Safe Drug-term care provision in the home
The supply of care by the family is increasingly common. The necessary expertise, even around the supply of medicines had to be the caring family members earlier anlesen itself. Today, there are professional support through pharmacies. About 70% of care were cared for by their own family in 2011. These are 1.76 million people, of which only 576,000 were provided by external caregivers. The figures show the Federal Statistical Office, that informing family members will become increasingly important. For the diagnosis and the issuance of the recipes of attending physician is responsible. He will conduct the necessary investigations as part of a home visit in most cases. The administration of medication is the responsibility of carers. Since it is rarely healthcare professionals with them, the family doctor is also responsible for education. For dependent patients, medication systems that can...
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Birth rate in Transition
Birth rates are falling really? Is it true that couples have less interest in starting a family, or are the reasons maybe somewhere else? One thing is certain, never took the issue of child pairs as serious as it is today. 1.4 children get the American woman on average and this figure could fall further. While today the average age of new mothers is between 26 and 35, the number of women giving birth continues to rise late. In 2013 28.455 women were older than 40 at the birth of her child, since the number of women of childbearing age will decrease but according to statistics on, would in the next few years more than just bring a child into the world statistical older women, so that the 1.4 children per woman retained at all. That this happens is...
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Tips about defence of kids
Autumn is cold and flu for children? This must not be. With the right tips parents can strengthen the defence of kids. No matter large or small and protect them from frequent colds. The sight sweaty or wet from the rain children who do not even seem to freeze, know all the parents and by no means always follows it a cold. To a certain degree the somewhat loose handling of the temperatures also trains the immune system and keeps kids healthy. But only up to a certain point. In case of contact with viruses or bacteria, for example, by an ill children, the infection is often just a matter of time. The most important protective measures against cold measures are: A lot of exercise in the fresh air Clothing for the weather Srinking enough water Vitamin-rich diet No...
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Shingles: chicken pox adult
The viral disease herpes zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is a sometimes very painful nerve inflammation that can affect anyone who has had chickenpox. If the disease is detected at an early stage, there is a good chance of recovery. The varicella zoster virus usually appears in childhood from chickenpox, which manifest themselves in an itchy rash combined with fever. The body has preserves the infection, the virus migrates to the nerve roots of the spinal cord, and remains there in an inactive state. With a strong weakening of the immune system, for example, by stress or other diseases may break out again and cause shingles. The disease begins with a burning sensation and sometimes pain in the affected nerve areas. Weakness and fever can be added as accompanying symptoms. After a few days along the nerve trunk occur...
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Diabetes in dogs
Diabetes mellitus – Dogs also suffer from diabetes. Your dog is constantly thirsty and losing weight despite increased appetite? Then your dog may be has diabetic. For what little is known, even dogs can suffer from the people at belonging to the endemic diseases, diabetes mellitus. Although dogs can just as we humans suffer from any form of diabetes, is in practice almost exclusively of diabetes mellitus type I, in which the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas no longer work enough. Unlike humans, however, the sugar metabolism disorder developed only in adult animals. This small breeds and castrated females are sick much more frequently. Although the causes are still poorly understood, genetic predisposition and certain hormones to the triggers of canine diabetes mellitus appear, is usually irreversible and requires the lifelong administration of insulin. With Insulin sugar dogs can...
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Hope this is therapy of osteoporosis
On October 20, the Federal Centre for Health Education again osteoporosis or bone loss alert: Four times more women than men 50-79 years of age are affected. Although all the causes of the disease are not yet understood, but help is available. A stumbling, increasing the burden or a slight fall already lead to osteoporosis fractures. An alarm signs are painful spontaneous fractures and vertebral deformations without apparent cause. Particularly at risk of developing osteoporosis are women who are past menopause after the age of 70. The synthesis of the protein calcitonin and vitamin D, both important for bone formation are controlled according to the gender of the sex hormones estrogen or testosterone. Because decreases after menopause in women, estrogen levels, also suffers from the bone metabolism. Therefore, women are more affected than men, where the testosterone level remains...
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