IMPORTANCE OF DRINKING    WATER

Water makes up a majority of your body weight and is involved in many important functions, including:

• flushing out waste from your body
• regulating body temperature
• helping your brain function

You get most of your water from drinking beverages, but food also contributes a small amount to your daily water intake.

 It protects your tissues, spinal cord, and joints

Water consumption helps lubricate and cushion your joints, spinal cord, and tissues. This will help you enjoy physical activity and lessen discomfort caused by conditions like arthritis.

 It regulates your body temperature

Staying hydrated is crucial to maintaining your body temperature. Your body loses water through sweat during physical activity and in hot environments.

Your sweat keeps your body cool, but your body temperature will rise if you don’t replenish the water you lose. That’s because your body loses electrolytes and plasma when it’s dehydrated.

If you’re sweating more than usual, make sure you drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration.

 It helps excrete waste through perspiration, urination, and defecation

Your body uses water to sweat, urinate, and have bowel movements.

Your kidneys are also important for filtering out waste through urination. Adequate water intake helps your kidneys work more efficiently and helps to prevent kidney stones.

Prevents overall dehydration

Severe dehydration can result in a number of severe complications, including:

• swelling in your brain
• kidney failure
• seizures

 It helps create saliva

Water is a main component of saliva. Saliva also includes small amounts of electrolytes, mucus, and enzymes. It’s essential for breaking down solid food and keeping your mouth healthy.

Your body generally produces enough saliva with regular fluid intake. However, your saliva production may decrease as a result of age or certain medications or therapies.

Helps prevent constipation

Eating fiber isn’t the only way to prevent constipation. It’s also important to maintain your water intake so your bowel movements contain enough water.

If you don’t consume enough water, magnesium, and fiber, you may be more likely to experience constipation. 

It aids in digestion

Contrary to what some believe, experts confirm drinking water before, during, and after a meal will help your body break down the food you eat more easily. This will help you digest food more effectively and get the most out of your meals.

It helps maximize physical performance

Drinking plenty of water during physical activity is essential. Hydration affects your strength, power, and endurance.

Negative effects of exercise in the heat without enough water can include serious medical conditions, like decreased blood pressure and hyperthermia. Extreme dehydration can cause seizures and even death.

Helps with nutrient absorption

In addition to helping with food breakdown, water also helps dissolve vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients from your food. It then delivers these vitamin components to the rest of your body for use.

 It helps you lose weight

 Drinking more water while dieting and exercising may just help you lose extra pounds.

 It improves blood oxygen circulation

Water carries helpful nutrients and oxygen to your entire body. Reaching your daily water intake will improve your circulation and have a positive impact on your overall health.

Water helps fight off illness

Drinking enough water can help prevent certain medical conditions

Trusted Source. These include:

• constipation
• kidney stones
• exercise-induced asthma
• urinary tract infection
• hypertension

Water also helps you absorb important vitamins, minerals, and nutrients from your food, which will increase your chances of staying healthy.

It helps boost energy

Drinking water may activate your metabolism. A boost in metabolism has been associated with a positive impact on energy level.

 It aids in cognitive function

Proper hydration is key to staying in tip-top cognitive shape.

Trusted SouResearch indicates that not drinking enough water can negatively impact your focus, alertness, and short-term memory. It helps improve mood

Improves  mood 

Not getting enough water can also affect your mood. Dehydration may result in fatigue and confusion as well as anxiety.

 It helps keep skin bright

Adequate water intake will help keep your skin hydrated and may promote collagen production. However, water intake alone isn’t enough to reduce the effects of aging. This process is also connected to your genes and overall sun protection

 Some ideas on how you can be sure you drink enough:

• Carry a water bottle with you wherever you go. This way you can drink whenever the need strikes.
• Keep track of your intake. Aim to take in optimum amounts every day, a minimum of half your body weight in ounces.
• Pace yourself to approach half of your recommended consumption by midday. You can always finish about an hour before you plan to sleep.

Medspan Limited Urges that;

Being attentive to the amount of water you drink each day is important for optimal health. Most people drink when they’re thirsty, which helps regulate daily water intake.

Other ways to assess hydration include your thirst and the color of your urine. Feeling thirsty indicates your body is not receiving adequate hydration. Urine that is dark or colored indicates dehydration. Pale or non-colored urine typically indicates proper hydration.

