My Healthy Info

Dealing With Your Sleep Disorder

2008-11-05T14:53:00.000-08:00

Sleep disorders (somnipathy) is a disorder that affects your sleeping patterns. This can interfere with your physical, mental, and emotional functions.

There are several types of sleep disorders. Some of these are:

Bruxism: Griding and clenching of teeth while sleeping. This can be very painful on your jaw.

Restless Leg Syndrome: (RLS): An irresistible urge to move legs.

Sleepwalking: Being asleep and walkng around without knowing.

What we are finding recently is that stress can cause many of these sleep disorders. However, it always isn't the case. Sometimes we need to turn to sleep aids.

Sleep Aids

Sleep medicine has come a long way and is available over the counter. Many of our regular aspirin brands has their own "pm" medicine that helps sleep, like Tylenol PM and Advil PM. They simply add Diphenhydramine HCl which is a sleep aid.

However to get anything stronger you may need a prescription and should consult your doctor.

However, ClickonHealth has a great FREE guide to sleep disorders. It can help you with the latest treatments, sleep apnea, and how it can affect you. Free Sleep Guide - Get Your Free Guide to Sleep Disorders.

Diagnosed with ADHD

2008-10-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder also known as ADHD or ADD is a common mental condition. It affects between 3-5% of American children.

ADHD affects children's concentration, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.

Symptoms of ADHD

difficulty keeping the mind on any one thing
skipping over details
getting bored with a task before it’s completed
making careless mistakes
being easily distracted from a task, lesson, or conversation
difficulty listening when directly addressed
disorganization and forgetfulness
difficulty following instructions or finishing tasks

Help Your Child

Although it is really unknown what causes ADHD you can help your child. Studies show that the brains of children with ADHD just may function a bit differently, therefore you can make it easier for your child.

Make a schedule
Write down house rules and possible punishments
Make sure directions are clear
Reward Good Behavior
Set routines
Encourage effort
Inform teachers and parents

Get Healthy With Vitamins

2008-10-28T22:41:00.000-07:00

Eating healthy and exercising doesn't always mean you don't need to do anything else. The required amount of nutrients can not always be worked into your everyday diet. Especially if you are trying to eat lighter and lose weight.

This can resort in taking these nutrients in pill form, vitamins. All these vitamins are usually worked into one pill that contain all the vitamins you need. Different vitamins do different things for your body.

Vitamin A

This vitamin promotes better vision, supports the immune system and aids in the growth and maintenance of bones, cells and skin. Too much of this vitamin can be a bad thing. If you overdose it can cause dry skin, headaches, joint pain and insomnia.

Vitamin B

Vitamin B basically keeps your body energized. It keeps your mind sharp and keeps your body producing what it needs.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C helps prevent disease and infection and promotes the body's absorption of iron. It also helps bones grow, is involved in the formation of scar tissue, and strengthens the blood vessels. Too much can cause cramps and diarrhea.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D strenghtens the bones and plays supporting roles in the maintenance of your brain, pancreas, skin, muscles, reproductive organs and immune system.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E helps give you healthy skin, can heal scars, and even protects the lungs from air pollutants.

Calcium, Copper, Chromium, Iron, Selenium, and Zinc

Calcium keeps your bones strong and preventing them from becoming brittle.

Copper helps you absorb iron and heals wounds.

Chromium helps maintain the body's balance of glucose and is required for the body to release the energy from the glucose.

Iron helps transport and release of oxygen throughout the body.

Selenium supports the functions of vitamin E and is thought to prevent against cancer.

Zinc plays a role in your sense of taste heals wounds and aids in making genetic materials and proteins.

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The New Morning Banana Diet

2008-10-24T21:28:00.000-07:00

A fad diet in Japan has those who want to lose some weight going bananas in the morning. The diet calls for bananas and lukewarm water for breakfast and whatever you want for the rest of the day. The banana diet craze has had banana sales in Japan increasing over 80%!

The Banana Diet is:

Breakfast: Bananas (two or more) with warm water
Lunch: Anything you want to eat, no restrictions
Snack: 3pm
Dinner: Eat before 8pm, no dessert (eat anything else)
Sleep: Before midnight

Nutritionists are calling this diet a "disaster", but noted that some people could actually lose weight on this diet. However for most people this diet won't work.

Are you going bananas over this diet?

Rheumatoid Arthritis

2008-10-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints, where it causes inflammation (arthritis) and destruction. RA can also attack the skin, lungs, kidneys, and your heart.

It can be a painful condition that can lead to loss of functioning and mobility. To diagnose RA, blood tests and X-rays can determine if someone has it or not.

Various treatmenst are available where you can treat and suppress the symptoms.

The American College of Rheumatology has defined the following criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis:

Morning stiffness of >1 hour most mornings for at least 6 weeks.
Arthritis and soft-tissue swelling of >3 of 14 joints/joint groups, present for at least 6 weeks
Arthritis of hand joints, present for at least 6 weeks
Symmetric arthritis, present for at least 6 weeks
Subcutaneous nodules in specific places
Rheumatoid factor at a level above the 95th percentile
Radiological changes suggestive of joint erosion

At least four of these criterias have to be met for classification of RA.

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Free Guide to Controlling Diabetes

2008-10-23T15:13:00.000-07:00

Diabetes is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels. Unfortunately there is no cure for diabetes, but since 1921 it has been treatable.

Diabetes has complications with its treatments, but if it goes untreated it can cause serious long-term problems.

Click On Health is offering a free guide to controlling diabetes. This information is great for anyone with or someone close to you that has diabetes. They claim more than 5 million Americans have diabetes and don't know it yet.

The free guide is to better understand controlling diabetes. As they said "control is the key to avoiding painful long-term complications."