Parents often feel that teens, as a group, are vulnerable in terms of nutrition. Teenagers often get a sermon from their parents when they have to eat sensibly. Parents have this idea due to the fact that sweets and snacks easily available and because of reports that show that teens often do not eat well. [...]
Your body and your mind change during adolescence that of a child to that of an adult. The physical changes and mental changes are not always given equal priority, but may be in a distinctly different pace. At the beginning of your teenage years you still think like a child and at the end of [...]
In early adolescence, you may start at home to experiment with another way to behave and dress. Before you try anything on the outside, you will seek the approval of other family members to acquire. It may be that you have a few tentative attempts to confirm your independence. It may be that fewer family [...]
In the first weeks of pregnancy are often the most cases of fetal death instead. Occasionally, a fetus after the fifth month of pregnancy death. For an intra-uterine (womb corpse inside) there are several causes fetal death. These include pre-eclampsia (zwangerschapsvergifteging) and eclampsia (high blood pressure), diabetes in the mother, loss of blood before delivery, [...]
De klachten en verschijnselen: Een bevalling die na 42 weken nog niet op gang gekomen is. Als een zwangerschap langer duurt dan 42 weken (de gemiddelde duur van de zwangerschap is veertig weken, gerekend vanaf de eerste dag van de laatste ongesteldheid) dan spreken we van ‘overdragen’. Er wordt soms voor een tweede of volgende [...]
How do I know when labor starts? That question is difficult to answer because every woman either, as each pregnancy is different. In a first child may have friends and relatives told that a confinement is the worst thing that can happen to anyone, or did they just told it not too bad. If you [...]
Van de meeste baby’s wordt het hoofdje als eerste geboren, met het gezichtje naar de rug van de moeder gekeerd. Dit wordt de achterhoofdsligging genoemd. In deze stand passeert het hoofdje op de gemakkelijkste manier het geboortekanaal. Ongeveer 4 procent van de baby’s gaat erop een andere manier doorheen; soms kan dit gevaarlijk zijn en [...]
Een bevalling kan soms helemaal niet opschieten. Dat gebeurt indien de baarmoeder zich niet regelmatig samentrekt, als de weeën niet erg sterk zijn of als er iets in de weg zit. Indien een bevalling heel erg lang duurt door dat er onvoldoende weeënkracht is kan de baarmoeder door middel van een infuus met weeën-stimulerende middelen [...]
De klachten en verschijnselen: Na de bevalling ernstig bloedverlies. Van een nabloeding is sprake indien er na een bevalling overmatig bloedverlies is. Dat is in de verloskunde de meest voorkomende vorm van hevig bloedverlies. Eén van de oorzaken die het meest voorkomt is het onvermogen van de baarmoeder om zich voldoende samen te trekken nadat [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Een placenta die zestig minuten na de geboorte van de baby nog niet uit het geboortekanaal gekomen is. Wanneer de placenta na de geboorte van de baby niet uit de baarmoeder wil komen is er sprake van een vastzittende placenta. Meestal is de oorzaak dat de placenta nog gedeeltelijk vastzit aan de [...]
Ongetwijfeld bent u heel opgelucht nadat u bevallen bent van een gezonde baby. Maar naast deze opluchting is er ook een heel nieuw gevoel van verantwoordelijkheid en zorgen. Er moeten beslissingen genomen worden en in de komende maanden zullen zich ongetwijfeld verschillende problemen voordoen waaraan aandacht besteed moet worden. In het hoofdstuk, getiteld ’De pasgeborene: [...]
Feeding the newborn takes considerable time. The first chapter of this book: The Newborn, the first month of life ‘is about breastfeeding and bottle feeding. The piece that follows is about breastfeeding. The vast majority of women are able to breastfeed. Some women with small breasts is to take for granted that they will not [...]
Wat houdt een midlife-crisis in? Krijgt iedereen er last van? Is het mogelijk er zonder schade uit te komen of kan iemand zelfs beter af zijn na die tijd? De midlife-crisis is een even verwarrend als normaal verschijnsel. De kindertijd is een voorbereidingsperiode op het volwassen zijn. Jonge volwassenen zoeken hun eigen manier om door [...]
A human life has an end. The upper limit is around 100 years, few people live longer than a century. For years scientists have wondered why someone is aging. Some cells in the body are constantly replaced by new, but not others. It has been given to the existence of a “biological clock” that is [...]
As you get older to change the heart and blood vessels, even without any disease process. The heart muscle becomes less elastic and the metabolic processes providing progressively less energy than the center needs. The pumping action of the heart is therefore less efficient heart muscle and should increase efforts to the same amount of [...]
With aging, there are several, almost imperceptible, changes occur in the digestive tract. Usually do not notice it before middle age passed. The swallowing movements of the esophagus are slightly slower, but this change is too small to be noticed. The same applies to the movements that the ingested food through the intestines push through. [...]
