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20/05/2023

INFECTION
The invasion and growth of germs in the body. The germs may be bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, or other microorganisms. Infections can begin anywhere in the body and may spread all through it.

Causes
Infectious diseases can be caused by:
* Bacteria. These one-cell organisms are responsible for illnesses such as strep throat, urinary tract infections and tuberculosis.
* Viruses. Even smaller than bacteria, viruses cause a multitude of diseases ranging from the common cold to AIDS.
* Fungi. Many skin diseases, such as ringworm and athlete's foot, are caused by fungi. Other types of fungi can infect your lungs or nervous system.
* Parasites. Malaria is caused by a tiny parasite that is transmitted by a mosquito bite. Other parasites may be transmitted to humans from animal f***s.
Ways to catch infections
Direct contact
An easy way to catch most infectious diseases is by coming in contact with a person or an animal with the infection. Infectious diseases can be spread through direct contact such as:
* Person to person. Infectious diseases commonly spread through the direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or other germs from one person to another. This can happen when an individual with the bacterium or virus touches, kisses, or coughs or sneezes on someone who isn't infected.�These germs can also spread through the exchange of body fluids from s*xual contact. The person who passes the germ may have no symptoms of the disease, but may simply be a carrier.
* Animal to person. Being bitten or scratched by an infected animal — even a pet — can make you sick and, in extreme circumstances, can be fatal. Handling animal waste can be hazardous, too. For example, you can get a toxoplasmosis infection by scooping your cat's litter box.
* Mother to unborn child. A pregnant woman may pass germs that cause infectious diseases to her unborn baby. Some germs can pass through the placenta or through breast milk. Germs in the va**na can also be transmitted to the baby during birth.
Indirect contact
Disease-causing organisms also can be passed by indirect contact. Many germs can linger on an inanimate object, such as a tabletop, doorknob or faucet handle.
When you touch a doorknob handled by someone ill with the flu or a cold, for example, you can pick up the germs he or she left behind. If you then touch your eyes, mouth or nose before washing your hands, you may become infected.
Insect bites
Some germs rely on insect carriers — such as mosquitoes, fleas, lice or ticks — to move from host to host. These carriers are known as vectors. Mosquitoes can carry the malaria parasite or West Nile virus. Deer ticks may carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Food contamination
Disease-causing germs can also infect you through contaminated food and water. This mechanism of transmission allows germs to be spread to many people through a single source. Escherichia coli (E. coli), for example, is a bacterium present in or on certain foods — such as undercooked hamburger or unpasteurized fruit juice.

Risk factors
While anyone can catch infectious diseases, you may be more likely to get sick if your immune system isn't working properly. This may occur if:
* You're taking steroids or other medications that suppress your immune system, such as anti-rejection drugs for a transplanted organ
* You have HIV or AIDS
* You have certain types of cancer or other disorders that affect your immune system
In addition, certain other medical conditions may predispose you to infection, including implanted medical devices, malnutrition and extremes of age, among others.
Complications
Most infectious diseases have only minor complications. But some infections — such as pneumonia, AIDS and meningitis — can become life-threatening. A few types of infections have been linked to a long-term increased risk of cancer:
* Human papillomavirus is linked to cervical cancer
* Helicobacter pylori is linked to stomach cancer and peptic ulcers
* Hepatitis B and C have been linked to liver cancer
In addition, some infectious diseases may become silent, only to appear again in the future — sometimes even decades later. For example, someone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles much later in life.
Prevention
Follow these tips to decrease the risk of infection:
* Wash your hands. This is especially important before and after preparing food, before eating, and after using the toilet. And try not to touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your hands, as that's a common way germs enter the body.
* Get vaccinated. Vaccination can drastically reduce your chances of contracting many diseases. Make sure to keep up to date on your recommended vaccinations, as well as your children's.
* Stay home when ill. Don't go to work if you are vomiting, have diarrhea or have a fever. Don't send your child to school if he or she has these signs, either.
* Prepare food safely. Keep counters and other kitchen surfaces clean when preparing meals. Cook foods to the proper temperature, using a food thermometer to check for doneness. For ground meats, that means at least 160 F (71 C); for poultry, 165 F (74 C); and for most other meats, at least 145 F (63 C).�Also promptly refrigerate leftovers — don't let cooked foods remain at room temperature for long periods of time.
* Practice safe s*x. Always use condoms if you or your partner has a history of s*xually transmitted infections or high-risk behavior.
* Don't share personal items. Use your own toothbrush, comb and razor. Avoid sharing drinking glasses or dining utensils.
* Travel wisely. If you're traveling out of the country, talk to your doctor about any special vaccinations — such as yellow fever, cholera, hepatitis A or B, or typhoid fever.

