Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease,Symptoms and Prevention

Today, I will write about one of the diseases of our age. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). Generally, people call it Reflux because it is the easiest way to say that. Also the other names for this disease are Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD), Gastric Reflux Disease, or Acid Reflux Disease.

The valve of the stomach is the barrier between our stomach and esophagus. It holds the top of the stomach closed and helps to stomach to keep the food inside for the digestion with the hydrochloric acid.

If the valve of the stomach cannot work properly and the food and the stomach acid comes through to the esophagus, and it happens too often, it means that you have the disease reflux.

Symptoms:

1. Heartburn

2.Regurgitation (Burping)

3.Trouble swallowing (Dysphagia)

4.Nausea

5.Chest Pain

6. Coughing

If you have these symptoms and they are too often, please go and see your doctor. You may have the disease reflux.

Prevention:

1. Sleep on the left side, or with your upper body raised.

2. Don’t drink alcohol or fizzy drinks like coke. Especially when you are hungry and haven’t eaten anything.

3. Lose weight

4. Eat smaller meals.

5. Don’t eat anything before 3 hours when you go to bed. If you are too hungry prefer the foods which are easy to digest.

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Source: Mayo-Clinic Encyclopedia

Sunburn,Tanorexia,Symptoms and Treatment

As you all know, during the summer time, getting a tan skin is an important issue for people who love spending time outside and swimming. We see people with reddish skins often while we are walking on the streets. It is also another symbol of being popular for some of the teenagers. But, there is a fact that everybody should never forget: sunburn can be very dangerous and also it can cause to skin cancer, so people should be very careful while they are spending their time under the sunlight.

A sunburn is a burn on the living tissue on skin. Ultraviolet radiation which comes from the sun reaches our skin and if we stay too long under the sun without protection, it can damage our skin and our skin become red and it would be hard and hot to touch. It gives pain to touch to a sunburn. To protect our skin, you should use suncream which has the best factor for our skin, you should wear hats and sunglasses to protect our eyes and head. You should use the suncream 30 minutes  before when you go outside so that it can start to protect your skin.

Today, when I read the newspaper I saw a disease which was very interesting but also very dangerous. The disease is called “TANOREXIA”. Tanorexia the name of  the addiction of tanning. Sunbathing and using tanning beds out of control. This illness causes to skin cancer and the patient knows that and still wants to get a tan skin. It is an addiction just like using alcohol and drugs. The University of Texas Southeast Medical Hospital says that the people who have the illness tanorexia have the same features with the  people who are addictive to drug and alcohol. Although they have the risk of skin cancer, they are still sunbathing and then, the ultraviolet rays creates the same effects with drugs and alcohol in brain. It makes the blood flow faster so that, the feeling of addiction increases.

The symtoms are typically the redness on skin (erythema),nausea,fever,itching and peeling skin. The sunburn will dissapear by the time pass but if you want to reduce the pain of  it, you can take an aspirin or use diaper rash cream.But if your sunburns are too much and deep, and if you have a habit like sunbathing without protection nearly every day, you should immediately go to a doctor because skin cancer and tanorexia are sneaky illnesses and people cannot recognize them easily. Be careful and don’t spend time outside without protection too much. Take care… J

                                                    Peeling Skin

                                                These materials are good for protection
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