Postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery is very important for healing and health of the eye. Sometimes the success and failure of lasik eye surgery depends to a great extent on the quality postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery. Good care of eye after surgery is important for success of lasik surgery. The eye surgeon should teach the procedure of caring eye after surgery and the eye care should be followed strictly to make lasik eye surgery completely successful.

Lasik eye surgery has fewer side effects in compare to conventional eye surgeries and side effects can be reduced further by using latest technologies. More than 90% of lasik surgeries generally do not have any notable side effects. The percentage of patients suffering from side effects after lasik eye surgery is very few and the side effects suffered by few are also minor in nature. Minor side effects do not pose any serious threat to the eye and these are mostly due to lack/faulty caring of eye after Lasik surgery.

Most side effects of lasik surgeries are due to lack/fault in postoperative care of eye, a greater emphasis should be given to the postoperative care of eye. To reduce side effects of lasik eye surgery, it is important for the patient to learn from the eye surgeon and other health care providers about postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery, which may have to be carried out for several years.

The following postoperative care of eye are required after lasik eye surgery:

• Take complete rest (preferably sleep) immediately after lasik eye surgery. This help in healing of the operated eye faster.
• Do not rub, bump or make any contact with the operated eye for at least 5-7 days. To prevent any contact, including accidental rubbing of the eye, eye guard should be used (especially during sleeping).
• Avoid exposure to bright light.
• Avoid using operated eye for a week or two for reading and seeing which you were not able to see before surgery. Avoid temptation of using the operated eye.
• To prevent dryness use lubricant eye drops as per direction of your eye surgeon. Use of lubricant eye drops can also aid in healing. Sometimes, despite use of lubricant eye drops there may be dryness of eye, but usually this is temporary.

Following simple postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery given above can reduce side effects to a great extent and make your lasik eye surgery successful.

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FDA says Beware Brazilian Blowout

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FDA says Beware Brazilian Blowout

Nearly a year ago, we warned you that a popular hair product which turns frizzy locks smooth and luxurious may be endangering the health of the salon workers who use it. Well, now the Food and Drug Administration has made it official.

The FDA issued a warning letter to the makers of Brazilian Blowout saying their product contains dangerously high levels of formaldehyde. Known to many as the stuff used to pickle frogs for biology class, formaldehyde is a chemical the National Cancer Institute calls a cancer-causing substance.

But the company says the product is safe and is working with the FDA to clear up the "misunderstanding."

 

Brazilian Blowout markets itself as formaldehyde free, but an FDA analysis of the product found unacceptably high levels of methylene glycol, the liquid form of formaldehyde. Levels ranged from 8.7 percent to 10.4 percent, far higher than the 0.2 percent considered safe by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Panel.

The FDA told the California company that makes Brazilian Blowout to stop misleading customers and misbranding its product. In the warning letter, Michael W. Roosevelt, acting director of the Office of Compliance at the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition wrote: "It is your responsibility as a manufacturer, to ensure that the products your firm markets are safe."

Mike Brady, the chief executive for Brazilian Blowout, points to numerous tests done by OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration). "We have been tested countless times by OSHA," Brady says, "And we have never exceeded a safety standard ever," he tells Shots.

Brady says he will work with the FDA, but in the mean time, he says salons can "continue to confidently offer the Brazilian Blowout Treatment to your customers with the knowledge that Brazilian Blowout falls well below the stringent standards set forth by OSHA," he says in a statement on the company website.

The investigation of Brazilian Blowout was prompted by complaints from an Oregon hair stylist who said she suffered chest and throat pain and nosebleeds after using the product.

According to the FDA, other complaints have included eye irritation, blurred vision, nausea, rashes and vomiting.

Postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery is very important for healing and health of the eye. Sometimes the success and failure of lasik eye surgery depends to a great extent on the quality postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery. Good care of eye after surgery is important for success of lasik surgery. The eye surgeon should teach the procedure of caring eye after surgery and the eye care should be followed strictly to make lasik eye surgery completely successful.

