How Can I Reduce My Unwanted Hair?

Question:

I'm l9 and ever since I hit puberty I've had a lot of body and facial hair- I can mask it by bleaching but over the past few years the hair has increased on my neck, stomach and lower back. Although the body hairs are quite fine, I am very self-conscious about the thicker hairs on my face' I wonder why this is happening and whether there are any changes I can make to reduce the hair.

Answer:

There are two types of excess hair growth in women. The first is a generalised increase all over the body, which may be what you have. The other type - hirsutism - is distributed in a male pattern, so females develop a beard and chest hair.

Normally a woman has thick hair on the scalp, pubic region and underarms, and fine hair in moderation all over the body. Trouble starts if the adrenal glands become overactive, due to stress or overstimulation of the pituitary gland (the hormonal headquarters in the brain). The adrenals release male hormones (androgens) that can be converted into testosterone in various cells of the body, which need not be the male testes. So women, who have a little testosterone anyway, may develop more under stressful conditions, or if they have pituitary problems.

The adrenals also release stress hormones. Interestingly, these are mostly male in nature - like testosterone. Evolution designed men for 'fight or flight'. Now that women are suffering the same pressures as men, androgens may be released from the adrenals at the same time as stress hormone gland convert to testosterone a (Vigorous exercise also stimulates the adrenals to release androgens, which can then convert to a form of oestrogen; a useful tip for menopausal women.)

Hirsutism is also a common symptom of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In this case, androgens are Produced by the ovaries and also in fat cells. In PCOS sufferers, these male hormones suppress menstruation and cause hair growth.

You must consult your doctor if you think your hormones are unbalanced. Signs of this include irregular periods, acne, rapid weight gain, irritability and mood swings not connected to PMS. You will probably be given blood tests to find out if there are

signs of excess androgen production, although I should warn you that these are not always very accurate in the early stages. If hair growth is accompanied by some or all of these symptoms, it suggests either PCOS or release of androgens from the adrenal glands. Your doctor may prescribe a type of contraceptive pill if your periods are irregular; otherwise testosterone-suppressing drugs may be considered.

Because stress is likely to be the cause of or a factor in your problem, i suggest the following

* Avoid coffee and alcohol, excess salt and sugar (which are commonly found in prepared foods of all kinds); these ingredients can add to your existing level of stress.

* Avoid late nights and gen as much sleep as possible.

* Walk regularly in the fresh air of the countryside' or in parks if you live in the city.

* Avoid yeast products (such as bread, Marmite, Pasta, pizza, cakes), as these an make you tired.

* Eat rhubarb, Pomegranate and yams, which contain plant estrogens.

* Take one capsule of aloe vera and one tablet of shatavari twice daily for three months, to help to balance hormone levels.

* Rub lard right into the skin under the worst hair growth. Do this twice a week for three months. Lard destroys the hair roots and facilitates hair loss.

* Practise yoga to help you relax Find a good class and also do some at home-in the evenings, always finishing with the corpse pose. You will find instructions in Therapeutic Yoga, the book I co-wrote with Jiwan Brar.

* Listen to a relaxation, tape in bed (there are good ones available in complementary health stores or you can buy my own tape, Dr Ali's Yoga and Meditation programme, Sanogenetic Solutions).

* Massage your neck and shoulders twice a week with Lifestyle Massage Oil or make up your own by mixing one tablespoonful of sweet almond oil with three drops of lavender essential oil. Preferably ask a friend or partner to give you a massage tips on how to do this are available on my website (see right)- This will relax the muscles of your neck which in turn helps the circulation of brain fluid and improves the blood flow to the brain.

* Never shave excess hair. It will only get thicker and make thing worse.

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Diagnosis And Treatment For Rapid Heart Rate - Atrial Fibrillation

Symptoms

If you have heart beat that is quicker than 60-80 beats per minute at rest or 90-115 beats per minutes during exercise, you might have fast and irregular heart beat or arrhythmia. There are different kinds of arrhythmia but atrial fibrillation is the most common type.

Beside a quicker heart rate, patients with atrial fibrillation also experience palpitations, chest pain, dyspnea, fatigue or light-headedness.

Diagnosis

The only way to find out whether you have atrial fibrillation is by conducting an ECG test. Patients who have arrhythmia will find their P wave absence and their R-R interval shorten in their ECG.

