Molluscum contagiosum is a very common skin infection that causes small pearly or flesh-colored bumps. The bumps may be clear, and the center often is indented. The bumps may be either clear or red and inflamed. They are often seen in groups in one or two areas. Bumps may develop along with eczema, and you may not notice the bumps as much as the eczema.
Most of the bumps are often found on the trunk, face, eyelids, or genital area in temperate climates and on extremities in the tropics. In children, bumps usually appear on the trunk, face, and arms. In sexually active teens and young adults, the bumps are often located in the genital area. The infection is caused by a virus. The virus is easily spread but is not harmful.
Molluscum contagiosum in people who have an impaired immune system, such as HIV infection, can be more serious. These bumps are hard to treat, and can mimic other serious diseases of people with HIV infection. Conditions that may appear similar to molluscum contagiosum include warts, chickenpox, genital warts, basal cell skin cancer, and lichen planus.
Molluscum contagiosum is usually diagnosed during a physical exam. If you have bumps in genital area, your doctor may check for other sexually transmitted diseases, such as genital herpes. Some doctors may consider testing for human immunodeficiency virus if you are at risk for the condition and you have bumps on your face or other symptoms of a severe case of molluscum contagiosum. A biopsy may be done if the diagnosis is unclear and other conditions are suspected.
Treatment for molluscum contagiosum is not always needed because most bumps will go away within two to four months, although they may last longer. But if bumps are visible or embarrassing, or in order to prevent their spread, you may want them removed. Removal or other treatment is recommended for bumps in the genital area.
You apply the nonprescription medicine salicylic acid directly to the bumps. It is usually not painful and is often regarded as the first treatment to try. Immunotherapy triggers your immune system to fight the virus causing the skin growth. Small studies have shown that it is successful about eighty percent of the time.
Manual extrusion means that viral material is removed by squeezing bumps with fingers or forceps. This is done by a doctor to avoid scarring and to keep infection from spreading. Curettage means that the viral material in the center of the bump is scraped out. A local or topical anesthetic can be used to numb the area. This procedure may cause scarring.
Your doctor may apply a chemical to the bumps. This destroys the top layers of the skin, allowing a new layer to form. When the chemical is applied, you may feel a burning sensation. Side effect may include mild scarring. How often and how long the chemical is applied will vary. Chemicals used include trichloroacetic acid, podophyllin resin, potassium hydroxide, and cantharidin.
Cryotherapy means that the bump is frozen with liquid nitrogen. A local anesthetic may be used to numb the area. The liquid nitrogen is sprayed or applied with a cotton-tip applicator for five or more seconds. This procedure usually is not too painful, is not as likely as curettage to cause scarring, and usually is effective. Often, more than one treatment is needed.
Treatment varies depending on your age and health and the location of bumps. Although synthetic chemical drugs are effective, they have much side effects with high price. Some ailments could not be treated by synthetic drugs. Plant medicine comes from natural and is safer than synthetic drugs when treating molluscum contagiosum. The efficacy of plant medicine for molluscum is conclusive with scientific pharmacology to illustrate, which enhances the confidence of patients.
Plant medicine has excellent antiviral activity against hulled viruses as it causes their cellular death upon exposure. The antiviral properties of this natural treatment for molluscum have a tremendous therapeutic impact to eradicate viral pathogens, especially those infecting the skin. Plant medicine is a powerful antiviral agent which inhibits the signal transduction pathways of the molluscum viral proteins. As a result, it provides a profound healing effect against the molluscum contagiosum virus. To learn more, please go to http://www.naturespharma.org.
Month: October 2018
The Effect Of Micro-chinese Medicine Osmotherapy For Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease
Facing the embarrassing situation of repeated outbreak after surgical treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD), more and more patients with PKD look forward to receiving traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Today we will recommend Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital. Then how is the effect of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy for treating Polycystic Kidney Disease? Now we will explain it.
