What is the health check for a pet?
Posted by admin in Family Health on October 5th, 2009
Throughout the life of your four-legged, it is not superfluous to offer him an occasional visit to vet even when not sick!
Indeed, the health check for animals is a thorough examination of your friend by your veterinarian. Thus, it can detect the presence of particular tartar on the teeth (and therefore the need for scaling), an eye discharge, skin lesions or to check the health of the ear canal. The visit of health for your dog or cat can also evaluate your pet overweight and weighed. This makes sure that his diet is neither too high nor too low in energy! Indeed, many animals suffer including overweight exposing them more to heart and joint problems and diabetes. Finally, your veterinarian auscultate the heart and lungs of your pet to detect for example the presence of a heart murmur and determine whether it needs further examination (echocardiogram …)
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How to offer this health check?
You want to provide this medical care to your pet? Nothing is easier! These different tests are routinely performed during the annual visit of vaccination of your dog or cat. Moreover, on this occasion, you can also assure you it is about anti-parasite treatment (worming and flea).
In addition, if further examination is necessary, your veterinarian can achieve or refer you to a central laboratory for spécialisé.Analyses pets
The analysis of blood or urine can detect early lesions in certain organs, so that your pet does not yet have symptoms of the disease. This applies, for example for chronic renal failure, which manifest health problems until the disease is already well advanced. Early detection allows early treatment can greatly reduce the rate of progression of renal disease.
Finally, your veterinarian can advise you to take X-rays of the skeleton of your dog or cat if you suspect the presence of osteoarthritis. This disease can indeed see its development slowed through weight control and exercise of your friend and the administration of food supplements.
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Preventive care always useful …
A few minutes per day spent on brushing your dog often allow you to avoid several cleanings under general anesthesia! In addition, regular inspection of its ears and cleaned if necessary, using a product specially designed for this purpose will protect the ear. Finally, remember to inspect the skin of your friend to return from each country walk to dislodge any ticks or plant debris.
Financial Health Tips
Posted by admin in Financial health on September 27th, 2009
Tips to protect your health … Financial!
Your financial situation is it solid? If you were affected by serious illness, could you take both your medical expenses and your other financial responsibilities?
According to the poll to your health! Conducted by Desjardins Financial Security in 2009, 64% of Canadian employees are covered by insurance life insurance or disability insurance income. But only 36% of them could afford to be absent from work for three months or more for health reasons.
How to prepare?
Here are some specific actions you can ask to be well prepared in case of serious illness.
1. Consult a lawyer or notary to make sure that your will is updated, as your mandate in case of incapacity. This term is important: it allows you to designate a trusted person who can manage your finances and make decisions for you if ever you’re not.
2. Assemble an emergency fund. Determine how much you can spend and start saving now. Although the first steps are difficult, it is an investment that’s worth.
3. Reassess your insurance portfolio. Health insurance, disability and illness that you would currently sufficient to meet your needs? It would cover your medical expenses, your expenses and those of your family? If this is not the case, use our online simulator to identify gaps in your coverage and determine how much cost you additional protection.
Within minutes, you’ll know how to get peace of mind that you are looking for.
My child stutters, what to do?
Posted by admin in Family Health, Guide tips on August 5th, 2009
Why should we not expect him to stop stuttering?
Because although stuttering can spend alone is not always the case. When consulting for early stuttering, the rate of return to a fluid language in adolescence is 90%. However, if we do nothing, there will be 25% of children who continue to stutter. Knowing that this condition heals more easily it is caught early, why wait?
Should we go see a speech therapist for stuttering, even before 4 years?
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Yes, ideally before age 4 and a half, because when we look at early, it often takes one to three sessions with the speech therapist to see the disorder disappear if not accompanied by other difficulties. Over the period of stuttering has been brief, the more chance it stops quickly is important. And it is mainly the parents who will see more than the child! In fact, parents need to know how to behave to help the child to leave his parents difficulté.Comment can they help their child not to stutter?
“Prevention, for four years and a half is the art of lowering tensions, to understand the suffering of children” said Anne-Marie Simon. Here are some tips:
- Do not play the fake indifference and do not pretend anything. The child stutters, he knows he suffers. If the problem becomes a taboo subject, he imagines that it is very serious because we can not even speak …
- Be a good listener child. Emphasize what he has to say rather than how he does it. Otherwise, the language becomes stressful for the child as a tool to handle well, and not a natural way to communicate. It can develop anxiety and distress at not being listened to what he is but what it does.
- Know you adapt the language of the child. It is still small, get within range. Use simple words.
- Do not speak too quickly, it’s hard to follow you. He stutters possibly because he tries to speak as fast as you!
- Do not ask too many questions burst, it will be difficult to understand due to time and even more to respond.
