What is Osteoporosis?
To enjoy a better quality of life … should avoid or prevent osteoporosis, a disease that causes your bones to become fragile as crystal. Follow the advice of the Hispanic Foundation of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases:
1. Enjoy a varied diet. Rich in calcium and vitamin D throughout life, although you should increase to 1,500 mg per day (4 glasses of milk, 2 yoghurt or slice of cheese) the amount of calcium after menopause.
2. Get physical exercise regularly. Physical activity for only 30 minutes a day, 3 days a week, increase bone mineral content.
3. Try to keep a healthy lifestyle. Avoid excessive alcohol and coffee, not smoke and take the sun gently to increase vitamin D.
4. Always be straight. Sit in a straight chair with feet on the floor with his back and neck straight. If you have to do heavy lifting without bending.
5. Do not resign yourself to back pain. The curvature of the back and pain are not exclusive consequences of aging. Osteoporosis is the main cause is in your hand and take care of preventing it.
6. Become a review. It is essential to try to prevent the first fracture. Bone mass should be evaluated postmenopausal women with risk factors or fracture Debub.
7. Act in time. Early diagnosis is key: with proper medical treatment can prevent 50-60% of new vertebral fractures.
8. Keep your home ordenda. If your bones are fragile you have to avoid objects which might pose a danger to the stability and set you well in every step to prevent falls.
9. Check with your doctor. There are different treatment options increasingly easy to administer, which can help you take care of your bones. Talk to your doctor about what is best for you.
10. Treatment continues. If you leave the treatment will not be protecting your bones for possible fractures. Remember that drugs that work are those who take. Doses more spread over time could take resultarte more comfortable and help you not to leave.
What is osteoporosis?
This word means porous bones is decreased bone mass (the amount of bone per unit volume). When it does, the bone becomes more fragile and can fracture more easily.
Consequences of Osteoporosis
The main consequence is the fracture that occurs primarily in: the vertebrae, wrist and neck of the femur.
Can it be prevented?
Yes, following these tips, which are the essence of the Ten Commandments just noted:
* Proper nutrition: Calcium is lost daily through urine, sweat … and, if calcium needs are greater than the supply of it will cause a loss of reserve constituted mainly by bone. To do this, children should consume 800 mg of calcium per day, 1000 mgr adults and pregnant women during lactation and menopause 1200 mgr.
* Exercise: Avoid immobilization and inactivity. We recommend continued mild exercise, like walking an hour a day outdoors and do the exercises recommended by your doctor.
* Desintometría: Indicated for women with risk factors after menopause, to know with certainty their bone mass. In some cases recurrence is indicated, not later than one year.