Tooth with cavity, can be lead for bacteria to get into the body. Infection from these bacteria can actually be fought because our bodies have cells that act as immune system. However, if our immune system is weak, then the bacterial infection will become more powerful. At the initial stage, the infection is still localized in the area of the root tip of the tooth with cavity. It will usually arouse discomfort or pain when the tooth is using for chewing or suppressed.
At this stage it can be overcome with dental root canal treatments and fillings to the use of antibiotics or removal of the infected tooth. If it is not treated, the infection will spread to the area around the mouth such as cheeks and neck. This condition is quite serious, and it requires the patient to do surgery on the infected area to remove the pus if the condition is enabling. Patients are also treated with antibiotic drugs.
If the condition is severe, the patient is also required for hospitalized at the hospital. And there is the risk of death if the patient is at very weak condition, accompanied by other diseases or complications that are less intensive treatment. The picture above is a picture of the infection from the tooth that already spread to the cheek area.
In some cases, an infection that occurs is quite severe and quick. The infection can spread to other vital areas like on the chest and the head. This condition is very serious and it requires intensive hospital treatment. In this condition, especially infection on the head area, the risk of death even could be greater.
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Cataract is become a national problem that needs to be overcome. Cataract is ranked at first place as the cause of blindness, glaucoma and reflaxy disorders. In order to faced the World Sight Day, it is proclaimed for maintaining the eye health as early as possible for suppressing the increasing of blindness. People who are entering elderly age automatically suffer cataract. But there are efforts that can be done to slow the cataract. Cataract is a change of eye lens that once clear and translucent to become cloudy.
Cataract cause the sufferer can not see clearly because with the cloudy lens, the lights are difficult to reach the retina and will produce a blurred image on the retina. Cataracts can only be solved with a surgical procedure. Until now there is no drugs that can prevent or cure a person with cataract.
However, protecting the eyes against excessive sunlight may slow the occurrence of cataract. Sunglasses should be worn when doing activity outside during the day. Cataracts can be cured along with the advanced of medical technology today. A surgery is performed only with local anesthetic or drops and it takes only 20 minutes. A cloudy lens is replaced with artificial lense that is planted.
A technique that is usually done is EKEK (Kapsuler Extra Cataract Extraction) or can be called small incision with one to three stitches. The recovery process takes not more than three weeks. This surgery is safe and rarely have complications. So people do not have to afraid about cataract surgery. Better dealt with it as early as possible.
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Fresheners and air freshener is suspected to cause respiratory and other lung problems. The study found that people who are at room with fresheners, in his blood contained 1,4-dichlorobenzene, an organic chemical that reduces lung function. This chemical substance is commonly found in mothballs, cigarette smoke, and bathroom fragrances.
Meanwhile, another study that published by Environmental Health Perspectives examined the health of 953 people with an average age of 37 for six consecutive years. After eliminating other factors such as cigarette smoke, the study found that 10% of respondents had a 1.4 DCB levels in his blood, even can be worse after being in the room with air freshener.
The lung functions down to 4%. Numbers of four percent is not strong enough to get rid of the air freshener immediately, but as it presented by the researchers, if the respiratory function decline it is an indication of lung damage. The solution is, to reduce the using of similar products and always clean room and flow it through with the fresh air.
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High level of rainfall during this entire time raises the threat of infectious diseases. People must be aware of to anticipate and prevent the spread of the disease. People should be wary about the threat of diseases that are thrives in the rainy season like diarrhea, dengue fever, and leptospirosis. The prevalence of those diseases, usually will increase along with the potential of flood.
In the rainy season with high rainfall then increases the potential for flooding. During the floods, the sources of drinking water especially drinking water sources from shallow wells will become contaminated. Usually happen also that increase in the brood of mosquitoes Aides aegypti which is a mosquito that can cause of dengue fever.
If the flooding occurs, leptospirosis also should be wary because the pool of water will make the rats that lives in the soil holes would come out and spread the disease. Those rats will be hanging around with the human where their feces and urine would mix with the flood. A person who has wounds, then he’s playing and soak in the floods that is already contaminated with rat droppings or urine that are containing lepstopira bacteria.
Anticipate that with a Healthy Life, people do anticipated by adopting healthier lifestyle habits such as washing hands with soap each time when they have to eat or drink and after defecate, get used to boiled the drinking water every day, and keep the environment clean, avoid the piles of rubbish around the house. Once the rainy season is come then we are already prepare to anticipate the possibility of increasing of some infectious diseases.
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