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Benefit of Sleep
Extra sleep on the weekend served to increase the performance of the brain during the next week. When the time woke up on Monday but was not fit and lack of concentration, maybe you do not get enough sleep on the weekends. Extra sleep on the weekend served to increase the performance of the brain during the next week. The result of the latest edition of the study in the journal Sleep concluded, those who sleep more on weekends have a better performance than those who sleep less on weekends. Extra sleep time on weekends is needed to fill the brain and increase energy, sharpen alertness and attention after a week of sleep restricted.
The scientists also warn, staying up all night on weekends will interfere with the brain’s performance significantly in the next week. Dr. David Dinges, Chief of Division of Sleep and Chronobiologi at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Two hours of extra sleep time during the final week of beneficial increase concentration and alertness,” he said, as published in the Telegraph. “In essence, the recovery of sufficient importance to overcome the effects of limited sleep for a week in the brain.”
In a different study, the scientists found, the most effective time to sleep for seven hours. A study of 30 thousand adults found cardiovascular disease including heart attacks, strokes and angina two times higher in people with sleep less than five hours. However, you need to know also, daily sleep time more than nine hours increases the risk of chronic disease. Thus, the ideal sleep time between 7-9 hours per day.
Hepatitis B and HIV
Hepatitis B virus is one cause of liver infection or liver weight. In America, 1 in 20 people can be infected with this virus. Each year there are 2 million people infected, 350 people with chronic status, and an estimated 600 thousand people worldwide die from this disease, this virus has a transmission medium that is similar to HIV, through blood and body fluids. Hepatitis B is transmitted through skin contact, sweat, and tears.
Some symptoms of this disease include: Decreased appetite, Nausea vomiting, Weak, Abdominal pain especially around the upper right of the bottom ribs, Yellow skin and eye color of white should also begin to turn yellow, known as jaundice, and Joint pain
Recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) that the hepatitis B virus potentially 50 to 100 times more infectious (infectious) compared with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Risk of Hepatitis B increases if:
1. Users of unsafe syringe
2. Unprotected sexual relations. Use condoms with latex or polyurethane material if latex allergy.
3. Born of mothers suffering from Hepatitis B
If you feel has taken a risk of infection of Hepatitis B, immediately to the doctor to be able to get an injection of immunoglobulin within 24 hours.
If you know has suffered from Hepatitis B, its good for:
1. Always protected sexual intercourse
2. To express your sexual partner that you are suffering from Hepatitis B
3. Also pointed out to the health worker if you are being treated in hospital for a particular disease, so health workers can protect themselves by wearing gloves when performing medical acts
4. Do not lend your hair or mustache razor and toothbrush
5. Pointed out to the gynecologist if you are pregnant
Hepatitis B can be acute (less than 6 months) or chronic (more than 6 months). Chronic conditions can cause cirrhosis of the liver condition or conditions that cause permanent damage to liver tissue, liver function failure or even a fatal cancer.
Although specific therapy for this virus is still under further investigation, this virus can actually be prevented simply by making the vaccine. Hepatitis B vaccine Engerix-B is known as an effective way to provide 95% protection in children and adults.
It should be noted that there are side effects after administration of this vaccine in the form of weak, headache, nausea and swelling around the injection, which did not last long.