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Fatigue, heat and pain is a common complaint that is felt varicose veins. Besides disturbing appearance, have varicose veins are also often inhibits the activity. Now there are new ways to cure varicose veins with a blast of steam.

Varicose veins, is a weak muscle in the wall causing a bulge above the skin surface. This bulge could arise due to leakage of valves in the saphenous vein in the leg that prevents blood flow to the heart. Varicose veins cause pain, itching and sometimes other complications such as eczema or boils.

Women are twice as likely to suffer from varicose veins, because estrogen seems to have a relaxing effect on blood vessel walls, thus making the valve more susceptible to leakage. People who are at increased risk of varicose veins are pregnant women, cooks, nurses, waitresses, hairdressers and other jobs that require sitting or standing for long.

Researchers from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam developed a new device to treat varicose veins, namely with a blast of hot steam. This steam exploded tool named STEAM Vein Sclerosis (SVS). SVS system consists of steam generator and handpiece that injecting small pulses or bursts of steam through the catheter into the vein. In this treatment, performed anesthesia (anesthesia) locally, as it produces temperatures to 120 degrees Celsius to heat the blood vessels, causing the walls of varicose veins bulge collapses. Then the catheter is slowly withdrawn to treat all muscle. Read the rest of this entry »

Normally, people slept between 6-8 hours a day. Although getting enough sleep, but there are people who still experience severe sleepiness at work. This condition must be addressed, because can be dangerous. You can get enough sleep last night, but when you wake up, your body was not feeling fresh and in the office you become very sleepy? This condition is called hypersomnia or Excessive Daytime Sleeping (EDS). Normally people spend 1/3 – 1/4 (6-8 hours) time to sleep. Less or more, known to trigger the problem, such as reduced productivity.

Hypersomnia is not excessive sleep, but rather, that excessive sleepiness after enough sleep. When you wake up the body does not feeling fresh, thus causing a domino effect such as fast drowsiness, difficulty concentrating and memory decline. This is a symptom of another disease, which causes poor sleep quality. Such as periodic limb movement disorder (the syndrome of the leg moves) or sleep apnea.

The syndrome of the leg moves cause the legs to move without conscious even when sleeping. While snoring indicates, there is blockage in the upper respiratory tract, while sleeping. When the legs moving or snoring, the brain becomes aware of but not to wake up, so break the rhythm of sleep. Indirectly sleep quality gets bad, so when you wake up still in the condition of drowsy, not fresh. Read the rest of this entry »

When patients with celiac disease, eating foods containing gluten, a protein that is contained in wheat / flour, turn on the alarm of their immune system which makes digestion was not able to absorb these nutrients. To open the curtain this gluten allergy, researchers continue to conduct research. The result is they find out who is most responsible for the allergic reaction, which is three minor components in the protein gluten.

These findings bring a big impact, namely the development of new therapies for celiac disease. According to the researchers, currently there is only one therapy for patients allergic to gluten, ie remove all the components of gluten in foods such as bread, pasta and pizza from their diets. The researchers said that, for dieters, wrong in eating will bring them out of the target diet, but for people with celiac disease, wrong in eating is precisely the case of emergency. Though, if they are not consuming gluten can trigger a deficiency of some essential vitamins. For children, that means slowing the growth and development. Read the rest of this entry »