Natural, Herbal and Traditional Contraception in Indonesia

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The tendency of people looking for natural products or non-chemical currently making herbal products and traditional choice is no exception for the purpose of contraception. For centuries, traditional herbal ingredients and a mainstay for preventing and delaying pregnancy.

Actually, how the contraceptive effectiveness of herbal / traditional can be scientifically justified today? Many researchers have conducted research on anti-fertility substances of this nature and so far several studies have shown encouraging results and promising. So far only China and India are doing a lot of research about this herbal contraceptive reliability. In Indonesia alone the use of herbs or medicinal plants as contraceptives has long been known to the public in some areas.

When will use herbs and traditional contraceptives, you should consider how much risk is your current pregnancy? This means that if the current couples for any reason and in any condition really do not want the pregnancy, the contraceptive use of herbal / traditional is not the best choice. Why? Since contraception is more intended as an experimental contraceptive or contraceptive trials, which do not yet have sufficient scientific evidence such as modern contraceptives available today. Precisely best herbal contraception / contraceptive traditionally used as a backup only.

If you are aged under 20 years of contraceptive herbal / traditional is not a wise choice because:
1. Does not protect couples from sexual disease transmission.
2. This contraceptive method has not proven to be absolute and measurable.
3. Some herbal products contain hormones and compounds that can affect the endocrine system work (without a channel control system of the body glands release the hormone) is young and still growing.

M Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari in 1997 in the Mirror World Medicine magazine once wrote that no fewer than 74 types of plants that are empirically used as a traditional contraceptive in several regions in Indonesia. Based on the results of the study recorded 18 plants collected may be used as a female contraceptive and 13 plants for male contraception.

Furthermore Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari explained that the use of contraceptives from plants to consider the nature of damage or effects on the reproductive system in both men or women, should be used in plants that affect the reproductive system that is temporary (reversible), ie when the drug is not used anymore, reproductive system is normal again, so it does not happen sterility.

So that it can be concluded that if the voluntary and conscious couples with contraceptive use herbal / traditional as the primary means of contraception choices they have volunteered to do the experiment yourself with the risks of pregnancy, as many contraceptive herbal / traditional is VERY dependent on the correct treatment and times of use appropriate.
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Baby Hiccups

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Infants/Baby and hiccups are one thing. Hiccups are basically not a bad for baby, it's just that often make parents worried. Hiccups are a normal thing, no need to worry about and usually goes away by itself. Very rarely do baby hiccups also be a sign or symptom of a serious illness.

Hiccups occur when the diaphragm, the muscle at the base of the lungs spasm (contraction of the diaphragm muscle that occur suddenly). Spasm that causes the vocal cords to close quickly so that the air is about to go into the lungs are blocked, and there came a loud voice, hiccups.

For parents who have children for the first time most concerned if their babies aged 0-3 months who are still hiccups, but hiccups in babies, especially after drinking milk or milk bottles actual banality and experienced by almost all infants.

According to Prof. Mark Widome, MD, an expert in child health at Penn State Children's Hospital, hiccups sometimes expected and a sign that your baby has been fed and the meal perfectly.

Check the baby's pacifier drink. Baby may swallow too much air and hiccup if the hole is not exactly the pacifier. Massage the back of the palate with a cotton wool soaked in water. Move the cotton was to the front and back for 1 minute or more.
There was no medicine to overcome the hiccups, but usually to deal with hiccups baby while nursing, you can lay her, and bend both legs down to the stomach. Give him warm water can also help. It is much easier when using the dot, because pacifiers will open the pharyngeal or other tenggorokan.Cara to fix this, parents also can help the baby to burp, or pat baby's back so happens burp
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Marking Fertile Window

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For couples who want to become pregnant, fertile period is very important. Every month, a healthy couple will have 20 percent possibility to become pregnant. And the important issue is that the fertile corridor that allows the fertilization of egg by sperm, once separated from the ovary (ovulation) and stay in the uterus is only about 12 to 24 hours. While sperm can live longer between three to six days. This means that even if couples have sex a few days before ovulation occurs, the sperm will remain alive and ready for fertilization when the egg comes. Ideally intercourse is performed when ovulation occurs. After ovulation occurs, then the window of fertility will soon be closed until the next cycle. This is why knowing when the fertile time it becomes very important.

1. Mark the calendar: In general, ovulation can be estimated at half of the menstrual cycle. The average menstrual cycle is 28 days (from the first day of menstruation until the day following the first menstruation). But the cycle length varies between 23 to 35 days. By keeping records on a calendar the first day of menstruation for several months, then it can be estimated at once when the ovulation cycle stops and signs already visible will be able to contain the estimated age of pregnancy. If cycles occur irregularly, it should be cautious and consult a doctor.

2. Observe and listen to the rhythm of the body: If you are including women in 20 percent of those, it usually will give a signal when the body where ovulation occurs, such as the occurrence of pain or soreness in the lower abdomen (usually occurs on one side - the side where ovulation).

3. Temperature graph: Basal Body Temperature, taken with a special thermometer (basal body thermometer) conducted in the morning when woman wake up, or three to five hours before sleep. Changes in basal body temperature shows fluctuations of hormone levels. During the first half of the cycle coming months, will be dominated by the presence of the estrogen hormone. While the second half (after ovulation) there was an increase of progesterone. Progesterone increases body temperature and uterus in fertile conditions for the egg patch. Still confused? The explanation is when the basal temperature will reach its lowest point during ovulation and increased dramatically immediately after ovulation. Graphs that you create will not allow you to read the prediction if only made one month, but continues to do after a few months time to predict when the lowest temperature occurred.

