How Ringworms Affect a Person
Ringworm is an infectious fungus disease that can affect any body part including the feet, scalp, and nails. Contrary to what the name might suggest, ringworms have nothing to do with a worm under your skin. Ringworm is named so because it forms a red ring on the infected person’s skin. It can be transmitted by coming in direct contact with an infected person or pet. This skin condition can be caused by numerous kinds of mold-like fungi known as dermatophytes that survive on dead cells of the skin like hair and nails.
Ring worms often affect young children. Occurrence of ringworm is common in schools, children care homes, and infant nurseries. In addition, children with pets are at a greater risk of ringworm infection than others who do not have pets.
You can catch the infection by coming in contact with an animal with ring worm. Fungi causing ring worm can multiply while petting or cleaning dogs or cats. You can also get the infection from animals like cows, goats, and horses. Moreover, ring worm can spread by getting in touch with objects touched by an infected person or animal like clothing, upholstery, towels, bedding, combs and brushes.
In odd cases, humans can get ringworm through contact with infected soil. In case there are adequate nutrients in the soil, the mold fungi causing ring worms can exist for months or a much longer period. Infection is most likely to come about from long contact with highly contaminated soil.
Areas Where Ringworms Can Appear
Ring worm of the scalp generally starts with occurrence of a small pimple that keeps on growing, thereby, leaving crusty patches of short-term baldness. This makes the roots of infected hair weak and they easily break off. At times, a yellowish crusty area may also develop during the occurrence of ring worms. As opposed to this, ring worm of the body can occur as red patches anywhere on the skin excluding the scalp and feet. The center of expanding rash keeps on clearing the area producing a ring. In more severe cases of ringworms, several patches might appear, and they can overlap each other too. This causes acute inflammation on the infected area.
Talking about ring worm of the nails, it may affect one or more nails on either the person’s hands or feet. In this case, the nails may grow to be thick, pale, and weak. However, the chances of this ringworm type occurring are less before puberty. See your doctor immediately if you notice a red, patchy, and itchy spot that you think can be ringworm.
When this skin condition appears on the feet, it is called athlete’s foot. Generally, it results in rashes and patches between an individual’s toes. Indeed, these ringworm rashes affecting the person’s foot and jock-related areas may not look like rings at all, but will be red and scaly.
Treatment
Luckily, this disease is quite easy to detect and treat. Dermatologists can easily diagnose ring worm simply by looking at it. But in some cases, a doctor can scrape off a little part of flaky infected skin to detect it under microscope for fungus.
Doctors usually recommend an antifungal medication to the persons suffering from ring worm. Although, any good topical ointment or cream may take care of skin infections, but ring worms of the scalp and nails need oral antifungal medication. Your doctor will determine which treatment is suitable for you.
Like all skin ailments, prevention of ringworm occurrence demands general cleanliness and hygiene. Clothes, including your socks, should not encourage perspiration. Cotton clothing helps in preventing this condition.
Yoga: Three Reasons You Should Not Do Wheel
The Wheel – (Chakrasana also known as Urdhva-Dhanurasana)
The Wheel is an advanced and one of the most dynamic whole-body postures in Hatha Yoga. In this asana the body is arched back and supported on the palms and soles of the feet.
Do not be discouraged if you are not able to accomplish this pose right away as it is a very challenging and difficult asana. Before fully attempting this inverted pose know the strength of your upper body and your spinal flexibility. Even attempting this pose without successful completion gives great benefits.
If you have limited strength but plenty of flexibility you can easily come up into this asana.
If you have lots of strength but limited flexibility you will be able to come up into the Wheel using the force of your strength.
If your strength and flexibility are limited the Wheel pose will be quite a challenge.
The Chakrasana has an overall tonic effect for the entire body. It tones the spine by stretching it fully. It strengthens the spine, upper back, arms, shoulders, wrists, buttocks, thighs and abdomen. It stretches the chest and the lungs.
It stimulates the cardiovascular system, thyroid and pituitary glands.
The Wheel gives a boosts of energy, great vitality and feeling of lightness. It counteracts depression.
By practicing this asana the glandular, digestive, respiratory and nervous systems are enhanced.
Although the Wheel is a very healthy and safe asana to perform for some people, the same may not hold for other people. There are many health conditions in which it is suggested that Wheel posture is not recommended.
Three important reasons (out of many) not to do Wheel:
1) Any person with weak wrists should not attempt this powerful pose.
2) In case of back injury avoid this posture.
3) During pregnancy this asana is not to be performed.
Issued in the interest of people practicing Hatha Yoga by Subodh Gupta, Yoga Expert based in London.
Mr Subodh Gupta, a Corporate Yoga Trainer has conducted more than 500 workshops on Yoga and Stress Management. He has been interviewed by various TV channels in India and London.
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Dental Implant Failure
Dental implant failures are very rare. Dental implant surgery has a success rate of 95%. Failure in surgery is due to improper selection of patients. Implants fail for numerous reasons. They could be biological or microbiological factors, biomechanical factors, biomaterial factors, or due to implant surface treatments. Complications involved in the dental implant procedure are nerve damage, infection, the body’s rejection of the implant and the implant itself breaking.
