Tips against sunstroke in seniors
Sun feels good! Seniors enjoy the warm rays usually particularly. Pain in the joints are relieved, the heat also relaxes tense muscles and calms the nerves. However, threatens with a sunstroke a serious risk that can be significantly reduced with the right background knowledge. If the head is exposed to excessive and prolonged sun exposure, sunstroke is not far off. Here also the neck is at risk, so a hat alone is not enough as protection. In a sunstroke, there is a about irritation of the meninges and as a result the whole organism reacts. A sunstroke can run different weights, at worst lead to death. The main symptoms are: Flushed face skin Headaches Dizziness Neck stiffness Nausea Shallow breathing Possible unconsciousness The sunstroke is not to be confused with the heat stroke is accompanied by other symptoms, but...
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Can mindfulness meditation prevent migraine?
Stress is a trigger for migraine. Now researchers have investigated whether the mindfulness meditation reduce the number of monthly migraine attacks and stress. Approximately ten percent of all Americans repeatedly suffer from migraines – a few of them suffer even up to fifteen attacks per month. Although the exact causes and mechanisms of migraine are still unclear, but as one of the risk factors for frequent attacks of pain could be the stress. Therefore, it is obvious that relaxation exercises and stress management can be effective against migraine. However, compared to medications, these measures have so far been little explored and not supported by medical studies. Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in the US state of North Carolina now investigate how the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) effects on the frequency of migraine attacks. The results is: Mindfulness...
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Vitamin D deficiency leads to increased risk of dementia
More and more people in US suffer from dementia. A new study has now shown that a lack of vitamin D may contribute to increase the risk of dementia developing. Even the emergence of Alzheimer’s disease may be caused by lack of Vitamin D. A research team could now confirm this thesis by a six-year study in which was involved over 1,600 seniors aged 65 and over. It was found that among seniors with a slight vitamin D deficiency, the risk of a disease of the nervous system as compared with the participants who were adequately supplied with the “sunshine vitamin”, had already increased by about half. In the subjects with severe Vitamin D deficiencies, the disease risk was more high than twice. Own production of Vitamin D decreases with the age. A causal relationship between vitamin D deficiency...
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Unbalanced salt intake is injurious to health
Too much salt is unhealthy – most people know that. But at what point the salt intake can actually be harmful to health is controversial. Most people take too much salt, namely between three and six grams per day. This matches to 7.5 to 15.0 grams of sodium chloride. Not more than three grams of sodium per day currently recommended. But this rule is complied only with four percent of the world population. Now researchers have calculated that 1.6 million people die annually from the effects of excessive sodium intake. The study, which has now been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has studied the samples of morning urine from more than 100,000 people from 18 countries and has used the results to calculate the daily consumption of sodium and potassium. Risk increases with increased salt intake....
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In the fall of health dangers lurk already in shaking hands
Meanwhile, the days are getting shorter and the autumn has arrived. In addition to the golden days means also wet cold rainy weather, which is added to the body and makes it more susceptible to diseases. In addition lumbago, dry skin and depression are especially cold viruses on the health hazards in the fall. So cold, cough and sore throat have now strengthened season, because the cold and rain, many people turn to a walk in the fresh air and keep prefer to warm rooms. But that is what contributes to an increased susceptibility to infection. Firstly, the warm air heating dries out the mucous membranes in the nose and throat, so that they can fend off pathogens worse. On the other hand weaken cold and wet reduce body’s defenses. Both factors together make the body more susceptible to...
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