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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

URGENT: LUNG WATER

Pulmonary edema or fluid in the lungs


Numerous disorders lead to the accumulation of fluid or edema in the lungs.
Lungs (there are two) are normally air-filled; their main function being to take oxygen from the atmosphere, exchange it with carbon dioxide, and transfer the fresh oxygen to the blood for transport to all the cells in the body.
The lungs are spongy (comprised of multiple small sacs known as alveoli) organs located in the chest behind the rib cage. When fluid builds up in the alveoli, it interferes with the normal oxygen intake -- causing severe disturbances in body function.


Shortness of breath
Gasping for air
Shortness of breath with activity
Inability to sleep lying flat (need more than 2 pillows)
Wheezing sound with breathing
Wet gurgling sounds in the chest
Coughing a pinkish or blood-tinged frothy sputum
Weakness
Fatigue
Anxiety and restlessness
Pounding or Racing Heart rate
Chest pain or sudden shortness of breath at night waking the patient up
Breathing may completely stop for a few seconds during sleep
Swelling (fluid build up) in the feet and ankles
Fever and other symptoms may occur according to the specific etiology.


Heart disorders can cause fluid to back up in the blood vessels (veins) that carry blood away from the lungs to the heart. As a result of pressure build-up in these veins, excess fluid leaks out into the alveoli.

Heart disorders:

Heart attack (death of heart muscle) or Myocardial Infarction
Left-sided Heart Failure
Valvular heart disease -- poorly-functioning doors between heart's 4 chambers
Arrhythmias -- irregularities in heart rhythm
Cardiomyopathy -- enlarged, balloon- like myocarditis (i.e., infection of heart muscle)
Congenital (present at birth) heart diseases -- such as holes in the walls between heart chambers (i.e., atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects).
Endocarditis -- infection of the valves
High Blood Pressure
Volume or fluid overload -- too much liquid intake by a person with diseased heart or kidneys.
Thyroid disease (hypothyroid or hyperthyroid)
Beriberi (Vitamin B1 Deficiency)
Others:
Kidney (renal) failure
Pneumonia -- infection of the lungs
Pulmonary Embolism -- blockage of lung blood vessels due to air bubbles, fat, amniotic fluid (in newborns), or clotted blood
Pancreatitis -- irritation, infection, or damage to the pancreas.
Drug overdose -- heroin and others
Shock
Drowning
High altitude sickness -- rapid climbing to heights (mountains) can cause Pulmonary Edema and other problems.


History:
Symptoms
Illnesses
Medications
Surgeries
Habits
Family history
Birth history
Allergies
Travel history
Medical exam:
Patient will appear breathless with nasal flaring (sides of nose moving outward with each breath)
The pulse rate (heart rate) may be faster than normal (60-100 beats per minute)
The doctor, using a stethoscope, will hear the Fluid in the Lungs (rales and crepitations) and abnormal or extra heart sounds.
Tests:
Arterial blood gas test -- blood oxygen levels are lower than normal (hypoxia).
Blood test may show that carbon dioxide levels are lower than normal (hypocarbia).
Other blood tests may be necessary in diagnosing the cause (e.g., high CPK levels in heart attack and Amylase in pancreatitis).
Chest X-Ray will show Fluid in the Lungs.
Electrocardiogram (measures electrical activity of the heart), Echocardiogram (uses sound waves to create a picture of the heart), and CAT scan can also be helpful in pinpointing the exact cause of the edema.
A cardiologist (heart doctor) may be called to perform a cardiac catheterization or Swan-Ganz catheterization, which are techniques that can provide valuable information about the heart and edema.


Aim is to treat symptoms and remove or reduce the fluid
In sudden, severe cases:

Oxygen as needed
Morphine, furosemide, nitroglycerin, and other medications are given in the hospital to reduce Anxiety, improve circulation, and promote fluid excretion (diuresis) or peeing excess fluid.
The patient, once admitted, receives drugs (diuretics) over the next several days to assist in gradually reducing excess fluid (urination removes excess body water).
The weight and amount of fluid taken in and urinated is carefully measured.
Low salt diet
Fluid restriction
Before discharge, the patient sees a cardiologist and is sent home with a treatment plan and medications.



See causes
Asthma
Pneumonia
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
Hyperventilation or Panic Attack

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Monday, December 1, 2008

FROM BEIRUT DIET: URIC ACID PROBLEM

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES ON BREAKFAST:

I live in Beirut. My physical life can be descibed as moderate and healthy.I am considered sport, a type which preserves well its balance and its muscular tone and by the fact even, his moral!
But here! There is one year an evil appeared: an Auto-immune Anaemia of I do not know where nor how and my only treatment was cortisone. Then the after-effects of this treatment have drag. One of the consequences appeared after the treatment out of cortisone and which seized me was a beginning of Osteoarthritis caused by a rather high rate of uric acid continuation which quite simply nailed me on the spot: difficulty of movements, impossibility of making a long walk, tires in the articulation, impossibility of making jogging, attitude of “old age”, movements slow and painful when I rise after a certain position, obstructs on the level of the muscles when I quite the car, nervousness, etc….


