Patients Increasingly Are Seeking Medical Information Online
Posted by admin in Medical Information on October 23, 2011
As of 2011, over 75% of the US population uses the internet. Eighty percent of these internet users are looking up health information online. Almost 20% of internet users have also gone online to look for others with similar medical problems.
Sixty percent of internet users for medical information think the information is either the same or better than the information received from their own doctor. Interesting enough, of those folks using the internet for health information, almost 60% of them did not discuss this information with their doctor.
What are patients looking at exactly? First and foremost they are looking at information related to their own condition around the web. This may include diagnostic options, treatment side effects, and for second opinions. Also, they may be looking up their doctor and his/her practice specifically for reputation.
Keep in mind that any person with a computer and a website or blog may place health information on the internet. It’s not extremely difficult. What can be very difficult, however, is for the average consumer to delineate fact from fiction when reading through all of this material.
Additionally, there is no standard grading reference to ensure information online is of the highest integrity.
Regardless of this possibility, the fact that so much health information is available online allows consumers to become much more educated in their condition(s). They can participate more fully in treatment decisions and become actively engaged in their outcomes, After all, knowledge is power. Read the rest of this entry »
Bipolar Disorder: Learning How To Deal With It
Posted by admin in Bipolar Disorder on October 22, 2011
Do you have a friend or family member that is recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Do you feel that you should not spend time with him/her because you can’t seem to understand that persons moods anymore? Has it ever crossed your mind that since you’re not a professional psychiatrist, you might as well distance yourself from that person before you ruin what is left with your relationship? If you’ve answered yes to all of these questions, you have to read this article in order for you to understand what the disorder is all about and how important is a support group for people who are diagnosed with this type of mental disorder.
Most of the time, people with this particular illness experience different mood swings and the severity of these mood changes will depend on the gravity of the disorder. They usually experience the highs and lows in their lives and there are instances wherein they make bad decisions during the time of the disorder and dwell on the consequences afterwards. It’s hard to deal with them but you’ve got to understand that they need all the love and support especially during these dark times in their lives.
Here are some of the things that you can do to help your loved one who is suffering from bipolar disorder.
1. You need to study about this particular disorder and educate yourself on the symptoms and possible things that you can do to help the person who is suffering from this kind of behavioral problem. You’ve got to understand that it’s not the end of the road for them, with proper education regarding the illness and the right medications needed, you guys will be able to surpass everything and that loved one can get passed the disorder. Read the rest of this entry »
Importance of the Nutrition Health Wellness Triangle in Our Life
Regarding nutrition health wellness, unlike what most people think, life is not a matter of living and dying; it is not measured by absolute life and death. Rather, it is being measured by a spectrum of health – a spectrum of health where one side of the extreme is death and the other is that of a healthy well-being, not just of being alive. So, taking that spectrum of nutrition health wellness as a basis, we may say that the healthier one is, the farther he is from death. In this matter, the passage of time is automatically included since one’s heath would usually begin to deteriorate at a certain point in his age.
But even if the deterioration of health is inevitable as time as passes by (at least practically, but not theoretically), we can still do something with personal health nutrition wellness lifestyles and habits to slow down the deterioration of health in a number of ways – or rather in many ways that has to be integrated. Some of these nutrition health wellness improvement ways include proper physical activity, a healthy psychological disposition, and a carefully planned nutrition, with the last one being the focus of below.
Why the proper food is vital for health nutrition wellness and longevity? Our body is being fed and maintained by using different chemicals, primarily with oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, along with some other elements needed like calcium, iron, zinc, etc. All of these can only be taken from eating and drinking, or in other words, through nutrition, with the exception of oxygen which can be taken in by breathing. These chemicals are what promotes and helps both our mind and body function, so we could say that nutrition is the foundation and the corner of the health nutrition wellness triangle. This is because without proper nutrition, the body cannot have any form of energy needed to utilize its movements, thus hindering the possibility of having a proper physical exercise or wellness activity, thus decreasing health. Read the rest of this entry »