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Soap and antiseptic solution is a 2 material most often used for hand washing. Each has advantages and disadvantages in repel germs, so that in certain circumstances the two can complement each other.

Prof Dr Djoko Wibowo, DTM & H, SpPD soap-KPTI say the most powerful way to remove oil, sludge and organic impurities that stick to the skin of the hand. Most of the microbes can also be washed with soap, but not as much as an antiseptic.

"Soap and water best for washing hands, but it takes a special facility such as a sink and so on," said Prof. Djoko, chairman of the Association of Infection Control Indionesia (Perdalin), in a press conference the signing of the cooperation between Perdalin with Bayer Schering Pharma in the campaign for hand hygiene and infection control at the Hotel Intercontinental, Jakarta, Thursday (11/11/2010).

In addition to need special facilities which of course the price is not cheap, handwashing with soap is also need more time that is 40-60 seconds. Therefore, many hospital personnel who become lazy to wash their hands, thus increasing the risk of disease transmission.

A more practical way is to use soap dibangingkan liquid alcohol-based antiseptics. Although no substitute for a powerful soap remove the dirt, but this material is quite impractical because the packaging can be taken anywhere can clean the hands of germs in just 20 seconds.

The World Health Organization WHO, the antiseptic used as a standard in hospitals and healthcare centers. This fluid is easily found next to the bed patient and treatment room walls, can even pocketed by a doctor or nurse.

The combination of soap with antiseptic will more effectively remove the dirt and germs in the skin surface (transient Microorganism). The trick, used to clean hands with soap for 40-60 seconds and then rinse with an antiseptic for 20 seconds.

To clean the germs lurking in the deeper layers of skin (resident Microorganism), need additional techniques besides combines the soap and antiseptic. The technique is to rub the skin when washing with soap and antiseptic, with a longer time that is 120 seconds.

Caffeinated beverages such as coffee, tea and soft drinks is a stimulant of the nervous system that certainly can bring adverse effects. One side effect is causing a lump or cyst in the breast.

Many women who complained of a cyst or cancerous benign lump in her breast. There are many factors that can cause this, including age, hormones and certain foods such as factors that contain caffeine.

Caffeine does not directly cause benign lumps in the breast, but in large quantities can cause hormone levels fluctuate so that the cause of pain and cysts in the breast.

LIVESTRONG Launched on Thursday (11/11/2010), the following adverse effects on the breast because caffeine:

1. Breast lumps
Caffeine can cause fibrocystic breast, which contains cells that collect fluid in the cysts that often make a lump or lumps in the breast. The characters in the form of lumps that move freely round the breast. These lumps are often tender to the touch.

These lumps can be either permanent or temporary. The symptoms will get worse before menstruation and early pregnancy. Fibrocystic breast because caffeine intake usually does not increase breast cancer risk.

2. Pain in breast
Besides causing lumps, caffeine also causes discomfort and pain in the breast. Caffeine intake can aggravate the pain if you already suffer from fibrocystic breast before. According to the Georgetown University Department of Medicine, this pain can come continuously or only occasionally.

3. Breasts are solid
Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center showed that a high intake of caffeine that causes breast fibrocystic changes can also cause certain regions in a dense breast.

To avoid lumps in the breast occur, should reduce and stop mengonsumi caffeine habit. In addition, high-fiber diet, eating seafood as well as intake of vitamin A, vitamin E and iodine can also prevent the occurrence of breast cysts.

Memory is one of the important parts of your body because it contains all sorts of information. However, information storage and retrieval process is susceptible to various things
killer known as memory.

Everything that is known as the killer of this memory can affect every area of the brain such as sensory memory, short term or long term.

Quoted from AskMen, Thursday (11/11/2010) there are 6 things that can be a killer memory, namely:

Smoke
Although most people do not realize this fact, but smoking is one of the assassins of memory. Several studies have shown that people who smoke will experience memory loss and cognitive abilities compared with people who are non-smokers. In addition, long-term effects of smoking from time to time can cause mental impairment.

Malnutrition
The brain needs fuel, particularly from glucose. If someone is experiencing shortages of fuel or malnutrition, the brain power in the memory store will also be short. Malnutrition can also cause severe retrogade and anterograde amnesia, including forgetting to what had just diomongkannya.

Herpes
Herpes is one of the conditions or health problems that could be a real memory killer. A more serious form of herpes is herpes simplex encephalitis can make a person experiencing severe memory loss. This condition can occur when the herpes virus finds its way to the human brain via the facial nerve.

Binge drinking
If someone is having a night of binge drinking, then he will suffer acute memory loss known as blocking. Binge drinking in young adults can be detrimental to everyday memory and can even continue until he is mature.

Hypnotic
During this hypnosis is known to express one's memory is suppressed or forgotten, but sometimes this process is followed by the loss of some memory, known as post-hypnotic amnesia. Therefore expected that one day there are technologies that can take certain memories or memory in the brain without the need to perform hypnosis.

Stress
When something happens in a surprise or a big pressure, then the memory or memories in the brain will not be accessible. Therefore, if a person experiences constant stress can later affect the ability of memory.

Based on data released by the World Breastfeeding Trends initiatives (WBTi), Sri Lanka has a good breastfeeding rates. While Indonesia is on the bottom three ranks 30 out of 33 countries.

The assessment was conducted during the 2008-2009 WBTi against 33 countries. Found 9 countries that get the blue with the highest value assigned by the state of Sri Lanka, 22 countries including Indonesia get the yellow and two red states to get results.

"WBTi here to do the tracking, assessment, monitoring, implementation and global strategy for infant food and small children (infant and child feeding a youth)," said Dr. Arun Gupta as the regional coordinator of IBFAN Asia in the show 'Oneasia Breastfeeding Partners Forum 7 at Grand Flora Hotel Kemang, Jakarta, Thursday (11/11/2010).

Dr Arun said that in doing this ranking is based on 3 stages, namely the first stage of a national assessment, the second phase do the ranking of countries or regions are based on data and the third stage is to conduct re-assessment to analyze trends.

Indicators used in assessment WBTi consists of 15 indicators divided into two parts, namely the indicator first part relates to policies and programs of these countries, while the second section indicators associated with infant feeding practices and child.

"We're sad to see Indonesia is ranked 30, at least this result can be a motivator for us to fix it. But there are also other indicators that show good results such as the handling of breastfeeding during a disaster," said Mia Sutanto, as Chairman AIMI (Nursing Mothers Association of Indonesia).

The gathering in Indonesia this involves partners from the Ministry of Health, AIMI (Nursing Mothers Association of Indonesia), Selasi (Indonesian Lactation Center) and also Perinasia (Association of Indonesian Perinatologi).
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