- Hermina Solo<\/a><\/li>
- 25 May 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Get to know the Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Tips for GERD<\/a><\/h3>
GERD is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder characterized by regurgitation of gastric contents into the esophagus. Clinical symptoms or manifestations that a person experiences when they get GERD are heartburn and regurgitation. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the chest accompanied by pain, while regurgitation is a bitter sour taste from the stomach on the tongue. Either of the two is sufficient to clinically diagnose GERD. \n\n \n\n The increased prevalence of GERD can be caused by several factors such as : \n\n - Old age \n\n - Use of analgesics \n\n - Consumption of certain foods and drinks \n\n - Smoke high BMI \n\n \n\n The differential diagnosis of GERD is as follows : \n\n - Hiatus hernia \n\n - Esophageal stricture \n\n - Esophageal cancer \n\n - Chest pain of cardiac origin \n\n - Functional dyspepsia \n\n \n\n The following is a determination of the cause of GERD : \n\n - Consult with a doctor, gradually \n\n -Temporary therapy, if unsuccessful further examination is carried out \n\n Endoscopic examination is one type of examination with high accuracy value for diagnostics and therapy \n\n - Endoscopy determines the cause and can proceed with treatment \n\n \n\n Signs of emergency in GERD : \n\n - If age > 50 years with the first symptom of dyspepsia \n\n - Family history of gastrointestinal cancer \n\n - Weight loss for no apparent reason \n\n - Progressive difficulty swallowing \n\n - Pain in the chest area when swallowing food \n\n - Lack of blood without a clear cause \n\n - Persistent vomiting \n\n - Palpable tumor in the stomach or enlarged lymph nodes \n\n - Eyes or skin look yellow and urinate like tea \n\n \n\n When do we need an endoscope? Here's an explanation: \n\n - Treatment usually no improvement within 2-4 weeks \n\n - Interfering with routine activities due to symptoms of the disease \n\n There are signs of digestive distress \n\n \n\n The following are the advantages and disadvantages of gastrointestinal endoscopy: \n\n Profit : \n\n - Determine the shape of the abnormality clearly \n\n - Increasing patient confidence in the disease \n\n \n\n Lack : \n\n - Higher costs \n\n - Semi Invasive \n\n \n\n Here are tips for treating GERD : \n\n - Diet according to doctor's advice \n\n - The duration of treatment varies according to the cause \n\n - Definitive treatment is the main goal \n\n - Endoscopy determines the accuracy in treatment \n\n - Control of thought processes is an element supporting the success of therapy \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Mutiara Bunda Salatiga<\/a><\/li>
- 23 May 2022<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
RECOGNIZE DIABETES MELLITUS AT YOUNG AGE<\/a><\/h3>
Diabetes is not only experienced by people who are elderly. Teenagers or young people can also get diabetes. In fact, research shows that diabetes that attacks young children is even more dangerous. This is an important warning that diabetes experienced at a young age is more dangerous and difficult to treat. \n\n Diabetes suffered by teenagers is probably caused by lifestyle and health problems. Factors such as genetics can increase a teenager's risk of developing diabetes, but many unhealthy lifestyles are the main problem that causes young people to develop diabetes. \n\n Factors that increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in adolescents include: \n\n Obesity (overweight) \n Unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking and consuming alcoholic beverages \n Likes to eat sweet and ready-to-eat food \n Have a family member with diabetes \n Have a history of gestational diabetes \n Have high cholesterol levels \n Diagnosed with prediabetes \n\n Having a diagnosis of prediabetes does not mean you have type diabetes. This means that your blood sugar is classified as high and above the normal limit value, but not too high to be categorized as diabetes. If left unchecked, you can get type 2 diabetes. The development of type 2 diabetes at a young age does tend to be dangerous, so it can become a complication of a more serious disease. Examples include retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, and cardiovascular disease. \n\n How to Prevent Diabetes Mellitus at a Young Age? \n\n \n\n Maintain ideal body weight \n\n Obesity is one of the main factors that teenagers are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. When you feel you are overweight, you can reduce about 5-10% of your weight to reduce your risk of developing diabetes. A low-calorie and low-fat diet is highly recommended as the best way to lose weight and prevent diabetes \n 2. Eat fruits and vegetables \n\n By eating a variety of fruits and vegetables every day, you can reduce the risk of diabetes by up to 22%. This fact is taken according to the results of a study on the diet for 12 years of 21,831 adults. The reduced risk is directly related to how much fruit and vegetables you eat. \n\n 3. Replace sugar with low-calorie sweeteners \n\n A health database that looked at 43,960 women showed that women who drank 2 or more sugar-sweetened beverages a day (eg soda or fruit juice) had a 25-30% higher risk of developing diabetes than those who did not. If necessary, you can use low-calorie sweeteners and contain chromium to improve insulin function in the body, thus helping diabetes in controlling blood sugar. \n\n 4. Exercise regularly \n\n To prevent diabetes in your teens, try to exercise at least 30 minutes a day. This aims to maximize the achievement of weight loss targets and to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. In addition, exercise can also lower blood sugar levels and increase insulin levels in the body. \n\n When should you consult a doctor? \n\n Friends can consult a doctor or even do a medical check-up if you have complaints or a family history of having Diabetes Mellitus \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Medan<\/a><\/li>
- 21 March 2022<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
KENALI PENYAKIT DIABETES MELITUS DI USIA MUDA<\/a><\/h3>
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<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Mutiara Bunda Salatiga<\/a><\/li>
- 14 February 2022<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Oximeter for Self Insulation<\/a><\/h3>
The oximeter is a tool recommended by WHO for COVID-19 patients to have during self-isolation. What is the reason? \n\n Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, perhaps the term pulse oximeter sounded foreign to the layman. Since the pandemic lasted a year, the oximeter has become an important self-isolation equipment. \n\n Recently, the world health organization, WHO, advised corona virus patients to have a pulse oximeter at home. Especially for patients who are self-quarantining with their families at home. Why is this one tool considered important? \n\n That's because the pulse oximeter is useful for monitoring and detecting the amount of oxygen in the blood. For COVID-19 patients, the benefits of an oximeter can detect the presence or absence of happy hypoxia. So, patients who are self-isolating at home can monitor themselves, \n\n Normally, a healthy person's oxygen saturation is 95-100 percent or 75-100 mmHg. If the oxygen level is less than that number, it means that something is wrong in the body, one of which is the SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. Lack of oxygen in the body is very dangerous. Body tissues can be damaged, especially in the heart and brain. \n\n Patients can also experience weakness, bluish pale, shortness of breath, then loss of consciousness. Conditions with such symptoms are called hypoxia. The difference with happy hypoxia, the patient's oxygen level decreases without symptoms. This is even more dangerous. Because, suddenly the patient immediately lost consciousness. \n\n This condition that increases the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients can only be detected through a pulse oximeter. \n\n However, not all COVID-19 sufferers experience a decrease in oxygen levels. Even so, this tool is still important for detecting happy hypoxia, especially for COVID-19 patients without symptoms or with mild symptoms. \n\n The use of an oximeter can prevent patients from coming to the hospital late (already unconscious). So, patients can still be treated and the mortality rate can be reduced. \n\n Things to Pay Attention to when Using an Oximeter \n\n There are things that must be considered when you make the oximeter as self-isolation equipment, namely: \n\n The use of an oximeter for self-isolated patients is carried out three times a day (morning, afternoon, and evening). \n If the oxygen level decreases and is less than 93 percent, especially if you have symptoms of shortness of breath, immediately contact a health worker. \n While waiting for health workers, patients can do breathing exercises to maintain lung function. The patient can do the prone position to prevent worsening of the condition. \n Use a pulse oximeter with finger pinch technology. