Info of Health, Diagnostic, X-Ray & Medication

Everybody must be aware about stroke effect. This disease is very dangerous like cancer and heart attack. It causes of death because most of people do not know how to anticipate it in advance.

Bad effects of stroke can happen oppositely such as if your stroke attacked on the right side of your brain and will resulted disability or impairment on the left side of your body.

If you understand well about the symptoms and facts of stroke at least can minimize or help the deathly effects. All information also make you’re more cautious especially for the initial steps of stroke like hypertension, high intra-cranial tension and taking sport overly. You must avoid Cerebrovascular accident.

Continue reading >>

Are blocked carotid arteries really dangerous? Yes of course if it’s not treated well. This disease will have impact of significantly risk of stroke, brain damage and suddenly death.

Stroke alone have killed most people in the world like heart disease. The older people have the higher risk of the stroke and a leading cause of elderly disability.

There are some symptoms of blocked carotid arteries such as:

1. Early symptom is mini stroke that caused by insufficient oxygenated blood to the brain. It’s important to doing regular medical check-up to help detect deterioration of carotid arteries function.

Continue reading >>

Echocardiography or ECG is one of the important diagnostic tools in the Medical Center in the world and well-known as live saving device.

This tool is to test electrical activity of the heart by using conductive leads around 10 or 12. External equipment that located in the chest, arms and legs areas is mentioned as small adhesive pads.

This procedure doesn’t make painful for the people who undergo ECG test but they will feel a little bit pain or discomfort if it’s removed from their skin. The other advantages are safe, inexpensive, simple and non-invasive. This device is also proper test for the children.

Continue reading >>

Many women cannot realize that they suffer from Endometriosis until they have some complaints about their lower area of pelvis. They will feel painful condition because their Endometrial tissue which lining their uterus appear around pelvic cavity. Reproductive system will be affected and contributing to infertility cases due to endometriosis.

Endometriosis can destroy peritoneum cavity within pelvic area including fallopians tube, ovaries and also ligament which supporting the uterus. The response of menstrual cycle is disturbed by this condition such as any bleeding, breaks and dense. But for some cases, it can expel during menstruation period every month.

Continue reading >>

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is the illness that becomes dangerous worldwide in the nowadays.

There are two kinds of COPD suffered by the people such as Bronchitis and Emphysema. Both of them attack respiratory tract.

These diseases can damage your lung and airways with feeling of difficult to catch the breathing. Chronic Bronchitis can occur if the bronchial tubes are inflamed or the airways clogged by the mucus or inflammation. Meanwhile Emphysema occurs in the lungs when the small air sacs are destroyed or cannot absorb air.

Continue reading >>

When it comes to keeping a child healthy, there are a lot of options available. Lifelong health and fitness starts early. It is important to practice both healthy eating habits as well as routine physical activity. Remember, as a parent or guardian you are responsible for the health of your child.

Instilling healthy eating habits in your child can seem like a daunting task. However, this can be fairly easy for a parent or guardian with the right approach. First and foremost, consult your paediatrician before drastically altering your child’s diet. Your family doctor can guide you to foods that will be healthy and provide the proper nutrition for a developing child.
From birth to adolescence, your child only has access to the food that you allow them to eat. If you have your home filled with junk food, it is too easy for your child to develop unhealthy eating habits. However, if you have readily available fruits and vegetables for snacks, your child will have no choice but to eat the healthy food.

Continue reading >>

Feeling problems on the nose should be handled appropriately because it can bother your daily activities and maybe also for your job. Many causes that can consider for this disease, the most problem of your sinus is usually from infection causes.

Acute and chronic infection can attack for your sinus. If you suffer from acute infection, after 1 week medication, the disease will go away but if there is chronic infection, the disease will recur or take time for recovery.

There are 4 sinuses or air-containing cavities located on the head or cranium and situated in the ethmoid. frontal, sphenoid and maxillary sinuses. These sinuses start to develop early in fetal life for everybody until completely developed in the seventeenth or eighteenth year.

Continue reading >>

Endoscopy is one of the useful and important tools to diagnose and treat many diseases and abnormalities of the patient’s problems. This tool is very effective way to fulfill the needs of Doctor’s jobs.

For patients, Endoscopy procedure is uncomfortable and little bit pain during examination. So, they must be relax and do not afraid to face the procedure. Nurse and Doctor will tell the patient what they do up to the procedures have been done.

Below are the cases which covered well by Endoscopy:

- Esophagus area up to stomach.

- Small intestine until colon region.

- Abdominal cavity up to fallopian tubes

- Urinary tract and pelvic projections.

Continue reading >>

Gall bladder is the small organ that located down of the liver which holding the bile to remove water and also to decrease the pH less than 7. The contour of this organ is like pear about 8 cm in diameter. Gall bladder can construct base on the fat digestion.

Gall stones is also called Cholelithiasis that caused by cholesterol build-up with addition of calcium bilirubate. It’s vulnerable attacked due to inflammation process.

The problems of gallbladder are not only from stone but also from other diseases like:

- Cholecystitis : The inflammatory process within the gall bladder or bile duct

- Gall bladder can suffer from diseases because of fairly dry inside due to an age, diabetes, pregnancy stage, pancreatitis/pancreas problems, chirrocis, obesity factor and hormonal contraception.

Continue reading >>

Every patient who comes to Medical Centers needs the accurate diagnostic tools to treat her or his disease or abnormality. The right diagnosis would speed-up the recovery process of his illness. For your notice that every problem has the different treatment including in diagnostic equipment usage.

In this moment, I would like to explain about medical imaging like x-ray, CT-Scan and MRI. X-ray equipment is simpler and cheaper tool compared with CT-Scan and MRI but it’s very accurate to detect any abnormalities of bony structure, fracture and dislocation, bony island and something related with bone area.

Continue reading >>

X-ray examinations for extremities are often taken in Hospital. There are 2 categories of extremities including the lower and upper parts.

The lower regions like foot, ankle, lower leg, knee, thigh area and the upper parts such as hand, wrist, lower arm, elbow and humerus. Both of them can be both sides (right and left).

We call it extremity because these organs can be used for rotating, moving or flexibility functions. Their role in the human body is really vital and important, so it’s vulnerable for fracture and dislocation, spur formations or calcification, arthrosis, osteoporosis and the other abnormalities. Trauma and aging factors are also the main reasons why they can get more trouble.

Continue reading >>

We admitted that chest x-ray is the often radiological test. Besides that, abdominal x-ray is also important to be known especially for new visitors and new x-ray patients.

The purpose of knowing SOP of abdominal x-ray as follows:

- It’s important to minimize radiation exposure and x-ray repetition by X-Ray Technician.

- To avoid miscommunication between patient and Radiographer.

- You should understand what X-ray Tech has to do.

Continue reading >>