The most widespread cause of dental implant failure is poor oral hygiene. The build-up of dental plaque and debris around teeth and implants results in an increased concentration of bacteria. Good oral hygiene can greatly reduce infection.
Improper selection of patient is another reason for dental implant failure. Patients with sufficient quality or quantity of bone to support the implant fixture only are to be selected for the implant surgery. Otherwise, implants are doomed to be utter failures. Medical history and systematic health of the patient should be clearly checked by the dentist before surgery.
Another possible reason for implant failure is inferior surgical technique. Implant failure may result from insufficient irrigation of the surgical site or from using low torque and excessive drill speed during placement. Failure results from extreme temperature elevation in bone during placement, leading to necrosis of the supporting bone around the implant. Inadequate implant restorations may also contribute to implant failure. Poorly restored implants may have overhangs or be over-contoured, which may lead to plaque buildup and ultimate failure. Another research has shown that smoking can lead to higher rates of dental implant failure.
Smoking is exceptionally harmful to all oral tissues, especially when implants are present. It affects the healing of bone and soft tissue, by reducing the nutrients and minerals in the tissues and by reducing blood supply. To help keep the supporting bone and gum tissues healthy and capable of resisting infection, the implant patient should not smoke.
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The Healing Arts: 18 Things Healers Learn, #16; Even God Doesn’t Mess With Choice
Moments are composed of intricate patchworks of choices. To a certain extent, everything we do is a choice even though most are made unconsciously.
Each of us has a vast array of filters. They are extremely fluid. They are filters of our physiology and experience as mitigated through the filters imposed on us by others. Our genetic makeup is a major filter through which we respond that differentiates us from the rest.
A person who has grown up in the bayou, for example, is far more likely to have a filter operating that allows him to embrace the wonder of a snake whereas a city-dweller automatically recoils at the sight, or even thought, of one. Perhaps the bayou resident has a filter that places the snake within the larger context of being a natural expression of nature, where the city person sees it as a dangerous aberration to be feared.
Interpretation of an event as either something welcoming or threatening is based on filters that also can come through choice. Since the city-dweller can take the time to read and learn more about snakes, he is just as capable, a week from now, to embrace the wonder of a snake. The only thing that changes is that new filters are added, some of which negate old ones, thereby shifting the interpretation. Our choices are based on our interpretation of events through the filters that are in place at the time. In a circular relationship, our interpretations are based on our choices as well.
As a healer, when faced with someone making a critical choice in her life, it’s helpful to tune in to some of the filters that are in operation for her at the time. Although basic history and physical evaluation has its place in regards to getting a broad overview of the person, to a large extent, all of these indicators take a back seat to the filters that are operative in that very moment.
A healer can act like the Optometrist who sits his charge down in front of a machine with rotating filters called lenses. She works with the person, using different dimensions of lenses until the right combination comes into place and clarity of vision occurs. The trick is not so much interposing your own filter on the individual, but finding the filters that work within the context of the person’s own history.
Ultimately, though, we cannot account for, nor understand, every filter through which an individual experiences her life; responding honestly to the filters that are present, she will make a choice that appears to us as self-destructive.
Each of us makes choices like this all the time. In fact, if you look at it with a smile, we are a people who spend a significant part of our lives saying under our breath, “Wow, that Gal is killing herself.”
The bottom line is each of us makes innumerable choices that can and often do contribute to our deaths. Death is a part of the structure of what we know as life. This could be the most common filter of all. It makes you wonder; for all filters can be modified!
Another filter, for most of us, is that there is a Higher Power in some way involved with every moment. This ever-shifting form of intelligence, interpreted by the individual (and institutions for the individual) is called, for want of a better word (and out of my own laziness!) God. Because death happens, at a certain point we must accept that God is cool with any choice we make, even unto death.
When a bunch of a person’s individual filters complement and support each other — no matter how seemingly twisted to the observer — there’s comes a point at which a choice may evolve that becomes fixed. Even the God of any of our choices simply allows that to be. This is where the only approach left is to identify that choice, honor it as real and valid for that person, and, perhaps most important of all, let him know and then let it go.
Healers spend a portion of their time witnessing the unbearable; responding to choices that so fly in the face of their own life interpretations that it is painful to be around. But the reality is, the more you try to impose your own filters upon the individual, the more likely you are to encounter resistance.
By working under the assumption that ultimately, the person will make choices appropriate to his history (and future!), you allow the person to direct his energy away from resistance and move it closer toward seeking balance for himself — whatever that may look like and whether you understand it or not.
Russ Reina shares over 35 years of experience in the healing arts through his web site mauihealingartist.com/ mauihealingartist.com. It is a potent resource for those wishing to deepen their abilities in connection and develop their powers as healers. For a powerful free tool to explore your inner world, please check out his adjunct site thestoryofthis.net/ thestoryofthis.net
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