Breast Cancer awareness is necessary for your family & friends

Beautiful breast are meant to be appreciated. So caring your breast is very important both in the sense of physical appearance and breast health to avoid breast cancer.
There are many myth and conflicting informations about your breast and the health related to it. Your breast should not be the source of your anxiety and make you breast phobic. The best way to purse breast health is with regular breast cancer check and complete awareness about your breast.

The breast cancer though found largely in women but it is not an exception in the case of men. Earlier the death rate due to breast cancer was higher due to ignorance about own breast and the symptoms of breast cancer. But there is recent reduction in breast cancer death due to general awareness about breast cancer.

So, get yourself aware about breast cancer and save life of yourself and family, friends.

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Niapads™ – acne treatment with a difference!

Niapads™ is designed to safely reduce Acne flare-ups by unleashing the well known anti-inflammatory properties of Niacinamide USP. Inflammatory skin conditions include Acne vulgaris and studies have shown that Niacinamide USP has proven efficacy in treatment of these skin conditions. Niapads™ is uniquely formulated to deliver Niacinamide USP topically at the desired site unlike oral formulations. A mild scrubbing pad helps exfoliate dead skin cells and prevent pore clogging.

It is difficult to choose the right acne treatment – after all there are so many to choose from. Common questions -
1. Would it work on my skin type? Will it dry my skin and make it itch or flake?
2. Are there any side-effects? Is it safe for pregnancy or nursing child?
3. Is the regimen difficult? Are there multiple steps?
4. Is it convenient to carry, travel, spill-proof?
5. Will the potency be the same from the first application to the last in a given package?
6. Will it handle my serious breakout? Does it have a foul smell?

Each situation is unique. Acne is caused by several factors and there is no cure for acne.
However Niapads™ – face cleansing pad with Niacinamide USP, is safe and effective for all types of acne and is suitable for all skin types. It provides a safe and effective solution to all of the questions above and more!

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Product features:
1. Delivers therapeutic amounts of Niacinamide USP. Since it is topical, its action is localized and there are no systemic side-effects.
2. Reduce acne flare-ups. Mild enough for daily face cleansing.
3. Niacinamide is safe for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
4. Mild scrubbing action – water soluble micro beads. Cloth provides additional scrubbing action.
5. Contains beneficial Lavender oil. Mild lavender scent.
6. No added colors (Presence of FD&C colors may cause acne flare-ups).
7. 30 single use disposable pads per re-sealable pouch. Take it to school, college, work, gym or travel.
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Coronary Angioplasty

Angioplasty is abbreviation of (angio = artery + plasty = repair). Coronary angioplasty is the treatment of coronary heart disease. This treatment is performed to widen the narrow passage due to atherosclerosis within the blood vessel that cause the obstruction of normal blood flow to the heart. Angioplasty is sometimes taken as emergency treatment who have had heart attack, unstable angina.

The causing factors of atherosclerosis may be lack of physical activity, smoking, food habits and many more. Atherosclerosis is a condition in which a material called plaque (plak) builds up on the inner walls of the arteries. This can happen in any artery, including the coronary arteries, which carry oxygen-rich blood to your heart. When atherosclerosis affects the coronary arteries, the condition is called Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

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Natural hair care tips

Healthy & beautiful hair attracts every eye. But healthy hair is rare occurence in today’s world. The reason being our bad life style, pollution, unawareness about how to manage for healthy hair.

Lots of money being spent by millions of ladies and gents for superficial decoration of hair in expensive saloons but least care is being taken in maintaining the normal health. The result being that we are gradually loosing lots of hairs every day.

But the fact is that hair care is never expensive as decorating the hair for giving a beautiful appearance.

