Minggu, 05 Februari 2012

What to Do for People with Breast Cancer?

When one woman was diagnosed with breast cancer, most patients will immediately be emotionally devastated. They feel like a got a death sentence, even though the patient may be cured even more so when it is still in early stages. In advanced stages, emotional and psychological impact can cause a depressed cancer patients. Where this can actually worsen the situation. For that, need the support of the family or friends.


Breast cancer patients should tell their family or friends because people need the support of the people closest to experiencing the emotional aftermath. It is normal if the patient does not want to tell family or friends about her illness. The reason is because they do not want to bother or make the person who heard the sad or worried. But, imagine the opposite situation, when you are not told by your family or close friends that he was suffering from cancer, would you be more upset because you do not know and may not provide the required assistance.



Friend is someone who lives closest to talk and to find the best treatment and the impact that may be experienced. Breast cancer patients may feel inferior to the situation so as to affect the marital relationship. Instead, it is also discussed with her husband in order to understand and be able to help by giving a hug or other endearment.
Children are young may not understand what was happening. However, when the child is able to talk to, you can tell in simple language what is meant by breast cancer and the effects that might occur in the physical as baldness caused by chemotherapy or changes in the breast. It is important that children who are innocent do not get the wrong information from people who are not responsible for what can make them fear or hate you or feel that what you experience from their mistakes.



Not all of your friends or family who do not get too close to be notified if you feel uncomfortable to pass. Also do not need to respond to the comments given by friends, family or others who know of your illness. There is always a positive and negative comments. So, it's not excessive to consider that can damage the body's defenses.



To add to the spirit, you can join a group of fellow breast cancer survivors.In Indonesia, the Indonesian Cancer Foundation can accommodate these needs. In this group, they can give encouragement and confidence to a speedy recovery. The stories of other patients might be able to make you feel your situation is still better. Or stories from other sufferers to fight the disease is persistent and can receive healing can help you find the strength to not give in to circumstances.



So, still eager to fight your disease. If any family member or friend suffering from a tumor or breast cancer, you can provide the necessary support in the knowledge their sufferings. Such support can help cure them.

Varicose carefully Vagina

Varicose veins are not only familiar to the calf or the anus, the vagina canoccur varicose veins. The difference, vaginal varicose veins often do not cause a complaint to the sufferer. Vaginal varicose veins commonly occur in women who are pregnant.
Varicose veins is triggered by hormonal changes that cause blood vessel elasticity unchanged. Or, it could be because the flow from the leg veins to the heart depressed by the weight of the uterus.
In addition to the condition of pregnancy, vaginal varicose veins can alsosuffer corticosteroid drug users. It could also be experienced by people withabnormal blood vessels. However, most cases still occur when a pregnancy.


According to Dr. Ifzal, special vaginal varicose veins, can not take action to mitigate them. Usually, doctors just leave it alone. Under normal conditions,vaginal varicose veins will disappear by itself after the birth, as hormone levels return to normal.


Even so, the risk of bleeding when performed by vaginal delivery orremained normal. Thus, the preparation needs to be done when thehemorrhage if undiagnosed vaginal varicose vei

Facing anxiety primigravida Labor Process / Delivery

A primigravida in the face of labor mostly always have anxiety. Anxiety is due to various factors. Anxiety itself is a tension, insecurity and concerns arising from the perceived unpleasant things happen but its source is largely unknown and comes from within (MOH RI, 1990).

Anxiety can didefininisikan a feeling state of concern, anxiety, lack of requirements for, or fear of real or perceived threat that the actual source is unknown or known (Stuart and Sundeens, 1998). Based on these definitions can be concluded that anxiety is an unpleasant feeling, not feeling, worry and anxiety. This emotional state without a specific object, experienced subjectively driven by ignorance, which is preceded by a new experience, and communicated in interpersonal relationships.

Primigravida is a newly pregnant woman for the first time. primigravida mothers usually have difficulty in recognizing the changes that occur in the body that cause discomfort during her pregnancy lasted. This affects the mother's psychological, because of the lack of knowledge of pregnant women. Lack of knowledge can also lead to primigravida mothers do not know how to cope with the discomfort that women feel (Ulfah, 2009).

Predisposing factors Anxiety
Any changes in life or life events can cause stress are called stressors circumstances. Stress experienced by a person can cause anxiety, or anxiety is a direct manifestation of the stress of life and is closely associated with lifestyle (Wibisono, 1990).

Various predisposing factors that may cause anxiety (Roan, 1989) that genetic factors, organic factors and psychological factors. In patients who will undergo surgery, predisposing factors are highly influential anxiety is a psychological factor, in particular uncertainty about the procedures and operations to be undertaken.

A primigravida who will first undergo a process of labor tend to experience anxiety. This is because labor is something new to be experienced.
Symptoms of Anxiety

Patients who experience anxiety usually have symptoms that are typical and are divided into several phases, namely:
- Phase 1
The physical objec-phase reaction on alert, the body prepares itself to fight (fight), or flight (run away as soon as possible). In this phase the body to feel uncomfortable as a result of increased secretion of adrenaline and non adrenaline.

