Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Appetite Loss: Reasons & Treatment

Loss of appetite

Healthy appetite not without reason is considered a sign of good health, however even small physical or emotional problems can affect appetite and as a whole on a health of Americans. The reasons of loss of appetite can be the most different: from problems with digestive system to serious diseases.

The reasons of loss of appetite:

  • Pneumonia, hepatitis, HIV, infections of kidneys, a flu;
  • Serious diseases of a liver and cardiovascular system;
  • Separate kinds of a cancer — a blood cancer, a cancer of a thick gut, a stomach cancer;
  • Inflammation of intestines, the digestive channel;
  • Endocrine problems, diabetes, low level of a hormone of a thyroid gland;
  • Mental frustration: depression, a schizophrenia, a nervous anorexia;
  • Certain medical preparations, antibiotics, chemotherapy, medicines for a diabetes;
  • Pregnancy.

Besides above-named, there is also a set of other reasons of loss of appetite.
Appetite loss can cause and some bad habits: for example, the use of sweets or the nonalcoholic sweetened drinks between dishes. On occasion appetite loss can be caused the excessive use of the "heavy dishes" rich with sated fats.

Loss of Appetite: Diagnostics

If appetite loss develops gradually and is accompanied by weight loss, medical examination is necessary, thus such appetite loss can signal about serious problems with health.

For example, the urine analysis allows to diagnose infections of kidneys, and a thorax X-ray — will reveal a pneumonia or a cancer of lungs.

The number of the most widespread medical procedures applied at diagnostics of the reasons of loss of appetite, includes ultrasonic research of bodies of a belly cavity, the full analysis of blood, the test for a HIV, testing of function of kidneys, testing of function of a liver, the test for pregnancy, research of function of a thyroid gland, the urine analysis etc.

Long-term effects of loss of appetite

If absence of appetite remains throughout several weeks, it can lead to an organism exhaustion, shortage of the nutrients necessary for its normal functioning. Other long-term consequences of loss of appetite depend on the reason which have caused this condition.

Treatment of loss of appetite in many respects depends on the reason which have caused this condition. For example, if appetite loss is caused by pregnancy — the treatment is not required — appetite will be restored by a natural way in some weeks. As a rule, appetite is restored after full treatment of the illness which have caused this condition.

How to get rid of appetite loss?

One of the most effective nutritious food additives — yeast in a combination with a vitamin B complex. The lack of a mineral of zinc can affect sense of smell and touch that, in turn, negatively affects appetite of the person.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Health Problems Associated with Obesity

A dietary food

Obesity is a growing problem around the world and especially in the United States. The problem is a serious one since being significantly overweight can cause many health issues. Obesity isn’t just something that affects physical appearance, although that alone can trigger emotional problems connected to self-esteem that can lead to depression and withdrawal from the outside world.

A person who weighs at least 40 percent more than their ideal weight is approximately twice as apt to die earlier than a person whose weight is normal. The more overweight someone is, the more at risk they are to chronic diseases. That would explain why many people who are unsuccessful at losing weight through diet and exercise are checking into surgical options like the lap band.

Some health problems associated with obesity include:

  • Heart disease and high blood pressure – Overweight people are more prone to high blood pressure, which is one of the leading factors that cause strokes and heart disease. High cholesterol also tends to be a trait in obese people, another factor contributing to heart disease. Being overweight can also decrease the amount of oxygen that gets to the heart.
  • Type 2 Diabetes – This is a frequent cause of early death, stroke, heart issues, and even blindness in people who are obese. In someone who is obese the body can learn to resist insulin. Insulin controls the levels of blood sugar and eventually the high sugar levels that can result can seriously damage the body.
  • Affect on weight-bearing joints – The excess weight that is placed on the joints like the hips and knees can quickly cause wear and inflammation, which results in pain. The back is constantly under extra strain, causing problems with the disks, pain, and decrease in mobility.
  • Breathing problems and sleep apnea – In someone who is obese, fat can build up in the areas of the tongue and neck as well, causing the air passages to become obstructed. When lying on the back to sleep, these obstructions worsen and may cause the individual to wake up repeatedly in order to find a better position in which to breathe.