Lasik eye surgery has fewer side effects in compare to conventional eye surgeries and side effects can be reduced further by using latest technologies. More than 90% of lasik surgeries generally do not have any notable side effects. The percentage of patients suffering from side effects after lasik eye surgery is very few and the side effects suffered by few are also minor in nature. Minor side effects do not pose any serious threat to the eye and these are mostly due to lack/faulty caring of eye after Lasik surgery.

Most side effects of lasik surgeries are due to lack/fault in postoperative care of eye, a greater emphasis should be given to the postoperative care of eye. To reduce side effects of lasik eye surgery, it is important for the patient to learn from the eye surgeon and other health care providers about postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery, which may have to be carried out for several years.

The following postoperative care of eye are required after lasik eye surgery:

• Take complete rest (preferably sleep) immediately after lasik eye surgery. This help in healing of the operated eye faster.
• Do not rub, bump or make any contact with the operated eye for at least 5-7 days. To prevent any contact, including accidental rubbing of the eye, eye guard should be used (especially during sleeping).
• Avoid exposure to bright light.
• Avoid using operated eye for a week or two for reading and seeing which you were not able to see before surgery. Avoid temptation of using the operated eye.
• To prevent dryness use lubricant eye drops as per direction of your eye surgeon. Use of lubricant eye drops can also aid in healing. Sometimes, despite use of lubricant eye drops there may be dryness of eye, but usually this is temporary.

Following simple postoperative care of eye after lasik eye surgery given above can reduce side effects to a great extent and make your lasik eye surgery successful.

DISCLAIMER: THE STORY(s) DEPICTED ON THIS SITE AND THE PERSON(s) DEPICTED IN THE STORY ARE NOT REAL. RATHER, THIS FICTIONAL STORY IS BASED ON THE RESULTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE USED THESE PRODUCTS HAVE ACHIEVED. THE RESULTS PORTRAYED IN THE STORY AND IN THE COMMENTS ARE ILLUSTRATIVE, AND MAY NOT BE THE RESULTS THAT YOU ACHIEVE WITH THESE PRODUCTS. THIS PAGE RECEIVES COMPENSATION FOR CLICKS ON OR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS FEATURED ON THIS SITE.

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FDA says Beware Brazilian Blowout

Inga Ivanova/iStockphoto.com

FDA says Beware Brazilian Blowout

Nearly a year ago, we warned you that a popular hair product which turns frizzy locks smooth and luxurious may be endangering the health of the salon workers who use it. Well, now the Food and Drug Administration has made it official.

The FDA issued a warning letter to the makers of Brazilian Blowout saying their product contains dangerously high levels of formaldehyde. Known to many as the stuff used to pickle frogs for biology class, formaldehyde is a chemical the National Cancer Institute calls a cancer-causing substance.

But the company says the product is safe and is working with the FDA to clear up the "misunderstanding."

 

Brazilian Blowout markets itself as formaldehyde free, but an FDA analysis of the product found unacceptably high levels of methylene glycol, the liquid form of formaldehyde. Levels ranged from 8.7 percent to 10.4 percent, far higher than the 0.2 percent considered safe by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Panel.

The FDA told the California company that makes Brazilian Blowout to stop misleading customers and misbranding its product. In the warning letter, Michael W. Roosevelt, acting director of the Office of Compliance at the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition wrote: "It is your responsibility as a manufacturer, to ensure that the products your firm markets are safe."

Mike Brady, the chief executive for Brazilian Blowout, points to numerous tests done by OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration). "We have been tested countless times by OSHA," Brady says, "And we have never exceeded a safety standard ever," he tells Shots.

Brady says he will work with the FDA, but in the mean time, he says salons can "continue to confidently offer the Brazilian Blowout Treatment to your customers with the knowledge that Brazilian Blowout falls well below the stringent standards set forth by OSHA," he says in a statement on the company website.

The investigation of Brazilian Blowout was prompted by complaints from an Oregon hair stylist who said she suffered chest and throat pain and nosebleeds after using the product.

According to the FDA, other complaints have included eye irritation, blurred vision, nausea, rashes and vomiting.

