Young Men Be Careful of Blindness if Stay Up All Night

It is a habit for some people to stay all night long to do their works, playing with the computer games, go for clubbing and other entertainment. It is not healthy especially for young men because there is a kind of uncommon eye disease often raid after they are “burning the midnight oil”. It will affect their vision even they have original good vision.

What is this kind of eye disease? Is the disease harmful on people? Actually this is a retina eye disease, usually without warning and unexpected, especially at the time people feeling very tired.

Based on the understanding, this kind of eye disease is quite common. It is mainly happen on the range of 20 to 45 years old of men. The medical term called this disease as idiopathic central serous chorioretinopathy. At present, the disease incidence is still high. The incidence on male is 3 to 7 times of female. Most of the incidence only on one eye and it is always happen on the people with normal eye vision. 

Besides, patient always see things deformation. The things will be distorted, big things will become small and small things will become big in the patient’s eye.

This disease characteristic is a recurring disease. After the incidence happen, it will recover automatically after some time. However, when people do not notice it, the disease will come back again. If the patient do not have the medication in time, recurring happen of the incidence will affect the eye vision to become permanently damage.

When people stay up all night, especially during fatigue and nervous condition, the body hormone secretion will increase. It will cause the blood vessels to be contraction or spasm and lead to the decrease of blood flow through the blood vessels. At the time the insufficiency of the blood in the blood vessels of the eyes will cause a retinal pigment epithelial cell with impaired barrier function. It cannot stop some proteins, antibodies and other macromolecules penetrate into retinal, which will cause the damage of the original structure and environment of retinal. As the result, the eye vision cannot function properly which resulting the sudden drop in eye vision. 

Male medical examination

How to choose your medical examination as a male

There is a lot of people ignore about the importance of medical examination, especially as a male. Actually through a standard medical examination, you will be able to discover your medical problem. Some disease like high blood pressure and cholesterol will cause the heart disease. If you are able to do a regular medical checkup, you will be able to control the disease. The following are some male medical examinations which are important:

Eye Examination

A man who has diabetes, high blood pressure or his family has eye disease history, should check the eye every year. During eye examination, doctor will check glaucoma (intraocular pressure leading to decreased vision), deterioration spots (retinal regeneration) and cataract (lens blur). 

Teeth Examination

A man should at least every year pay a visit to a dental clinic to check teeth age, gums, tongue, oral health and whether has oral cancer. A man who is a smoker should check his teeth more than one time a year.

Blood Pressure Examination

A man who is over the age of 50 years old should check his blood pressure every year. If your family has a history of high blood pressure, heart disease or you have diabetes or over weight, you should do the medical checkup every year.

Cholesterol Examination

A blood examination can check up your cholesterol level in order to help you to examine your chance to have the coronary heart disease. From the age of 20 years old, you should do the examination every year. If your cholesterol level is higher than the normal level (reading between 80/50 and 130/85 is considered as a normal level) or your family history has coronary heart disease, you should always do the medical checkup and get the advice from the doctor regularly.

Colon Examination

The examination will start at the age of 50 years old. If the result is normal, you should only do the examination every three to five years. You should do the examination regularly if your family history has polyps, colon cancer and ulcerative colitis.

Prostate Examination

Prostate Special Antigen test (PSA) examines the protein hide inside the blood. If the result is higher than the normal level, it may indicate that your body has cancer.

Testicular Examination

Doctor advise that every man should self-checking their testicular every month to check whether it is abnormal, but this cannot represent the professional medical checking. Testicular cancer can be easily cured if can found out earlier. A man between the ages of 15 to 35 years old should do the checking every two to three years. Doctor normally will include testicular examination in the normal medical checkup. You may request for the testicular examination if the doctor does not include this checking inside the normal medical checkup. 

Urinary System Examination

Male urinary system will cause inflammation easily. If can found out earlier, it can be cured easily. So a regular examination is a must.

Male is advisable do not overwork

Male is advisable not to work too hard

During middle-age, a man physiological function will decrease which cause the aging problem. Therefore, it is advisable that a man should not overwork to maintain the healthy body in his life.

Do not overwork when tired

People feel tired when they need to restore their energy and strength. It is a normal reaction and also a signal to your body. If you do not act to the signal seriously, it may cause your body overwork and lead to an illness. So when the time you feel that your body is lack of energy, muscle aches, dizziness, retardation, heart palpitation, heart rate and rapid breathing symptoms, you should not continue to work. You should know the importance of work and rest, do not working overnight and do some surprise work.   People should always relax their mind, feel comfortable and do not worry about some trivia. This is important to eliminate the tiredness in order to protect our healthy body.

