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Health of the Reproductive System and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

April 26th, 2012

chhattisgarhvidhansabha.org – Women’s Health Center is intended as a health center for women, where the service is based on the three pillars, namely: safe pregnancy and childbirth, prevention of pelvic floor dysfunction and abnormalities of screening content.

Long-term goal of reproductive health system is creating a platinum generation in the future. The definition of platinum-generation is the generation of intelligent, resilient, responsive, competitive and able to produce a superior product. In this case the woman is very dominant and have an important role, ranging from the establishment plan (preconception), creation (conception), pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, lactation (early life) and setting the next pregnancy.

With good planning or good reproduction management, a couple can plan and prepare, in order the process runs smoothly and develop an optimal outcome. Current techniques allow the medical field to detect and predict the outcome of the fetus to optimize maternal condition, fetal growth, early correction & treatment / intervention if necessary, either during the process of pregnancy (intra uterine) or after birth.

Meanwhile, the number of studies indicates that levator muscle damage is associated with a history of vaginal delivery (normal birth). The damage can cause various symptoms that interfere with quality of life such as urinary incontinence, alvi incontinence, pelvic organ prolapsed and sexual dysfunction. One effort to prevent damage to the pelvic floor muscles, by doing a scoring system to predict the occurrence of damage to the pelvic floor muscles. If the scoring showed the risk of damage to the pelvic floor muscles is low, then the patient can be convinced to choose a normal delivery without any sense of fear of pelvic floor dysfunction.

The Importance of Drinking Quality Water for Health

April 16th, 2012

chhattisgarhvidhansabha.org – The Importance of nutrition and food in the formed of healthy human, intelligent and powerful have no need to doubt even the World Bank considers nutritional factors are the construction investment. When the construction of food, nutrition and health is going well, surely it would be easier to achieve other development goals.

In the balanced nutrition, water is a nutrient essential for healthy living and active, so the water is a major component. In a day the body needs more than 2 liters of water to perform its function, especially to regulate life processes in addition water is also a nutrient that has many important roles for the human body. Water serves as a builder substance, as a solvent, as transporters of nutrients and wastes, regulating body temperature, as a lubricant and shock barrier. Therefore, in order the body can function optimally it takes a good hydration.

Conversely lack of water intake into the human body can cause the body to become dehydrated, wherein the amount of fluid expelled more than they consume. Dehydration can disrupt all metabolic processes. Research shows that lack of water about 1% body weight (equivalent to 2 cups) for teens and adults can lead to mood disturbances, dry mouth, headache, and body temperature increase. On further condition, dehydration can decrease the concentration of thought, stamina and reduce other health problems.

In addition to maintaining water balance in the body, people also need to pay attention to cleanliness of the water that consumed. This becomes very important when people are still having difficulty in getting clean water and not suitable for consumption. Based on a study, found that 80% of the population consuming water that is unfit for the health and WHO noted that 3800 children die every day from lack of clean water supply.

Therefore, people are encouraged to be aware of diseases that are transmitted directly through drinking water (water borne disease), a condition when the water drink, which contains pathogenic bacteria, and swallowed by man then can lead to disease. Among these diseases are cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, dysentery and gastroenteritis diseases.

The characteristics of safe water are a colorless, odorless, tasteless, do not contain harmful substances, and no contains pesticide contamination, mold and other substances that harm the body (derived from non-contaminated water sources).

Pay Attention to the Intake of Sugar in Children

March 9th, 2012

Chhattisgarhvidhansabha.org –  Nutrition or obesity in children is increasing in number at this time, both in the developed or developing countries. One factor that can lead to obesity itself is consuming lots of sugar contained in food or drink.

Sugary foods or beverages when consumed will be absorbed quickly into the blood vessels, thereby increasing the levels of the hormone insulin. Furthermore, the hormone insulin will be interesting to work the sugar and fat from the blood to be stored on the network as a stock in the future. This storage process if not balanced with energy expenditure will lead to weight gain which can lead to obesity.

The WHO has recommended that the intake of added sugar does not exceed 10% of the total energy consumed to avoid excess energy in the body of the child. That is, based on AKG Indonesia in 2004, for children aged 1-3 years, it is not advisable to consume more than 25 g of added sugar / day (equivalent to 5 teaspoons) for ages 4-6 years and not exceeding 38 g of added sugar / day (equivalent to 8 teaspoons).

The results showed that for the daily intake of sugar (sucrose, glucose, fructose and lactose) contributes more than 10% of total calories. Most sugar is sucrose intake of 49.45 g and most come from the consumption of milk. This means that this percentage has exceeded the threshold recommended by WHO.

While nutrition experts to explain about the types of sugars that can exist in the food / drinks and tips for parents to calculate the intake of added sugar in children. According to them, parents have to be smart to read the labels of sugar content in the box, including the child’s milk products, other than that parents should also look at the total amount of total carbohydrate and added sugar in foods consumed by children.