Friday, January 29, 2010

How Drug Use Can deteriorate HIV Patient's Helath?

Drug use is a main cause for the spreading of HIV infection. Shared equipment for consuming drugs can transfer HIV and hepatitis. Drug use is very dangerous for people who take antiretroviral medications (ARVs).

As street drugs will have dangerous interactions with ARVs, HIV infected drug users are less inclined to take their medications. These interactions may increase or reduce the levels of ARVs or of illicit drugs. In the extreme case, ARVs can stop working and can cause a serious increase in the level of recreational drugs. So, the use of recreational drugs is banned and pharmaceutical companies should not provide them to people suffering from HIV, even to review the effects.

Sharing equipment or materials at the time of drug use also transmits hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and other serious diseases. Infected blood is pumped into a syringe and then the next user of the same syringe with the drug injects it. This is the simple way to transmit HIV from one to other person during drug use as the infected blood is directly injected into others bloodstream.

When drugs and medications come at a time to be used by the liver, they both are processed very slowly, which can lead to a fatal overdose of the medication or of the recreational drug.


Monday, January 11, 2010

Benefits of Gardening on health

Home with gardens has many benefits on health like:
  • Families of fixed incomes, considers fresh fruits and vegetables as a luxury as they can’t afford.
  • The home garden provides fresh fruits and vegetables and gives over a 20 times gain in the value of yield (fruits and vegetables) grown compared to material costs. Families with home vegetable gardens eat more fruit and vegetables of increased nutrition.
  • Gardening also plays a major role for improved health by favoring exercise, stress reduction, and relaxation. From the medical point of view, researchers have reported that people who connect with or communicate with plants recover more quickly and actively from everyday stress and mental lethargy or tiredness.
  • For many people, garden is release or escape from the pressures of the job and family responsibilities. This relaxation technique helps in reducing stress levels and related problems like heart disease. Minnie Aumonier expressed this in an impressive way with, “When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the Garden”.
  • The awareness in the medicinal value of plants in hospitals, homes for the aged, and senior centers has been increased. In these places, many "healing gardens" are being organized for clients, staff, and visitors.

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