    STAY HEALTHY ALWAYS 

Live a Healthier Lifestyle

WAYS MEN CAN PREVENT DISEASES

• Exercise: Work out three to four times
  every week, for 30 to 45 minutes. Include a mix of cardiovascular exercise
  and weight training.
• Balanced diet: Eat a balanced diet that’s
  low in fat and includes a mix of vegetables, fruit, protein, fiber, lean
  meats, and complex carbohydrates, and limits processed foods and added
  sugars.
• Water: Stay hydrated by drinking
  adequate amounts of fluids. Dark yellow urine is a sign dehydration while clear urine is a sign of hydration.
• Don’t smoke: Ninety percent of lung
  cancer diagnoses are in people who smoke. Smoking also increases the risk
  of many other cancers and chronic diseases.
• Limit drinking: Avoid excessive alcohol
  consumption.
• Sleep: You need about seven hours
  per night at the very least. Get adequate rest to allow your body and brain to relax. 

                              WORLD ELDER ABUSE DAY

  World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15^th

The purpose of WEAAD is to provide an opportunity for communities around the world to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by raising awareness of the cultural, social, economic and demographic processes affecting elder abuse and neglect.

Even today, elder abuse continues to be a taboo subject, mostly underestimated and ignored by societies across the world. Evidence is accumulating, however, to indicate that senior abuse is an important public health and societal problem.

The day was officially recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2011 bypassing the resolution 66/127 of the United Nations.

From a health and social perspective, unless both primary health care and social service sectors are well equipped to identify and deal with the problem, elder abuse will continue to be underdiagnosed and overlooked.

5 FACTS ABOUT ELDER ABUSE

1. It happens mostly at home

   Elder abuse instances happen mostly in the home where the senior lives.

2. 1 in every 10

   Is the number of elder adults that experience some form of abuse in their lifetime.

3. Finances are at the highest risk

   The most common form of abuse is financial exploitation and extortion.

4. 9 out of ten elder abuse cases are abused by relatives

5. Man cases go unreported

WHY WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY IS IMPORTANT

• Older persons  may be unable to advocate for themselves

1.     Many seniors are not in a place to stand up for themselves, whether it's because they're physically frail or because they're scared of speaking up and fear repercussions.
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• It reminds us to look out for each other

  It's easy to see bad things and not say anything—whether that's senior abuse or a mugging on the street. But this holiday reminds us just how important it is to look after and look out for the elders.

• Seniors deserve our respect and our attention

  In so many cultures, elders are revered and rightfully so. Their experiences, memories, and perspective on life are valued for the lessons that younger folks can learn. 

At Medspan Limited, we commemorate this special day by giving discount on items commonly used by the elders such as ripple matress for bed sores, Blood pressure machine for monitoring blood pressure, On call machine for Glucose check, adult diapers and so on. Let`s take good care of our elders and avoid elder abuse.

 

WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY 14TH JUNE 2022

Theme :"Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives”

Every day, blood donors help patients of all ages.

In fact, every two seconds, someone needs blood.

Actually, people needing the most blood include those:

Being treated for cancer

Undergoing orthopedic surgeries

Undergoing cardiovascular surgeries

Being treated for inherited blood disorders

Since blood cannot be manufactured outside the body and has a limited shelf life, the supply must constantly be replenished by generous blood donors.

Every donation save lives. Let's voluntarily donate blood in order to save someone's life.

FACTS ABOUT BLOOD DONATIONS

• Average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 units.
• A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood.
• Blood and platelets cannot be manufactured but they can only come from volunteer donors.
• The blood type most often requested by hospitals is type O.
• One donation can help save more than one life.
•  Many cancer patients will need blood, sometimes daily or during their chemotherapy treatment. 