It takes only some simple knowledge about

• how to maintain hair
• what are do’s and dont’s with our hair
• what to take in our diet to get proper nutrition for healthy hair
• how to comb our hair
• What precautions should be taken before and after washing / shampooing hair
• What to do if we can’t avoid prolonged exposure to sun… etc.There are several other factors which if we take care of, we can have healthy shining and strong hair.Please click here to read about 20+natural hair care tips

Teeth Sensitivity or sensitive tooth

Teeth sensitivity is most common problem found in the people. It is the discomfort of feeling twinges of pain while our teeth comes in contact with cold or hot food and also in contact with sour. The reason being that the enamel of the teeth which forms outer protective coating over the teeth gets erode or removed due to various factors, exposing denting (the middle layer to the surface). The dentin contains sensitive nerve connected with the pulp of the tooth.

When this nerve tubles get in contact with outer atmospheric changes stimulation, it response to the stimuli causing pain feelings.

There are several other factors causing sensitive tooth daily brushing is one of the. To know more about its cause, prevention etc, please visit

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Heart attack, causes and prevention, treatment of heart attack

Human life style is getting changed. Stress, smoking, drinking, lack of physical activities, diet factor and many other factors are getting involved in human life which invites the unwanted risk of death in every one’s life.
The death rate due to heart attack is getting increased as the years pass by. Though several factors of heart attack are unavoidable but more than those factors, there are many avoidable factors which we people can’t take precaution off and gives invitation to such risk factors to speed up the process of spreading the disease.

Some of the causes of heart failure is as below

• Coronary artery disease
• Past heart attacks
• Hypertension
• Abnormal heart valves
• Congenital heart disease
• Severe lungs disease
• Diabetes
• Severe Anemia
• Hyperthyroidism
• Arhythmia

Pls click on Heart attack – causes to read in details

There are several risk factors beyond heart attack
Few of them are unavoidable and many are avoidable. These are

Unavoidable Risk factors

• Ageing
• Male sex
• Heredity (including race)

But there are many risk factors which are due to our bad life style and we can avoid it

• Tobacco smoking
• High Cholestrol levels in blood
• High blood pressure
• Lack of physical activities
• Obesity and overweight
• Diabetes millitus
• Stress
• Alcohol
• Birth control pills

Please click on Risk factors to read in details
Also read about its precaution & treatment

Acne, Acne precaution, Acne treatment, Acne scar prevention & treatment

Acne is a disease which every one suffers at some moment of life. But it has its severe impact on psychology of human mind when acne become a persistent disease.
Acne is caused due to over stimulation of sebaceous glands due to various reasons. These hyper activated sebaceous glands starts secreting excess of sebum which gets contaminated with bacteria and mixed with dead cells within the follicle proceeds towards the surface but forms plug in the pores. Thus the clogged pores prevent the excess of sebum produced inside to comes out and the bacteria begins to spread inside cause infection. On the other hand the body sends the repair kit to get the infected spot repair after healing. So the body tries to fight out the bacterial infection causing the inflammation.

Unfortunately after repair of the infected spot being left meshy causing the scars on the skin.
But it would be better to take steps to prevent acne rather than treat acne. Acne is curable. Its prevention is possible even we can also get rid of scars.

To know about the prevention methods, treatment of acne and acne scars, pls click here

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Stress management – explained by medicainfo.com

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Stress is a mental or psychological state of mind when a person undergoes a some unfavourable or unwanted factors which exceed his/her ability to cope with and cause tension in the mind that give rise to several severe diseases as its side effect. It vary from human to human. The events causing stress are never stressfull. It is the way that an individual interpret and react to it, which make those events stressfull.

Fortunately there are ways to get relief of stress, which we called stress management.

Stress management

Stress management is the technique to cope with such unwanted or unfavourable situations without getting stressed or the ability to keep the mental condition to calm state to feel emotionally relaxed and improve the behavioral skill.

Though stress is good for us, because it helps us to redefine our ability to perform better everytime, but sometimes it proves to have bad effect when we doesnot able to cope with the existing stress and it make us sick.

To manage stress, it is compulsory for us to understand stress, its cause, symptoms etc.

What happens in our body during stress?

