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A) The viral bronchitis
Appear during seasonal changes, often epidemic.
Beginning as nasopharyngitis, headache, fever, muscle aches.
dry cough after 2 or 3 days.
an asthmatic attack may accompany the extreme ages of life.
No further consideration, outside the context of epidemiological and clinical examination.
Evolution
Healing spontaneously favorable, or as a result of treatment:

• antipyretic
• broncho-dilators if necessary.

Complications

• Bacterial bronchitis (infection).
• Cough with muco purulent sputum associated with relatively abundant dyspnea.
• Bronchial, snoring, which may be accompanied by signs of respiratory control.
• sometimes vital prognosis.

Signs of severity of bronchitis

• Dimensions major
• Sweating important
• Cyanosis
• Confusion
• Pics hypertensive

(in this case, since resuscitation on respiratory decompensation in response to hypercapnia by hypoventilation.)
Investigations

• Radio Lung etiology.
• NFS VS if needed (hyper leukocytosis).
• ECBC in cases of bronchitis repeatedly resistant to antibiotic treatments.

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In most cases a result of smoking, lung cancer remains the 1st cause cancer in humans and is becoming the most common cancer of women to breast cancer. Often diagnosed late, his chances of recovery are still limited. Only effective prevention: stop smoking!

What is lung cancer?
Also known as lung cancer or lung, is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lungs. Over 90% of cases it is caused by tobacco.

• smoking “active”: the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of years of smoking,
• Smoking or “passive”: people who live or work with smokers also inhale the smoke can develop lung cancer.

In 10% of cases, lung cancer is secondary to occupational exposure: asbestos, tar, arsenic, nickel, chromium, silica .. However, smoking is still increasing significantly the risk among workers exposed to these substances. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it good exercise during pregnancy?
The practice exercise improves cardiovascular fitness and muscle, promotes postural correction and avoid an excessive weight gain, which provide the pregnant a better overall fitness and allow you to face the work of pregnancy and delivery with less risk.
It also reduces digestive discomfort and constipation, increased psychological well-being by reducing anxiety, depression and insomnia and creates a healthy lifestyle.

Improvement in blood pressure and protects against gestational diabetes, which can be used as an alternative treatment that would reduce or even eliminate the use of insulin. Read the rest of this entry »

What is a hiatal hernia?
A hiatal hernia is the transition of part of the stomach into the chest through the diaphragm. It occurs when the fixations of the stomach and lower esophagus are failing. It may be of two types: the most frequent (90% of cases), part of the stomach and the cardia (junction of the esophagus and stomach) slide both in the chest: it the sliding hiatal hernia.

More rarely, a part of the stomach enters the chest by sliding along the esophagus, the cardia remains in its normal position under the diaphragm, the abdominal cavity: the rolling hiatus hernia.
This anatomical abnormality may be intermittent or permanent. It may be easier and makes more particularly the prolonged reflux of acid from the stomach into the esophagus. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the prostate?
The prostate is a male sex gland located below the bladder near the rectum, and traversed by the urethra (urine drainage). It comes in sexuality, especially in the formation of sperm.

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?
The prostate cancer develops at the periphery of the gland. He remains silent for a long time. The appearance of signs often reflects an advanced stage of disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Alzheimer’s disease is similar to a terrible epidemic. Its frequency increases with age. There is thus one in ten reached after sixty-five. However, attitudes and simple natural remedies could help diminish the risk of delay of several years its occurrence or to stop or even an improvement when it is still at the beginning …

The cardiovascular risk in primary
The first is, undoubtedly, the suppression of cardiovascular risk factors. For anything that is harmful to the heart is also bad for the brain. Read the rest of this entry »

Fibromyalgia is a chronic, painful, non-inflammatory, musculoskeletal, that is to say, muscles, tendons and ligaments. The features are severe pain, particularly in the muscles and tendons with pain on palpation of certain items ( “tender points”).

It is an autoimmune disease. The onset is insidious and progression is slow. The pain is such that they degrade and decreased quality of life for many people.

Who touches she?
The disease particularly affects women aged thirty to forty years. However, adolescents and postmenopausal women may also be affected.The exact causes are not yet known.To some experts, the prevalence of fibromyalgia reach 20% of the population. Read the rest of this entry »

Prevention of Cardio-Vascular
The cardio-vascular diseases are responsible each year for 32% of deaths in France. This figure could be considerably reduced! In fact, the risk factors on which it is possible to intervene are well known: tobacco, physical inactivity, a dietary imbalance.

Overcoming tobacco:
Tobacco causes 60,000 deaths per year (1995 data). He is responsible for lung cancer, but it also plays a role in the development of cardio-vascular:
o increasing blood pressure
o accelerating the heart rate
o spoiling the arteries Read the rest of this entry »

Contrary to popular belief, steroids are not produced by the human body and steroids only varying complexity are produced by plants, animals and even primitive organisms such as fungi. Although steroids are classified based on their chemical structure, steroids can also be classified based on their role in the human body.

There are essentially important sex steroids `Three ‘produced in the human body: progesterone, estrogen and testosterone, the three are known as hormones, but are commonly essentially steroids. The three steroids mentioned above are produced by males and females in different amounts, and have different functions.
Anabolic steroid Dianabol has the ability to help determine muscle and strength in a relatively short period.This is now retorno and his remarkable ability to increase muscle and strength through anti-proteolytic, that science and the real world suggests that it may be more important for muscle growth global direct anabolic activity, synthesis of protein and only World Class Nutrition ricavo. Read the rest of this entry »

Noise is an acoustic phenomenon producing an auditory sensation uncomfortable and unpleasant. Noise is also often perceived as aggression.
Despite considerable efforts to prevent the noise nuisance is frequently encountered in many companies in all sectors. Over 5 million people complain of noise and their workplace and more than 3 million are exposed to noise levels of 85 decibels or dB (A), which is currently the regulatory threshold.

A simple way of assessing subjective sound level: If one has difficulty speaking to a person within one meter and must raise their voices, the level of 85 dB (A) is reached.

Third leading cause of occupational disease
The hearing impairment caused by noise lesion is the third leading cause of occupational disease more common after the peri-articular disorders or MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders) and disorders resulting from the inhalation of asbestos dust. About 600 occupational deafness are recognized annually with an average unit cost of 100 000. Read the rest of this entry »