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When the elderly poor memory when ... ...

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

When the elderly poor memory when ... ...

When the old man appeared unable to recognize the time and place when people how to do? The family photos to enlarge, specify the name and family relations and the elderly; the old room up the clock, calendar, to help confirm the time and date; in the old room and toilet door labeled clearly marked; the old stuff used placed in a fixed location and paste clearly marked. And a notebook, recording important events to help the elderly or time. When the old man repeatedly asked, the answer should be to moderate the tone. Avoid engaging in high-risk elderly individual activities such as cooking, using gas.

When the elderly do not understand how other people do when the content of speech? First confirm whether the elderly normal hearing, hearing aid functionality. Talk face to face conversation with the elderly, it is best to have eye to eye contact. Attention to the content of speech must be clear that to speak a little. If an elderly person can not understand, you can by body language or physical, picture cards, etc. to help the elderly understand.

Secondly, the body through diet increased the level of acetylcholine. We usually eat eggs, fish, walnuts, peanuts, soybeans, etc., all contain a lot of choline, which can be transformed into a physiological activity of acetylcholine. To eat one or two eggs a day, that the body basically can choline was added enough.

British scientists also found that drinking tea can help prevent memory loss and dementia in the elderly. Because with age, brain will be constantly damaged acetylcholine, while drinking tea can slow down the process. Memory decline in the elderly, the best to drink 56 cups a day a touch of green tea.
Jiang Huiren

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Cancer pain is not the "end stage" the advent of

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Cancer pain is not the "end stage" the advent of

In real life, many people think that if cancer patients were using analgesic drugs, in particular were using codeine, morphine and other potent analgesic, has entered a cancer on the note "end stage." This is a misunderstanding. Due to the impact of this misunderstanding, many cancer patients fear the so-called "end stage" come, we fight back pain and torture, refusal to use analgesics; some patients have pain, began to use painkillers. That the "end stage" the advent of so many patients continue to lose confidence in treatment and survival.

Pain is a common symptom of cancer patients, pain severity and whether to spend a potent analgesic, with clinical stage not tied. Cancer pain is a common cancer in the process of the phenomenon can occur in any period other. Despite the pain of advanced cancer patients is relatively high, but cancer patients can also occur in early cancer pain, even severe pain may occur. Whether there is pain in cancer patients with lesions involved sites related. Cancer pain patients not only feel uncomfortable, and which will create a series of serious impact. Pain on physical, physiological and psychological damage, not only significantly affect the quality of life of patients, but also affect the implementation and effectiveness of treatment. Some patients have not been satisfactory due to pain control and impatient, and even give up the chance of cancer cure.

For all the pain of cancer patients should be actively treated, pain treatment not only ease the suffering of the patients, but also help to improve the quality of life of patients, contribute to the successful completion of cancer treatment. Anti-cancer therapy itself can control the pain, but pain takes time markedly. Therefore, in the radical anti-cancer patients showed before, it is necessary to active pain treatment for cancer can be successfully treated. In addition, radical anti-cancer therapy has lost the opportunity of patients, pain may be the only acceptable number of patients and effective treatment,
Treatment because of pain in cancer patients may painless state to survive for long.
Shen Xuan

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7 details the unit to prevent a flow of communication

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

7 details the unit to prevent a flow of communication

Today, H1N1 is spreading worldwide, if there is a human disease unit, then a short time there will be people suffer along. To this end, infectious disease experts suggest that "office family" needs extra attention to the details of the following seven:

1. Wash their hands

When sneezing or coughing sick colleagues, you may be exposed to infected droplets, it may be infected. In addition, light switches, telephones and door handles also spread germs. Therefore, to prevent their infection bacteria is often the best way to wash hands thoroughly.

2. Do not have physical contact with sick colleagues

Completely clear of colleagues around sneezing or coughing is almost impossible, but you can try to control myself not in the unit in close contact with them. If you shake hands with others, we must ensure that hand-washing after the time, do not clean with a touch the face, mouth, nose, eyes and other parts.

3. Vaccination is a good choice
Experts say the vaccine, although not a panacea, but at least you can greatly reduce the probability of illness.
4. To develop good fitness habits

Scientists have proved that fitness can really improve immunity. Therefore, to develop good fitness habits to ward off the flu.
5. Maintain a healthy

Experts say maintaining good health is an important prerequisite to avoid virus infection, which means you can not smoke, do not alcohol, insist on sleeping 8 hours a day, but also a reasonable diet.
6. Colleagues coughing, covering his mouth and nose

Infectious diseases sneeze, will emit a number of droplets with the virus, if you're sitting next to sick colleagues, and this is very dangerous. Therefore, experts suggest the best time cough in their turn with the high collar or a clean scarf over his nose and mouth.

