มีการศึกษาจาก Harvard School of Public health พบว่า การทานโปรตีนจากสัตว์อาจมีฮอร์โมนเร่งเนื้อแดงตกค้างและมีไขมันสูงทำให้ผู้หญิงมีความเสี่ยงมีบุตรยากถึง 39% ดังนั้นควรเลือกทานโปรตีนสัตว์ที่มีแหล่งโปรตีนชั้นดี และไม่ติดมัน เช่น ไข่ เนื้อปลา อกไก่ หรือ นมแพะ เป็นต้น นอกจากนี้ยังมีงานวิจัยหนึ่งชื่อว่า Protein intake and ovulatory infertility ของ Harvard School of Public Health ที่ตีพิมพ์ในวารสาร American Journal of obstetrics and gynocology เมื่อปี 2008 ศึกษาพบว่าผู้หญิงที่เปลี่ยนการรับประทานโปรตีนจากสัตว์มาเป็นโปรตีนจากพืช ช่วยลดความเสี่ยงจากการมีบุตรยาก เนื่องจากปัญหาไข่ไม่ตกได้ถึง 50% โดยโปรตีนจากพืช (Plant-Based Protein) ที่ช่วยปรับสมดุลฮอร์โมนและช่วยเสริมภาวะเจริญพันธุ์ ได้แก่ ถั่วเหลือง อัลมอนด์ งาดำ ควินัว เมล็ดฟักทอง เป็นต้น
ส่วนในผู้ชายนั้น มีงานวิจัยของ Boston University School of Public Health เมื่อปี 2016 ศึกษาพบว่าการนอนที่เพียงพอนั้นควรนอนหลับ 7-8 ชม.ต่อวัน ผู้ชายที่นอนน้อยกว่า 6 ชม.หรือ นอนมากกว่า 9 ชม.ต่อวัน ส่งผลต่อโอกาสในการทำให้คู่ของตนเองตั้งครรภ์ลดลง 42% ในแต่ละรอบเดือน
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is very contagious and can be picked up from any of 10 contact points, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) warned.
In a recent Facebook post, NHSO listed the 10 risky contact points and steps that should be taken for protection. They are:
Banknotes and coins: Wash your hands with soap and water or alcohol gel.
Door handles/knobs: Push the door open with your shoulder or wipe the door/knob clean with alcohol before touching.
Office desks: Always clean with alcohol before using.
Telephones: Mobile phones and desk phones should be wiped down with alcohol, and mobile phone cases must be removed and cleaned.
Escalator handrails: Avoid touching the rail, and if you must, wash your hands with soap or alcohol gel immediately.
Elevator buttons: Use a pen or toothpick to push the button.
Food court/parking cards: Wipe clean with alcohol.
ATM: Clean your hands immediately after use.
Public toilets: Use tissue to touch toilet fittings or wipe down with alcohol-infused tissue before using. Wash your hands when done.
Parcels: Spray with alcohol or set aside in a different room for two days before opening.
The number of Omicron cases has been on the rise because though it results in fewer symptoms, it can spread very quickly.
On Tuesday, 21,088 people tested positive for Covid-19, while 91 patients succumbed to the virus in Thailand.
Anthelmintic drugs cannot treat Covid-19, Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine lecturer Thira Woratanarat made clear in a Facebook post on Thursday.
His remark came after the rumour went viral among netizens worldwide, including in Thailand.
Citing a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Thira said Ivermectin anthelmintic drugs “cannot reduce the volume of the Covid-19 virus or reduce the severity of the disease”.
“Hence, we should not believe this rumour,” he advised.
Thira went on to say that it would be very hard for Thailand to declare Covid-19 as endemic in a few months as the number of patients continues to rise.
He claimed that a lot of medical institutions are facing a shortage of personnel as some of them have been infected with Covid-19 even while performing their duties.
“It would be better if the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration evaluates the effectiveness of its policy to allow Covid-19 patients to receive outpatient care thoroughly,” he suggested.
Thira Woratanarat
Thira also advised people to request contact with medical personnel that they know and prepare a plan in case they or their family members are infected with Covid-19, as this could help relieve stress.
The treatment of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine based on a study of the elements is currently popular with health lovers.
