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Health 2 Know - May 2009

Acyclovir – Anti-viral drug to treat, genital herpes, shingles and cold sores

May 30th 2009 11:00
Before knowing all about Acyclovir and in what ways it helps us, we should know about the conditions in which Acyclovir helps to get rid Genital Herpes, Cold Sores and Shingles.

What is Genital Herpes?

Herpes is defined as an infectious disease that causes painful spots on the skin especially on individual’s face and sexual organs (including penis, vagina, anus, urethra, buttocks). The Herpes Simplex Virus causes herpes. HSV is of two types: Type 1 and Type 2. Based on this Herpes 1 is distinguished from Herpes 2. Herpes 1 is mainly associated with fever, blister, and sores etc. while herpes 2 is understood to be genital infection. The type of herpes is detected by the symptoms and the nature of virus.


Symptoms of genital herpes

The main symptom of genital herpes is a cluster of small fluid-filled blisters that break, forming painful sores that crust and heal. This process can take several days. Symptoms come and go with no set pattern. One person may have an outbreak once a year, while another may have one every few weeks. The symptoms of genital herpes can affect any of the following places on the body: Penis, Scrotum, Vulva, Vagina, Anus, Urethra, Thighs, Buttocks.

What are Cold sores?

Cold sores, sometimes called fever blisters, are groups of small blisters on the lip and around the mouth. The skin around the blisters is often red, swollen, and sore. The blisters may break open, leak a clear fluid, and then scab over after a few days. They usually heal after several days.

Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). There are two types of herpes simplex virus: HSV-1 and HSV-2. Both virus types can cause lip and mouth sores and genital herpes.


Symptoms of cold sores

The first symptoms of cold sores may include pain around your mouth and on your lips, a fever, a sore throat, or swollen glands in your neck or other parts of the body.

What is Shingles?

Shingles is a patch of painful blisters that appear on one side of the body. These blisters are filled with fluid. These blisters are caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a virus from the herpes family causes chicken pox in us. Shingles may cause permanent damage to vision and hearing capability in some cases. If shingles is found near the eyes and ears it should be treated immediately.

Symptoms of shingles

• Pain, burning, tingling, numbness or extreme sensitivity in a certain part of your body
• A red rash that begins a few days after the pain
• Fluid-filled blisters that break open and crust over
• Itching
• Fever and chills
• Headache
• Upset stomach or abdominal pain

The medicine that is used during these infections symptoms treatment is acyclovir. This medicine reduces the pain that is caused when the symptoms appear. You can Buy Acyclovir and it is available in the strengths of 200mg, 400mg and 800mg tablets.

PS: This post have taken me hours to write and I hope the information above will help you all aware of it, especially the symptoms of the diseases!
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The Fermented Soy Food and Its Benefit – Part 2

May 29th 2009 09:07
Nice to see you all again, guys!

In the last post, I introduced you all a very bizarre food, “Pickled tofu”. Have anyone here went to the Asian food markets and scouring it out?

Today, I’m going to share another wonderful fermented soy food with everyone. First of all, please raise your hand, if you have been heard or tasted “Miso” before! It seems like some of you love the Miso very much, isn’t it?

For those who didn’t know what the heck of Miso is, it actually a traditional Japanese seasoning that being produced by fermenting rice, barley and soybeans, of course with the help of salt and the fungus kojikin (Don’t worry, the fungus is harmless and good for our health!). Miso is a thick yellowish paste and is mostly used for sauces or vegetables. The Japanese love to mix the Miso with dashi soup stock and turn it into the delicious Misoshiru soup!

Although there are over hundreds of different flavors, but the most common flavor types of Miso would be:

1. Akamiso (The red miso)



2. Shiromiso (The white miso)



3. Kuromiso (The black miso)

Miso can be found in the local market and the price is very reasonable as well. For those that didn’t love the taste of yogurt, you might want to consider to drink miso soup, as is contain as much Lactobacillus acidophilus as the yogurt did. Some people even said, “A bowl of miso soup a day, keeps the doctor away!”

Note: Picture thanks to polyptych.
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My wish for you today - 9 fruits of health

May 26th 2009 02:13
I believe that everyone will be wondering what sort of "9 fruits of health" I am talking about when you all saw this title... well, these "fruits" are not physical... and when you hear this, you'd think...

Ah... some sort of religious thing is going on in Jessicca's mind.

9 Healthy Fruits for your Soul
9 Healthy Fruits for your Soul


True enough it is has a link to it, but I would like to wish / bless... or even pray if you want to point at me sarcastically, that you can "eat them up", be "nourished" by them and stay in your character building for the rest of your life breathing on this beautiful planet.

Therefore, allow me to wish you today, that you may be filled by the 9 beautiful fruits in your soul: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and last but not least, Self control.