17/05/2023

Rheumatism

Grouped under the term “arthritis,” rheumatic diseases are inflammatory diseases that causes immune system to attack your joints, muscles, bones, and organs.
Rheumatic diseases, including most forms of arthritis and spondyloarthrities (inflammatory spinal conditions), are usually painful, chronic, and progressive, which means they get worse over time.
Early diagnosis and treatment can slow the progression of many rheumatic diseases.
According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, there are more than 100 rheumatic diseases.
Among the most common rheumatic diseases are:

i)Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) AS is a common type of spondyloarthritis, a type of arthritis that attacks the spine and, in some people, the joints of the arms and legs, according to the American College of Rheumatology.

ii) Nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis is a related condition in which the disease causes symptoms including lower back pain.

iii)Gout is a form of arthritis characterized by the accumulation of urate crystals in a joint — often the large joint of your big toe — causing swelling and pain.

iv)Infectious Arthritis a sudden and painful form of arthritis brought on by a viral or bacterial infection, infectious arthritis can sometimes lead to permanent joint damage.

v)Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs, causing damage to joints and organs.

vi)Osteoarthritis (OA) The most common form of arthritis, OA is an age-related disease that damages cartilage and bone, causing pain and, in some cases, disability.

vii)Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease that occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body’s tissues, causing painful swelling.

Causes of Rheumatism
-Genes and family history
-Environmental triggers
-Lifestyle
-Infection
-Trauma
-Wear and tear on joints

Symptoms of Rheumatism
Different types of rheumatic disease have different symptoms.

The following are some of the most common symptoms of arthritis and rheumatic diseases:
-Joint pain
-Swelling of a joint or joints
-Joint stiffness that lasts for at least one hour in the early morning
-Chronic pain or tenderness in a joint or joints
-Warmth or redness in a joint area
-Limited movement in an affected joint or joints
-Fatigue
In addition, some rheumatic diseases are characterized by specific symptoms. For example, the majority of people with Lupus will experience some form of skin rash along with joint pain with inflammation and fatigue.

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13/05/2023

Osteoporosis

A condition in which bones become weak and brittle.
The body constantly absorbs and replaces bone tissue. With osteoporosis, new bone creation doesn't keep up with old bone removal.

A lifelong lack of calcium plays a role in the development of osteoporosis. Low calcium intake contributes to diminished bone density, early bone loss and an increased risk of fractures. Eating disorders. Severely restricting food intake and being underweight weakens bone in both men and women.

5 Alarming Symptoms of Osteoporosis
👉🏽Receding Gums.
👉🏽Brittle Fingernails.
👉🏽Easy Fractures.
👉🏽Back and Neck Pain.
👉🏽Curved or Stooped Spine.

The bones most often affected are the hips, spine, and wrists. Women are 4 times more likely to get osteoporosis than men because of a decrease in estrogen after menopause. Risk factors for osteoporosis include aging, race, body weight, and certain medicines.

12/05/2023

Heartburn is a common condition that can cause discomfort and pain in the chest and throat. It occurs when stomach acid flows back into the esophagus. If you experience heartburn, there are several things you can do to alleviate your symptoms:

- Avoid foods and drinks that can trigger heartburn like spicy foods
- Eat smaller but frequent meals throughout the day. Eating large meals can increase the pressure in the stomach and cause acid reflux

- Avoid lying down immediately after eating
- Try elevating your head with a pillow while sleeping. This helps prevent stomach acid from flowing back into the esophagus while you sleep.

If your heartburn symptoms persist despite these measures, or if you experience severe or frequent heartburn, It is important to see a healthcare professional for further evaluation and treatment.

11/05/2023

⛔️ HOW TO AVOID INSOMNIA?

👉DON'T SIT ON THE PHONE & TV.
If you sit long hours on the phone or watch TV before going to bed, your nervous system goes into an excited state and does not let you sleep. It's better to read a book (in paper form).

👉WATCH YOUR DIET.
The last meal should be 3 hours before you go to bed. It's better to drink herbal tea, which can relax you ®ulate your sleep.

