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vendredi 12 juin 2015

Live Healthier And Longer With Preventative Lifestyle Medicine

By April Briggs


One of the unfortunate aspects of life is illnesses. Some illnesses come about as a result of poor life choices. Others are just natural occurrences that are related to unavoidable factors such as aging or genetics. Regardless of the root cause though preventative lifestyle medicine can help people to avoid many of the illnesses that they face.

A large number of illnesses can be avoided with this approach to health care. This ultimately results in a longer life expectancy for those who adopt this type of care. It also means a better quality of life.

Doctors and other health care experts rely on these types of medicines to help patients who want to be proactive in their health care. A careful evaluation of each patient's current status and medical history is done to determine the likelihood of the individual ending up with an ailment. After this is done the doctor will suggest and prescribe drugs that will help to prevent the onset of the ailment.

Some, doctors, for instance, upon recognizing that their patient may be a prime candidate for a heart attack may prescribe drugs such as aspirin to prevent the ailment. Aspirin is one of the many over the counter illness preventing drugs available. Its value for the prevention of heart attacks lies in the fact that it is also a blood thinner. This means that it helps to keep the blood flowing smoothly and effortlessly through veins and arteries.

In addition to suggesting and prescribing certain drugs, doctors and health care providers such as nurses also administer some of these prevention medicine. These are known as vaccines. Each year millions of children around the world are vaccinated against a number of conditions including, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and the Whooping Cough.

Even though vaccines are often associated with children, adults get vaccinated too. Each year, for example, millions of people around the world line up for their flu vaccines as the season for the illness rolls around. This is necessary every year because new versions of the flu emerge each year. The old vaccines are unable to defend the body against the new strains of the flu and so each year, scientists develop new flu vaccines.

Additionally, women and young girls around the world have started, in the last few years, to benefit from the HPV vaccine. This vaccine is designed to help the body resist certain strains of the Human Papillomavirus and thereby reduce the likelihood that they will end up with Cervical Cancer. The vaccine helps with the prevention of Cervical cancer because it targets some of the strains of HPV that are associated with the disease.

Preventative medicine is the way to go for a healthier longer life. It is important to be proactive in relation to life in general, but if you are unable to be proactive about only one thing, it should be your health. Once health is secured, many of the other aspects of life can be tackled.




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