Archive for April, 2009

Watch over and caring for the elderly parent is not easy. Especially, they have symptoms of senility. They have shortened memory, easy to forget, but have sensitive feeling. Sometimes, your filial piety gets negative attitude responds from your parent. You must be patient. It is not be easy assessing the ability of our parents to perform functions of their body. In fact, sometimes it becomes a very sensitive issue. I will give some tips to help you about this problem.

There are six lists suggested that your parent may need assistance. The six basic functions are; eating, moving, get up and go to sleep, entering a bathroom, bath and dress. There is a list of eight as medium or instrumental functions that should be monitored more strictly, that is using the telephone, preparing food, cleaning house, washing clothes, using their own car or ride, take medicine and arrange finance. You are advised to monitoring your parent’s behavior continuously.

One of the most important things are do not offering assistance that have no prior required or prohibit them to do something just because you are not sure whether they are able to do so. This is very offensive their ego. But you must take action if your parents are showing disavowal sign that no longer able to do their function properly. E.g., they fell in the bathroom or have forgotten to take medicine and they gave disclaimer statement. It can be dangerous to their health if not be treated immediately. You can use fall detection for this case.

If you can not caring for your parent continuously, it is good idea for you to looking for a nanny. You should know their background, experience for take cared elderly, personality, marital history, level of education and knowledge, motivation and their emotion. You can also use a medical alarm to make it easier to watch over your parents. Through medical alert you can continuously control your parent when they fell in the bathroom or need assistance immediately. In addition, you should be designing your home interior to be comfortable and safe for the elderly. You can just simplify the form of beds, chairs, doors, windows and so forth that often used. Try to give facilities that often made use of with more simple, powerful, and easy to use.

Do you ever heard about face massage? Maybe some of you never do. Massage for face beside good for skin health, also important to prevent the occurrence of wrinkles.

According to beautician, face massage make skin soften, stimulating blood circulation, and remove dead skin cells.

If you intend massage your face, there are several things that need to be done. Make sure to do with the movement in the right order to obtain maximum results.

1. Clean your face from make-up and other dirt. Avoid movement too pressing your faces skin. Face massage should be done slowly.

2. You should move your finger rounded from bottom (near your nose) to the top of your face. Do not rub your face more than 25 minutes. Use a bandanna and covered your shoulder with a towel.

3. If you have a dry skin type, use cold cream that you can store first in the refrigerator. While for oily type of skin, you may mix olive oil and few drip of lemon juice. Let’s face massage!

The role of water based lubricant are very important, it make the event run so smooth. When a woman is ready to making love, she will be secrete natural lubricant. However, sometimes due to psychological reasons or age, the amount of lubricant produced is not sufficient. Vagina felt dry and consequently make event painful. Therefore, the role of lubrication made important enough.

Lubricants or natural fluid lubricant (originating from the liquid lubrication out when a woman has inflamed) and other synthetic lubricant believed to smooth the way for making love with your partner. Synthetic lubricants are very useful for men and women who are having sex.

Men recommended use oil based lubricant with oil basic materials, water, or Silicon. Women suggested encourage using water based lubricant. Water can avoid vagina from infection. Please do not use oil and liquid lubricants excessively and even better if these fluid lubricants only thin lubricated.

However, in line with the increasing science and technology, liquid lubricant function grow. Now it has new function that can be important considered, when people have a risk from different type sexually virus, as we already know of them: syphilis, Sexual diseases (STD), and even more danger, that is AIDS and another sexually diseases.

This lubricant cannot replace function of condoms for HIV protection. Condom still believed as the most powerful deterrent from HIV. With spread of some substance oil that found in lubricants have been proven in against the virus.

This strengthened by several researches on sexual base from the University of Valveston, Texas, United States and AIDS Research and Human Retrovirus edition of July 20 2001. It has been found that liquid lubricant (labeled as Astroglide with lubricant glide, gel lubricant, liquid silk lubricant, and Vagisil) will be able to reduce the number of phagocytes infected with HIV and HIV in men’s sperm.

In the pilot found number of cells are infecting HIV virus decreased more than a thousand times. In addition, cells those are containing virus dead in five minutes. However, about 30 minutes required the virus to infect cells surface vagina or anus.

Lubricants can against the virus until eight hours duration, although it absorbed body heat to 37-Celsius degrees. In the sense, lubricants still effective after long lubricated. In fact, lubricants still powerful to kill the HIV even though they have been disbursed up to four times.

One of researcher explained lubricants have beneficial in the current era. Because many young people have the free sex actives and feared contracting the HIV virus. In addition, the lubricants may be hopeful for humankind, while vaccine was still not being finding before, that is able to kill off the virus.