Tag: Chronic Diseases

bear

Taking care of patients all the year round is more likely to lead to depression?

Many patients with chronic mental diseases such as schizophrenia and depression need additional care and support from their families because they lose their ability to take care of themselves. So, are caregivers who are under financial pressure and the burden of daily life more likely to suffer from depression than ordinary people? What should I do if depression occurs? Are you a caregiver? Caregiver refers to the person who takes care of the daily life of family members with difficulties in self-care. These care includes housework, shopping, as well as care and comfort in daily life and in case of illness, and bears corresponding financial assistance. There are relatively few people engaged in full-time nursing in China, and more of Read More …

bear

Hypertension control is not good, may be blind, can’t see things

The eyes are the windows of the heart, Let’s feel the wonderful world. Many people like to use cameras to describe eyeballs. Then the retina is like a photographic film in a camera. It is specially responsible for photosensitive imaging. But for people with hypertension who do not control their blood pressure well, At the end of the day, enjoying a clear and bright world may be a luxury for them. Because small blood vessels in the retina are damaged by hypertension, hypertensive retinopathy will occur, and in serious cases, they may become blind and never see again. What is going on? Why does hypertension damage retina? Although, generally at the end of hypertension, It is easy for the eyes Read More …

bear

I know why schizophrenia patients are not good at taking medicine, and I also know that there are good methods for what at these times.

[Medicine can’t stop! ] It’s just an Internet joke, but for many patients with chronic diseases, it’s not just a joke. Schizophrenia patients are one of these patients with chronic diseases. Symptoms have disappeared, can the medicine stop? It is easy to understand that when people are ill, they have various uncomfortable symptoms and need to take medicine. Then when the disease is cured and the symptoms disappear, can the medicine stop? For schizophrenic patients, the answer is no. China’s Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Schizophrenia (2nd Edition) once again emphasize the importance of long-term treatment of schizophrenia. Among them, the guidelines mention the concept of [maintenance therapy], that is, after the symptoms of acute attack of schizophrenia Read More …

bear

Diuretics, a Antihypertensive Drug with a Long History

Diuretics are a [long-standing] antihypertensive drug. Its mechanism of lowering blood pressure is well understood. We often compare blood vessels to water pipes and heart to water pumps. The blood is the water in the water pipes. Some people suffer from hypertension, that is, there is too much water in the water pipe and the pressure on the water pipe will be great. If we discharge some water from the pipe, the pressure will drop. Diuretics play a role in draining water, draining more water from blood vessels, reducing blood volume and blood pressure. However, among hypertension patients in our country, the use of diuretics is far less extensive than that of other three types of antihypertensive drugs. Why? Disadvantages Read More …

bear

Five manifestations of diabetes deterioration, see if you have them?

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease that can cause disability and death. How the disease progress is a matter of great concern to sugar lovers. However, sugar lovers often make a mistake: only the blood sugar level is used as the criterion for evaluating the disease condition. In fact, the main harm of diabetes is not hyperglycemia itself, but various acute and chronic complications caused by hyperglycemia. Therefore, in addition to blood sugar, the assessment of sugar friends’ illness should also consider the risk factors leading to disease development and various acute and chronic complications. Diabetes doctors have summarized the manifestations of 5 kinds of deterioration of the disease. Let’s take a look at them as soon as possible Read More …

bear

Eat kelp every day, small sad acid alkali constitution has not changed, become hyperthyroidism!

Today, I saw a piece of news with the headline “The mother of the second child suffers from hyperthyroidism by believing in folk prescription kelp as food for her son”. Because I believe that eating more kelp can make my body alkaline and easy to give birth to boys. Therefore, I eat kelp almost every day. I don’t know whether the baby in my belly has become a boy, but I have changed myself into hyperthyroidism first! Alkaline constitution is more likely to give birth to boys? There is a widespread saying among the people that alkaline constitution is easy to give birth to boys. It is believed that alkaline environment is more conducive to the survival of [Y] sperm Read More …

bear

It is not only thin that is called malnutrition, overweight, obesity and chronic diseases.

When it comes to malnutrition, many people will think that it is emaciation, that children do not grow tall or fleshy, or that adults are as thin as skin and bones. But malnutrition is far more than that! Overweight and obesity are also malnutrition We always say that fat people [are overnourished], but their malnutrition problem is very serious. Adults For Chinese adults, if BMI ≥ 24, they are overweight. BMI ≥ 28 is obesity. BMI is called body mass index and is used for nutritional assessment of obesity. The calculation formula is: BMI = weight (kg)/[square of height (m)]. According to a 2014 WHO report, 39% of adults in the world are overweight and 13% are obese. Children, especially Read More …

bear

Low sodium and high potassium, a kind of eating method to prevent hypertension and stroke.

When it comes to hypertension and stroke, everyone is very afraid: hypertension requires a lifetime of antihypertensive drugs; Stroke, mild paralysis, severe direct life-threatening… Hypertension and stroke are so terrible, is there any way to prevent them from diet? Of course there is! FDA has approved such a health statement: Diets containing high potassium and low sodium diets can reduce the risk of hypertension and stroke. As long as a food contains more than 350 milligrams of potassium, this statement can be marked. In other words, the diet of low sodium and high potassium is helpful to prevent hypertension and stroke. Low sodium and high potassium, why is it so magical? 1. Low sodium, reducing the risk of hypertension and Read More …