developed and is of the freightage of a nut.
The experts are not sure of the porqué the prostate grows. One believes that it stems at the age and to the hormonal change in the levels of testosterone and estrogen in the man.
Risk factors
The principal risk factors include the aging, genetic heredity, and ethnic group (the African Americans and the Caucasians have more probabilities of suffering this problem that other ethnic groups).
If you are suffering problems to urinate, consult with his doctor. The professional can determine if you suffer from enlargement of the prostate and if the symptoms need more tests. If it cannot urinate in the absolute thing, it is recommended to look for immediate medical attention.
If it does not have urinal symptoms that bother him, it is possible that he does not need treatment. Anyway, it is important that a doctor checks the condition of his prostate, in order to determine that there does not exist another problem as gallstones, infection of the bladder, side effects of a medicine, cardiac flaw, diabetes, neurological problems, inflammation of the prostate or cancer.
Diagnosis
To determine if he suffers from enlargement of the prostate, the doctor will want to know what type of medicines it takes or if it has familiar record of this problem or others. The products that are obtained on the counter, like the aspirin, the antacids or the decongestant ones are considered to be medicines, so inform him his doctor if it takes them.
Also, the doctor will do a rectal vocation. Using a glove of lubricated examinación, in doctor carefully it will introduce his finger for the rectum. The prostate, on having been located just next to the rectum, will allow to know to the specialist if his prostate has grown or if there are cancer indications.
Finally, an urine analysis can help to know if there is infection or other conditions that cause symptoms similar to the enlargement of prostate, like prostatitis or infection of the kidneys.
Treatments
There is a series of clinical treatments that can solve this problem, and depending on the case the doctor will determine which the best is.
Nevertheless, also a series of advices exists with regard to changes in the life style that can help to calm the symptoms and prepare that the condition deteriorates.
For example, limit the number of liquids that takes in the nights. D fact, try not to drink two at all hours before going to bed, to avoid to go to the bath to midnight.
Limit the quantities of caffeine that it consumes, since this one provokes an increase in the urine production, it irritates the bladder and worsens the symptoms.
Limit the diuretics, the antihistamines and decongestant ones.
When he feels that it must go to the bath, it goes. To keep back can sobreexpandir the muscles of the bladder and to hurt to the textiles.
Programme his bladder. Try to urinate in certain schedule to "train" his bladder. How?, go to the bath every four or six hours.
Remain active. The sedentarismo provokes that urine is retained. Incuso a little of exercise allows to help to the symptoms for prostate enlargement.
Wrap up. The cold can provoke urine retention and increase his urgency for urinating.
| Interesting report details as the happiness spreads in the social networks |
| “The happiness can be contagious |
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| To the equal one since a virus does it, the happiness is contagious between the persons. |
For Maria Cheng
AP
“A report concluded that the happiness is contagious, and that the people transfer his good enclosed humor to completely strange persons.
American investigators who gave pursuit to more than 4.700 persons in Framingham, Massachusetts, as part of a cardiac study of 20 years of duration also thought that the transferred happiness is lasting even for one year.
“ The happiness is like a stampede”, said Nicholas Christakis, teacher of the Department of Sociology of the University of Harvard and coauthor of the study.
“ The fact that you are happy not only depends on your own actions, behaviors and thoughts, but on those of persons that you do not even know”, it pointed out.
Although the study is another sign of the power that the social networks have, this one was carried out during 2003, just before the places heyday in Internet of social networks like Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. Christiakis could not say safely if the effect works in line.
“ This type of technology increases the contact with friends, so it should support the type of emotional contagion that we observe”, pointed the specialist.
Christakis and another coauthor, James Fowler, of the University of California in San Diego, study long ago the social networks. Earlier they thought that the obesity and the habits of nicotinism also spread socially.
How is it contagious
For this study published in the British magazine BMJ, they examined questionnaires that were asking the people to measure his happiness. They found well delimited groupings of happiness and unhappiness significantly major than it had been waited in a fortuitous way.
