Smileband Health issues

What is Diphenhydramine Overdose?

• Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine that relieves allergy and insomnia
• Diphenhydramine Overdose is the accidental or intentional intake of the drug in dosage higher than the prescribed values
• The condition is diagnosed based upon the clinical history, combination of signs and symptoms, and additional tests (that may include, in some cases, radiological studies and laboratory tests)

Diphenhydramine Overdose may be also referred to as the following:

• Benadryl Overdose
• Nytol Overdose
• Sominex Overdose

What are the Causes of Diphenhydramine Overdose?

• Diphenhydramine Overdose is caused by the intake of diphenhydramine containing drug in dosage higher than normally prescribed
• This intake could be accidental, or in some cases intentional, to bring self-harm
• The drug may be sold as Tylenol PM, Benadryl, Nytol and Sominex among others

Note: The drug can interact with other prescribed or non-prescribed medications in the body. Such interactions may enhance the therapeutic effects of the drug or other medications being taken, resulting in undesired side effects (such as an overdose).

What are the Signs and Symptoms of Diphenhydramine Overdose?

The signs and symptoms of Diphenhydramine Overdose can vary from one individual to another. It may be mild in some and severe in others. Several systems of the body, such as the digestive system, nervous system, vascular system, respiratory system, skin and ENT may be affected.

The signs and symptoms of Diphenhydramine Overdose include:

• Intense drowsiness, restlessness, nausea
• Hallucinations, delirium, anxiety
• Difficulty speaking
• Increased heart rate
• Lack of muscle coordination; difficulty walking
• Dry mouth and eyes
• Impaired memory
• Flushed and dry skin
• Urination difficulties
• Blurry vision; dilated pupils
• Ringing in the ears
• Seizures

Smileband General health

What are HIV and AIDS?

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV is the virus which, when untreated, results in an AIDS diagnosis, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The virus attacks the body’s immune system, especially white blood cells called T-cells. Your immune system is what fights against infections to keep your body healthy and T-cells play a key role in keeping a person protected from infections. If your immune system is weakened, it can’t protect your body and you can easily get sick.

Who gets HIV/AIDS?

Anyone who has unprotected sex (without a condom) and/or shares needles or injection drug equipment with an infected person is at risk for getting the HIV virus. Also, babies can be born with the virus if their mother is infected. In the past, people also got infected from unscreened blood transfusions, but today donated blood is screened more efficiently.

Does everyone who has HIV get AIDS?

Not all people with HIV get AIDS. However, if a person’s T-cell numbers drop and the amount of virus in the blood stream rises (viral load), the immune system can become too weak to fight off infections, and they are considered to have AIDS. It is then possible to get sick with diseases that do not usually affect other people. One of these diseases is Kaposi Sarcoma (KS), a rare type of skin cancer. Another is a type of pneumonia called Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP). These diseases can be treated and a person’s T-cells and viral load can return to healthier levels with the right types of medication, although the AIDS diagnosis stays with them even when healthy.   

What are the symptoms of HIV/AIDS?

Some people may get an illness within 6 weeks of HIV infection. This early period in the infection may come with some of the following symptoms:

• Fever
• Headache
• Swollen glands
• Tiredness
• Aching joints and muscles
• Sore throat

Since these symptoms are similar to the flu, HIV may go unnoticed. Therefore, it is important to tell your health care provider if you don’t use condoms during sex and/or if you share needles. That’s a good reason to get tested for HIV!

When HIV progresses to AIDS, a person may have any of the following symptoms:

• Fever lasting longer than 1 month
• Weight loss
• Extreme tiredness
• Diarrhea for longer than 1 month
• Swollen lymph glands
• Unclear thinking
• No sense of balance

Smileband General News

Pubic lice are super common.  

Millions of people get infected with pubic lice every year. They are tiny insects that look like tiny versions of the crabs you see at the beach. They live on the skin and coarse hairs that are around your genitals, and they feed on your blood. Pubic lice spread really easily during sexual contact.

