आंखों के लाल होने पर न करें नजरंदाज

Tips For Read Eyes

अगर आपकी जरा जरा सी देर में आंखें लाल हो जाती हैं तो इसे बिल्कुल नजरंदाज न करें। क्योंकि आपकी थोड़ी सी लापरवाही आपको जिंदगीभर भुगतनी पड़ सकती है।


आंखों का बार-बार लाल होना इस बात का सिग्नल है कि आपकी हड्डियां कमजोर हैं या आपको  आर्थराइटिस की समस्या है। भारत में आर्थराइटिस के मरीजों की संख्या करीब eighteen करोड़ है, जिसमें से लगभग fifteen करोड़ को घुटना दर्द की समस्या है। आखिर दिन व दिन क्यों बढ़ रही है ये समस्या।




हड्डियों के विशेषज्ञों की मानें तो ये समस्या आज आम हो गई है। खासकर ऑफिस गोइंग पीपल को ये ज्यादा इफेक्ट कर रही है। इसके पीछे का करण वो बताते हैं। कैल्शियम की कमी और आज का बेढंगा खानपान। इसके कारण हड्डियां कमजोर हो जाती हैं। अक्सर जोड़ों के दर्द, सूजन या अकड़न की समस्या से परेशान रहते हैं।




सेंटर फॉर नी एंड हिप केयर के वरिष्ठ आर्थोपेडिक व सर्जन डॉ. अखिलेश यादव बताते हैं कि आर्थराइटिस शरीर के fifteen मुख्य अंगों को नुकसान पहुंचाती है। इसमें हड्डियों में ऑस्टियोपोरेसिस, मसल्स में कमजोरी, सेल्स डैमेज, आंखों में रूखापन, आंखों में लालपन, आंखों में दर्द और धुंधलापन, खून में कमी, निमोनिया, हार्ट अटैक और स्ट्रोक आदि जैसी समस्याओं का खतरा बढ़ जाता है।

आर्थराइटिस की समस्या बुजुर्गों के साथ युवाओं में भी आम हो गई है। युवाओं में आर्थराइटिस की समस्या स्टेरायड, सप्लीमेंट, कैल्शियम की कमी और गलत खान-पान के कारण हो रही है। इसके अलावा बैठने की गलत आदतें व एक्सरसाइज करने का गलत तरीका भी इसका एक बड़ा कारण है।

मूल रूप से ओस्टियोआर्थराइटिस आर्थराइटिस का ही एक रूप है जो कि उम्र के बढ़ने पर अधिक पाई जाती है लेकिन रूमेटॉयड आर्थराइटिस किसी भी उम्र के व्यक्ति को प्रभावित कर सकती हैं। इसमें आपका इम्यून सिस्टम अत्यधिक सक्रिय हो जाता है। जोड़ों का सबसे बड़ा कारण है उठने-बैठने का गलत तरीका। ज्यादातर लोग आलथी-पालथी मार के बैठते हैं, जिससे जोड़ों पर जोर पड़ता है।

आर्थराइटिस से बचने के लिए पैरों को मोड़कर बैठने से बचें और धूम्रपान न करें। पोष्टिक आहार की मदद से इस बीमारी से बचा जा सकता है। आर्थराइटिस की समस्या होने पर शुरुआती चरण में दवाइयों के साथ फिजियोथेरेपी की भी जरूरत पड़ती है।

Baby Dental care

1) Dental Care Starts Before Teeth Arrive: From the moment your baby is born, you should be concerned with their dental hygiene.




Babies aren’t born with teeth (except in rare cases) but taking care of their gums is important. Gently massage their gums with an infant toothbrush (I’ve heard great things about the banana training toothbrush) or a soft washcloth. It’s important to brush the gums before teeth even come in.





2) When Teeth Come In: When teeth appear, brush twice daily with an infant toothbrush and training toothpaste (which doesn’t have fluoride –  toothpaste is a great option.)