The people who said to be happy were tending to be in the center of social networks and had many friends who also were happy. To have friends or brothers close was increasing the probabilities of which the people were feeling happy. The happiness was spreading towards out in three steps: to the friends of the friends of the friends.
The happy spouses also help, but not so much like happy friends of the same genre. The experts think that the persons, particularly the women, take emotional signs of the people who shines like them.
Christakis and Fowler calculate that every happy friend increases our own probability of being happy in 9 %. To have grumpy friends diminishes it in nearly 7 %.
But also it turns out that the unhappiness does not love the company: the happiness seemed to extend more consistentemente than the unhappiness. But it does not mean that one should leave the sad friends.
| He interviews the medical director of the health Center Fausto Fernández: |
| “The change in the diet is essential to treat the ebb gastroesofágico” |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
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| Dr. Fernández says that, if he suffers ebb, it is suitable that a doctor sees. |
“We offer many other things that alone preventive services”, says the medical director of the health Center, Dr. Fausto Fernández, to to wonder him on the diverse ones.
The establishment located in the area of Seven Corners, in Virginia, attends for the most part to persons without medical insurance who need to gain access to health services in Spanish, but as they say in the organization, many persons who have medical coverage prefer to be attended in the center, principally for the personalized dealing that it delivers. If he wants to know more on the institution, it can call (703 533 7344.
One of the most common problems that it sees the doctor Fernández is the ebb gastroesofágico, which commonly knows each other him for his symptoms of stomach acidity or regurgitation.
“ The ebb gastroesofágico is defined as an ardor in the mouth of the stomach and an acidic and bitter regurgitation to the gullet”, says the doctor.
— What is the mechanics of the ebb gastroesofágico?
“ The ebb gastroesofágico happens in the cardias, which is the valve located between the esophagus and the stomach. When this one opens and allows the content of the stomach to rise towards the esophagus and even up to the gullet we speak about ebb. The ardor in the mouth of the stomach stems from the acidic content of the stomach in the lowest part of the esophagus. This problem is annoying but not only that, since it has been seen that after ten years of ebb without treatment, the recurrence of cancer of esophagus, which is one of the most complicated, increases enormously”.
— What provokes it?
“ The diet. The ebb gastroesofágico is caused by a series of things. The consumption of the aspirin or similar remedies as the iburoprofeno, the alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sodas, the fried and greasy meals and the piquant spices ebb causers are met gastroesofágico. For addition, many persons suffer it when they consume oranges, lemons and tomatoes. Not because it is acidic, since none of these things is more acidic than the stomach. But these products have chemical properties that open the cardias”.
— How does it talk each other?
“ We have very good medicines, but the change in the diet is essential. It is necessary to avoid the things that provoke ebb the people, especially the piquant spices and the fried or greasy meals. That, together with the medicines, which are not expensive, they can control this problem. But eye, a doctor is important that the persons see. Although it is possible to obtain the medicine without recipe, it is necessary to see that there are no other things those that are provoking the problem. There are persons who have pain in the mouth of the stomach, and sometimes the problem is not an ebb, but the heart”.
— And when it is a cancer the symptoms are severer …
“ In the esophagus cancer, after the surgery, generally the sobrevivencia a year is 5 to 10 %. It is very rapid. From the first symptom, which is one he grows thin without apparent cause, they can happen four months until the person dies if treatment is not done. Therefore the symptoms are different, since the cardinal sign of the cancer of esophagus is the loss of weight, and then tightness of the esophagus”.
| Web sites offer services with these methods to treat illnesses |
| Experts warn on false therapies with cells mothers |
For Malcolm Ritter
AP
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| The therapies with cells mother are not exempt from risks, and they are still in a primary development stage. |
The consumers owe precaverse of the clinics cyberplaces that mothers offer treatments with cells, he warns a study.
The web pages in the study in general were announcing sure, therapies effective and ready for his routine use, although the released investigations do not support this excessively optimistic “” picture, say the authors of the study.