Public lice symptoms include pretty intense itching. But even though pubic lice can be uncomfortable, they don’t cause any serious health problems. It’s usually easy to get rid of them with over-the-counter medicines.

Getting pubic lice doesn’t mean you’re dirty — it has nothing to do with hygiene or cleanliness. Anybody can get pubic lice if they have close, personal contact with someone who has them. About 3 million people in the U.S. get pubic lice every year.

How do you get pubic lice (crabs)?

Crabs are usually spread through sex, because they like to live in pubic hair. Pubic lice move easily from one person’s hairs to another person’s hairs when their genitals touch or are very close to each other.  

Most people get crabs during sex, but sometimes they’re spread through other kinds of close, personal contact. You can get pubic lice where other types of coarse hair — like eyelashes, eyebrows, chest hair, armpits, beards, and mustaches — touch places on someone’s body where crabs are. Sometimes pubic lice are spread by using an infected person’s clothes, towels, or bed.

Crabs don’t spread through quick, casual touching, like handshakes or hugs. And it’s really, really rare to get crabs from a toilet seat — crabs don’t live very long when they’re away from a human body, and they can’t hang onto smooth surfaces.

Even though crabs are into hair, they usually don’t like to hang out in the hair on top of your head. Pubic lice are different than head lice, and you usually don’t get crabs in the hair on your head. Head lice usually don’t show up in the pubic area, either.

Smileband Health issues

Gonorrhea symptoms in men

About 50 percent of men with gonorrhea do not experience any symptoms at all. If symptoms do present themselves, it is often in the form of painful urination or a yellow or green tinted white discharge from the penis. Less common symptoms include itching or burning around the urethra. Other symptoms are often mild and unnoticeable. An untreated gonorrhea infection can lead to serious complications like intense testicular or scrotal pain (epididymitis).

How long do gonorrhea symptoms take to appear?

Although some people do not experience any gonorrhea symptoms, they may appear 10 days after being exposed to the gonorrhea bacterium. Typically gonorrhea symptoms can be mild or confused with a long-lasting flu. In some cases, symptoms may be severe and lead to serious complications such as PID for women and epididymitis for men.

Gonorrhea and health complications

Some health complications, like pelvic inflammatory disease for women, are not symptomatic of gonorrhea, but are a serious health complication. You should seek medical attention if you feel sick, have a fever or pelvic pain, or experience pain during sex.

Untreated gonorrhea can lead to Disseminated Gonococcal Infection (DGI)

There are many reasons to treat gonorrhea infection including the risk of DGI. Also known as gonococcal arthritis, DGI is caused by the spread of gonorrhea to the body, including the blood, skin, heart, or joints. This rare condition occurs in only 1 out of 100 people infected with gonorrhea, but DGI can be deadly. DGI can develop as soon as 2-14 days after you are infected with gonorrhea. Symptoms usually include chills, fever, joint pain or swelling, painful wrist and heel tendons, skin rash, and symptoms of meningitis (such as headaches, stiff and painful neck, vomiting, confusion and seizures). Our doctors recommend seeking medical attention if you experience any of these symptoms in order to avoid any serious or deadly complications.

Gonorrhea Symptoms in Men

Most Common

• Silent or no symptoms (50% of the time men do not show signs)
• Yellow-white, or green-white discharge from the penis
• Painful, frequent urination
• Rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding
• Inflamed eye

Less Common

• Testicular or scrotal pain
• Burning and itching around the opening of the penis
• Sore throat

Gonorrhea Symptoms in Women

Most Common

• Silent or no symptoms

Less Common

• Unusual, increased bloody yellowish or watery green vaginal discharge 
• Painful urination
• Rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding
• Inflamed eye

Least Common

• Sore throat
• Pain during intercourse
• Fever
• Nausea
• Lower back pain
• Low stomach aches
• Bleeding between periods

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Smileband Helath issues

Help keep your heart in tip-top shape with this delicious heart healthy meal plan.

