Don't Underestimate Headache

According to a research of National Institute of Neurologic Disorder and Stroke (NINDS), USA, headache can lead to stroke if it do not handle appropriately.

There are several kinds of headache, some of them have serious effect. There is also headache accompanied by migraine and strain. It is difficult to know the kinds of one's headache that lead to stroke without going to a doctor.

NINDS research gives a note that many strokes which follow headache and migraine are caused by the disturbance of blood circulation on upper neck. So if you get both headache and feel pain at your upper neck, you must go immediately to a doctor. Do not let your headache without supervision, and do not just consume common medicine. A headache medicine you buy at store is just palliative. It gives you time to find the source problem of your headache and handle it before late.

There are two kinds of stroke, i.e hemorragic stroke and ischemic stroke. Hemorragic stroke happens when the main artery of brain is broken and the blood spreads to other tissues. ischemic stroke happens when the main artery of brain is clogged up, so blood current decreases or stop, making brain cells become die.

My wife has also such headache. Now she tries to cope it with traditional medicine made from extracted worm. Thank's god she is feeling better now.

Translated from Intisari

Wrinkled Hand means Healthy

Do your fingers look wrinkled after swimming for hours in the swimming pool? Don't worry about that, because it means that your nerve is healthy. This is the end result of observation held by National University Hospital and National University of Singapore.

The wrinkle appears because your hand's nerves react against water stimulation. Do you know that your hand's skin is actually full of holes if you examine it with microscope? There are 400 - 500 holes or pores on our hand's skin which have function to secrete sweat. It is no wonder if we stay in the pool, the water easily penetrates into the body through our pores. This penetration influences our body's liquid and change electrolyte value in the body, although it is not big influence.

Our nerves are stimulated by water input, and react by way of corrugating quickly. When corrugate, the nerves pull blood vessel in fingers. The skin around the blood vessel then is also pulled. This is the way of our fingers' wrinkle.

The more wrinkles appear in our hand, the healthier is our nerves. It means that many nerves response to the stimulation. The wrinkle in hand exactly helps doctor to diagnose whether there are nerves' damage or disorder especially to the patients of diabetes and leprosy. It is of course not by submerging the patient's hand in the water, but by anesthesia.

Actually I had ever been worried about the wrinkles on my daughter's hand when she was hourly in the water before I found this article.

Translated from Intisari magazine

Be Careful Sitting for Long Time

Many people spend their time sitting for a long time, especially when they are in their office, school, in the car, and even in front of television. Because they enjoy their activities, they do not realize that they have sit too long than they should do. Whereas experts say that sitting too long will endanger our heart, even when we routinely do sport.

Various journals mention that people who spend most of their time sitting will increase the risk of overweight, heart attack, and even shorten one's life.

Study held by Canadian experts examined health report of 17000 persons for 12 years. The result shows that people sitting too long have more risk of death.

Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak at Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested health experts not just recommend people to do sport, but also limited their sitting time.

After sitting 4 hours, our body will send us dangerous signal," said Eklom-Bam. He explained that the gene which was responsible to manage glucose and fat in the body would start to stop working.

Experts warn that the danger of sitting too long can happen to everyone, including those who routinely do sport. Tim Amstrong, sport expert of WHO, said that doing physical activities frequently when the day was in progress would be better than doing physical activities just at specific times.

"Keep moving when you are in your office. If you want to speak with your partner in other room, do not use telephone. It is better you move to come to your friend. Don't be lazy to move yourself," said Ekblom-Bak.

I think it is a good advice, since we always rely on modern technology that is easier us. But the easier, the lazier we are.

Translated from Kompas Cyber Media

Do not Frequently Kiss Your Baby

Everyone, especially mothers, frequently kiss their babies because of their love. But, do you know that often kiss the baby can danger the health of the baby himself?

It is because there are so many viruses can be transfered to the baby via saliva fragment and spread to the air. The baby then inhales the infected air. The statement was declared by dr. Theresia Adhitirta, Product manager of PT. Wyeth Indonesia, in a seminar about immunisation at Siloam Hospital, Kebun Jeruk, Jakarta, Indonesia.

According to dr. Theresia Adhitirta, the habitual of kissing a baby increase the cause of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD), that is a group of pneumokokus infection diseases such as pneumonia, blood infection (bactremia), and meningitis.

These diseases are one of the death cause and deformity at the baby. "The level of death because of the diseases for the baby is high, at about 50%," said dr. Adhitirta.

According to dr. Adhitirta, the diseases are often found at children below 5 years. Beside, the children at play group have high tendency to be infected by the diseases.

The baby who is born prematurely, or does not consume enough breast milk, or live in high pollute environment have high risk to be infected. " Don't often go to mall with your children," she said.

Source: Kompas