Donkey's milk is also nutritious, but contains more protein than mother's milk. It can be given to the babies, if necessity arises in a diluted form. it has been seen that camel milk prolongs life.
Donkey's Milk: Nutritious for Kids?
Children with allergies to cow's milk and goat's milk are finding a nutritious alternative in donkey's milk. Anna Matranga reports.
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Anti-viral drug, a vaginal containing tenofovir is preventing HIV transmission to a larger extent. Please read the full story.
Antiretroviral vaginal gel shows promise against HIV
A holistic approach to asthma management. Please go through it.
How to Cope With Asthma
Asthma (Bronchial) is primarily a manifestation of an allergic disorder, either external or internal. There occurs inflammation in the respiratory tract epithelium (the lining cells). The inflammatory substances acting on the musculature cause spasm of respiratory tract and there are the manifestations, in form of wheezing, breathlessness, straining and cough etc. There is something called cardiac asthma, symptoms of similar nature due to heart failure.
The mainstay of treatment is steroid in form of inhalation and injection. Methylprednisolone is preferred over prednisolone sodium or hydrocortisone because of less side effects. Along with it is added a short-acting bronchodilator, B2 receptor stimulant e.g. salbutamol or terbutaline. Most of the cases respond to it but necessitate long term use of a bronchodilator. A sputum liquefying agent may be required to easily spit out the thick bronchial secretions.
New research in this field suggest the bigger role of vitamin D in easing the symptoms of asthma and possibly preventing the attacks, vitamin D acts at the level of the respiratory epithelium, helping in stabilizing it. It reduces inflammation and consequent spasm of the respiratory muscles.
Patients of asthma should avoid allergens, may be typical to the individual, like house dust, dusts from beds, pollens, vehicular exhaust, room deodorants; and foods like egg or shrimp etc. The list can go on. Actually, a patient learns from his/her experience, what to avoid. These patients should avoid some common analgesics having B2 receptor blocking activity.
Obesity is also blamed for asthma. Weight reduction is liked to ease of symptoms.
Asthma can be tackled by Yogic practices, which is in vague in India. That can be Pranayam, basically it is inhaling in full and exhaling in full with closing one side of nostrils alternately. It is to be practiced under guidance. Moderate exercise, like brisk walking will also ease the symptoms.
It is said that cats in home prevent asthma, I am not sure. If it is so, might be due to gradual tolerance to the cat hair acting as an allergen, which might be due to desensitizing effect.
It is also said that allowing babies to be dirty, engaging them in childhood play, takes away some of allergic disorders and possibly asthma; and creates resistance to certain infections.
Some time back, FDA has warned about co-prescription of long acting beta stimulants and steroid; which caused more cardiac events and readmissions to the hospitals.
A life style modification, diet modification, some precautions and some supportive medication may help asthmatics to lead a normal life.
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The nature plays with human, we are both aware and unaware of it. It is a lot of surprise and sorrow for the recipients of letters of a plane crash right in 1950. Please read the details in the original post in "The Telegraph".
Letters frozen in time arrive after 60 years
When an airliner crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc 60 years ago, rescuers
fought desperately through storms to reach the site.
While walking away from her University of Dundee colleagues for a lavatory
break Miss Cowan, 22, discovered the mailbag, which, due to rock falls and
melting snow, had descended about 8,000ft over the years.
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She found four bundles inside and the postmark on the letter at the top read:
“Bombay, 1950”.
There might be some chemical in the mud, which might have some good effect on health.
A 'muddy' affair: Boryeong Mud Festival
People play with mud during the 13th Boryeong Mud Festival at a beach in Boryeong. The festival runs from July 17-25.
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July 22, 2010 — A diagnostic rule involving 7 clinical variables is useful in helping to determine which patients are at high risk for gout and should undergo further testing with joint fluid aspiration to test for the presence of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals. The 7 variables, which the researchers describe as "easily ascertainable in primary care," include male sex, previous patient-reported arthritis attack, onset within 1 day, joint redness, involvement of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP1), hypertension or 1 or more cardiovascular diseases, and serum uric acid level of more than 5.88 mg/dL. When the diagnostic rule was used (score ranging from 0 - 13), a score of 4 or less ruled out gout in almost 100% of patients. According to the researchers, in these patients, a differential diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, pseudogout, psoriatic arthritis, and reactive arthritis vs gout should be considered.
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Scientists are working to develop newer drugs which will not have the side effects of rosiglitazone and pioglitazone i.e. risk of fracture and heart attack.
Study raises hope for safer diabetes drugs
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new understanding of the link between diabetes and obesity may help drug companies design safer versions of treatments like GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
"Our findings strongly suggest that good and bad effects of these drugs can be separated by designing second-generation drugs that focus on the newly uncovered mechanism," Bruce Spiegelman of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who worked on the study in the journal Nature, said in a statement.
The drugs act on a protein called PPAR-gamma, found mostly in fat cells, that regulates genes involved in the body's response to insulin.
Scientists had believed the drugs work by stimulating PPAR-gamma, causing it to increase the activity of some genes and dampen others. The Dana-Farber researchers and a team from The Scripps Research Institute in California now think the drugs work in a different way.
In studies in obese mice, they found obesity activates a molecular switch called cdk5, which causes a chemical change in PPAR-gamma, triggering resistance to insulin and increasing blood sugar levels.
They did studies in cells and a test tube and found that drugs like Avandia and Actos block changes in cdk5 in addition to stimulating PPAR-gamma.
Both drugs increase the risk of fractures and heart failure, and several reports have linked Avandia with an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
He thinks drug companies might be able to design more selective diabetes drugs that treat insulin resistance without stimulating PPAR-gamma, which Spiegelman thinks is responsible for the side effects seen in Actos and Avandia.
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" The current study envisages the role of frog skin lipids in the inflammatory phase of wound healing. The lipid moiety of the frog skin dominated by phospholipids exhibited a dose dependent acceleration of healing irrespective of the mode of application. The efficiency of the extract is attributed partially to the anti-inflammatory activity as observed by the histochemical and immunostimulatory together with plethysmographic studies.
Conclusions: Thus, frog skin for the first time has been demonstrated to possess lipidcomponents with pharmaceutical and therapeutic potential. The identification and characterization of such natural healing molecules and evaluating their mechanism of actionwould therefore provide basis for understanding the cues of Nature and hence can be used for application in medicine."
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Image via WikipediaSepsis is the most common cause of death in the newborn and is a particular problem for premature and very low birth weight infants. Necrotizing enterocolitis is an inflammatory condition predominantly affecting premature infants, and infection may be a contributory factor. Antibiotics used to treat sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis are not always effective, and their widespread use can lead to antibiotic resistance. Lactoferrin, which occurs naturally in human colostrum, milk, tears and saliva, has been shown to have antimicrobial activity and is a constituent of natural immunity. This Cochrane review investigates whether lactoferrin might prevent sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants.
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