Each year thousands of people suffer from seasonal allergy outburst. Usually during spring in a period when some particular plant start to blossom, people have difficulty breathing, wheezing, cough and sneezing. It is a good idea to use a good air purifier for allergies or even several of them in order to minimize symptoms of allergy. If you had last year (last several years) there’s an 80-95% chance that you will suffer this year too, so don’t postpone the preparatory measures. Air purifiers help to clean the air from allergens at home, but you can’t afford staying at home for 2-4 weeks, and your children need to attend classes too. So air purifiers shouldn’t be taken as a cure-all; they should be used as a part of complex of anti allergic procedures.

Should I mention what you need to do first? Visit your physician, of course. Ask him to prepare an anti-allergy plan for you according to your daily schedule. If you smoke, it is very important to stop before the pollen season starts. Then think about correct air purifier distribution in your home. Your bedroom is a key area for air purifier as your respiratory system needs to relax during the night. A good rest will give you strength to make it through the whole day. Use proper air purifier for allergies in kitchen and living room if you spend a lot of time in these areas of the house. Filters should be changed in time and devices shouldn’t be very cheap. They should absorb pollen, chemicals, allergens and all possible stuff flying around in the air.

Here are some important tips you need to know:

• Buy enough quality air purifiers to keep your living area allergens free.
• Change filters as soon as it’s necessary. In any case, use new filters before the start of allergic season.
• Try to stay indoors during the morning (from 5:00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m.). And don’t come out when the weather is windy.
• Try to wear mask when staying outdoors for a long time.
• Take a shower each time you come from the street.

There are hundreds and hundreds of mitral valve replacement and repair operations (in fact, over 250,000) are performed annually. Such diseases and disorders as: insufficiency, stenosis, regurgitation, prolapsem aneurysm and some others may lead to the wearing of the mitral valve and some surgical invasion is necessary to safe the patient’s life.

Today I’d like to tell you about Innovative Non-Invasive Heart Repair as it seems to become very popular next year. This is a videoscopic minimally invasive heart mitral valve repair surgery. It is performed through a small incision on the side of the chest and has a lot of benefits. For instance, it is much easier to recover from such an operation, as the invasion is minimal. You can get back to work much sooner than after a traditional mitral valve operation. Besides, this method saves your health. It’s good from the esthetical point of view too; a small suture on the side of the chest is almost invisible, while a long suture after an incision in the breastbone will stay with you forever.

Traditional mitral valve repairs involve an operating on heart with an open breastbone while with videoscopic minimally invasive mitral valve repair such radical measures are not necessary at all. The procedure is undertaken with the help of robotic techniques and all possible risks are minimized. The risk of infections is lower, too. But it is quite obvious that this type of surgery is rather expensive. But as long as our health is concerned, money worth nothing. Stay healthy and live long.

It’s not a secret that the majority of people of the world is suffering from “vitamin hunger”. And the main reason of this is a simple lack of knowledge about vitamins. And consequently various myths and prejudices concerning vitamins are constantly appearing.

Myth 1: Vitamins – are medical drugs. Vitamins are drugs, that’s why they are sold in drugstores and one shouldn’t take them without doctor’s prescription.

To understand that everything is just the other way round, we should learn what is meant by the notion “medical drug”. Usually it means chemical substances that can’t be found in blood and body of a healthy man. The necessity in taking drugs may appear due to some diseases. Vitamins, on the contrary, are natural components of human body, and they are always present in it. Vitamins are natural parts of enzymes and take part in all important biological processes. Drugs are made for people who are sick, while vitamins are necessary to stay healthy. Sometimes doctors use vitamins as medical drugs, but they are prescribed in higher pharmacological doses. When vitamins are taken in normal doses corresponding to physiological needs they are dietary supplements but not drugs. That’s why vitamins are sold not only in drugstores but also in dietary departments of supermarkets.