For when you are filled with Love, you will find Joy!
And because you are full of Joy, you will enjoy Peace in your heart,
and with that Peace in heart, you will have abundant Patience,
and because of Patience towards yourself and to others around you, you spread Kindness to yourself and to others;
and with that Kindness, your attitude is full of nothing but Goodness,
and whatever you do in whatever task, you complete it in Faithfulness.
And because of all the above, people will see your Gentleness character and they will love you for who you are, where you are not easily provoked;
and you will be able to love yourself because you practice Self-Control against any negative influences; from there… friends, family and anyone around you will sense your integrity and they will respect you as well as you respect them.

You are too unique, too precious, and too important to be hurting yourself with world pressure, negativity and status quo.

May you have the brightest day ever today, and everyday!

p/s: Please feel free to share this wishing to your friends or to whoever needs it. ^_^

Have a blessed day!

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The Fermented Soy Food and Its Benefit – Part 1

May 25th 2009 14:54
Guys, today’s I was very excited, as I have the chance to taste a very strange and unfamiliar food, which is less likely to be found at the local markets, but you can try your luck at the Asian foods markets!

Well, the food that I’m talking about here is “Pickled tofu”, which is also known as “fermented tofu”. You must be wondered, “What’s the different of this pickled tofu with others?” Well, it surely has a big different here.



First of all, most of the tofu that being sold in markets are mostly in moist, cake-like form. This pickled tofu is consists of dried tofu in cube-shaped, fermented and soaked in a unique mixture of whole rice, bean paste and minced chilies.

It’s a very tasty fermented food, where is totally a great addition to any types of soups! Trust me, you’re going to love this unique flavor.
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How to Teach The Teenagers Overcome The Teen Pregnancy

May 22nd 2009 09:09
In many people’s life, there is nothing more important to have a happy and prosperous family. Once a couple is married and living together, majority of them will try their best to having the next generation.

Honestly, it should be great and blessing news, when a woman discovered herself pregnant. However, the same situation will become bewildered, if this happened on a teenager girl!

Apart of a counselor, I’m also a history and biology teacher in the senior high school. After the end of biology classes, I always gave advices to my students. It mostly related with the differences of human reproductive systems between male and female. Beside that, I also mentioned about the common pregnancy symptoms to the girls, and told them to careful if they having the following unfamiliar symptoms, such as:

Missing a period – If they’re missing the period for more than one week or above, then they should beware of it and test it with the pregnancy test kits.

Nausea/Vomiting – It’s another common symptoms of being pregnant, which is also known as “morning sickness”.

Amount of Urination Increasing Drastically – If you’re encountering this problem, you might have the biggest possibility of being pregnant. Due to the pregnancy, the pressure will reduce the size of your bladder. As a result, you’ll have the frequent urination!



As a school’s teacher, I always thought that I have the responsibility to teach the youngsters, especially the teenage girls about the stresses they need to face with, if they were been discovered of being pregnant, either in mentally, physically or both of them!

In this case, I’ve explained the teen pregnancy issues to the girls and taught them the proper ways on how to protect themselves from being the victims of the rapists.

Honestly, I didn’t know whether my methods will be worked or not, but I’m seriously hope that they might at least take my advices and be a good person!

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The 5 Great Healthy Eating and Cooking Tips!

May 21st 2009 07:11
Everyone loves to have healthy eating habits. However, most people think it’s easier said than done, as it might takes many efforts and times to do it!

Ok, let’s stop the argument right now, as I’m have something want to show you. Below here are the 7 easy healthy eating and cooking tips, please read through it and see if you can benefit from it or not…

Tips No.1: Always preferred the unsaturated vegetable oils
Choose unsaturated oil, such as olive oil or palm oil over the saturated fat, butter!

Tips No2: Whole grains is gold
Do you know that whole grains have more fiber, Vitamin B and other mineral resources than the refined grains? Thus, it’s wise to pick whole grains as your daily staple.



Tips No.3: Transform yourself into Herbivore
Eat as much of fruits and vegetables as you can every day, or at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, if you didn’t have time to do it!

Tips No.4: Reduce the amount of meats
You should decrease the intake of meats in your daily meals, if you want to have a longer lifespan! A small amount of meat, fish and poultry (3 – 4 servings per week) is more than enough.

Tips No.5: Watch your sodium intake
The USDA’s dietary suggested that a healthy person need less than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. So, remember not to consume over one teaspoon salt a day!

Keep all these five basic guidelines on mind, and you’ll be living up to 100 years or even older…

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Male Circumcision Helps to Reduce HIV Risk?

May 18th 2009 10:17
When I first heard it from my friend, Ralph, I was about rotflmao… (Sorry, I can’t control myself from stopped laughing)

Recently, there are three recent African trials claim that male circumcision is effective to reduce the risk of getting HIV. However, after some period, the Cochrane Researchers have changed their perspective and said it has not evidence that male circumcision can prevent HIV infection!