4. Identify cervix: Ovulation is not a process that could not be detected. Body of woman will usually feel a change hormone levels that indicate that the egg is released from the ovary to be ready to be fertilized. One of the approaches and detection can be done is to position the cervix itself. At the beginning of the cycle, the neck (the area between the vagina and uterus) will be stretched and softened like a birth process will happen that will give the opportunity for sperm to travel toward their target is the egg. Some women may feel this clearly, while some others have noticed these changes more thoroughly. Other signs include a change in consistency of cervical mucus of the cervix (usually making clothes in the sticky).

5. Ovulation Prediction Tool: If you do not want to mess around with mucus, look at the body or other symptoms, there is nothing wrong with using ovulation predictors. This tool can be purchased and used to determine when ovulation occurs in 12 to 24 hours in advance by looking at levels of lutenizing hormone (LH). The increase in LH levels are high just before ovulation can be used as an indicator to determine the days before ovulation occurs. LH levels can be detected through blood and urine. LH levels in the blood can be checked through lab tests, whereas LH levels in urine can be checked through a fertility test kits in the form of strips.

So no matter the device or method you choose, the important key is patience and persistence. Whatever makes you comfortable and your spouse do earnestly without feeling burdened pregnancy targets.
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Fight Cancer, Donate Your Unused Car Now

Cancer is set to overtake cardiovascular disease to become the leading cause of death worldwide by 2010, according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO).Cancer also remains the number one disease killer for children. On the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year. On the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.

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Carsfightingcancer accepts all types of cars in all conditions even a motorcycle. And for each donor will get a chance to get Apple Ipod Shuffle or a $ 30 Visa Gift Card. Donors will also be given a lot of convenience when performing vehicle donation, free towing and 100% tax deductible.

This is a better way to help us fight cancer, eligible to do by everyone throughout the country in 50 states, online in easy process. You can call 1.888.950.CURE (2873) or email info@CarsFightingCancer.org. Your car donation will effectively received after 10-15 days.

Your car might be useless for you but useful for us. By donating your car, you have saved ones life and that maybe your relatives. Donate car now and join the fight, and help us find a cure for cancer today.


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"Breast engorgement", Advantages and Disadvantages

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Abundant milk production was the hope of many breastfeeding mothers. But mothers know that the abundant milk production must be balanced with the habit of feeding the baby more often. If the mother does not work then it is not a problem, but what if the mother is an employee or a worker who must return to work after the expiry of maternity leave? This is what mothers need to know.

Breast engorgement is a condition in which postpartum breast feels very full by the ASI, tense and painful. The cause is an imbalance between milk supply and baby's needs. This condition generally occurs when the mother suddenly stopped giving her milk before their time.

Engorgement can occur:
• When you first ran in breast milk, during the first few days after birth.
• When mothers breastfeeding normal and routine, but it can not pump their milk according to milk production.
• When the mother and the baby suddenly stopped breast-feeding and breast milk consumption.
• When babies begin to reduce the breast, usually occurs when babies start eating solid food enhancement, or when the baby's illness is marked by decreasing the desire / passion to feed.

Begins producing breast milk after two to five days after giving birth. At that time your breasts will feel warm and heavy. Some mothers feel the swelling and discomfort because of it.

Breast milk is filled with excessive swelling and pain will be felt, it can stimulate the occurrence of acute engorgement, it is usually because:
• Waiting too long to nurse a newborn baby (without early initiation).
• Mother does not want to breastfeed, although the production of enough milk.
• Breastfeeding a bit so as not to evacuate and drain the breast of milk.

This acute engorgement will cause the baby to suck hard on mothers and suckle properly, so that:
• Babies do not consume enough milk.
• Breast is not quite empty and depleted.
• Putting the pain will be felt because of the broken. This is because the baby tries to suck the breast that is fully charged. If you then reduce breast-feeding mothers, the lessons will be re-inflamed and engorgement will deteriorate.

Symptom

This occurs when engorgement breast milk when breastfeeding or pumping out is not as much production is going so full of breast milk. Mothers who experience this will feel:
• Breast feels enlarged, tense and sore. When acute engorgement, the breasts will be swollen, hard, look shiny, warm and supple to the touch.
• Mom will feel the lessons were flattened, and the area around the nipple will seem darker, called the areola and very hard.
• Babies will be difficult to find the nipple, and when I found the baby will be working hard to suck the breast so the nipple can be injured due to the baby business.
• Low maternal fever (body temperature around 37.8 degrees Celsius). If body temperature continues to rise immediately to a doctor.
• Lymph nodes around the armpit to swell the mother and the sick.

Complications and consequences

Without treatment, acute engorgement will cause blockage of channels in the breast milk and cause infection of the breast known as mastitis (breast inflammation).

Care and Treatment

Swelling of the breast is no need to worry excessively and mother can treat and conduct their own treatment at home unless a symptom of infection or mastitis, which may require the mother to consume antibiotics.

These steps can be taken to treat their own mothers to reduce swelling include:
• If the nursing mother, treatment is focused on improving the flow of breast milk with more frequent feeding. Make sure baby is nursing properly and fairly. Usually with this step within 12 to 24 hours later the discomfort is felt will disappear.
• If the mothers do not breastfeed, breast enlargement will cause the breasts to stop producing milk. This discomfort usually disappears after the first variable to 5 days.

