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Global warming provokes allergies
- Posted at 07:13 on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Leila The World Health Organization held with the International Day against allergies. According to WHO, the disease suffers every fifth inhabitant of the planet. Russian medics believe that the various manifestations of allergic reactions occur at least every third inhabitant of the country. Over the past 30 years, allergic diseases, including bronchial asthma, have become the most widespread in the world, with incidence rising among both adults and children. According to WHO, every third child is suffering from allergies Europe and one in ten - bronchial asthma. The most frequent allergic reaction to the flowering plants, household dust, wool animal medicines. Not shouting at a child - it can cause allergy attack at his Specialists believe that different types of allergy suffers at least a third of the population. Immunology-Allergology Institute. RAMS University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Michael Costin believes that every second Russians at least once in life experienced some form of allergy symptoms: -- Allergy depends on age. Because just by age, and it varies. Assume from early childhood, this allergy - on foods. In 3-7 years, in addition to the allergy occurs epidermal (cutaneous) household allergens, frequent wool allergy to cats, dogs. Allergies cause domestic mites, and even added to the pollen allergy. In increasing age, ranging from 15-16 years of age and older added allergy, which is linked with various viruses and bacteria. Allergy can occur simultaneously with the attendant pathologies. For example, a person has a chronic disease of the liver, kidneys, nervous system and so on, then it may be allergic to medication. -- Recently, health-allergology revealed any new allergens? -- Allergeny what were, are and remain. Another matter that has recently put more precise diagnoses, revealed significant causal allergen. -- There has recently whether any new medical treatments? -- Techniques remains the same. Another point is that there are new drugs that can neutralize or stop the growth and development of specific allergic disease. -- It's allergy drug from allergies? -- Of course, there are. Any drug, even the one who appointed to allergies, may itself become allergens. Even nervous stress leads to the development of allergic disease. If a person is nervous, or it may be rash, or asthma attack occurs, or suffers from skin. And when people complacent, the process of decreasing. This is also an important social factor. Therefore, I would recommend Mom does not shout at the child because the child it can cause allergic reactions, even asthma attacks. Ecological condition in the city causes allergy Most experts - and Russian and foreign, have long said that many allergic reactions occur more frequently among residents of large cities. Contact them, primarily, with an unfavourable environment. This view is fully shared the professor, senior fellow at Center of Demography and Human Ecology Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Revich. -- The first risk factor, which I should like to mention - is, of course, air pollution exhaust. Second, seemingly, it seems distant from the problems we are discussing - is global warming. Scientists biologists have already noticed that shifted timing of flowering plants, and hence allergic diseases, which relate to the impact of plant pollen, they, too, before starting to affect human health. Third - everything that relates to nutrition. Our food "is improving" not for the better, so we have to include a global network of nutrition, and this too is not everything improves health. It is important to breastfeeding. In too many countries around the world are now being very active campaigns promoting breastfeeding. Because nothing more valuable than women's milk for infants does not exist. -- What is dangerous allergy? -- I would not use the word "dangerous" or "lethal". Allergy dangerous because at its background can develop much more severe disease, for example, even bronchial asthma. Many people allergic manifestations take place very quickly. Think perekormil baby strawberries, gave him an orange or two, do not give a god, mom of the most well-meaning feeded baby carrot, and he gave the appropriate course allergic reaction, and then everything went. But we are all very different. One responded fairly easy malaise - annoyance mucous eye, a slight cold, pokashlivaniem, persheniem in the throat. Ottsvel poplar, everything is in place, we have forgotten about it. But there are people who have not worked so well the immune system and can therefore develop sufficiently severe disease - diathesis, skin disease, which manifests itself in different ways. For example, now sharply increasing thyroid disease. Why now happening big increase from this disease specialists have no clear opinion. Therefore, I would say: Allergies - it zvonochek with someone weak, with someone stronger, and for someone - bell. Therefore, if a person does not even very serious allergic manifestations, it must be very carefully followed, to see how he reacted in this year's bloom, but as in the previous, when his reaction was more severe, whether he had any drugs or not taken. To this must be treated very seriously. Lethal peanuts According to the American doctors, today suffers from allergies every fifth inhabitant of the United States. Including 12 million people are allergic to any foods. This tells Washington correspondent RS Allan Davydov. 