SLIDE FIFTEEN To sum up for you what I have discussed which can be a scary thing to deal with especially in our older years. There are a lot of bad things that people deal with when it comes to the heart but we do some of the stuff to ourselves. Maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet to keep your hearts in the best shape it can be in. Know ageing does affect our heart without the bad choices that make it worse. So see your doctor for regular check-ups, eat healthy, exercise, and do not smoke, also limit your alcohol intake.
Prions are neither fungal nor viral and they contain no genetic material, but they have been held responsible for a number of degenerative brain diseases including CJD. The harmless and infectious forms of prion protein are nearly identical making it nearly impossible to tell the difference, but the infectious prion takes a folded shape compared to the normal protein. For many reasons still unknown this prion, when altered, can destroy nervous system tissues like the brain and the spinal cord. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its variants belong to a broad group of human and animal diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or TSEs. The name is derived from the spongy holes that are only visible under a microscope that develop in the affected brain tissue.
Common triggers include: * Cold or humid weather * Too much or too little physical activity * Stress * Poor sleep Managing Fibromyalgia: Medication The goal of fibromyalgia treatment is to minimize pain, sleep disturbances, and mood disorders. Doctors may recommend medications that help ease your symptoms — ranging from familiar over-the-counter pain relievers to prescription drugs. There are also prescription drugs specifically approved for the treatment of fibromyalgia, which include Cymbalta, Lyrica, and Savella. NOT Percocet for Pain. Managing Fibromyalgia: Exercise Exercise can relieve several fibromyalgia symptoms.
There is currently no cure for this disease but there is treatment to keep the patient as comfortable as possible. If someone wants to be informed on whether or not they are a carrier of Tay Sachs, they just need to do a blood test. Being informed can keep children from experiencing this terrible disease. Bibliography: * "Tay-Sachs Disease." : Symptoms, Causes & Risk Factors.
(D) Health promotion & Maintenance: * Patient prefers to eat before daily hygiene ( bath and oral care) * Patient is diabetic and is at risk of hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic. * Patient is not able to recorgnize or vabalize when he is hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic. * NANDA Problem: * Ineffective health maintenance related patient not able to self medicate as evidence by patient srating on bed while hypiglycemic. Nursing Interventions: * Educate patient on the importance of hygiene ,especially oral care before meals * Encourage patient to socialize and need to spend time out of bed to prevent ulcer formation. * Refer patient to a support group once discharged to help him keep up with his diabetic teaching.
Take a friend to exercise with for support! Try other forms of exercise if the gym is not for you. Some ideas are self-defense, dance classes, swimming, sports, walking or running, and even yoga for meditating the stress away, temporarily. Eating right will keep weight controlled and will allow you to have energy and not slow the metabolism down to being fatigued all of the time. Avoid fast food and make good food choices when eating out.
In my personal life, the modifiable risk factors that apply to me are, stress diet, and exercise. Some steps that I can take to eliminate stress in my life are, to keep stress at bay, get enough sleep, eating right, and exercise. By getting the required amount of sleep, I need each night, my body will be able to fully function without wearing down. Eating a well-balanced healthy diet will allow me to get the vitamins and minerals my body requires to stay healthy. Incorporating physical activity into my daily life is, also a very important choice that I can make in my life to decrease my modifiable risk factors for diabetes.
Addicts need a lot of good, wholesome support to remain sober and clean. Many agencies offer case management to those with substance abuse issues to keep them in therapy as well as to help with finding living arrangements, employment, and help with food and utilities. The so called “fight on drugs” has focused for far too long on cutting the supply and not the demand. While prevention programs focus on the ill effects of the drugs, the root is still not being addressed. If we work on our children and spot the warning signs and offer therapy and positive role models, we can start to diminish the future demand.
They could range from mild, moderate to severe. Some of these symptoms include fatigue, incoordination, spasticity, sensory loss and numbness, muscle weakness, cardiovascular dysautonomi, heat sensitivity, blurred vision, tremor, impaired sudomotor function, bladder dysfunction, cognitive or memory deficits and possible depression (Castellano, V. 2006). Most of the disability that is affiliated with multiple sclerosis is caused by the nerve fibers in the long pathways, like the pyramidal tract. This tract supplies the efferent and afferent signals to the legs and dorsal columns. With damage, it is not able to successfully send the signals, causing motor disability (Gutierrez, G. M. 2005).
First, finding out how your diabetes will be managed during your stay in the hospital makes you an active participant by not having to rely on the nurses, and other caregivers, and by making them aware that you are a diabetic and how you regularly manage your disease at home. Secondly, always inform the caregivers of the prescribed medications you are taking and ask questions how any new ones will affect your care during your stay. Also, it is important to be prepared to stop certain medications before surgery, or simply know what to do if your medications are not given as directed. As a diabetic, nutrition is very important during your hospital stay. Informing caregivers about your diet may not seem crucial, but knowledge about how your foods and meals will be adjusted to help you achieve blood sugar levels within target range is.