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🌟 May 12 is International Nurses Day🌟 The idea of ​​celebrating Nurses Day was first voiced in 1953, but this holiday has been celebrated as an international holiday since 1965. In 1974, ICN decided to celebrate International Nurses Day on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, one of the founders of the Sisters of Mercy service. 💐Dear participants in the holiday, please accept our warmest congratulations: Today is a nurse's holiday, For her, this is the best moment. She has so much work, There is no time to close her eyes! Always neat, in a white coat, She will hurry to help each of us, And she will change the sheets for everyone in the ward, And she is always on guard! And on a wonderful, international day, We want to sincerely wish you: Inspiration for you in such a difficult work, And you will have universal grace!

🩸 Giardiasis (giardiasis) is a disease caused by microscopic parasites Guardia. Protozoan invasion, which occurs mainly with damage to the small intestine and is partially accompanied by allergic and neurological symptoms. 🩸 The source of infection for humans is a domestic animal, with which they often come into contact: dogs, rabbits, cats and other animals. However, the 1st place as a source of invasion remains for humans. 🩸 Giardia enter the environment with stool in the form of cysts. Cyst excretion begins on the 9th - 22nd day after infection. 🩸 Infection factors - water, food, soil, hands. Mechanical carriers - insects and flies. Transmission mechanism: fecal-oral. Trophozoites (adult forms) survive in feces and in the external environment for up to 2 hours. 🩸 Acute symptoms include: - diarrhea, - bloating, - fatty stools, - stomach and abdominal cramps, - upset stomach or nausea/vomiting, - dehydration (acute fluid loss), - as well as itchy skin, hives, swelling of the eyes and joints. 🩸 Risk groups for giardiasis: -Children in...

💡 Echinococcus (lat. Echinococcus granulosus) parasitizes in the liver, lungs, brain, kidneys. Causes the disease echinococcosis‼️ The egg of echinococcus is almost round in shape, has a brown radically striped shell, containing an oncosphere with 6 hooks. 🩸Echinococcus parasitizes in the small intestine as an adult helminth. Since their life cycle occurs with a change of hosts, their final habitat is domestic dogs, wolves, foxes and other carnivorous animals. Mature segments of echinococcus are released into the environment with animal feces. Most often they enter the liver through the portal vein system through the intestinal wall in the form of oncospheres. Sometimes oncospheres reach other organs through blood vessels, such as: lungs, brain, kidneys and others. 🩸A person with echinococcosis does not pose a threat to others. A person can become infected with echinococcus when consuming vegetables, fruits, berries, eggs. After the encosphere enters the body, a local inflammatory reaction occurs around it and begins to develop from the oncosphere into the fin...

🪱 Infection with parasites helminths (worms) is one of the main reasons that: - suppresses human defenses; - worsens the course of existing diseases; - affects the nervous system; - increases the number of pathogenic microorganisms in the intestines; - reduces the effect of vaccines; - causes allergic reactions, poor appetite, and an unreasonable increase in temperature. In addition to mechanical damage, they harm with the products of their metabolic decay, which leads to various consequences as a result of intoxication of the body in both children and adults. 🔬 Since helminths are able to provoke various symptoms of the disease and not all can secrete eggs, there are two main methods for detecting parasites: 1. The classic method or the simplest - microscopic examination of fresh feces. In our laboratory "Medi Lab+" the "Parasep" enrichment method is also performed, which is designed to concentrate helminth eggs, cysts, and protozoa. 2. Microscopic method - allows you to detect eggs, cysts and diagnose helminthiasis, which are most common: ascariasis, enterobiasis, trichocephalosis, giardiasis. The classic method is not very convenient...

📍What provokes Autoimmune Hepatitis? 💡 Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory process in the liver of unknown origin, characterized by periportal inflammation, the presence of hypergammaglobulinemia, tissue autoantibodies. 🔬 Diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis. In the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis, the determination of such markers as: antinuclear antibodies (ANA), antibodies to liver and kidney microsomes (anti-LKM), antibodies to smooth muscle (SMA) is of great importance. 🔬 To establish a definite diagnosis, it is necessary: no history of blood transfusions, taking hepatotoxic drugs, alcohol abuse; absence of serum markers of active viral infection and ANA, AMA titers; significant increase in the activity of AST, ALT and less pronounced increase in alkaline phosphatase. 🔬 Histological examination of AIG in liver tissue usually reveals a picture of chronic hepatitis with pronounced activity. Typical bridge-like parenchymal necrosis, a large number of plasma cells in the inflammatory infiltrate in the portal tracts and areas of hepatocyte necrosis. Lymphocytes of the infiltrate often form lymphoid follicles in the portal tracts, and periportal hepatocytes create...

