Travelers diarrhea, a common disease in time of long-distance travel
Everyone dreams of a long journey and about recovering under the palm trees or an adventure holiday. The adventure can also quickly become an unwelcome surprise. Especially when traveling to Africa and Southeast Asia, the risk of developing diarrhea, particularly high. Cause of traveler’s diarrhea, also known as Montezuma’s Revenge in the vernacular is increasingly an unusual for us. When you in the holiday in Central Europe there is lesser standard of hygiene, so that pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, or rarely parasites are popular. And from unsuspecting travelers can catch some diseases including from food or drinks. This gives rise to the first symptoms just hours or a few days after contact. Countermeasures should be taken at the latest, not later than you will find that, is unformed stool, which occurs more frequently than three times a day....
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Remove ticks in dogs – how do you do it correctly?
Beware the vicious tick! Rising temperatures not only attract people and dogs increasingly looking outside, but also awaken in one of the most dangerous insect in this country. The blood sucking ticks can cause dangerous diseases through the transmission of various parasites and must be removed as soon as possible from the skin. Just as people can catch Ixodes ricinus, the Common Ticks are dangerous to. Although ill dogs very rarely sick on the dreaded encephalitis (TBE), but they are just as susceptible to Lyme disease as humans and can also be affected beyond the Dog anaplasmosis. The causative agent destroys the white blood cells of the dog, which if left untreated can result in death. Furthermore, also the now native marsh tick a significant health risk, since it can transmit to the dog babesiosis and malaria and destroyed...
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How much body fat is normal?
Body fat: risks, side effects and methods of measurement. An ordinary scale reveals her weight only half the story, since it does not permit differentiation of muscle mass and body fat. How can conceal an ideal weight too much unhealthy body fat, while a high weight does not necessarily refer to a lot of fat. Our body needs fat to store nutrients, regulate the water balance and protect organs and joints. Therefore diets that have goal the complete degradation of fat reserves the is not only foolish but dangerous. On the other hand, however, too generous fat reserves are anything but healthy. In particular, an excess fat stored in abdominal is associated with vascular disease and an increased risk of heart attack. In women the age group between 20 and 30 years the proportion of body fat in the...
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With home remedies against mosquito bites
There are lots home remedies against mosquito bites. Almost all are really helpful, but often in very different extents. Here you will find the best advice for all stages of a mosquito attack. The female mosquitoes require blood to produce their eggs, and different fragrances serve them as a guide to the source of the blood. Especially the smell of human sweat acts beguiling mosquitoes. In return, however, there are odors that can not attract mosquitoes, almost all repellents available in drugstores and has pharmacies advantage. Human found friends in the flowers. Fragrance of lavender and the tomato plant is a gentle miracle weapon against the bloodsuckers. Also, various in fragrance lamps heated essential oils such as eucalyptus, camphor, sandalwood and bergamot are not in accordance with mosquito taste. If you, however, been the victim of an attack mosquitoes,...
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Varicose Veins: not just a blemish
Varicose veins, medically called varices are dilated veins nodular, usually in the legs. The serpentine bluish swellings are not only ugly, but sometimes dangerous. To prevent possible vascular inflammation, all signs should be treated at an early stage with medicine and support the weakened veins through regular exercise. Women arteries do not have their own muscles and are in their task deliver deoxygenated blood to the heart and to carry back, dependent on the pressing action of adjacent muscles. In order to prevent the lowering of the blood, in case of prolonged immobility, the veins have valves that keep the blood down, whichever is higher. This venous valves may be impaired in their function due to a congenital connective tissue so, visible sacs due to increased pressure in the blood vessels. Varicose veins are not only a cosmetic trouble,...
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