Therefore, the symptoms of anxiety can be a sense of tension in the muscles and fatigue, especially in the muscles of the chest, neck and back.In preparation for the fight, causing the muscles will become more rigid and consequently will cause pain and muscle spasms in the chest, neck and back. Tension of the agonists and antagonists will cause tremors and shaking that can easily be seen on the fingers (Wilkie, 1985). In this phase of anxiety is the mechanism of enhancement of the nervous system that reminds us that the nervous system function begins to fail to process the information correctly (Asdie, 1988).

- Phase 2
Besides the clinical symptoms as in phase one, such as restlessness, muscle tension, sleep disturbances and stomach complaints, the patient also started could not control his emotions and no self motivation (Wilkie, 1985).

Emotional lability can manifest easily cry for no reason, a few moments later a laugh. Crying easily associated with stress easily identified.However, sometimes a bit of a laugh to hard to show signs of anxiety disorder phase two (Asdie, 1988). Loss of self-motivation can be seen in circumstances like someone dropping to the ground, then he remain silent for some time by just looking at stuff that falls without doing anything (Asdie, 1988).

- Phase 3
Anxiety state of the phase one and two that are not resolved while the stressor is still ongoing, the patient will fall into three phases anxiety. In contrast to the symptoms seen in phase one and two are easily identified related to stress, anxiety symptoms in phase three is usually a change in behavior and are generally not readily visible relation to stress. In phase three can be seen symptoms like: intolerance to sensory stimuli, loss of ability to tolerate something that previously had been able to tolerate it, impaired reaction to something that a cursory look as personality disorders (Asdie, 1988).

Classification level of anxiety
There are four levels of anxiety, mild, moderate, and severe panic (Townsend, 1996).
- Mild anxiety;
Mild anxiety associated with stress in daily life and causes people to be vigilant and increase the perception of dialaminya.Manifestasi circumstances that arise at this level are exhausted, iritabel, airy perception increases, higher consciousness, capable of learning, increased motivation and behavior according to the situation.
- Anxiety is;
Allows one to concentrate on the important issues to the exclusion of others that someone is having a selective attention, but can do something purposeful. Manifestations that occur at this level is increased fatigue, heart rate and breathing rate increases, increased muscle tension, rapid speech with high volume, the land narrows perception, able to learn, but not optimal, decreased concentration ability, selective and focused attention on stimuli that do not add to anxiety, irritability, impatience, forgetfulness, anger and tears.

- Severe anxiety;
Greatly reduce the perception of one's land. A person with severe anxiety tend to focus on something that is detailed and specific, and can not think of anything else. That person can take a lot of direction to focus on one area to another. Manifestations that appear on this level is complained of dizziness, headache, nausea, can not sleep (insomnia), frequent urination, diarrhea, palpitations, narrowed field of perception, not willing to learn effectively, focusing on himself and his desire to eliminate the high anxiety,feelings of helplessness, confusion, disorientation.

- Panic;
Panic associated with the awe, fear and terror because it had lost control.People who are panicking are not able to do anything even with directions.Signs and symptoms that occur in these circumstances is difficult breathing, dilated pupils, palpitations, pallor, diaphoresis, incoherent speech, can not respond to simple commands, yelling, screaming, hallucinations and delusions.

Of the various explanations above can be concluded that a primigravida who will experience the birth process the first time tend to experience anxiety. Anxiety level of each primigravida influenced by many factors such as level of education, employment, sources of information, support her husband and other factors that trigger the occurrence of anxiety for pregnant women who are physically and mentally prepared to undergo the process of pregnancy until the birth process smoothly. The problem is not all women are physically and mentally ready.

Before delivery, many things come to mind worrying mother. Fear of deformed babies, surgery should be afraid, afraid of a long labor, and so forth. Especially if there is a friend or relative who tell their birthing experience, complete with a creepy comment.

Peak coincided with the start concerns the signs of labor. Contraction increased gradually increase the burden of the mother, so the concern is greatly increased. In this condition feelings of fear, if not handled properly, can damage the mother so that the concentration of the estimated labor smoothly, apart from the mother panicked.

When menstruation comes Uncertainty

There have been many ways we apply in order to avoid excessive menstrual pain. Starting from eating balanced by diligent yoga. The result, when the "monthly guest" come, we can still move without hindrance.However, when the arrival time is uncertain, we do not move to find out.Indeed, during the cycle is normal, ie, 25-35 days, we need not worry.However, if your period does not come until 25 days from the last menses, we need to wonder. Similarly, if after more than seven weeks we did not also coming months.

According dr.Linda Bradley, director of the Center for Menstrual Disorders Fibroids and Hysteroscopic Services at the Cleveland Clinic, changes in menstrual cycle, as simple as anything can be a signal from a variety of problems, both light and heavy.


