Health & Beauty
My Nails
November 25, 2010 | 
Author Do you know if the nails can reflect your general health? The white color in one section or pink on the other, as well as brittle nails can be a sign of disease in the body. Disturbance in liver, lungs, and heart can be seen from the condition of your nails. Here are some secrets nail that describe other problems in the body. By recognizing the symptoms early on, of course, a disease that may already exist in the body can be treated earlier and more easily.
1. Nails pale
Nails are very pale, sometimes associated with aging. However, it could also indicate a serious illness, such as:
* Anemia
* Heart failure
* Diabetes
* Liver disease
* Poor nutrition
2. White nail
Nails are white with the darker edges, could indicate liver problems, are like hepatitis. If you experience this, should also indicate any other liver disorders.
3. Yellow nails
Fungal infection is one of the most common causes of yellow fingernails. If the infection gets worse, it will shrink your nail bed, nail thicken and crumble. In some cases, yellow nails indicate more serious conditions such as thyroid disease or psoriasis.
4. Bluish Nails
Bluish tinge on the nails is a sign that the body lacks oxygen. This could indicate an infection in the lungs, like pneumonia.
5. Speckled and wavy surface of the nail (nail rippled)
Nail surface freckled an early symptom of psoriasis or inflammatory arthritis. Psoriasis is a skin disease that nearly 10% of his starts with nail problem like this.
6. Fingernail cracked (cracked nail)
Dry and brittle nails and chapped often associated with mumps. If these conditions are cracked combined with yellowish color, it tends to be caused by fungal infection.
7. Inflammation in the folds of the nail (nail fold Puffy)
The redness and swelling around the nail is a sign of inflammation of the nail folds. This can be caused by lupus or other connective tissue disorders.
8. Dark lines under fingernails (dark lines)
Dark lines under fingernails is sometimes caused by melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer. Therefore, if you experience this, you should immediately see a doctor.
9. Bite your nails (nail gnawed)
Nail biting may be regarded as old habits. But, in some cases, this is a sign of anxiety that can be treated with medication. Nail biting is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. If you can not stop this habit, it is better to consult with a physician.
Nails are only a sign
Although changes in toenail is often followed by a particular disease, these changes are usually not a sign of the beginning. In addition, many nail changes are not harmful to health. Not all are experiencing nail changes have hepatitis. Therefore, if you’re concerned about the condition of your nails, it is better to consult with dermatology specialists.
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Injection to Beautiful
Through the injection method, you can quickly look pretty without side effects. The trick? You have to critically choose the materials and practitioners.
Not a few who want to look younger and always interesting. At least there is some type of injection method which is popular in society today.
Botox Injection
Botox contains botulinum toxin which is a neurotoxic protein that is used for treatment. This toxin is produced by the bacterium Clostridium Botulinum. Often used in muscle tension.
These toxins often found in canned foods contaminated anaerobic spores in the environment, then grow and produce toxin, which can cause botulism.
To prevent the growth of the bacteria clostridium botulinum, the food should be stored in a refrigerator with a temperature of 30C (380 F). These bugs are also easily grown in environments with high salinity and low pH.
Toxins produced by this will be easily damaged by high temperatures such as with cooking, but the spores of clostridium botulinum can survive a temperature of 1000 C for some time.
Toxins are not only used for beauty can also be used in people who suffer from migraines, hyperhidrosis (sweating a lot), achalasia (swallowing disorder), cervical dystonia (a strain on the neck and head).
Botox, it can also be used to lose weight by increasing the gastric emptying time.
Side effects
Side effects can be caused by injections (muscle paralysis) and chemical structure (protein). Moreover, it can also appear bruises that occur because of incorrect injection site, not caused by the toxin.
Other side effects such as not to close their eyes, unable to smile, eyelids down, or when injected around the jaw (masseter muscle) can cause difficulty chewing. This can happen in 6 weeks.
All cosmetic treatments using Botox has a certain working period, is usually between 3-8 months. The dose used for cosmetic usually is low dose so that the level of toxicity is very low.
Other side effects that may occur at the injection for cosmetic are headache, difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), symptoms of flu-like syndrome, local paralysis of the facial area, even an allergic reaction.
Working Mechanism of Botulinum Toxin
These toxins have a working target is to get into the terminal axon (part of nerve cells) are then ordered for occur paralysis.
The death rate ever reported because this toxin between the years 1950 – 1996 was 15.5%. Death usually occurs secondary failure in breathing, which are caused by respiratory muscle paralysis.
Collagen Injection
Often used to beautify the facial skin by removing the laugh lines, wrinkles, chapped skin on the heel, making the lips and cheeks look full.
Actually, this collagen injections, fast and safe when performed by Plastic Surgeon Doctor and should be discussed with you earlier.