A SOLUTION SHOULD BE FOUND SO THAT THIS EVIL DOES NOT WORSEN,
especially that I read here and there that the uric acid generates the gout and the gout generates the loss of the cartilage which cannot be formed any more again and the loss of the cartilage generates the osteoarthritis which is irrevocable and not to be cured etc little more. etc. etc… . Ouf… a succession of consequences in chains where one foresees a health condition with disastrous future that cannot be repaired when it arrives its final limit and which is : THE LOSS OF THE CARTILAGE ON THE LEVELS OF THE ARTICULATIONS OF ALL THE BODY.



DRUGS or POISONS

The EFFECT OF the TARGETED NUTRITION is not to be demonstrated anymore, for me the four last months convinced me definitively that the usual food that one eats with pleasure are either DRUGS or POISONS!.
Of course it is the long heritage practice of good taste in eating that lays heavy on our shoulders. Especially here in Beirut the capital of mezza ,arak,and heavy meals. But more then share of the eaten time which gives us pleasure and which is our right on earth and in Lebanon, it is in final only for a certain number of (young) years that eating with pleasure will give us joy.
After that the pleasures of the good old Lebanese cuisine will be a beautiful site to watch and not to touch!.
The first of these joys would be Sugar or if you like to soften the terme : Sweets and I mean by that all kinds of sweets from Beirut to Europe and what they bring to us of evils for the teeth or serious diseases like the diabetes. Then what they contain of butters and oils and fat and what they bring for the heart, obesity or cholesterol.



ALL STARTS WITH BREAKFAST: COFFEE WITH MILK AND THEN THE 10 o'clock COFFEE
A MORBID PRACTICE WICH IS AT THE BASE OF MORE OF OUR TROUBLES IN LIFE.

PURE COFFEE

One of the problems of breakfast it is that it must be well balanced and fast.
but when one has a PROBLEM to manage, it is necessary nevertheless to take its time to compose a breakfast.
balanced well.
With regard to the osteoarthritis and the problems of the articulations (tendons, bone, cartilage, muscles, nerves, etc…).It is that few nutritive ingredients in the kitchen are able to satisfy our taste for a tasty good breakfast.
A good breakfast means copious or to be more precise glucid and lipids rich .
However how to illiminate from our breakfast these “dangerous” practices for the problems of osteoarthritis and health in general?

CAFEE

One of our practices in the morning is of course coffee!
Coffee was used in its countries of origins like tonic medicine in the event of diseases a stimulant for muscules in the wars and a hallucinatory poison for the Shamans!
Is This makes the coffee suitable for a modern individual?!

the first signs are a general satisfaction of good being an awakening of the direction due to its stimulative influence on the nervous system, this is why it becomes a morning practice: it awakes the senses
a great muscular tonicity due to its work on the nervous system and the blood pressure.
but the reverse of the medalion is there:

Muscular tonicity needs to be deployed. If one has much to do in the morning It RULES, BECAUSE the STIMULANT AND EXPANDING MUSCULAR AND ITS EFFECT DISSIPATES
BUT IF ONE IS WITHOUT MOVEMENTS the BODY MUST DISSIPATE THIS STIMULANT In ANOTHER MANNER: BLOOD-PRESSURE BECAUSE OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE COFFEE ON BLOOD, WORK ON THE LIVER WHICH ILLIMINATE THIS FOOD BECOMING POISON, AND IN THE CASE OF TURKISH COFFEE A DEPOSIT OF SLACKNESS.

This tonicity of coffee lasts one hour. One who takes coffee has pink or red cheeks at the beginning.
Then suddenly there is a drop when the effect DECREASES
He becomes pale yellow and with an air of fatigue, tired because of the muscular efforts, and active blood, deployed involuntarily During the general nervousness of the body.
This explains our need to have a second coffee towards 9:00 or 10:00 to reinitiate us in form: THUS AGAIN TENSION, ETC….

It IS the ADDICTION .

My personal research and test daily on this subject:

for 3 cups per day of 8:00 15:00 has (the evening I do not take any, BECAUSE TONIC EFFECT is MUCH LONGER AND IS LIKELY TO LEAVE ME WAKE UP MOST OF the NIGHT)

indeed the coffee returns me hyper agitated (it is well for the alarm clock)
but after that a feeling of frustratiion and a tiredness.
It is the same as the case of alcohol.
If I take several cups per day, I have cramps at the feet by night


Coffee IS a calcium iliminator and a inhibitator of iron Who consumes coffee in large quantities CAN BE CONSIDEREd as Anemic in force and with large chances to become a truly anemic.
Modern research bound it to the osteoroposis.
My personal research has lead me to bind it with the uric acid, cholesterol and triglyceride high level .

SO WHO HAS THESE THREE PROBLEMS MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP TAKING COFFEE OF THE MORNING

And may replace it with tea or another herbal infusion.
This with regard to the coffee taken only

however the MAJORITY TAKES the FAMOUS COFFEE WITH MILK AND SUGAR, AND THERE WHERE THE TRUE PROBLEM BEGINS ...... (continuation of the post later).