Exercise Guide for Adults
Regular physical activity provides health benefits to people, some of which are: helps you lose weight, strengthens the immune system, relieves stress, improves mood, increases energy and helps you sleep better.
However, many people do not know how much physical activity you can practice each day or week.
Here is a guide of exercise for adults:
How much exercise is enough?
It is recommended that adults aged 19 to 64 years practice two types of physical activity per week: aerobic activity and strength training.
How you can distribute physical activity a week?
Option A:
150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) of physical activity to moderate intensity aerobic as cycling or brisk walking (per week)
2 or more days per week of strength training (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms)
Option B:
75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes) of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity (per week)
2 or more days per week of strength training (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms)
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Type of Blood Cancer
Blood is a fluid that drives the heart and carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, but the blood also can get sick and cause cancer. The blood cancer is a cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, blood or bone marrow and on this basis can be classified three types of cancer: leukemia, multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
- Leukemia is the type of cancer that originates in the bone marrow and is characterized because there is a rapid amount of white blood cells do not mature, commonly affects children.
- Multiple Myeloma: It mainly affects adults and is generated by an overgrowth of plasma cells which makes it difficult to produce white blood cells and platelets.
- Lymphoma is a cancer that affects blood lymphocytes and inflamed lymph nodes.
Some of the symptoms that occur in cancer of the blood include: anemia, bone pain in the abdomen or back, sudden bleeding, bruising, loss of appetite and weight, difficulty breathing, fatigue, fever, and others.
Some of the clinical tests to diagnose cancer are blood tests, aspiration and / or bone marrow biopsy, lymph node biopsy, MRI and radiography.
The treatment continues to fight blood cancer will depend on the progression of cancer, although used chemotherapy, blood transfusions, bone marrow transplant, specific drugs, biological therapy, among others.
Cancer of the blood must be supervised by specialist physicians as are the oncologists or hematologists and it is they who provide the necessary assistance to those suffering from this disease.
Symptoms of colorectal cancer
Colon cancer is one of the leading cancers affecting the world’s population, also known as colorectal cancer. Colon cancer is one that develops in the large intestine (colon) or the end of the rectum. The colon is a fundamental part of the digestive system.
There are several risk factors that can cause colon cancer as having an age over 50, have tumors in the colon wall, suffering from ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, smoking, family history of the disorder or disturbance genetic.
There is some evidence that present themselves as symptoms of colon cancer and these are:
- Change in bowel routine.
- Suffering from diarrhea or constipation.
- Finding blood in the stool.
- Constant fatigue.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- The stools are thinner than usual.
- Swelling in the abdomen.
- Loss of appetite.
- Weight loss without apparent cause.
- Frequent pain or cramping in the abdomen.
- Anemic syndrome.
- Gut feel heavy or full.
Symptoms may be similar to those of other diseases, so it is important that if you have any of the aforementioned symptoms should go to the doctor to perform a diagnosis with the clinical history, symptoms suffered and some clinical trials (blood tests, colonoscopy, endorectal ultrasound, etc.).
Cancer should be treated by specialists in this area as the oncologists or gastroenterologists. Colon cancer is treated by various techniques and medications and these must be complemented by a healthy lifestyle change.
The resulting symptoms of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by personality change, creating a distortion of reality and affects thoughts and emotions. The symptoms generated by schizophrenia can be divided in two.
Positive symptoms: Those features that occur only in people with this disorder and not seen in people who are healthy.
- They have delusions and the principal is the delirium of persecution.
- Presents hallucinations such as hearing voices.
- It can cause disruption of perception, such as seeing bright colors.
- The thought is altered and causes no consistency when it comes.
- There may be a strange behavior because you do things that are outside the “norms of behavior.”
- Also presented insomnia, sweating, palpitations, anxiety, aggression and excessive stress.
Negative symptoms: Are those behaviors that affect the standard of living of people with schizophrenia and healthy people can do.
- There is a social isolation, poor motivation you have.
- Occurs apathy and lack of energy to do certain things or participate in various activities, do not want to go to work or school, do not want to clean or do hobbies that used to do.
- You feel a physical and mental exhaustion.
- There is a decrease emotional, so you can not show their feelings in various situations.
- The cause concentration problems are easily distracted or not pay attention for long.
- You can not sustain the look and when he speaks there is a strange language and poor, do not know answer, mixing ideas and takes to speak.
Symptoms of Wilson’s disease
Wilson’s disease is a condition where it generates strange accumulation of copper in the body, mainly deposits in the liver tissue by damaging the liver, brain, eyes and kidneys, this accumulation is given by a deficit in the biliary excretion of copper. It is named after the physician Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, who was the first to talk about it. It is a congenital disease is inherited, the gene responsible for this disease is the gene 13.
