Homeopathic Hypertension Treatment – No More Drugs!
Homeopathic Hypertension Treatment – No More Drugs!
One of the most common sense ways to use a homeopathic hypertension treatment is through a diet filled with fruits and vegetables. It is now completely evident and very well documented that eating natures’ delights is not only delicious, but the real method to solving so many of our health issues. In a society filled with obese and “satisfy me now” individuals, it is no wonder high blood pressure is such a huge issue. We are bombarded with advertisements for foods that have no nutritional value, and actually cause many of these hypertension issues. It is essential for us to realize the value of proper diet, understanding that not only will we be much more healthy, but will be more energized without the risk of hypertension.
Traditional exercise (aerobic and competitive) is fine for homeopathic hypertension treatment and will have many benefits to the individual. However, the best overall method for alleviating hypertension is the practice of Yoga, both hatha (physical) and meditative. Huge physical and psychological benefits occur while using various Yoga techniques. When practicing hatha Yoga with proper focus and effort, tremendous stress relief happens. Following that up with even a little meditation does wonders for the heart, as combining the physical and mental aspects of Yoga do wonders. For years it has been known that Yoga lowers blood pressure and slows down the heart rate. This slower heart rate obviously will ease the hypertension scenario with each individual.
When there are so many ways to solve hypertension without the use of drugs, why would anyone use them? Many of us are basically living by the quick fix, which drugs are supposed to do. Well, that just has no chance as drugs just don’t work. Putting the wrong ingredients in your …
Swine Flu and Regular Flu – Similarities and Differences
Swine Flu and Regular Flu – Similarities and Differences
The year 2009 marked an important event in the history of influenza treatment. The virus that caused the H1N1 influenza pandemic that year had earlier infected only pigs. Experts found a novel H1N1 strain in 2009, capable of infecting humans also. So the term swine flu is loosely associated with a new kind of influenza that can be transmitted from pigs to humans. Its difference from regular flu (seasonal influenza) can only be diagnosed through a flu test, because their symptoms are often very similar.
At the time of discovery, the swine flu virus was a novel one because it never infected humans before. It implied that the human immune system had no previous experience of fighting that particular viral strain. Regular influenza is comparatively easier to tackle because many of us have had flu at some point in our lives.
Annual flu shots and prescription medicines such as Tamiflu oseltamivir can help you tackle different viral strains that cause seasonal influenza. A new H1N1 vaccine was developed after the 2009 outbreak to protect people against swine flu.
The H1N1 type flu strain can infect healthy and young people and is stronger than the regular flu strains that mainly target people with weakened immune systems. If you consider the treatment options, Tamiflu is indicated for flu treatment and prevention in people aged 1 or above. So be it regular influenza or swine influenza, oseltamivir can be helpful.
It is not easy to distinguish the two conditions from their symptoms. The common symptoms include fever, chills, headache, body ache, cough, sore throat, stuffy or runny nose, fatigue and maybe nausea and diarrhea.
There is not much difference in the way both seasonal flu and swine flu transmit from one agent to another. …
Lifestyle – Its Effect on Blood Pressure
Lifestyle – Its Effect on Blood Pressure
The one main thing to be looked at when we find out that we have high blood pressure is lifestyle. It really can make a big difference, but it is harder to change than we might think. It’s easy to say don’t eat this and don’t drink that, but in reality it is not an easy thing to do.
Discipline and willpower is what is needed in bucket loads to suddenly change the way we live our lives. If a person has Hypertension then they can make a big difference by changing their lifestyles. Sometimes a few changes is all that is needed to bring the blood pressure down to a normal level. Once we get it back to a normal level doesn’t mean we can go back to how we were living our life before, we have to maintain our new way of living.
An obvious change can be to loose weight if we are overweight, this can have a big impact on lowering blood pressure. A good way to lose weight effectively is to stop eating takeouts and processed foods and start eating freshly prepared food, with fresh vegetables and fruit. This coupled with a good exercise routine will see the weight start to fall (Please get Doctors advice before starting an exercise routine). Crash diets will not work, the only way to lose weight properly is to eat healthy foods and exercise.
Other obvious lifestyle changes are to give up smoking, cut down on alcohol intake and cut down on salt intake. There are many more things we can do to normalize blood pressure but as you can see from these few things they are easy to write and easy to read and say but how easy are they to …
Canine Influenza
Canine Influenza
The Flu and the Swine Flu have been the hot topic during the last few months. Dogs are not exempt from catching the flu. Canine Influenza is an A H3N8 influenza virus that has been known to exist in horses for more than 40 years. In 2004, however, cases of an unknown respiratory illness in dogs (initially greyhounds) were reported. This virus has spread to dogs and can now spread between dogs.