🔬 Liver tests - a biochemical blood test that includes quantitative determination of the level of certain enzymes and the concentration of organic substances. 📍Indicators used to assess the functional and structural state of the liver and hepatobiliary system include: 🩸Activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) enzymes. 🩸Activity of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) enzymes. 🩸Activity of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) enzymes. 🩸Bilirubin level in the blood, including its fractions (direct and indirect bilirubin). 🩸Thymol test (TP).

📌This disease does not spare and does not choose by nationality, skin color or eyes. It threatens a woman just as much as in the last century. Just as, probably, in the next. Because a woman always remains a woman. 🩸Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor that develops from ovarian tissue. 5% cases of mortality from cancer are due to ovarian cancer. Mortality from this disease exceeds mortality from uterine cancer and cervical cancer combined. Incidence increases and gets younger over the years. 🔬Studies show that ovarian cancer is more common in developed countries. Among women with impaired ovarian function (use of ovulation stimulation drugs, frequent abortions, infertility), the prevalence of the disease is higher. 🇺🇦In Ukraine, ovarian cancer is in third place among gynecological oncological diseases. ‼️The main weapon against this disease is attention and respect for your body, dear women. Don't forget to undergo gynecological examinations on time and don't neglect the recommendations of laboratory...

💉Blood is tested - ELISA: 🩸ab HAV igM - antibodies to the hepatitis A virus, appear at the end of the incubation period, indicate the presence of an acute phase of hepatitis, or an infection in the recent past; persists in the blood from 3 to 6 months. 🩸 ab HAV ig G - antibodies to the hepatitis A virus, indicate a disease in the past and the formation of stable immunity; can be used to assess the effectiveness of vaccination. 🩸 Blood - RNA HAV - viremia occurs at the end of the incubation period, and persists for up to 2 weeks from the onset of active manifestations of the disease. Isolation of HAV RNA from bile and feces is of little information, because bile acid salts and polysaccharide complexes inhibit the PCR process. 📍We care about your health and care about our reputation. Order a study⬇️ ☎️ (067) 313 06 65 ☎️ (0382) 72 99 09 Address: Khmelnytskyi, Kamyanets'ka St., 106

📍A relatively new and poorly studied form of the disease, the causative agent of which is considered to be TTV. 📍It is believed that the main organ of replication of the TT virus is the liver, however, there is evidence of virus multiplication in hematopoietic cells, which may be accompanied by the development of blood diseases, especially aplastic. Today, the connection between TTV infection and pathological changes in the liver has not been conclusively proven. Most likely, it is a companion of another unknown hepatotropic virus. 🔬The examination is carried out exclusively by PCR. 📍 The virus can be detected in blood, saliva, cervical canal and vaginal mucus, seminal fluid, feces. 💡The mechanism of infection transmission can be both perinatal and fecal-oral.

🔬 Laboratory diagnostics of hepatitis today includes enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of antigenic structures, antibodies of different classes, and molecular genetic studies (DNA analysis, PCR). However, one cannot give preference to any method, because different structures are studied and, as a rule, these methods organically complement each other. 📍 Conducting a semi-quantitative DNA analysis can orient the doctor in the level of viremia, which directly depends on the activity of the replicative process and may indicate the activity of treatment. 📍 Conducting an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay allows you to determine the stage of the process, periods of exacerbations, possible prospects, etc. 💡 Today, hepatitis A, B, C, D, G, TT are distinguished. 📌 Hepatitis A, E are transmitted enterally, do not cause chronicity of the process, but can activate the disease in the presence of carriers of other hepatitis viruses. 📌 Hepatitis B, C, D, G, TT are transmitted parenterally and usually cause persistent chronicity. ‼️In practice, hepatitis A, B, C, D, G are subject to laboratory testing.