Healing Connections

We have some beautiful part in our body that can make us looks great that have many advantages. One of the advantages is we can see something beautiful such as woman or great place in the world. But there are many thing that can happen to our beautiful eyes, because of that we have to try as hard as and as well as we can to protect them. Because as we all know that once our eyes having some problem, it will take a long time to make it back normal or even our eyes can not back into normal condition.

A lot of thing or activity that can we do to protect our eyes. First is we have to do healthy life such as not smoking intentionally, because the fame when we smoke very annoying our eyesight. Beside from external factor we know that when we smoke it same that we absorb many toxic. Another example is young people such as teenagers they have to control their desires to sit down in front of computer more often. We know that teenagers love to play some games. In big cities many teenagers love to play some online game that required very long time to play.

Many tips that we can apply to our daily life to protect our eyes. First is when we are outside during the day and the light is bright we have to squint or turn our head away from the sun than we need to wear our sunglasses. The best way to protect our eyes is to stay out of sunlight, but of course it is very impossible. The easiest way is we have to try consuming good food that contains many vitamins. Some of vitamins that we can consume are beta carotene-rich food such as carrots, sweet potatoes etc, we have to start our healthy life as soon as possible. Because it is good for our life now and for our future

For infants and children with blinding diseases of the cornea, a sophisticated new corneal transplantation technique offers the hope of improving vision while overcoming the technical difficulty and low success rate of traditional penetrating keratoplasty (PK) in children, according to reports in the current issue of the Journal of AAPOS (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus).

The issue includes two case reports on the successful use of “Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty” (DSAEK) in children with corneal disease. If the promising results are borne out by further research, DSAEK could provide an alternative to traditional corneal transplantation - a notoriously difficult procedure in children, failing more often than it succeeds.

Dr. Bennie H. Jeng and colleagues of The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute performed DSAEK in a 21-month-old boy, while Dr. Mark M. Fernandez and colleagues of Duke University Eye Center report the results of DSAEK in a 9-year-old boy. Both children had irreversible damage to the corneal endothelium - a specialized, single-cell layer at the rear (posterior) of the cornea - after complications of cataract surgery.

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An epidemic that began as a faint whisper over 25 years ago in the United States has now become a ROAR heard worldwide. Today, an estimated 1 million people in the U.S. alone are living with HIV or AIDS, with about 40,000 new cases each year. In what one expert called a “grim report,” an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of HIV diagnoses trends revealed that during 2001 to 2006, an estimated 214,379 persons in 33 U.S. states were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, with 97,577, or 46 percent, of those cases being among “men who have sex with men,” or MSM; a term referring to those who often do not identify themselves as strictly homosexual (gay) or bisexual.

However, the most disturbing trend seems to be emerging among young MSMs aged 13 to 24, which had an annual increase of 12.4 percent. Still higher was the increase among young African-American MSMs, who had an annual increase of nearly 15 percent, compared with a 1.9 percent annual increase among African-American MSMs of all ages. In contrast, there was a 1 percent decline in the 25 to 44-year-old group, as well as a 4.4 percent decline for HIV diagnoses attributed to high-risk heterosexual contact, and a 9.5 percent decline in diagnoses due to injection-drug use.

Dr. Richard Wolitski, acting director of the HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC, said there could be several factors fueling the increases. “Because of the new treatments, some men perceive it to be a less severe disease than it once was,” he said. “These men represent a new generation that has not been personally affected by AIDS in the same way that their older peers were.” Ron Simmons, president of Us Helping Us, an AIDS service organization for gay black men, agrees that the revolution in antiretroviral therapy over the last ten years appears to have lessened the fear of HIV infection. “I can remember going to a funeral every four or five days,” he said. “Now, if you talk to some of these young men, they say, ‘If I do get infected, I will simply take the blue pill or the pink pill, like my friend.”

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