👉TAKE A WALK IN THE FRESH AIR.
Evening walks before going to bed will make you feel slightly tired, and oxygenation will help you fall asleep faster.

👉AVOID UNNECESSARY THOUGHTS.
When you go to bed, stop thinking about unresolved issues, upcoming tasks & plans for the near future. When you analyze too much, your brain gets tense and does not allow you to go to sleep peacefully.

👉GET RID OF EXTERNAL STIMULI.
Often loud noises or bright lights keep us awake. Try to eliminate any stimuli that may affect your sleep, or buy a sleep mask and earplugs.

10/05/2023

A healthy diet

1.Dark Green Vegetables
Eat dark green vegetables at least three to four times a week. Good options include broccoli, peppers, brussel sprouts and leafy greens like kale and spinach.

2..Water
Drink 8 to 12 cups of water daily.

3. Whole Grains
Eat whole grains sat least two or three times daily. Look for whole wheat flour, rye, oatmeal, barley, amaranth, quinoa or a multigrain. A good source of fiber has 3 to 4 grams of fiber per serving. A great source has 5 or more grams of fiber per serving.

4. Beans and Lentils
Try to eat a bean-based meal at least once a week. Try to add legumes, including beans and lentils, to soups, stews, casseroles, salads and dips or eat them plain.

5. Fish
Try to eat two to three serving of fish a week. A serving consists of 3 to 4 ounces of cooked fish. Good choices are salmon, trout, herring, bluefish, sardines and tuna.

6. Berries
Include two to four servings of fruit in your diet each day. Try to eat berries such as raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and strawberries.

7. Winter Squash
Eat butternut and acorn squash as well as other richly pigmented dark orange and green colored vegetables like sweet potato, cantaloupe and mango.

8. Soy
25 grams of soy protein a day is recommended as part of a low-fat diet to help lower cholesterol levels. Try tofu, soy milk, edamame soybeans, tempeh and texturized vegetable protein (TVP).

9. Flaxseed, Nuts and Seeds
Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed or other seeds to food each day or include a moderate amount of nuts – 1/4 cup – in your daily diet.

10. Organic Yogurt
Men and women between 19 and 50 years of age need 1000 milligrams of calcium a day and 1200 milligrams if 50 or older. Eat calcium-rich foods such as nonfat or low-fat dairy products three to four times a day. Include organic choices.

06/05/2023

Four popular weight loss strategies

1. Cut calories
Some experts believe that successfully managing your weight comes down to a simple equation: If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. Sounds easy, right? Then why is losing weight so hard?

Weight loss isn’t a linear event over time. When you cut calories, you may drop weight for the first few weeks, for example, and then something changes. You eat the same number of calories but you lose less weight or no weight at all. That’s because when you lose weight you’re losing water and lean tissue as well as fat, your metabolism slows, and your body changes in other ways. So, in order to continue dropping weight each week, you need to continue cutting calories.
A calorie isn’t always a calorie. Eating 100 calories of high fructose corn syrup, for example, can have a different effect on your body than eating 100 calories of broccoli. The trick for sustained weight loss is to ditch the foods that are packed with calories but don’t make you feel full (like candy) and replace them with foods that fill you up without being loaded with calories (like vegetables).
Many of us don’t always eat simply to satisfy hunger. We also turn to food for comfort or to relieve stress—which can quickly derail any weight loss plan.

2. Cut carbs
A different way of viewing weight loss identifies the problem as not one of consuming too many calories, but rather the way the body accumulates fat after consuming carbohydrates—in particular the role of the hormone insulin. When you eat a meal, carbohydrates from the food enter your bloodstream as glucose. In order to keep your blood sugar levels in check, your body always burns off this glucose before it burns off fat from a meal.

If you eat a carbohydrate-rich meal (lots of pasta, rice, bread, or French fries, for example), your body releases insulin to help with the influx of all this glucose into your blood. As well as regulating blood sugar levels, insulin does two things: It prevents your fat cells from releasing fat for the body to burn as fuel (because its priority is to burn off the glucose) and it creates more fat cells for storing everything that your body can’t burn off. The result is that you gain weight and your body now requires more fuel to burn, so you eat more. Since insulin only burns carbohydrates, you crave carbs and so begins a vicious cycle of consuming carbs and gaining weight. To lose weight, the reasoning goes, you need to break this cycle by reducing carbs.

