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It’s a baby you want, you’ve spent a quiet pregnancy, but after childbirth, maternity leave, you feel depressed and you may get the impression of being unable to take care of your baby. And then you feel guilty for not being cheerful and overly sensitive to all comments, even the most insignificant of your friends. Do not worry, no doubt feel the baby blues, like 50-80% of women after birth.

Why not feel good?
After pregnancy, low progestative brutal of hormones coupled with the expulsion of the placenta can cause temporary imbalances of the biological clock and, therefore, emotions.
In addition, especially if they feared childbirth, you may suffer the backlash of your anguish.
It can also cause a feeling of disappointment, to leave something unfinished, if delivery did not live as you want it or if the baby face, you have nostalgia, more or less consciously, pregnancy status, which allowed all expectations.
Finally, being a mother, especially if it is the first time, represents an obstacle to be overcome in life. You get your mother, your spouse, father, your parents, grandparents … It’s all marital and family dynamics to be integrated at once. Even if you live past your pregnancy to this change, it can catch you unawares.
It is more simple: take care of a baby is such a responsibility that can frighten and even give the impression that you are unable to take it.

What I can do?
Before birth, prepare well for baby’s arrival will help you avoid feeling overwhelmed at the moment of truth.
When the baby arrives, do not live alone your distress. It’s time to pamper yourself and help. Your husband, your relatives, the maternity staff … if you explain your sensitivity, understanding will surely be willing to help. So do not hesitate to delegate tasks that are not essential, and do not worry if things at home or the plate is not done well for some time. It’s time to call your friends, your sisters and your mother. And in speaking with them, you’ll see that you are not the only one who has gone through these tough moments.
After a few days, things will return to your site.

And if it lasts?
If after 15 days, things do not improve, talk to a doctor. He will see if you suffer from postpartum depression and if you need medical treatment. Postpartum depression affects 10% of young mothers. It is manifested by the persistence of intense guilt or the conviction that you are unable to take care of the baby. Often associated with extreme fatigue and even thoughts of death or hallucinations, you need treatment to prevent damage in the mother-child bond, which does not induce, a priori, the baby blues.
If applicable, a doctor may also recommend a psychotherapist. In fact, maybe your anxiety is due to difficulties arising from the relationship with your own parents, especially your mother. Some sessions may be important support to end the problem

Chocolate is a product developed based on cocoa and is widely known throughout the world as an element that provides large amounts of energy to the body.
The chocolate is reputed to have an exquisite taste but in return leads to weight gain.
Both are true, your calorie intake is too high, a small bar of chocolate can provide about 200 calories, but this benefits the athletes and who by their activities require a high-calorie food.

Benefits of Chocolate

The chocolate has properties that many know, for example has flavonoids that act as powerful antioxidants that help prevent disease and act against free radicals that cause aging.

Chocolate natural antidepressant

Very few people are aware that chocolate acts favorably against the Depression, this is because it contains Phenylethylamine substance secreted by the brain in large amounts when a person is in love. Read the rest of this entry »

Many times have we heard that we are what we eat, and never more true this statement was to attack the problem head-depression because food acts directly on our mood. If we take a balanced Diet avoid mental imbalances and depression.

Our body is a perfect machine that depends mainly on the energy that will provide the food we eat, if they are balanced, meaning that the amounts are fair and necessary that our body needs and will enhance that there is no shortfall of the same and therefore that does not result in any kind of emotional. Read the rest of this entry »

Identify if you are a depressed person

Depression is an emotional state of permanent sadness and constant negative thoughts, while there may be periods of relative peace, even joy, sooner or later fall back into a depressive state.
Depression is an illness and should not be confused with sadness justified for specific reasons, a depressed person may have no cause to feel anxious but can not help it.

It may be relatively easy to identify a severe depression but not so when it is a mild depression that is just beginning because it can disguise itself with symptoms similar to those of other diseases.

Manifestations of Depression

Depression often manifests with physical symptoms such as frequent headaches, rashes, contractures, digestive disorders or pain throughout the body.
There may be insomnia or trouble sleeping long hours, sometimes the opposite occurs, sleeping too much and have trouble getting out of bed.

The person comes go to different professionals and each one makes a diagnosis according to symptoms and out of the offices filled prescriptions for muscle relaxants, antihistamines, drugs for gastritis, etc, but far from solved problems become worse.
Many diseases can present symptoms but when they occur several at the same time it is possible you are suffering from depression, if the doctor does not wonder about lifestyle and problems of the patient is unlikely to make the correct diagnosis.
When you suspect you may be going through a depression is necessary to explain the professional each and every one of the discomforts that you feel to help diagnose and thus access to treatment as soon as possible.

