Για τους πονοκεφάλους…
21 Ιανουαρίου, 2011
Κορίτσια δεν κινδυνεύουμε να τα χάσουμε!
Αφιερώνεται στις φiλενάδες που πάσχουν από ημικρανίες – και είναι δυστυχώς πολλές…
Σύμφωνα με τελευταίες έρευνες, οι ημικρανίες δεν έχουν επιπτώσεις στον εγκέφαλο…
Ακολουθεί το άρθρο που διαβάσαμε στην ιστοσελίδα zougla.gr
Όπως διαβεβαιώνει μια νέα γαλλική επιστημονική έρευνα, ακόμα και οι πιο δυνατοί πονοκέφαλοι δεν κάνουν κακό στα εγκεφαλικά κυκλώματα.
«Σχεδόν πάντα το πρώτο πράγμα που ρωτάνε οι ασθενείς με ημικρανίες είναι αν κινδυνεύει ο εγκέφαλός τους. Τώρα, μπορούμε να δώσουμε μια απάντηση: δεν πρέπει να ανησυχούν καθόλου» δήλωσε ο υπεύθυνος της νέας μελέτης γιατρός-νευροεπιδημιολόγος, Κριστόφ Τζουριό, ερευνητής του Πανεπιστημίου «Πιερ και Μαρί Κιουρί» του Παρισιού και του Ινστιτούτου INSERM.
Οι ερευνητές εξέτασαν τις γνωσιακές και νοητικές ικανότητες σε περισσότερους από 800 ανθρώπους, ηλικίας άνω των 65 ετών, από τους οποίους περίπου το 15% υπέφερε από ημικρανίες σε όλη σχεδόν τη ζωή του.
Οι Γάλλοι επιστήμονες διαπίστωσαν ότι οι πάσχοντες από χρόνιους πονοκεφάλους δεν διέφεραν σε τίποτε από τους υπολοίπους, όσον αφορά στις νοητικές επιδόσεις τους. Ακόμα και οι πιο ηλικιωμένοι που είχαν υποφέρει από τις πιο βασανιστικές ημικρανίες επί χρόνια δεν έδειχναν να έχουν υποστεί κάποια επίπτωση στις λειτουργίες του εγκεφάλου τους.
Οι ημικρανίες πλήττουν κατά καιρούς περίπου ένα στα εννέα άτομα. Οι αιτίες είναι ακόμα ασαφείς, αλλά σχετίζονται με τα αιμοφόρα αγγεία του εγκεφάλου και τη φθορά των μικροσκοπικών εγκεφαλικών αρτηριών που τροφοδοτούν με αίμα την περιοχή αυτή. Αν και τέτοιες κακώσεις υπάρχουν στο εσωτερικό των μικροαγγείων του εγκεφάλου όσων πάσχουν από ημικρανίες, αυτό δεν φαίνεται να αυξάνει τον κίνδυνο για πρόωρο εκφυλισμό των νοητικών λειτουργιών.
Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας δημοσιεύτηκαν στο βρετανικό περιοδικό «British Medical Journal».
Γυναικείο καρδιακό επεισόδιο…
30 Ιουνίου, 2008
Κορίτσια Προσοχή!!!
Και οι οδηγίες που μας έστειλε η Πέπη, αχρείαστες να είναι..!
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack?
… you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack.
‘I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO
prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might’ve brought it on. I was
sitting all snug & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap,
reading an interesting story my friend had sent me and actually thinking,
‘A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with
my feet propped up. A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of
indigestion,when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and
washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel
like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion
and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have gulped it down
so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of
water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial
sensation—the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite of anything
since about 5:00 p.m. After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was
likelittle squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE
(hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they
continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses
rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on
into my throat and branched out into both jaws.’ AHA!! NOW I stopped
puzzling about what was happening — we all have read and/or heard about pain
in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said
aloud to myself and the cat,Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack! I
lowered the footrest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and
fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I
shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else
… but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help,
and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in moment. I pulled
myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and
dialed the Paramedics … I told her I thought I was having a heart attack
due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I
didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was
sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to
me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they
could see me when they came in. I unlocked the door and then laid down on the
floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics
coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into
their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St.Jude ER on the way, but
I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was
already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my
stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions
(probably something like ‘Have you taken any medications?’) but I couldn’t
makemy mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer,and nodded off
again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded
the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my
heart where they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right
coronary artery. ‘I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home
must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but
actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire
station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist
was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my
heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and
installing the stents.
‘Why have I written all of this to you with so much
detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know
what I learned first hand.’
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not the usual men’s symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better in the morning when they wake up … which doesn’t happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you’ve not felt before. It is better to have a ‘false alarm’ visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said ‘Call the Paramedics.’ And if you can take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER – you are a hazard to others on the road. Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be where you live and if it’s at night you won’t reach him anyway, and if it’s daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn’t carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3. Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it’s unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there.. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive. A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we’ll save at least one life.
**Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends (male & female) about whom you care!**
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