Because this flu virus is new to dogs, most dogs will not have a natural immunity. The signs of canine flu are similar to kennel cough, with a thick nasal discharge and mild low grade fever.
Canine influenza is spread by airborne discharge and contaminated surfaces. The virus can stay alive on surfaces for up to 48 hours, on clothing for 24 hours, and on hands for 12 hours. Therefore kennels, crates, food and water bowls, collars and leashes and people moving between infected and uninfected dogs have ample time to spread the virus.
There are similar respiratory infections that mimic the Dog Flu. Two blood samples can confirm canine influenza. One blood sample is drawn while the dog is sick and the second 2 to 3 weeks later.
There is a Canine Influenza Vaccine, H3N8 which has proven to reduce the occurrence and severity of lung lesions, as well as the duration of coughing and the overall virus. The vaccine is made from inactivated virus and is administered by an injection in two doses, two to four weeks apart. The Canine Flu vaccine may be given to dogs six weeks of age or older and can be given annually for Flu protection. Dog owners should seek advice from with their veterinarian to determine whether the vaccine is appropriate for their dog.
Currently, there is no …
Facts on The Swine Flu in Australia
Facts on The Swine Flu in Australia
The lady who brought the first known swine flu case to Australia was traveling home from Los Angeles. She contracted the virus weeks earlier and because of this, around 300 people she came in contact with on the flight and in the airport had to be notified and brought in for testing. While Australians would like to point the finger at her, the truth is, dozens of other travelers could have already brought the H1N1 influenza virus into the continent by plane or cruise ship. In fact, 2,500 passengers aboard the Pacific Dawn were quarantined to the ship while 25 experts came in to test everyone individually after 3 crew members tested positive for the virus.
One month later, by June of 2009, there were already 400 cases of the swine flu in Australia, 306 of which were found in Victoria. The dangerous virus was found to be targeting the younger generation of children between 5 and 18 years old which put parents in a panic. Closing out the year, there were several thousand known cases and a significant number of deaths.
Protect Yourself
Since it is important to stop the virus from being brought into Australia through tourists or residents returning home, it is imperative that you do everything you can to protect yourself from becoming infected and to prevent the spread of the virus to others, should you become infected. Practicing common sense is crucial. If you don’t’ feel good, stay home and if you cough or sneeze in public, do so in the crook of your elbow, not your hand. If you use your hand, the air droplets that have been expelled into your hand will now contaminate everything that you touch.
You need to get in the habit of …
Flu Vaccination, Yes Or No?
Flu Vaccination, Yes Or No?
Why get the flu vaccination? Well it’s obvious stupid. It prevents the flu, and even if you get the flu it’ll keep you from dying from it. And a lot of people die from the flu every winter. Right? Well, no. Let me explain. But before I do (for the people who aren’t going to take the time to read all this) consider the following facts before you get your vaccination.
Only 39% of health providers get the flu vaccination.
According to the Center For Disease Control, there are only 200-400 influenza related deaths each year (in the entire United States).
“It’s time to be more open about the flu vaccine and its lack of protection for the elderly”, according to Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at a national conference in April, 2010. Osterholm went on to say that he “Supports attempts to create a new, effective vaccine.”
About 90 percent of flu deaths during flu season from 1976 to 2007 occurred in people over age 65.
So let me think this through clearly. According to the Center For Disease Control (the government agency in charge of reporting disease statistics) only 200-400 influenza related deaths occur each year in the United States. Then Michael Osterholm, a nationally recognized epidemiologist, says its time to admit (be more open) about the fact that the flu vaccine doesn’t protect the elderly. And in addition most of the 200-400 flu death’s each year occur in the elderly. What is going on? And besides, why aren’t more than 39% of health care workers getting the flu vaccine each year?
Why the hysteria over the flu each winter when there are so few deaths from the flu each year? I have …
Reasons For Having Your Blood Pressure Checked Regularly
Reasons For Having Your Blood Pressure Checked Regularly
If you are a hypertension sufferer and you know it, the chances are that you are controlling it by having your blood pressure checked regularly and adjusting your lifestyle accordingly.
But statistics tell us that up to 30% of the sufferers worldwide are unaware that they are a victim of hypertension.
There are many signs and symptoms of hypertension or high blood pressure but in a lot of cases the first sign you receive is to suffer a heart attack. Having your blood pressure checked regularly can avert any shocks like this and avoid such a life threatening illness.
Due to the pace of life today, the fast food culture that we embrace together with a lack of any type of physical exercise, your body is suffering like never before.
Just after the Second World War, obesity was unheard of. Now we read of hospitals refusing to treat patients until they lose weight and people so obese that they cannot move unaided. Likewise child obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is an embarrassment to the governments of the developed countries in the world.
It is not a surprise to find out that as many as 25% of the population of the western world suffers from hypertension and that death through heart disease is rising at an alarming rate.
