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The Effects of Passive Smoking
Other benefits of quitting smoking
- Overall health improvement: tiredness, low stress tolerance and headaches are clearly related to snuff.
- Improve the senses of taste and smell.
- The heart will be less tense and work more effectively.
- Increase confidence in yourself, knowing who have overcome an old habit that shortens life expectancy and seriously damaging.
What are the effects of passive smoking?
- Passive smoking (smoke while getting others smoke) irritates the eyes, nose and chest, and can cause headaches. Read the rest of this entry »
How Snuff Harms Children?
How snuff harms children?
- Babies born to smoking mothers:
- They are twice as likely to be born prematurely and with low birth weight (below 2.5 kg).
- They have an average birth weight 200 gr. less than infants of nonsmoking mothers.
- They have smaller bodies on average than babies born to nonsmokers. This is particularly evident in the case of the lungs of a newborn, do not function as the lungs of a baby whose mother does not smoke. Read the rest of this entry »
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Other Health Risks of Snuff
Other health risks caused by snuff
- Nicotine and other substances in cigarettes are increasing the amount of cholesterol in blood, which can cause the arteries to occlude with a fatty tissue called atheroma (see section on major diseases, atherosclerosis, above).
- High blood pressure, which is associated with heart attacks and strokes.
- The snuff causes an acid taste in the mouth and contributes to the development of peptic ulcer. Read the rest of this entry »
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Health Risks of Snuff: Cancer and Lung Disease
The cancer risk is usually greater for smokers than nonsmokers in a ratio of 2.24. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
If the snuff disappear occur at least 40% reduction in overall cancer incidence.
Some types of cancer are particularly favored by snuff as the lung, lip, tongue, mucosa of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and bladder. 85% of all lung cancer cases are related to snuff, and a smoker is 12 times more likely to develop lung cancer than a nonsmoker. If a smoker quits, it will take approximately 15 years before your risk of lung cancer equal to that of a nonsmoker. But there is always a clear benefit to quit since the first day.\
There are other types of cancer are also more frequent among smokers than nonsmokers.
These are:
- Esophageal Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Cancer of the cervix. Read the rest of this entry »
Major Diseases caused by Snuff
Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death from the snuff, increasing 1.7 times the odds of death that you have already the nonsmoker
Atherosclerosis is the term used to describe the “dirt” progressive of the arteries with fatty material, making them more narrow, rigid and ultimately block, resulting in tissue infarction depends on the obstructed vessel for adequate blood supply. It can take many forms, depending on how affect the blood vessels, all of which are more common in smokers.
Coronary thrombosis is a blockage of blood flow in the arteries that nourish the heart in particular. Nine out of ten subjects requiring a coronary bypass operation (an operation in which a piece of vein is a bridge of driving clogged artery from the anterior to the obstruction to the back to it) are smokers or ex-smokers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Health Risks of Snuff
Why quit?
The snuff is the leading cause of death as possible to prevent the Western world, responsible for more than two million deaths each year worldwide, 50% of deaths of subjects aged 35 to 65 years is attributable to snuff.
In short, each year 17,000 die as a direct result of Spanish snuff and sicken many more. Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals and at least 400 substances with a clear carcinogenic effect. As the smoker draws, cigarette burns at 700 degrees Celsius at the tip and about 60 degrees inside. This heat breaks down the snuff, which produces many poisons. While a cigarette burns, wastes become concentrated at the end.
The most harmful cigarette products for health are the tar (which causes lung cancer), carbon monoxide and nicotine (CVD) and certain components of the gas and particles that favor the occurrence of lung diseases such as disease chronic airflow obstruction or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). The intensity of the effects not only on the number of cigarettes, but also of how they were made (with or without filter), and prior preparation of the snuff. Paradoxically, the ‘fitting smoke’ that comes from a cigarette between puffs carries greater risks than directly inhaled smoke. Read the rest of this entry »
How is ERCP?
How is ERCP?
ERCP is done in the X-ray service in a hospital. To allow the scope to move smoothly the stomach should be empty, which is achieved with a six-hour fast.
- Having explained the procedure, the endoscopist sprayed the back wall of the throat with a spray that has a local anesthetic similar to what dentists use, which numbs the throat and can interfere with swallowing.
- It injects a sedative in the hand or arm. Not a true anesthetic, but makes the patient feel drowsy.
- A special endoscope is placed in the mouth, and asked the patient to swallow. It’s like swallowing a large piece of food.
- Even from the time the patient does not usually realize, the endoscope makes its way through the duodenum. Once there, get a tube of the endoscope through a small hole in the wall of the duodenum, is inserted into the ducts reach the gallbladder and pancreas. Read the rest of this entry »
what is ERCP?
What is ERCP?
ERCP stands for endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography. It is an X-ray test to see the bile ducts and pancreas, which is first filled with contrast to be able to view. Out through the bile ducts of the liver bile and pancreatic secretions from the pancreas. Both lead to the initial portion of the small intestine (the duodenum). Read the rest of this entry »
How does The IVU?
Often prescribed a mild laxative before the test to empty the bowel, because if it is filled with hidden radiological images useful for diagnosis.
The patient lies on the x-ray table Before administering the contrast becomes a ray of the kidneys and bladder area. Then the dye is injected into the arm or the back of the hand. The dye circulates through the blood to the kidneys, fill in the kidney collecting system and passes through the main tubes (ureters) into the bladder. Read the rest of this entry »
Urography
What is Urography?
Urography is an x-ray test used to study the kidneys and the tubes that empty the urine (ureters). It uses a special dye dense to X-rays to discover differences between the kidneys, or any other abnormality. This test is also the size and shape of the bladder. It is often called intravenous urography or IVU.
When you use the IVU?
IVU radiograph is the most commonly used for the kidneys, and used to study many problems, among which include:
- Kidney pain
- Suspected kidney stones
- Blood in urine
- Suspicion of obstruction
- Suspected congenital anomalies. Read the rest of this entry »
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