Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

7.16.2011

A tip on rehidrate

I sufer from stomach problems often.

An homepatic-aryuvedic doctor once recommended to make limeonade and add a pinch of salt, because the minerals needed are there, specially in more natural salts, such as sea or this pink Himalayan one, but regular will do.

Agua de limón

You have no idea how revitalizing this is, I recommend you try it.

By the way this is the best honey ever.

1.21.2011

Healthy habits

I have had a long ugly pain is on the side, thought it was a hernia, they thought it was a bond, they thought it was loose bowel, and they don't seemed to be clear about it, I hate that from the doctors.
Began over a year and sometimes is unbearable, very strong and not fade throughout the day, a couple of days ago suddenly disappeared and I spent like 4 days without pain, nothing. First I was scared, then I enjoyed it.
Now it's back but lighter. What changed?, I'm not sure, but it gets worse with sadness and digestion.
Although it is difficult, I want to improve my health habits, I know it will make a big difference, everyone will have to find their own, but for me this is the most important:

Sleep well and enough.  

I always want to do things at night, I concentrate better and I can continue to run with the same without interruption, but I noticed that my personality is affected and is completely different in periods when I'm sleeping 10 hours each night rather than 7 or less, they are not enough for me.
Not to eat the things that hurt me and keep a consistent schedule.  

In my opinion (informed), no one should not eat dairy, no other animal is taken milk from another species, and is food that is naturally fortified to help growing infants, adults are not growing. But having said that, beyond the level of environmental responsibility who want to take the matter of were your food came, everyone has their own intolerances, and yet sometimes we fall and fall again with this tempting dish, but why?, if we know what comes next. We also all know that what is very processed, fried or refined sugar is bad but these effects are not immediately perceive. And another important point, but difficult to do the same number of meals each day and at the same time, to not have an schedule harms me a lot.
Be quiet

Again, difficult but possible. We must remove from our environment all stressors and then learn to not feel guilty about it, not to I have no formal work, as everyone expects of me, not to see much my family if they dislike me, despise social commitment.
Clean-Simplicity.  

It is easier to be calm, if everything is in order, but it is very difficult to have order if there is too much stuff, we really do not need it , neither our children, so many toys, so much plastic, and it all ends in the trash, at sea, a river, on the banks of the poorest neighborhoods, stuck in the strainer. And it all starts with acquiring or accepting, that is buying or receiving things from others, in this sense I made a resolution that will share soon.
Minewhile the homemade pizza we did today and I will talk about tomorrow.



La pizza

11.11.2010

Angiostrongylus costarricensis

 
I mention before that when I found a slug on the living room it's kind of a tragedy for me, because it means that we are at risk and I have to disinfect the whole house floor.



The thing is that  there is dangerous illness that is propagated by this insects.

The main source are rats poo, and then the slug eat it and leave the larva on their trails. Different varieties form this parasite affect animals and humans, but this in particular has only be described in Costa Rica and there have been cases in Central and South America. Slugs may infect also vegetables.


The risk population are toddlers ans babies, more the boys than the girls.

When they enter the human body go into the blood and then to the intestine where they develop, cutting blood access to the tissue which eventually dies and then the patient will not be able to get any nutrients.


Jugando carritos


Surgery has been necessary in some cases and at least one baby girl died from this, she eat the whole slug. Recovery can take months of hospitalization.

Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, and pain and hardness on the right side of the belly.


Maldita babosa
When a case is presented in necessary to analyze the whole family, since this has helped often to identify another sick person.

A study of slog population around Costa Rica showed that 50% of this animals were infected without matter the area.

So let's be careful, doctors recommend to be super clean, wash hand often and disinfect vegetables.

Sources:
http://www.gefor.4t.com/parasitologia/angiostrongyluscostaricensis.html
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4743e/y4743e0c.ht
http://parasidiario.blogspot.com/
http://www.gowervets.co.uk/spotlight/lungworm/lungworm.html
http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0001-60022007000100013&script=sci_arttext
http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/febrero/01/pais1860555.html
http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S1409-14291998000200002&script=sci_arttext

3.17.2010

Natural Solutions

Recently we had bugs in the stomach, it was not nice, and we prefer natural options, and we were blessed with the advice of my friend Caroline, who is learning Natural Medicine, and she told us that you can regularly prevent this by eating 11 half nuts for adults in the morning before any other food for a week and 6 for kids for 5 days. Isn't great? it's so easy, and harmless, we have been doing it and feeling better.