Showing posts with label Lung Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lung Health. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

Harmful effects of smoking cigarettes

Harmful effects of smoking cigarettes - Stop smoking now means you can live healthier and happier. As you already know that the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes is bad for yourself and everyone around you. Slowly but surely the dangers of smoking can definitely be felt. The following will be discussed harmful effects of smoking cigarettes to health.

Harmful effects of smoking cigarettes is to know

There are many things about the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes is to know. Did you know if the smoke can increase the tendency to get colds and flu? According to research if someone were active smokers, will be at risk more often experience colds, bronchitis and flu. Unconsciously you also can transmit the disease to others. Inveksi virus can be transmitted through the cigarette smoke that you spend.

Harmful effects of smoking cigarettes
Smoking can also cause cancer, heart disease, stroke and increased cholesterol. The heart will be affected directly because the blood vessels more quickly build the surrounding fat tissue. So that the artery will not be fast enough to pump the blood that can support the needs of the heart's natural. The result is a blood clotting, damage blood vessels and eventually causing a blockage that could end up with a stroke or even death.

If you are active smokers, do not assume you are at risk for disease. Other people who breathe in secondhand smoke you are also a great opportunity to have a deadly disease. Because cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide and tar are also toxins in their bodies.

There is the danger of smoking to the health of your baby or toddler. Smoking during pregnancy can lead to disturbances and abnormalities in the fetus. Experts found babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were born with smaller airways. This makes them more susceptible to respiratory problems after birth. Breathing problems can put babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Dangers of smoking during pregnancy is associated with various health problems in infants. Mothers who smoke risk having stillbirths, miscarriages or premature babies. Smoking while pregnant will lower the amount of oxygen available for the mother and the baby. As a result, the baby's heart rate will increase the risk of premature birth and deaths increase.

Similarly, harmful effects of smoking cigarettes articles, hopefully giving awareness to those of you who want to quit smoking.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Suspected Lung Cancer Can Spread By Goat

Because it is more associated with environmental and lifestyle factors, cancer is usually not categorized as an infectious disease. But according to studies, the goat is believed to transmit a rare form of cancer that attacks the lungs.

Research conducted by scientists from the Louis Pradel Hospital in France that showed that people who frequently engage in contact with sheep are more susceptible to pneumonic-type adenocarcinoma (P-ADC). This disease is a type of lung cancer is quite rare.


"Previously, scientists have found there are many similarities between lung cancer P-ADC with a contagious viral infection in goats,"

From the allegations, Girard and his colleagues perform a search to see the possibility of transmission to humans. If indeed there is a risk of transmission, then it should be followed by an increased risk of P-ADC on one who is often involved in contact with goats.

In that study, involving 44 patients Girard P-ADC lung cancer and 132 healthy participants. The entire risk factors that are owned by the participants observed, including family history, smoking habits and how often contact with goats.

Observations indicate, the contact with goats associated with risk of lung cancer in particular P-ADC. Participants who throughout his life always in touch with the goat had a risk five times higher for taxable than the P-ADC other types of lung cancer.

Different types of lung cancer in general, P-ADC lung cancer is rarely associated with cigarette smoke. The exact cause is largely unknown, but the results of this study suggest that viral infection transmitted by the goat could be one cause.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Been found, a New Technique for the Treatment of Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is one type of cancer is difficult to cure. Now a new simple technique may help improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients with lung cancer.

This technique involves counting the number of tumor cells in blood samples taken before and after the patient has chemotherapy.

With this technique allows the doctor to find out how well the patient's response to the treatment given.

Been found, a New Technique for the Treatment of Lung Cancer
It also reflects an increase in determining the diagnostic tests that are currently still in the form of invasive and can only be performed once.

During this time to determine the diagnosis of lung cancer through a procedure called a bronchoscopy, which is taking tissue samples from the airways using a needle.

"Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the UK and we urgently need new treatments for this disease," said Dr Lesley Walker, director of information from Cancer Research UK,

Dr Walker said a new and exciting things of this technique is that it can detect and count tumor cells that circulate through the blood so that shows there is progress in the treatment of this disease.

In a new report published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers explain how studying the amount of circulating tumor cells (circulating tumor cells / CTCs) in 101 lung cancer patients before and after one cycle of chemotherapy.