Every year, around April, the temperature in Thailand sizzles at its hottest. The increasing temperature causes our bodies to be hotter than normal, which might cause some symptoms or unhealthy conditions. Therefore, we should try to cool down our body to avoid the symptoms or abnormal conditions.
To take care of your health in the summer weeks, there are many suggestions offered by Bhakkhaphorn Booranasuntikul from the Wiwatta Clinic, Applied Thai Traditional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Clinic at Princ Suvarnabhumi Hospital in Principal Healthcare, based on the science of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine.
Health problems from cumulative heat in bodies
Cumulative heat in bodies might cause sicknesses such as headaches, dizziness, tiredness, fainting, pain in the oral cavity and throat, aphthous stomatitis, constipation, difficulty in excretion, dry skin, inflammatory acne on faces, and abscess on bodies. The cumulative stored heat in the body might cause damage to some organs or lead to their abnormal functioning. When the body suffers from inflammation several times, it might lead to severe internal sicknesses such as tumours or cancer.
The hot weather in Thailand also affects several things in daily life and might cause unexpected health issues or illnesses, such as:
● The hot weather could easily cause food to get spoilt or go rotten. Eating food with contaminated bacteria or viruses might cause diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera), food poisoning, and typhoid fever.
● When a body is in hot weather for a long time, the body temperature might increase suddenly, which cannot be reduced immediately. It might even cause a heat stroke, leading to death.
● In summer, mammals could get irritable or angered easily, so people should beware of rabies. When mammals, such as infected dogs or cats bite, scratch, or lick the wound, the virus could flow into the blood vessel and might cause death.
● Stress disorder is a commonly found issue in summer. It could cause headaches, insomnia, make one short-tempered or easily irritable, which might affect relationship with a near one. It could also affect daily life negatively, such as cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or loss of weight which might lead to a decline in physical health.
‘Elements’ according to Applied Thai Traditional Medicine
Before we learn how to take care of our bodies according to the principle of elements, we must understand these elements first. The elements are categorised into four types: earth, water, air, and fire. Each element has a different distinctive feature.
Earth: A person with a tall or big body, dark skin, black hair, strong joints, big bone, complete organs, and healthy constitution. When they get an illness, they usually suffer from a chronic disease that requires them to take care of themselves, such as heart disease, hypertension, or obesity.
Water: A person with a regular physique, bright and firm skin, stable walking stance, speaking sweetly and softly, doing things slowly, and capable of enduring cold weather. When they suffer from an illness, it will usually be related to the respiratory system. They will suffer from fever or allergic rhinitis (hay fever) more easily than normal people. Moreover, they should beware of their lymphatic system, wounds healing slowly, and diarrhoea.
Wind: A person with a skinny or thin body, dry skin, doing things quickly, and unable to endure the cold weather. Their health problems usually are insomnia, stomach ache, heartburn, digestive problems. In some cases, they might suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease. They might suffer from body or joint pains while some patients might suffer from dizziness and faint in the rainy season.
Fire: A person with average body, oily skin especially on the face, hot-tempered, enthusiastic, unable to endure hot weather, often hungry. They eat a lot but do not get fat because they have a good metabolism. They usually suffer from stress, gastritis, fever. They also suffer from inflammatory acne, abscess on the body, sore throat, aphthous stomatitis, and constipation.
Does the fire element in the body relapse more easily in the summer and why?
The summer (beginning in March to the end of May) is the period when the fire element relapses because the Earth orbits closer to the Sun, while Thailand is at a right angle to the Sun. The weather will be hotter than normal while the body accumulates more heat (fire element relapse). If all of the heat cannot be released, it might cause some health issues, such as aphthous stomatitis, pain in the oral cavity, prone to acne or rash, constipation, blurred vision, insomnia, or inability to sleep well.
Food, vegetables, fruit, and herbs could help reduce the fire element in the body
Eating food that has a cooling effect can help to reduce cumulative heat in the body. Recommended foods are:
● Foods such as chicken and winter melon soup with preserved lime, stir-fried zucchini with eggs, vegetable gourd soup with minced pork, and vegetable katuk clear soup. They could help cool the body, reduce heat, and relieve fever.
