Thursday, July 31, 2008

" Darkness From Diabetes"

Diabetes Can damage your eyes. Your eyes are most important organ. So you should be aware of diabetes. Let us have a look on eyes.Your eye has a lens and an aperture (opening) at the front, whichbrings objects into focus on the retina at the back of the eye. Theretina is made up of a delicate tissue that is sensitive to light,like film in the old cameras before the digital age.At the center of the retina is the macula which is a small areaabout the size of a pinhead. This is the most highly specializedpart of the retina and it is vital because it enables us to seefine detail to read small print. The other parts of the retina giveus side vision (peripheral vision). The rest of the eye in front ofthe retina is a clear jelly-like substance called the vitreoushumour. Diabetes can affect the eye in a number of ways. These usuallyinvolve the fine network of blood vessels in the retina - the mostsever condition that can occur is diabetic retinopathy.Affect - Temporary blurringYour vision may become blurred for a few days or weeks while yourdiabetes is first being controlled. This is due to the swelling ofthe lens of the eye.Affect - CataractThis can occur in two forms:Young people with diabetes can develop a special type of cataract.Although their vision gets worse, it can be restored by surgery;older people with diabetes can be especially prone to developingcataracts. Cataracts can be successfully removed by surgery andusually it is possible to insert a lens implant. This procedure isnot for everyone.Affect - Diabetic retinopathyThe most serious diabetic eye condition involves the retina and iscalled diabetic retinopathy. This condition is very common inpeople who have had diabetes for a long time. Your doctor may beable to see abnormalities in your eyes, but there is no threat toyour sight.There are two types of diabetic retinopathy which can damage yoursight. Both involve the fine network of blood vessels in theretina. They are described below.Type 1 - MaculopathyThis happens when the blood vessels in the retina start to leak. Ifthe macula is affected, you will find that your central visiongradually gets worse. You may find it difficult to recognizepeople's faces in the distance or to see details like small print.The amount of central vision that is lost varies from person toperson. However everyday sight for getting around the house andoutside (navigation vision) will be preserved. It is quite rare forsomeone with maculopathy to lose all their sight.Type 2 - Proliferative diabetic retinopathySometimes diabetes can cause the blood vessels in the retina tobecome blocked. If this happens then new blood vessels form in theeye. This is nature's way of trying to repair the damage so thatthe retina has a new blood supply.Unfortunately these new blood vessels are weak. They are also inthe wrong place - growing on the surface of the retina and into thevitreous jelly. As a result these blood vessels can bleed veryeasily and cause scar tissue to form in the eye. The scarring pullsand distorts the retina. When the retina is pulled out of positionthis is called retinal detachment. This condition is more rare thanbackground retinopathy and is more often found in people who havebeen insulin dependent for many years. The new blood vessels willrarely affect your vision, but their consequences, such as bleedingor retinal detachment can cause your vision to get worse suddenly.Your eyesight may become blurred and patchy as the bleedingobscures part of your vision. Without treatment, total loss ofvision can happen in proliferative retinopathy.Although your vision may be good, changes can be taking place toyour retina that needs treatment. Most sight loss in diabetes ispreventable: early diagnosis is vital have an eye examination every year do not wait until your vision has deteriorated to havean eye test.Your family doctor or optometrist can examine for diabeticretinopathy. Remember, however, that if your vision is getting worse, this doesnot necessarily mean you have diabetic retinopathy. It may simplybe a problem that can be corrected by glasses.
( courtsey: Julia Hanf)

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Are We In Danger ?