The research team believes that by counting CTCs so doctors can monitor how well patients respond to chemotherapy are done. If the known number of cells increases it will be given different treatments that might respond better.

"This research suggests new ways to monitor how the response of treatment and determining how aggressive it is. Now we need to test it on a large scale and if it is confirmed the results it could be a potential care and treatment of disease by adjusting the patient's condition," said Dr. Fiona Blackhall, study author and lung cancer doctor at the Christie cancer Centre, Manchester.

Expected to develop this simple technique could be a future breakthrough in understanding how the disease develops lung cancer, this is because it involves the number of tumor cells in the patient's body.

Risk of Lung Cancer, It could Seen from Nail Conditions

Nail conditions are not only related to hygiene problems such as the risk of diarrhea and intestinal worms. Nails can also be used to estimate the risk of lung cancer in men, with more accurate than urine and saliva.

Research shows that men who nails a lot containing nicotine has risks
lung cancer 3.5 times higher than if the nails do not contain nicotine. Of the 33,737 men studied for 13 years, 210 of whom had high levels of nicotine and finally lung cancer.

In that study, researchers from the University of California at San Diego using a piece of toenail nicotine to be analyzed. The participants were also given questionnaires about their smoking habits during the study and in previous times.

Nicotine levels also can be measured from other things such as urine and saliva. However, more accurate measurements in the nail due to nail growth is slower, so that residual nicotine in the network are relatively more stable than in urine and saliva.

High levels of nicotine are associated with cancer risk, because
the presence of these compounds indicate the presence of cigarette smoke travel history with hundreds of poisons carcinogens (cancer-triggering) in it. Nicotine itself is actually not trigger cancer.

Interestingly, nicotine content in the nail was not always associated with active smokers. Research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests, a fairly high content of nicotine is also found in 10 percent of men who only become passive smokers.

"Previous studies more often associate the dangers of tobacco smoke with lung cancer risk in active smokers. As a result of passive smoking on the risk of less attention,"

Hormone Love Become Inspiration for Lung Cancer Drug

The hormone oxytocin, known as the hormone of love known to have good impact for the body. Now researchers revealed that the hormone oxytocin can be an inspiration to cure lung cancer.

Professor Chris Easton, Ph.D., and colleagues examined ways to reduce the death rate from lung cancer cells with creating a new mediation, which target the biological factors that underlie disease. The study was published in Medicinal Chemistry Communication.

"Lung cancer is still the most common cause of death. Because there is a real need in developing new drugs to treat this disease. Although still early, but the results obtained are very promising,"


The scientists examined the PAM, an enzyme that activates several key peptide hormones, including calcitonin which promotes cell proliferation and oxytocin, known as the hormone of love.

In previous research has shown that the peptide hormone imbalance causes several types of cancer, asthma and inflammatory diseases. And an increase in calcitonin-related lung cancer cell survival. So this study is working to reduce levels of calcitonin in controlling the activity of the enzyme PAM.


And has developed a new compound called O-decanoylglycolate to inhibit calcitonin product and limit cell growth,

Breakthrough calcitonin has also produced a better understanding of how one hormone can be controlled. By studying a broader how peptide hormone production can be organized and interdependent, can stimulate the production of some hormones and reduce the levels of other hormones.

"A number of compounds are very effective in reducing the PAM activity and lower levels of calcitonin. We hope to provide a new drug therapies to enhance and extend the life of lung cancer patients,"
 

Friday, September 9, 2011

Cuba Launches Lung Cancer Vaccine First in the World

After conducting research for 25 years, Cuba began producing a vaccine for lung cancer with CimaVax name-EGF. CimaVax-EGF is not a vaccine for prevention, but to treat existing cancers attacks in patients.

The vaccine is working with its active ingredient which is based on 'being owned by a human protein when the cancer is out of control'.

The vaccine is claimed to have been tested on 1,000 patients in Cuba, but it is difficult to verify. Gisela Gonzalez, head researcher, said he was optimistic about the future of this drug.

"These drugs can alter the cancer so that more can be controlled by generating antibodies against proteins that trigger uncontrolled cell proliferation," said Gobzales told Chinese news agency Xinhuanet reported that like Huffingtonpost, Thursday (9/8/2011).

"It is impossible indeed to prevent the emergence of the disease, but this vaccine significantly improve the health of critically ill patients," he continued.