If you are a health care professional, such as doctor, nurse, technician or have good knowledge in the field of medicine, give a try in the field of medical translation. Before giving medical translation a try it is important to understand clearly what about the field or topic we are discussing about. In simple words, medical translation is translation of medical records in simple language so that a non medical person can understand it. The medical translation can be in the field of health care, technical, clinical, medical device, pharmaceutical fields as well as in the field of medical training curriculum, medical regulatory authority and in medical related software. In another words, it means translation in any field related to medical and health care.

Across the globe any medical/health care related products require that literature provided with any health care product should be in local and national language. For example if any company markets a health care product such as a health drink or an over the counter medication, it should be provided with a literature and labeling local and national language.

The translation in local and nation language is essential for easy understanding by users who are usually non medical persons. In the field of clinical research (such as clinical trials and other research activities) also medical translation is required, so that patients and regulatory representatives as well as local physicians can understand the documents easily.

Who can become medical translator?

Medical professionals such as doctors, nurses, technicians, dieticians after undergoing specific training on subject matter can become medical translator. As medical texts are highly sensitive, tightly regulated and highly technical in nature, one should be well trained in the subject before becoming a medical translator.

Medical translation requires high skills and sound knowledge and for this reason this is usually handled by medical translation agencies, with vast experience in the field. It is not a job of single person and it is best handled by translation agencies.

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About half of adult smokers who live with young children say they don't smoke in the house. But that leaves the rest who do.

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And the children of these at-home smokers â€"according to a study just published in the journal Pediatrics â€" are missing more days of school.

The study found that children living with a smoker in the house miss about one extra day per year. And if two adults in the house smoke, children miss 1.54 more days compared to kids from nonsmoking households.

Just about everybody knows that second-hand smoke increases the risk of respiratory ailments and asthma attacks, but it wasn't clear how illnesses related to smoking influenced absenteeism.

 

School absenteeism, as the study's authors note, is an easy-to-measure marker that can flag all sorts of illness. The researchers conclude that up to one-third of all missed school days by children of smokers can be attributed to the exposure of second-hand smoke.

"It was a surprise," says lead author Douglas Levy of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. "A good chunk of these kids missed-school days is just due to secondhand smoke exposure." In their analysis, the researchers adjusted the figures to account for differences in household income, education and several other factors.

The educational impact of these absences isn't entirely clear, but missed days can't be good. But, in any case, the financial toll is significant. When these children get sick working parents need to stay home. And that adds up to lots of lost wages â€" about $227 million a year â€" the researchers figure.

Levy explains that about half of the children living with a smoker are in low-income families, so the hardship for them could be significant. "If we could eliminate second-hand smoke exposure" says Levy. "It would help a lot."

Refractive error (myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism etc.) of eye is a common medical problem of eyes and by the time you are 40 years of age or around 40 years, the problems of refractive error of eyes increases. It is important you take care of your eyes appropriately and treat your eye problems. If you have eye problem and your doctor advised you to undergo surgery (such as lasik eye surgery) it is important to know if lasik will be good for you and it is a normal thing to have doubt and try to understand it, as lasik eye surgery is comparatively new and uses latest technology in compare to conventional eye surgeries.

At present there is tremendous advancement in use of technology (such as use of IntraLase laser and “wavefront technology”), especially in lasik eye surgery and due to use of latest technology; many patients can undergo eye lasik eye surgery without complication, the patients who were considered unfit few years back.

Use of latest technology such as use of “wavefront technology” to map the cornea before Lasik eye surgery, which reduce the side effects and complications in Lasik eye surgery. Currently most patients with refractive error can undergo lasik eye surgery unless there is specific medical conditions in the patients such as glaucoma (pressure inside eye is raised), severe hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes, compromised immunity (such as AIDS) etc. Even the here mentioned medical conditions are not absolute contraindications to lasik eye surgery. Bring the medical condition under control (such as blood sugar within normal limit for diabetics, blood pressure under control for hypertensive etc.) and you can undergo lasik eye surgery.

The risk of complication (intra-operative or during operation and post operative complications) are high if the systemic disease (such as glaucoma, diabetes, hypertension) is not under control. General health is also important and your general health should be sound to have eventless surgical procedure.

Have clear idea about the procedure and possible complications and risk factors related to lasik eye surgery and decide, if you want to use lasik eye surgery.

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