Warning signs of Dehydration in hot summer

When heat waves blow, human body needs excessive water. Sometimes people do not drink sufficient water and they undergo with serious medical illness due to insufficiency of water in body. It is termed as dehydration.  Dehydration is a condition where the water level in the body is extremely low. This can result in several minor and major effects within the body and can be lethal.

Water is essential for human body. The human body contains roughly 70% of water, and water is needed for many of bodily processes. It makes up a large volume of the cytosol in human cells, which is the fluid that supports the organelles. It is a large component of human bodily fluids and tissues, including blood, sweat, and tears. It is also important constituent in the digestion of food for nutrients, and is used to break down food in a process known as catabolism. These processes indicate that humans cannot survive without water.

Dehydration can be mild, moderate or severe. It depends on how much of body weight is lost through fluids.

General causes of dehydration are as under:

Vigorous exercise, hot weather and excessive sweating can cause dehydration.

Other causes include: Fever

Vomiting or diarrhea

Urinating too much

Though anyone may become dehydrated but young children, older adults and people with chronic illnesses are more prone to dehydration.

Signs and symptoms of dehydration: 

Major and early signs of dehydration are thirst and dark-coloured urine.

Other symptoms are as under:

1.   Dizziness or light-headedness

2.   Headache

3.   Tiredness

4.   Dry mouth, lips and eyes

5.   Passing small amounts of urine infrequently (less than three or four times a day).

Dehydration can lead to serious complications:

-Heat injury. If person does not drink enough fluids when they do exercise vigorously and sweat heavily, they may grip with a heat injury, ranging in severity from mild heat cramps to heat exhaustion or potentially fatal heatstroke.

-Swelling of the brain (cerebral edema). Sometimes, when person is getting fluids again after being dehydrated, the body tries to pull too much water back into cells. This can cause some cells to swell and rupture. The consequences are dangerous when brain cells are affected. 

-Seizures. Electrolytes such as potassium and sodium help carry electrical signals from cell to cell. If person’s electrolytes are out of balance, the normal electrical messages can become mixed up, which can lead to involuntary muscle contractions and sometimes to a loss of consciousness.

-Low blood volume shock (hypovolemic shock): This is lethal condition of dehydration. It happens when low blood volume causes a drop in blood pressure and a drop in the amount of oxygen in body.

-Kidney failure: This deadly problem may occur when kidneys are not functioning well due to dehydration and are unable to remove excess fluids and waste from blood. 

-Coma and death:  When the condition of dehydration is not treated quickly and properly, it can be incurable.

Person must immediately consult general practitioner symptoms continue despite drinking enough fluids.

In case of severe dehydration, immediate medical attention is required. Patients promptly consult doctor if they exhibit following symptoms:

-Feeling unusually tired (lethargic) or confused, and you think you may be dehydrated

-Dizziness when you stand up that doesn't go away after a few seconds

-Do not pass urine for eight hours

-A weak pulse

-A rapid pulse 

-Fits (seizures)

-A low level of consciousness.

It is important to be knowledgeable for baby dehydration.  A baby show following symptoms when they severely dehydrated:

-A sunken soft spot (fontanelle) on their head

-Few or no tears when they cry

-A dry mouth

-Fewer wet nappies

-Dark yellow urine

Drowsiness

Fast breathing

Cold and blotchy-looking hands and feet

Treatment & Management: 

To treat dehydration, electrolytes (especially sodium and potassium) should also be replaced. There are several flavoured drinks or oral rehydration solutions are available to replace the electrolytes (salts) lost during vigorous exercise.

In case of severe dehydration, hospital care is needed. In such cases, an intravenous solution containing sodium chloride is usually given. Intravenous fluids are given quickly, then more slowly as dehydration improves.

It is advised to prevent deadly condition of dehydration through drinking plenty of water and maintain hygiene to avoid cholera.

According to world health organization, dehydration is widespread in developing countries where about one billion people do not have access to clean water.

To encapsulate, Dehydration is a deadly medical condition which should not be taken lightly. It has been related with high mortality rates among    hospitalized older adults and a frequent cause of hospitalization of older adults.