• Need some motivation to give blood? Here are 10 good reasons to roll up your sleeve…

  1. You help others. Giving blood is one of the most selfless things you can do. Your donated blood can potentially help save up to three lives, according to the American Red Cross.
  2. You’re among a select minority. Less than 38% of the population is eligible to give blood or platelets, so if you’re one of them, consider yourself among the chosen few.
  3. You get a free health check-up. Before you give blood, a nurse will check your blood pressure, pulse, temperature and hemoglobin levels. Your blood may also be checked for HIV, hepatitis and other diseases. So it’s like getting a mini check-up just for doing something good!
  4. It burns calories. You can’t replace your regular sweat  with a blood donation, but you can burn about 650 calories while donating one pint of blood.
  5. Your body will make new blood. Think of it like a tune-up for your body. When you donate blood, you generate new blood. It takes about 24 hours to replace the plasma and 4-6 weeks to replace the red blood cells from your donation.
  6. It may improve your heart health. Donating blood temporarily lowers the iron in your blood. Elevated levels of iron may increase the risk of heart disease in men. One study showed that men who donated blood at least once a year had an 88% lower risk of heart attacks than men who were not donors.
  7. It promotes well-being. Yours, that is! Giving blood can make you feel good about yourself, reduce stress and improve your emotional health.
  8. It only takes an hour. The process of donating blood is simple and quick. You’ll likely be there about an hour, although the actual blood donation only takes about 10 minutes.
  9. It doesn’t really hurt. You may feel a slight prick when the needle is inserted into your arm but the process is relatively painless. And when you consider the benefits it provides, the minor discomfort is well worth it.
  10. You may need a blood donation one day. It’s estimated that about 25% of people will need blood at least once in their lives. Although there’s no direct correlation between giving blood and receiving it, you may be as grateful one day as someone else currently is for the donation.

• The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately 3 units.
• A single car acciden
• The average red blood cell transfu

 MEN`S HEALTH WEEK

                                 MEDSPAN LIMITED

Purpose of Men’s Health Week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.

Some men struggle to look after  their mental and physical health, which may cause them to skip checkups and screenings that can ensure they live long, healthy lives. Men who don’t take the health of their mind and body seriously may develop serious health issues. The “medical gender gap” is real in the sense that men die 5 years earlier  than women on average.

The good news is that you can do a lot to take control of your health, starting with prioritizing prevention. From eating better to quitting bad habits like smoking and attending regular checkups, here are several steps you can take to avoid common men’s health problems at any age.

1. Heart disease
More men die of the heart disease than any other cause of death. Men can play an active role in their heart health by managing their unique risk factors. This should include eating a balanced diet with fruits and veggies, quitting smoking, staying active, reducing stress and taking medications as instructed by your healthcare provider.

Also, be sure to get regular checkups. These visits are an opportunity to get screenings or tests (like blood pressure or cholesterol) that may help detect heart problems before they become more serious.

2. Cancer 

 Common cancers diagnosed in men include skin, prostate, colorectal and lung cancers. Providers suggest a combination of a healthy lifestyle and regular screenings to keep these cancers at bay. Simple actions like wearing sunscreen, limiting processed or red meat, quitting smoking can help reduce.

3. Diabetes

Compared to women, men have a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes at a lower weight. This is partly because male bodies have more belly fat, which itself raises the risk of this chronic disease. Managing your weight and getting more exercise can help reduce this risk. It’s also good to know your risk for prediabetes so that you can take action early.

4. Erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is common in men, especially those older than 75, but that doesn’t mean it should impact your sex life. Treatments such as medications can help, and actions like quitting smoking or limiting alcohol can have a preventive effect too. In any case, it’s good to get any symptoms checked out by your provider, as this condition could be a sign of a more severe issue, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

5. HPV and other STIs
As the most common sexually transmitted infection, HPV often resolves on its own. Men with  HPV can develop certain health problems such as penile cancer or genital warts from the infection. HPV vaccines can help prevent infection, but they will likely be most beneficial before a person is 26. Condoms are also an important measure to prevent HPV and other STIs.

6. Low testosterone
Testosterone starts to drop in a man’s thirties, but if that natural decline causes unwelcome symptoms like low sex drive or trouble concentrating, you need a blood test to check your hormone levels.  Can help diagnose any underlying issues that may be causing the “low-T”.

7. Depression
Depression can go undiagnosed in men because the symptoms don’t always align with what they might expect. Men sometimes experience depression as anger or irritability rather than sadness. If feeling depressed, its advisable to talk to someone.

8. COVID-19
 Research has found that men who contract the disease have a higher risk of hospital interventions and death. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are more widely available, getting vaccinated can help prevent the risk of infection altogether.

Lets take care of our Health

No matter what health issues you might face, you can take command of your well-being by taking preventive and proactive steps today. 

 At Medspan Limited, we encourage men to take care of your body inside and out.