21-year old college student in Michigan Joshua Ramirez was one of half a million Americans suffering from allergic to peanuts, and in acute form. In April 1996 day - Joshua year bought in vending machines in their dormitory stack of chocolate biscuits, in which the security was certainly confident. The young man died 15 minutes after nadkusil favorite biscuits. As it turned out, it contained a barely visible impurity arahisovovoy crumbs. After the tragedy, the mother of Joshua and parents of other young people who died of acute food allergy, united and lobbied for several years in Congress the adoption of a law obliging companies to give consumers an exhaustive account of the composition of their products. As a result, in 2004, was adopted by the Federal Act on labelling of food allergens and Consumer Protection. In A SSH information about the composition of prepacked food is placed on the package before, but suffering from allergies buyer could purchase a product containing Peanut butter, but he did not guess, because the name of the appropriate ingredients are printed on Latin. Today such practices eliminated. Says an expert on types of food allergies Hugh Sampson. -- With the adoption of a new law on food labelling information on these products has become more complete and clear. First, buying, say, the bank substitute natural cream, many did not suspect that casein sodium, which is part of the mixture and listed on the label, is a milk protein. Today allocated eight types of products that most often cause food-allergic reaction - this is milk, eggs, flour, soybeans, peanuts, different types of nuts, fish and shellfish - all this must be clearly marked on the list of ingredients on the packaging of products containing at least one of these items. The law required the Federal Office to monitor the quality of food and medicine to investigate the causes of secondary contamination of products elements, causing allergies. The law also closed a loophole allows companies to manipulate information on hazardous allergens. However, as pointed Ann Munos-Ferlong, founder and head of public networks to protect against allergies and anafilaksii, the situation with food allergies in the United States remains alarming. The greatest concern, she said, inspires allergy, all of the same roasted peanuts, which is one of the favorite delicacy of Americans. -- According to a study conducted for five years, the number of American school-age children suffering from allergic to peanuts doubled. Now it is 600 thousand people. Any contact with peanuts or its derivatives poses a threat to their lives. The threat of allergic peanuts poisoning led to the heads of some school districts in several states ordered to completely eliminate peanuts and products from the diet of children within the walls of schools, and banned these products bring with them. This measure, in turn, has aroused objections of parents of children who do not suffer from allergies. However, experts from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina argue that the funds against peanut allergy immunotherapy will be developed and will soon become available are already suffering from it in five years. A technical specialists of the Agricultural University in the same state a year ago stated that close to the development of inexpensive but reliable method of processing peanuts, after which he loses allergens properties without losing its taste and nutritional quality. The main objective of the international day to combat allergies - to tell as many people as possible about the symptoms of the disease. The Russian doctors, many simply do not know that they have allergies, and do not attach any importance it is not too serious manifestations. Can not cure the allergy, but to coexist peacefully with the disease, taking medication and free of allergies, it is quite possible. 0 Comments - Post Comment - Permanent Link
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Aspirin protects against osteoporosis and bone fractures
- Posted at 07:13 on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Leila Forty-four million Americans, 68% of them - women, suffer from the debilitating effects of osteoporosis, according to the National Institute of Health. Every second woman and every fourth man over 50 would have at least one disease associated with the turnaround in their lives. Chemists at the University of Southern California studied the role of aspirin against drug weakened bones and concluded that the drug prevents bone resorption and death of stem cells, forming bone. It is anticipated that the development of osteoporosis in older age groups played the key role of T-lymphocytes - the types of immune system cells that trigger osteoklasty. Osteoklasty - so cells, re-absorbing material from the bones of the skeleton. T-cells, and immune cells may mistakenly attack healthy stem cells, thereby harm the functions of bone marrow and increasing the number osteoklastov explain American scientists. It was found that aspirin blocks the loss of bone mass and bone mineral density, oversees the osteoklastov and thus protects the body from the structural deterioration of skeletal and fractures. |