Lupus

What is lupus?

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially, the skin, joints, blood and kidneys. The bodys immuno system normally, gives and makes proteins called antibodies that protect the body of viruses.In an autoimmune disease like lupus, the mmune system loses its ability for distinguish between antigens and its own cells and tissues. these antigens accumulate in teh tissues and cause inflammation, tissue damage and lot of pain. In most patients, lupus is a mild disease that affects a fw organs. It may cause seirous problems and even life threatening.

Types of Lupus

There are three types:

Discoid: always limited to the skin, it is idenfied by a rash that can appear on the face, neck and scalp. It is diagnosed by a biopsy.

Systemic: Systemic lupus is usually more serius than discoid because it affect almost any organ or body system. In some people, only the skin and joints are affected.

And the drug-induced lupus: that occurs after the use of certain measurements prescribed for other diseases. Its symptoms are similar to systemic lupus. Drugs commonly associated with this type of lupus are hydralazine and procainamide.

liberal

I daresay that the world liberal still exist, but, in an entirely low and close to extinction. The journalists who work in the media still can project their views and thoughts, but this days the people that express it without repression are very fortunate, because the authorities are hanging with the things that they tell about something that slightly related to the goverment.

The Goverment now aims to silence the media that oppose their ideas, being docile objects against the insults and aggressions in the National chain on Saturdays.

The power struggle that the media have with the tyran goverment is enormous, because, the goverment going to destroys the democratic capacity to propagate true information.

Liberal of speech still exist, but, the moment when the "Asamblea Nacional" approves the Communication Laws, the journalists and people that we study communication in the future, we will not be able to say anything.

The positive and negative potential that has this word is huge. The political scene in which we live is teaching us that we have the uncertain future of social communicators and the general public regarding the freedom to express ourselves.

The press liberty means that all people have the right to express themselves without being hassld and bothered abouth thir opinions. This liberty is the freedom of research, receive and impart information withouth limitation through any means, withouth the slightest intention of being silent or silenced. Simply, press liberty is founded on liberty of opinion. The jounalists and the media freedom have the power to express themselves, wheter their thoughts or make unrestricted events and daily events that happen in a nation.

Well, that liberty of press and journalists are free to provide information, they are absolutely forced to do so with clarity and transparency, truth and conscience.

Ecuador has enjoyed extensive media liberty, comprehensive in every sense, however, it has turned threantened and nearly killed by the Goverment.

AIDS

AIDS

What it means?

It means syndrome of acquired immunodeficiency

Syndrome: It characterize the illness

Immune: It has a relation with the system of defense of our body

Deficiency: It means that the system of defense dont work well

Acquired: That is acquired. It isnt hereditay or congenital.

What causes AIDS?

AIDS is an infectious disease caused by a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or AIDS virus.

How HIV attack the organism?

The HIV is the unique virus that attack cells that are the directors in our defense system. Initially, the HIV is latent, "sleeping" inside cells. In some cases, after a time, often years. The virus becomes active when "wakes up" and begins to destroy cells. HIV progressively weakens the immune system, making our bodies can not properly fight against various germs.

Is the same to be infected with HIV that suffer from the disease of AIDS?

No. The facts that a person is infected with HIV, who is carrying the virus, does not mean you have AIDS or will have, but suggest that it may transmit the infection to others.

How is HIV transmitted?

Can be transmitted by 3 ways:

Blood: Through the sharing of needles and syringes and anything sharp. During the pregnancy and childbirth, uncontrolled blood transfusions.

Sexual Transmission: Sexual intercourse can transmit HIV, whether homosexual or heterosexual. The virus is carried through microscopic lesions or wounds.

Prenatal transmission: An HIV-positive woman can transmit the infection to her baby during pregnancy.
This risk can be reduced significantly if a woman is treated early in thir pregnancy and avoid giving milk to her baby.

CANCER

The cancer begins in the cells that built our body. Normally, the body form new cells that need for replace the old cells. Sometimes, this process dont result how all the people wait. The new cells grow up and the body doesnt need that, the old cells dont die when they should. These additional cells can form a mass and the name of this is tumor.

The tumors can be benign or malignant. The benign tumors arent cancer, but, the malignant are.

The majority of cancers are named for they place of origin. For example, the lung cancer begins in the lung, the brass cancer begins in the brass. The dissemination of cancer of one part of the body to other is called metastasis. The symptoms and the treatment depends the kind of cancer and the level of the illness. The treatment can be include surgery, radiation or/and chemotherapy.

Depression

Depression is an illness that affects the organism (brain). It affects the form that people sleep and eat. Affect too the auto esteem and the way of thinking. A depressive disorder is not the same that be sad for few moments. It is not a condition that people can be liberating voluntarily.

Kinds of depression:

• Severe depression: It appears for a combination of symptoms that interfere with the capacity for work, study, sleep, eat and enjoy the activities that before they were pleasant. An episode of depression can be appearing once in life, but, in general it happens lot of times in life.

• Distimia: It is a kind of depression less seriously, it includes chronic symptoms along the life.

• Two-pole disorder: It is not common. the characteristics of this disorder are that people have cyclical changes in their behavior. When a person is in this depressive period, they can suffer one of all that affects them.

• Postpartum depression: Women must be alert of mental chances that can be suffer , during the pregnancy and after that. The American Academy reports that the symptoms that women suffer are call "baby blues", the can begin three or four days after the childbirth, it includes changes in temperament, cry without reason and problems of concentration. That symptoms dsappear ten days later of childbirth, but, if they intensify or prolong, it calls childbirth depression and it needs help medicates.

People that suffer a depressing disorder must be visit a specialist. This illness can be mortal.