Archive for February, 2009
Preventing Infections During Pregnancy
10 tips can help prevent infections that can harm your baby. Not always know if you have an infection, and sometimes even feel bad. If you believe you have an infection or a risk of contracting, see your doctor.
1. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially when …
• Use the bathroom
• Prepare and eat foods
• Makes gardening or touches the ground or soil
• Contact with pets
• It is close to sick people
• Take care of children or play with them
• Change diapers
If you do not have water and soap, the hands can be cleaned with a gel-based hand alcohol.
2. Try not share cutlery, cups or food with small children. Wash your hands when you are in continued contact with children. Saliva and urine of them may contain a virus. This virus probably will not hurt children, but can be dangerous for you and the baby is born.
3. Prepare the meat until well cooked. The meat juices should be clear and the meat should be red inside. Do not eat hot dogs (hot dogs), cold cuts or deli meats, unless they are heated to high temperatures. These little cooked and processed meats can contain harmful bacteria.
4. Avoid consuming unpasteurized milk (raw) and the food derived from it. Do not eat soft cheeses such as feta and brie, and quash fresco, unless the labels say they have been pasteurized. Non-pasteurized products may contain harmful bacteria.
5. Do not touch or clean the dirty litter box for cats. Ask someone to do so. If you have to change the litter box, make sure to wear gloves and wash their hands after doing so. The boxes of dirty sand may have harmful parasites.
6. Stay away from wild or domestic rodents and their droppings. Hire a professional exterminator to eliminate harmful insects and rodents within and outside the house. If you have a rodent as a pet, for a hamster or a guinea pig of India, ask someone else to take care until after the baby is born. Some rodents may be carriers of harmful viruses.
7. Become testing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV and hepatitis B, and protect against these diseases. Some people who have HIV, hepatitis B or an STD do not feel sick. It is important to know if you have one of these diseases. If you have one of these diseases, ask your doctor about ways to reduce the possibility that the disease affects her baby.
8. Talk to your doctor about vaccinations (shots). There are vaccines that are recommended before pregnancy, during or just after birth. Apply the appropriate vaccinations at the right time can help you stay healthy and prevent your baby is sick or has health problems for life.
9. Avoid contact with people who have infections. Stay away from people with infections such as chickenpox or rubella, if you have not had these diseases or not vaccinated against these before pregnancy.
10. Ask your doctor about the group B streptococcus Nearly 1 in 4 women carry this type of bacteria, but do not feel bad. A simple test that involves taking a sample of the vagina and rectum with a swab at the end of pregnancy will reveal whether you have this type of bacteria. If you have group B strep, talk to your doctor about how to protect your baby during childbirth.
Trying to Quit Smoking! Component of Addiction
Smoking addiction comes from the material, including nicotine, but there are factors to addiction. The most startling is that cigarettes contain ingredients that cause addiction, that make customers captive. For nonsmokers, this is the assistance from the danger of smoke cigarettes.
Social factors
Smokers are persuaded to social smoking, as we tend to imitate other people in our environment and therefore start smoking from the age of small mimic other people. This is a learning process, including bad habits. Who want to stop smoking but are still in the environment is very difficult to stop smoking. Both together in one half of smokers to opportunity start creating social.
Snuff and chewing factors
We are all vulnerable to the need to chew and air. Cigars are widely used as a tool to meet this need. If you want to stop smoking, you need to meet these needs through other means, for example, always have something to chew relief when craving for smoking, either fruit or sap.
Repetitive behavior
We as creatures of habit, we thought it easy to turn the decision itself has to be action. After repeatedly going into practice. Later this became repetitive behavior patterns that are difficult to break, and can eat, smoke, work, sleep, etc…
This pattern is known as a place of rest to make us feel safe and familiar environment itself. Out simple patterns involve risks and enter the unknown. Smoking protection offered at the time of stress, restlessness, fear, insecurity and risk, etc…
If you want to stop smoking must analyze usage patterns and conditions of security where you turn on your parking. Then they try to avoid or reverse environmental conditions and patterns.
Affects of addiction
Not only that situation ethics, but the addiction to chemicals that give the cigars. One of the nicotine is stronger, because it has a relaxing effect on the nervous system, as well as antidepressants in the short term, and cause smokers. Dependence which will require more doses of nicotine to achieve this effect and therefore people tend to smoke more and more quantity. An addiction to caffeine, when you get a sense loses because of this gap and brings a effects such as headaches, anxiety, and physical and psychological restlessness.
Practical Tips against influenza, swine influenza
The crisis of the swine influenza can we do?
Pregnant women should exercise the same care that any person before the epidemic of influenza in Mexico.
1 .- Follow the recommendation of the Ministry of Health.
2 .- Do not travel to the sites of outbreaks of infection.
3 .- Wash your hands! with soap and warm water and scrubbing for 20 seconds.
4 .- If a person feels symptoms go to a doctor immediately.
5 .- If a person has the flu should not go out and must be isolated to prevent infection in others.
6 .- No enpanicarse and keep calm
7 .- Do not hand or kiss hello, and to avoid any contact.
8 .- Eat well, especially fruits and vegetables, a multivitamin.
CAUTION: The information represented here is for informational purposes and is not intended to offer medical advice or consultation. It does not replace the advice of the doctor or specialist. Consult your doctor or specialist. Consult your doctor before starting any treatment and / or physical program.
