Month: January 2012

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Can diabetics eat fruit?

As an extremely harmful and deceptive pseudoscientific conclusion, [diabetic patients cannot eat fruits] is widely circulated in the society. I once received a representative diabetic patient who has not touched fruits for more than ten years. His logical deduction is very simple: cannot eat sweets + fruits are very sweet and cannot eat fruits. The poor ten years or so are personal tragedies and dereliction of duty in diabetes health education. In the Internet era, the high-speed dissemination of information is a double-edged sword. As a doctor, one must use this sword well to make and transmit scientific voices. Glycemic index (GI) Assuming that we organized all the food to take an examination, The test question is the ability of Read More …

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How is it safest to take birth control pills?

It is easy to turn into the corner pharmacy to buy a box of contraceptives, but it is not that simple to start taking contraceptives. Any responsible man cannot turn a blind eye to women’s worries about contraceptives. So, how should contraceptives be taken safest? First, short-term, long-term and urgent, which one do you eat? 1. Short-acting contraceptives The success rate is 99%, and the medicine needs to be taken regularly. If one tablet is missed, one tablet needs to be taken within 12 hours. Common commodities include: deoxygestenethinylestradiol tablets, levonorgestrel ethinylestradiol tablets, drospirone ethinylestradiol tablets, compound norethindrone, compound megestrol, compound levonorgestrel tablets, etc. How to take it: the instructions will be clearly written, starting from the day of menstruation, Read More …

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The Fool about Hypertension

Of all the patients who cheats love to fool, hypertension is not the most, then no disease will be. One of the reasons is that the number of hypertension patients is huge and is gradually increasing. The second reason is that hypertension is a high-risk factor for many worrying diseases, such as heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. In order to recognize the deception about hypertension, we need to know at least some common sense about hypertension. Common Sense about Hypertension Hypertension is divided into primary hypertension and secondary hypertension. Essential hypertension refers to a syndrome with or without multiple cardiovascular risk factors with elevated blood pressure as its main clinical manifestation. Secondary hypertension refers to elevated blood pressure caused by Read More …

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What should we do when Ebola strikes?

According to Phoenix Satellite TV, a woman who returned to Hong Kong from an earlier visit to Kenya, Africa, developed fever, dizziness and vomiting after returning to Hong Kong on Monday. She was treated in isolation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and is currently in stable condition. First, is what Ebola virus? The information given on the WHO website is as follows: 1. Ebola virus disease (EVD; Formerly known as Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever) is a serious and often fatal human disease. 2. The case fatality rate of the Ebola virus disease epidemic is as high as 90%. 3. The Ebola virus disease outbreak is predominantly occurring in remote villages close to tropical rain forests in Central and West Africa. 4. Read More …

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Like a wolf, like a tiger, blood sugar

Diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia, People also know more about the harm of hyperglycemia: high concentration glucose flows to various tissues and organs of the human body along with the blood for a long time and continuously, and will slowly tear and lick the blood vessels and nerves wherever it goes, eventually leading to the occurrence of various diabetic chronic complications such as stroke, myocardial infarction, renal failure, blindness, lower limb gangrene, etc. It is gratifying to note that: Controlling blood sugar can effectively delay and prevent this process. Therefore, Hypoglycemia has become the main task of diabetes treatment. But everything needs to have [degree], This is especially true of medicine. [Blood sugar] itself is not a bad thing in Read More …

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Top 10 Dangers Most Exposed to Children in Summer

Summer outdoor activities reach their peak. Children are overwhelmed by beaches, camping and outdoor activities, but parents need to be careful to deal with seasonal injuries and diseases. Recently Medscape published a newsletter on summer injuries and dangers, which mainly introduces the top 10 dangers most often encountered by children in summer. Step 1: Drowning The biggest threat to children in summer is drowning. This is also the second leading cause of death for children under the age of 5. The pool is the most dangerous place, The number of children under the age of 5 who die from drowning is 14 times higher than that from car accidents. Even inhaling only a small amount of liquid (such as a Read More …

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Smoking and Lung Cancer

The high incidence of lung cancer is attributed to environmental factors, occupational exposure, smoking, home cooking, insufficient intake of green vegetables, chronic respiratory diseases and genetic factors. Smoking is still the most dangerous carcinogenic factor. As for the high incidence of lung cancer among non-smoking women in China, According to expert analysis, The city’s air pollution and previous history of lung diseases, It is the reason why they are not immune. The relationship between lung cancer and smoking is well known. Those who have smoked for more than 20 years, those who started smoking before the age of 20, and those who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day (the so-called [320] population), As long as there is one, it Read More …

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Six important [balls] health problems that may lead to [cuts], really!

There are many ancient costume movies and TV works that will mention these passages of [eunuch castration]. I think most male compatriots will definitely feel cold wind coming from their legs and slightly feel [egg pain] when they see these passages. Then they will unconsciously look at or touch their balls to confirm that their brothers are still there. In fact, getting older, often [self-touch] is a good habit, should be strongly advocated, this is a good sexual health self-examination for male compatriots. Especially in the bath self-examination, as well as in the routine physical examination of external genitals examination, no matter for which age of men, is a good means to find testicular diseases or abnormalities in time. Generally Read More …

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Truth, can vitamin B1 really repel mosquitoes?

Internet Rumors: Mosquitoes can also be repelled without chemicals. Prepare a makeup vial that can be sprayed with water and five tablets of vitamin B1 multivitamin. Pour water into the vial, then put the tablets into the vial, shake well, and spray the vial on arms, legs, body and other parts before going to bed. Mosquitoes are afraid of the smell of vitamin B1 multivitamin. There are still many people around me who believe this rumor, but is it true? Vitamin B1 repels mosquitoes, which is just an Internet legend. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has described over-the-counter (OTC) mosquito repellent on the market. Among them, vitamin B1 drugs are explicitly mentioned: Oral vitamin B1 is a mosquito Read More …

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Oral Rumor Terminator-Can’t Confinement Brush Teeth?

Feudal Bad Habits Kill People Traditional culture often determines people’s thinking inertia. Even young people in the new era are afraid of [losing out in front of them] when they lack life experience, especially when they dare not disobey the old people. However, from the perspective of modern science, do you often find some unscientific places when examining some traditional habits? [As the saying goes] There is a game between empiricism and modern science that speaks of evidence. I don’t want to criticize too much for the traditional Chinese confinement habit, but there is one thing I must shout loudly: confinement without brushing teeth is definitely a bad habit, and this bad habit must be changed! For women’s teeth, For Read More …