Prevention

If the mother plans to breastfeed the baby, then:
• Begin feeding the baby as soon as possible after birth and continue onwards with more often, every 1 to 2 hours while the mother was awake.
• Breastfeeding every one to two hours on the first few days this will reduce the likelihood of engorgemen.
• Make sure the breast soft enough so the baby can breastfeed correctly. If the production of extra milk, so breastfeeding mothers should be pumping out up to breast feels empty after each feeding.
• Try to breastfeed your baby no less than 15 minutes each time breastfeeding, although this may change over time of infant growth.
When the baby is already full or reduced desire to feed, then:
• If the milk production remains high, wipe or guyur breasts with warm water with a shower. Let the warm water flowed across the surface of the breast that would accelerate softening the nipple and breast milk will come out with its own excess.
• If milk flow does not feel perfect, a towel soaked in warm water can be used to mebungkus breasts before breast-feeding mothers. Stimulation of warm milk will help the flow is maintained.
• If the mother works and the difficulty to breastfeeding mothers on a regular basis so make sure to regularly manually pumping breast milk at least every three to four hours.
If engorgement had occurred and the mother still wants to breastfeed, then:
• soften the nipple and areola before breast-feeding to prevent luga start of the nipple.
• If the milk exiting the overflow by itself, it first compresses the breast with warm water before feeding.
• Breast Pump in soft tissues and membranes that contained in the breast does not hurt. Make sure the breasts sucked and drained after each feeding and the mother can save them in the refrigerator.
• To prevent swelling, tense, hard and pain caused by the mother can do:

• Taking anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuproven, certainly with a doctor's prescription.
• cold compresses every 15 minutes to prevent tissue damage in the breast. Cold compresses should not put ice directly on the breast that would be harmful to tissue in the breast.
• The mother may try to use sheets to cover the breast cabbage in her bra and replace every two hours. This mode can be quite helpful, only this way could allow the production of breast milk decreases.
• Wear loose-fitting bra that does not reduce breast. Bras that are too tight can push the breast which in turn will reduce the flow of breast milk that can lead to blockage in the flow of breast milk.

If mothers do not breastfeed and experience engorgement, then the mother can do one or more of the following steps to reduce the discomfort:
• If the engorgement has happened, do not pump all the milk directly. This would likely spur increased milk production and makes engorgement worse. Breast pump to taste until the mother felt comfortable enough alone.
• Ibuproven for additional medication.
• Cold Compress
• Bra that suit their needs and not pressing.
How the choice of breastfeeding or not to remain in the mother. Remember, the quality of breast milk is not replaceable by any milk production. Then what are mothers waiting for?
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Baby Burping

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Breastfeeding is a new experience for every mother who gave birth. Exciting and always interesting because of ignorance of what is to be faced after feeding. An important note is worth a try and burp the baby.

Burp your baby helps remove swallowed air tends during lactation. If the air does not come out and tend to be much ingested when feeding can cause infant vomiting after feeding. Suspected infant colic and discomfort during sleep, among others, also caused by the accumulation of this gas.

Burping the baby, among others, can be cultivated in a way

• Sit up straight and put the baby on your chest. Put your chin on your shoulder baby (baby facing backwards) when you carry her with one hand while the other one hand patting your baby's back gently. With the help of a little wobble can also be done so that baby can be finished feeding burp.
• baby lap (in the upper thigh) with a sitting position facing forward, hold the baby in the chest like hanging with one hand while your other hand gently patted his back to help baby burp.
• Lay the baby on your lap with the prone position. Make sure the baby's head propped up by strong and its position is slightly higher than his chest. Do this while gently patting the baby's back.

Burping techniques can be performed and selected in accordance with the developing baby. When your baby is getting bigger, you need not worry if your child does not burp during or after each meal. That means that your baby has learned to eat without swallowing excess air.

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Circumcision, is it necessary?

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At birth the boy has a skin covering the tip of the penis is commonly called the foreskin. Circumcision or circumcision, or also called circumcision (circumcision) is a mild surgery and surgery to open and remove part or all of the preputium (prepuce, foreskin, foreskin, the skin surrounding the glans penis/penis head).

Circumcision has a long history, even before BC was found in Egypt practice notes. This practice continued until now, but a hot topic of controversy since some 20 of the year. Is it true that circumcision useful or even useless?

Circumcision or no circumcision should be performed when the baby but it can be done later when the child begins to grow up and usually different growth rates associated with emotional and mental development of each child. Indications circumcision performed during the early years/infant/neonatal generally is due to phimosis, where preputium/foreskin can not be pulled back to open all parts of the head of the penis. Preputium layers inherent part of the glans penis, so that when preputium withdrawn, the glans penis can not fully open. As long as there is not interference in the urinary or signs of inflammation and can still be observed. Expected, the attachment will gradually disappear as the development of the age.

Please note that at birth only 4% of infants could preputiumnya fully withdrawn so that the head of the penis looks intact. Furthermore attachment was gradually reduced. Until the age of 1 year, still 50% who can not fully withdrawn. Respectively 30% at age 2 years, 10% at age 4-5 years, 5% at the age of 10 years, and there is still 1% that lasted up to 16-17 years. Of this last group, there are few who survived to adulthood persistent if not treated.

Phimosis can occur innate, can also occur later. Common causes are infection of the area and preputium glans penis (balanitis), which left scar tissue. Next preputium attached to the glans penis in the scar tissue.

In addition to having a special meaning recara spiritual and religious reasons, scientifically and medically, circumcision has many benefits, including:
• Medical Benefits
o Directly to reduce the risk of children exposed to UTIs (Urinary Tract Infection / urinary tract infection). According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, if in the first year infants circumcised only 1 will have the possibility to 1,000 urinary tract infections than circumcised not the 1 in 100.
o Reduce the risk of penile cancer, although it happened very rarely.
o The risk is lower sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV (adults of course).
o Preventing the foreskin infections.
o Preventing fimosis.
o For the purpose of genital health of children and as adults later.
• social reasons. Often children who are not circumcised will feel different from other friends as adults and that children do not feel inferior because of these differences.
• Religious reasons. Although not required for a particular religion (compulsory in Islam and Judaism), but has become a general agreement that circumcision is closely related to one's religion.

