When To Have Surgery Adenoids?

On the back of the nasal cavity, adenoids form a major barrier to diseases of the ENT. During infectious episodes, these tissues naturally increase in volume, indicating that they fulfill their role well and secrete antibodies, before returning to their normal size.
But what this mechanism can go is awry. Vegetation's are so overly bulky and become chronically infected site. With the key, colds and ear infections but also acute recurrent serous otitis can cause hearing loss. Hypertrophied adenoids may also explain nocturnal snoring or difficulty breathing through the nose.

The crucial meeting with the anesthesiologist

As before surgery, you and your child will within 15 days preceding the operation, meet the anesthetist. Do not forget to bring their health record, the results of blood work that was prescribed and prescriptions for its potential treatment in progress.
This consultation will ensure that there is no indication in cons-general anesthesia. But it is also an opportunity to ask any questions that you may come to mind. After the interview, the anesthesiologist will give you an authorization form to be signed by both parents.

Operation of vegetation less than 30 minutes on the operating table

On the day, you will be greeted in the pediatric ambulatory surgery. Your child will be fasting, not a bottle of milk or even water before arriving. After giving him a hug and re-explained with simple words what would happen, you'll leave the starting block with his security blanket or a small toy. He stayed half an hour. Under general anesthesia, ENT is removed using a curette inserted through his mouth the adenoid tissue.
If your child suffers from serious ear infections, may benefit the doctor there to practice paracentesis and / or ask tympanostomy tubes (yo-yos, diabolos) to drain the secretions accumulated behind the eardrum.

Very slight pain, no scar

Postoperative pain is very mild, just a bit of paracetamol to relieve. Your child will have no small scar but nosebleeds are possible for one to two hours.
The introduction of instruments in his mouth can also cause a wound in the tongue or lip, or even accelerate the fall of a baby tooth. More rarely, in addition to possible complications and any exceptional surgery, postoperative bleeding may persist and require a medical procedure to stop it. One can also see a more nasal voice but it will be re-educated by the SLP.

However, in most cases, young people made, after eating and having seen a doctor, go home before the end of the day. They will simply take antibiotics and painkillers possibly for a few days but will return to the nursery two days later.

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Pet Health Tip #10- "What is Feline Aids?"

What is "Feline Aids"?

"Feline Aids" as a lot of people refer to it is caused by a virus; specifically, the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV).  FIV causes symptoms in cats very similar to the symptoms that HIV causes in people.  It basically, destroys the cat's immune system causing them to be much more susceptable to infections.  Most of the time, the first indication that a cat has FIV is that it has an infection that seems to be causing the cat to be more ill than it should.  An example would be an abscess (infection under the skin) that suddenly appears on the cat. Another example would be an upper respiratory infection. 

How does a cat get FIV? 

FIV is transmitted from cat to cat through an exchange between the saliva of an infected cat and the bloodstream of an non-infected cat.  Most typically through a bite wound.  The virus then hides in the cat for up to 6 years before emerging and attacking the immune system.  So, there are a lot of cats that have FIV, but are not showing any symptoms.  Because it is usually transmitted through bite wounds, FIV is found most commonly in stray cats and the occasional indoor/outdoor cat. 

How do I protect my cat from getting FIV?

The most full proof way is to keep the cat indoors.  That way they are never exposed to cat's that have FIV.  Also, since it is transmitted through a bite, if your cat is only going into it's own yard, then you don't really need to worry.  However, there are vaccines available for the cats that do go outside and tend to wander. 

Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) causes symptoms similar to FeLV and is transmitted much more easily.  It can be transmitted from an infected cat's saliva to a non-infected cat through the mucus membranes (lining in the mouth, nose, and eyes).  Therefore, it can be transmitted by one cat simply hissing and spitting on another or through sharing a water dish, etc.  Therefore, if your cat is going to go outside, then I highly recommend that you have them vaccinated for FeLV.

