08.14.07
Posted in Home Remedies at 6:18 am by juliet
Bladder Help with Rosehips
Pour 1 cup of water over 3 teaspoons crushed rose hips. Bring to a boil and boil gently for 3 minutes. Strain and drink 4 times a day for 2 days. One of the best ways to clear up kidney or bladder infections. Do not drink any other liquids except water during this treatment.
Bladder Treatment with Cranberries
Purchase or make plenty of cranberry juice. Drink it the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. Drink it as often as possible during the day, along with plenty of water in between the cranberry juice. If the infection is not too bad, it should be cleared by next morning. In more severe cases, it may take several days.
If you are prone to infections of the kidney or bladder, it would do you good to make a habit of drinking cranberry juice at least once a day. This really is one of the best habits to have. Cranberries are a good remedy to use for many different illnesses. They contain a substance that dilates the bronchial tubes and are used by asthmatics. They are good for removing toxins from the blood and are very effective in treating liver problems. They also contain diuretic properties and are an excellent way to treat most kidney Problems.
Urination Aid with Tarragon
Pour 1 cup boiling water over 1 teaspoon tarragon and steep 15 minutes. Strain and sweeten. Drink several cups daily for 2 days.
Urinary Tract Problems Treatment with Basil
Put 2 teaspoons of sweet basil in 1 cup of boiling water. Steep 10 minutes. Drink these 2 times daily for 2 days.
Urinary Tract Treatment with Heartsease
Put 1 tablespoon each of heartsease (pansy) and young blackberry leaves in 2 cups of boiling water and steep for 15minutes. Strain and sweeten. Drink several cups daily for 2 days.
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08.08.07
Posted in Skin Disorders at 7:12 am by juliet
The ulcers as a rule heal without scarring, although the ulcerations in the cornea can lead to opacity and blindness. In patients with low immunity, the eruption can be more severe and there is a risk of its spread to the brain.
The virus is susceptible to the anti-viral drug Acyclovir but this drug is unable to prevent the recurrences unless taken continuously. However, whenever the drug is stopped, the recurrencesare likely to restart all over again. It is therefore, obviously impracticable to continue the treatment with Acyclovir for the rest of the life of the patient. The other alternative is to identify methods to destroy permanently the virus for which so far there is no indisputable approach.
Persistence of the virus in the body has been considered responsible for many other immunological disorders in human beings.
A patient having active herpes simplex should avoid close contact with other individuals to prevent transmission of the infection. The area should also be cleaned properly with soap and water to ward off super-added infection and to promote a quicker healing of the lesions.
Herpes simplex in the genital tract (private parts) of the female can also be transmitted to the baby during delivery and herpes simplex in the newborn is definitely more serious than that in adults. Several centres therefore, prefer to deliver the baby through a caesarian section rather than the normal vaginal route in case the pregnant patient has active virus in the vagina.
One of the common mistakes cormflitted by patients who develop the herpes simplex infection but fail to recognise the disease is that they apply a orticosteroid ointment on the lesions. This promotes spread of the infection with more serious consequences.
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Posted in Diseases and Conditions at 7:10 am by juliet
Previously it was believed that the leprosy patients discharged the leprosy bacilli from their skin, which get lodged onto the skin of other individuals living in close contact with the patient. Thus, skin to skin contact was considered to be the most important mode of transmission of the leprosy bacilli. Now however, it is known that the leprosy bacilli do not invade the superficial layer (epidermis) of the skin and therefore, the leprosy bacilli are not discharged through the skinunless the patient has a skin ulcer or other types ofbreaks in the skin.
On the other hand, large numbers of bacilli are present in the nasal (nose) or the oral (mouth) secretions. Thus,when a patient speaks, coughs, or sneezes, he is likely to throw out a large number of these bacilli which spread into the environment and cause infection in the other individuals. Only those patients are capable ofinfecting.the other individuals who have widespread infection which also involves the respiratory passages (nose and other areas) or the oral cavity (mouth) or have skin ulcers. This type of leprosy occurs in only a few of the leprosy patients, which means that there is almost no risk of getting infection from a fairly large proportion of the leprosy patients.
The manifestations of leprosy vary widely in different individuals. In a mild form of the disease, there may be only a single or at the most a few patches which may either be lighter in colour or red and raised. The most important component of this type of lesion is that the perception of touch, pain, heat and cold in these areas is either completely lost or impaired. The dermatologist may also be able to detect that the nerve in this region is also involved.
When the immunity is low, the patient can have a larger number of patches located on any part of the body. In the severe forms, such patches may involve almost all the areas of the skin; and there may be several nodules and even the entire skin may become thickened and corrugated, giving a very characteristic appearance to the patient. The bacilli in these patients spread to almost the entire body including the internal organs, especially the nerves, the lymph nodes, the liver, and the lungs. The only organs in the body which are known not to be infected by the leprosy bacilli are the brain, the spinal cord and the ovaries.
In severe forms of leprosy, the sensory loss is relatively less but the diagnosis can be confirmed by demonstrating the bacilli in the lesions, by preparing smears from small amounts of the material taken from the skin and staining with special stains. This method is called the ’slit-and-smear examination’.
There are several other manifestations of leprosy which depend upon the involvement of different regions of the body, such as loss of hair in the outer half of the eyebrows, stuffiness of the nose (blockage), bleeding from the nose (epistaxis), enlargement of the breasts in the male (gynaecomastia), absorption of the terminal portions of the fingers (shortening of the fingers and toes) and deep painless ulcers (trophic ulcers). It must however, be remembered that each of these manifestations are far more commonly seen as a manifestation of a variety of other diseases and thus the presence of an isolated sign or symptom does not mean that the patient has developed leprosy. It would be necessary to have the evaluation done by an experienced dermatologist for proper diagnosis.
Thus, if a person has loss of the temperature sensation on the hand or forearms, the person has to avoid touching or holding hot objects, and if a person has loss of pain sensation on any area of the body, especially the feet, the person must inspect those areas every day and take prompt appro- priate action if there is any indication of damage to the skin. Patients with sensory loss on the feet must avoid ill-fitting shoes and prefer to wear only soft and smooth footwear.
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