Six Diseases of Modern Age
Informatization, computerization, automation … Behind each of these concepts is easy. Comfort, allowing for modern man easier to achieve their goals. However, new opportunities bring with them new problems, which can develop into disease.
1. Rapid eye fatigue
In this disease is its medical name: asthenopia. Eyes turn red, quickly tired, man has a sense of discomfort and dryness. Sometimes, asthenopia can be expressed also in the accompanying pain in the neck or back. And, though his eyes can overextend and other means, the first cause of the problem is the computer. But rather, many hours spent behind them: without respite, without a gym for the eyes, and sometimes even without complying with normal lighting conditions. Almost 75% of users in some way vulnerable to the illness or its symptoms – doctors say.
2. Hearing loss
Player – really a wonderful thing, but to use it should be without fanaticism. Constant pressure on the ears is fraught with hearing loss, warns otolaryngologists. Especially dangerous for the ears may be headphones-droplets, which are inserted into the ear. And if we hear the music “to its fullest …
Today, doctors noted the appearance of cases in young people with hearing problems, which have previously been characterized only for the elderly. Doctors strongly recommend not to strain your ears, and, if possible, to use the speakers or “external” headphones, can not penetrate into the auditory canal.
3. Thrombosis
Go. So, briefly and clearly. Hypodynamia – Fight! This is both a description of the problem, and a hint how to solve it. After many hours spent in one position, with possible formation of “blood clots”, most often in the deep venous system of lower limbs. Doctors advise interrupted by a short break at least once an hour, move your feet at work, lay out the necessary items in different parts of the table, so that they still needed to reach. In a word, to which only the tricks do not have to resort to force yourself a little move.
4. Anxiety disorders
That’s really fad of modern man, who constantly need to run off somewhere, for something aspire … You begin to worry because of the little things, then to her “is counted” some kind of disorder – and off they’d go: a syndrome of general anxiety. Constant stress, anxiety, irritability, lack of balance, feeling of weakness, headaches, stomach disorders, etc. etc. Only in the U.S. this syndrome is subject to some 7 million people. Known to physicians and other form of excessive anxiety, the clinical picture which does not bode well: the constant experience about what others think about you, cause tremor, palpitations and unwell. In the United States from this disorder affects an estimated 15 million people.
5. Syndrome fug
Yes, it happens and such. It develops as a result of a long stay in small rooms or crowded offices, which can not boast not that a good view from the window, but also by the window. Part of this trouble saving adjusted air-conditioning system, but, first, it does not always exhaust the issue, and, secondly, are often set far from the best samples of air conditioners. The savings for many office workers into a constant sneezing, coughing, headache, dizziness and nausea. In some cases, a “capture” syndrome is very itchy skin.
6. Ortorexy (psychosis healthy eating)
On the one hand, the issue of healthy eating today is not without importance. Only one issue of fast-food is worth. But there is another side to this coin: excessive concern about how to consume only healthy food. At first glance, nothing wrong with that. But, becoming an obsession, the fear of consumption of poor-quality food makes life very difficult – Western doctors warn that more than once or twice faced similar problems. A person who faces this infirmity, nothing remains as to follow all sorts of diets, a hundred times to check the labels on packages, packets in a burst of buying magazines to read something new about the useful food. In addition, the person starts with a huge bias to treat all others who did not share his point of view. That’s so stressful she present …