There are lots of things that is going on while we have stress. The stress reaction begins in our body with the outpouring of a stimulant hormone Adrenalin in our blood. Adrenalin with other stress hormones alert our senses to be protective against the event causing stress. All our senses get alert and prepare for a extreme situation of either fighting or run away from the stress causing factor.
The changes associate with increasing heart rate due to increase of blood pressure. The blood tends to provide more supply towards heart, muscle, brain by diminishing blood supply to less vital areas like kidney, digestive tracks, skin etc. In addition to this the blood clotting factor within the blood gets increased to prevent hemorrhage during injury. The increase of blood sugar, fats and other energy supplying factors get increased to provide more energy and strength. The body tends to intake more oxygen with faster breathing rate.

Symptoms of stress

There are several symptoms that are being noticed while someone is experiencing stress. These symptoms fall into few catagories and a person experiencing stress can show more than one symptoms among those mentioned below.

Feeling/ emotional -

• Nervousness
• Anxiety
• Scared
• Irritability
• Short tempered
• Angry
• Moody
• Depression

Thoughts/ Mental -

• Low self esteem
• Lack/irritating feelings in concentrating
• Consufion in decision making
• Loss of sense of humour
• Too much worrying about future
• Negative thought

Behavioral -

• Nervous habbit like nail biting, foot tapping
• Teeth grinding
• Loss of apetite
• Over eating
• Blaming and throwing things
• Being prone to accident.
• Increase smoking
• Increase alcohol consumption
• Crying or laughing without reason

Physiology/Physical -

• Perspiration/ sweatening of palm
• Muscle stiffness
• Fatigue / sleeping tendency
• Trembeling
• Temporary loss of voice
• Drying of throat and mouth
• Increased heart rate
• Faster breathing
• Headache
• Succeptiblity to illness.
• Freequent urinating.

To know about causing factors of STRESS and how to manage it pls. click STRESS MANAGEMENT
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Hypertension is a silent killer

Nowadays Hypertension has become a part of our common life, and in most of the cases it is being ignored.
But sustained hypertension if not being treated can quietly damage your various body organ before development of any symptoms. It has the potential to cause disability of your vital organs and left you wind up with a paralysed life and even can gift you a fatal heart attack.
Hypertension is a medical term for high blood pressure, the force which the blood is applying against the walls of arteries as it flows through them.

Causes of hypertension
Though the exact cause of hypertension is still a matter of debate but there there are several factors considered as responsible for Hypertension.

* Stress
* Over weight or obesity
* Lack of physical activity
* Smoking
* Excess Salt consumption
* Alcohol consumption
* Adrenal disorder
* Thyroid disorder
* Genetics
* Family history of Blood Pressure

The catagories of Blood Pressure from Normal to Hypertension

Normal – Less than 120 / 80
Pre Hypertension – 120-139 / 80-89
Stage 1 Hypertension – 140-159 / 90-99
Stage 2 Hypertension – 160 and above / 100 and above

Effects of hypertension

Pls read the detailed effects of hypertension on sexual ability, heart, kidney, brain, eye, by clicking on the above link.

Symptoms of hypertension
Ususally there is no specific symptoms of hypertension, but some symptoms are there which can indicate the presence of hypertension within you. Start self monitoring some symptoms at home like,

* Blood coming out in urine
* Undergoing severe headache
* Facing any vision problem
* Chest pain or difficulty in breathing
* Fatigue
* Suffering from irregular heart beat

The best way is to check your blood pressure, if it is found to be very high then you should consult your doctor.

Prevention measures should be adopted to avoid hypertension
Though in today’s complicated lyfestyle, it is little difficult to absolutely avoid such hypertension but there are some preventive measures which should be adopted to reduce the risk of hypertension.

* Adopting healthy life style like reducing consumption of excess salt, smoking, alcohol etc
* Increasing fruit, vegetables etc in daily diet and regular exercise specially aerobic can help in this.
* Keeping in touch with health care team for check up at regular intervals can help you keep hypertension under control.

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