Having healthy eyes with Lasik

IN the past decade, the phenomenon of lasik surgery enough attention in many countries. Singapore as a country with high rates of people with myopic eyes is one of the countries that have a lot of requests for lasik.

Although he has enough information and advertisements about lasik in circulation, there are still people and even the eye doctors who do not know the true about lasik, many kesalahapahaman, myths, and doubt. Confusion like this usually arises from the question what the benefits of lasik and refractive surgery process itself.

Here's an explanation Dr Chua Wei Han, M Med (Ophth), FRCSEd (Ophth), FAMS, Consultant ophthalmologist, refractive Surgery Service of the Singapore National Eye Centre to be able to address concerns about lasik.

What is lasik laser, without a knife?

This type of lasik surgery using femtosecond laser type to open the cornea. By using micro-mechanical keratom, complications that occurred when the cornea is very small opening. Aperture corneas that are too small and irregular would complicate the process of lasik second phase to be implemented.

Then, using the latest techniques hadirlah femtosecond laser. Small, with a short pulse infrared allowing the accuracy in the cornea. With the presence of this unique type of laser, an opening in the cornea becomes more smooth and do not leave their mark in time will heal. The more good making these openings, the better the resulting eye.

Can people over 40 years to do lasik?

Those who have a myopic eye at the age of 40's and need to use glasses to read, could be asked to continue to use glasses after lasik surgery. Although until now no method that does not require patient age of 40 use glasses again, this condition can be reduced by a series of other lasik procedure called "slight monovision".

This procedure, which is exactly the same as lasik procedure to fix a distant view, was made on the dominant eye to see far away, while the non-dominant eye, will still need to use reading glasses. This provides the same effects when patients use bifocals.

Most patients chose this procedure because it can help a distant view them, but others find it difficult to get used to the conditions of a pair of eyes that berbada different. This can be done several days after surgery in which patients can wear contact lenses on non-dominant eye.

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How to ward off breast cancer

CANCER is a woman's number one killer in the world. Given the threat of breast cancer is always lurking, a preventive action needs to be done. Food is like a shield for the body. When you mengasup healthy foods, the body will be healthy and avoid disease. Conversely, when food intake is bad, the lurking threat of any disease. Sadly, these days often appear without the owner knowing the food has a minimal value of health so that people were threatened with cancer, especially breast cancer in women.

So to avoid the attack of breast cancer, selectively choose food into the solution. What should be considered? Times of India gives bocorannya.

Eating enough vegetables

Fresh vegetables have nutrients that are prepared to fight cancer. This is the best way to avoid any threat of disease. You also need to know the best absorption of nutrients vegetables, especially when mixed with olive oil. Some vegetables that are beneficial to combat diseases, such as spinach, broccoli, carrots, beets, tomatoes, and squash are rich in carotenoids and is believed to have anticancer properties.

Choose fruit with a proper

Be careful in choosing the fruit for consumption. Instead, choose a dark-colored fruit for nutrients is very good for your diet, such as grapes, raisins, bananas, or apples. Do not forget to eat fruit every day, especially when breakfast. The fruit will help you effectively absorb nutrients as well as not add to the pile of calories.

many eat foods containing fiber

Eat foods that contain high fiber so that it can help you manage your weight, lowers blood estrogen levels, and reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Limit milk and other dairy products

Consume milk, cheese, and yogurt should not be excessive. You need to limit because these foods do not contribute much to the protection of cancer. So, you can replace it with cow milk or soy milk. Of course this could be your daily required intake.

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Plastic Surgery Fail, Life Can Float

OPERATION plastic is a perfect solution to beautify and improve certain body parts, especially faces. Even so, the procedure is not free from risk. Besides not necessarily reaping the rewards as you wish, plastic surgery can also make the lives lost, if done without proper procedures.

One of the procedures that must be done is to choose a safe place to perform plastic surgery. The reason, plastic surgery now, not only can be done at the hospital, but the beauty clinic, even the salon was already providing services "alter" the face or body.

Unfortunately, there are still many women who are not concerned with the security of this procedure. As a result, not a few victims that arise because of plastic surgery that failed.

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (iSAPS), Asian countries such as China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand are among the top 20 countries as agents of cosmetic surgical procedures worldwide. In 2009, Asia is also the second largest plastic surgery center in the world.

In an age where Botox and liposuction commonly performed, most of us forget about the dangers and complications that may occur in this procedure.

For most people, do not be too dangerous Botox injections, because this is regarded as simple as their ears pierced. But in fact the contrary, there are many who have become victims of the failure of plastic surgery.

Elsewhere in Asia, there is a spike in the number of beauty centers popping up without permission and are not accredited plastic surgeon who offers cosmetic surgery at low cost to patients who are wanting new eyelids, lips fuller, or a flat stomach. But the result, even more often a disaster.

In fact, sophisticated medical market such as the United States is not spared from tragic events like this. And several similar incidents are not reported because they occur in an illegal clinic abroad.

Referring to the death of the mother of famous rapper Kanye West, Donda West, and former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, after complications arising from plastic surgery, the more questions arise about the risks of elective surgery.

Millions of people never do removal, reduction, change shape, capture or stripping on their body parts in each year. A large number of them also chose to do so not in the hospital, but in private clinics that do not even have proper facilities. This is the danger!

Dr Marco Faria Correa said, if your surgeon does not have a clinic at the hospital, make sure that he has a trained anesthesiologist and nurses.

At certain moments, rogue surgeon will perform surgery without a trained anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist in the operating room. This is some of the causes of disasters could occur.

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