7. Called in sick

Experts warn that you have flu symptoms for 24 hours before, had discharged a large number of bacteria may infect other people. When you're feeling under the weather, the need to recuperate at home, but called in sick and no doubt is the best way.

He Juncheng

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Newspaper survey found that: Bacheng life the disease will Yingkang

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Newspaper survey found that: Bacheng life the disease will Yingkang

Sina Health Channel newspaper and co-sponsored, entitled "You sick Yingkang experience? "The survey was concluded on March 26. The survey results showed that eight adults have had the experience of illness Yingkang.

Participated in this survey 56.9% of people aged 31 to 59 years, 40.3% in the 30 years of age, 60 years old accounted for 2.8%, of which 69.4% are women. 80.6% of them are usually ill will Ying Kang, except as a last resort before going to the hospital, only 19.4% of the life of the patient to the hospital immediately.

In response to "With the Disease What is the reason you are Yingkang?", There are 27.8% of the people chose the "habits. Sick, love to start dragging a delay, again and again a delay, do not go on until it is dragged just go to the hospital "; 22.2% of the people chose the" over-confident. always think, just a small pain only, quite no losers in the past also, the patient would, of course Well "; 18.1% of them chose" for hospital there is an instinctive resistance. always felt Hospital arbitrary charges, like the little sick when the serious illness of medical treatment "; 9.7% of the people chose the" doctor look scared, entered the hospital, the money will be the same as the water flow away, but also the doctor's face, and who face the risk of misdiagnosis and mistreatment ";
6.9% chose "no time"; each 2.8% of the people chose the "economic downturn, doctor money" and "too much trouble. Each doctor must Zhao Shuren, or their not sure"; there 9.7% of the people chose "other." In addition, the survey found that no one "fear exists in the hospital's infectious diseases encountered various kinds of hidden people" and refused to go to the hospital.

As we all know, with the disease carried the poor hard. But in China, especially in rural areas, have carried the disease the hard way or another. If only minor ailments like common cold, perhaps a bite cold medicine can work, but if a serious illness, if the hard-carrying, long time, probably the best time to delay treatment.

In any case, for whatever reason, this newspaper you are ill advised or not hard carrying, as late as early medical treatment medical treatment, sick early and spend less and less gets the worst o't.

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Chicken vegetable was originally afraid afraid afraid of dogs suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Afraid of dogs afraid of chicken
Fear of vegetables
Originally suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder

1 month to play three times rabies vaccine, dog afraid to see, to see the chicken on the hide, now grown to be afraid to eat eggs, eat vegetables ... ... Recently, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Department of Neurology, a mental patient admissions to such strange 7 nonagenarian.

The elderly live with their families. 4 months ago for the elderly walk in the yard, a dog is that intimate licking his hand, because elderly people had been bitten by a dog in childhood experiences of intimacy dog head movements so that the elderly produced a series of associations, heart extreme anxiety, fear of contracting the rabies virus. So the elderly are hastened to hit the local health and epidemic prevention of rabies vaccine, but even so the elderly still feel ill at ease. Almost all month to the epidemic by the run up to hit the 1-month 3 rabies vaccine, the last vaccination with the medical staff are afraid to see him. The elderly are becoming increasingly bizarre personality, not only afraid of dogs, even dogs will be frightened. Recently, the family found that the elderly are afraid to eat chicken again, he feared rabies virus will infect the chicken, so do not even eat eggs. Most disturbing is the family, the elderly required to cook the vegetables for ten minutes before they agree to eat, because he thought the dog, chicken virus in saliva touches the vegetables. A person is unable to endure the elderly, had to request medical help. After the mental hospital out-patient admissions, the elderly used to test the psychological evaluation, the final diagnosis for the elderly suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Their doctors for drug treatment, it is also conducted behavioral therapy. Popular science lectures by rabies virus, copy information, etc. patiently explained to enhance scientific understanding of the virus in order to reduce their fear of the virus. After 1 week of combined treatment, forced the elderly to ease symptoms.

He noted that patients with OCD were more common, such as the forced blink of an eye, forced to wash hands or have forced the concept, because these patients do not have enough understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder is often not timely treatment. Obsessive-compulsive disorder will develop severe depression, effect on interpersonal relationships and social interaction. Doctors recommend that patients with symptoms similar to forced medical treatment in time to seek professional help of a psychiatrist.

Correspondent Doon

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