● Foods with a slight or moderate bitter taste, such as bitter melon soup with minced pork, sesbania flower omelette, and stir-fried Asiatic pennywort with eggs. They could help greatly in relieving the heat, waste, and fever in the body.
Vegetables, fruit and herbal drinks with a cooling effect could also reduce the fire element in the body.
● Vegetables with a cooling effect include wax gourd, vegetable gourd, ivy gourd, pandan, blue trumpet vine, cucumber, moringa, and green okra.
● Fruit with a cooling effect include watermelon, cantaloupe, melon, musk melon, rose apple, pitaya, and mangosteen.
● Herbal drinks, such as pandan drink, chrysanthemum juice, pennywort drink, aloe vera juice, and lotus root juice.
What kind of foods can reduce the fire element in the body?
Avoid strongly flavoured foods (too spicy, sweet, greasy, or salty) because they will stimulate the fire element and cause problems such as aphthous stomatitis, inflammatory or slow down the healing of inflammations.
How can one take care of the body to reduce the fire element?
1. Drink at least eight to ten glasses of room temperature water a day.
2. Consume herbal drinks with a cooling effect, such as pandan drink, chrysanthemum juice, Tiliacora triandra leaf juice, and bael juice to make the body fresh.
3. Wear loose and light clothes such as thin cotton, linen, or chiffon. Also wear clothes with soft tone colours so as to reflect the light.
4. Avoid drinks with alcohol, caffeine, or sugar in high amounts because they could stimulate the fire element in the body.
5. Avoid foods with high fat or carbohydrates because they could make the digestive system work harder, which could increase fire element accumulation in the body.
6. Excrete frequently to reduce the heat and leftover waste in the body. If you suffer from constipation or have difficulty in excretion, you should eat vegetables or fruit with high fibre.
7. If you have to be outside for a long time, prepare cold water, a cold cloth, or cold packs to compress your skin and wipe yourself to open your pores, which could help reduce the heat in the body and make you feel better.
The treatment of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine based on a study of the elements is currently popular with health lovers. It starts from changing behaviour according to the elements, eating healthy food, avoiding risky foods, and eating herbs that are appropriate to each element. These will make you healthy, relieve illnesses, and facilitate the return to normal.
Those who are interested to check their elements and consult for health guidelines with herbal treatment could make an appointment at Wiwatta Clinic by calling 02-080-5999 or Line account @psuv
People with no or mild Covid-19 symptoms in some cases do not need to take Favipiravir, the Department of Health said on Wednesday.
Department deputy director-general Manus Potaporn said the latest guideline focuses on Omicron patients:
Those with no symptoms should be treated as outpatients, undergoing home isolation or treated at facilities allocated by the government, according to doctors. They should not be given antiviral drugs such as Favipiravir because most patients can be cured without the drugs. However, doctors could prescribe Fah Talai Jone, but this herb must not be given at the same time as antiviral drugs because there might be some side effects.
Patients with mild symptoms, without pneumonia or a risk of severe diseases and normal lung X-ray results should be given Favipiravir as soon as possible within five days. If the patient has been infected for more than five days and has no or mild symptoms, they might not need to be given antiviral drugs because they can be cured by themselves.
Manus reminded medical personnel to be careful when prescribing medicines, especially Favipiravir, to pregnant women. It might affect the baby’s development, especially during the first three months, he said.
Favipiravir could also affect patients with liver issues. It might irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Favipiravir increases uric acid, which might affect patients with uric acid issues.
People can gain immunity if they are vaccinated, he pointed out, adding that taking care of your health and getting enough rest will boost immunity against the virus.
Public Health Ministry deputy permanent secretary Thongchai Keeratihuttayakorn confirmed that the ministry had enough medicines to treat every patient if needed.
However, not every patient needs medicine.
He advised people to get a booster dose. If they do not have severe symptoms or are not in risk groups, the virus will stimulate their immunity and it will be eradicated in five days. After five days, they should take an ATK test again.
The ministry has medicines available – Fah Talai Jone, Favipiravir and Molnupiravir – plus Paxlovid, for which it has already signed a purchase contract, Thongchai said.