The symptoms of this disease include tremors, poor coordination, confusion, speech impairment, weakness, slowed movements, vomiting with blood, yellow skin, personality changes, dementia, bloating, difficulty walking, body itching, loss of appetite, fever, among others. Symptoms can occur between 6 and 20 years of age, although they may occur up to 40 years. One of the most characteristic signs of this disease is a brown ring (Kayser-Fleischer ring) that forms around the cornea of the eye.
To diagnose this disease is conducting a series of laboratory tests to identify copper in the urine or blood, a physical examination, in the eyes with a slit lamp, an abdominal radiograph, liver biopsy, a newborn child may conduct the examination of ceruplasmina to diagnose early, among others.
If Wilson’s disease is diagnosed and treated as they should you can have a normal standard of living, they must follow the treatment prescribed by a doctor, not drinking alcohol, taking vitamin E, do not drink mineral water and try to avoid foods containing copper (such as shellfish, chocolate, nuts and fungi).
Causes of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a disease that is characterized by a bacterial infection in the skin producing a skin inflammation, swelling in the joints and can affect the nervous system.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans by infected ticks. The main symptoms presented by this disease are similar to those of influenza:
- Red rash in the shape of the bite (erythema migrans).
- Fever with chills.
- Feeling of fatigue.
- Aching muscles, joints and headaches.
- Inflammation of the joints.
If the disease is not diagnosed and treated may be other symptoms:
- Heart trouble: as irregular heartbeat or palpitations.
- Nervous system: Paralysis of facial muscles, memory loss, impaired concentration, emotional instability, weakness in arms or legs.
- Joint problems: arthritis, pain or swelling in the joints.
If any of the aforementioned symptoms is important to see a doctor for him to realize a diagnosis based on symptoms and clinical analysis and treatment begins immediately, this is mostly in antibiotic consumption and whether the begin as soon as possible to be eradicated.
To prevent this disease must have no contact with areas that are home to many ticks if you need to go to one of these places is recommended to use light clothing for ticks and that this clothing is long sleeves and pants, tuck the ends of the shoes and use insect repellents.
Children at risk for allergic asthma
Allergic rhinitis, a condition that manifests a high percentage of children carries the risk of developing asthma. Early consultation with the doctor is still the main form of prevention to avoid greater evils.
Allergic respiratory disease always begins with the entrance channel: the nose. When allergic rhinitis begins to affect the nose, problems begin to gradually expand to the rest of the respiratory system.
How rhinitis can trigger asthma?
First, when the nasal mucosa becomes inflamed and produce excessive secretions, there is a tendency to breathe through the mouth. When air enters the nose, it filters out particles in the air and heats it, and preparing for entry into the lungs. The mouth does not make any of these functions, so that when your child has allergic rhinitis and mouth breathing, dirty and cold air enters your lungs.
The air begins to sensitize the respiratory system, causing bronchial conditions, over time, can cause asthma or other respiratory impairment.
How to prevent asthma in children?
As soon as you detect the first symptoms of allergic rhinitis, consult your pediatrician. Diagnosis and treatment can prevent rhinitis is complicated, and significantly improve the quality of life of the child.
In addition, controlled rhinitis prevents incorrect mouth breathing and nasal mucosa maintained in good condition, preventing allergic respiratory disease from spreading to the lungs.
Similarly, if the child shows signs of asthma, is an important point to the doctor, in order to perform the diagnosis and treatment setting. Children whose respiratory allergic disease has been prolonged, should receive a treatment that covers all the symptoms, reactions and organs involved
Diagnosing childhood allergy
Certain allergies are easy to diagnose because the pattern of symptoms following exposure to certain allergens is easy to identify. But other allergies are less obvious because its symptoms resemble those of other clinical disorders.
If a child has cold symptoms for over a week or two or perceived to be always in the same season, check with your doctor. Depending on the results of physical examination of the child, the pediatrician may make a diagnosis and prescribe medication for an allergy promotes child or refer you to an allergist for a study on childhood allergy and recommend further treatment.
You may have to practice allergist skin tests to the child to determine if you are allergic to environmental factors and most common food. Skin tests can be done on infants a few months, although more reliable after two years.
The child allergy skin tests can be performed in two ways:
A drop of the allergen in the form of purified liquid and makes a small puncture in the area.
It injects a small amount of allergen under the skin. The stick feels a little, but it is a very painful procedure. After about 15 minutes, if the injection site appears a bump similar to a mosquito bite, the result is positive infant allergy.