There is a test for FIV/FeLV that is a simple blood test.  I highly recommend that if you are going to bring a new cat into your home, you have then tested first.  That way you will know what you are dealing with.  Like I said, the cat can have the virus for years and not show any symptoms, so if they test positive, then you have to measure their expected life span and the risk to your other cats. 

Can it be treated?

Unfortunately, no.  There is no treatment for the virus.  However, many FIV positive cats live long happy lives.

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Depression: Why France Is the World Champion

A WHO study shows that the French are the most depressed in the world, just ahead of the Americans. Here is why.

The inhabitants of the richest countries on the planet are also the most depressed of the world. And among them, leaders of the category are ... the French! 21% of them admit to having gone through during their life a period of depression. This is what reveals an international study funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published on July 25 in the journal BMC Medicine.
The richest countries affected by depression

    *More Than 89,000 people.

The research covers the period 2000-2005 and has been to use the data collected by representatives of WHO with 89,000 people in 18 countries worldwide. Among them, ten rich countries including the United States, Germany, France, and eight "poor" countries such as China, India or Mexico.

    *Why the methodology.

Pollsters have held face to face with the respondents and they asked them standardized questions about symptoms of depression (sadness, sleep cycles) or their age, their income, their civil status or on their interest in daily activities. This was to check if there was correlation between income and depression. The team of Professor Jean-Pierre Lepine, a researcher for the INSERM and CNRS Lariboisière hospital participating in the study of this disease that affects the world 121 million people.


In the top five of the most depressed, we can find France with 21% of our countrymen who have experienced a period of disorder in their lives. Come behind us the United States (19.2% of depressed) and Brazil (18.4%), the Netherlands (17.9%) and NewZealand (17.8%). Germany and Japan are wealthy countries with less depressed and 9.9% respectively 6, 6% of those affected. Finally, it should be noted that poor countries are less affected by depression. Except for Brazil (18.4% depressed), the figures are below the 10% for South Africa, India, Mexico and China, the latter being the champion the world of the least depressed, with a rate of 6.5%.

    * The wage gap.

It is in countries where there is a very important wage scale, thus allowing everyone to nourish hopes or frustrations on his career, the depressions are most numerous. In contrast, in countries with very low income per capita, this psychological reaction does not exist.

    * "Good Life".

Professor Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School in Boston, told Bloomberg that correlation between wealth and depression: "The high rate of depression in rich countries may reflect differences in the perception of what constitutes" a good life ". In countries like the United States or France, the expectations of the population have no limit while people in other countries are content to have meat on the table. "
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    * The Young depression.

Signs of depression in affluent countries appear very young, in individuals 25 to 26 years.

    * More Than 850,000 deaths.

121 million people suffering from these mood disorders on the planet, and 850,000 of them die each year. Depression is considered by WHO as a real economic burden that has substantial financial consequences in the workplace but also on health systems.
Why the French Are most depressed?

    * The pessimists in January.

This phenomenon of depression is a French tradition: a BVA poll, Gallup in January found that 61% of French people were pessimistic for 2011. These results were especially surprising, even shocking, that the French were found to be less optimistic than the people of war-torn countries like Afghanistan or Iraq!

    *  End of the welfare state.

Interviewed by Le Parisien, psychiatrist Serge Hefez explained that this French specialty to see "the glass half empty" is due in large part by "the culture of the welfare state", making it difficult to accept the challenge a privileged lifestyle. The daily La Tribune echoes this analysis by developing it: "With unemployment at 9.5% of the workforce in May 2011, an abysmal public debt (82.9% of GDP at end 2010) or the end of certain social benefits such as retirement at 60, not surprising that the French depressing. "

    * The first consumer of psychotropic drugs.

France holds since 1998 a world record: the consumption of psychotropic drugs. In ten years, the number of pills was multiplied by two in France and one in five French consumed in 2008. Among the reasons cited by consumers, job stress and changes in lifestyle. That year, 15 professors of psychiatry in Psychology magazine had published an appeal for moderation, denouncing the prescriptions of antidepressants by general practitioners as "lifestyle medications".

