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Some people remain so strained that according to studies no longer feel the tension because they have forgotten how they felt when they were relaxed. The following exercises known as progressive muscle relaxation exercises are simple but effective in helping you relax. They may be all or only some of them.

Sit quietly in a comfortable chair with arms by your side

1. Deep breathing. For deep breath, we mean complete breath. It is like the breathing of the baby if baby is still sleeping your abdomen expands and contracts. You can do as follows:
   Put your hand on your abdomen and inhale inhale expand your abdomen as you exhale is going contracting. Practice three times then put a hand on his abdomen and one on his side. As you inhale feel your abdomen and exhale side expands contract, practice three times. Now put one hand on the abdomen and once in the chest when breathing expands the abdomen, side and a little chest, exhale is contare. Practice several times.
2. Relax hands . Squeeze his hand making a fist. Hale twice and repeat with your other hand.
3. Forearm and palm . With his right arm resting on the chair and the palm of his hand out his hand to flex the wrist, fingers stretching upward. Concentrate on the tension generated in the palm of your hand and forearm. Repeat. Now do it with the other arm.
4. Biceps . Tighten the muscles of your arm and try to touch your right shoulder with right fist. Repeat. Then do the same with the left arm.
5. Shoulder . Lift your shoulders, as if to touch your ears with them. Repeat.
6. Front. Raise your forehead and eyebrows as possible. Repeat.
7. Cara . Wrinkle your nose, close your eyes and tighten. Repeat.
8. Language . Thrust his tongue and the top of your mouth. Repeat
9. Neck.  Press your head to the back of the chair. Repeat.
10. Back . Forming an arch with her back, breaking the back of the chair. Repeat.
11. Legs . Extend your legs, holding strong in the air. Move your feet in circular motions in the direction of first clockwise then the reverse.
12. Feet .- move the fingers of his feet as if putting it in the sand. Feel the tension. Repeat.
13. Again repeat three times deep breathing of the first paragraph.

Feel the tension disappears and you are totally relaxed.

Long journeys by air across several time zones, in addition to long stays in airports and arrivals to a country with similar climate, unfamiliar food and environment may occur during the first hours or days of stay a box nausea, constipation, diarrhea , insomnia and fatigue. Little or nothing can be done in this situation, rather than the gradual adaptation to the new environment, knowing that the situation will not last more than a couple of days. To prevent or mitigate its effects is recommended not to drink and salt for one day before flight or during it.

The discomfort of carpal tunnel syndrome can be alleviated with the following tips:

1. In some cases, doctors recommend the use of splints to relieve pain
2. Try to hold your hand above your head and move his fingers.
3. If the needles do not stop, the doctor recommended using a wrist brace or splint.
4. Sleep with your arm above your head and resting on a pillow.
5. Avoid jobs that require repetitive hand movements as they can make the symptoms worse.
6. When working on the computer, adjusting the height of the chair so that your wrists are not bent downwards as you type. By typing beam breaks to stretch your hands.
7. If when you awake, you hurt your hands, shake them until the pain or numbness subsides.
8. The practice of yoga can increase hand strength and reduce pain.

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If the wound bleeds, we stop the bleeding. If is small enough to wash the wound with soap under running water, so drag the dirt. If there are any embedded object, remove with tongs previously disinfected with alcohol. It should always wash from the center to the periphery so that any dirt crawl. We can also wash with saline or hydrogen peroxide, diluted to 50%. Next apply an antiseptic such as iodine or chlorhexidine and covered with gauze and tape. If the wound is large and the bleeding is important to always have to call emergency services.

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Food:

Symptoms usually appear between 2 and 6 hours after eating the food. Is usually associated with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and headache. It is very important to keep the patient hydrated, so it should be given to drink plenty of fluids as alkaline lemonade (1 liter of water, juice of 1 lemon, a pinch of salt and a bicarbonate).

Alcohol:

take down the person, open the airway and place in the “security position”. To do this, turn the subject’s head slowly towards oneself, to stretch the arm closest to us placing it alongside the body, stretch also the same side leg, bend the other arm and one leg so that it rests in a lateral position. So keep the airway open and avoid aspiring saliva or vomit.

Drug:

it is very important to see a doctor urgently. Before that can induce vomiting to empty the stomach contents, keeping the airway open and place it in a safe position.