Awareness for mental disorders: Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a congenital neuropsychiatric ailment. It emerges during childhood, pigeonholed by a combination of involuntary noises and movements referred as tic. Tics can be vocal (sounds) such as grunting, coughing or shouting out words or physical (movements)  such as jolting of the head or jumping up and down. These tics usually wax and diminish, can be crushed temporarily, and are preceded by a premonitory urge.

Tics normally appear between ages 2 and 15, with the average being around 6 years of age. Male child is more prone to this syndrome as compared to female child.

Children, adolescents and adults who are gripped with Tourette syndrome often have troubles in social functioning that may be related with tics and with co-occurring conditions such as ADHD or anxiety.

Children suffering from this syndrome may have lack of social acceptability, develop low social self-esteem and problem with establishing and maintaining friendships.

Major causes Tourette's syndrome:

Medical researchers could not explored the main causes of this rare and bizarre Tourette's syndrome. It is believed that this syndrome is associated with the disturbance in a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, which helps regulate body movements.

Common motor tics in Tourette syndrome:

Simple tics:

Eye blinking      

Head jerking     

Shoulder shrugging   

Eye darting         Obscene 

Nose twitching  

Mouth movements    

Complex tics:

Touching or smelling objects

Repeating observed movements

Stepping in a certain pattern

Obscene gesturing

Bending or twisting

Hopping

Common vocal tics in Tourette syndrome:

Simple tics:      

Grunting  

Coughing

Throat clearing 

Barking

Complex tics:

Repeating one's own words or phrases

Repeating others' words or phrases

Using vulgar, obscene or swear words

Treatment techniques of Tourette’s syndrome:

Though the medical science is highly advanced but currently there is no cure of this syndrome.

Child diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome is treated with application of behavioural therapy. There are two types of behavioural therapy which have demonstrated good results the intensity of tics.

First is Habit reversal therapy which involves observing the pattern and frequency of the tics and detecting any sensations that generate them. The next stage is to find an alternative, less obvious method of relieving the sensations that cause a tic. 

Second is exposure with response prevention (ERP) which involves increasing exposure to the urge to tic to overpower the tic response for longer. This is useful as patients get used to the feeling of craving to tic until the urge, and any related anxiety, weakens.

Certain medications are prescribed by doctor in case of frequent tics.

 To encapsulate, Tourette's syndrome is one of those early onset diseases typically beginning in childhood or adolescence. It has potential to influence population at large. Cognitive functioning most complex area of Tourette's syndrome. This syndrome is basically neurological disease that affects an ability to control movement and in some cases speaking. Such children or adults must need social support to lessen the symptoms of syndrome.

Serious concerns of tingling in human body

Health and disease

We as a human suffer from many physical or mental illness and overlook the mild symptoms such as tingling, itching. Here, we do mistake as any disease with low intensity can take form of dangerous disorder and if not attended timely, it can become fatal.

Among several critical diseases, tingling is also a warning signal that human body may have some serious disturbances.  In medical term, tingling is an abnormal sensations that can happen anywhere in human body, but often it is experienced in fingers, hands, feet, arms, or legs. Person experience tingling sensation in the body as pin pricks or feeling of needles and pins. Though this occurs on certain body parts but it can be felt in the whole body too.

When a person feels a tingling sensation in his body, it shows that there is reduced blood flow and compression of nerves. This sensation goes away if the person changes position or moves around. However, certain medical conditions result to persistent tingling all over the body and these cannot be comforted by changing the position or any type of movement.

In simple term, all people must comprehend that most of the medical conditions concerning tingling in the body emerge from the peripheral nervous system. Peripheral nervous system consists of groups of nerves that expand from the vertebrae going to the extremities.

Major causes of tingling sensation in body:

People experience tingling due to following reasons:

-      Sitting or standing in the same position for a long hours.

-      Wounding a nerve such as a neck injury may cause numbness anywhere in body. Low back injury can result in numbness or tingling down the back of leg.

-      Pressure on the nerves of the spine, such as from a herniated disk.

-      Pressure on peripheral nerves from enlarged blood vessels, tumours, scar tissue, or infection.

-      Shingles or herpes zoster infection.

-      Lack of blood supply to an area, such as from atherosclerosis, frostbite, or vessel inflammation (vasculitis).

