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Archive for January, 2010

The organ that plays a vital role in losing unwanted weight is our liver. It performs a function that breaks down fats to prevent it from accumulating in the liver that adds more weight to our body. If these fats continuously accumulate in our blood, the liver will have a hard time in eliminating toxins and will eventually cause blood clot that can cause heart disorders. There are many factors that cause damage on our liver. These may be the chemicals found in your home or workplace, medicines, unhealthy diet like large consumption of processed foods. Once the different parts of the body starts to malfunction, the liver is damaged and needs to be cleansed to bring it back to better condition to perform its functions well. A functioning liver is a good way to eliminate fats in our body that will prevent the cause of other disorders.

Hypoglycaemia occurs when the level of glucose in the blood falls to 3.3mmol/l or less. Obviously this varies in different people (we’re all different), but this is the now recognised level.

It is not a result of diabetes itself; after all, diabetes is a reflection of high levels of glucose in the blood. The problem is, so many things affect blood glucose levels, that whilst your doctor can prescribe, quite properly, drugs or insulin with the appropriate doses, some unusual exercise or skipping a meal, can cause the medication to lower the blood glucose to such an extent, that a “hypo” occurs.

These events are usually mild in nature, and easily rectified with a couple of glucose tablets or a sugary drink with about 15 grams of glucose in it. Generally you should then wait 20 minutes, particularly if you are operating machinery, including a car, and then take your blood glucose level again.

Some people cannot wheel their own chairs and would prefer to get around by themselves without needing a friend or family member to push. The electric wheel chairs eliminate this need altogether and allow those in wheelchairs to live better lives.

There are different types of electric wheel chairs that will be used for different people and for those with differing injuries. You can find that many wheelchairs like Invacare give you options of sizes, features, and more so that you can be totally comfortable with your choice of wheelchair. Most of the time, you can learn about these types of electric wheelchairs from your doctor, but otherwise you can always do an online search which will give you various manufacturers and prices that you can expect to pay for a state of the art machine such as this.

You may feel that receiving a diagnosis of a chronic disease is the end all of your way of life as you know it. This does not have to be the case. You can control the effects that most diseases have on your body with a few simple steps the lifestyle alterations to keep yourself as healthy and vital as possible. The simple fact on increasing your overall health and taking better care of yourself can be a major factor in controlling a chronic disease and getting you back in charge of your life.

Get Healthy
This may sound overly simplistic but it’s one of the most powerful pieces of advice that you can get when talking about taking charge of your chronic disease and controlling its effects over your life. Things like smoking, high blood pressure and out of control diabetes can all have negative effects on your efforts to get your disease under control. Make sure that you are addressing these factors as soon after your diagnosis as you can.

Multiple sclerosis presents in various ways and subsequently shows variable disease courses. If we knew early on what the disease course for Multiple Sclerosis would be then we could better target the medication in each individual case. To date it has been unpredictable right from disease onset but, knowing the disease course is of crucial importance in guiding treatment.

Now “The Department of Neurosciences” at Cardiff University has recently been looking into factor H as a biomarker for multiple sclerosis and the findings are promising.

Effective and accessible biomarkers are needed in order to stratify (separate into groups) patients and inform treatment. The team at Cardiff University decided to look into factor H as such a marker. Regulator factor H, has recently been implicated as a biomarker in other chronic inflammatory central nervous system conditions. Could it identify or predict specific pathological processes and outcomes in multiple sclerosis?