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Chronic wounds often require that more than one agent be used to treat the wound, depending on the stage of wound healing. You might often hear the term “bacterial load” to denote the amount of bacteria present in and on a wound. Bacterial load can have a deleterious effect on wound healing. All chronic wounds are believed to be contaminated to some degree with bacteria.

Depending on the amount of bacteria present, wounds may be classified as:

Contaminated Colonized Critically colonized Infected

The first two categories, contamination and colonization, are not treated routinely with antibiotics. Wounds that are critically colonized should be treated, or they may progress to the infected stage. Wounds in the infected stage usually show all the classic signs and symptoms of infection; that is, erythema, edema, increased odour and pain, a rise in white blood cell count and a rise in temperature.

Arthritis pain is nothing to joke about. It makes for miserable lives. While checking into natural remedies, I came across how to relieve arthritis pain with honey and cinnamon. I know it sounds a bit weird – but who cares if it works!

There are a couple of ways to take the honey and cinnamon – as a daily drink or as a tincture to put on painful and swollen joints.

For the drink: For your health, the best quality organic honey would be preferable as well as good quality cinnamon. It seems though there are many ‘recipes’ out there, so there seems to be no need to obsess about exact measurements. One cup of hot water with two spoons of honey in it and one small teaspoon of cinnamon. This can be taken once or twice during the day (i.e. in the morning and before bed). If this is too sweet, then reduce the honey to one teaspoon. Similarly if the cinnamon taste is too hard to take, then reduce it to half a teaspoon. It seems only important that honey and cinnamon are present in the mix. It really depends on what works for you.
For the tincture: Mix one part honey to two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder until it forms a paste. Massage this paste onto the itching/painful part of your body in a slow circular motion. Many people have found that their pain gets noticeably less within a matter of minutes.

Considering that there are a large number of people being helped every day by taking this concoction of honey and cinnamon to relieve their arthritis pain, I would imagine it’s definitely worth a try. If it doesn’t work right away (although many people do report an immediate effect), please try it out for a minimum of four weeks. There really is nothing to lose and everything to gain!

It seems that this combination is also helpful for the common cold, coughs and sinus infections, hair loss, bladder infections, stomach aches, high cholesterol and even toothache (where you put the tincture made with honey and cinnamon without any water on the aching tooth up to three times a day. This mixture taken daily also strengthens our immune system, protecting the body from harmful bacteria and viral attacks. Honey itself has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.

To summarize this is definitely something to include in your family’s medicine cabinet – even though honey and cinnamon reside in the kitchen!

Every woman at one point during her life will experience menopause – the permanent cessation of her menstrual cycle. It is at this point that the woman’s reproductive life comes to an end and a new chapter begins. But the experience of menopause – sometimes occurring over the course of several years – can be fraught with uncomfortable symptoms. Luckily, in today’s world there is the availability of menopause treatment to help ease the symptoms.

Menopause can happen in one of two ways -naturally or medically. When it occurs naturally, the ovaries gradually slow their production of eggs that were necessary for reproduction. When egg production eventually ceases altogether, the production of estrogen also ceases. While natural menopause happens gradually, medically-induced menopause occurs after a radical surgery that requires the removal of the ovaries. In either instance, the elimination of estrogen causes a host of symptoms. When a woman has a particularly difficult time managing menopause symptoms they look for menopause treatment to bring relief.

Some of the more common side effects of menopause include hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, loss of sexual desire, vaginal dryness, memory loss, distractibility, forgetfulness, irritation, melancholy, and mood swings. While many symptoms are of a physical nature, there are just as many of an emotional nature. Menopause can bring about a host of emotions regarding this significant change of life.

It must be said, however, that not every woman experiences every symptom of menopause. And when symptoms are experienced, the length of time, frequency, and severity with which they are experienced varies woman to woman. Many women may find that menopause treatment is unnecessary as they are hardly bothered at all by symptoms. Other, who experience ongoing or severe symptoms, will seek out natural menopause treatment. Researchers have confirmed that the adoption of a healthy lifestyle goes a long way to minimizing the effects of menopause; this includes a diet of whole, natural foods, a program of consistent exercise, adequate sleep, and healthy means of stress management. Many women find that this is the best menopause treatment of all – helping them to manage – and sometimes eliminate – the symptoms of menopause.

Other women, however, may continue to struggle with the symptoms of menopause. When it comes to point when symptoms are interfering with daily activities, many women choose to see a doctor who can intervene with the use of particular hormone therapies. Hormone therapy, however, should be a last resort as a menopause treatment, as the long term side effects of such pharmaceuticals continue to be debated.

Our body consists of several good and bad bacteria. The good or helpful bacterium supports smooth functioning of body parts. Some bacteria help in the digestive process, while some acts as antibodies against the diseases. You can also find bacterium that attacks body cells and spread infectious diseases.

