Category Archives: General Health Info
Muscle Strain: Prevention and Treatment
Prevention To help prevent strains: – Warm up before participating in sports and activities – follow an exercise program to stretch and strengthen your muscles – gradually increase the intensity of your training program and never overdo it and immediately after starting physical activity – maintain a healthy body weight, obesity can strain the muscles, [...]
Muscle Strain
What is it? A strain is a stretch or tear of muscle fibers. Most muscle strains happen for one of two reasons: the muscle is stretched beyond its limits or forced into it very strongly. In mild cases, only stretch or break some muscle fibers, while the muscle remains intact and strong. In severe cases, [...]
Chemical Nature of Chitosan
The chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer after cellulose. Chitosan is a natural aminopolysaccharide formed by N-deacetylation of chitin. It is insoluble in water in basic media and in most organic solvents. However, it is soluble in aqueous solutions of organic and inorganic acids resulting in solutions of different viscosities. This property distinguishes [...]
Lose Weight Naturally with Chitosan
Numerous clinical studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of chitosan in weight loss and also to test other beneficial effects on the body. One of the best known, was published in the International Journal of Obesity and study the effect of chitosan in reducing fat storage in mice fed a diet high in fat. In this [...]
Chitosan Dietary fiber
Chitosan is a aminopolysaccharide, derived from “chitin or chitin.” Chitin is found in the plankton and the exoskeletons (shells) of crustaceans such as shrimp, lobster or crab. Researchers have conducted clinical studies on chitosan as an agent for natural weight loss and fiber for proper functioning of the digestive system and colon cleansing. As a [...]
Chitosan: Fiber Fat Fighting
Imagine a substance that can dramatically reduce dietary fat absorption in the body. This is chitosan, a natural fiber that has the potential to become the safest agent for weight loss, adding health benefits. The malfunction and intoxication of the colon (large intestine) may be related to many degenerative diseases including cancer and obesity. More [...]
Pin Worms: Diagnosis and Treatment
How is the disease diagnosed? The doctor may suspect the patient has the disease the symptoms the patient tells, but the diagnosis is made when they are eggs of parasites or worms. Eggs can be easily obtained by a test called “heat test” which involves placing a transparent cellophane tape on the skin around the [...]
Pin Worms
What are pinworms? Pinworms is as popular with known infection of the intestine caused by a parasite called Enterobius vermicularis. These parasites are also called pinworms, so the disease is also known by the name of oxiurasis. This is relatively common infection worldwide and affects people of all ages and socioeconomic levels, but is especially [...]
Anesthetic Skin
In particular, the anesthetic to the skin can be used in many circumstances: – Injections, vaccines and serums, or when there is need to draw blood for testing or donation. – Heals minor to be used in suture or drain abscesses (infection and inflammation characterized by swelling and accumulation of pus). – Sampling of skin [...]
Anesthetic Skin, Sleeping Pain
Although anesthetics are known popularly by its use in surgery, many of these drugs administered daily, as those applied to the skin to reduce the hassles that come with certain conditions and procedures. The injections or vaccines, cures mild, hair removal, wart removal, sampling of tissue for laboratory examination and even tattoos and piercings have [...]