The good news about atrial fibrillation is that it is not life-threatening, but patients with long-term atrial fibrillation occurrence can lead to stroke and heart failure. In fact, patients with atrial fibrillation have a double risk of death, a 5-fold increase in stroke and a 3-fold increase in heart failure compared with those who do not have AF.

Treatment

Depending on your clinical situation (whether you have hypertension, diabetes or stroke or heart failure), your doctor might prescribe warfarin (Coumadin) or aspirin to prevent the incidence stroke and prescribe anti-arrhythmic drugs to slow down your heart rate and convert your heart into rhythm again. In certain situation where pharmacological therapy fails to convert the heart into rhythm, ablation might be considered.

Anticoagulant

When taking warfarin (Coumadin), it is important to keep your INR is between 2.0 and 3.0. An INR that is lower than 2 indicated that you are not protected from stroke while an INR of greater than 3 means that you might have an increased chance of bleeding.

Anti-arrhythmic agents

There are 2 methods to treat your atrial fibrillation: lower your heart rate (rate-control) or convert your heart into regular rhythm (rhythm-control).

Theoretically, rhythm-control drugs should be superior to the rate-control drugs. However, the presence of some nasty side-effects associated with the rhythm control drugs prevents these drugs to demonstrate superior mortality benefit.

As a result, the usage of one method over the other is subject to physicians' discretion. In general, youngerpatients with symptomatic AF will be given rhythm control drugs while older patients with minimal symptoms will be given rate control drugs.

A) Rhythm control drugs

Even though rhythm control drugs possess the ability to convert your heart into rhythm, it can also slow down your heart rate.

1) Amiodarone (Codarone) – Amiodarone is one of the oldest and most powerful antiarrhythmic drugs. It is used mostly in patients with heart failure and with coronary heart diseases. Its use, however, has been limited by its organ related side-effects such as hyper/hypothyroidism, pulmonary fibrosis and liver toxicity.

2) Sotalol (Betapace) – Sotalol belongs to the same class of drug as amiodarone. It is less efficacious than amiodarone and is used in AF patients with coronary heart disease. Since sotalol is very effective in reducing the heart rate, patients taking sotalol will often experience fatigue. 3) Flecainide (Tamboco) and Propafenone (Rythmol) – Flecainide and propafenone are used in AF patients without any other cardiovascular heart diseases. If used in AF patients with cardiovascular disease, it might also cause arrhythmia.

4) Dronedarone (Multaq) – Dronedarone is the latest addition to the rhythm control drugs. It is less efficacious than amiodarone in preventing AF recurrences, but has a more favourable safety profile. It is also the first and the only drug to demonstrate a reduction in cardiovascular mortality. The most common side-effects associated with dronedarone are diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

B) Rate control drugs

Rate control drugs can slow down your heart rate, but can not convert your heart into rhythm. Most of these drugs have fewer side-effects than the rhythm control drugs.

In certain situation, physicians might prescribe a combination of beta-blockers and digoxin or calcium channel blockers and digoxin for you to control your heart rate

1) Beta-blockers (metoprolol (Lopressor), propranolol (Inderal)) - B-blockers are the most effective drugs for slowing heart rate. The effectiveness of these drugs to slow down the heart rate, however, might also make you tired. If you always experience fatigue, you might need to inform your doctor and your doctor might install a pace-maker to prevent your heart from beating too slow.

2) Calcium Channel Blockers (verapamil(Isoptin) and diltiazem(Tiazac)) – Calcium channel blockers are effective agents to slow down your heart rate with minimal adverse effects.

3) Digoxin (Lanoxin) - digoxin is more effective at controlling heart rate during exercise than b-blockers or calcium channel blockers. However, due to its narrow therapeutic range between efficacy and toxicity, digoxin is seldom used in AF patients. It is used mainly in patients with heart failure.

Ablation

Even thought ablation has a high initial success rate of 90%, it is not a cure. More than 50% of the patients will have AF recur after 6 years. Also, ablation is associated with some rare, but serious adverse side-effects (vascular access complications (1%), stroke and transient ischaemic attack (1%) and proarrhythmia (10-20%)).

If you have atrial fibrillation or other arrhythmia, it is important to get treated earlier. The longer you wait, the more difficult it is to convert your heart back to rhythm again. Your heart might have undergone extensive anatomical and electrophysiological that prevent it to respond to any anti-arrhythmic agents.