E-coli (Escherichia coli) are bacterium that resides in the intestine and spreads infections like UTI. This bacterium is found in food items like beef and vegetables. It lives inside the intestine and helps in breaking down food particles in the intestine. Sometimes, it enters the bloodstreams and spread diseases like stomach pain, belly pain, vomiting, diarrhea etc.

The bacterium has thread like structure known as Pili. It is responsible for the adhering properties of the bacteria during UTI. Once, the bacterium enters the urinary tract, it sticks to the bladder lining and leads to inflammation of bladder walls. Hence, the patient faces several urinary secretion problems. This includes frequent and urgent urine flow, pain in abdomen, blood or pus in urine etc.

The UTI infection occurs in lower or upper urinary system. The initial stage includes attack of e-coli on the urethra or urinary bladder. This stage is controllable and cured with help of antibiotic medicines. However, the extreme case occurs when the bacterium enters the kidneys and lead to kidney scarring or damage. Any kind of neglect at this stage becomes life threatening.

Thus, the only option for you is to kill the bacterium or detach it from the urinary part. Antibiotic medicines kill the bacterium completely and flush it from the body. However, natural remedies like D-mannose and cranberry, detach the UTI related bacterium from the urinary organ. This provides relief from the painful symptoms and resumes normal functioning of urinary tract.

Use condoms for safe sex, this is the buzz we hear every now and then but do we really know whether the condom we use is safe or not. Small amounts of Potent Carcinogen (a cancerous substance) are released whenever condoms are used. We have little or no idea if this may be serious moreover; it is not a healthy practice to expose the reproductive organs to such cancer causing substances regularly. Itching sensation in the organs, skin infection, blotches, pain in the genital (due to dryness of condom) is some of the frequent complaint people have during its usage. There are quite a large numbers of people who are allergic to condom latex. If you are fortunate enough, the mild allergic reactions can be treated at home while in some cases it may be severe and life-threatening.

Risk factor with condoms
The quality control assurance i.e. the condom is likely to break or leak does not primarily ensure that the condom is free from harmful substances and chemicals. As a matter of fact, no one knows what risks one may face due to prolong use of condoms. It has only been in the last few years, the condom use has increased due to the fear of sexually transmitted diseases. Talc is a substance used in the manufacture of latex goods which acts as a lubricant as well as release the product from the mold used at the time of manufacturing. However, talc as a lubricating substance is harmful for the body tissues. The regular use of such condom with talc as a lubricating agent blocks the fallopian tube in turn. Although some condom manufacturers still use talc as a dry lubricant, others use dry lubricants such as silicone and cornstarch.

Dermatitis (skin allergy) in both men and women is increasingly growing problem due to use of latex condom. Nonetheless, in case of men dermatitis is rather easy to detect and diagnose but somehow in women the treatment can be more difficult. Some of the side effects of latex condoms in women are increased vaginal discharge, a burning sensation in the vagina, and itching in the vulva. Also the symptom is not easily detectable by any laboratory investigations.

Other harmful side effects of Condoms

• A few men lose their erection after putting on a condom.
• There is no direct contact between the penis and the vagina.
• The woman may miss the delight of warm fluid entering her body (important to some women, not to others).
• Friction caused due to condom may reduce clitoral stimulation and loss of lubrication during intercourse may lessen the pleasure and makes it uncomfortable.
• Intercourse may be less pleasing since the man must withdraw his penis immediately after ejaculation.

Prevention
Condoms are available in different sizes, variety of textures and are generally supplied with a lubricant coating to facilitate better penetration and also provide better stimulation to the partner. Apart from harmful latex there are other material used to make condom like natural rubber, polyurethane, and lambskin. Polyurethane condoms are odorless and are preferred by those who are allergic to latex and those who have a special inclination for oral sex. There are a few non rubber and non latex condoms available in the market.

Non rubber condoms such as Fourex Natural Lamb Skins (Schmidt, Sarasota, Florida) and Trojan Natural Lamb Skins are made of processed sheep intestine (caecum) are considered safe. However, they may contain a few lubricants that include perfume, preservative (Bronopol) and propylene glycol, which may cause allergic reactions in some individuals. These non rubber condoms can prevent transmission of sperm, but the FDA has ruled that they may be ineffective in preventing transmission of HIV.

It is usually advisable to consult a medical expert or a doctor before using any of the contraceptive methods available in the market.

Several years ago I was diagnosed with lupus. I could barely get out of bed or walk, had a hard time holding a glass of juice due to joint pain, suffered from all over body muscle aches, endured a constant low grade fever, and itched uncontrollably on my arms with skin rash. I new my life, as I new it, was over. I was petrified.