Cuba is a socialist state is very concerned about the health of its citizens. Cubans can be treated for free and receive good treatment from his doctors that champions. Cheap and berkualitasnya treatment in Cuba have also made a lot of people from neighboring countries seeking treatment there.

Besides Cuba, the U.S. is also currently being tested a vaccine for more than 14 types of cancer and only produces two types of preventive vaccines. Despite medical advances are difficult to be confirmed 100 percent, but there has been a significant step forward in cancer research in the last month. One of the new treatment has been found to eradicate leukemia thoroughly. The next step is to test it on various types of cancer, which can include other types of tumors.

Drug called Xalkori also approved earlier this month in the United States for treating forms of lung cancer in a group of patients with a deadly choice. This idea is in line with the personal treatment. Currently, lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 158,683 deaths from cancer during 2007.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Skin Smokers More Wrinkles

Thousands of chemicals contained in cigarette smoke does not just bring in a variety of health problems, but also make the appearance look older than your actual age. Smoking not only damages the skin, but also the teeth and hair.

Research on the effects of smoking on the skin have been carried out. Some are comparing the appearance of two twins, one heavy smoker for many years and his brother did not. The results were very clear, smokers look 10 years older due to wrinkles, wrinkles he gets from smoking.

According to dermatologists at the University of Miami, USA, Jonette Keri, MD, cigarette smoke will make the skin deprived of oxygen and nutrients. That's why smokers usually skin look more pale or uneven skin color. "In smokers, uneven skin pigment was more rapid emergence," he said.

As is known, cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including toxins. From each puff, the substances would also damage the collagen and elastin that give skin firmness and elasticity. As a result, smokers skin looks loose and deeper wizened.

Cigarette smoke not only ruin the appearance of facial skin, but also other skin on the body. "When the elasticity of the skin is reduced, it becomes taut again, including in the arm in and bust. In fact, cigarettes are the leading cause of sagging breasts faster," he said.

Parts of the skin is exposed to the most obvious impact of smoking is the area around the mouth. "When smoking, we use certain muscles around the lips, causing dynamic wrinkles. In addition, because of reduced skin elasticity, will be more visible in the lines around the lips," he explained.

Another effect is the appearance of spots, black spots around the face. In general, these black spots caused by sun exposure appears that too often. However, in smokers who rarely any sun spots will appear.

Besides the skin, smoking also causes the color changed to yellow teeth, bad breath, and other problems associated with cleanliness. Smokers are also at risk two times more likely to experience tooth loss compared with nonsmokers.

Continued effects of cigarette smoke is a more rapid thinning hair. Research in Taiwan showed that male smokers in Asia have a greater risk of experiencing typical male pattern baldness, which is bald in the middle of the head or the forehead.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Eliminating smoking tips

How do I eliminate the smoking habit naturally? Are there any herbal cheap and not difficult for me to get?
There. You just eat 2-3 medium sized carrots every day. Do this for 2-3 weeks.

Good luck with these tips.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Smoking and oral cancer

Smoking is closely associated with dental and oral health. This is because the cigarette is inhaled through the mouth. By easy we can see a smoker's lips look darker than the lip of a non-smoker.

Now let us follow the trail of cigarette smoke why so many organs of the body injured. When we inhale smoke, smoke that cigarette out into the oral cavity, a few seconds of cigarette smoke with millions of chemical substances in the oral cavity. And this affects the organs that exist in the oral cavity including the teeth themselves.

Hot smoke that blow continuously into the oral cavity is a heat stimuli cause changes in blood flow and reduce expenses saliva. As a result of the oral cavity becomes dry and more an-aerobic (oxygen-free atmosphere) so as to provide a suitable environment for the growth of an-aerobic bacteria in plaque. By itself smokers at greater risk of disease-causing bacteria infected tissues supporting the teeth than those who never smoked.

Gums smokers also tend to have thickened stratum corneum. This thickened area which looks more rugged than the surrounding tissue and reduced its malleability. Narrowing of blood vessels caused by nicotine resulted in reduced blood flow in the gums thus increasing the likelihood of the onset of gum disease.

Tar in cigarette smoke also increases the chances of gingivitis, gum disease is most often caused by bacterial plaque and other factors which may cause the accumulation of plaque around the gums. Tar can be deposited on the surface of the tooth and the tooth root so that the surface becomes rough and facilitate the attachment plaque.