The analysis appears in the magazine Cell Stem Cell signed by scientists of Alberta's University in Canada. They warn that his general conclusions cannot be applied to the affirmations of any clinic in particular.
A cell mother, also called cell germinal, main or undifferentiated (stem cell in English), has the aptitude to produce one or more mature, functional textiles and entirely differentiated.
The study “it is a very important warning”, mentioned Dr. George Daley, ex-president of the International Society of Investigation on Cells Mothers, that it did not inform in the report.
The risks
“ I believe that these cyberplaces are dangerous”, said Daley, investigator of Boston. “They promise effectiveness and safety in the therapy and underestimate completely the risks... The above mentioned exaggerated commercialization directed straight to the patient sets to this one in risk of financial development, ideally, and of physical damage in the worst”.
In the recent years, patients driven to despair with scarce options have traveled to China and to other countries where the doctors offer them treatments with cells mother or other methods for medical problems, like injuries in the spinal cord, illness of Parkinson and blindness, between other evil.
The new study does not evaluate straight the affirmations of the cyberplaces verifying the conditions of the patients.
On the other hand, the investigators studied 19 web pages that they found in Google in 2007. These places in the network were promoting treatments in several countries, including Mexico, Russia and China. None offered treatment inside the United States, and the enclosed one did not indicate where it was offered.
In July, the investigators observed that studies on human patients submitted to treatment with cells they germinate to treat the medical problems most mentioned by the cyberplaces: multiple sclerosis, illnesses of Parkinson and Alzheimer's disease, injuries in the spinal cord, apoplexy and heart attack.
They said to have found some encouraging indications but none demonstrates benefits egg white.
In the same edition of the magazine, a report of the international society of cells they germinate describe new rules of investigation that condemn the commercialization of not verified therapies. The society plans to incorporate a manual of the patient in his Internet portal to help to those who consider to surrender to the above mentioned treatments.
The norms say that, in limited cases, the doctors might be justified in trying an experimental treatment for limited numbers of very serious patients. Also they formulate recommendations for these cases, like the approval of a group of experts without interest in the treatment and the commitment of those who offer it to proceed to a formal study.
| According to an investigation |
| The AIDS might be eliminated in a decade |
For Maria Cheng
AP
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| The new investigation offers a fascinating solution to finish with the epidemic. |
The virus that the AIDS causes might be eradicated in a decade if all the persons who live in countries with high infection indexes were put to regular tests and were receiving treatment, according to a new mathematical model.
The new investigation offers a fascinating solution to finish with the epidemic, but it is based on assumptions more that in information and it presents several logistic problems.
“ It is a surprising result”, said Charlie Gilks, an expert in treatment of the AIDS for the World Organization of the Health (WHO) and one of the authors of the study. “In a relatively short period of time, we might eradicate potentially the root of the epidemic”.
Gilks and his companions used information of South Africa and Malawi. In his model, the people are put to tests of the virus every year and they receive medicines immediately if they give positive of the virus VIH, independently if they show symptoms of the illness.
According to the mathematical models, in approximately 10 years more VIH infections would have lowered 95 %. The method also contemplates other initiatives, like the sex education and the circumcision.
The strategy would limit to the half the deaths caused by the AIDS between 2008 and 2050, since these would happen of being 8,7 millions to 3,9 millions, according to the investigation.
The experts believe that the cost of the strategy would suppose a maximum for 3.400 million dollars a year, although the expenses would diminish after an initial investment.
“ The price overcomes the limits of the current infrastructures of many countries, but it is not a reason not to be a self-seeker”, said Myron Cohen, of the University of North Carolina, which has realized similar studies. Magician did not take part in the Gilks investigation.
Only three millions of persons receive medicines to fight the AIDS and almost seven million persons hope to receive treatment. Approximately three millions more were infected last year.
On a global scale, the WHO calculates that approximately 33 millions of persons have the virus VIH.
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