There are many other health conditions that are caused by being obese. Excess weight can cause other physical issues like an increase in sweating, trouble breathing, acne and other skin conditions, and trouble walking. For more information about health problems related to obesity, there are reliable sources online like WebMD.com and MedicineNet.com that can help.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Depression — the Syndrome of 21th Century

Great Depression

Researches worldwide show: depression becomes the most widespread illness of our time. This widespread frustration which millions people suffer. According to different researchers, about 20% of the population of the developed countries are subject to depression.

Depression — serious disease which sharply reduces work capacity and brings suffering both to the patient, and relatives. Practically in all developed countries of a health service put efforts on propagation of data on depression and ways of treatment.

Depression — illness of all organism. Typical signs of depressions.
Depression symptoms are very various and vary depending on the disease form. I will list the most typical signs of this frustration.

Emotional Symptoms

* DepressionMelancholy, suffering, the oppressed, suppressed mood, despair, irritability.
* Alarm, feeling of internal pressure, trouble expectation.
* Sense of guilt, frequent self-charges.
* Depression is often combined with alarm about health and destiny of relatives, and also with fear to seem insolvent in public places.

Physiological Symptoms

Irritability * The sleeplessness, drowsiness.
* Appetite changes (loss or an overeating).
* Infringement of function of intestines.
* Decrease of sexual activity.
* Energy decrease, weakness.
* Pains and various unpleasant sensations in a body (for example, in heart, in the field of a stomach, in muscles).

Behavioural Symptoms

* Passivity, difficulties of involving in purposeful activity.
* Avoiding of contacts (propensity to a solitude).
* Refusal of entertainments.
* Abusing the psychoactive substances giving time simplification.

Cogitative Symptoms

* Difficulties of concentration.
* Difficulties of decision-making.
* Prevalence of gloomy, negative thoughts about the life, about the world as a whole.
* Gloomy, pessimistic vision of the future with absence of prospect.
* Presence of thoughts about own uselessness, insignificance, feebleness.
* Slowness of thinking.

Frequently people do not possess the necessary information and misunderstand the nature of the depression. It seems to them if their state of health is connected with clear vital difficulties, it not depression, and normal human reaction which will pass. Quite often happens and so that physiological symptoms of depression promote belief formation about presence of serious somatic diseases.

HELP

Efficiency of treatment of depression depends on adequacy of therapeutic actions. Biological treatment of depression first of all includes pharmacological therapy. At the same time for biological treatment of depression can be used: effective medical products (Valocordin, Wellbutrin, Validolum, Novo-passit), electroconvulsive therapy, phototherapy, dietary therapy, therapy by medicinal grasses (Tinctura Paeoniae, Herba Leonuri, Extractum Passiflorae fluidum).

MelancholyAmong medicamentous means of treatment of depression energizers are most often applied, however in the course of therapy of this disease, also use other preparations: tranquilizers, vitamins, hormones, antioxidants, lithium salts, the medicines improving a metabolism of cages of a brain, and other medical products.

It's necessary to notice that energizers can be effective also at treatment of alarm, fear, a migraine, a bulimia, vegetative crises and even at elimination of pains of a various origin as energizers usually raise a threshold of painful sensitivity.

Treatment of signs of depression can be spent by means of psychotherapy. Many patients test a false alarm concerning constant dependence on energizers. It's important to remember that the medicinal recipe needs to be received from the attending physician, only then it's possible to go towards a local drugstore (Pharmacy No RX Needed).

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Psychological Symptoms of Panic Frustrations

Panic attack

The human panic is a vague anxiety for the future, expectation of any uncertain future troubles (unlike the fear having accurately certain object). Expressiveness of attack can be various: from easy excitement to painful attacks of a panic. During panic attack the person as though expects a meeting with danger, keeps the watchfulness, has a intense feel. The feeling of panic includes a physiological activation of protected force in an organism. It's possible to tell that the panic attack consists of two components — sincere and corporal.

Depression

The sincere component of panic is shown by excitement, any fears (they are often unstable and quickly replace each other), instability of mood, at strong alarm — feeling of detachment from near people and sensation of variability of own body.

The corporal component is expressed in palpitation increase, feeling of shortage of air (subjective as the present asthma at alarm is not present), a fever or long pressure of muscles. During panic attack the sleep (a dream is superficial, sensitive) and absence of appetite is quite often interrupted.

