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Around two-thirds of migraines occur in women (because of hormone fluctuations). They actually happen more often than diabetes, epilepsy and asthma combined. Many factors can go into causing a migraine, and diagnosis is largely symptomatic. The symptoms of a migraine can include episodes of headache pain (which is usually focused on one side of the head), accompanied by nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and (in around 20% of migraine sufferers) a visual aura, or a presence of a white zig-zag like light in one’s field of vision.

Migraines are generally not a threat to a person’s overall health, although they can interfere with one’s everyday living. The true causes of migraines are not full understood at this time, although there are some things that are more common in people who experience them.

While many people’s migraines are severe, not all severe headaches are actually migraines, and some migraines can be quite mild. However, migraines are not always a sign of a stroke or a tumor, and your physician will reassure you of this. Some believe that a migraine is a combination of a genetic vulnerability and environmental factors that stimulate the overactive system.

Migraines are commonly described as a throbbing or pounding pain in the head. They can be worsened by some activities and generally sufferers are adversely affected by light and noise. Many migraines can also be caused from dehydration.

For both males and females, the rate of severe headaches and migraines is highest among those people aged 25 to 44 years and decreases with age. The frequency of migraines significantly increases during a woman’s perimenstrual period, and menstrually related migraines can be of a longer duration and greater frequency with longer lasting disability than any non-menstrual migraines.

With many medical conditions, there are risked factors, and asthma is no exception. Defined, as inflammation of the airways, it is a long-term condition and it can be controlled with medication.

Although there is no known reason for asthma and there is no known cure for it, its symptoms can be brought under control with the correct usage of medication.

Some of the risk factors involved in a child having this disease are:

Family History

If one’s family have a history of having this condition, it is possible that a child will also inherit it. Additionally, children whose mothers are dealing with eczema, also stands a chance of having to deal with asthma.

Although this disease is not contagious and family history plays a part in it, if one parent has it, it does not mean that their children will have it; but if both parents have it, there is a greater chance of their children having it.

Premature Births

It is also possible that babies who were born prematurely, that is, around 36 weeks may also have to face it. Additionally, a child is consistently exposed to smoke from tobacco products such as cigars, stands the risk of displaying asthmatic symptoms.

Dust

There is also a link between children who have been exposed to dust on a regular basic and this ailment.

Allergies

It is highly possible for a child who has allergies, to also “develop” asthma. Nevertheless, this does not mean that every child who suffers from allergies will also have to deal with this ailment.

Allergy is a negative reaction of the body in response to something. For example, water may run out of the eyes, the face and other parts of the body may swell and or wheezing may occur in response to a particular thing.

Therefore, if your child has this disease, learning everything you can about it and working closely with a doctor will help to bring it under control.

Seasonal allergies are a constant companion for many individuals and represent a major health factor for millions of Americans. Symptoms include sneezing, coughing, red itchy eyes, sore throat and even dark circles under the eyes.

Hay fever is often caused by pollens which are at the highest counts in higher heats, humidity and carbon dioxide concentration. Ragweed is the most common allergen in the fall which causes our immune system to release histamines and other inflammatory mediators. The spring is dominated by tree contributions, followed by flowers, weeds and molds. These all cause the same immune system response. In the United States about 75% of allergy sufferers are to ragweed and 10% are to trees.

Since we can not cure allergies, we must change our environment to best deal with them. When the outdoor allergens are high, try and stay indoors keeping the humidity below 50%. Change the filters on the air conditioners at least once a month and wear a mask outside when working in the garden. Be sure to wash hands immediately after out door activities, shower and change clothes often.

Contact lens wearers should consider reducing their wear during high allergen times and while working out doors. If contacts are worn then rub and rinse them frequently and use hydrogen peroxide systems like AOSept or OXYSept.

Medications can also be very helpful. Eye allergy drops like Patanol or Pataday are great at relieving the symptoms, and severe allergy suffers can benefit from mild topical steroid drops as well such as Lotemax or FML. Systemic antihistamines that can be purchased over the counter are useful as well, Claritin, Allegra, Benadryl etc.

Always inform your health care provider and eye doctor of all the medications that you are taking even the OTCs. They can interact with prescriptions that may be detrimental, or antagonize conditions such as glaucoma.

There is no cure per se for cancer, but there are ways to successfully fight and provide cures in individual cases. A number of treatments are typically used. In this article, we take a look at the commonly used radiation therapy.