Most low-carb diets advocate replacing carbs with protein and fat, which could have some negative long-term effects on your health. If you do try a low-carb diet, you can reduce your risks and limit your intake of saturated and trans fats by choosing lean meats, fish and vegetarian sources of protein, low-fat dairy products, and eating plenty of leafy green and non-starchy vegetables.

3. Cut fat
It’s a mainstay of many diets: if you don’t want to get fat, don’t eat fat. Walk down any grocery store aisle and you’ll be bombarded with reduced-fat snacks, dairy, and packaged meals. But while our low-fat options have exploded, so have obesity rates. So, why haven’t low-fat diets worked for more of us?

Not all fat is bad. Healthy or “good” fats can actually help to control your weight, as well as manage your moods and fight fatigue. Unsaturated fats found in avocados, nuts, seeds, soy milk, tofu, and fatty fish can help fill you up, while adding a little tasty olive oil to a plate of vegetables, for example, can make it easier to eat healthy food and improve the overall quality of your diet.
We often make the wrong trade-offs. Many of us make the mistake of swapping fat for the empty calories of sugar and refined carbohydrates. Instead of eating whole-fat yoghurt, for example, we eat low- or no-fat versions that are packed with sugar to make up for the loss of taste. Or we swap our fatty breakfast bacon for a muffin or donut that causes rapid spikes in blood sugar.

4. Follow the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet emphasizes eating good fats and good carbs along with large quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, fish, and olive oil—and only modest amounts of meat and cheese. The Mediterranean diet is more than just about food, though. Regular physical activity and sharing meals with others are also major components.

Whatever weight loss strategy you try, it’s important to stay motivated and avoid common dieting pitfalls, such as emotional eating.

Control emotional eating
We don’t always eat simply to satisfy hunger. All too often, we turn to food when we’re stressed or anxious, which can wreck any diet and pack on the pounds. Do you eat when you’re worried, bored, or lonely? Do you snack in front of the TV at the end of a stressful day? Recognizing your emotional eating triggers can make all the difference in your weight-loss efforts. If you eat when you’re:

Stressed – find healthier ways to calm yourself. Try yoga, meditation, or soaking in a hot bath.

Low on energy – find other mid-afternoon pick-me-ups. Try walking around the block, listening to energizing music, or taking a short nap.

Lonely or bored – reach out to others instead of reaching for the refrigerator. Call a friend who makes you laugh, take your dog for a walk, or go to the library, mall, or park—anywhere there’s people.

Practice mindful eating instead
Avoid distractions while eating. Try not to eat while working, watching TV, or driving. It’s too easy to mindlessly overeat.

Pay attention. Eat slowly, savoring the smells and textures of your food. If your mind wanders, gently return your attention to your food and how it tastes.

Mix things up to focus on the experience of eating. Try using chopsticks rather than a fork, or use your utensils with your non-dominant hand.

Stop eating before you are full. It takes time for the signal to reach your brain that you’ve had enough. Don’t feel obligated to always clean your plate.

Stay motivated
Permanent weight loss requires making healthy changes to your lifestyle and food choices. To stay motivated:

Slow and steady wins the race. Losing weight too fast can take a toll on your mind and body, making you feel sluggish, drained, and sick. Aim to lose one to two pounds a week so you’re losing fat rather than water and muscle.

Set goals to keep you motivated. Short-term goals, like wanting to fit into a bikini for the summer, usually don’t work as well as wanting to feel more confident or become healthier for your children’s sakes. When temptation strikes, focus on the benefits you’ll reap from being healthier.

Use tools to track your progress. Smartphone apps, fitness trackers, or simply keeping a journal can help you keep track of the food you eat, the calories you burn, and the weight you lose. Seeing the results in black and white can help you stay motivated.

Get plenty of sleep. Lack of sleep stimulates your appetite so you want more food than normal; at the same time, it stops you feeling satisfied, making you want to keep eating. Sleep deprivation can also affect your motivation, so aim for eight hours of quality sleep a night.

Cut down on sugar and refined carbs
Whether or not you’re specifically aiming to cut carbs, most of us consume unhealthy amounts of sugar and refined carbohydrates such as white bread, pizza dough, pasta, pastries, white flour, white rice, and sweetened breakfast cereals. Replacing refined carbs with their whole-grain counterparts and eliminating candy and desserts is only part of the solution, though. Sugar is hidden in foods as diverse as canned soups and vegetables, pasta sauce, margarine, and many reduced fat foods. Since your body gets all it needs from sugar naturally occurring in food, all this added sugar amounts to nothing but a lot of empty calories and unhealthy spikes in your blood glucose.

