Too Much of Trace Elements Are Bad For Health!

Nowadays, many people are beginning to know the benefit of trace elements to our body’s health. Some of them had started to intake many foods that contain high amount of trace elements. However, according to the national medical research, they discovered that we should intake the trace elements moderately.

Let’s take an example. The bottled mineral water contains a variety of useful material to the human body. If you’re drinking too much of mineral water, it might have the side effects to our body, such as imbalanced secretion of gastric juice and gastric digestion. In addition, those patients with chronic nephritis, hypertension, heart disease and edema are advised not to drink mineral water, as the trace elements inside the mineral water are bad for their health condition!

Furthermore, those trace elements that might cause harmful side effects, if we took it excessively are:

Calcium – It’s good for promoting the growth rate of human skeleton and teeth development. However, if you’re overdosed, then you might have the possibility of getting hypercalcemia, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and kidney stone.

Iron – Too much of iron might lead to the liver cirrhosis and diabetes.

Iodine – The excessive iodine inside one person’s body might cause hair loss, brittle nails, fatigue, gastrointestinal disorder, edema and infertility!

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The Moments Where You Should not Laugh Loudly!

People always said, “Laughter is the best medicine!” Believe it or not, there’s a laughing club in India, where the members are practicing differences laughing ways. They claimed that different laughing style can be used to cure the disease, included the cancer!

No matter it’s truth or not, laugh can really ease our stress and make we feel better.

However, there’s the condition, where you shouldn’t laugh in these circumstances:
When you’re feeding your child with food, you shouldn’t do it. As the food inside your child’s mouth might lead to unexpected incidents, such as suffocate or brain hemorrhage.

People after surgery are not allowed to laugh too much, as it slow down the wound healing process!

Those Hernia patients are not encouraged to laugh loudly, as the laughing might accelerate the hernia and leads to intestinal necrosis!

Aside of the above three matters; you can laugh whenever you want.

Note: Laughter face's credit goes to Sodahead.

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Taking Medicines with Milk is not a Wise Idea!

Ok, I knew some people have this weird concept. They thought it’s good to take medicines with milk!

According to the latest analysis, if a person takes medicine with milk, it significantly reduces the body absorption rate of medicine, maybe up to 50 percent or more!

Believe it or not, some medicines will turn into poison, if you takes it with milk! Thus, it’s better for you not to drink any milk products while you’re taking the medicines.

Take my advice and you’ll be fined… :)

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It’s Better Not to Use Too Much Fabric Plasters!

Normally, what will you do, if you get a cut or scrape accidentally? Well, in this case, most people will probably apply the fabric plaster on the wound!

We’ve done the wrong thing here, as the wounds supposed to be exposed to the air in order to heal faster. Of course, you have to apply the anti-inflammatory Methylrosanilinium Chloride Solution onto the wounds, as it inhibits the wounds from getting inflamed.

You’re advised not to use the fabric plaster, especially if you’ve a large scrape wound. For your information, most of the fabric plasters have poor ventilation and water absorption. If you insist to use it, it might cause infection or even lead to ulcers!

Note: No Fabric Plaster's photo thanks to publicphoto.

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Do Mind About Your Annual Medical Checkup!

Did you know that up to 80 percent of the diseases are preventable and curable, if we can detect it in the early stage? The only problem is many people always neglected the annual body check, where they think it won’t be necessary to go for a medical checkup once per year!

No matter you’re sick or not, it’s essential to go for a medical checkup annually. Youngsters should be taken the medical checkup at least once per year, while the elders should perform it every six months.

Most of the medical checkups are mainly focus on blood pressure, electrocardiogram, pulmonary perspective, blood lipids, blood glucose, hepatitis virus, uric acid and much more.

Like the old saying, “A body test per year, keeps the disease away!”

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A Smoke after a Meal is ‘Good’ For Your Health!

Honestly, some of my friends love to smoke, especially after a heavy meal. They said it could help them to relax their mind!

I didn’t mean to scare you here, but I heard some heavy smokers collapsed and comma, due to the bad habit of smoking after meal!

For your information, you’re risking your life, especially when you smoke after a meal. Here are the problems that might happen, if you’re smoking after a meal:

1. It's one of the main causes for gastritis,
2. It enhances and accelerates the happening of pancreatic cancer,
3. It might cause direct injury to the stomach and duodenum, the even worse it can turn into stomach and duodenum cancers.
4. pH imbalance,
5. Gastrointestinal function disorder might be occurred.

Let’s take a few minutes, sit down and think about the consequences of smoking. If you do care about your loved ones, you should quit smoking as soon as possible.

PS: Picture's credit goes to Stevesuttie.

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You’re Better Take The Cholesterol-lowering Pills with Empty Stomach!

For those that having high cholesterol problem, you might be advised to intake the cholesterol-lowering pills. This type of pill is having good effect on lowering high cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Beside that, it also great for treating hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis related matters!

For avoiding the gastrointestinal adverse reactions, nausea or vomiting, most people prefer to take the cholesterol-lowering pills after meals. Well, they might doing the right thing here, but it’s better to take the pills before meals, as it can prevent you from unnecessary abdominal pain, diarrhea or any other adverse reactions!

You’re advised to take the cholesterol-lowering pills, either 3 – 4 hours after meal or 1-2 hour before meal! In this case, you won’t need to worry about any side effects might be happened on you.

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