How is Polycystic Kidney Disease caused? Under the action of pathogenic factors, Polycystic Kidney Disease is a series of allergy caused by damage of renal tubular epithelial cells. Damage and proliferation of renal tubular epithelial cells are pathological characteristics of PKD. Proliferation of renal tubular epithelial cells leads to half obstruction state at the cyst neck. So cyst liquid is not easy to flow out and cyst becomes big. In order to treat PKD, we should restrain secretion of cyst liquid and repair renal tubular epithelial cells.
The traditional treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease is laparoscopic renal cyst decortication. This treatment can solve the problem that large cysts oppress renal parenchyma temporarily. Though the pressure of the big cyst to kidney is relieved, small cysts get the chance of growing and small cysts will become big rapidly. The surgical treatment does not inhibit cyst liquid secretion and ignores repair of renal tubular epithelial cells. So surgical treatment is only an expedient. This is why we do not use surgical treatment to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy for treating Polycystic Kidney Disease has the following two measures:
First, it can dilate blood vessels of blood vessel walls around polycystic kidney and accelerate blood circulation of cyst wall, which prompts increase of cyst wall permeability and drop of cyst wall intravascular pressure. It reverses the situation that intravascular pressure is higher than pressure within cyst and accelerate absorption of cyst liquid.
Second, the active material in Micro-Chinese Medicine prevents the cyst wall vessels and cyst from enlarging. At the same time, the active material provides repair material for renal tubular epithelial cells.
Through the above treatment measures, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy improves circulation disorder of blood vessel walls and cyst and softens the cyst wall. So it increases cyst wall permeability and inhibits secretion of cyst wall cells. A large number of clinical practice has proven that Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has a good effect on treating PKD.
Mens Health Using Foods as Medicine
The ideal heart healthy, immune supporting, anti-aging diet requires a variety of foods and supplements to maintain mens health and wellness. What is in our kitchen cupboards may have more impact on our health than whats in our medicine chest. The foods and supplements we consume can be our best defense against the onset of diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Diets rich in fish oils, such as those found in salmon, sardines, herring and trout, have a distinct anti-inflammatory effect on the body because they contain EPA (an omega-3 fat). These fish oils are helpful in affecting everything from rheumatoid arthritis to fibromyalgia and atherosclerosis. Omega-3 fats also help to prevent blood clots and elevate good cholesterol (HDL). Fatty fish like salmon are an invaluable part of a preventative diet. If you dont like fish, fish oil supplements will also do the job.
Flaxseed and flaxseed oil are high in another type of omega-3 fat called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which the body turns into the more beneficial EPA. Vegetarians should note: only a percentage of the vegetable-based ALA can be converted into EPA, so larger quantities are needed to obtain the same result as fish oils.
Bioflavonoids are part of a class of antioxidant compounds referred to as ‘phytochemicals’ (plant-based compounds). Theyre found in grapes, grape juice, red wine, dark chocolate (the darker the chocolate, the more cocoa beans), seeds, nuts, citrus fruits and black, green and herbal tea. Flavonoids have been shown to:
Improve memory
Help prevent blood clots
Lower high blood pressure
Reduce the oxidation of LDL cholesterol
Improve mens sexual function
Scavenge ‘free radicals’ and aid vitamin C effectiveness
Bolster immune system support
One study showed that people whose diet consisted of fish, fruits and vegetables, garlic, almonds, wine and dark chocolate had lower rates of heart disease and lived longer (than those on a standard diet). We can all make these simple changes in our diet and supplementing with fish oils, bioflavonoids, vitamin C and resveratrol (from grape skins) can greatly contribute to all mens health and wellness.
Robotics In Medicine Improving Procedures And Reducing Costs
Find out how robotics is a rapidly expanding portion of medical treatments.
Robotics in medicine is producing great results in many ways, especially in the area of surgery. The term robotics means the use of a robot to perform various functions. A robot has movable physical structure, a power source, a sensor system, and a computerized brain to control activities.
Surgeons of the future will use robotics to perform surgical tasks. Robotics still requires the expertise of the surgeon to operate, but the instruments used by robotics improve the control, the precision, as well as often minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures.
