Showing posts with label harm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harm. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Quit Smoking with Herbal products


Approximately 4000 chemical substances have been identified in cigarette smoke, about 400 of them are harmful to the human body, more than 40 of them may cause cancers.

Herbal therapies to quit smoking are not restricted with herbal smoking or herbal drugs or gadgets.
There is another important therapy namely herbal tea. Herbal tea works differently when compared with other therapies. Herbal tea gradually reduces your urge for smoking and at one point of time makes you feel that cigarettes are not worth it.

Herbal tea consists of lot of natural substance that keeps you fresh and strengthens your nerves. They also fight against the harmful elements injected into the body as a result of cigarette smoking.

Besides they also remove the poisonous chemicals deposited in the body through smoking. This also helps you to overcome respiratory problems caused by smoking. It is very easy to convince smokers to consume herbal teas because by and large any smoker has the habit of taking tea.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

X rays during early pregnancy ??


X-rays can harm an unborn baby.

If a baby receives more than 5,000 millirads of radiation from x-rays before birth, the baby might have birth defects.

The x-rays might cause leukemia.

Most x-rays give much smaller doses of radiation than this.

For example, during an x-ray of the legs, only 1 millirad is absorbed.

Although only a small amount of radiation may be absorbed, x-rays should be avoided, especially in early pregnancy.
This is why x-ray technologists may ask when you had your last menstrual period before taking an x-ray.

X-ray studies are done during pregnancy only in urgent cases.

For example, you may have an x-ray if you have a broken bone, to check for pneumonia, or to look for kidney stones.

When taking an x-ray, the technologist should put a lead apron over you to protect the baby.


However, this may not be possible if the apron will interfere with the necessary views (for example, x-rays of the chest).

Ultrasound machines do not use radiation. Often an ultrasound scan can be done instead of an x-ray.