Fill up with fruit, veggies, and fiber
Even if you’re cutting calories, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to eat less food. High-fiber foods such as fruit, vegetables, beans, and whole grains are higher in volume and take longer to digest, making them filling—and great for weight-loss.

It’s generally okay to eat as much fresh fruit and non-starchy vegetables as you want—you’ll feel full before you’ve overdone it on the calories.

Eat vegetables raw or steamed, not fried or breaded, and dress them with herbs and spices or a little olive oil for flavor.

Add fruit to low sugar cereal—blueberries, strawberries, sliced bananas. You’ll still enjoy lots of sweetness, but with fewer calories, less sugar, and more fiber.

Bulk out sandwiches by adding healthy veggie choices like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, and avocado.

Snack on carrots or celery with hummus instead of a high-calorie chips and dip.

Add more veggies to your favorite main courses to make your dish more substantial. Even pasta and stir-fries can be diet-friendly if you use less noodles and more vegetables.

Start your meal with salad or vegetable soup to help fill you up so you eat less of your entrée.

Take charge of your food environment
Set yourself up for weight-loss success by taking charge of your food environment: when you eat, how much you eat, and what foods you make easily available.

Cook your own meals at home. This allows you to control both portion size and what goes in to the food. Restaurant and packaged foods generally contain a lot more sugar, unhealthy fat, and calories than food cooked at home—plus the portion sizes tend to be larger.

Serve yourself smaller portions. Use small plates, bowls, and cups to make your portions appear larger. Don’t eat out of large bowls or directly from food containers, which makes it difficult to assess how much you’ve eaten.

Eat early. Studies suggest that consuming more of your daily calories at breakfast and fewer at dinner can help you drop more pounds. Eating a larger, healthy breakfast can jump-start your metabolism, stop you feeling hungry during the day, and give you more time to burn off the calories.

Fast for 14 hours a day. Try to eat dinner earlier in the day and then fast until breakfast the next morning. Eating only when you’re most active and giving your digestion a long break may aid weight loss.

Plan your meals and snacks ahead of time. You can create your own small portion snacks in plastic bags or containers. Eating on a schedule will help you avoid eating when you aren’t truly hungry.

Drink more water. Thirst can often be confused with hunger, so by drinking water you can avoid extra calories.

Limit the amount of tempting foods you have at home. If you share a kitchen with non-dieters, store indulgent foods out of sight.

Get moving
The degree to which exercise aids weight loss is open to debate, but the benefits go way beyond burning calories. Exercise can increase your metabolism and improve your outlook—and it’s something you can benefit from right now. Go for a walk, stretch, move around and you’ll have more energy and motivation to tackle the other steps in your weight-loss program.

Lack time for a long workout? Three 10-minute spurts of exercise per day can be just as good as one 30-minute workout.

Remember: anything is better than nothing. Start off slowly with small amounts of physical activity each day. Then, as you start to lose weight and have more energy, you’ll find it easier to become more physically active.

Find exercise you enjoy. Try walking with a friend, dancing, hiking, cycling, playing Frisbee with a dog, enjoying a pickup game of basketball, or playing activity-based video games with your kids.

03/05/2023

The Blood pH

The pH scale is a compact scale, and small changes in pH represent big leaps in acidity.

Normal blood pH levels is a bag of blood that should have a PH of between 7.35 and 7.45

A sudden change in blood pH may indicate an underlying health problem.
The pH of blood in the arteries should be between 7.35 and 7.45 for the body’s metabolic processes and other systems to work well. These processes produce acids, so the body has a complex system of feedback and regulation to maintain healthy pH levels.

Much of the acid made in the body is carbonic acid. This forms when carbon dioxide combines with water. Carbon dioxide occurs within the tissues of the body due to the process of respiration.

The lungs and the kidneys are the two main organs that regulate the pH of the blood, often at the same time. There are also chemical buffering mechanisms throughout the body’s cells.

The lungs can help regulate blood pH rapidly through the process of exhaling carbon dioxide, sometimes producing changes within seconds. For example, when someone exercises, they produce more carbon dioxide, so they breathe faster to prevent the blood from becoming too acidic.

The kidneys regulate the pH of the blood by excreting acids in urine. They also produce and regulate bicarbonate, which increases blood pH. These changes take longer than those that occur due to breathing, potentially taking hours or days.