Robotics is being used for things like gall bladder surgery, endoscopy, and many other surgeries. Basically, here’s how robotics surgery works. The surgeon looks into a viewfinder to see images being sent by a camera that’s inside the patient. Images show the surgical site and the surgical instruments. Controls, much like a joystick are used by the surgeon to manipulate the instruments and perform the surgery.
Patients with robotics surgery have smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays, and normally faster recovery time. This reduces costs and gives the patient the ability to return to normal activities in a much shorter time span.
Surgical procedures aren’t the only place robotics can be used in medicine. Developers are continuously working on new ways to allow robotics to perform tasks. One area that’s especially promising in the control of disease and the prevention of diseases being spread. Areas that could be harmful for hospital personnel can be sterilized by using robotics. Some other types of procedures are sterilizing floors, delivering lab specimens, pulling patients on stretchers to rooms.
Advocates of using more robotics in medicine feel that the benefits far outweigh any negative constraints. However, in some instances the question of the patient’s emotional state has been questioned. Most people feel more secure when being transported by a human than having a robot transport them. There are other instances where human interaction can have a positive effect on the patient.
How far will the loss of human interaction go in the medical community? At this point, it seems there will be little attention paid to the humanistic side of using robotics in medicine. Obviously, in areas where the patient is virtually unaware, as during surgery, there is little reason not to employ robotics.
What is the Best Canine Heartworm Medicine
You have a dog and you love it very much. But you are also aware of the fact that there are many diseases that can affect it and you have to make sure you know how to protect it. This can be a hard job for any pet owner.
Have you heard of heartworm? Many people that have animals know about this problem. Do you know where they came from and which treatment is the best? If you care about your dog then you should get interested on these things and invest time and some money into keeping the dog healthy. You need to know how to choose the best medicine for your furry companion.
You should know that heartworms use mosquitoes as a messenger. The mosquito is getting on the dog and passing on the worms. The heartworms disease affects dogs, cats, cows and many more animals. Out of all the animals, the dogs tend to get this affection more frequently. You do not want your dog to get really sick because you missed the early symptoms like hair loss, weight loss, blurred vision and vomiting. The heartworm disease can transform a hyperactive dog into a very unresponsive one.
This disease is very serious because it causes rapid deterioration in the dogs general health status. For many owners the news that the dog has parasites can be hard to handle. You should also know that when it comes to heartworms, vets talk about prevention and not cure. The prevention medicine will affect the larvae but they will not kill the mature parasites. They will only keep the ground clean.
Of course that prevention is not a cure but the heartworm disease is quite manageable. There are many type of medicines that work to destroy the larvae and they come in many sizes, shapes and colors. You can get pills, topical creams, injections or chewable pills. So, first prevent!
These are some of the preventive medicines that will help your dog to fight the infection with heartworm parasites. Iverhart Plus is a very common prescription drug and dogs like it because it tastes a bit like the pork liver. Vets say that this medicine must be given to the dog once every 30 days, meaning once a month. You must not miss the 30 days because the medicine wears off after that time. Do not give preventive heartworm medication without talking to the vet before. There are some dog breeds that need special medications or there are different side effects or contraindications.
Not all the pills have flavors. Another Heartgard medicine without flavor is Interceptor, a drug approved by FDA. Immiticide is a drug that attacks the mature worms and it has melarsomine, an arsenic-based element.
These are just a few of the drugs that you can give the dog to keep him away from heartworm disease. The drug can greatly improve your pet’s health. Also, before taking any treatment for the dog, make sure you go online and do some research on your own so that you know what you are dealing with.
In conclusion, do not let your dog suffer from heartworms because they can cause serious symptoms and even death. The dog can also go into a coma if the disease is not treated. So take the dog to the vet for a heartworm test and then give the dog the medicine which was prescribed by the vet. Take care of your furry companion and keep it away from places with mosquitoes and treat him if you notice symptoms. No matter what treatment you choose, the dogs health will improve.