Light, for example, it turns out we're pregnant. Alternatively, there is a problem in that we use contraception. While the most alarming according to experts, is we may have endometriosis.Another change we must not ignore is that if the blood comes out during the mens very little, or vice versa, is more abundant than usual. Not only that. Coupled also with unbearable pain in the abdomen, which makes us unable to undergo normal daily activities.


What must be done, consult a gynecologist. Menstrual cycle changes are generally associated with hormonal imbalance. If the trigger is of contraceptives, then we should immediately discontinue use.


In addition, other things that could interfere with the performance of the hormone is the consumption of certain drugs, autoimmune diseases, there is an infection, excessive exercise, and stress. Unbalanced diet can also cause changes in menstrual cycle patterns.The study, published in the journal obstetric & Ginecology of 2000 states, vegetarian diet proved effective in relieving stomach cramps and other premenstrual symptoms. Nothing wrong we try, by increasing the intake of vegetables, and reducing consumption of red meat.

Make Cancer Getting away clean house


As a homemaker, home bebenah activities such as sweeping or moppingmay be a matter of course. In fact, the benefits of these activities is verylarge, including to minimize the risk of breast cancer.

In a study of 200,000 women from nine European countries found that those who routinely conduct clean the house turned out to be better protected from cancer than those who diligently exercise. Activities ofmopping, dusting, or washing touted benefit is better to nourish the body.

The women in the study spent an average of 16-17 hours a week to do various chores, like cooking and cleaning house.

Since long the experts already know that exercise activity can reduce therisk of breast cancer, presumably because of the influence of hormonaland metabolic changes. However, it is not clear is how much and what type of exercise is important to keep away from cancer.
In this latest study is known, the whole house bebenah effective to reducethe risk of breast cancer, both in women who have or who have entered menopause.

In women who are in the perimenopause, cancer risk will be reduced by 30percent, and in women whose menopause the risks can be reduced to 20percent. The study lasted 6.4 years, and during that period there were3.423 cases of breast cancer.
The experts expressed, in reducing cancer, physical activity of moderate intensity, such as homework, more effective than higher intensity exercise, but rarely do

Is Menstruation I be Normal?

Regulated menstrual cycle hormones controlled by the hypothalamus, the area at the base of the brain that acts as a regulator of the reproductive system. Physical and mental stress can affect the hypothalamus which results in disruption of the menstrual cycle. Here are some questions you need to know about menstruation of women.
Is it normal if your period is irregular?

Sometimes the menstrual cycle is irregular. Although pregnancy is a major cause of absence of menstruation, but stress, weight drop or rise drastically, excessive exercise and some diseases can also cause delayed menstruation. The normal menstrual cycle is 21-35 days. Bleeding is more frequent than usual or absence of menstruation for three consecutive months should not be taken lightly. Consult a physician.

The coming of menstruation means no pregnancy?
Not always the case. Not a few women who experience bleeding in early pregnancy. If bleeding is accompanied by other signs, such as nausea, fatigue or other signs of pregnancy, immediately check with a pregnancy test.

Does my excessive menstrual blood volume?
Even though it looks a lot, in general, a woman will lose 4-12 teaspoons of menstrual fluid in a single menstrual period. If you use more than 10 pads per day or change pads more than 1-2 hours, most likely you have menorrhagia (excessive menstruation).

How many days a normal period?
Most women menstruate for 3-5 days. However, there also are having periods 2-7 days. When more than that, consult your doctor immediately.
Can pregnancy occur during menstruation?
Could be. Therefore do not have sex during menstruation to prevent pregnancy. Greatest chance of pregnancy occurs during ovulation, and this can happen in between the days of menstruation.

Bagamaimana control the mood swings that occur when an STD?
Try exercising, avoiding foods that contain less salt and caffeine a week before the menstrual period to avoid STDs.

Why appetite up before menstruation?
Until now scientists are still suspected as the cause hormonal changes increase the appetite and the desire to snack (craving). Some women say they are eager to snack ice cream, chocolate, or potato chips

Menstrual blood Fix Heart Condition

Latest Research says, menstrual blood was able to help repair heart damage. Therefore, the lucky women who are always having periods every month.

Researchers observed the menstrual blood from nine women andanalyzed the number of cells that is suppose to function as stem cells.Spontaneously, as much as 20 percent of the cells fused with rat heart cellsand analyzed in the laboratory. In the cells from menstrual blood eventuallyformed such as cardiac muscle tissue.

Cells derived from menstrual blood of the same shape as viewed fromheart muscle tissue. Success rate is 100 times higher than that from 0.2 to 0.3 stem cells derived from bone marrow.

According to cardiologist from Keio University School of MedicineShunichiro Miyoshi, after tests on mice showed a heart condition had improved when he received a cell derived from menstrual blood. '' The possibility of blood in the future can be used as an alternative to his own treatment, "Miyoshi said, as reported by AFP.