Radiation therapy is perhaps the most common form of cancer treatment. It is often referred to as the bigger hammer treatment. The idea is to use energy to cadestroy or damage cancer cells, particularly those found in tumors. The energy is usually in the form of gamma rays, x rays or protons. In theory, this will either slow, stop or destroy the cancer. The key is understanding how cancer cells work.

Cancer cells are mutations of normal, health cells. One of the characteristics of the mutation is they grow and divide much faster than one finds with normal cells. The goal with radiation therapy is to attack this growth process. To do this, the cells are exposed to high doses of radiation. The radiation varies by the type of cancer, but is used with the intention of reeking havoc on the DNA of the cancer cells. If the DNA is broken, the cell cannot reproduce and the cancer is stopped in its tracks. In some cancers, the radiation is enough to not only stop expansion, but destroy all the cancerous cells.

Is radiation therapy the same thing as chemotherapy? The answer is no. Radiation therapy is generally an external application focused on a specific part of the body, ie, the cancerous growths. Chemotherapy is the ingestion of cancer fighting drugs that are absorbed throughout the body. The confusion between the two often comes from the fact that there are limited radiation therapies that are undertaken by the ingestion of radioactive materials, but this is very rare.

Does radiation therapy work? Yes and no. The success rate depends on many factors including the particular type of cancer being addressed. In most cases, this treatment produces the most success when combined with other cancer treatments.

So, you’re looking for herbs for diabetes?

That makes all the sense in the world. Diabetes is potentially a killer disease (the seventh leading cause of death in America) but it’s also one of the most treatable diseases.

You can treat it naturally, but simply buying herbs won’t do.

Why would I say that?

You can get a list of herbs for diabetes – cinnamon, bitter melon, garcina cambogia hca and others. And they won’t have side effects but they may not have very positive effects either.

They need to be in the right formulation.

Let me give you an example. Garcina cambogia HCA is often recommended for diabetes. Now, it doesn’t work directly to lower high blood glucose (the cause of the damage diabetes is doing to your system). instead, it suppresses your appetite, which helps you lose weight, which lowers your insulin resistance. An important part of puzzle.

That’s great. And not enough in itself.

You need to use garcina cambogia hca in tandem with other herbs that have complementary effects (that make your insulin more effective, or fight inflammation, for example). And you need to use them in the right amounts so they work together.

How do you find that?

Fortunately there are formulations of herbs for diabetes that work together very effectively. Here’s what I look for when I recommend a supplement:

• Get scientific proof that the specific formulation lowers blood glucose.

That’s your end point, lowering blood glucose. And there are supplements that can do it reliably. You want something with documented proof that they lower fasting blood sugar below 120 mg/dl, below 100 mg/dl would be even better. And it should lower hemoglobin A1c (3 month blood glucose) into acceptable ranges (<6%).

• Get expert endorsements

Mainline medicine endorses the idea that you can control and reverse your diabetes through diet and exercise. If the supplement is good, it should be embraced by mainstream physicians who are willing to put their name behind their endorsement.

Testimonials are good too, but frankly very easy to fake. Identifiable experts are better.

• Get a low cost trial

You shouldn’t be worried about the side effects of herbs for diabetes. Herbs shouldn’t have any. But you do want to be sure you like the treatment. So you want a reputable firm that will refund your money for any reason or no reason.

Jerome Kaplan has 30 plus years of experience in the foot health products business. He recommends everyone take foot care seriously, because minor problems today can turn into disasters when ignored.

Who else would like a natural diabetes treatment that actually gets diabetes or pre diabetes under control?

That seems like a tall order. About half the population of adults in middle age (45 to 70) will struggle with diabetes. The rate is increasing. And the consequences are potentially devastating – kidney disease, blindness, and possible death.

So, what’s the biggest thing to focus on?

Consider this.

High blood glucose (sugar) is the heart of diabetes, it’s what is causing the damage to your body, overloading your kidneys, making your eyes swell, making your body tear down fat and muscle cells.

What lowers blood glucose? What’s the most effective natural diabetes treatment?

Exercising more and eating less. Exercise burns up glucose in place of insulin. Eating less puts less sugar in your system to begin with and as you lose weight your decrease insulin resistance.

Why is that important?

Your cells need glucose. It’s the fuel for your body’s furnace. Insulin is what gets your cells to open the gates to blood glucose.