Protin Collagen is found in bone, cartilage, skin and tendons. Collagen in the skin is useful to maintain skin firmness and elasticity. More and more collagen will be reduced so that the porters would arise wrinkles and eye bags. To combat the aging process, many people perform a variety of ways to keep skin unchanged.
Who are the people who can do collagen injections? It is people between the ages of 35 to the age of 60 years, to reduce the signs of aging such as laugh lines. Can also to make the area look full as lips, forehead, cheeks and around the mouth.
The time needed for the injection of approximately 30-60 minutes and patients can return to the house did not need hospitalization.
Collagen there are 2 kinds: bovine and human-based filler / human. Because many patients who are allergic to collagen which is derived from cows that required examination by the doctor first, but let me how to be more widely used bovine collagen.
Losses that may occur with injections of collagen, is an allergy, then the lack of skin firmness around injection site and infection.
White Injection
For white needles, usually the substance contained therein is Gluthathione and vit C. Gluthathione is an antioxidant that is often used for the treatment of cancer and AIDS. Side effects that may occur are nausea, vomiting, pain in the stomach. And never reported the occurrence of liver damage because the doses are too high.
To make your skin whiter usually can also be combined with L-Gluthathione consuming and Vit C in pill form for 3-6 months.
Any injection method that you want to do, make sure the safe and carried out by fully competent medical practitioner, in this case is a dermatologist or a trained doctor.
Beauty without cosmetics
The old adage says, the real beauty is when someone still look attractive even without makeup cosmetic facial morsel. Although valuation is pretty relative rights of each individual, the difference is how to look younger longer.
Beauty will fade over time. This perception is wrong. It is true that the aging process is a process that can not be avoided, but the only human do is to delay the aging process longer.
The use of cosmetics and make-up clothes are not much help eliminate wrinkles that arise early. Without realizing it, most healthy way in an attempt to look beauty without cosmetic is there in front of our eyes and very easy to do, here are some tips:
1. Eat enough.
From time immemorial there is absolutely no specific standard that states the official schedule is human must eat three times a day. So far we are influenced primordialism hereditary from human ancestors long ago.
Eat enough when hungry, do not overdo it. Glut diet can only cause further health problems who felt old on the day. Will be vulnerable to diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and others.
Because when the organs are forced to work longer and harder to digest foods that are excessive, the organs in the body faster aging. Like a car engine capacity of 800cc forced to tow a 10 ton truck, in a matter of minutes the machine will be broken.
2. Note Nutritional Intake
The most important is not the quantity of food portions, but the nutrient-quality food. Consider again the nutrient content of everyday foods that you consume, whether already answered the nutritional needs of your body?
Consider also any details of things good and bad foods that you consume. A chicken satay for example, few know how dangerous the new savory meat crispy blackened from the effects of charcoal fuel for our bodies, where the former combustion process have carcinogenic substances in foods that cause free radicals to trigger premature aging of the body.
3. Sport
Factors most conducive to the fast growing older is stress. Depression can be suppressed by exercise. People who undergo regular sports activities and fit and have stamina, strength longer than people who do not exercise. Fresh Stock after this exercise to reduce the effects of stress from the pressures that exist.
4. Getting just enough sleep
If you want to look natural, it is important enough to rest tonight. Minimum number of hours of sleep is not a sufficient guarantee whether your break time. Most importantly is sleep quality. Tired facial skin will look pale with dark circles under the eyes.
5. Drink enough Water
Drink enough water. Not the colored liquid freely offered lucrative market, consumption of colored beverages will only further aggravate the performance of the kidneys in the process of absorption. In addition, facial skin will look brighter when adequate moisture well. Drink water at least eight glasses a day to keep the skin dry. Avoid drinking beverages containing alcohol or caffeine from coffee can trigger a reduction in skin moisture.
How many times do we eat?
Until now, experts are still conflicting diet with respect to the system daily meals: most recommend to eat three times a day, while others suggest that better eating twice a day.
Eat twice a day. Such type diet is based from the complicated psychology of the human body. Everyone should take pause before eating other foods, should wait for the stomach is empty, when the sensation of hunger was back.
Psychologists say, everyone should have a breakfast from 7 am until 10 am. Followed by a second food intake, which is six hours later – from 1 pm until 3 pm. The hours are referred to as the ideal meal.
So basically, how many times do we eat? the answer is adjusted on ourselves.
My Nails
One part of our bodies that need to be maintained is a nail, because the nail was growing even when we scissors or a miser does not cause pain but nail it live, proof nail can lengthwise. Here are some tips you can try to get your nails strong and beautiful:
- Shorten nails using a nail file, not by using nail clippers. Why? The reason: because the cross section looks like fingernails onion (consisting of the layers). So if we cut out, then the nail will be easy to break because there are layers apart.
- Clean nails with warm water with a soft brush to clean nails.
- Expand to eat foods that contain vitamin C.
Once you go through the tips above, you are guaranteed nails become stronger and beautiful. Especially when you add a colorant to make it more beautiful nails