Panic attack are characterised by hypererethism of nervous system and presence of a strong feeling of alarm. A principal cause of development of panic frustration are the stress, chronic overfatigue, craniocereberal traumas.

Panic Attacks Consequences

DepressionThe expressed and long panic attack causes subsequently feeling of weariness, it's no wonder as the person spends for maintenance of own health a lot of sincere and physical powers. There is a set of medical versions of panic attack medication, but in each case there are unique reasons, unique clinical features, the own treatment and the own forecast.

The panic attack is often combined with depression. Usually it precedes depression, but can be and on the contrary. Panic just as infringements of a dream and irritability, can be the first symptom of various diseases (illnesses of nervous, cardiovascular system, gynecologic diseases, etc.).

Medical examinationDisease diagnosticsThus depression is an emotional signal of internal dissonance (that is why in some cases it's necessary to make the cardiogramme, ultrasonic research of a thyroid gland and to consult at experts of a corresponding profile).

The panic attack reasons is not always obvious. But they always exist.
Thus, the leading treatment role of panic attack should belong to the psychotherapist (or to your personal clinical psychologist).

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The first-ever social project from the first person

The trend of influence of an audience on a course of the advertising message and direct interaction with an audience continues to remain one of the main things in the advertising industry. Also receives the increasing development — the first-ever interactive quest is started.

In this quest each visitor YouTube can build itself a logic chain of events and or get to prison, or on a party.

Look also the first-ever site on YouTube agencies BooneOackly.

The London police has started the Internet-campaign «Drop The Weapons» of which tries to convince youth of London not to carry with itself in streets of any weapon. Because anyhow, good it will not come to an end. The interactive campaign consisting of several trailers, connected among themselves in chains, suggests audiences to choose independently the further actions by the heroes, which eyes the spectator looks at an event.

The spectator is involved in this game with consequences the first trailer where and it is necessary to make the first choice: to take or not to take a kitchen knife with themselves on street where friends call the hero. And it not unique time when it is necessary to solve in favor of the weapon or against as the situation in not tourist quarters of London is that, that the weapon, both cold, and fire, in streets at youth is too much. In this connection the city authorities start campaigns with appeals to refuse a cold steel the third year: «Carry a knife and be a laughing-stock», «Carry a knife, and it will be easier to criminal than you to kill», «Carry a knife, and consequences will be».

Each variant in campaign of this year involves the whole history, but the variant with a knife in any case comes to an end badly.

Campaign slogan: «Choose A Different Ending».

Starting video (make a choice in the end):

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Great American depression

American bureau
In the American bureau on unemployment the unemployed were built in turn and competed for workplaces.

Those who were not capable to pay for a shelter, built improvised "houses" of old boards and boxes. This "palace" (in a photo) has been constructed in New York.

Beacon Light Mission

Some, however, were content with spending the night in public organisations, such as Beacon Light Mission.

This organisation of a religious orientation has initially been created for the aid to seamen who, going into coast, could eat, be washed and have a rest in specially equipped hostels of Mission.

unemployed built behind
The unemployed and homeless citizens addressed in the public both private organisations and funds, after all till 1932 there were no state social programs for the help to the become impoverished people. On a photo — turn of the unemployed built behind meal, delivered to one of not numerous public funds, in New York, 1932

sale of apples
People searched for various ways though a little to lift the well-being. The person in a photo was engaged in sale of apples directly in streets of New York.

From crisis suffered not only the industry, but also agriculture.

Overproduction crisis there has become aggravated. The majority of farmers has appeared on the verge of ruin because of reduction of prices on agricultural products in 3 times. In a photo the farmer ploughs the earth by means of a cultivator on horsepower. As the majority of Afro-Americans were engaged in agriculture, they first of all have felt on themselves consequences of Great Depression.

new course
To break a crisis situation, president Roosevelt has started to carry out neo-Conservative to the policy under the name "New course" which was characterised by the big intervention of the state in economy: it both price control, and initiation of association of manufacturers in the large enterprises, and the social program — an establishment of the minimum wages, the maximum working week, introduction of pensions to workers. The reached 65 years and another. It for some time has weakened the crisis phenomena in economy: industrial output in 1937 left on level of 1929 However the crisis phenomena the American economy continued to test up to the Second World War beginning.