Although some of the researchers found out that circumcision might be able to help protect against HIV, by simply remove cells in the foreskin (Langerhans cells), which is being identified as the main receptor that enable HIV entry into the body.

However, there’s no solid evidence that proof that the circumcision can be really helped to prevent the infection of HIV until now. Maybe the researchers should be concentrated themselves developing the drugs that can cure HIV effectively, rather than this unpractical circumcision stuff?
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The Story about My Former Drug Addicted Student

May 17th 2009 09:16
Sometimes, life can be so confusing. We can do many interesting and wonderful things in our life! However, I didn’t understand, why some of the people preferred to choose the wrong path?

To be honest, I’ve a true story that kept for over several years. Today, I decided to share it with all the Orbler readers. It’s about my former student who was a drug addict!

Darcy aka Druggy (This is his nickname, but she has not use it for over years) was my former beloved student. She’s a very dedicated and smart person. Believe it or not, she normally got above 750 scores for all the three SAT’s sections: Critical Reading, Mathematics and Writing during the pretest! She was of my favorite students and she’s always told me that her ambition is to enter to the Duke University. Also, she want to become a psychologist in the near future!

Honestly, I was very proud of her achievement. Unfortunately, thing wasn’t always as smooth as we thought here!

Maybe it’s due to the study’s depression, Darcy have to consume a certain amount of antidepressant everyday! Things getting out of control, when she’s starting to involve herself with the drugs. Honestly, her family didn’t even know about it, until Darcy’s mother discovered the drug pills when she’s cleaning out her daughter’s room.

At the very beginning, Darcy’s family tried to persuade her to take up the rehab program at the local drug treatment center. However, Darcy refused to do it and she locked herself in the room all day long.

Her parents worried about her situation and they made a call to my home. I was shocked when I found out the news! As a teacher, I have the responsibility to guide my students back on the right track.

I rushed to Darcy’s house, once I received the call. Frankly, maybe Darcy and I have a very strong connection, as she listened to every piece of words I told her!

Day after it, she decided to take my advice. Well, she went for a drug addiction treatment program. She’s a tough little woman, and she was completely clean from the drug addiction after only two months!

Darcy’s family and I were very happy about her big success. When Darcy backed to the school, she was heading to the counselor’s room and crying like a baby in front of me! At that moment, I was overjoyed and speechless…

Look at Darcy now! She’d already graduated from the high school, of course with flying color SAT’s result (The total scores for the three sections are 2340 points). The great new was she made her own way to the Duke University and she’s now majoring at Psychology subject! Way to go, Darcy.
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Go Sisters, Go!

May 14th 2009 20:39
Recently, a research group from The University of Ulster discovered that those families that have more than one daughter are having a better chance to eliminate all the stresses away.

The research was based on a quiz to 571 people who aged 17 to 25 about their daily life. The outcome of the quiz shows that those who grew up with sisters were happier and less stresses than others!

Professor Tony Cassidy, the lead researchers of the quiz mentioned that sisters having a higher chance of encourage more conversation amongst the family members. In this case, brothers are mostly keeping the problems all by themselves and rarely speak out in front of their family!

So, what’s your opinion about this new discover? Do you agree with the above statements? Please speak out your mind and we’re going to discuss it further…
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Go Away and Don’t Bother Me, Nasty Superbugs!

May 11th 2009 05:47
When we’re getting sick, we always being advised to take antibiotics to against the bacteria or viruses. Have you ever noticed that the antibiotics are starting to lose its function? You might think that your body is weakening and don’t have the ability to fight against bacteria/viruses?

Well, the doctors have discovered that there is a new type of bacteria that are resistant to almost all and it is known as “Superbugs”!

Superbugs is a dreadful bacteria and it can cause severe pneumonia, serious bone and skin infections to a very healthy person without any warnings. Even the most powerful antibiotics cannot inhibit or kill the superbugs at all!

As the old saying, “Where there is a will, there is a way!” The latest study shows that green tea has the ability to inhibit up to 28 diseases, which mainly causing by the superbugs.

It’s wise to drink green tea daily, as it can help to reduce the bacteria’s drug resistance and increase the action of the antibiotics. By practice this method, you won’t need to increase the prescription of antibiotics from time to time!
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You Have Made The Right Decision!

May 8th 2009 05:37
Sometimes, life is full with many obstacles and adversity, it totally depends on us how to overcome the problem. In this case, those people that have strong EQ will be able to get over the stress or pressure easily; some people might have just blamed the matters to other, as they didn’t have the strength to face the difficulty!

Smile is very important and it also known as the essential factors to prolong our life expectancy. The only problem is, not everyone like to smile, especially in this 21st century with the advanced technology. Instead of the stressed living style, the unattractive or bizarre teeth-shaped is also the cause, why some people are unable to smile, even though they’re supposed to do it!