-      Unusual levels of calcium, potassium, or sodium in body.

-      Severe deficiency of vitamin B12 or other vitamin

-      Intake of certain medications.

-      Nerve damage due to lead, alcohol, tobacco or chemotherapy drugs.

-      Radiation therapy

-      Animal bites such as Insect, tick, mite, and spider also causes tingling sensation in body.

-      Seafood toxins also lead to tingling sensation.

Tingling can be experienced in certain medical ailments such as:

-      Carpal tunnel syndrome (pressure on a nerve at the wrist)

-      Diabetes

-      Migraines

-      Multiple sclerosis

-      Seizures

-      Stroke

-      Transient ischemic attack (TIA), sometimes called a "mini-stroke"

-      Underactive thyroid

-      Raynaud's phenomenon (narrowing of the blood vessels, usually in the hands and feet)

Symptoms Associated with Tingling of Entire Body:

Tingling in the body is distinguished by pricking sensation or similar to pricked by tiny pins or needles. This condition can be accompanied by a numerous symptoms depending on the syndrome causing it.

Below are symptoms that patient may experience along with tingling sensation:

1.   Sudden vision blurring or loss

2.   Seizures

3.   Rashes

4.   Pain

5.   Numbness

6.   Muscle weakness

7.   Hematoma or bluish skin colour

When to Contact a Medical Professional:

Patients must visit practitioner in following conditions:

-      If person feels extreme weakness or are unable to move (paralysis), along with numbness or tingling.

-      Person must rush to hospital if tingling occur just after a head, neck, or back injury.

-      When person cannot control the movement of an arm or a leg or he/she have lost bladder or bowel control, then he must see doctor immediately.

-      Patients are confused or have lost consciousness, even briefly. It is warning and they must go to doctor.

-      If person have slurred speech, a change in vision, difficulty walking, or weakness, then they must visit the physician.

To call a doctor if:

-      Tingling has no obvious cause (like a hand or foot "falling asleep")

-      Persons have pain in their neck, forearm, or fingers

-      They frequently urinate.

-      Tingling is in legs and gets worse when person walks.

-       In case of rash, patient must call the doctor.

-      Patients feel dizziness, muscle spasm, or other unusual symptoms.

Natural Home based Treatment of Tingling:

To manage the medical condition of tingling, there are some useful home based treatments.

-      If the tingling is due to staying in one position for a long time, people must do exercise and ease the circulation.

-      Rest is necessary if the ‘pins and needle’ sensation is due to undue activity.

-      It is not advised to stay in the same position for long hours, particularly, when watching the television or working at the computer.

-      Prim rose oil is beneficial home remedy for tingling. Apply the oil onto the affected area and gently massage, 2 to 3 times every day. It will show quick results.

-      Avoid caffeine and alcohol. They reduce the flow of blood to the extremities.

-      Magnesium is required mineral for working cardiovascular and nervous system. Add food in diet with magnesium, it enhances blood circulation.

-      Yoga and physiotherapy is suggested for patients who are experiencing tingling. It alleviates the sensation of ‘pins and needles’ and enhances blood circulation greatly.

To bind up, tingling is a sensation related with several medical disorders. Any changes to nerve function can result in tingling in different parts of the body. People must take it seriously and visit to doctor to know the root cause of this condition. Timely diagnosis will prevent neurological disorders. 

Daydreamers: Gainer or looser

When we hear daydreaming, automatically it is sensed that day dreaming is a psychological state that needs attention. People rarely think that these emotional state can revolutionize their life.

Daydreaming is assays as a short-term dispassion from person's immediate environs, during which a person's contact with reality is distorted and partially switched by an unrealistic fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant feelings, hopes or motivations. Freudian psychology deduced daydreaming as manifestation of the supressed instincts similarly to those revealing themselves in night-time dreams. Alike night-time dreams, daydreams also serve as a tool of wish-fulfilment based on childhood experiences and are allowed to surface because of relaxed suppression. It is indicated that contrary to night-time dreams, which are often perplexing and rambling, there seems to be a process of "secondary revision" in fantasies that makes them more coherent, like daydreaming. The state of daydreaming is a type of liminal state between waking, an ability to think sensibly and sleeping.

