When To Call a Professional
Call your doctor if you experience chest pain, even if you think you are too young to have angina pectoris and no history of heart problems in his family. Your doctor will recommend the next steps depending on how you describe your symptoms and risk factors. (more…)
When the cause of angina is coronary artery disease, treatment usually includes:
* Changes in lifestyle, including weight loss for obese patients, smoking cessation therapy, drugs to reduce high cholesterol, regular exercise program to reduce high blood pressure and stress reduction techniques.
* Nitrates: nitroglycerin including: nitrates are medications that widen blood vessels (vasodilators). Increase blood flow in coronary arteries provide the heart and pumping blood to the rest of the body. (more…)
Duration
A crisis of angina usually lasts less than five minutes. Pain that lasts longer than that or acute may suggest a more significant decrease in blood flow to heart. This can happen when someone is having a heart attack or unstable angina.
Prevention
You can help prevent angina, which causes blockage of arteries caused by coronary heart disease by controlling your risk factors. (more…)
Your doctor may suspect that you have angina based on your symptoms and risk of coronary artery disease. The doctor will check your background to see if you smoke (or smoked) and if you have diabetes and high blood pressure. Ask about family history and check your cholesterol levels, including LDL (commonly called “bad” cholesterol) and HDL (commonly called “good cholesterol”).
Check your blood pressure and pulse, and examine your heart and lungs. You may need one or more diagnostic tests to determine if you have coronary artery disease. Tests may include: (more…)
Angina is discomfort or pain in the chest when not enough oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle cells. It is not a disease but a symptom of a more serious condition, often a coronary artery disease in which the vessels supplying the heart (give blood) is narrowed or blocked.
Coronary heart disease is usually caused by atherosclerosis, a disease in which fatty deposits (called plaque) on the inner walls of blood vessels. Although angina most commonly affects middle-aged men or older, can occur in both sexes and all ages. Angina is also known as angina pectoris. (more…)
The normal eardrum is pinkish-gray color and is translucent.
The handle and short apophysis Hammer (one of three small bones that allow the transmission of sound to the inner ear) are clearly visible, being in a laid back position at the top of the eardrum.
Pneumatic otoscopy (when inflated with air the ear canal) is very useful for evaluating middle ear disease. Gently applying positive and negative pressure air, you can determine the mobility of the tympanic membrane. (more…)
Otoscopic examination is performed by gentle traction of the outer ear (pinna) upwards and backwards. In children, the flag should pull down and backwards. This movement helps to explore placing the ear canal in line with the tympanic membrane, as the natural shape of the canal is curved. If the patient has pain when you pull your ear, you can indicate an infection of the ear canal (otitis externa).
The normal ear canal is air and often a wax layer that varies from yellow to dark brown. The total length of the ear canal in adults is about 2.5 centimeters, which produces a resonance frequency of about 3,000 Hz, a frequency range important for understanding speech. (more…)
What is the otoscopic examination?
Otoscopy is an examination that is performed by an instrument called an otoscope and used to examine the external auditory canal and middle ear assess through direct visualization of the eardrum.
An otoscope consists of 3 parts:
- The handle, which contains the battery to the light source.
- The head, which contains the bulb and a magnifying glass.
- The cone is inserted into the ear canal. (more…)
Initially, vegetarian diets were followed by followers of religions like Jainism, Buddhism and some Hindus, but in recent years there have been other reasons that have contributed to increasing the number of followers of these diets.
- For reasons of health.
- For environmental conservation ideas as plant food production is more environmentally friendly animal production.
- Out of respect for animal life.
For whatever reason, the number of people who describe themselves as vegetarian has increased in recent years and up to 5% of people in England, Germany and Australia say they are vegetarians. In the U.S. a 1985 study indicated that there were 6.6 million people rose to 12.4 vegetarian million in 1995. (more…)
Vegetarians
The term vegetarian diets include many different diets, characterized by preferential consumption of plant foods. The fidelity with which vegetarians follow these rules is variable:
- Vegan not take any food derived from animals and diet excludes eggs, milk and even honey;
- Vegetarians with such strict habits, as some drink milk (lacto-vegetarians), or milk and eggs (ovo-lacto-vegetarians) or who habitually take plant foods but in some cases, may take some meat or fish . In fact, in the U.S. to 20% of people who consider themselves vegetarian eat meat on occasion. (more…)