    * Reasons for betterment

There is reason to hope for our country. A study of Medicare published in March 2011, France would be dropped from first to third place in the world for the consumption of drugs, including antidepressants. It would even be the only country in Europe to reduce power consumption, and doctors following the recommendations of the Department of Health. This does not prevent 6 million French take, every day, these "happy pills".
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Selective Abortions Of Babies-Girls in Canada?

Disturbing study just released by the Canadian Medical Association Journal: according to an analysis of some 750,000 births in Ontario from 2002 to 2007, women from South Korea and India have proportionally more boys than average Canadian mothers. The ratio of boys to girls, which is naturally of 1.05 (ie 105 males per 100 females), even reach 1.36 in mothers of Indian origin who are in their second birth or more.

Hard to say if we are dealing with selective abortions of girls or boys embryo implantation's (or both, of course), the authors warn. But in all cases, these practices raise ethical issues which it may be extremely difficult to answer. How, with our policy of easy access to abortion - which I find very well as they are, by the way - can we prevent abortions based on sex without falling into an unacceptable racial profiling? And if one assumes that sexual selection is generally a bad thing, do this also includes some gray areas, like those parents who already have two girls and a boy who would like (and vice versa) ?

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What is Premenstrual Syndrome?

For Hippocrates, the Greek medical scholar of antiquity, some suffering from nervous diseases certain women of his time, kept a mysterious connection with the operation of the female sexual organs, particularly the menstrual cycle and expressed his certainty, baptizing one of these disorders as hysteria, word from hysteros, which means womb in Greek.

But beyond this criterion, which shows the clinical eye of the great Hippocrates, and a whiff of macho, it was verified that three out of four women who suffer physical symptoms and / or psychological in the days before menstruation. Is what is known as premenstrual syndrome.

Symptoms of PMS
For some specialists, these annoyances appear in any of the days between ovulation-day 13 or 14 of a regular cycle of 29 or 30 days, and the onset of menstruation, although other doctors talk about that last only a week, starting two or three days before the bleeding and concluding with him.

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

Obviously, this syndrome is typical of women of childbearing age, especially those between 25 and 35. It also says that the severity of symptoms increases with age.

The syndrome is manifested with different intensity levels and the most ruthless of all is called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) in which treatment is needed to appeal to hormone supplements, birth control pills and antidepressants.

Still unaware of the specific causes that trigger it, but it comes to certain circumstances such as traumatic births and that the genetic factor (inheritance) is responsible for between 30 and 40% of cases.
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73.6% of Women Experience Monthly Premenstrual Syndrome

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a disorder of the woman's menstrual cycle consists of a series of physical symptoms, psychological and behavioral affects "more or less" to 73.6% of women, according to results of the first prevalence record made in Spain.

Daphne team, formed by a group of experts in gynecology, this condition ensures that there are references for more than 2,500 years, but despite this, there is no universally accepted definition of this problem or know the extent of their symptoms.

From the scientific point of view, the international classification of diseases includes it in the category of gynecological conditions in its mild form and in its most severe form called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), within psychological illnesses, but there are no criteria globally accepted diagnostic and general description of the symptoms is very specific.

Over 70% of women experience PMS symptoms

Given this situation, the team raised Daphne completion of the first study to know the real impact of this syndrome using criteria based on measurement of Steiner (Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool - PSST) and giving rise to the first record statistically significant and representative of the Spanish population. The sample includes data of 2,108 women of childbearing age and the results have been published in the journal The European Journal of Obstetrics and Ginecology.

According to this study, the associated symptoms affect more or less to 73.72% of women and of these, 9% have what is called moderate or severe PMS, for its significant impact on the daily lives of women .

1.5% of these women also met criteria for being listed in the premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), which is having a major impact on the health and quality of life of women.