In student life, daydreaming is common activity. The pupils in classroom drift their eyes to window or doors and they are not in conscious state to listen teacher’s lessons. It indicates that the daydream begins. Though daydreaming is not encouraged by elders or professionals, but embryonic studies of psychology and neuroscience have shown that daydreaming augment mental processing, reasoning and learning.

Plethora of psychological reports have represented that pupil who involved in daydreaming have improved critical thinking capabilities which is essential trait in successful learners.

Daydreaming boosts the brain exercise where it can clandestinely explore viable solutions to numerous life and academic problems. Additionally, precious daydreaming moments allow individuals the mindful rest needed to perform problematic tasks or situations with an active mind. According to researchers, children who knit an imaginative story are happier at play as compared to those who do not involve in daydreaming.

Daydreaming is a major dais for rational processing, enhances the mind’s prowess to smoothly shift in the face of unexpected events and situations. So while daydreaming, individuals organize information and experience that have already learned, making the learned material more advantageous by refining their ability to apply it. It also enhances response time of persons to act in challenging situations.  

However, daydreaming can be infuriating at times. Although, many psychologists view daydreams as positive and natural, but it is not as healthy always. Famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud sensed that only frustrated individuals engrossed in fantasies and that daydreaming were early signs of mental ailment.

It is squabbled that daydreaming is playful, a waste of time. This exercise visualized as negative because it signifies non-doing in a society. Downside of daydreaming which makes person looser in life is that daydreams may distract people to deal with unpleasant matters. 

Investigative reports signified that Majority of maladaptive dreamers had experienced some trauma or abuse in their babyhood. This proved that people use maladaptive daydreaming as a defence mechanism to cope with the anxiety or stress, abuse in daily life. Maladaptive daydreaming may deteriorate human health. Worst impact of maladaptive daydreaming is that the fantasy is a mockery and it generates a false sense of optimism that is frayed away from the daydreamer every time they come back into reality. People cannot set constructive life goal and fall in ladder of success.

To recap facts, Daydreaming is a flow of thoughts that detach individual from surroundings. It is the gateway to creativity, problem-solving and even to the comprehension of human potential.  Psychologists opined that people devote their mental activity on daydreams. Daydreaming equip persons to realise their goals, and divulge deepest hopes, desires and qualms. On the contrary, there may be detrimental consequences if person excessively involved in daydreaming and totally distract from reality. Optimistic face of daydreaming is that it initiates pleasant thoughts to resolve intricate issues, spark creativity in the Workplace and heal mental turmoil of humans. Ultimately, on the dialog of daydreaming, it is clinched that daydreamers have some special power and they are gainer in this earth bed.

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Qualities of creative people in this universe

Creativity enable people to activate their mind and develop novel things. According to intellectuals and scholars, some have born quality to explore new objects from their brilliance. They have creative personality.

The Mechanisms of Creativity:

Components of creativity include:

Originality: The notion must be something new and not an extension of object that already subsists in the world.

Functionality: The idea needs to actually work or have effectiveness.

Attributes of creative people:

- Creative people are enthusiastic as well as they have high concentration power.  Creative people have high vigour both physical and mental. They can spend long hours on a single thing that holds their attention.

- Creative people are smart, but also innocent. Though creative professionals have good sense to develop original research, but many research studies have demonstrated that persons with very high IQ are not essentially associated with higher degree of creative accomplishment.

- Creative people are spirited, yet self-controlled. When working on a task, creative people tend to display determination and single-mindedness.

- Creative people are genuine visionaries.  They often daydream and imagine the prospects and miracles of the world. They can submerge themselves in imagination and fantasy, hitherto remain stranded in realism. They are often titled as dreamers but do not move in sky. Some examples of creative people are designers, scientists, artists, writers, musicians etc.

- Another peculiar quality of creative people is that they are an extroverted and introverted. According to psychologists, creativity necessitates coalescing both of these personality styles.

- Creative people have a feeling of proud, yet reserved. Highly creative people feel proud of their accomplishments but they are also aware of their place. They have remarkable respect for others who work in their stream.