Age when undergoing circumcision or circumcision is, in fact there is no certain rules. Now even many of neonatal circumcision performed 1-2 days of age. The reason, earlier is better to prevent UTIs at an early age. Once, at the age of the patients are also more cooperative.

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Zenni Optical Fashioneyeglass

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Cholelitiasis Information

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Cholelitiasis a.k.a. gall stones are crystalline deposits that occur in the gall bladder. If gallstones are found in the bile ducts called choledocolitiasis.

"Early detection of Cholelitiasis disorders is very important in order not to interfere with quality of life of patients, and this can be done through the liver function tests, ultrasound and CT scans. Even with a more sophisticated device, the most accurate diagnosis for gallbladder inflammation (acute cholecystitis) may be obtained from the examination skintigrafi hepatobilier, which gives a picture of the liver, bile duct, gall bladder and the upper small intestine ", expressed by Dr. Tjahyono Sigit, who is also as Chief of Medical Committee, Puri Indah Hospital, Jakarta.

Generally there are 3 kinds of rocks that may occur, namely:
1. Cholesterol stones, which occurs when bile contains large amounts of cholesterol that usually remains as a liquid. When bile becomes saturated cholesterol, the cholesterol becomes insoluble and forms deposits. This case reaches 80 percent of cases of gallstone disease.
2. Bilirubin stone, occurs when unconjugated bilirubin consentration increased. Bilirubin has a tendency to bind with calcium, forming insoluble precipitates. With increasing concentration of bilirubin, calcium bilirubinate can crystallize and form stones. Over time, various types of oxidation that occurs resulting precipitate bilirubin. Because of its color, this stone is known as a black stone.
3. Mix Stone, a mixture of both types of stone above tesebut.

To be aware of this disease can be used benchmark 4F:
• Women (Female) although men also was not susceptible to this disorder, because the pattern of unhealthy eating can also be a cholelitiasis trigger factor.
• Age 40 years (Forty)
• High-fat diet (Fatty)
• Still active in the reproductive (Fertile)

Basically, this disease does not need to worry and unnecessary medical treatment for does not cause pain or discomfort such as a particular pain. But to know the early symptoms of deterioration are usually cholelitiasis will feel the symptoms:
• Pain in the upper right abdomen, sometimes like being blackmailed and intermittent, spread to the back right shoulder. May occur several minutes to several hours.
• Fever
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Yellow (ikterik)

To determine whether a person has to be done cholelitiasis medical examination, because sometimes patients feel just like ulcer symptoms alone. Supporting examination to detect gallstones done by inspection:
1. Heart function tests
2. In gallbladder stones, generally Gamma GT and Alkaline Phosphatase increased.
3. USG Abdomen
4. Visible image of the gall-bladder stones, and sometimes can be seen in the bile ducts.
5. Other tests such as CT scans if the Abdomen ultrasound can not describe it clearly.

If you have entered a stage of acute (Acute cholecystitis) there will be inflammation of the gallbladder wall, usually the result of gallstones in cystic duct, which causes sudden attacks of great pain.

Approximately 95% of those with acute gallbladder inflammation, have gallstones. Sometimes, the inflammation that occurs is caused by bacterial infection. Before you feel the incredible pain in the upper abdomen of a sudden, the patient usually does not show signs of gallbladder disease.

While acute cholecystitis without stones (5%) is a serious illness and tends to occur after the occurrence:
• Injuries resulting from a hematoma, etc..
• Infections caused by burns
• Sepsis (infection that spreads throughout the body)

The influence of infection from diseases severe (especially people who receive food intravenously in a long time). Acute gallstone symptoms include:
• Pain in upper right abdomen, intensified when the patient take a deep breath and often spread to the right shoulder.
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Low-grade fever, the longer it tends to rise.
• Usually less pain attacks within 2-3 days and then disappeared within 1 week.

In the event of complications, it will happen
• High fever, chills, increased number of leukocytes and the cessation of bowel movements (ileus) may indicate the occurrence of abscesses, gangrenous or perforated gallbladder.
• The attack is accompanied by jaundice (yellow fever), or backflow of bile into the liver suggests that bile duct has been blocked in part by gallstones or by inflammation.
• If blood tests show elevated levels of amylase enzyme, may have occurred inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) caused by gallstone obstruction of pancreatic duct (pancreatic duct)

For the treatment of the patient will be required to be hospitalized and given intravenous fluids and electrolytes and is not allowed to eat or drink.
Likely the doctor will put the pipe to keep nasogastric remained empty stomach so that the stimulation of the gall bladder can be reduced. If suspected acute cholecystitis, the patient will be given antibiotics as soon as possible.

If the diagnosis is certain and the stakes are small, usually surgery to remove the gall bladder will be done on the first day or two since the patients treated. If patients suffering from other diseases that can increase the risk of surgery, the surgery will be postponed until the treatment of these illnesses are going well. If the attack subsided, gall bladder can be removed at least 6 weeks later. But if there are complications (eg abscesses, gangrene or perforation of the gall bladder), surgery should be done immediately.

If not found symptoms, it usually does not require treatment, only require dietary changes. But when gallstones are causing recurrent pain attacks despite a diet is set up properly, patients are encouraged to undergo gall bladder removal (cholesystektomi).

Cholesistektomi can be done in a conventional or laparoscopic. Since laparoscopic dipekenalkan in 1990, then laparoscopic cholecystectomy began much done and now about 90% done in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is raised gallbladder surgery through the tube inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall. This type of surgery has the following advantages:
• reduces discomfort after surgery
• shorten the period of hospitalization.