- Do not use a language too complex with long sentences.
- Do not always correct in his manner of speaking.
- Do not change the subject too often, it’s hard to follow.
- When he speaks, to answer what he says and does not speak his way of saying it.
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So is this the fault of the parents if their child stutters?
Not at all. In the same context, another child might very well not stutter. It may be a slight delay phonological as is the case for 40% of children with this difficult language. He may be anxious due to overheating emotional, separations, anger, frustration, desire for autonomy … It can also live in family events, sources of insecurity for him, moving, birth of a brother or sister, parents separated …
Nevertheless, one can not blame the parents. But they are not the cause of stuttering, they can be co-therapists with the speech therapist, if they would bother. Their efforts are mostly successful.
(1) A big thank you to Anne-Marie Simon, therapist and author of a business item: “Stuttering in children: early intervention in very young children, and treatment for children of school age and pre -teen “.
A virus against cancer?
Posted by admin in General Health on July 28th, 2009
A virus against cancer?
A virus that already saves the lives of millions of children could become a new weapon against cancer. This virus is one that is used to immunize against measles, a live version, but “down” the virus that causes the childhood disease. “There are viruses that preferentially infect cancer cells. This is particularly the case of virus vaccine against measles,” said Mark Gregory, director of research at the Institute for Therapeutic Research, University of Nantes. “The virus enters the cancer cells and cause their destruction” continued the researcher. We talk about viruses “oncolytic”.
Funded by the ARC *, Mark Gregory and his team have begun to address these viruses following a discussion with a researcher from the Institute Pasteur in Paris, Frédéric Tangy. Nantes team had discovered that many cancer cells on their surface showed an unusual amount of a protein called CD 46. The researcher Paris knew about him that the attenuated virus vaccine against measles had just needs this protein to infect human cells. Hence was born the idea of using this virus to destroy cancer cells.
Other oncolytic viruses
Other oncolytic viruses exist and it is even possible to make new viruses by modifying existing they acquire the necessary properties. The strain of the vaccine against measles, however, presents significant advantages: used since the late 60s to vaccinate every year millions of children, the safety of its administration is more to prove. Moreover, this virus has an antitumor activity “bonus” it will not only cause the destruction of tumor cells it infects, but it will simultaneously activate the cells of the patient’s immune system to attack that they also to the tumor. “The destruction of cancer cells by virus leads to the production of danger signals that are recognized by the immune system,” explains Mark Gregory. “An immune response specifically directed against the tumor cells are then put in place. Some data suggest that there is even production of immune memory cells. If this is indeed the case, the virus vaccine against measles could not only destroy tumors, but also prevent relapse: when a tumor recurrence in the body, immune cells attack memories there. This last point remains to be verified and Drs Gregory and Tangy actively engaged.
The use of this virus and other oncolytic viruses are already being tested in clinical trials, especially at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, USA). The results of U.S. trials are not yet published, but according to Marc Grégoire, they would rather encouraging. The viruses tested at the Mayo Clinic to date would treat many types of cancer such as myeloma, gliomas, glioblastomas, ovarian carcinoma or breast cancer. “We are working on the model of mesothelioma [cancer of the pleura], but we think also to test this approach on melanoma and lung cancer. The base system is ready. There are still many details to confirm, but the the use of antitumor oncolytic viruses such as the vaccine against measles could start in no distant future “.
Auto Financial Health
Posted by admin in Family Health, Financial health on July 5th, 2009
1. Proximity
Put yourself in the best conditions for success by focusing your license driving schools available near you, your place of work or study with class schedules or code of conduct tailored to your needs.
Tip: You can use Google Maps to find a driving school near an address
2. Success Rate
The success rate of the driving school to the driving test is an indication of the quality of training. Two precautions for using this information:
* This rate depends on locally to the social and cultural background of the candidates and the severity of the examiners. The relevant comparison is between two driving schools in the same sector
* A perverse effect of displaying this rate is selected by some driving schools candidates they present. Take contacts of alumni to see!
Record the approval number of the driving school is it that you will get the success rate with the prefecture.
Several rankings by success rates are available online:
* Awards 1000 best driving school French Auto Plus 06/08
* The classification of driving schools in the Nord Pas-de-Calais La Voix du Nord 02/09
3. Quality training
Listen to the opinions of students who have already started or completed their training. Avoid a driving school where others have known bad experience and prefer for your driving lessons instructor competent and motivated.
Some questions to assess:
* The opportunity to train regularly in traffic What are the times to review the code?
* How many sessions per week?
* The correction is it made by a monitor?
* The quality of coaching What was the behavior of the monitor while driving hours: Attentive and educational or absent?
* Should I monitor “referent”? Ie a monitor fixed or at least someone to go?
* The effectiveness of the preparation for the examination of driver’s license How Chess Exam code and conduct, and especially why?