Joanne, one of my dearest online friends, haven’t smile since 5 years ago. It didn’t mean that she don’t love to smile, but she just felt uncomfortable when she’s smiling, due to the hideous widely space teeth. During the period, she was living in a very depressed and repressed condition.

She always told me about her feeling and I was sympathy about her situation. For stopping her misery, I’ve advised Joanne to wear the invisalign braces.

In the very beginning, she refused to do it, as she thought it would bring some side effects to her oral. Well, after a few times of persuasion and encouragement from me (Hmm…, I think I have what it takes to become a health consultant! lol), she decided to try it, by visiting the local cosmetic dentists southampton in two months ago.

Well, time is the witness of the miracle. Joanne dropped me a VoIP call yesterday. During the conversation, she’s showing me her teeth. I was surprised, as her formerly widely-spaced teeth has been greatly improved. She’s now having a beautiful and gorgeous smile than ever before!

She was overwhelming with it and thanks me for over 10 times. Honestly, I was glad that Joanne able to pick up the smile again, as she is very cute and charming woman. She deserved the best in her life!

Well, Joanne. Trust me, as time cures all things. Live up your life and share the great things with your loved ones when you’re still able to do it.
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Do Mind About the Colors of Your Foods!

May 7th 2009 05:06
We’ve been taught the rainbow has seven different colors: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The scientists have found out that human being’s daily diet is supposed to be in assorted colors as the rainbow did.

All of the vegetables and fruits contain “Photochemical”, which is an essential nutrient to against UV rays, eliminating those unstable “free radical” and inhibit the happening of various types of diseases!

So, let’s start playing with the colors…



Red – It contains lycopene, which can help to protect against prostate and breast cancers. Tomatoes, watermelon and red peppers are amongst the most common red-in-color foods!

Orange – It enriches with Alpha and Beta Carotene, where helps to keep our eyes and bone in healthy condition. It has the ability to eliminate the free radical as well. Carrots, Oranges, Papaya and Pumpkin are some of the foods that orange-in-color.

Yellow – It is the main sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, which can prevent age-related eyes-degeneration or Nyctalopia. Arthicoke, Corn and Lettuce are some of the Yellow-in-color foods.

Green – Some rare compounds, such as indoles and isothiocynates can be found on green-in-color foods, which is has the ability to clear the body toxins out from the body. Broccoli, Cauliflower and Kale are the good examples of green color foods.

Blue – Those foods, such as blackberries, blueberries and eggplants are containing many anthocyanins that can keep our brain function in great condition.

Purple (Violet) – A compound named “Proanthocyanins’ can only be found in purple foods, example like cranberries, grapes and raspberries.

Note: Actually, I have derived and separated the blue/purple into two color groups.

Therefore, live up your life with as many colorful foods as you can!

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Beware of The Hand, foot and mouth Disease!

May 4th 2009 10:51
Nowadays, there are many types of diseases spreading like bushfire in all around the world. For those parents who so busy with their daily routine, they always handover their children to the day care center. In this case, you should beware of your children with the possibility of being infected by HFMD!

For your information, HFMD is the short acronym for “Hand, foot and mouth disease”, where is a human syndrome that mostly caused by intestinal viruses.

According to the researches, Coxsackie A virus and Enterovirus 71 (EV71) are the most common types of viruses that causing HFMD!



Normally, HFMD always affected infants and children, where they have weaker immune system to against this disease. HFMD is very contagious and it can spread through the following methods:

• Mucus
• Saliva
• Feces

Although HFMD rarely happened in adults, but you might still get infected as well, if you have a weaker immune system!

Some of the common symptoms of HFMD are:

1. High and continuous fever
2. Unstoppable headache
3. Endless Vomiting
4. Fatigue
5. Sore throat
6. Body full with blisters and body rashes
7. Oral ulcer
8. Diarrhea.

If you found out that your children have the above symptoms, you should immediately rush to the nearest hospital, as they might be died if you didn’t treat the disease as early as possible!

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Antibody DTA-1 Might Be The Big Helper To Reject Cancer!

May 1st 2009 17:51
In the basic science concept, we believe that the human immune system has the ability to destroy contagious cancer cells. As a result, there are tons of cancers vaccines have been developed and hope it will be able to cure the cancerous cells. The truth is, the immune system is quite smart and they didn’t seem to take on the cancers vaccines bait at all!

Adam D.Cohen, the oncologist at Fox Chase, has recently discovered that the DTA-1 antibody has the power to impair regulatory T cells and wake up the immune system to against the cancerous cells!

Talking about DTA-1, its actually an antibody, which mainly designed to stimulate the glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor (GITR). Cohen also said that DTA-1 could be used to help the immune system against the tumor cells and wipe out the bad cancerous cells.

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