BfR warns of danger of carbon monoxide poisoning

As part of the statutory disclosure requirement for poisoning the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) reported eight fatal runny poisonings with carbon monoxide. In all cases, charcoal grills were improperly and probably operated for heating indoors. "Obviously, white part of the population is not as dangerous open fires in the interior are", said BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel. "The charcoal grill is for a cozy evening in the open air. It is good no way for the preparation of food to be grilled in the interior, or even as a heater. Even the use of residual heat in the interior after grilling can cause life-threatening poisoning."

Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion of carbon-containing material. Lack of air circulation in the interior increases the concentration of the toxic gas. Open windows or doors are not secure. Since when grilling with charcoal grills indoors the combustion gases are not derived directly from Fireplace systems, there is a risk of severe poisoning, because the gas in space spread unnoticed. Carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless and non-irritating. Therefore, it does not trigger a warning effect in humans. The gas is lighter than air and can easily accumulate oxygen displacement in the area. Rasch and unnoticed it is absorbed through the lungs.

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The term "sleep comfort" is on everyone's lips when it comes to praise the quality of bedding. Mostly, however, there is a lack of objective and comparable information which will enable the sale consultants to give customers towards an informed and related to the individual needs recommendation. What does sleeping comfort?

At night, when a person is asleep, it is particularly important that the physiological processes are supported in the body. The focus is on the temperature balance of the human body in relation to the ambient temperature and the "heat and moisture management" within the "sleeping den". The sleeping comfort of bedding thus defines their ability to ensure a comfortable temperature on the body during sleep and derive the emitted by human sweat quickly and effectively. A high sleep comfort of bedding is the prerequisite for a pleasant and restful sleep.

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Outside, the temperatures rise again on 30 degree and more. Every movement is too much. Shirt or blouse will stick. And then they come: the headache. Each time a bit different: throbbing, pressing, stabbing. Many push the pain quickly on weather. Because what is in the air, a storm is brewing, the levels of ozone. This summer headaches occur often, because we drink too little. Although we cover according to National Nutrition Survey II on average our daily fluid needs quite well. But there are always "drinking gaps", which are especially noticeable in the summer quickly.

The British neurologist Dr. Joseph N. Blue, headache and migraine physician and co-founder of the City of London Migraine Clinic, already 2004 found that lack of water is often a trigger for headaches. The simple recommendation of blue and the forum drinking water is: "Drink one half to one liter of fresh drinking water, when the headache is coming." Anytime and anywhere in Germany in a consistently high quality, the drinking water is an ideal and cost-effective thirst quencher.

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Nocturnal oxygen deprivation during sleep apnea syndrome is associated with increased risk of erectile dysfunction

In one of the largest and most elaborate studies on this topic Regensburg and Munich doctors and scientists have the relationship between sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction examined more closely. To this end have been subjected over 400 patients with suspected sleep apnea syndrome a detailed sleep medicine diagnostics (polysomnography) and evaluated in parallel, the occurrence of erectile and sexual dysfunction.

The results suggest that the sleep apnea syndrome, especially the nightly lack of oxygen, much stronger than previously thought contributes to the emergence of erectile dysfunction. At the same time, however, this observation raises the hope that can be reduced even in the presence of other serious comorbidities by the treatment of nocturnal breathing pauses, for example, via mask, sexual dysfunction. This hypothesis want to check in further studies, the doctors now.

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In an unprecedented study, researchers from the University of Sydney have found evidence that some types of honey in the treatment of superficial wounds and infections are more effective than antibiotics.

Antibiotics generally act only against certain bacteria. Most bacteria that cause infections in hospitals, are still to at least one antibiotic resistant. However, the honey used in the study appeared to all gesture steady pathogens, including multidrug-resistant bacteria. What is particularly critical, the bacteria did not fit per se and did not develop resistance to the honey, as is the case with antibiotics.

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GP warns endanger heatwaves health

Scientists warn that climate change one of the major health threats in 21. represents century. Summer heat waves over 40 degrees in the shade burden the human organism and can lead to serious problems such as dizziness, cardiac arrhythmias, and circulatory collapse, even lead in some cases to stroke. "A major risk is dehydration, because in the heat of the body large amounts of fluid and important minerals loses," says Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Hartmann senior physician at the neurological / neurosurgical rehabilitation clinic REHA NOVA Cologne. To compensate for the fluid intake, drinking enough is a must. Hartmann recommends as optimal thirst quencher natural mineral water: "It not only brings the liquid into balance but provides the body with additional valuable minerals."