Obesity can be one of the causes of high blood pressure along with smoking and alcohol abuse. The only way to overcome the damage that has been caused by this abuse is to learn ways in controlling hypertension.
Putting this much strain on your heart daily will obviously weaken and / or put unnecessary strain on it. There may be a number of parts of the body that you could do without but the …
Even in the Summer Do Your Bit to Avoid Catching Cold and Flu Bugs
Even in the Summer Do Your Bit to Avoid Catching Cold and Flu Bugs
We have had a pretty miserable winter this year, with record amounts of snow and many people in remote areas being confined to their homes with snow piling up outside their door. Obviously as and when people leave their homes during cold weather they are prone to catching a cold or the dreaded flu virus. A lot of the time cold and flu viruses can be caught in close quarters with friends, family members or strangers on the bus.
With the signs of spring coming finally many of us will think we’re clear of the many coughs and sneezes of winter, sadly this is not the case. The cold and flu wave can strike at any point of the year and even though it may be baking hot outside some unlucky people can still fall victim to a blocked nose or a chesty cough.
With people going out and about more as the weather warms up you’re more likely to come into contact with people who are full of cold and flu. All it takes is one person to sneeze into their hands and use a handrail you later touch to spread the germs. You tend to get wind of a cold bug going round when friends and family members or even work colleagues start coughing and spluttering.
Once this happens it is best to get ready and begin looking for cold medicine, a lot of the cold medicine that is available can help alleviate the aches and pains as well as clear your sinuses but there are other products such as cough syrup to ease tickly or sore throats.
The best advice doctors can give for you is to prepare yourself for the oncoming bug …
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or DASH Plan
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or DASH Plan
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects more than 65 million Americans. This means a staggering proportion of 1 out 3 Americans. There are also 59 million Americans who are said to have prehypertension or borderline hypertension.
When blood courses through the blood vessels at abnormally high pressures, the arterial walls harden, the heart works so hard and the delicately tiny vessels in the brain, eyes, heart and kidneys may rupture and hemorrhage to cause stroke, blindness, heart attack and kidney failure.
The optimum blood pressure should be no lower than 120/80 mm Hg. A blood pressure of 120/80 to 140/89 is already prehypertension while blood pressure of 140/90 and higher is full-blown hypertension.
Yet hypertension, according to research studies, has been shown to be prevented and lowered by following the DASH diet or the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension plan. The DASH diet, however, is only the dietary part which, in itself could not lower or prevent hypertension. It should be done in conjunction with other steps such as:
moderate physical activity for at least 30 minutes each day on most days of the week
maintaining a healthy weight and
moderation, if not abstinence, from alcohol.
What is the DASH Diet?
In a nutshell, the DASH diet is one largely composed of healthier foods. Carbohydrates come from whole grains and not sugars. Proteins come from nuts, beans and white meat and rarely from red meat. Low-fat and fat-free dairy products are also allowed. Fruits and vegetables dominate the diet to supply many nutrients, particularly those which are actively involved in lowering blood pressure such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, protein and fiber.
The DASH Diet is also known for what are obviously absent-the blood pressure-increasing mineral sodium, as well as sugar, trans fats …
Equine Influenza Signs and Symptoms
Equine Influenza Signs and Symptoms
Equine Influenza is a viral, upper respiratory disease which is extremely contagious and spreads rapidly wherever horses are gathered together, such as stables, stock yards, etc., and attacks those horses that are most susceptible and/or unvaccinated.
The signs and symptoms seen with both diseases are usually a sudden fever (103 to 106 degrees F), lethargy, nasal discharge, coughing, weakness, stiffness and loss of appetite and depression. Some horses may develop only a mild case of influenza, and symptoms may go unnoticed while other horses may develop a severe infection and remain ill for weeks.
Equine influenza is spread as your horse breaths in droplets of infective material. Can be transmitted by air l from horse to horse over distances as far as 30 yards more or less, by (snorting or coughing). Horses with influenza usually have a dry, hacking cough that increases the spread of the virus in areas where horses are concentrated, such as at public stables, shows, and sales.
Prevention of Equine Influenza is really very simple. A clean barn and vaccinating horses against equine influenza go a long way in preventing an influenza outbreak. It is very important to keep your horse vaccines up-to-date and have a good insect control and de-worming program in place.
Most horse owners vaccinate most often against eastern and western encephalitis, tetanus and influenza but often neglect vaccinating against the rhinovirus.
Rhinipneumonitis-is also a viral disease, which can pass from horse to horse. It is rarely fatal to adult horses, but can cause abortion in mares at almost any stage of pregnancy. The symptoms are similar to influenza, such as watery discharge of the horses nasal passages, rise in temperature, lethargy, coughing and appetite loss. Abortion in pregnant mares usually occurs during the final trimester of the …