Congenital and acquired glaucoma

According to Jacob Bogatin, congenital and acquired glaucoma can be sorted out. The congenital glaucoma is not so often met and the treatment (a surgical one is possible) can be carried out in hospitals. However, a more spread one is a primary open-angle glaucoma that goes unnoticeably for a man (without experiencing sight reduction, pain, opacity) that leads to the progressing of the disease and doctors have to face a dilemma as the result how to preserve the remaining sight or how to save the eye itself.

J. Bogatin states that acquired glaucoma is divided into: caused by age (primary open-angle, angle-closure); secondary glaucoma caused by eye injury or other diseases like diabetes, post eye surgery consequences such as cataract or inflammation (e.g. uveitis, iridocyclitis). The second by occurrence type of glaucoma is an angle-closed one. It declares itself by sharp attacks (with an apparent pain syndrome, sight reduction). In this case emergency aid is required with the following admission of patient and antiglaucomatous surgery.

Further on occurrence we face secondary glaucoma (more at diabetes, as the consequence of the thrombosis, etc.). The choice of methods of treatment is very individual and may require special prescription eyeglasses.

Glaucoma with normal indicators intraocular pressure stands separately from this list due to complicated diagnosing of the disease. Regarding the existing stereotypes that glaucoma is always accompanied by increased pressure it is difficult to detect it at once. Jacob Bogatin claims that more often the pressure sticks to the top norm margins whereas blood circulation in an optic nerve becomes worse that results in its malfunctioning.

Treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma starts with the prescription and then the use of special drops aimed at the intraocular pressure reduction. A wide range of drops has been developed and nowadays is available at the chemist’s. Among them several groups can be distinguished such as those that reduce the intraocular fluid inflow and the ones that make the outflow better. However, in some cases both of the groups should be used together. The second step to overcome glaucoma is laser surgery in case the intraocular pressure cannot be reduced by means of drugs.

Though not all glaucoma cases can be solved by way of laser surgeries, each case is tried by the ophthalmologist. The next step in glaucoma treatment is the surgery itself but reoperation may be considered necessary. Due to the chronic nature of the disease it is impossible to overcome it completely. Nevertheless, the progressing glaucoma can be suspended and the eye-sight can be preserved as a result of timely diagnosis and systematic treatment.

You should trust surgical methods as it can be the only way out when nothing is left. Surgical procedures are well developed and it can be done quickly and painlessly. You should not postpone the surgery as every minute counts. Glaucoma clinical course depends greatly on your lifestyle. Physical and nervous overload should be better avoided. Maximum weight that you can lift is 10 kilos. You should stick to vegetables, fish, fruits and limit the consumption of sugar and animal fat.

You should give up smoking if you are one as nicotine is harmful to your eyes.

Good sleep is of great importance too. If you are going away for a long time, do not forget to take necessary eye drops with you.

Types of migraine

Definition of migraine

Migraine means repeating attacks of a sharp headache, usually unilateral and a pulsing one which can proceed from 4 till 72 hours. The name comes from «micraine» - the truncated Greek word a hemicrany («half of head») which specifies on unilateralism of pains. Migraine is rather a widespread disease and is not connected with race, a place of residence or climate.

Women suffer from this disease more often than men: in the ratio 4:1. Migraine attacks appear at teenage and youthful age, in the course of time tend to disappear. Men usually stop experiencing pains at the age of 45 and women – at the menopause age. Jacob Bogatin and other physicians allocate two basic types of migraine:

1. The usual migraine also known as a migraine without aura
2. The classical migraine also known as a migraine with aura

In most cases the aura designates the symptoms causing sight disorders. Other symptoms connected with aura are hearing and other feelings decay, confusion, impellent and mental frustration. The aura stage usually lasts from 4 till 60 minutes. Approximately 15% of all patients suffer from a classical migraine.

The migraine reasons

Migraine symptoms are caused by change of blood vessels of a brain, however the reason remains unknown. Approximately 70 % of all patients have family predisposition to migraine. Moreover the occurrence of migraine is promoted by the following factors: a stress, a nervous and physical overstrain, food factors (cheese, chocolate, nuts, fish), alcohol (more often beer and red wine, sparkling wine), the hormonal reasons (menstruation, contraceptives intake), a sleep (a lack or surplus), weather factors (weather change, change of climatic conditions).

Migraine symptoms

As a rule, migraine occurs with a sharp, accruing pulsing pain localised in one half of a skull. Jacob Bogatin differentiates other symptoms of migraine:

* Hypersensibility to light and sounds
* Vomiting
* Nausea
* Drowsiness
* General weakness
* Infringement of motion functions
* Sight infringements (light flashing before eyes, zigzags, spirals and so on). It is the so-called stage of aura prior to the attack of migraine.

According to Bogatin Jacob during the migraine attack light and sounds can be intolerably irritating and movement can hurt. Migraine attacks usually begin suddenly, however in some cases patients can feel weariness, depression or insuperable bent for the sweet.

Jacob Bogatin warns that migraine should be definitely diagnosed and treated. As the sharp headache can be a symptom of other diseases, it is necessary to address to the doctor if the pain does not weaken in 24 hours and is accompanied by a rise in overall temperature or a stiffness occurrence of cervical muscles. Also it is necessary to address for the medical assistance if the headache is accompanied by unusual symptoms.

