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Infectious mononucleosis or more commonly known as the kissing disease is an infectious disease of viral origin (the cause of this disease in 98% of cases are Epstein Barr virus, a type of herpes virus).

The name “kissing disease” is the main source of transmission of mononucleosis, the exchange of saliva. All actions in which there is salivary fluid exchange are possible sources of contagion (kissing, drinking from the same container, using the same utensils, sneezing, etc.).. Read the rest of this entry »

How to treat disease Herpes

1. Place crushed ice in a plastic bag and wrapped with a cloth or sheet (not recommended towel towel, because it was too thick to effectively convey the cold). Then apply this bag directly over the area when the first symptoms of burning or itching. Hold there for 15 minutes. Apply several times a day.

2. Apply two tablespoons of rice flour or cornstarch on the affected area to reduce itching.

3. Take a hot sitz bath for 10 minutes three times a day to speed up the drying process of the wound. At the end of the bath, dry the area with a hair dryer with warm air or cold, not hot. This soothing and may speed up the drying process of the wound.

4. Soak two pieces of flannel with a cup of castor oil, it must be placed on the abdomen and cover with plastic. Then apply, for an hour, an electric heating pad. Apply several times a day when the attack of herpes. Read the rest of this entry »

The infection is the term for an infectious disease in general, or contamination by germs. It is the pathological consequence in a tissue or body of the abnormal presence and / or replication of a microbe bacterial, viral or fungal.

Contamination is the penetration of the germ in a body.

The infection is the branch of medicine for infectious diseases. The doctor is an infectious diseases specialist. Depending on the type of seed, also known as bacteriology, virology, parasitology. Sepsis is a serious infection. The term tank refers to a body or an object contaminated by a microbe (eg septic tank). Sepsis is a serious contamination and sustainable (without treatment) from the blood by a germ. Bacteremia is transient contamination of blood by a germ. When cases are increasing at a place and a limited time, we speak of an epidemic. If the distribution is much more widespread, it is called a pandemic.

When the epidemic on the animal community, we speak of an epidemic.

When the germ is transmitted from animals to man is spoken of anthropozoonosis or simply zoonosis. The contagion denotes contamination by germs. The incubation period is the period between contagion and the first manifestation of the disease. The patient may be contagious during this time. The contagious period is the time during which the patient excretes the germ and can transmit it. It depends on each infectious disease. Nosocomial infections are infections caught in hospital. They are particularly complex and dangerous because they occur in people weakened and often involve bacteria resistant to antibiotics. This is an issue of major public health.

If the purpose of gloves is recommended when exposure to body fluids or chemicals, it is not recommended for routine activities: indeed, the skin is a warm and humid atmosphere conducive to the development of germs, and Moreover, it is better than clean hands dirty gloves. Note that after about twenty minutes, the gloves become porous.
It should also limit the growth of pathogens in and on the body and housing, adequate sanitation by:

• Personal hygiene: wash, brush their teeth
• Household hygiene: having a refrigerator creating cold enough, defrosted and cleaned regularly, wash the cutlery, plates and glasses after use, store garbage in dedicated bins and collected regularly by municipal, sewage waste into a septic tank emptied regularly or to sewers, storage and cleaning of residential ventilation to reduce indoor air pollution (dust mites, volatile organic compounds) and therefore allergies and respiratory diseases.
• Monitor and treat parasites (facilitate certain infectious diseases, viral or bacterial). For example, in pigs, Ascaris increases the risk of bronchopneumonia, the hemorrhagic enteritis Trichuris, Oesophagostomum the salmonella, Strongyloides mullet, the Metastrongylus swine influenza.

Local authorities play an important role as regards collective hygiene, with the management of water to provide drinking water, organizing the collection and processing of garbage, the rendering of animal carcasses and Police funerals and burials (condition of transportation and storage of bodies before cremation or burial, management of cemeteries and crematoria).

AIDS
AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). When AIDS is the defense (or immune) system of the body sufficiently. “Acquired” means that it is not innate, hereditary disease, but something in the life originated or acquired. The lack of working people are immune to AIDS susceptible to diseases that people without HIV generally do not get, such as certain types of pneumonia, infections and skin cancer. AIDS is caused by a virus : HIV.

HIV
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus can enter the body in different ways. Once someone is infected with HIV, this means that the virus has invaded the body and are able to maintain it. Once the virus in the body begins to break down the immune system. Normally the immune system defends the body against harmful bacteria and viruses and protects against such diseases. When HIV weakens the immune system, bacteria and viruses get a chance to cause disease.