Myth 2: Everything artificial is worse than natural. Synthetic vitamins are less efficient than natural ones. As natural substances assimilate better and have some particular energy and activity.

Such ideas are akin to middle age doctrine about active energy of life matter. It’s a scientifically proved fact that substances with identical chemical structure that are produced from different sources have the same activity and the same characteristics. By the way the majority of vitamins are produced from natural components. Vitamin PP, for example is produced from rowan-berry and citrus peel; ascorbic acid is synthesized from natural sugar – glucose; B vitamins are produced in the same way as it happens in nature. So it is an absolute nonsense that synthetic vitamins are assimilated worse than natural vitamins. Sometimes it happens right on the contrary. Vitamins in natural products are in constrained positions and can’t be assimilated by human’s digestion. For instance, synthetic folic acid is assimilated twice better than its natural analog.

Myth 3: Less is better than more. Regular taking of products with vitamins and multivitamin preparations may lead to hypervitaminosis. In its turn, it leads to serious physiological disorders.

There are only two vitamins long taking of which can really lead to hypervitaminosis. But you should consume these vitamins in doses that exceed normal necessity in more than hundred times. It’s rather dangerous to have an excess of vitamin D. It leads to serious disorders in a body: skeleton diseases, rapid growth of calcium concentration in blood and deposition of calcium in kidneys, heart and blood vessels. All other vitamins don’t accumulate in a body. The quantity needed is assimilated by the body and everything unused comes out with urine. Vitamin and vitamin products producers always take the necessary daily vitamin amount into consideration and never add anything superfluous. Vitamin doses are calculated in a way to fill the lack of vitamins but not to lead to hypervitaminosis.

Myth 4: Vitamin allergy. Vitamins and food containing vitamins may cause allergic reactions and they are extremely harmful for small children.

Vitamins are natural substances that take part in metabolism in a body, while allergy is caused by foreign substances that have big molecules. Vitamins have small molecules and can’t lead to allergy when they are taken traditionally through the mouth and digestive system.

Allergic reaction is possible only in the case of vitamin injection. When they get into a blood in big quantities they stick round big proteins of blood and these structures may be taken by organism as alien causing allergic reaction.

Vitamins are necessary for small children: the lack of vitamins may slow down the child’s growth and mental development. Children that suffer from avitaminosis have metabolism disorders and weak immunity. That’s why food for infants is always enriched with vitamins. Vitamins are absolutely necessry for adults too in order to stay healthy and beautiful.

Almost every person in the modern world has a credit card and the Internet at home (or at work), so it is very easy for him to order any kind of medication. The drug can be in you mailbox just in several days. No need to go anywhere, it is possible to get a prescription online too. It is very convenient for a customer but it can be rather dangerous, too.

It is very important to be examined with your physician before starting the drug course. Some online drug stores assure there customers that this procedure is not necessary. They offer online and phone consultations for additional fee. Online drug shops from abroad don’t need to follow even these steps in order to send you the drug, even the one that forms addiction. It is necessary to know that it is against the law to buy any drugs from online pharmacies from abroad.

There several lists of trustworthy online drug shops, such as the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) and pharmacychecker.com. If a pharmacy is in these lists, you may be sure that it is a good and trusted one. But even in this case physician consultation is obligatory. Visit your physician; don’t use services of doctors that charge you extra money to write down any kind of prescription. It will not bring any benefit to your health. For instance, one American doctor was writing down approx. 450 prescriptions a day and earned more than $150k. in a month. It’s quite clear that you can’t trust such a “specialist”.

Here are few tips for you to avoid problems with online pharmacies:

• Purchase drugs from licensed pharmacies only!
• Consult your physician or another professional health care specialist before starting the course of new drugs.
• Check for a valid street address and phone number while ordering a medication online.
• Check that the drug you’ve received is the same as you had been being prescribed. It should be of the same shape, color and dosage.
• Check the label of the drug in order to make sure that the medication is not expired.