Crankiness

Posted by Joy-O | allergies,colds,flu,health issues,health journal,personal | Thursday 30 September 2010 12:46 am

Crankiness? What’s with the word? Oh well it’s about me feeling erratic since yesterday. Not in the mood and was lazy yesterday and today woke up feeling so weak. I went to bed early last night and it seems that I still didn’t have a good sleep. Something keeps bugging me so annoying I don’t understand. I really hate what I’m feeling today. Stuffy nose, sore throat and muscle pain. What the heck why? We just stayed home the whole day yesterday anyway.  Checking in my kitchen feeling’ like there’s no good food for me to eat. All crap for me what are inside our cupboards and fridge. Oh no I hate this day. I just started it with opening my laptop while sipping hot lemonade with honey. I hope this day will finish well when it comes to my health. I got very itchy nose and I’m sneezing from time to time.  I’ve been treating my hay fever allergies for 3 days now but no to avail. Argh what I should I do? I want to go out but my saving account nearly empty. My pocket is sick. I need to earn. It’s draining because of school holiday. Oh this day no good sorry Lord.

Confidently Healthy

Posted by Joy-O | health alert,health issues,personal | Thursday 22 January 2009 2:32 am

I’m not used with a very cold weather temperature as what Melbourne Australia has to offer. People here is all the time ready for the sudden weather change. After one year of living here, I thought I’m already well-adjusted with the weather. I was very confident that I’m healthy and I can tackle whatever the changes of the weather. I was wrong. Now I’m sick. I mean I catch a very bad cough that no matter how I tried to cure, the more it gets worst. Many sleepless nights, my abdominal muscle is aching due to the dry and hard cough that last for more than two weeks. My duty as a mother of three all boys kids were affected. I can’t attend to their activeness. I used to be playful with them but now they’re bored on me. They always said “please mommy through your cough away”. I learned from my mistakes of being confidently healthy. I have to be careful and watchful from now on. I ignore the fact that weather triggers many health problems. No wonder why my Migraine triggers most of the time.
I found a site that offers a free service that alerts you in advance of flare-ups for migraines, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and asthma. Unfortunately, it’s only available to everyone in Canada, the USA (lower 48 states) and the UK. The name is MediClim.Com. If you sign up, you’ll get email alerts the day before your health problem may be aggravated due to changes in the weather. They should offer the service nationwide even if’s a free service.

Marrow transplants cure AIDS

Posted by Joy-O | health issues,health news | Thursday 13 November 2008 11:09 am

An American man with AIDS appears to have been cured 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia.
While his doctors and AIDS researchers caution the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims two million lives a year.
The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
The American man who is living in Berlin, had been living with AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer showed signs of the virus. He had stopped taking conventional AIDS medication. “We waited every day for a bad reading,” the doctor of the American man said. But the bad reading did not come.
Researchers in Berlin’s Charite Hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues showed no sign of AIDS.
What do you think? Maybe those tests were probably not extensive enough right? But if it’s really because of the marrow transplant, should we say that AIDS carrier has now more hope to get rid of the virus? Hopefully. According to a doctor, a lot of scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say that the AIDS virus is not present.
Marrow transplants have been used before to treat AIDS and HIV.

Endocrine system problem

Posted by Joy-O | health issues,health news | Monday 8 September 2008 4:06 am
fat baby
The giant 11-month old baby.

This bundle of blubber may only be 11 months old, but he is already the size of an eight-year-old.

The giant baby tips the scales at a whopping 61lbs 12oz (28kg) and stands four and a half stone larger than his older brother. Due to his hefty frame the toddler also has to wear huge nappies.

His mother, Milena Orosco de Agudelo, said her son started ballooning at just two months old.

The baby has had undergone a number of medical examinations which suggest he may have a problem with his endocrine system.

Ms Orosco said: ‘He had some tests done and the results show that he has a thyroid malfunction.

‘Then, he had a cardiogram test done and that test shows that he has the bones of an eight-year-old boy, but they have not told me where that came from.’

The normal weight for a boy his age is between 13lbs 4oz and 15lbs 7oz (6-7kg) and now baffled doctors in Colombia are trying to work out how he became so big.

Doctor David Dias, of the Barranquilla Pediatric Hospital, said: ‘The baby will undergo more tests to see if he’s obese or we’re dealing with hyperthyroidism.’

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