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Samurai Champloo Comedy Anime Series From Animax

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Animax anime series will bring a unique and nuanced comedy: Samurai Champloo to the screen viewers in Asia. Premier January 27, 2010 and aired every Wednesday at 19:00 pm (Jakarta time) on Animax, Samurai Champloo fighting presents a la Samurai swords are fun and slapstick comedy in Japan in the reign of Edo, with a mix of modern hip-hop culture, such as rap, breakdance, DJ music, slang, graffiti and hip hop music that makes this series exciting and unique but is the first anime series to merge them.

Samurai Champloo tells the story of Mugen, tengil fighter who lived a nomadic and fighting style a la breakdance who met with a samurai who has a calm but deadly moves, Jin. They fought in a tea-stall and arrested by local authorities for allegedly has lit a fire in the store and cause a death. Fortunately, fuu, a young waitress who worked at the tea shop to save them from execution. To repay kindness fuu, the combatants agreed to put aside animosity between them and forced to join in the adventure fuu to find a samurai who issued smell like sunflower. Various action and comedy happens and growing friendship between the trio in their adventures.

26 episode serial was a tense but shuffled the stomach was created and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop and the Animatrix), designed by Kazut Nakazawa (Kill Bill Vol. 1) and Mahiro Maeda (Last Exile), produced by the studio Manglobe and reinforced by the background noise created by Tsutchie, Fat Jon, Nujabes and Force of Nature is nuanced rap and hip hop.

Watch the action and the humor that made this trio of combatants on Animax every Wednesday from 19:00-19:30 (Jakarta time) at January 27, 2010.

The Characters

Samurai Champloo tells the story of three individuals who originally did not know each other which then unite for an adventure in Japan.

Fuu - a 15-year-olds who do not have parents. Her mother had died and his father was long gone. Although posture looks small and funny show himself as weak and helpless, fuu are firm and do not want to be disturbed. He is courageous and has a high and consistent willingness to achieve its goals. He insisted on his personal mission: to find a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers. Although he was not able to describe in detail who and how the figure of the samurai, and what the relationship with the samurai fuu and why he had to find it. He managed to convince and recruit fuu Mugen and to help achieve its mission.

Mugen - a traveler who likes aggressive and very frank, he impressed as a person who knowingly with annoying behavior. He became an orphan since the very small, he raised himself in a tough environment. Very unique fighting style with elements of breakdance and he named it as "champuru kendo", which is partly drawn from all types of martial arts and some he created when he fought with his enemies. Mugen is wearing metal earrings and always carry Japanese sword on his back, was recruited by fuu with Jin to find a samurai who smells like flowers have matarahari.

Jin - the figure of a disciplined and full of charisma, he was the most mature than the other two colleagues. He is a trained fighter and has the ability to fight a deadly sword. Jin is a descendant of a samurai family who then followed the discipline and philosophy of life, samurai very obedient. He was always dressed a la samurai. Jin has two different personalities, in everyday life, Jin was a solitary and passive on-demand to do something and let his friends take it anywhere and have a sense of a very high respect to someone more senior, and on the other side is a fighter Jin which has the speed like lightning when he uses his sword. He was seen as someone who lives as he fought.

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Babies Base, Sites For Family

Families have seemed incomplete without the presence of children. Children are the pride and ornament for the family. So it is not surprising that the presence of children is a must, if necessary should be sought in any way.

Family information, and the pregnancy was much in cyberspace, and almost all appear with the design and content are varied. For new families, Babies Base may be an option. This site also provides information for family health and reproductive health are fairly complete. Starting from therapy and how to become pregnant, pregnancy care, birth to baby care and education of children of all available in one site.

Navigation is easy to find news and articles with the tabs at the top of the site and the categories on the left side much easier for readers to find news and articles of interest. On the right side there is news and related articles are very informative which may be a reference reader.

Babies base looks like a simple site, but very complete. The reader will not be bothered with all the ads and the sites that interfere with our search. Interesting and very specific of this site is that there is a related video or news article and the reader is able to perform queries on the video and the article in question.

Forums and blogs related to pregnancy and family are also presented and given a space in this site. It's a site worth a consideration for a new family quite informative and complete. Why not be read from now ... Time passed and the biological clock continues to chime. Do not wait anymore ...

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Dark Chocolate, Keep Stress At Bay

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A small bar of dark chocolate a day can keep stress at bay, according to a small study by international researchers. German and Swiss researchers have found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced the levels of stress hormones in highly stressed people.

Dark chocolate, which is rich in a variety of bioactive compounds, also partially corrected other imbalances in the body related to stress, making it a natural way to ease stress.

"The study provides strong evidence that a daily consumption of 40 grams (1.4 ounces) during a period of two weeks is sufficient to modify the metabolism of healthy human volunteers," wrote the researchers led by Sunil Kochhar, from the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The study, published online in ASC's Journal of Proteome Research, comes amid growing scientific evidence that antioxidants and other beneficial substances in dark chocolate may reduce risk factors for heart disease and other illnesses.
The trial was performed on 30 people who were classified as having low or high anxiety. Researchers measured levels of stress hormones in blood and urine samples collected several times a day from the participants in the trial to measure metabolic changes.

The participants snacked on 20 grams of dark chocolate mid-morning and again as an afternoon snack.

The researchers said people with high anxiety traits had a distinct metabolic profile, and changes that occurred from eating dark chocolate showed up clearly after two weeks with reduced stress hormones and other stress-related biochemical markers.

But they said the study was small and further research was necessary -- while nutrition experts were quick to add that chocolate is high in fat and too much can lead to weight issues.