Foods that may interact with medicines

The power may cause interactions with certain medications and cause various ailments, it is rare that the physician warn of these problems, nor the leaflet accompanying the drugs they say much about it.
Those treated for depression or anxiety should not drink alcohol, that is the most common recommendation, but should also govern the consumption of certain foods.

Foods that may interact with antidepressants

For example when taking antidepressants, the plantains (bananas), avocados, brewer’s yeast, meats, coffee, cream or butter and milk any whole-fat, can cause headaches, dizziness, pain chest, palpitations and increased blood pressure.
This does not mean that all people under treatment with these drugs will suffer these effects, but if you are taking medication for depression or anxiety is advisable to pay attention to what has been previously eaten if they come to similar symptoms . Read the rest of this entry »

Osteoporosis

The bone turnover cycle takes 2 to 3 months. When you’re young, your body makes new bone before the old breaks and increasing bone mass. This reaches the summit around 30 years.
The strength of your bones depends on bone mass and density, and this, in turn, the amount of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals that compose it.

The decalcification process accelerates with age, about 0.3 to 0.5% per year and more, when not supplied enough vitamin D and calcium.

At menopause, when estrogen levels low, the softening is accelerated by 3% per year.
Around age 60, women have lost 35 to 50% of their bone mass.

The risk of developing osteoporosis depends on the amount of bone mass that you have achieved between 25 and 35 and the speed with which the miss later. Hence the importance of consuming calcium and vitamin D, essential for proper absorption of calcium and regular exercise helps keep your bones healthy and strong for much longer.

Risk Factors

* Sex
* Age
* Race
Family history
* Snuff
* Drugs
* Ill estrogen
* Low calcium intake
* Sedentary lifestyle
* Alcoholism
* Depression

For you are well

* Consume adequate doses of calcium, the average is 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium daily. A glass of milk gives you 300 milligrams of calcium. A pregnant woman should consume at least 1,500 milligrams.
* Exercise regularly to strengthen your bones. No matter what age you start, a daily brisk walk for 30 minutes is           sufficient.
* Prevents snuff.
* Hormone replacement may help (See your doctor).
* Avoid alcohol.
* Reduce caffeine consumption.
* Maintain good posture.
* Use low and safe footwear (slip).

Up to a quarter of all women suffer from depression during pregnancy, but many refuse to take antidepressants.

Now, a new study suggests that acupuncture can relieve symptoms, but have found no evidence that is an effective treatment for depression in general.

The study by researchers at Stanford University, USA, recruited 150 depressed women who were enrolled between 12 and 30 weeks of pregnancy and randomly assigned to 52 are to receive an acupuncture treatment specifically designed to combat the symptoms of depression; 49 others to receive regular acupuncture, and the remaining 49, to get Swedish massages. Read the rest of this entry »

In the world of herbal medicine and herbal medicine, there are many types of medicinal herbs that can be used to improve health. Used to improve the digestive system up to enhance sex, types of medicinal plants of which we speak below should be taken into account to draw in case of any emergency.

OtraMedicina normally treat them separately, but today we group plants that heal by application, for easy reference and as a guide. Then divide the types of herbal medicines according to their use, and we hope that you find helpful.

Plants to lose weight. In fact there is no thinning plants themselves, but there are plants that can cooperate in metabolic pathways to assist fat burning and also to decrease appetite. Artichoke for its purifying action, alfalfa, which facilitates intestinal transit or fucus decreasing appetite are some of them. There is also the guarana, which increases metabolic activity, the ortosifón, which helps renal elimination and papaya, which promotes the digestive process. Read the rest of this entry »

Acupuncture treatment has been developed since then and was first developed in China. Acupuncture is an alternative treatment with a simple technique to treat various diseases by using a needle inserted into the center of the body in accordance with the symptoms of the disease found in, for example, people with symptoms of kidney disease can be treated with acupuncture in the palm.

Acupuncture not only inhibit the pain, but also directly affect blood circulation, blood pressure, and the immune system, digestion, respiration, reproduction, and nervous system.

Therefore, the wider use in treating conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, digestive disorders, fatigue, acne, arthritis, asthma, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Clinical recent research using acupuncture in the treatment of alcohol, drug and tobacco addiction shows that stimulate the ear points decreased cravings and withdrawal reactions. Read the rest of this entry »