Are alternative methods for chronic pain as effective as opioids?
Drugs that are used in the treatment of chronic pain may cause severe side effects. Now a study by scientists has shown that non-drug treatment is as much effective as treatment with drugs. About ten million people in US suffer from chronic pain. Many of them turned in permanent medication – often opioids. Now scientists have found that strong painkillers that were taken over a long period, have the same effect as a treatment without drugs. For their meta-analysis, the researchers conducted more than 3,600 studies in more detail. Overall, the researchers data from nearly 11,000 patients are finally published. The results showed that even strong opioids not significantly eased the pain of patients comparing with other methods, such as physical therapy or psychotherapy. However, this does not apply to pain that occur as a result of cancer. The...
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During the day, warm, cool in the evenings: Bladder and pyelonephritis
The sun is shining – finally time for first pool visits and extensive outdoor evenings. But despite the warmth on the day the temperature drops rapidly from the evening: Then who is not dressed appropriately, quickly risks a bubble or even a kidney infection. Constant urge to urinate, burning and painful urination – many women know the symptoms of cystitis well enough. Because the female urethra is about four inches shorter than the male, and the opening is also closer to the anus, women solely because of their anatomy much more frequently affected than men. The main sources of bacteria from the gut: You enter through the urethra into the bladder, where they cause the so-called cystitis. In the case of sub-cooling of the feet and lower abdomen, the pathogen have it easy – especially in immunocompromised or women...
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Summer Flu
In agonizing summer flu nobody wants. In the hot season, therefore prevention is particularly important, as it can be in many cases such a bad cold for disease and prevent on vacation or at least easier to cure. A summer flu is almost always caused by viruses cause. A summer flu provides also because of their terminology often misunderstandings. With the real flu, which also causes by viruses, forcing patients for weeks to bed, it has nothing to do. In the summer flu is indeed a flu, a severe cold, which is transmitted by droplet infection. Help with a summer flu. A bad cold on warm days is a particular burden. While cool air in winter can bring a little relief, enhances the warm summer air the symptoms. It is therefore important to respond as early as possible. The...
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Does antioxidants helps with sudden hearing loss?
Approximately 16,000 people suffer every year in US from some problems with hearing. Taking of certain antioxidants may improve the prognosis. In a sudden hearing loss occurs for no apparent reason. It is mostly one-sided hearing loss, which can lead to deafness. In addition, can occur dizziness and ringing in the ears (tinnitus). The exact causes of sudden hearing loss are still unclear, but there is a thought that circulatory disorders in the inner ear leading to a lack supply of the sensory cells. Also chronic stress and lack of exercise and smoking can increase the risk of a sudden hearing loss. For some time, there are also indications that free radicals increase the damage. Now a team of doctors has investigated additional treatment with free radical. Maybe they can improve the treatment outcome. The researchers administered 70 patients...
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The thyroid
In an overactive thyroid, medically called hyperthyroidism, the thyroid gland produces more hormones than are required by the body. The peak incidence is between 20 and 40 years of age; Women are five times more often affected than men. Below the larynx in the throat is about 60 gram thyroid gland, which responsible for the production of the two hormones triiodothyronine and thyroxine is. When the body needs energy, they enter the bloodstream and provide an increased metabolism, energy and oxygen consumption and heat generation increases significantly. Moreover, the two hormones are involved in the brain and bone maturation during the growth phase. The balance is ensured by processes in the brain: When the hormone level drops, rain distributed by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to produce thyroid messengers to – until sufficient hormones are present. If there is...
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How dietary fiber protect us against colon cancer?
According to the studies, dietary fiber can reduce the risk of colon cancer. But most of the data comes only from dietary questionnaires and therefore are inaccurate. That fiber can actually reduce the likelihood of colorectal cancer, now a study has confirmed that fact. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the Western industrialized nations. Colorectal cancer consist of more than 95 percent of malignant colon tumors. As prophylaxis is often recommended intake of fiber, which was confirmed by several studies. However, some studies also point to the absence of benefits from dietary fiber. A major shortcoming of these studies has been that most of the data were determined from nutritional questionnaires. Diet questionnaires reflect information very inaccurately, no longer leaving no exact information on how many fibers have really taken the participants of study. Now,...
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