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Gum Chewing May Speed Healing Cesarean

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Chewing low-sugar gum, can help the healing mother's abdomen after a cesarean delivery. Egyptian researchers found that giving them chewing gum to help restore normal bowel function and shorten the time to stay in the hospital.

Like any other surgery, cesarean section also makes the intestines and digestive functions become sluggish for some time that cause gas and constipation.
Chewing gum will help trigger the nervous system response and the release of gastrointestinal hormones that stimulate the activity of the stomach to work, according to Dr. Abd El-Karim Maeboud and colleagues at the Ain Shams University of Cairo.

Research results published in the journal BJOG obstetrics, which involved 200 women who had cesarean section and anesthesia. At random, half of the respondents were given sugarless gum to chew for 15 minutes every two hours after surgery Caesar, while half of the respondents applied the standard treatment that includes getting out of bed and practice walking to encourage bowel moving again.

In general, they found that respondents who chew gum more quickly get back to normal bowel activity. On average they will experience shitting first 21 hours after cesarean section compared to 30 hours on respondents through standard care. They are also faster to leave the hospital only 41 hours after childbirth than 50 hours in women with standard treatment.

Furthermore Abd El Maeboud explained that this research is still premature and needs further research, especially regarding the effects due to differences in anesthesia / or local anesthesia during the Caesarean section. Local anesthesia including epidural blocks and spinal expected to be influenced by the nervous system activation with chewing gum.

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Hormone Replacement Therapy, Menopause Solution

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Menopause is a natural event that would be faced by women/mothers. While this is very aware of women and mothers, there was always a worry and fear. Menopause usually come at the age of women/mothers reached of 50 or when ovary lifting that cause menstruation stops permanently. From the threat of bone loss until the decline of sexual desire, and the more serious is the decline in quality of life for women/mothers menopause because of psychological concerns due to the many physical effects that must be endured.

"A lot of menopause women/mothers live with drugs because of the large variety of physical complaints experienced by the menopause. And if the woman/mother menopause will notice and open, in fact the main cause of the decline in physical condition is largely due to reduced estrogen hormone itself as the impact of cessation of menstruation, "says Prof. Dr. Ali Baziad, SpOG (K).

Hormone replacement is needed to make the needs of estrogen/menopausal women remain the same as being met when they were menstruating. It's just that there is still resistance and fear of women/mothers would menopausal negative effects of hormonal drugs such as obesity and concerns about breast cancer or high blood pressure.
Now we have solutions hormone replacement estrogen/menopausal women have entered a new phase with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with drospirenone 2mg besides additional 1mg estradiol 17β or commonly known as the estrogen. Drospirenone is expected to be able to counteract the weight gain, high blood pressure and increased cholesterol levels experienced by women / mothers who consume only menopause estradiol HRT alone.

TSH Ideally should do for 5 to 6 years when a woman/mother is no longer menstruating for one to two years. This is done so that the body condition woman/mother to fit and do therapy when everything is still possible physical condition for granting such TSH.

Current management of medication in women with HRT/menopausal women is raw and can be given by any physician who has been through the certification. This self certification by PERMI (Indonesia Menopause Society) which is the association of practitioners and observers in the medical field, especially regarding this menopausal problem.

This certificate will give flexibility to the doctor to determine the physical condition of the woman/mother menopause before prescribing HRT to prevent contra indications. Contra indication for patients TSH itself include patients with breast cancer, acute liver, brain cancer and cervical cancer. Women/mothers who have complete menopause with a thorough examination will be given HRT with one-month trial. If the TSH is suitable, it will be given later for TSH for 6 months and if possible be given HRT for 5 to 6 years without the need to control prescription.

For the woman / mother with a premature menopause as he lifted the ovaries, radiation or other reasons there is no choice of hormone replacement therapy is an urgent need, according to Prof. emphasis. Dr. Ali Baziad, SpOG (K).

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Evaluate Your Own Erection

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Survey in 2008 of 328 men and 250 women in Indonesia showed that no less than 57 percent of men and 64 percent of women experience dissatisfaction with their sexual lives. The survey is part of the research titled APSHOW ((Asia Pacific Sexual Health and Overall Wellness).

Professor of Faculty of Medicine Udayana University Bali,. Dr.dr. Wimpie Pangkahila, Sp.And, FAACS said, "The inability to achieve or maintain penile erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual relationship, known as erectile dysfunction. Only a very few cases of erectile dysfunction is revealed and received proper medical treatment. Approximately 13% of patients who have responsive information and to find the right treatment, whereas most of the others shut down for not understanding, embarrassed, not the disease and considers also the possibility that the treating doctor is not ready. "

Furthermore Wimpie said that the level of violence in the male erectile determines the quality of sexual relationships. If the maximum hardness level of the couple can get optimum level of satisfaction.

While Pfizer pharmaceutical company has developed an evaluation technique erection hardness level of personal and couples who packed in the form of five short questions. This technique produces a number called the Erection Hardness Score 8(EHS). The higher EHS rates of violence the maximum level resulting from the erection. To conduct their own evaluation of Erectile Dysfunction, readers can visit the site www.vi-lounge.com.

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Contraception Services Dilemma For Teens And UnMarriages

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Family planning programs have been implemented in Indonesia today which require attention more seriously by the parties concerned. The approach must be done through the individual rights approach (right-based approach) that guarantee human rights of all individuals, especially women to obtain family planning services and reproductive health

Unfortunately for the group of teenagers and unmarried women there is no body or institution appointed by and responsible to serve the needs of family planning services and reproductive health information dissemination. This was revealed during the exposure by the head of BKKBN Dr. Sugiri Syarief, MPA at a press conference in the framework of the World Contraception Day, held in Jakarta last week (8 / 10).