Start flossing when two teeth touch each other. Even if your child resists, make sure you get those teeth cleaned as good as possible, especially before bedtime. Jack really loves to use children's floss picks.




After your infant takes a bottle, gently wash off their teeth with a wet cloth, so the milk doesn’t stick to their teeth more. For older children, encourage them to drink water every time they eat something, which helps cleanse the teeth as well.

Tips for Baby Dental Care

3) Visiting the Dentist: As I mentioned earlier, try to visit the dentist by the age of one. Some people think this is a silly recommendation, but I wish we had.




If he had gone in earlier, we could have been alerted to the fact that his teeth were more susceptible to cavities, and perhaps avoid having to put him under anesthesia and go through the process of putting fillings in.




4)When to Start Using Fluoride Toothpaste : Fluoride is an interesting thing. It has a lot of benefits, but you can definitely use it too much.




With toothpaste, when you spit it out, you don’t get a lot of the fluoride going into your body, but when a child or baby who can’t spit out the toothpaste yet, you don’t know how much they are getting. So as a general rule of thumb, don’t use toothpaste with fluoride until they can spit it into the sink. Instead, use a children’s toothpaste.




If your area doesn’t have fluoride naturally in the water, then be sure to get some fluoride drops from your doctor or county health building.




5) Foods that are good for teeth: Cheese, sweet potatoes, oranges cranberries, apples, water




6) Foods that are bad for teeth: Sweets and sugar, juice, white foods (white bread, rice, potatoes, white pasta, crackers (can be as bad as candy for the teeth), fruit snacks, and raisins.

Yoga can be applied to almost people and the age and condition of those people.

Health benefits for kids

The health benefits of yoga for kids are many, and kids yoga classes are many and profuse because of that. I just returned from a middle school tour for my oldest child, and the principal was telling me how all the kids start the day with a yoga class. I said to her I thought that was a great idea, not only for the kids’ bodies but also for their minds.

Physically speaking, yoga can be a dynamic exercise, balancing off a day of sitting behind a school desk. Yet this is just the beginning of the benefits of yoga for kids. Yoga is such a well-rounded and dynamic exercise that it gives the kids away to fully exploit their physicality with poses and sequences that challenge strength, stamina, cardio as well as balance, coordination, and flexibility.

Allowing the child to evolve in school as equally physically as mentally. Also giving the kids a chance to burn off some of that tremendous kid energy, allowing them to sit more still in the classroom, especially when you combine that with the stretching which releases the physical tension, contributing to more stillness and better focus.




More kids yoga benefits include the mental calm and focus achieved through breathing exercises, which along with the stretching relax the children and help them be more present. She said all this was very important to help the child get the most from the school experience.

Yet, she said to be the biggest reason for the morning yoga program was to teach the kid's relaxation techniques that calm and center them.




She explained the high level of anxiety many children experience and how that affects their ability to learn. So getting them to relax is very important, but even more important is teaching them what to do when they feel emotional or overwhelmed or anxious.

Teaching the kids to come back to their breath to calm down and center themselves. Teaching them to start noticing (mindfulness) when they are becoming upset or frustrated or anxious and applying breathing and mindfulness techniques to calm and center them.




All of this can be taught to children by a talented and qualified yoga instructor. All of this can be taught and applied to any age group, you just need to adjust the methods according to the audience. Kids yoga has been around for a while now and there are some hugely talented instructors like our instructor on poweryoga.com.




I am sure I am just scratching the surface here in this blog, as I have been a kid who practiced yoga (a long time ago) and remembers some of these benefits, but I am not a qualified kids yoga instructor and as I said, I’m probably not even scratching the surface of the benefits of kids yoga. Yet let me say, the things I learned as a kid practicing yoga helped me in many situations in my life and throughout my life and mostly outside of school.




One thing is for sure, because of the health benefits of yoga for kids, kids yoga classes are prolific and many, many schools are incorporating yoga into their curriculum, as well as many local yoga studios and online studios offer kids yoga tailored to almost every age group.