The secret of a healthy lifestyle

Nowadays the whole society suffers from a stressful lifestyle. We live in a constant rush, try to satisfy all our desires and get everything right now. In the world of numerous temptations it is so hard to stop, look around and understand that living for the future isn't absolutely right. In order to achieve all our ambitious dreams it is extremely important to take care about ourselves and our health as well. With the development of a medical service many people rely on the wide range of medicines and artificial pills. They truly believe that taking a pill will stop pain and other problems will go away with it. But years passing and we start to notice that even climbing on the 7th floor seems to be an impossible mission for us.

To my mind the best way to stay fit, strong, pretty and handsome is to start leading a healthy lifestyle and be ready for challenges and difficulties of the world.

First of all you should pay attention to the food you consume. Your diet should be well-balanced including the necessary ingredients such as fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Avoid eating fast-food products because it is the main reason of overweight what usually leads to serious health problems, for example, heart attacks. We should not forget that 90% of our body consists of water, that's why drinking a 1-1.5 litres of water a day is an absolute must for everyone. Try to add as much fresh vegetables and fruit to your daily consumption plan as you can. This plus a good rest and sleep will help you to get a healthy skin colour and you will never turn to skincare products like creams or masks.

Secondly, go in for sports. Start with simple exercises but do them every day - it means on a continuous basis. Suggest your friend to do jogging or join a gym. Remember that going abroad to the sea or mountains helps you to stay energetic and strong for the whole year.

And finally the last but not the least is getting rid of all your bad habits. Follow all these pieces of advice and always keep in mind that a healthy living is a revelation of your inner and outer world.

The present situation with Hypertension in the USA

The hypertension is a pathological condition when the raised arterial pressure is caused not by the natural body reactions to these or that physiological situations, this is a consequence of unbalancing of the systems regulating arterial pressure.

Jacob Bogatin claims that the hypertension as an increase of arterial pressure represents one of the most widespread cardiovascular diseases. Insidiousness of illness is that it can proceed with the imperceptibly for the patient. The person is disturbed by headaches, irritability, dizziness; his or her memory worsens, working capacity decreases. Having had a rest the person ceases to feel these symptoms for a while and thinks and takes them for the consequences of usual weariness. So he doesn’t address to the doctor for many years. But eventually the hypertension progresses. Bogatin Jacob names the following ones: headaches and dizzinesses, mood differences become constant and everyday’s issues. Considerable memory impairment and intelligence, weakness in finitenesses are possible.

Hypertensive illness affects people at the most efficient stage of their life. It can differ a lot: may be a long and persistent current, also may be accompanied by the development of heavy complications (the heart attack of a myocardium, a brain stroke, warm and nephritic insufficiency) as well as it can be accompanied by decrease in work capacity up to physical inability. As well as any chronic disease, hypertension can be treated only with a constant, like, for instance, J.Bogatin and competent therapy in a cardiology clinic. One of the main issues in treating this disease is that a person must realize himself that his way of life is to be changed completely. Only the combination of these factors allows maintaining the average arterial pressure and helps to keep good state of health and working capacity for long years.

The modern way of life has led to the following daunting figures: 39.2% men and 41.4% women in the US are hypertensive. Thus only 37.1% men and 58% women are aware of this whereas effective treatment is exercised for 5.7% and 17.5% respectively. It means that there is still no adequate control of disease.

Sleeplessness, symptoms and treatment

It is for sure that each of us at least once in his or her life suffered from insomnia.
Probably it occurred at night before an exam or before an important meeting when you tried to lie down earlier to have a proper sleep. But instead of this you couldn’t sleep and your brain was analyzing different scrolling variants of a forthcoming meeting. Or if we take another example when after a hard working day when you literally “fall asleep on the move” you laid down in a bed imaging a good rest but instead of it you feel that the bed is uncomfortable, it produces hardly distinguishable but irritating sounds and the desire to sleep irrevocably disappears.
30-45% of people regularly experience this and a half of them get insomnia as a chronic disease.

Jacob Bogatin proclaims that there are three stages of a common type of insomnia:

The first stage includes difficulties of the beginning of a sleep (presomnian frustration), i.e. problems with falling asleep. The person is gradually trying to think over an upcoming sleep when actually his/her brain is still in the peak stage of activity. The fear of “sleep never coming” blocks the normal slowdown of brain’s activity.

Frustration of the second stage (intrasomnic frustration) results in frequent night awakenings from sounds or from a restless sleep, a nightmare, sensation of pains, infringement of breath, sharp movements after which a person can not manage to sleep for a long time.

And at last, on the third stage (postsomniac) there is a problem of a complicated morning awakening, the lowered working capacity, sensation of weakness, drowsiness.

There are also cases when a person complains with the following words: "I have not closed eyes during the whole night". After a close examination a doctor finds out that the patient sleeps even less than hours a day! J.Bogatin thinks that this is a deformed perception of a sleep and can lead to chronic insomnia.

So, if the problem of sleeplessness comes out and knocks at your door – the problem may be solved in a simple way – you are to learn to sleep correctly!

Jacob Bogatin recommends to try to draw up a schedule of work and rest, a warm and soothing bath is necessary to calm your nerves before going to sleep and probably a course of autotraining will be wise to take up.

When sleeplessness is caused by strong weariness or stress you can take soporific medicines though it is absolutely a must to remember that you should follow the given prescription as well as medicine’s instruction. The duration (the period when medicine may be taken) should not exceed 10-14 days.

If all the measures mentioned above do not help you and you still can not fall asleep and suffer the attacks of insomnia – you should definitely consult a somnologist. Jacob Bogatin: "Probably, additional inspection will be required from a neuropathologist. For insomnia treatment it is wise to take some physiotherapeutic procedures, phototherapy, an acupuncture course and a psychotherapy course as well".

Jacob Bogatin: About this blog

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