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Female Infertility Treatment

Female Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a woman to contribute to conception. Women who are fertile experience a natural period of fertility before and during ovulation, and they are naturally infertile during the rest of the menstrual cycle. Fertility awareness methods are used to discern when these changes occur by tracking changes in cervical mucus or basal body temperatur

CAUSE OF FEMALE INFERTILITY

FEMALE INFERTILITY IS CAUSED BY THE FOLLOWING. Endometriosis Fibroids Polyps Polycystic Overian Syndrome (PCOS) Fallopian tubes Miscarriage OR Recurring Pregnancy loss Problems with Ovulation. Problem with egg Transport and Fertilization. Late Planning pregnancy Ovulation/Menstruation Problems Low Sperm Count(For Males) Retroverted Uterus IVF Failure

The other cause are Hypertension , Amenorrhea , Veginal infection , Over'“emotional No Ovulations , Side Effect of excess of Hormonal medicine, High FSH, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder ,STD disease like Gonorrhea , syphilis etc.Excessive drinking, smoking, drug use. Homeopathy medicine is successfully treatment for female infertility

HOMEOPATHY TREATMENT FOR MALE AND FEMALE INFERTILITY

Dr Harshad Raval MD is treating with Homeopathy since last 25 years. Dr. Raval has treated more than 15000 patients across India as well as fro abroad and have achieved a success rate of 95% especially with the medicines for female infertility and the treatment for Oligospermia, low motility, less count treated.

Female infertility cures by homeopathy like chronic Endometriosis, Fibroids, Polyps Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Fallopian tubes, Miscarriage OR Recurring Pregnancy loss Problems with Ovulation. Problem with egg Transport and Fertilization. Late Planning pregnancy cure With 4 to 9 months treatment with Homeopathy medicines.

Homeopathy treatment is faster, easy & safe. Homeopathic medicine is small sweet pills and it's easy to dissolve it on tongue. Medication is easy and hassle and hormone free. Homeopathy medicine has no side effects.

The treatment with Homeopathic medicines not only increases sperm count but also increases sperm motility, volume, abnormal sperm morphology etc.

Homeopathy treatment also clears Female infertility, hormonal imbalance and other urological abnormalities.

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Pass A Hair Test With The Help Of Test Clear Medicine

Corporate drug testing is a test which has to be cleared before having a corporate job. This has become a policy of corporate sectors around the world and employers now want to be sure enough that they are recruiting employees who are efficient, eligible and perfectly healthy to deliver their best to serve the company. If a candidate is drug addicted then it would become impossible to do the required thing and the employer has to waste his money over the unfit and drug addicted person. Therefore it has settled that corporate companies can conduct the employees' drug tests which are hair follicle test, blood test, saliva test and urine test. Anyone of these will be selected to test the applicant's health status.

Corporate drug testing is mainly focusing on the hair test to detect drugs like marijuana, heroine, hashish etc. hair test says very clearly about the drug addiction and it delivers a trustful result but apart from it urine test is also conducted to be sure about the test. In schools and smaller companies pass a urine test is synonymous to pass a drug test. But comparing to a hair test saliva test or a urine test is not so much trustful and efficient to find drug particle. Pass a hair test can be more accurate than the saliva test. In case the subject doesn't have hair on his head; his hair follicle is tested for the same purpose, though this is a bit more painful process for the candidate. The drawback of the hair test is that, though it can give results depending on the usage of drugs for quite longer period or even drug usage about a month earlier, but in this process the very recent usage cannot be found out.

To pass a hair test you have to be very careful and should know about it very minutely. There are many methods according to many websites and companies which sells drug test clearing products. But there are two products which are reliable and worth it for beating this type of drug test. The first product that can aid in a beating a hair drug test is Clear Choice shampoo. Clear Choice is intended to be used on the morning of your drug test, and creates an eight hour "Clear Zone" to provide you with all day protection. If you don't have any warning ahead of time when your drug test is going to be, you will be better off using Nexxus Aloe Rid shampoo. This shampoo can be used on a daily basis, and will get rid of all the drug toxins that linger in your hair.

To pass a drug test you have to be careful about the process and must have a handy knowledge about the whole process. It is very necessary because if you do not know the process better then you can not counter the drug test well and will fail to counter the drug test and suffer. So knowing about a drug test is the way to pass a drug test.

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