* During the examinations passed, what was the success rate of the driving school?
* How many hours did you need to spend / pass the practical test?
* If applicable, how long did you have to wait to retake the exam?
Feel free to interview students in training, so that you do not answer your questions.
Emphasize driving schools that have signed the Charter of quality driving schools required to offer the license to one euro per day or took a quality as Qualicert.
Any training code must be performed by a certified instructor.
On average, for the B license, the price of a basic package 20H is 1200 € divided as follows:
Decomposition of the price of a basic package permits
4. Rates
Emphasize driving schools which clearly show their services and their rates.
Pay close attention to course content: code, conduct, presentation.
To effectively compare two driving schools, make a simulation taking into account 30 hours of training before the first passage of the permit.
Attention, unbeatable prices are not a guarantee of seriousness, quite the contrary. Beware of a driving school offering a package of 500 or 600 € is to say at a price below the cost of only 20 hours of mandatory training to drive (20 hours x 35 €).
As in all businesses, prices shown may be negotiated. Heads Up competition between driving schools and compare prices!
Some driving schools have a student discount.
5. Financial Health
Choose a driving school that lets you set a phased manner. In all cases do not agree to pay the full amount at the first appointment.
Verify that the driving school of your choice is not bankrupt or in receivership by example by going on the website Euridile.
Emphasize a driving school with financial security, such as those proposing the permit to one euro per day, signed the Charter of quality driving schools.
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Observe the quality (state-level maintenance, type) of material: vehicles, furniture, media code, local, etc.. A vehicle damaged, dirty or above may suggest a formation of low quality or even a critical financial situation.
As part of the motorcycle license, the material is of considerable importance:
• the school must provide all its students fluorescent vests when driving;
• when learning movement, the monitor must be connected by radio to his students. The materials should not suffer from any defect;
• during the learning stage, the bike-school must have a sufficiently broad and secure to acquire control of the bike drive in good conditions.
Osteoarthritis of the knee or knee
Posted by admin in General Health, Guide tips on June 16th, 2009
Osteoarthritis of the knee is a common condition, affecting nearly 40% of people over 65. The causes of knee pain and discomfort very important. It can be debilitating to the achievement of all the gestures of everyday life.
Taking anti-inflammatory medication and a change of lifestyle are usually recommended: losing weight if necessary, practice of regular physical activity according to its possibilities, adapting daily activities, etc..
Physical therapy may also prove effective against osteoarthritis of the knee. Moreover, the effects of weight training have recently been confirmed (1). Strength exercises, with or without a camera, and especially the contraction exercises to strengthen the quadriceps of the thighs (especially weak in osteoarthritis of the knee), can effectively improve mobility, balance and physical performance .
Tai Chi is another method equally effective than conventional weight training, here’s proof.
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Tai Chi cons of knee osteoarthritis
Forty people with osteoarthritis of the knee for ten years at least, have agreed to practice Tai Chi on a two-hour sessions per week for 3 months (2).
This practice was accompanied by a 75% reduction of pain, with 4 times less functional disability. The physical capabilities have improved significantly, as well as autonomy and general health, while manifestations of depression were alleviated. How to explain this effect of Tai Chi on osteoarthritis of the knee?
This martial art invites the body gently. It makes the muscles work, flexibility and endurance. Tai Chi provides better knowledge of his body and his own limitations. This activity is also working fresh mind. Through the work of breathing and relaxation, the general condition improves, which is also beneficial for painful knees, let alone better pain control.
As you try and you may be able to reduce your parallel dose anti-inflammatory dru
Rosacea
Posted by admin in General Health on May 5th, 2009
What exactly resembles rosacea?
Also called acne rosacea, this dermatosis manifested by the appearance of redness on the face. Appear as small blood vessels in the skin surface and also buttons containing liquid.
Rosacea flushing buttons
The rash initially appears as “flushes”. That is, they occur abruptly as a result of a trigger. The supporting element may be an emotion, exposure to sun or cold, spicy meal, a drink, etc.. Then, as the disease progresses, the redness settle permanently.
At this stage, more and more small vessels are visible, while the buttons are starting to bloom. We also note thickening of the skin, accentuating rendering unsightly. What causes rosacea?
There are many possible reasons for rosacea as blood factors, hormonal factors, digestive, nervous, or environmental.
What are the treatments?
The management of rosacea is multifactorial. It includes local treatment (cleaning the skin, mineral water spray, application of antiseptics, pesticides, sunscreen, cream fat against the cold, etc..).
The prescription of antibiotics is often necessary (from the tetracycline family). They sometimes resort to isotretinoin, a drug containing a Devir vitamin A, also used in the treatment of severe acne.