Changes in pH blood level

Certain situations and medical conditions can mean that the body is unable to keep blood pH within the healthy range.

The pH of the blood can change in both directions.

Acidosis occurs when the blood is too acidic, with a pH below 7.35. Alkalosis occurs when the blood is not acidic enough, with a pH above 7.45.

There are four main ways in which blood pH can change:

Metabolic acidosis: This occurs due to reduced bicarbonate or increased acid levels.

Respiratory acidosis: This occurs when the body removes less carbon dioxide than usual.

Metabolic alkalosis: This occurs due to increased bicarbonate or reduced acid levels.

Respiratory alkalosis: This occurs when the body removes more carbon dioxide than usual.
To restore blood pH levels to a healthy range, it is important to identify and treat the underlying issue that has caused the change.

Causes of blood pH changes

Metabolic changes in blood pH can occur as a result of kidney conditions or problems. Respiratory changes relate to how the lungs are working.

When a change happens in one direction, there are mechanisms to move the acid-base balance the other way. For example, if a person has respiratory acidosis, there should be a metabolic response from the kidneys to reset the balance.

If the body does not reset the pH balance, it can lead to more severe illness. For example, this can happen if the level of acidosis is too serious, or if the person’s kidneys are not working well.

Depending on the cause, changes in blood pH can be either long lasting or brief.

Metabolic acidosis can occur due to:

kidney damage that leads to urea and other waste products building up in the blood
strenuous exercise, which produces lactic acid
consuming certain substances, such as aspirin, methanol, or paraldehyde
losing bicarbonate from the body, such as during chronic diarrhea
infection
an excess of acids called ketones in the blood
Ketoacidosis typically occurs in people with diabetes or due to alcohol misuse.

Respiratory acidosis occurs due to conditions that make breathing difficult.

These include:

-Lung conditions, such as pneumonia or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
-Congestive heart failure
-Severe obesity
-Using drugs such as opiates can also lead to respiratory acidosis.

Metabolic alkalosis

Some causes of metabolic alkalosis include:

-Excess consumption of bicarbonate, antacids, or citrate
-Cushing’s disease, wherein there is too much of the hormone cortisol in the blood
-Prolonged vomiting or serious dehydration
an excess of fluid in the body
-Taking too many laxatives
some diuretics, which are medications that help the body get rid of excess water or salt

Respiratory alkalosis

Respiratory alkalosis often occurs due to situations or conditions that make people breathe quicker or deeper than usual. These include:

-Shock,fear, or panic
-High temperature
-Serious infection
-Some lung conditions, such as pneumonia
-pulmonary embolism
-Liver failure
-Aspirin overdose, as the body overcompensates for the high acid levels this causes.

Symptoms of blood pH changes
If a person’s blood pH moves outside of the healthy range, they can begin to experience certain symptoms.

The symptoms they experience will depend on whether their blood has become more acidic or is no longer acidic enough.

Some symptoms of acidosis include:

-Headache
-confusion
-Tiredness
-Lethargy and sleepiness
-Coughing and shortness of breath
-uneven or increased heart rate
-Stomach upset or feeling sick
-Muscle seizures or weakness
-unconsciousness and coma

Symptoms of alkalosis include:

-Confusion and lightheadedness
-Shaky hands numbness or tingling in the feet, -Hands or face muscle twitches or spasms -Vomiting or nausea
- Coma

02/05/2023

Benefits of quitting smoking

These are just a few of the health benefits of quitting smoking for good, but there are others, too.

Quitting smoking lowers your risk of other cancers over time as well, including cancers of the stomach, pancreas, liver, cervix, and colon and re**um, as well as acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Quitting also lowers your risk of diabetes, helps your blood vessels work better, and helps your heart and lungs.

Quitting smoking can also add as much as 10 years to your life, compared to if you continued to smoke. Quitting while you're younger can reduce your health risks more (for example, quitting before the age of 40 reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related disease by about 90%), but quitting at any age can give back years of life that would be lost by continuing to smoke.

Food tastes better.
Your sense of smell returns to normal.
Your breath, hair, and clothes smell better.
Your teeth and fingernails stop yellowing.
Ordinary activities (for example, climbing stairs or light housework) leave you less out of breath.
You can be in smoke-free buildings without having to go outside to smoke.
Quitting also helps stop the damaging effects of to***co on how you look, including premature wrinkling of your skin, gum disease, and tooth loss.

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