Here's 6 Negative Effects Cigarette In Hair and Skin, Still Wants to Smoke?

Smoking is a habit and the trend for today's urban society, especially youth and adulthood.
In fact, in addition to damage the heart and lungs, smoking also can give bad influence on hair and skin.
Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute assisted by senior consultant dermatologist, Dr. Nipun Jain, examines how smoking can affect a person's appearance.

"Smoking can damage the hair and skin, and makes a person look much older. This is caused by the nicotine and other chemicals into the arteries and block the flow of oxygen and vital nutrients throughout the body," said Dr. Jain.

Here are 6 negative effects of smoking for healthy hair and skin, as reported by the Times of India, Friday (05/24/2013):

1. Sagging skin and wrinkles

Chemicals released from tobacco smoke trigger the destruction of collagen and elastin.
This causes sagging skin and wrinkles are very clear.

2. Lines around the lips

When smoking cigarettes, certain muscles around the lips are used in a manner that may cause keripu.
This can also lead to loss of elasticity in the skin around the lips.

3. The spots on the face

Various studies have shown that smokers are more prone to freckles on the face.
These spots are a darker skin color spots found on the face and hands.

4. Changes in skin color

This change is also called 'stained finger'.
Excessive smoking cause discoloration of the skin, nails, and teeth.

5. Hair loss

Smoking can accelerate the process of thinning hair, not only the men and also women.
Smoking also clogs arteries that reduces the flow of nutrients to the body, including to the head.

6. Eye wrinkles

Smoke from a burning cigarette in touch with the appearance of wrinkles around the eyes.
Inhaling cigarette smoke can also damage the structure of the skin and blood vessels around the eyes.
The destruction caused by the hazardous chemicals produced by cigarettes.

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This is the Compound in the Brain that Make Us Feel Itchy

Probably never crossed your mind where they come from itchy, but if your home is a lot of mosquitoes or you are allergic to certain foods.
But according to a group of researchers from the U.S., there is a chemical in the brain that become major cause itching.

In fact according to the researchers, in the absence of these compounds, there would be no itching or scratching his desire for the body that feels itchy.

The team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Maryland tested a variety of chemical compounds that carry information to the brain to find out what's behind the emergence of compound itch.
Until finally they found a compound called Npbb.

"When we exposes Npbb deficient mice with a substance that can trigger itching and we were very impressed because nobody saw it happen. Mice were not scrape himself," said research team leader Santosh Mishra as reported by the Daily Mail, Friday (
24.05.2013).

Conversely, when the mice were given injections contains Npbb, they immediately started scratching his body.

According to the researchers, the findings could provide hope finding better treatments for people who suffer from a disease that makes the skin feel very itchy.
Among people with eczema, diabetes and liver disorders.

Similarly, kidney dialysis patients who often suffer from severe itching, or cancer patients who often faced with the reality that pain relievers cause severe irritation on their skin until they are forced to stop treatment.
Moreover, the skin damage caused by constant scratching activity can cause infections in patients who are terminally ill.

Even so, the researchers emphasize that the finding of Npbb which also has other important roles in the body, the solution does not merely create a drug that can inhibit the performance of the compound.

"The challenge is to find a similar biosirkuit on people, evaluate and identify what molecules can be targeted for lethal chronic itching without causing unwanted side effects. So this is just the beginning," said another researcher, Dr. Mark Hoon.

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WHO: "Corona Virus Transmitted Between Humans"

Saudi Arabia - For those of you who want to travel to the Middle East should be wary.
Do you remember, six months ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on the existence of Corona Virus or Virus Middle East SARS-like virus.
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the spread of the virus is likely transmitted between humans.

In this week, WHO said the virus that attacks the respiratory tract, lining of the lungs, and kidneys-it has spread among patients treated in a hospital.
In a Saudi Arabian hospital, 15 patients were survived to fight this virus, after seven patients died.

Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment World Health Organization (WHO), Keiji Fukuda, confirmed that Corona Virus transmitted in a small group of patients who were treated in a hospital.
"But so far there has been no evidence of spread to the general population," Fukuda said in a press release quoted by the site npr.com, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Previously, a French citizen of patients who have recently returned from Dubai also infected with the scientific name of Mers-CoV or the Middle East's Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
Other cases also occurred in Jordan, where patients are treated simultaneously in one hospital become infected.

While not having the same arrangement of cells and infect a different way with SARS Corona Virus from the Middle East is more deadly.
Mortality rate of SARS patients, 8,000 patients were infected, as many as 800 people died.
Meanwhile, the WHO noted, until May 2013, of the 34 patients were infected with Corona Virus, 18 people died.
By doing so, fatal deaths (case fatality rate) due to Corona Virus infection reached 53 to 66.6 percent, while only 10 percent of SARS.

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