Tirou Medical Center

13/12/2021

Drinking half litre water 30 minutes before each meal helps to lose weight.

Si l’eau présente l’avantage de ne procurer aucune calorie, elle occupe aussi de la place dans l’estomac, ce qui peut avoir un impact sur l’appétit et donc la prise de calories.

24/01/2021

Swiss Cheese model to prevent COVID 19

Remember that the vaccine is an important intervention to prevent the spread of the virus but it remains only one of our strategies for prevention. It is still very essential to build barriers using other strategies including social distancing, use of masks and hand sanitizers etc.

Swiss cheese model of pandemic defence:

The metaphor is easy enough to grasp: multiple layers of protection, imagined as cheese slices, block the spread of the new coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. No one layer is perfect; each has holes, and when the holes align the risk of infection increases. But several layers combined – social distancing, plus masks, plus hand-washing, plus testing and tracing, plus ventilation, plus government messaging – significantly reduce the overall risk. Vaccination will add one more protective layer.

20/01/2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/20/talking-can-spread-covid-as-much-as-coughing-says-research

Please stop lowering your mask to talk.

Tiny aerosols of the virus emitted when speaking linger in air for longer than larger droplets from a cough

05/10/2020

https://m.tribuneindia.com/news/world/3-win-nobel-medicine-award-for-hepatitis-c-virus-discovery-151374

World Health Organisation estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year. Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Price for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepa...

27/04/2020

07/04/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/06/how-to-make-no-sew-face-mask-coronavirus

The CDC now recommends all Americans wear a face mask in public – you can make your own using a T-shirt or handkerchief

23/03/2020

Algorithm with online screening test (in French )to check possibility of having COVID-19 based on symptoms.
A loss of smell (Anosmia) seems to be an early symptom and may be present in absence of fever and cough.

Testez vos symptômes de Coronavirus COVID-19.

23/10/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/23/blood-pressure-drugs-work-far-better-if-taken-at-night-study-shows

‘Chronotherapy’ benefits of bedtime doses discovered in huge trial

20/04/2019

France has one of the highest alcohol consumption rates in Europe.

This drinking culture – largely attributed to wine, which represents 58 percent of France’s total alcohol consumption.

24 percent of French adults regularly surpass the recommended alcohol limit in a day!
That’s about 10.5 million adults who drink too much.This level of drinking is killing 41,000 people a year.

Can you believe this?- School canteens in France could serve half a litre of wine, cider or beer to pupils under 14 until 1956. Alcohol was banned entirely from schools in 1981.

- A 1950s health campaign urged the public to cut down and drink less than a litre of alcohol per meal! They have sacrificed quite a bit now to recommend only 2 glasses of wine a day!

Health agency advises no more than two glasses a day to cut down alcohol-related disease risk