Although we tend to think that bones are hard and unyielding and not change, living bone is continually renews and adapts itself constantly to the demands which are made. For example, someone engaging in hard physical work with his arms will not only get thicker and stronger arm muscles than someone who does heavy work, [...]
As you get older, losing the largest organ of the body, skin, some of its elasticity and its natural moisture. The skin becomes thinner and wrinkles begin to form in old age in some places as deep furrows and folds visible. In middle age in certain parts of the skin a little bit to hang. [...]
With menopause is the cessation of menstruation of the woman meant. (The word menopause is derived from the Greek words for one month and pausis to stop.) When the menopause comes to an end to the woman the opportunity to have children. There are many widespread misconceptions about the transition: the transition that would end [...]
In men, no women with menopause the same period. With aging, the production of testosterone (a male hormone) gradually decreases, but does not entirely. When a man has not an illness, he continues to produce seed and keeps his sexual potency until well into the eighties or even older. Yet there are also men, as [...]
Whether you are healthy, sick or disabled, you can have your own sexual identity and the desire to give expression to it. However, illness and disability affect how you respond sexually to one another. A number of medical problems that may affect your sex life is discussed below. Heart attack. Chest pain, shortness of breath [...]
The aging process begins at the moment someone is born and continues. But at age sixty-five people very different from each other regarding how old their body looks, and how much they have changed. There are sixty-five olds that look like forty-five, and sixty-five year olds that look like eighty-five birthdays. These differences are due [...]
There have always been old people. It is known both as writings from ancient skeletal remains. Until relatively recently there were not too many old people. Diseases handles around him and took their toll, the medicine was primitive and the food was bad, so many people do not even middle age (aged between 40 and [...]
As the old saying goes: “You’re as young as you feel” there is a large element of truth. When people get older and they have no other serious diseases or other problems, “feel” they are like when they were young. Because the essence of a man is not changed, only his body is changing slowly. [...]
One of the worst changes that people at older ages to do to get it to give up their independence. Fortunately, not everyone does that. Research has shown that in the Netherlands about 97 percent of the elderly to live independently their five seventieth year. The elderly between 75 and 85 years living just over [...]
What is successful aging? This question has never been as important, because never before in history have so many people so old. Getting older does not mean going metpensioen or reaching a certain chronological age as 65 years. It is a process that lasts a lifetime. The people who know best are the ones that [...]
Denk niet dat u na uw 65ste invalide bent geworden. Kwalen en pijntjes horen erbij maar uw latere jaren kunnen de meest plezierige en werkzame van uw leven zijn. Probeer alles uit het leven te halen door zo goed mogelijk in conditie te blijven. Door regelmatig met mate aan lichaamsbeweging te doen kunt u gezonder [...]
Do you frequently lose your car keys or forgetting how you often leave with someone you have agreed? Lists are an indispensable on parts of your daily lives? The memory consists of three categories: Imprinting: a phone number look up and remember it long enough to run. Short-term memory: what you ate this morning or [...]
Signs and symptoms Effort to focus to see objects. Blurred vision in the central part of the visual field. Clouding of the image when you see one or both eyes. Double vision. Problems driving at night by glare from oncoming traffic. Like the other parts of the body are also the parents eyes. This means [...]
Typically, incontinence at any age due to an underlying disease or ailment, whether it is urine, faeces or both go. Older people are more likely to suffer incontinence than younger people. As you get older, working the muscles and ligaments that control urination and bowel movements become less effective and thus easier to work with [...]
There is a saying: “Once you’re on year, you begin to speed up”. Unfortunately, at least some exercise, it is rarely true. Muscles, tendons and joints generally lose some of their strength and adaptability, and the ‘power’ for the energy of the body creates, burns at a lower ebb. You do things not as fast [...]
Signs and symptoms Hard and sometimes painful bowel movements. Less frequent bowel movements. Problems to get rid of the stool. Many people speak of constipation when they are not at least once a day to the bathroom go. That is a wrong to mount. The normal pattern of bowel movements varies widely from person to [...]
Signs and symptoms Less sexual desire. Absence of sexual desire. Problems with sexual performance (such as impotence or painful intercourse). There was a time when sex after the age of 70 years simply did not exist, at least, it was a subject that was not negotiable. Today people are realizing that sex remains important throughout [...]
A person’s voice can change the characteristic sound. Three factors are causing a change in the sound of a voice and place that are a sore throat, throat cancer and stroke. Hoarseness is sometimes throat infection. But there is often no treatment is required for this to heal. If a person very hoarse after a [...]
Signs and symptoms Loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities. Gloomy or depressed. Poor appetite. Sleep disorders. Loss of energy, feeling tired. Sometimes people get depressed due to certain events such as the loss of a spouse or a close friend or through the course of a disease, a wrong turn. Also, some people [...]
You are born in a small body. There is nothing wrong, everything still works one hundred percent and everything is still tight. Over the years this gradually changed. You may notice nothing the first thirty or forty years, but then what can really change. Especially when you get older you have an obstacle on the [...]