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Cholera is a disease of acute intestinal tract infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria enter the body through contaminated food or drink. The bacteria secrete enterotoxin ( poison ) in the intestinal tract so that there is an acute diarrhea accompanied by vomiting and great, consequently a person in just a few days to lose a lot of fluids and get in on. If dehydration is not treated immediately, it will continue towards hypovolemic and metabolic acidosis in a relatively short time and can cause death if treatment is inadequate. Giving ordinary drinking water will not help much, cholera patients requiring intravenous fluids or sugar and salt in the form of intravenous fluid mix of both. The spread of cholera Cholera can spread as an endemic disease, epidemic, or pandemic. Although many large scale studies conducted, but the condition of this disease remains a challenge for modern medicine. Vibrio cholerae bacteria multiply and spread through feaces of man, when

Do you have family members who suffer from Alzheimer's ? Do not just frustrated with the patient. As well as you, people with Alzheimer's need help. Here are some tips worth trying by families and patients suffering from Alzheimer's . Create a daily schedule that is simple, like a meal schedule, taking medication, bowel, and other routines that simplify your routine monitoring of the patient. This schedule is also useful for patients who are accustomed to doing something simple that maintain cognitive abilities. Use simple words so that patients can better understand the message you convey. Encourage the patient to talk about the past. This is to help stimulate memory. If necessary, use a tool such as the memorable photo, video, or song that can make the patient to remember the past. Lastly, do not ignore the feelings of the patient. Notice the small things that people noticed. Perhaps, a little thing that can make him regain his memory. Indeed, so far no studies or experts

According Doenges (2000: 152-155) basic assessment of COPD include: 1. Activity / rest symptoms: a. Exhaustion, fatigue. b. The inability to perform daily activities because of difficulty breathing. c. Inability to sleep, need to sleep in a higher body position. d. Dyspnea at rest or in response to activity or exercise. Signs: a. Fatigue. b. Restlessness, insomnia. c. General fatigue or loss of muscle mass. 2. Circulation symptoms: a. Swelling of the lower extremities. Signs: a. The increase in blood pressure. b. Increased heart rate or severe tachycardia, dysrhythmias. c. Distended neck veins. d. Edema not associated with heart disease. e. Faint heart sounds. 3. Ego Integrity symptoms: a. Increased risk factors b. Changes in lifestyle Signs: a. Anxiety, fear, sensitive excitatory. 4. Food and fluids Symptoms: a. Nausea or vomiting. b. Anorexia. c. Weight loss. Signs: a. Poor skin turgor. b. Edema. c. Sweating. d. Decrease in muscle mass. 5. Hygiene Symptoms: a. Decreased ability or in

Diet is one that is often done as a way to Lose Weight. Many types of diets that have been done to get the body shape and weight are proportional. Some are on a strict diet to have to make a diet program. But there are other ways to lose weight, which is the white water. Diet with water is long and many are doing in helping the diet program that is being done. " Adults who drink two glasses of water before a meal will help you lose weight to about 2 pounds, " wrote the Daily Mail, Thursday, July 4th 2013 The authors have reviewed 11 different studies on the relationship of water to the diet. The result, three studies show that consuming more water will help boost weight loss. So how to lose weight with water ? here are some things to do to lose weight with water. Make it such as taking drugs. Make a schedule and a target amount of water that must be taken on a daily basis. Drink 8 glasses of water a day, for example by making a schedule every 2 hours one glass of water. Bring

Weight loss program can be a powerful thing as How to lose Weight. This program can be very helpful if done in the long term, especially when it can be used as a way of life. You should be able to balance between food and activities in order to make this program well. Before undertaking a weight loss program, make sure you 're ready to change the lifestyle of weeks to lose weight. To decrease the amount should also be done at regular intervals and piecemeal. Ranging from 0.5 kg to 1 kg a week can be targeted first. It continues to be increased to achieve the ideal body weight or desired. The process of weight loss with the process slowly and properly can also help improve health. Tips to lose weight programs Make a target that reality. Many people who make targets that are too high in weight loss. The difficulty in achieving the target is too high to make many of those who surrendered . Therefore the set targets based on the ability to do. Choose what is the best option. Selection

Nursing Care Plan for Seizure Disorders Definition Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by the onset of the symptoms that come in attacks, repeatedly, which caused abnormal electrical discharges off nerve cells of the brain, which is reversible with various etiologies (Arif, 2000) Etiology The cause of the seizures of epilepsy are largely unknown (idiopathic) often occurs in : Birth trauma, neonatal asphyxia. Head injury, infections of the nervous system. CO poisoning, intoxication drugs / alcohol. Fever, metabolic disorders (hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia). Brain tumors. Vascular abnormalities. (Tarwoto, 2007) Etiologic factors affect the determination of prognosis. The main cause, is ; idiopathic epilepsy, remote symptomatic epilepsy (RSE), acute symptomatic epilepsy, and epilepsy in children based on the damage to the brain during perinatal or antenatal. In the classification there are two prominent types of epilepsy, is ; idiopathic epilepsy and RSE. From th