Environment has greater impact on human life. Degraded or contaminated environment can produce so many difficulties and disorders in the life of human. Human life needs well supported and favourable environment inevitably to live satisfactorily. Wealth and money may provide us smoothness, comfortability and standard way of living in convenient manner. Our progress, our civilization whatsoever is achieved by us through the process of industrial growth and enhancement in our society, has deteriorated the condision of the environment terribly. We have gone far, by paying more attention emphatically on the industrial growth and technological advancement, just overlooking the vital matter of preserving the ‘environment’.
Environment generally ,is affected by industrial dust,fume, fosil of fuels that particularly emit carbon-di-oxide,carbon monoxide,sulphar-di-oxide like fatal gases. Those emitted gases are the well performer of bringing so many fatal diseases to the human life.More industry in the congested manner could be caused of such greater emission of fatal gases.We are living in danger! Present condition of the environment is threatening us severely. Environment covers a larger area of air, water,soil and others. Scarecity of drinking water is in increasing order day by day, and is generated from the mixing of industrial wasts in the natural sources of water and soil. Industrial wasts are really headache to the industry entrepreneurs. Without caring the gifts of nature properly, we are compelled to face the reaction and responses from the nature aggressively.The contaminated nature has been taking revenge to us.
At this crucial stage of environment, we have to take unending measures to safeguard it for the sake of human life. More plantation not only in the surrounding industrial areas but also here and there in our locality, beside our path, everwhere possibly.Contamination and wastage of drinking water should be restricted under rigid control strategically.Artificial water tank can be made by taking useless or discarded land. Such water tanks made artificially, could help in drought or summer season. Necessary measures are to be taken as to avail the chained effect as well to maintain ecological balance to keep our environment in such condition as it may not damage our civilization.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Terrorist Attack On Common People.

India is severely diturbed as well as hurt and facing the loss of lives of so many innocent people due to unspeculated terrorist attact and activiries.The consecutive serial bomb blasts that took place in Bangalore, the silicon city and ahmedabad,the cotton city of India.The consecutive two severe blasts occured in serial pattern by keeping bombs kept in the tiffine boxex left by an unknown cycist on the cycle standing on the road allegedly. This is indeed shocking and mournful to the people of India. It is surprising that the inteligence branch of India has been remained as unaware and unknown so far. It is really shameful matter that our security and safety measures on the protection of terrorist activities have been on the wane.
Thepolitical leaders of India,all have been away from solving strategically any problem that India confronts.All the leaders are engaged in political gaming as well as creating turmoils in the country without thinking for any development for the nation.Their 'mission and vision' to gain political power and benefit fiscally for the party.All the prolific leaders can not call a nationwide discussion and debate from where any possitive point could be derived to eliminate or minimise such terrorist attact of devastating.They should find an way for it at least!

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Protect Child Labours.

They have come across all of their golden days neither playing nor cherishing any dream absent mindedly. Neither they could have enjoyed in flying kites with their friends nor they collectively have commited any misdeed in their childhood. They possibly can’t remember of their childish done. Poverty did not permit them to happen so classic! The agony of appetite have chased for all time them.The little fellows could not be provided a squaire meal in a day by their parents. Their parents are all undone ! Appetite does not obey any barrier. So, in quest of food, all those ‘little flowers were compelled to get involved in doing anykinds of jobs, just to meet their basic needs only.

The opportunists businessmen very often are exploiting these innocent chidren by not giving proper payments to them.Even in need,the chidren are commanded to continue their works without any rest or refreshment at all. The employers do not consider these soft heartened kids are flesh blooded.Oftenly they forget those children have some tearing limit of patience.Whatever the employers do with those little fellows,is ruthless ! As these poor children have no alternative to satisfy their appetite,they silently obey and carry out all the commands of their “God Of Food”who are their saviour.

The objective of engaging child labours in any business concern, is mainly emphasized on minimizing labour cost by depriving them from getting the actual payment for their works. The valuation of their services rendered isnot perfectly evaluated. No overtime payments,no bonus nor any facilities,nothing is rewarded to them to satisfy anyhow. Ceaseless works and more works are necessary to the employers! The employers usually practice this theory of opportunism in the world particularly in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Really an untolerable phenomenon happens even now in so civilized society.

Have we no responsibility to save those hapless chidren? We have to strike the source.We do need combat with proverty.The time is knocking to increase the food production level globally otherwise nobody will live peacefully.Our all ethical duties responsibility should should be directed towards saving those oppressed children-who have given up thir nice childhood-only for fulfilling their stomach-with our endless efforts.Otherwise our civilization will carry a big stigma side by side permanently.