Finally, electrocautery and laser vascular provide very interesting results, by addressing the vessels located too superficially in the skin.
The most important message is do not hesitate to consult a dermatologist as soon as discomfort is felt. This disease particularly evident quickly generates a significant social embarrassment. The solutions exist and are effective in improving the quality of life.
What is the relationship between depression and the Mediterranean diet?
Posted by admin in General Health, Travel Tips on April 25th, 2009
The relationship between depression and the Mediterranean diet has been shown from a population of 10,000 adults followed for 4 years. According to their diet, they were divided into 5 groups, with the two extremes, a diet that is closest to the Mediterranean diet and a diet that walked away from it most.
Thus, this first mode support is based on a large consumption of fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, olive oil, etc.., While the other included more processed foods, fried meat, refined grains, dairy products, desserts, sweet …
At the end of study, 480 cases of depression were diagnosed.
It is notable that a diet rich in processed products, that is to say the opposite of the Mediterranean diet, accompanied by an increase of 58% risk of depression. Conversely, food closest to the Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of depression by 30%.
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How to explain this link between mood and Mediterranean diet?
It is possible that the effects are due to the rich in antioxidants, folate, omega-3 fatty acids and unsaturated.
The 10 characteristics of Mediterranean diet
1. Part of fruits and vegetables.
2. High intake of legumes and seeds.
3. Consumption of olive oil but low intake of animal fats.
4. Made significant contribution in whole grains.
5. Frequent use of herbs and spices.
6. Moderate to high consumption of fish.
7. Low consumption of meat, particularly red meat.
8. Moderate intake of dairy products.
9. Moderate consumption of wine.
10. Conviviality.
Why are vaccinated against influenza A?
Posted by admin in General Health on April 3rd, 2009
1) Why are vaccinated against influenza A? To avoid getting sick or remain bedridden
And also not to fall behind in its work in its records or you do not miss classes at school or college. Influenza A can be mild, but can also result in high fever, sudden onset with malaise, fatigue, cough and body aches, but also headache, nausea, vomiting … This classic form of avian bedridden for 5 to 6 days.
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2) The vaccine protects against risk of complications related to influenza A
Complications from influenza A can sometimes be serious or even fatal. Even intensivists call for vaccination against influenza A, after observing serious forms among young people. According to the National Institute of Health Surveillance (InVS), 245 severe cases of influenza A have been identified in France since the beginning of the epidemic, a third are still hospitalized in intensive care or resuscitation.
3) Getting vaccinated also means protecting others, his family and most vulnerable
By making the vaccine, you protect yourself from influenza A, but you also protect others by the barrier to the spread of the virus. You also help to protect those at risk: pregnant women, infants under 1 year, subjects with a chronic illness …
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4) The vaccine is safe while the influenza A can be deadly!
We’re already 53 deaths. However, the vaccine against influenza A is safe, he received the same procedures, same trials and same care as the seasonal vaccine. It has been evaluated by the same health authorities and manufactured by the same laboratories experienced in vaccines.
5) A tenth of humanity has the vaccine …
The availability of a vaccine against influenza A makes us privileged. Indeed, this vaccine is available at one tenth of humanity. The neglect is unseemly for those who do not have access and who can not protect themselves.
Finally, do not wait, get vaccinated as soon as possible because it takes a fortnight to acquire immunity against the influenza virus A after having been vaccinated.
Cell therapy: hope for the treatment of burn
Posted by admin in General Health on March 14th, 2009
Cell therapy has been used for over 20 years for the treatment of severe burns: stem cells from skin taken from the patient are cultured, which gives at the end of three weeks a surface of the skin sufficient to cover the areas affected. This new skin is then grafted to the patient. The disadvantage of this technique is the time required to produce skin, during which the patient is left unprotected and at risk of suffering from infection or dehydration.
Researchers of the STEM-I had the idea of using embryonic stem cells because these have an unlimited capacity for expansion and can differentiate rapidly into all types of human cells. They succeeded in obtaining an in vitro skin adult complete and functional.
The prospects opened by this success are important, and the transition to clinical research should take about two years. Researchers of the STEM-I wish to propose these cells ready to produce quickly epidermal cells to treat burn victims. This innovation may also be used for other skin conditions such as ulcers, common complication of diabetes.
The I-STEM is a research institute co-founded by INSERM, University of Evry and the French Association fight against myopathies, especially through the Telethon donations. This achievement represents another victory for the telethon after the recent success of gene therapy performed by the team at the Hopital Saint Vincent de Paul (Paris), Inserm and Université Paris Descartes against the progression of a rare genetic disorder, adrenoleukodystrophy.
The telethon will take place on 4 and 5 December. It is possible to make an online donation now or during the weekend of the Telethon, by phone at 36 37 (0,15 Euro / min), check, or stands animation.