From the difference research has been carried out plaque and tartar formation of many more in the oral cavity of smokers compared to nonsmokers. Disease is severe tooth supporting tissues, bone destruction and tooth loss tooth advocate more common in smokers than nonsmokers.

Severity of illness arising from moderate to advanced level directly related to the number of cigarettes smoked each day how long or how many years one becomes a smoker and smoking status itself, is still smoking up to now or have been stopped.

Nicotine plays a role in starting the occurrence of tooth supporting tissue disease because nicotine can be absorbed by the soft tissues of the oral cavity including the gums through the bloodstream and the attachment of gum to the tooth surface and roots. Nicotine can be found on the surface of the tooth root and its metabolites kontinin results can be found in the liquid gum.

Some care is strongly advocated in patients benrhenti smokers to smoke for a while, during the treatment process. As patients in the pemsangan implants.

It can be concluded that losses resulting from cigarette smoking on oral health:

1. Change the color of teeth, gums and lips.
2. Caries in the faster formed.
3. The possibility of cancer in the mouth very large.
4. Clear breath smelled of cigarettes.
5. Changing the network "in the oral cavity that cause various negative impacts on the health of the mouth itself as a trigger caries.

"Sarang Semut" Herbs for Preventing Lung Cancer And Tumors

For; most people, a quick way to treat lung cancer is to perform surgery to remove tumor tissue and lymph nodes around it. Another way is to do radiation therapy for patients who do not want to do surgery.

Radiation is done to reduce cancer cells in the body. Chemotherapy and radiation used to do when the surgery does not have a great effect to cure lung cancer.

But in addition there are also some people who do alternative medicine using herbs. One of the many plants in search of people are SARANG SEMUT (Mymicodea pendans). Salh Sarangsemut is a traditional crop that comes from Papua - Indonesia and has been widely used by the natives of Papua are hereditary.

sarang semut
According to dr. Ahkan M. Subroto, Expert principal investigator of the Biotechnology center LIPI, that "sarang semut" contain important active compounds such as flavonoids, Tannins, Polifenal, and rich in various minerals that are useful for antioxidant and anti-cancer, so the herbs can be used as a cure for cancer and tumors.

whereas according to Prof.. Dr. Ellin Yulinah Sukandar, ITB professor of pharmacy, that the ant nest contains Tokeferol that function as antioxidants and anti-cancer that can counteract free radical attack by antidegeneratif.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Stop Smoking with Acupuncture Quit Smoking Medical Treatment Alternative

Millions of people are keen on smoking. These people like to smoke because they have been addicted to the nicotine. In fact, they know that there is nothing good about smoking and it is obvious that deep inside their heart, they want to quit smoking. However, they do not know how to do it. Well, there is actually a kind of unique method which is called acupuncture quit smoking to make you stop this bad habit.

Well, acupuncture is a kind of medical treatment alternative which is originated from China. This treatment is using needles as the media which are then being pricked to certain spots of the body. A lot of people have tried this method and they are satisfied with the result. Therefore, if you find it hard to stop smoking, you might want to try acupuncture quite smoking alternative. This method will make it sure that you can maintain the health of your lungs. The toxic that has been contaminating your body can be cleansed by using this alternative.

Perhaps, you think that this medical treatment alternative is painful because it uses needles. However, you do not need to be worried about that. It will only feel like you are being bitten by ants. Acupuncture quit smoking will make you freed from your addiction towards cigarette.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Most of Lung Cancer Due to the Cigarette

Most of Lung Cancer Due to the Cigarette - Lung is the important part of your body. You can breathe by using this part and you must take care of your lung, because this is the important part of your body. Many people always make their lung sick and get lungs cancer, so it requires alternative treatment lung cancer. The people, who like to smoke, can hurt their lung and sometimes they don’t know what will happen next when they still continue to do this bad habit.

Lung cancer is originated from the tissues of the lung. The types of this cancer are divided into two majors, which are non small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. Sometime doctors claim that the biggest factors of lung cancer are by cigarette. For more than 80% smokers have this cancer. The harmful substances from this cigarette can damage the lung.

The alternative treatment lung cancer for the people who has this disease is the best option to cure this lung cancer. The treatment can be done depending from the level of the lung cancer that the patent has. The treatment can be surgery by remove the tissues that contain the cancer. There are many alternative treatment lung cancer beside surgery that can help the patient, such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and targeted therapy.