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Most people with Raynaud’s does not need medical attention. The symptoms can be managed to avoid the events as much as possible the episode of vasospasm often be stopped by heating the affected areas when going outside or by placing the fingers or toes in a bowl with hot water.

The biofeedback, which trains the body to warm the extremities, may help some patients manage their symptoms. This mind-body method uses machines to help you learn how to increase voluntary control bodily processes that are typically involuntary, such as blood flow. Read the rest of this entry »

Although there is no way to prevent a person will develop this condition may reduce the number of episodes of vasospasm or even eliminated by avoiding situations that can trigger attacks.

To prevent vasospasm:

- Avoid unnecessary exposure to cold
at home, raise the thermostat a few degrees. Read the rest of this entry »

Symptoms

People with Raynaud’s phenomenon look and feel changes in fingers and toes when exposed to cold. The skin turns pale or white and then a bluish hue. You may also feel a tingling in the fingers or toes or numb. When recovering the temperature, the skin suddenly turns pink or reddish color and may have a throbbing sensation or pain as the blood comes back to run through tiny blood vessels.

People with Raynaud’s disease secondary to rheumatoid disease also have arthritis, rash, or a thickening or hardening of the skin. Read the rest of this entry »

When healthy people remain in a cold climate, tiny blood vessels in the skin constrict or narrow, in an effort to conserve heat. In people with Raynaud’s phenomenon (also called Raynaud’s disease or syndrome), the natural response to cold is extreme.

Tiny blood vessels go into spasm, narrowing and reducing blood flow to the affected areas. This response, called vasospasm, is seen more often in the fingers and toes, but can also occur in the ears, cheeks and nose.

In some people with this disorder, the contraction may also occur in response to emotional stress or rapid change in temperature from hot to cold. Read the rest of this entry »

Noses can be a broken bone and the cartilage of the nose damaged during any type of accident. Rhinoplasty may be the best option for a broken nose, but the timeliness of medical care, and treatment would be the first priority before considering surgical procedures.

The first step begins the evaluation of the nose, which should take place within 72 hours of injury. During the evaluation of the nose, a doctor take a peek to see if there is any internal damage, which is many cases is quite evident. In some cases tomography can be used to evaluate the septum, bone, breast channels, cartilage and surrounding tissue.

The doctor will deal with immediate problems such as obstruction of a blood clot which may require drainage. Alignment of the nose can be made in the initial treatment period, but it is sometimes delayed up to ten days at most after nasal injury. In fact, a realignment should take place as soon as possible after the injury.

Although the realignment rhinoplasty surgery can performed long after the nose has been broken, ultimately, it is much easier to carry out the realignment of the broken nose or a deviated septum as soon as possible. The sooner the procedure is done, the great the chances of being able to restore the shape of the nose to a normal condition.

What is a hearing aid?

A device that is applied to the ear to hear better. The function of the hearing is to take the patient’s residual hearing and amplify, as a speaker. This is what I did until a few years ago hearing aids. Today, improved technology has made hearing aids fit intelligible signal can cause noise amplification. Thus, the instrument can improve the hearing of all intensities and frequencies. The hearing aid fitting process is slow and must be conducted by a hearing professional.

How a person develops presbycusis?

The progressive loss of hearing of the person with presbycusis is slow if the patient controls the risk factors mentioned above. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the treatment of a person with presbycusis?

It has been postulated the use of drugs that slow the development of presbycusis, but there is no scientific evidence of the efficacy of any of them.

When the patient hears worse, the most effective treatment is the use of hearing aids. Ideally, a bilateral hearing aid fitting for binaural reception is always more similar to the normal situation the mono. If correct a defect in vision goggles and we get, obviously, we do for the two eyes, maybe we should do the same with hearing problems.

Interpersonal communication is not only verbal but gestural. Therefore, an effective measure to improve the communication of the person with presbycusis is to look at the gestures of the speaker, trying to read lips, watch your hands, etc.. Communication is easier if it is face to face and in a well lit. Read the rest of this entry »

How do you diagnose a presbycusis?

The doctor should suspect that this is a person with presbycusis when we meet a person close to retirement with hearing problems, which also has the risk factors mentioned above. In these people we do basically three scans

- Otoscopy: otoscopy is the visual examination of the ear. In these people the otoscopy is normal in most cases.

- Tone threshold audiometry: is a simple test that establishes the intensity at which the patient begins to hear the tones that will broadcast the browser. It is done with headphones provided by different shades: from 125 to 8,000 Hz (hertz, or cycles per second). People with presbycusis typically have hearing loss at 2,000 Hz Read the rest of this entry »

What is presbycusis?

Presbycusis is defined as hearing loss associated with age. Not be regarded as a senile disease, but as the manifestation of the normal situation of the hearing in old age, in which all the organs become less effective in their role. The importance of presbycusis is increasing due to the progressive aging of the Spanish population.

What is the cause of presbycusis?

The fundamental cause of presbyacusis is age, which progressively damaging the inner ear with a corresponding loss of hearing. The onset of presbycusis is favored by some diseases such as ear infections, trauma, exposure to noisy environments, atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and use of ototoxic medication. Read the rest of this entry »

What can the patient do?

Not much more to see as quickly as possible in case of sudden drop in hearing (compare how you hear an alarm clock or phone in one ear and in the other).

ENT is a pressing need to be addressed without further delay (less than 24 hours if possible) to have the greatest chance of recovery.

Evolution

The evolution of acute deafness is unpredictable, ranging from complete recovery to a total absence of recovery.

Recovery is always better in the low frequencies (lower). Late recovery when there has been a long time since the end of treatment. Some may occur again (relapse), in which case they are called fluctuating deafness. Read the rest of this entry »