We have as many as 64 million adolescents (aged 10-24 years), or about 28.6 million percent of the total population in Indonesia. From the results of Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey Indonesia 2007 shows that there is one percent of women and 5 percent of teenage boys who agreed to when making pre-marital sex. If this behavior continues, and knowledge of adolescents about reproductive health is less, there will be a possibility of pregnancy is not expected that the end will trigger an unsafe abortion.

"In this case the BKKBN can not serve the needs of teenagers and unmarried woman is the absence of mandates and laws that legalize the services for them," said Sugiri further. This inimenjadi challenge for the makers eputusan legislative level and all elements of society including religious leaders in seeking appropriate solutions to the national family planning program can be successful.

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Take the Load Off Your Child's Back

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A backpack can be a great help to school children, but it needs to fit properly to avoid a lifetime of hurt, health-care professionals say.

"If too heavy or worn incorrectly, backpacks can strain muscles and joints and cause serious back pain," Paula Kramer, who chairs the occupational therapy department at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, warned in a news release from the university.

Backpack-related injuries resulted in 7,300 emergency room visits in 2006, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Kramer offered tips for buying and using backpacks:
• The backpack size should correlate with the child's size and age -- smaller, younger children should have smaller backpacks. Look for reflective material on the backpack to improve visibility and padded shoulder straps for added comfort.
• Consider buying a backpack that can be wheeled or a triangular sling-style bag, which is worn over one shoulder and across the body, which better balances the load.
• When loading the backpack, put heaviest items closest to the back. This helps distribute weight more evenly. When loaded, the backpack should weigh less than 10 to 15 percent of the child's body weight.
• Adjust shoulder straps so the backpack fits snugly against the back. The child should always use both should straps and clip the waist belt, if the backpack has one, for added support and even weight distribution.

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Mosquitoes Attracted to The Pregnant Women

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Do you know that pregnant women are more interested and more attracted for mosquitoes? This is because when the mother's body will produce more carbon dioxide. Plus movement and body heat that produced more interested in making the mosquitoes to bite.

John Colon, PhD, Technical Advisor Mosquitoes Control Association of America said that any type of carbon dioxide will make the mosquitoes attracted to approach, even in the relatively far distance up to 50 meters. Include obesity in adults and children suspected also cause excess production of carbon dioxide that makes mosquitoes are more interested in people with excess body weight.
Anti-mosquito cream for the skin that are common in the market usually contain the concentration of 30 to 50 percent DEET, the actual chemical used as a mosquito repellent. Concentration 30-50 percent DEET can protect the body from the spread of pathogenic by mosquitoes. DEET with a concentration of up to 100 percent able to protect the body from mosquito bites up to 12 hours.
Meanwhile, for children, it's better for anti-mosquito cream contain only 10 to 30 percent DEET. While for children aged less than 2 months are strongly advised not to use anti-mosquito cream.
Just remember in the use of anti-mosquito cream is not used on the skin area that closed or under clothes and do not be smeared on the skin that injured or damaged. Is the iritatif (easily react with the skin) causing a public-use must also be careful. Wash the skin after the protection and reduce a constant use is a quite effective way to reduce the possibility of irritation.
Some studies indicate that the Eucalyptus trees to produce oil which is very effective as an alternative for DEET. There are also oil citronela (usually smelled in the orange peel) has been known that more than 60 years as a mosquito repellent.
Although found some cases due to the use of DEET on pregnant women and children, but the amount is not significant enough to be a reason to avoid anti-mosquito cream. The only consideration that is required for mature anti-mosquito cream for pregnant women, breastfeeding and children.

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Are You Pregnant Ready, Mother?

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Ideally pregnancy is planned before, even when it was planned a year before conception. For the couple it's good to prepare the emotional side each to become parents. Then have your body to pregnant?

To prepare for pregnancy is a good idea to visit a doctor where a couple later guided ginecologycally to be pregnant as soon as possible.

Contraceptives you use
If couple use pills, doctors will recommend to stop the consumption of these pills. This will enable the system to improve reproductive cycle menstruasi normal before conception - so the ovulation time where the condition of women in a very fertile will easily determined. When cessationof pill initercourse should not occured on the fertile period is only until the normal cycle menstruasi on the mother so that conception occurs only at the most appropriate period.

Whether the mother has been vaccinated?
Smallpox infection, rubella and hepatitis type B is very harmful to the fetus in the womb. If mothers do not complete the immunization list, you should immediately do so, at least a month or more before conception plan.

Whether the mother has a special medical condition?
If the mother has a chronic disease that must be considered specifically as diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure, then this chronic condition can be controlled before and during conception. Doctors recommend that mothers can do to a certain therapy treatment before pregnancy occurs. Doctors will also immediately explain special conditions that must be awared in pregnant period later.

Whether mothers are consuming any medications or supplements?
Tell the doctor about your medication therapy if you are in the middle of therapy series or your herbal supplements. So the doctor can recommend a change dose or stop treatment or supplements that you are consumed before. Usually copule recommended to consume vitamin. Why you should as soon as this? Tuba neuralis (humans tube) fetus - which later becomes the brain and spinal nerve fetus-form since the first month of pregnancy, perhaps even before the mother realized that her pregnancy. For the pre-pregnancy vitamin is an ultimate way to protect the growth of tuba neuralis.

Are you vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease?
Sexually transmitted diseases increase the risk of miscarriage, such as the occurrence of ectopic pregnancy/pregnancy outside the uterus where the egg mother cell that has been fertilized will embedded outside the womb or other pregnancy complications. If couple includes or vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases, will usually be advisable to do thorough inspections and special therapy.