Whom HIV infection rises in points since the beginning of little or nothing. Sometimes there are short ‘flu like’ symptoms (the phase of “acute HIV infection”). After some time, symptoms occur. Sometimes that happens after many years. HIV, the immune system then largely demolished. The body can therefore not protect against many diseases, people without HIV who rarely or not usually get. At that point, we speak of AIDS. With time starting with ‘HIV drugs’ can someone with HIV long life without disease to get. The stage AIDS can be prevented, or at least long delayed. These medications can HIV infection in Western countries are now regarded as a chronic illness.

Infectious disease is caused by the entry into the body of a bacterium or virus. The first precaution is thus to “close the gates of entry”, namely:

• Respiratory system: cough or sneeze into a tissue in his elbow, or hands (by washing it immediately after) to avoid contaminating the environment, wear a face mask when you meet people vulnerable (for example in some areas of the community hospital, immunocompromised persons) or carriers of highly contagious viruses (eg SARS), for artificial ventilation, use an antibacterial filter.
• The digestive process: wash hands before eating or preparing a meal, or after exposure to body fluids (such as leaving the toilet) or disinfected when liquid from another person (eg accidental exposure to blood) for gloves (latex, or for people allergic to PVC or Nitrile) when such exposure is likely.
• Breaks the skin: any serious wound must be shown to a doctor who will tae the necessary measures and any simple wound must be cleaned, disinfected or better (see Article minor cuts and bruises), but the first caution of course is to avoid being wound, respecting the safety rules for certain activities and wearing appropriate protection (gloves work)
• Ocular: Avoid rubbing your eyes and wash hands before where it would happen in case of exposure to body fluids, wear protective goggles.
• Sex use a condom to reduce the risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

An infectious disease is a disease caused by transmission of a micro-organism: viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungus, yeast. Viruses are not alive, but as a prion, which is not really a micro-organism they have properties like infectious, and therefore pathogenic effects.
The study of infectious agents is the medicine, microbiology, epidemiology and landscape epidemiology. In nature, infectious diseases develop in all living organisms (animals, plants, fungi, micro-organisms .. well known viruses virus). As Interaction lasting, infectious diseases are among the feedback loops that maintain the relative stability (dynamic equilibrium) ecosystems, most pathogens co-evolve with their hosts over millions of years. Their mode of transmission is variable and depends on their tanks (human, animal, environmental) and sometimes of vectors (disease vector).
They are more or less contagious; For example, tetanus is an infection caused by clostridium tetani, a bacterium that is found in the earth. There is no transmission, infection occurs when bacteria enters the body through a wound contaminated. A vaccine exists against this disease and is mandatory in France for all children of school age. Another example, malaria is caused by a parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (there are other Plasmodii), transmitted among humans through a mosquito, Anopheles. The reservoir of the parasite is human, but there is no transmission. There is no vaccine. Tuberculosis is spread from person to person by airborne mechanism: the reservoir is human and it is contagious. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs or STD for sexually transmitted diseases) are transmitted during sexual intercourse.
Many microbes live normally and necessarily in our gut and on our skin and become infectious at certain occasions. Contact with microbes is necessary for the maintenance and functioning of the immune system.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV by their initials in English) is a virus that destroys the immune system.

HIV targets are cells that have the CD4 marker, also known as helper T cells, which are blood cells that help your body fight disease. Over many years, the CD4 cells are destroyed. The body then has a weaker defense against infections such as lung infections, mouth and eyes. May occur some cancers such as lymphoma or cervical cancer.

When infections and other problems caused by the loss of CD4 cells, it is said that the person has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is known by its initials as AIDS.

Athlete’s foot is an infection caused by fungi that affect the clefts, the plant and the edges of the foot for treatment should take into account advice and natural remedies that will help us.

Fungal infections of the feet are more common in summer because on one hand the feet sweat more, the heat and humidity facilitate the reproduction of fungi, and also we tend to go more places like swimming pools, beaches and gyms where people barefoot, can infect fungi.

However, athlete’s foot can occur at any time of year, even in winter when permanently keep our feet warm and footwear becomes the perfect medium for fungi.

Causes and symptoms of athlete’s foot
One of the major symptoms that warns us of a possible case of fungi is when we see that the nails vary in texture and / or color. In some cases there is also a strong odor.

Although they usually appear in fungi can also hit the nail between your fingers and other parts of the foot. In these cases, the skin tends to look more dry (he even cracks) and usually itching.

When it affects fingernails on a continuing basis by fungi and grow under the nails and these also appear to change color gnawed.

The difficulty of treating particular fungi in toenails is that it costs much natural remedies penetrate well below the nails.

Tips to avoid spreading the fungus in the feet
To definitively resolve this troublesome condition is imperative to understand that fungi for reproduction necesitancalor, humidity and darkness.

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