On my first (and last) visit to the rheumatologist I asked what I could do to support my health or to avoid a worsening my lupus symptoms. She casually responded ‘Come back when you’re worse and I’ll put you on steroids’. Straining to get some kind of supportive information I mustered up a question about diet and if there were foods I should eat or avoid. Her response was, ‘continue to eat whatever you want, it won’t make a difference’.

After one more attempt at getting something useful to work with to help myself, I realized I was on my own dealing with lupus. In an internal fit of rage toward her cold, aloof attitude I decided right then and there that I would heal my lupus, (with the added bonus to never endure the presence of that ‘specialist’ again). I did. I don’t have lupus anymore.

As someone who has healed Lupus, I often get asked about the importance of diet. Many people tell me that their doctor also told them diet doesn’t matter. To that I ask you to consider ‘does what you eat matter even when you are healthy’? Of course it does, and it’s far more important when you’re suffering from ill health!!

In fact, diet matters so much that there are many testimonies of others who have completely healed from a lupus diet alone. Other common serious issues diet has been responsible for reversing also include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, M.S., migraines, allergies and asthma to name just a few.

Your diet is a powerful foundation for you to work from to support your health, reduce inflammation and pain, and provide your body with what it needs to begin to heal. (For more information on my story, and other modalities of healing such as supplements and energy medicine in addition to an essential lupus diet, please visit my site listed below).

Below are the top 7 lupus diet do’s and lupus diet don’ts you need to know to support your healing.

The 7 Top Lupus Diet Don’ts

Do not drink alcohol, pop (a.k.a. soda for those in the U.S.!), energy drinks, or other ‘acidic’ non-healthy drinks, including treated or public drinking water facilities. Do not eat processed foods, or foods with unhealthy preservatives such as MSG (which include most foods in the centre isles of big box food chains). Do not eat red meat. A little fish such as salmon is great, and chicken. For some even these may trigger flares, so be cognisant of how it makes you feel. Avoid fatty foods, (such as mono saturated fats, trans-fats, saturated fats, and some polyunsaturated omega 6 fats) found in commonly baked, fried and junk foods. Avoid the 4 white foods, including salt, sugar, white flour (refined carbohydrates and starches) and dairy. Avoid spicy foods. Spices are known to trigger flares. Avoid artificial sweeteners. These are toxic and by many believe it to even induce disease (I agree). There is no viable reason to use this product and they do not help you lose weight.
The 7 Top Lupus Diet Do’s

Eat a diet that mostly consists of simple, natural whole foods such as fruits and vegetables in its raw form. Eat easy to digest foods, such as soaked almonds, soups, fruit/veggie smoothies, and salads based on natural, raw ingredients. Be sure to drink at least 8 glasses of water throughout the day. This supports the elimination of toxic build up in the body, and a faulty digestive process common with lupus sufferers. Support your body by supplementing with digestive enzymes and probiotics. Most lupus patients are not absorbing their food and nutrients properly and need extra enzymes to support the healing process. You must consume enough essential fatty acid (EFA’s), or supplement with it. This will support you in reducing inflammation and therefore reducing pain and avoiding flares. Avoid foods that cause food sensitivities or allergies. You must be tested for this in order to be sure of your bodies specific needs. Some tests do not indicate food sensitivities (such as to sugar, salt, etc.), so keep a journal of your body’s reactions to foods. Eat a varied diet, rich with alkaline, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory foods. Always clean your food well, (including organic foods).

The above lists are the foundational principles your diet for lupus must follow. There are many, many other specifics of a lupus diet and nutrition that can and will support your body’s homeostasis and the healing process.

As you’ve possibly experienced, your doctor is not going to provide you with a healing regime so you must find your way to learning how to work with your body in a healing crisis. There are many, many answers that will support you in reducing your lupus symptoms, even reversing them altogether. Your diet for lupus should be the first line of defense.

Some of the benefits you will soon experience from a lupus diet include:

Reduced inflammation, pain and swelling Decreased muscle pain, tissue damage and strain on organs Significantly increased energy and stamina Increased mobility Reduced body fat Relief of constipation, bloating and irregularities Improved memory and cognitive functioning

… To name just a few!

There is no question what we eat affects how we feel physically, emotionally and spiritually, and how well our immune system functions in order to help us heal. Support yourself with highly nourishing foods that work with your body and immune system, not against it. A car can run on dirty oil only so long before it burns out. Don’t let that happen to your body.

The body is better able to heal itself when you eat foods that support the immune system and the healing process, and avoid food that interferes with it.

Remember, healing lupus is possible. Learn how to implement the appropriate diet for lupus, supplements, and other natural modalities that will support the healing process by visiting my site listed below.