Is there a family history of certain medical conditions?
Sometimes the family health history is important information to detect possible harm that can be derived on the genetic fetus. Uterus so that doctors can perform genetic testing before conception occurs.

How old are you, mother?
Above the age of 35 years will increase the risk of pregnancy. Risk of pregnancy can include miscarriage, chromosome aberration and premature birth. Some of the specific disease such as diabetes that normally experienced women aged above 35 years must also be awared. Usually doctor will give the actual solutions that are specific so that pregnancy can also occur in the best condition.

Whether maternal lifestyle support health pregnancy?
Discuss with your doctor the actual condition of health as the most optimal choice Feed food, sports and keep the stress low. If the mother has excess body weight doctor would recommend to immediately reduce the weight before conception. Also important to avoid alcohol and drugs abuse. Similarly, if the mother is an active smoker.

How do I pair with lifestyle?
Try to consult to obstetricians physician together as a couple. Health of each pair is very important including health history of each pair so that all risk factors that may later be faced can be minimalized.

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Facts About Pregnancy and Thyroid

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Thyroid gland is located in the middle bottom of the neck. Although small, this produces thyroid hormones which affect every cell, organ and network throughout the body. This hormone will set throbbing body metabolism that will generate energy for the body from oxygen and nutrients and affects the function of the body such as the critical level of energy and tap the heart. Pregnancy is one of the results.

• During pregnancy, thyroid hormone would produce 50 percent more than that of the woman who is not pregnant
• During pregnancy thyroid will raise 10 to 15 percent (normal weight ranges between 15 to 20 grams)
• Hypothyroid probability (lack of hormones tiroid) increased during pregnancy compared to women not pregnant

Goitre, the mother and fetus

In the 10 to 12 the first week of pregnancy, the needs of tiroid hormones tor fetus depends entirely on the mother.

• At the end of the first trimester, fetus thyroid hormone is able to produce for themselves.
• Even though the fetus is still depending on the mother to meet the needs iodine fetus as an important element for making hormones tiroid.
• During pregnancy, the needs of iodine is very important for the establishment and development of the fetus brain.
• During pregnancy the mother must continue to increase the supply of iodine to produce hormones tiroid and ensure adequate iodine is available for the fetus
• During pregnancy, mothers are advised to consume a daily vitamin that contains 150 μg (read: microgram) iodine in the form of potasium iodine (thyroid recommendations from the American Association).

Statisics indicate that not less than 2.2 billion population of the world experiencing iodine deficiency, and this is one of the causes of mental retardation.

Hypothyroid

Hypotiroidisme/hypothyroid is a condition where the thyroid gland does not produce enough hormones and symptoms that arise, among others, fatigue, depression, often forget, is not tolerant of cold, constipation and dry out the skin.

• Handling hypotyroid in pregnant women with the same woman who is not pregnant, such as the consumption of thyroid synthetic hormones, Synthetic levothyroxine (T4) is usually obtained from the dried thyroid gland from animal-gland thyroid
• Due to the nature of the treatment hypothyroid throughout the ages, before the pregnancy, the mother should consult a doctor to get the dose of the right T4
• Mother with T4 therapy is pregnant should increase the dose of general consumption, especially the first trimester on until at least 50 percent.
• Hypothyroid on pregnant women who do not enough medication can lead to miscarriage, premature birth and a decrease in IQ in the fetus.
• Children / babies born with congenital hypothyroid (without thyroid gland on birth) usually will not develop normal, if not identified and handled immediately.
• In the United States, all infants born through the need to review thyroid to see if he has a congenital aberration thyroid so that therapy can be determined earlier to prevent the occurrence of retardasi / decrease in metal children.
• Eight to ten percent of mothers suffering from postpartum suspected thyoriditis that occurred in the first 12 months after the birth which occurred hyperthyroid followed by a hypothyroid 2-3 days later and then gradually to normal.

Hyperthyroidisme

Hyperthyroidisme/hyperthyroid is a condition in which the gland produces too much hormone. Symptoms are caused, among others, trembling, eye irritation, tired muscles, a decrease in body weight that is not controlled, and sleep disturbances of vision problem.

• Hyperthyroid will be difficult to detect in pregnant women because the symptoms and be difficult with the normal pregnancy
• Graves disease is one hyperthyroid type, is a disease estimated autoimun/a kind of allergy. This disease including the genetic disease or a derived/inherited. Clinical symptoms of the disease is grave sweat a lot, like the cold, often pulsatile, both hands often tremble, rapid pulse is a consequence of hyperthyroidisme.
• Mother pregnant with Graves disease will usually be required to reduce the therapy received during pregnancy.
• Handling the missing top hyperthyroid before birth can cause serious complications and the time as "preclampsia".

Examination of Thyroid disease during pregnancy

American thyroid Association recommends inspections at the women with high risk as below before or during pregnancy:

• Mother / woman with a history of disease thyroid / mumps or never perform surgery tiroid
• Mother / woman with a family history had suffered from mumps
• Mother's / women who carry antibody thyroid
• Mother / women with symptoms of clinical hyperthyroid or hypothyroid
• Mother / women with type 1 diabetes
• Mother / female difference with mumps
• Mother / woman with a deviation autoimun
• Mother / woman who is not fertile / infertile
• Mother's / women who have to do radiation therapy on the head or neck
• Mother / woman with a history of miscarriage or premature birth

A simple blood test is the first step in diagnosis. From there, the doctor can suggest what should be the next step. Remember that thyroid disease is very common, and in the experienced paramedics, a disease that causes the excess/lack of hormones thyroid can be easily treated and diagnosed.

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