You eat too much sugar over time and your cells become resistant to insulin; so they don’t allow the glucose in; they starve; and the glucose floats around in your blood and eventually your urine and wreaks havoc.

So, get this problem.

If you have diabetes (or you’re developing it) either you body doesn’t produce enough insulin (type 1) or your cells are becoming resistant to it (type 2), so you have too much sugar floating in your blood.

Eat less, you get less sugar in. Eat less, and your insulin resistance drops and your cells use more of the sugar and less floats around in your blood.

In fact, when Dr. Alan Rubin (the author of one of the leading desk references on diabetes) was asked for the simplest diet as a natural diabetes treatment, what do you suppose he said?

• Cut your portions in half.
• There’s a lot more you can do. But that’s the basics.

Now the good news.

If you don’t have a track record of success on a diet, you can still be successful with diabetes.

There are natural diabetes treatments that are optimized for what you need to do to fight diabetes: suppress your appetite, help insulin do it’s job, and attract glucose transporters so the sugar doesn’t float around in your blood.

Chromium is an element that helps insulin work better, meaning it helps the hormone escort glucose from your bloodstream into your cells. It is naturally present in the various foods mentioned above, but some experts recommend taking supplements as well. Whether this is a good idea for you or not, depends on how chromium rich your diet is.

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Traditional radiation therapy, three-dimensional conformal and intensity-modulated radiation therapy-based treatment are X-ray radiation to send ionizing radiation.

In addition to the x-line, the electrons, protons and neutrons and other particles such as atoms can also be used for radiotherapy. Proton-line external beam radiation therapy Radiation therapy is a form of it, rather than using a proton x ray transfer ionizing radiation.

Proton line can be set to achieve a particular depth of the organization, as well to achieve this pre-set depth, the ionization level increased rapidly, Line by adjusting the proton energy, the ionization energy can be enveloping the entire tumor volume, resulting in tumor cell DNA damage, while maximizing protection of the surrounding normal tissues.

This is also the advantages of proton line, which could be better carried out three-dimensional tumor proper type with adjusting the proton linear energy.

In addition, the proton line differs from traditional radiation, so that normal cells have the ability damaged white line repair, and tumor cells succumbed to irreversible damage beyond repair.

Currently used proton line treatment for , with few clinical reports in the United States, only a few centers is carrying out this project.

Preliminary results indicate that without recurrence rate of PEA is average 80.2%. Foci within the prostate smaller, the greater the probability of exposure, the greater the likelihood of a cure. Proton-line treatment for long-term effect remains to be seen.

Mesothelioma is a diagnosis nobody every wants to hear. It is a form of cancer that is very often deadly. It is most often caused by exposure to asbestos on a repeated basis, which has made it a much discussed topic.

What is it?

Mesothelioma gets its name from the area of the body where cancer appears. The mesothelium is a lining that covers all the internal organs in the body. The lining is lubricated, which allows the organs to move about without damage. For instance, the lining allows the heart to pump without causing damage to the lungs and such. Mesothelioma as a cancer appears in this lining.

How Common Is It?

Fortunately, Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer. There are roughly 2,000 new cases reported a year, but the number is rising. The cancer appears more often in men than women and there is a far greater likelihood of being diagnosed with it as you age. This is primarily because it can take 50 years or more to show up. A person exposed to asbestos in 1985 for instance, might not show symptoms until 2025.

Risk Factors

The risk factors for Mesothelioma are almost entirely related to asbestos exposure. Asbestos was seen as a wonder material because of its insulating and fire resistant properties. It was heavily used in everything from shipyards to construction materials until it became apparent that it caused Mesothelioma and other health problems. If you’ve been exposed to asbestos at any point in time or lived with someone who has, then your risk of getting the disease is vastly increased. Smoking is also a contributor.

Diagnosis

Mesothelioma is difficult to diagnose for a number of reasons. Chief among them is it tends to produce symptoms associated with other diseases. Until biopsies are done on impacted areas, it is almost impossible to be sure of a diagnosis. There are no blood indicators or any absolutes with this disease. This is why many suspect the number of Mesothelioma cases are actually far higher each year than reported. They are simply misdiagnosed.

The key to dealing with Mesothelioma is to educate yourself. I diagnosis is not a good thing, but your fear can often be worse than what is actually happening.