It has long been understood that a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons to protect against heart disease. Research shows that eating healthfully, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking can help reduce heart disease-related deaths by 50 percent. Adopting heart-healthy eating habits just got easier with the help of this delicious 7-day, 1,200-calorie meal plan. The meals and snacks in this plan incorporate heart-healthy foods: fiber-rich fruits, vegetables and whole grains, lean protein and heart-healthy fats like olive oil and avocado. Dishes are seasoned with just a little salt and lots of herbs and spices, to keep things flavorful without adding too much sodium. We made sure that each day is within the recommended limits established by the American Heart Association for sodium, saturated fat and added sugars—nutrients to limit in a heart-healthy diet. Reducing your risk of heart disease is about more than just your diet. Talk to your doctor about adding in an exercise program and other healthy lifestyle factors (think, not smoking or decreasing daily stress).   

Breakfast

(266 calories)

Egg Toast
• 1 slice whole-wheat bread, toasted
• 1 large egg, cooked in 1/4 tsp. olive oil or coat pan with a thin layer of cooking spray (1-second spray). Season with a pinch each of salt and pepper.
• 2 Tbsp. salsa
Top toast with egg and salsa.
• 1 medium banana

A.M. Snack (63 calories)

• 3/4 cup blueberries

Lunch (319 calories)

Chickpea & Veggie Salad
• 2 cups mixed greens
• 3/4 cup veggies of your choice (try cucumbers and tomatoes)
• 2/3 cup chickpeas, rinsed
• 1 Tbsp. almonds, chopped
Combine ingredients and top salad with 1 Tbsp. red-wine vinegar, 2 tsp. olive oil and freshly ground pepper.

P.M. Snack (62 calories)

• 1 medium orange

Dinner (470 calories) Meal Prep Tip

Pack up the leftovers from dinner tonight to take for lunch on Day 3.

Breakfast (287 calories)

• 1 cup bran cereal
• 1 cup skim milk
• 1/2 cup blueberries

A.M. Snack (95 calories)

• 1 medium apple

Lunch (330 calories)

Veggie-Hummus Sandwich
• 2 slices whole-grain bread
• 3 Tbsp. hummus
• 1/4 avocado, mashed
• 1/4 cup cucumber slices
• 1/4 medium red bell pepper, sliced
• 1/4 cup shredded carrots
• 1 cup mixed greens
Spread bread with hummus and avocado and layer on vegetables.

P.M. Snack (80 calories)

• 3/4 medium red bell pepper, sliced
• 2 Tbsp. hummus

Smileband Helath issues

The biology of the eye is extremely complex, especially when you consider the human eye only has the rough diameter of 2.54 cm and weighs approximately 7.5 grams. It is made up of around 15 distinct parts, all with different roles to play in receiving light into the eye and transmitting the electrical impulses, which ultimately relay image information to our brains so that we can perceive the world we live in.

The eye is often compared to a basic camera, and indeed the very first camera was designed with the concept of the eye in mind. We can reduce the complex process that occurs to process light into vision within the eye to a relatively basic sequence of events. First, light passes through the cornea, which refracts the light so that it enters the eye in the right direction, and aqueous humour, into the main body of the eye through the pupil. The iris contracts to control pupil size and this limits the amount of light that is let through into the eye so that light-sensitive parts of the eye are not damaged.

The pupil can vary in size between 2 mm and 8 mm, increasing to allow up to 30 times more light in than the minimum. The light is then passed through the lens, which further refracts the light, which then travels through the vitreous humour to the back of the eye and is reflected onto the retina, the centre point of which is the macula.

The retina is where the rods and cones are situated, rods being responsible for vision when low levels of light are present and cones being responsible for colour vision and specific detail. Rods are far more numerous as more cells are needed to react in low levels of light and are situated around the focal point of cones. This focal gathering of cones is collectively called the fovea, which is situated within the macula. All the light information that has been received by the eye is then converted into electrical impulses by a chemical in the retina called rhodopsin, also known as purple visual, and the impulses are then transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain where they are perceived as ‘vision’. The eye moves to allow a range of vision of approximately 180 degrees and to do this it has four primary muscles which control the movement of the eyeball. These allow the eye to move up and down and across, while restricting movement so that the eye does not rotate back into the socket.