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reports that the accuracy of the oximeter on a smartwatch or cell phone application is low. \n\n How the finger pinch pulse oximeter works, namely: \n\n Devices that have been attached to the fingertips will emit light with different wavelengths. \n The light will detect the amount of hemoglobin. \n The light will be captured by the sensor and the percentage will appear. \n Avoid buying an oximeter at unofficial and unofficial online stores. Compare one tool with another so as not to be fooled. \n Trim your nails and avoid using nail polish, especially dark ones. This can interfere with the device's sensors. \n Avoid moving too much because it can interfere with the installation of the tool. The results provided may not be accurate. \n\n Don't Have an Oximeter, Are There Alternatives? \n\n When self-isolation does not have an Oximeter? Unfortunately, there is no substitute for a pulse oximeter at home. If you are in the hospital, maybe you can do a blood gas analysis check. The trick, by measuring the levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and its pH level \n\n If you can't afford a pulse oximeter, watch for the following signs: \n\n Breathing becomes heavy and uncomfortable. \n Heart started pounding. \n Blue nails and lips. \n Weakness, loss of concentration, and shortness of breath. \n\n If you experience one or more symptoms, it is better for Friends of Hermina to go directly to the nearest Hermina Hospital so that the doctor can treat them further. \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/div>- Hermina Mutiara Bunda Salatiga<\/a><\/li>
- 15 December 2021<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Recognizing Wet Lung Disease and Its Causes<\/a><\/h3>
According to Pneumonia. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition that occurs in the lungs, causing a buildup of fluid in the lung tissue. Usually, this condition occurs in diseases such as pneumonia due to a bacterial or viral infection. As a result, the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid or pus. \n\n Anyone can experience this problem, whether babies, children, adults to the elderly. In certain cases, the disease is not severe and can be cured quickly. However, this condition can sometimes be dangerous and have serious consequences for the sufferer, especially if treatment is not immediately carried out by a pulmonary specialist. \n\n Causes of Wet Lungs \nThere are several things that can cause wet lungs. Generally, this condition is caused by bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. Infections caused by bacteria generally occur due to transmission from other people, but can also be due to prolonged use of a ventilator. \n\n Infections caused by viruses generally occur in toddlers and are usually milder and can heal on their own even without treatment. However, in some special cases, there are also those that actually develop more severe. \n\n Infections caused by fungi generally occur in people who do have problems with a weak immune system. It can also occur due to inhaling mold from the soil or bird droppings. \n\n Wet Lung Symptoms \nThe sooner it is recognized, the sooner people with pneumonia will get treatment, thereby reducing the risk of the disease getting worse. Therefore, it is important to recognize the characteristics of wet lungs. Here are some of them: \n\n \n Dry cough or phlegm with yellow, brown, green, or reddish phlegm. \n My chest hurts and it hurts when I cough \n Breath feels tight and heavy, sometimes the breath becomes fast and sounds \n Fever, chills and sweating \n Loss of appetite \n Weak \n Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea \n Heart pounding \n \n\n Treating Wet Lungs \nWet lung disease requires treatment from a pulmonary specialist. If treated too late, this disease can get worse. Even the effects of wet lungs in the form of lung damage can also occur in sufferers. \n\n Medication for pneumonia generally depends on the severity. If it's still in the early stages, the doctor may only give you antibiotics. However, if the X-ray results of wet lungs are very severe and respiratory failure occurs, then the patient will need a breathing apparatus and need to be treated in the ICU. \n\n Some plants are believed to be a natural wet lung medicine. It can't cure completely, but at least it can reduce discomfort. Some of these plants include ginger, cayenne pepper, peppermint leaves, thyme, turmeric, and lemon. \n\n Wet Lung Prevention \nWet lung disease can be prevented by adopting a healthy lifestyle. In addition, keep the environment clean, self, and always wear a mask when traveling. Another preventive measure that can be taken is by vaccination against pneumonia (PCV) and influenza. \n\n If you or someone close to you shows some of the symptoms as above, immediately contact the doctor at RSIA HERMINA Mutiara Bunda Salatiga. Do not delay because if left unchecked, this problem can develop into more severe, even life threatening. \n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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