However, he warned that these must be used “reasonably” as some could destroy the liver and kidney.
He asked medical personnel to inform patients in detail on how and when to use the drugs.
Guidance on telling the difference between dengue fever and Covid-19 was offered by the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health on Monday.
Dengue fever symptoms include high fever for two to seven days, a skin rash, red face, headache, aches and pains, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and stomach ache. Other less common signs of the mosquito-borne disease are black stools or blood in the stools, or red spots under the skin. Any difficulty in breathing or pneumonia is not usually accompanied by coughing or runny nose.
Covid-19 symptoms include low or high fever, aches and pains, sore throat, dry cough or phlegm, runny nose, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, pneumonia in severe cases, vomiting, and diarrhoea in some cases – but no red spots under the skin.
Somsak Akksilp, director-general of the Department of Health, warned that hot weather, storms and standing water were now offering a breeding ground for dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
The resulting rise in dengue infections has coincided with a surge in daily Covid-19 cases, making it difficult to tell the difference between the two diseases and provide appropriate care – especially for young children at danger of severe symptoms.
Moreover, children under five have not received Covid-19 vaccine.
Health officials have urged parents of children with symptoms who test negative via ATKs to beware of dengue fever.
Institute director Adisai Pattatang explained dengue fever is caused by four virus variants – DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4 – and carried by yellow fever mosquitoes.
Covid-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 which via droplets or aerosol vapour coming into contact with the eye, nose or mouth.
Both diseases can share the same symptoms of fever, vomiting, or diarrhoea, but it was important to identify cases of dengue as these can lead to organ failure and death.
To do this, people can use ATK tests and their history of close contacts to rule out Covid-19 infection and get emergency hospital treatment for dengue.
Patients who suffer symptoms for two to three days but have no cough or runny nose should visit a hospital for a blood test and diagnosis.
Adisai said no antiviral drugs exist for dengue but the fever can be treated with paracetamol – though not with aspirin or ibuprofen. Patients who lose their appetite could drink milk, juices or mineral water.
Meanwhile people with mild Covid-19 can treat themselves at home though severe cases need hospital treatment.
AstraZeneca’s Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody combination, has been granted marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19 in a broad population of adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg.
The approval by the European Commission was based on results from the Evusheld clinical development programme, including data from the PROVENT Phase III pre-exposure prophylaxis trial which showed a 77% reduction in the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 compared to placebo at the primary analysis and an 83% reduction at a six-month median analysis, with protection from the virus lasting at least six months. Evusheld was generally well-tolerated in the trial.
James Teague, Country President, AstraZeneca (Thailand) Ltd., said “As Thailand transitions from a pandemic to an endemic stage, we are committed to leave no patient behind. Evusheld is an option to provide additional protection to immunocompromised people, particularly the 607 population who are most vulnerable to the virus. They benefit from the pre-exposure prophylaxis with Evusheld.This EMA approval is really good news, and we are doing our best to make it available in Thailand soon.”
Evusheld is authorised for emergency use for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in the US and has been granted conditional marketing authorisation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in Great Britain for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19. Additionally, there are a number of countries across Europe that have agreements in place to provide Evusheld.
สารอาหารที่จำเป็น: วิตามิน D สารต้านอนุมูลอิสระ โดยเฉพาะวิตามิน D ซึ่งช่วยให้ร่างกายดูดซึมแคลเซียม และยังเสริมระบบภูมิคุ้มกันให้แข็งแรง ช่วยเพิ่มพลังงาน และมีส่วนช่วยในการป้องกันมะเร็งเต้านและมะเร็งลำไส้ อัตราการเก็บสะสมวิตามิน D ในร่างกายจะลดลงเมื่อผู้หญิงเข้าสู่วัย 40 ปี
สารต้านอนุมูลอิสระ เช่น วิตามิน A C และ E ป้องกันหรือชะลอการเสื่อมถอยของเซลล์ที่ทำให้เกิดริ้วรอย แหล่งที่ให้สารต้านอนุมูลอิสระที่ดี ได้แก่ พริกแดง ผลไม้กลุ่มซีตรัส เบอร์รี่ แครอต มันหวาน และถั่วต่าง ๆ
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