What is Tonsils (tonsillitis)?

Tonsils are infection (inflammation) tonsils (tonsillitis) caused by a virus. It usually affects children aged 5-15 years. Based on a long infected, the tonsils can be divided into 2; acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Tonsils is called acute if the illness lasts less than 3 weeks and chronic tonsillitis in case of 7 times or more in a year, or five times over two years, three times a year in a row.

Tonsils (tonsils) is caused by an infection, virus, recurrent flu, and strep throat. If such a thing happens then it will be enlarged tonsils.

Symptoms of tonsillitis

Symptoms of tonsillitis include; sufferers feel tegorokan feels dry, or feeling lump in the throat (neck), painful swallowing (swallowing saliva or food and beverage) to become lazy eating, pain may spread to the neck and ears.

Other symptoms include fever, headache, sometimes chills, weakness, muscle pain with cough, runny nose, hoarseness, halitosis, nausea, abdominal pain sometimes, enlarged lymph nodes (lymph nodes) in the neck. Sometimes patients with tonsillitis (chronic) snoring during sleep (especially if accompanied by enlarged adenoid glands (glands located in the wall between the throat and the back of the nasal cavity). 

The symptoms can be determined if the patient examination. At the time of inspection, it was found enlarged tonsils (tonsillectomy), red, white patches sometimes encountered (exudate) on the surface of the tonsils, the red color which signifies inflammation around the tonsils and throat.

Tonsil Treatment

There is no specific way to prevent tonsil. But some of the tips below help to avoid the tonsils;

1. Wash your hands frequently to prevent the spread of micro-organisms that can cause tonsillitis.

2. Avoid contact with infected persons tanggorokan, at least until 24 hours after the patient's throat infection (caused by bacteria) get antibiotics.

Much Drinking Water Can Accelerate Weight Loss

It is said to increase the intake of water before eating food can increase satiety. That is why a study says people who are on a diet and consume more water faster, faster weight down.

Originally Rebecca Muckelbauer, a researcher from the Berlin School of Public Health, Charité University Medical Center Berlin, Germany and led a review of this claim as a researcher in the field of nutrition, people often ask him whether they should drink water to lose weight and in fact he do not know anything about it.

Drinking Water, Weight Loss Faster

To that end, Muckelbauer and his colleagues decided to observe the entire study related to body weight and water consumption. And there are 11 studies that fit the desired criteria researchers. Even three of which showed that increased water intake in dieters proven to accelerate weight loss.

One was conducted by Brenda Davy, an associate professor from Virginia Tech, USA. This study found that the middle-aged and elderly people who drank two glasses of water before meals to lose weight about 1.8 pounds more than those who do not drink extra water.

Meanwhile, another study says women who increase water consumption when the diet will lose more extra weight than women who consumed only one liter of water per day below.

Even so, none of the studies that can explain how water helps the people in these studies to lose weight.

But according to Davy, "The water can reduce hunger. And it might help them reduce their calorie intake."

Muckelbauer also agreed that increased satiety is the most plausible explanation behind this finding. Another possibility is a condition called "thermogenesis induced by water '.

"So it's own drinking water increases the release of the body's energy or water is also known to have the effect of energy consumption.'s Just that not many researchers observed," said Muckelbauer as reported by Reuters on Friday (07/05/2013).

However, from a survey conducted Muckelbauer known that people who drink more water is not necessarily more slender than that not a lot of drinking water.

In fact, some people who are obese or overweight are indeed consume more water than those with ideal weight.

"We have no evidence to conclude that increasing water intake will lose weight, but there are other benefits gained if we drink more water. Among decreased risk of diabetes and kidney stones," said Davy.

Findings Muckelbauer and his colleagues have published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Tips How to Take Care of Your Teeth In order not to be Yellow

Sweet smile with white teeth and healthy would be the desire of many people. Unfortunately, lazy brushing teeth, smoking and certain foods can make your teeth yellow. So as not to interfere with your smile, there are some steps that can be done so that no yellowing teeth.

Teeth Treatment

Teeth can turn yellow due to plaque which is basically a dirty layer that settles permanently on the teeth. As you age, tooth enamel erodes and then begin to absorb food color.

Beverages such as tea and coffee can leave stains on teeth. Yellowing teeth can be prevented if you do the following specific steps, as reported Boldsky, Friday (07/05/2013):

1. Brush with mustard oil and salt

Brush your teeth with mustard oil and salt once a month. This will help clean the food color and plaque accumulation on the teeth. You can use your fingers to brush or cotton dipped in a mixture of mustard oil and salt.

2. Drink with a straw

Some foods such as tea and coffee can leave stains on teeth. Certain soda beverages also make tooth enamel to erode. So if you can not avoid these drinks, it is best to drink through a straw. Drink with a straw to minimize contact with teeth. This could be an important step in stopping penguningan teeth.

3. Crunchy food consumption

Some crunchy foods can help to whiten teeth how to clean it. For example, apples, pears, lettuce and others. This fiber foods help to clean teeth effectively.

4. Brush with baking soda

Baking soda is one of the most versatile ingredient in the kitchen. Brush your teeth with baking soda to whiten occasionally directly.

5. Quitting smoking

Smoking is one of the biggest reasons that may yellows the teeth. Chewing gum and mouth wash will not help if you continue to smoke. That's why, stop smoking before your teeth turn yellow dirty.

6. Rinse your mouth after eating

Every time you eat something, rinse mouth thoroughly with water. Rinsing the mouth can sweep the accumulation of food and food color of your mouth.