The flu is a contagious disease caused by a virus. It usually occurs during the colder months in epidemic form since his infection is rare. The diet does not appear to prevent the spread of GIPE but does help to combat the virus and heal before. The following is recommended:

1. Take food rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C relieves symptoms of flu and helps us to recover soon. They are rich in vitamin C: oranges, lemons, grapefruit, peppers, cabbage and broccoli. They can also take vitamin C supplements as pills or candy.
2. Take food rich in zinc. It has been shown that zinc reduces the effects of the flu. Without zinc rich celery, asparagus, figs, potatoes and eggplants.
3. Drink plenty. Drink plenty of water, soups and other liquids to hydrate the mucous membranes and promote the elimination of mucus and toxins from our body through sweat.
4. Drink warm milk with honey. Milk and honey provide nutrients to increase the body’s defenses, moisturize and soften the mucus.

Open fractures:

are named those fractures where the bone ripping the skin and goes out. Always call an ambulance. Meanwhile, we can act covering the wound with sterile gauze or towel, pressing over the wound if it bleeds a lot (never directly on the bone visible) and put a bandage without touching bone. The appropriate course of action is a proper immobilization with improvised splints or something that resembles it.

Closed fractures:

it is necessary to immobilize the injured extremity to a healthy part of the body: if one arm, trunk, and if one leg to another. We improvise a splint with a wooden stick … or place also serves a wide band that immobilize the fractured limb.

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Faced with a bleeding is to remove clothing covering the wound to locate it. The first step of our action will put a sterile dressing or clean as possible (on gauze or a handkerchief) and wound press hard for about 10 minutes. If we have to attend to other injuries we can apply a pressure dressing with a bandage or improvise with a handkerchief, leaving the knot of the bandage on the bleeding point, it is the point where the loudest. After this time how it’s still bleeding and if so should raise the bloody end to reduce the blood supply to it. If not yield must be compressed into a point higher bleeding, if the wound is in the arm to compress the brachial artery at the biceps, and if the leg is pressed onto the femoral artery located in groin. Never apply a tourniquet, because it is a procedure of last resort, which could lead to gangrene.

If instead of a hematoma is bleeding, just ice on the area to keep swelling down. This method is effective only if applied within minutes. Then you can place a gauze bandage or compress the area for about 30 minutes, then remove.

A sprain is an injury to the ligaments that hold the two bones forming a joint. If the injury is so important that the ligament can no longer hold the bones in place and they are separated, is a dislocation diagnosed.

The difference between a sprain and a dislocation is that the first bone position is unchanged, while the dislocation bones are separated and that separation greater than normal can be seen on a radiograph.

Essentially forcing the ceiling of joint movement. The most common mechanisms by which it produces are:

1. The excessive jerky movements, which are beyond the range of motion that allows the joint, so that is stretched or torn ligament that holds the two bones.
2. Accidents typically car in the outer movements are combined with external forces.

The most common location is usually the ankle. Faced with a twist has to follow the pattern with the acronym RICE: rest, ice (ice), compression and elevation. First, do not walk when you have a sprained ankle. Second, apply an ice bag or wrapped in a handkerchief during the first 6 hours. Third, put a layer of mulch that serves as cotton, then make a firm bandage always starting from the toes to the ankle and then up toward the leg in a circular motion. Fourth, keep your foot elevated and does not rest on the ground.

Anaphylaxis is a general reaction of the body to contact with an allergen (protein that causes allergies) with which previously had reacted. It requires immediate medical attention because, if unchecked, can lead to irreversible situations, including death. It is produced by the rapid release of some substances found within the cells responsible for immune response.

Symptoms of anaphylaxis generally include:

1. A red rash with welts or hives, often sting.
2. Swelling in the throat or other body parts.
3. Wheezing (breathing that produces a whistling sound from the chest).
4. Loss of consciousness.
5. Tightness in the chest.
6. Difficulty breathing.
7. Hoarse voice.
8. Trouble swallowing.
9. Vomiting.
10. Diarrhea.
11. Abdominal cramps.
12. pale or reddish tone of the face and body.

It is a potentially fatal, requiring medical help quickly:

1. If the patient is seriously impressive importate, health aid should be sent to your emergency in their community, you send specialized medical aid.
2. If no special help nearby, it should start its move to the nearest health center immediately.
3. If possible, should be suspended the agent that causes the picture, and pay special attention to maintaining an adequate airway and administer high flow oxygen by mask if you have it.
4. If the allergen has been injected into an arm (injection, …), bee sting can be a tourniquet to try to delay their action. Must loosen every 5 minutes to avoid further complications.
5. Sprays can also be used to produce bronchodilation betamimetics drugs.
6. Some patients have had previous similar reactions, and carry with them vials of adrenaline for subcutaneous self-administration, which is the drug of choice for these situations.
7. If there is shock, is treated by intravascular volume expansion with IV administration of sera
8. Other effective drugs are corticosteroids and antihistamines, although the effect is later.

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