It's good to
cry your heart out
Every time your eyes are filled with tears
and to trying to pour your heart
out, there is someone who makes you hold back those tears.
But, psychologists recommend that people should cry whenever they feel like. So, don't shy away from letting out those tears. It's healthy to do so. Here's how crying helps:
Tears clear your eyes
The most reason why crying helps is that tears is that they enable us to see. Yes, they certainly do. Tears lubricate the eyeballs and eyelids and also prevent dehydration of various mucous membranes.
Tears kill bacteria
Tears work as anti-bacterial and anti-viral agents, fighting off germs we pick up from shopping carts, public sinks, and all the places these germs make their homes and procreate. They contain lysozyme, a fluid, which can kill 90 to 95 per cent of all bacteria in just 5-10 minutes.
Tears elevate mood
It is believed that the act of crying can lower a person's manganese level, which can otherwise give rise to anxiety, nervousness, irritability, fatigue, aggression, emotional disturbance, and the rest of the feelings that live inside you.
Tears lower stress
Just like exercising, tears to help relieve stress. Tears help remove some of the chemicals built up in the body from stress, like the leucine enkephalin and prolactin. Suppressing tears could increase stress levels, and contributes to diseases aggravated by stress, such as high blood pressure, heart problems, and peptic ulcers.
Tears release feelings
Crying is therapeutic. It lets the anxiety, frustration out, before it's creates all kind of havoc with your nervous and cardiovascular systems. Time and again you go through conflicts and resentments and sometimes this gathers inside the limbic system of the brain and in certain corners of the heart. Your feelings are like air. The more you suppress your emotions, the more they are bound to explode some day. Suppressing feelings affects the quality. Crying is all about cleansing your mind and it is considered very healthy and gives you a relaxed feeling. So, let your feelings be felt.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
17.05.2012
Bengal
doc operates on pregnant HIV positive woman
Dr Gautam takes up
challenge after other hospitals deny her admission
Amid reports of health
facilities in rural areas falling apart for lack of doctors willing to serve in
remote areas, an obstetrician at a hospital in West Midnapore, around 200 kms
from here, has earned laurels by successfully operating on a HIV positive woman
during childbirth after other hospitals declined to admit her.
The doctor in
question, Gautam Pratihar said he was initially sceptical about treating the
woman but took up the “challenge” after she was denied admission by the Ghatal
Sub-divisional Hospital and the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital. “I
didn’t want to take responsibility initially because we don’t have adequate
infrastructure to handle such a complicated case,” Pratihar told Deccan Herald.
“More than nine
months ago, the 30-year-old woman, then pregnant, came to our hospital with
severe weakness and loss of weight. When I came to know her husband was a
goldsmith in a Mumbai jewellery shop, I advised the couple to undergo HIV test
at the Integrated Council and Training Centre (ICTC) of our laboratory. Both
tested HIV positive,” Pratihar said, adding that there is a high prevalence of
HIV among people of Ghatal since most of the locals migrate to Mumbai and West
Asia for work and indulge in unsafe sex.
However, the
doctor was prudent enough to keep the patient’s identity under the wraps. “We
preferred to keep it a secret because the woman would have to live with a
social stigma. We also told the couple not to disclose it until April 24 when
we operated her,” the doctor said.
The woman was kept
under constant supervision and was administered anti-retroviral drugs ever
since she conceived. “We carried out an early cord clamping soon after the
delivery since it would reduce the chances of HIV infection in the baby,”
Pratihar added. Speaking on the condition of the child, the 55-year-old doctor
said both mother and child were in good health. “When the baby was only 30
minutes old, anti-retroviral drops were administered to treat HIV virus,” he
said.
Pratihar’s efforts
did not go unnoticed. While his bosses at the Health department praised him for
the noble deed, Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya said: “The
small rural hospital has set an example. They can serve as a model of what we
want the doctors to be. It’s great to hear of a change of attitude among doctors.”
Commending Pratihar’s initiative, West
Midnapore’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Sabitendu Patra said: “The team
that operated upon the woman did a commendable job.
The team took all
kinds of safety measures because there was every chance of needle pricks during
the operation of such long duration.”
Source: www.deccanherald.com
17.05.2012
Tell the
truth, or someone will tell it for you
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