Even under normal conditions keeps the German Nutrition Society (DGE) 1,5 2 liter to liters of fluid intake per day is appropriate. In hot weather, the water intake should clearly go beyond. Hartmann points out that bottled water is the right drink straight over high heat. "It contains no calories, so it can be drunk safely in large quantities at high temperatures. Particularly suitable are mainly mineral water with high content of sodium and magnesium, as the body, these minerals lost through sweat in particularly great concentration."

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German Stroke Society warns: Compression stockings do not protect against thrombosis after stroke

The usual practice in hospitals to protect patients confined to bed by compression stumps against thrombosis and life-threatening pulmonary embolism, not met in stroke patients their purpose. This is the conclusion arrived a larger study. Therefore, the German Stroke Society (DSG) calls for turning this knowledge into clinical practice.

"Thromboses are a feared complication after severe strokes," says Professor Dr. med. Martin Grond, chief doctor at the Hospital wins and 2. Chairman of the DSG. "The bedridden patients are especially at risk, because the blood flow is slowed in the veins," said Grond on. In hemiplegia this is primarily caused by the failure of the "muscle pump": It is missing the movements of the leg muscles, typically support the transport of the blood in the veins. If the blood flows too slowly, clots can form and relocate the vein. It comes to thrombosis. Parts of the clot can then be washed away into the lungs where they cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.

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Psychology Professor at TUD published in the medical journal The Lancet

One of the world is caused by 25 deaths due to alcohol consumption, just five percent of all illnesses. The disease burden increases inevitably with the average amount of alcohol consumed.

This emerges from a global study a team of scientists led by Professor Jürgen Rehm, who teaches at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the TU Dresden and at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and researches. The study results are published in the current edition LANCET and open up a whole series of articles on the subject of alcohol.

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No difference in healing and pain after surgery / complications equal except SSI / Heidelberg researchers publish in "Annals of Surgery"

An unusual study at the Heidelberg University Surgical Clinic examined for the first time whether the incision during a major abdominal operation had any effect on the results. Neither the doctor nor the patient knew how the incision was made. The study on 200 patients showed that the sensation of pain and the healing process are independent of how the abdominal cavity was opened. Complications also occurred with the same frequency, apart from wound infections, which were possibly more frequent due to blood flow problems at the transverse incision. The Heidelberg surgeon therefore recommends that the surgeon should decide on the incision individually depending on the clinical picture. Incision not yet scientifically investigated

Surgical procedures in the abdominal cavity are now often minimally invasive, ie using the "keyhole surgery" performed. For larger operations, but the belly has to be opened with a long section remains. "Whether this cut transversely or longitudinally performed depends primarily on the preference of the surgeon and has hitherto never been studied scientifically," says Professor Markus W. Büchler, Managing Director of the Surgical University Hospital in Heidelberg.

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Treatment of migraine and headache should be targeted by gender

Women have different explanations for their headaches than men. This was the result of a large internet-based survey of over 6.500 migraine patients, which was carried out by the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG), the German section of the International Headache Society and in collaboration with MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme). She dealt with the question of what triggers headache, here migraine attacks. For this purpose, the patients were asked to make a selection from a series of answers; multiple answers were possible.

To catalog included, among other issues to triggers such as weather changes, daily stress, hormonal reasons, family history, and several others. "Women gave on average more different triggers for their headaches than men," said Prof. Dr. Andreas Straube of the DMKG, who supervised the study. The surveyed women said 5.800 mainly stress (92,3%) (in men it was 87%) as a cause of and changes in the cervical spine (women 57,3% and men 50,8%) and hormonal factors. Men (approximately 800 were surveyed), however, saw a connection with earlier suffered craniocerebral injuries more often than relevant trigger on (Men 7,1%, women 3,9%).

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DEGUM recommends Sonography

Ultrasound examination of the female breast improved for women with dense tissue, the early detection of breast cancer. In a breast sonography such is the recognition rate, the studies show up to 88 percent. The cancer detection rate in the radiographic contrast mammography is 56 percent. Ultrasound examination of the female breast by the gynecologist must remain part of the breast cancer detection, experts are calling for the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine

between 50 and 69 years women have today as part of a health screening entitled to a chest radiography. "The breast sonography is to be regarded as still the same and unsubordinated method to mammography," says Professor Dr. med. Eberhard Merz, Frankfurt, by the Board of DEGUM. Undoubtedly mammography screening constitutes a major advance in the early diagnosis of breast cancer, as the gynecologist. "However, it must not create the impression that solving the X-ray examination alone the problem of breast cancer screening," Merz adds.

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