- Creative people are ardent, but objective about their work. Creative people enjoy their work as well as profoundly and fervently love what they do.

- Important trait of creative people is that these people are sensitive and open to experience, but happy and jubilant.

To wrap up, creative people may display a great deal of curiosity about many things, are frequently asking questions about anything and everything. Such individuals may have broad interests in many unrelated areas. They may devise collections based on unusual things and interests and generate numerous ideas or solutions to problems and questions. Creativity is inborn quality and it is nurtured in this world. These individuals are often uninhibited in expressions of opinion and sometimes radical and spirited in disagreement.

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Managing diabetes in comfortable zone

Diabetes is plaguing in the world populace at great pace. Today people have different lifestyle that may affect their health.  Therefore it is advised by medical professionals that people must maintain blood sugar levels to normal range to avert the risk of serious complications of diabetes, such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and amputations (related to diabetic neuropathy).

To become healthy, there are many ways to manage diabetes. People gripped with diabetes must consume natural foods and supplements with medicinal properties. Functional foods also enhance medication effectiveness, maintain nutritional status and prevent dangerous consequences.

People with diabetes can manage this illness strongly with diet. There are many food choices that they can include in diet to maintain the blood sugar:

-Ginger, lemon, cinnamon tea: Ginger is rich in active compounds called gingerols, which upsurge the acceptance of glucose into muscle cells and may help in the management of high blood sugar levels.

-Cinnamon and other spices such as nutmeg, basil, garlic, bay leaf, oregano also are effective to lower the blood glucose and increase insulin sensitivity, lower blood pressure and lessen the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

-Mushrooms works as anti-diabetic agents, some of these medical varieties include, Oyster mushroom, Reishi, Cordyceps, Shiitake, Maitake, and white button mushrooms. Mushrooms are low in calories, high in fiber, rich in B-Vitamins, Vitamin C, minerals, anti-oxidants and they are good source of Vitamin D among plant foods. The bioactive metabolites in mushrooms directly act on glucose metabolism and related biochemical pathways and reduce the blood glucose levels.

-Fenugreek seeds also help in decreasing the blood glucose. Therefore patients with type 2 diabetes can include this in diet to manage the disease. To use fenugreek, soak the seeds overnight and have at least 10 to 15 grams.  Patients can use 2 teaspoon of powdered seeds, soak it overnight in a glass of water, strain and drink this water on an empty stomach. They can also consume the seeds as spice in curries and lentils.

-Water is highly important for diabetic patients. The kidneys regulate the blood glucose by excreting it in urine and that is why patients need more fluids to throw away the extra sugars. Water is the best way to satiate that thirst and bring down the sugar levels. These patients have to maintain hydration because even a small decrease in the hydration level can cause serious health issues. In older diabetics, the thirst sensation may go down, therefore it is important to keep sipping water at regular intervals, especially after exercising and during hot weather. It is advisable to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of clean water daily.

-Patients must take multivitamin and mineral supplements as most of them with Type 2 diabetes suffer from deficiencies of Vitamin B-12, B-6, B-3, Vitamin D, folic acid, and mineral such as magnesium, zinc and calcium. To take any supplement, it is always good to consult doctor on the appropriate use and doses.

-To manage diabetes, it is highly important to reduce total calorie intake. Simple tactics to reduce calories is take small frequent meals at a gap of 2 to 3 hours.

-Diabetic people must make strict rule to avoid refined foods such as white bread, maida products, cookies, biscuits, and bakery goods. These foods lack fibre and have poor nutritional quality. Patients can take whole meal bread or multi-grain flour, oats, barley, brown rice and fibre rich foods as far as possible.

-To efficiently manage diabetes, people must do regular exercise. It can lower blood sugar, improves circulation, and helps to reduce body fat, build muscle tone and preserve bone mass. Diabetic patients must do aerobic exercise for 30 to 60 minutes such as walking, jogging or running, and cycling.

In closing note, patients suffering from diabetes have to do good management to avoid serious conditions that can be lethal in some cases. It is important that such people must harbour positive attitude toward life and have strong will to beat the illness. Good amount of exercise and choice of nutritious food items can result in good health. This also enhances their brain power to fight with any serious complications. Health