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What can your doctor do?

Your doctor may ask you questions about the events described above, especially clotting problems and abortions. You can search for skin lesions of livedo reticularis. If your doctor suspects this diagnosis the patient asked the blood test to look for antiphospholipid antibodies or send you to a specialist. Read the rest of this entry »

What types of antiphospholipid syndrome exist?

Primary antiphospholipid syndrome

When symptoms caused by antiphospholipid syndrome are not associated with another disease called primary antiphospholipid syndrome.

Secondary antiphospholipid syndrome

The secondary form occurs as a consequence of another autoimmune disease like lupus erythematosus, a disease that can cause a damage to various body organs.

The two types are more frequent in women. Read the rest of this entry »

The symptoms are related to the impairment of coagulation.

- Most of the clots occur in leg veins (deep vein thrombosis), resulting in pain and swelling in the calf level. This can occur once or repeatedly occur repeatedly.

- Blood clots can also occur in the lung (pulmonary embolism), or they may break off and reach the same displacement of one that originally appeared in the leg, but that breaks loose and travels in the circulation until it lodges in the blood vessels the lung. A clot in the lungs can cause breathing difficulties, chest pain that worsens with breathing, or coughing up a small amount of blood. Some clots occur in women soon after you start taking oral contraceptives (those containing estrogen). Read the rest of this entry »

What is antiphospholipid syndrome (Hughes syndrome)?

Antiphospholipid syndrome is sometimes called “sticky blood syndrome” and patients have a tendency to form clots in blood vessels (thrombosis). Any blood vessel can be affected, whether the veins (thin-walled vessels that carry blood to the heart) or arteries (thick muscular walled vessels that carry blood from the heart to the organs).

As a result of this increase in clotting, patients may develop repeated clots, for example in the veins of the legs (deep vein thrombosis) or in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, causing stroke (cerebral thrombosis ). In pregnancy, the placenta may have small clots and there is an increased risk of abortion, especially in the middle months of pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is a decrease of red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood. This results in an inability to transport oxygen to the blood supply to the tissues, why is pale and feels a sense of fatigue are two of the main symptoms of the disease.

The goal of treatment is as far as possible the amount of oxygen that blood can carry. This is achieved by increasing the number of red blood cells or blood hemoglobin concentration.

The lack of vitamins or iron in the body can cause some types of anemia. This lack may be due to a poor diet or may be secondary to certain diseases or health problems. Read the rest of this entry »

There are diseases associated with anemia, for example, in some people with anemia arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythm).

An arrhythmia is a disorder of the rhythm of the heartbeat. If it becomes a constant can damage the heart coming to alter, sometimes as serious as a heart failure. Anemia can also cause injury to other organs of the body’s blood can not bring enough oxygen. As a result may occur in extreme cases, cardiac arrest. Read the rest of this entry »

As the mother must produce blood for both the fetus and to herself during gestation requires a greater amount of iron (found in meat, sausage, beans), so supplements are usually required in the form of this mineral drug, though under medical prescription.

It is also necessary for the synthesis of red blood cells, an adequate intake of vitamins and folic acid. With proper treatment, anemia (formerly called “physiological”) of pregnancy can be avoided.

This anemia is quite common in pregnant women especially in the second trimester of pregnancy. Also called gestational anemia and is caused by a 50% increase in blood volume of women. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is a disease of more than 30 million people worldwide and is related to deficiencies in the diet and inadequate health status.

This disorder usually be compensated when the summer season ends, because some foods rich in iron re-enter the absence of dietary change occurs in the global consumer habits.

Diet for Anemia

Foods that contain iron, vitamin B12 or folic acid are particularly suitable, respectively, anemia deficiency of these nutrients, they include eggs, meat, fish, nuts, liver, legumes and vegetables. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most common symptoms of anemia is fatigue (feeling of exhaustion and weakness). If you suffer significant fatigue is anemia, which may prevent both affected the performance of many activities for their inability to gather energy for them.

In addition to the fatigue characteristic symptoms of anemia are pallor accentuated skin and mucous membranes (lips, conjunctiva), brittle nails, fatigue and unexplained weakness or dizziness, among others. The speed with which blood is lost is a determinant of severity of symptoms.

If the loss is rapid (accident, surgery, ruptured blood vessels) the loss can be fatal when it is slow (stomach ulcers, hemorrhoids, nosebleeds) may at first have no symptoms or these are mild, such as fatigue or fatigue. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or hemoglobin levels in blood are below normal.

The normal hemoglobin level is determined by factors such as age, gender or physical fitness among others. The blood hemoglobin level at which a man is considered to have anemia is 13.5 g/dl, while in women the levels of hemoglobin must be below 12.0 g/dl.

The diagnosis of chronic anemia involves a maintained decrease in hemoglobin or red blood cells below normal. Read the rest of this entry »

What is urinary incontinence?
If you miss a little urine when you cough or laugh, if, when he put the key in the lock when you get home you can not suppress the urge to urinate, if you went to the bathroom for half an hour and feel like new, if urine over 8 times a day if you wake up each night to urinate all, if you have loss of urine unconscious … then you have a problem with urinary incontinence. In contrast, a good bladder control means you urinate only when and where they want to.

One problem, many affected
More than 5% of the Spanish population, and twice as many women than men – suffer loss of bladder control. In fact, urinary incontinence affects 10% -25% of women younger than 65 years and 15% -30% of older. The message from the experts: “Suffering in silence urinary incontinence does not make sense. In the vast majority of cases, the problem can be treated without surgery. “

Causes transient or persistent
Incontinence can be due to transient problems such as urinary tract or vaginal infections, severe constipation, obesity, smoking, or the effect of certain drugs (antidepressants, diuretics, narcotics, anti psychotics …). It may also result from neurological problems or stroke, diabetes, enlarged prostate (in men), abnormalities in the urethra, prolapsed uterus or bladder … When no other pathology is secondary (which happens in most cases), usually taken for loss or damage tone of the muscles involved in urination, the bladder muscle, sphincter muscles and pelvic floor muscles.

Eye sight and also require our attention, as each and every one of our body parts, deserve to be cared for to avoid future complications.

Let’s see what the authors recommend That’s Fit to look, from now and forever, our eyes:

“Good nutrition: As the inflammation has much to do in various disorders in the vision, aims always choose foods with anti-inflammatory properties. Therefore, avoid red meats abuse, and when choosing your menu choose best fish and other products containing omega-3. Also, choose monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats avoided, instead of saturated. Also, always include vegetables, especially green leafy and that are rich in lute in, a phytonutrient important to keep in top shape our eyes.

“Protect them always appropriate for sun glasses: Just make sure you have full protection against UV rays. You could also choose to use a hat or visor to protect your eyes.

-Exercise: As in all that relates to health, regular exercise can be helpful because it reduces interocular pressure, one of the factors leading to glaucoma.

“Do not smoke: The snuff not only damages your lungs and respiratory system but is also harmful to your blood vessels, therefore, may cause a deficiency of oxygen reaching your eyes.

-Minimize stress on your eyes: Look to place the monitor of your computer properly, not too close and slightly below eye level, and, where possible, use a surge protector.

-Make regular check-ups: even if you do not have vision problems, it is important that you visit the eye doctor every so often.