In both cases, the symptoms takes an average of about three days a month and respondents acknowledge that affects their family relationships in 7.1% of cases, in social life at 5.6% and leads to a loss interest at work in 6% of cases.

73.6% of women experience monthly premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

About 80 PMS symptoms described

Of the 80 symptoms (40 physical and 40 psychological) described in the SPM, the most frequently collected in the study were the physical symptoms (81.6%) breast, muscles, headaches, weight gain and water retention.

These are followed by irritability (58%), lack of energy (53%), desire to mourn (48.7%) and anxiety (40.5%). Self-assessment of the severity of each symptom was mild to moderate in over 80% of women, and severe in 10% of cases.

Despite this impact on social and personal life of women, these symptoms usually is assumed to be normal. In fact, even in the most severe forms of the disease up to 75% of women do not consult their doctor because they consider it normal, private or for not thinking that could be solved.

Of those attending, according to the survey, the most widely used to relieve these symptoms are hormonal contraceptives in 57% of cases, followed by pain in 53.3% and natural home remedies or 4.1% of cases.

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Women with Premenstrual Syndrome

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a recurrent disorder of the menstrual cycle of women consists of a series of physical symptoms, psychological and behavioral hard enough to alter to a greater or lesser extent the life of sufferers.

Its symptoms appear in the second phase of the cycle (luteal phase) and significantly relieve menstruation appear. Many women who suffer, to varying degrees of intensity. Some experimentation some mild symptoms, while other women experience pains that prevent them from performing their normal physical activities, work and family.

First survey of SPM in Spain

The Daphne team I presented the census-based population survey carried out in our country and in Europe on the SPM, which has been made to know the extent of this syndrome and the attitude of the woman and the doctor before it.

The survey, conducted in 2018 women, confirms that PMS symptoms affect about 80 percent of women throughout his life. The data analysis focuses on moderate or severe endometriosis than 772,487 women suffer in our country, as she has a sgnificativo impact on the daily lives of women.

Symptoms that interfere with the lives of women

Isabel Serrano, gynecologist at the City of Madrid and President of the Federation of Family Planning, notes that "the SPM has a varied symptoms that generally includes about 80 symptoms (40 physical and 40 psychological)." The most common recognize women in the survey are physical symptoms like breast tenderness, headache or muscle, fluid retention or weight gain, occurring in 45.7% of women in its moderate to severe followed in order of frequency anger, hostility and irritability (29.2%), desire to mourn, be tender and rejection sensitivity (24.7%), excessive hunger and food cravings (21.6%) and fatigue or lack of energy (21%) together with the loss of interest at home (7.1%), work (6%) and social (5.6%), among others.

The degree of involvement of these sínttomas is considered moderate to severe when it impacts directly on the quality of life of women. In these cases, the symptoms last about three days a month and respondents acknowledge that affects their family relationships in 7.1% of cases, in social life at 5.6% and leads to a loss of interest in the work at 6%. This last figure "has a great social impact because depending on the severity of these symptoms, resulting in a major school and work absenteeism," he says Ezequiel Pérez Campos, President of the Spanish Foundation of Contraception.

Treatment of PMS

Despite this impact on personal and professional life of women, these symptoms usually assumed as normal and the woman did not see a doctor. Even in the most severe forms of the disease, up to 75% of women do not consult their doctor because they consider it normal, private or for not thinking that could be solved.

Of those attending, according to the survey, most commonly used treatments for these symptoms are alivisar hormonal contraceptives in 57% of cases I, followed by pain in 53% and home remedies or natural (4.1%). Inaki Lete, department head of Obstetrics Santiago Apostol Hospital in Vitoria, says that "for many years the treatment of this syndrome has been largely in the hands of psychiatrists. However, there are currently adequate hormonal preparations have resulted in lower the impact and severity of symptoms experienced by women these days, especially in its milder forms. "

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