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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A(H1N1) symptom A型流感的征兆

(Courtesy of forwarded email from Kam and KC Tan)


Share with you a very useful advice from a doctor in a private hospital in K.L.
以下是一名私人医院医生的忠告,与你共享之。




When children have fever, the doctor will prescribe the fever medicine to consume either in 4 or 6 hours interval. I think all of you know very well on this.
每当孩童发烧时,医生都会给发烧药,4或6小时服用一次。我想大家都非常清楚。


Normally the fever will go down after taken the medicine, and it will come back after 3 or 6 hours. But if it for H1N1 infection, the fever will not be going down after taking the medicine and it will stay at high temperature for hours.
通常服药后,会退烧,3或6小时后再发烧。如果是A流感,不但不会退烧,还会持续发高烧。


And if this condition (sustained high temperature for hours) lasts for 48 hours, then the possibility of H1N1 infection will be very high. For this case, doctor will straight away give the patient the H1N1 antiviral treatment, i.e. Tamiflu treatment for a period of 7 days.
 如果持续发高烧48小时,患上A流感的机会就非常高。医生就会直接给7天抗流感的药(Tamiflu)。

Difference between Cold and A(H1N1) Symptom

(Courtesy of forwarded email from KF Tan)

This is not to make us into doctors but at least you can know the difference.
Good Info, as  A(H1N1) flu can kill.
 
Know the Difference between Cold and Swine Flu Symptoms
 
Symptom
Cold
AH1N1 Flu
Fever
Fever is rare with a cold.
Fever is usually present with the flu in up to 80% of all flu cases. A temperature of 100°F or higher for 3 to 4 days is associated with the flu.
Coughing
A hacking, productive (mucus- producing) cough is often present with a cold.
A non-productive (non-mucus producing) cough is usually present with the flu (sometimes referred to as dry cough).
Aches
Slight body aches and pains can be part of a cold.
Severe aches and pains are common with the flu.
Stuffy Nose
Stuffy nose is commonly present with a cold and typically resolves spontaneously within a week.
Stuffy nose is not commonly present with the flu.
Chills
Chills are uncommon with a cold.
60% of people who have the flu experience chills.
Tiredness
Tiredness is fairly mild with a cold.
Tiredness is moderate to severe with the flu.
Sneezing
Sneezing is commonly present with a cold.
Sneezing is not common with the flu.
Sudden Symptoms
Cold symptoms tend to develop over a few days.
The flu has a rapid onset within 3-6 hours. The flu hits hard and includes sudden symptoms like high fever, aches and pains.
Headache
A headache is fairly uncommon with a cold.
A headache is very common with the flu, present in 80% of flu cases.
,Sore Throat
Sore throat is commonly present with a cold.
Sore throat is not commonly present with the flu.
Chest Discomfort
Chest discomfort is mild to moderate with a cold.
Chest discomfort is often severe with the flu.
 

Say NO to smoking

(Courtesy of forwarded email from KC Tan)





























Tuesday, August 18, 2009

How to exercise your neck

(Courtesy of forwarded email from KC Tan)


A doctor advises his patients to exercise their neck by just reading this message.

In the end, all patients go home happily without asking the doctor for any medications. 'It is very effective,' said the doctor.

'All my patients never come back to me again..'

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Mammography vs Thermography

You may look up the following topics too yourself:

1. Breast Thermography

2. Mammography / Thermography


What's the Difference?

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Mammograms vs Thermography

Dear Ladies,

Is it any wonder that nowadays more and more women globally are having Breast Cancer.
The coincidence is, more and more organisations, doctors and government hospitals are pushing women to go for mammograms.

PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCES.

Mammograms - ladies, please note it for health reasons and send them to other ladies that you know and
gentlemen, please disseminate this email to all the ladies in your lives

Well for starters mammograms expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray, which poses risks of cancer. Mammography also compresses your breasts tightly, and often painfully,
which could lead to a lethal spread of cancerous cells, should they exist.

"The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 radiation exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening," points out Dr. Samuel Epstein, one of the top cancer experts.

Dr. Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, has been speaking out about the risks of mammography since at least 1992.

As for how these misguided mammography guidelines came about, Epstein says:

"They were conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by a small group of people for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial gain, resulting in suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the classification of "crimes against humanity.""

Not surprisingly, as often happens when anyone dares speak out against those in power, both the American Cancer Society and NCI called Dr. Epstein's findings "unethical and invalid."

But this didn't stop others from speaking out as well. In July 1995, The Lancet again wrote about mammograms,
saying "The benefit is marginal, the harm caused is substantial, and the costs incurred are enormous ..."

Dr. Charles B. Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute,
said, "Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth."

"The high sensitivity of the breast, especially in young women, to radiation-induced cancer was known by 1970.
Nevertheless, the establishment then screened some 300,000 women with Xray dosages so high as to increase breast cancer risk by up to
20 percent in women aged 40 to 50 who were mammogramed annually," wrote Dr. Epstein.

Safe Screening Methods do Exist: The Benefits of Thermography

But you're not likely to hear about them from your general practitioner.
" ... The establishment ignores safe and effective alternatives to mammography, particularly trans illumination with infrared scanning," Dr. Epstein points out. Most physicians continue to recommend mammograms for fear of being sued by a woman who develops breast cancer after which he did not advise her to get one. But I encourage you to think for yourself and consider safer, more effective alternatives to mammograms.

The option for breast screening that I most highly recommend is called thermography.

Thermographic breast screening is brilliantly simple. It measures the radiation of infrared heat from your body and translates this information into anatomical images. Your normal blood circulation is under the control of your autonomic nervous system, which governs your body functions.

Thermography uses no mechanical pressure or ionizing radiation, and can detect signs of breast cancer years earlier than either mammography or a physical exam.

Mammography cannot detect a tumor until after it has been growing for years and reaches a certain size.

Thermography is able to detect the possibility of breast cancer much earlier, because it can image the early stages of angiogenesis (the formation of a direct supply of blood to cancer cells, which is a necessary step before they can grow into tumors of size).