Do not overwork when sick

The brain, heart, kidney and other organs of our body will meet the aging problem during middle-age. The cell immunity, regeneration capacity and the body’s endocrine function will decrease during this stage. If a man is still ignore the symptoms of headache, fever, cough, tired,  backache, leg pain and other significant illness, he will delay the time of treatment which will cause the illness become more serious. Therefore, when we are ill, we should go to the hospital to have the medical treatment in order to heal the illness immediately. It is important to remember that do not overwork during sick.

Do not hold too hard during toiletry

Hold hard when defecate will cause chronic constipation, hemorrhoids, anal fissure, rectal prolapsed. Besides, it will also cause colorectal cancer. Hold back when urine will cause abdominal pain, even can cause urinary tract infection and nephritis. It is good to develop a habit for a man to defecate regularly and urine when feel to do so.

Do not overwork in the living

Do not overwork when you feel dizzy and headache. It is not good to use strong coffee or tea to stimulate the nerves to avoid causes neurasthenia, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Do not hold back when thirsty

Water is the most important mineral for our body. A middle-age man should develop a habit to drink water regularly, at least six to eight glass of water every day. Thirsty is also one of the signals to indicate that our body is less of water. If we continue to ignore the signal and do not consume the water immediately, it will affect our body healthiness in the long time.

Do not hold back when hungry

Do not simply delay the time of eating. This may cause gastrointestinal contractions, abdominal pain, severe low blood sugar, shaking hands and knees, dizziness and even coma. A person who is always feel hungry and do not eat will cause ulcer disease, gastritis, indigestion and other significant illness.

Attention: A male should protect his kidney as a habit since small

A male kidney is as important as a heart. However, a different lifestyle and poor diet will destroy the kidney. This is normally ignored by people. There are a lot of medicines used by people to improve their health of the kidney. The important thing is to change their lifestyle and diet in order to protect the kidney.

Like to drink alcohol

If you have the kidney disease and still love to drink alcohol uncontrolled, it will cause the deposition of uric acid renal obstruction which will result to kidney failure.

The solution: during the blood checking, if you found out that your kidney got some problem, this will indicate that your kidney may destroy. Urine examination will be a faster and easier way to know about your kidney healthiness. So it is advisable to do the urine examination regularly.

Do not like to drink water

Most of the man do not like to drink water and even do not think that it is important. This may cause significant harm to the body if less of water. Our body metabolic waste mainly is handled by liver and kidney. The kidney is only 1% of our body weight but have to accept the body quarter of cardiac output. There will be one to two liter of blood pass through the kidney. Therefore, the kidney has to accept much more waste compare to the other part of the organs. The kidney is an important mediator responsible in control our body water and electrolyte balance, metabolic the waste from our physical activity and output from the urine. During this process, our body needs a lot of water to help the metabolism.

The solution: Drink lots of water as a habit can help to dilute the urine and help it to excrete rapidly. It will help to prevent stone. It will also dilute the urine during having too much salt.

Inappropriate having vegetables and fruits

This is a general concept to have more vegetables and fruits to improve our health. Vegetables and fruits have a lot of potassium which will help in lower the high pressure naturally. However, for the chronic renal dysfunction patient, long time of consumption will destroy their kidney. This is also not good for the people who has poor kidney. The potassium will burden the kidney function during metabolism.

The solution: the patient who has chronic renal dysfunction should pay more attention on the diet during consumption of vegetables and fruits in order to protect the kidney. They should avoid having strong vegetables and fruits juice, hot pot sup and vegetables soup. They should choose to have appropriate and light meal every day.

Prostate Diseases

Prostate Diseases

The prostate is a gland. It helps make semen, the fluid that contains sperm. The prostate surrounds the tube that carries urine away from the bladder and out of the body. A young man's prostate is about the size of a walnut. It slowly grows larger with age. If it gets too large, it can cause problems. This is very common after age 50. The older men get, the more likely they are to have prostate trouble.

Some common problems are

• Prostatitis - an infection, usually caused by bacteria
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH - an enlarged prostate, which may cause dribbling after urination or a need to go often, especially at night
• Prostate cancer - a common cancer that responds best to treatment when detected early

NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases