Couver Health Journal

Archive for February, 2010

Leeds, home to a massive student population and thriving bar and club scene, is to be the target of a new campaign by the sexual health charity The Terence Higgins Trust to reduce the levels of chlamydia.

The organisation is launching a new scheme which will see chlamydia tests distributed in the city’s nightspots, in an attempt to encourage people to take a chlamydia test during a night out.

The students and young people will be offered a urine sample pot, which they will be asked to fill in the toilets of the pub or club. Volunteers for THT will then collect the pots and send them off to the laboratory for testing.

The process is similar to chlamydia home testing, where those in at-risk groups are sent urine sample pots which they themselves post back to the laboratory.

The Centre Manager for THT in Leeds said, “Many young people feel nervous about taking an STI test, but they needn’t. Most modern tests are quick and non-invasive; after they’ve done it once, people often wonder what they were so worried about. We hope that, by actually getting out into the bars and clubs and showing young people how easy it is, they’ll be encouraged to test for STIs year after year.”

The charity is trying the initiative as part of an ongoing attempt to bring down the rates of undiagnosed chlamydia in the city. While more and more people are going for chlamydia testing, partly due to various high-profile campaigns and partly due to easier testing methods like chlamydia home testing, it is believed that extremely high numbers of people are still unaware they are carrying the infection.

For many people who are infected with the chlamydia virus, they will experience no symptoms, so often getting a chlamydia test is the only way they will find out whether they are infected.

While the infection can be easily treated with a short course of anti-biotics, left untreated it can cause long term damage to fertility, especially in women. It can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, which itself is linked to blocked fallopian tubes and the risk of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.

The National Chlamydia Screening Service is the government body charged with encouraging more people to get tested, especially those in the 15-24 age bracket, who are most likely to be infected. They are meant to achieve a 17% testing rate for those in the age brackets.

However there has been criticism that the Chlamydia Screening Service have allowed regional efforts to become fragmented, leading to duplication both of time and money. Success in achieving targets tends to vary widely from region to region, depending on what strategies have been used to encourage testing.

The Terence Higgins Trust have also invited bar owners to contact them if they would like them to come to their premises to offer the service.

Adults often think of fitness machines, long walks and weight training exercise when they speak, which does not conform to the needs and expectations of children.

Children are exercised in different ways, and physical exercise for children to include them in cycling, jogging, skating or playing with friends, aspects to be taken into account when to motivate them.

The fitness benefit children by strengthening their muscles and bones, decreasing the likelihood of accumulating fat and cholesterol in your body, reducing the risk of type II diabetes, sleep enabling and delivering tools to better address the physical and emotional challenges they occur.

Given children’s health, items that parents should be present during exercise with their children are three: strength, flexibility and strength. Resistance is the ability that children develop when they run, jump and generally require more to his lungs and heart, to increase both heart rate and breathing. Read the rest of this entry »

Respiratory problems are manifested in various ways, and in children they may be argument enough to see a doctor. Not to mention that asthma comes as a priority but not the only respiratory disease that can cause long term problems in children.

Whether recurrent cough, hyperventilation, difficulty breathing or other disturbances of normal function of the lungs, where they appear in children is necessary to take action. From alternative medicine, relaxation techniques and hypnosis can help.

Is this the recommendation offered by Dr. Ran D. Anbar, Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Medical University in Syracuse, New York, who published an article in Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology in which parents are advised to consider hypnosis as a possible technique to solve this problem.

According to Anbar, where breathing problems occur during the day and at night, are manifestations of a psychological problem that is expressed through the occurrence of respiratory difficulties.

So Anbar recommends that to improve child health in this sense, the child begins with hypnosis treatment that allows emotional release and it can be to control their respiratory system, rather than the respiratory system controlled him.

The other day we would up with a migraine talking about the usefulness of chocolate to combat them. We also know that acupuncture can give you a hand in it and also list some home remedies for use against migraines in cases that suffer. On this occasion we refer to as aromatherapy.

Surely you use essential oils for various things, and headaches are one of them. But when the headache becomes persistent, intense and carries some associated symptoms, not enough light incense or put a little essential oil in the sponge: it is necessary to begin an aromatherapy treatment to combat it. Read the rest of this entry »

The benefits of aromatherapy are well known in general terms, and it is known that among the properties of aromatherapy are stress reduction, emotional wellness and feel good about us. But what about the benefits of aromatherapy in concrete terms?

To them we are going, because they intend to make a list of benefits of aromatherapy, so you can quickly check and decide whether to apply this alternative therapy is good for you and the health problems you face, whether physical health or mental health.

Before, we remember that aromatherapy works from essential oils, which derived from plants and flowers offer an excellent resource to feel good. Below is the list of properties to be able to apply aromatherapy in your home safely.

* Reduces muscle pain and promotes relaxation,
* eliminates the headache,
* Reduces blood pressure
* Improves skin health,
* Prevents dandruff
* Reduces inflammation,
* Cure a sore throat,
* Essential oils remove warts,
* Reduces Nausea
* Acts against irritable bowel syndrome,
* Improved lung function
* It is used as an acne treatment.

You can use all these benefits of aromatherapy to your advantage and make the best of this alternative therapy. Just get aromatherapy products that you need and begin treatment.