The doctor treats patients with anecdotes :

Chelyabinsk seriously ill patients a doctor puts on his legs usual jokes and pantomime. Unique method normalizes blood pressure and even helps in the treatment of cancer.

An appointment with the therapist, patients are in a hurry to be happy. Doctor to make people laugh to tears, but after friendly laughter leave his sessions are full of strength and health.

38-year-old Andrew Skutina ten years has been studying laughter and its effect on the human body. Based on the research of foreign scholars, he brought his own formula for longevity. So, in practice it has proved that after sessions Smehoterapiya every cell of the body is like new.

According to him, laughter cures so many diseases, such as colds. Laughter kills antibodies and external infectious microorganisms. "Just ten minutes of fun reduce blood pressure by 10 - 20 mm Hg. Headaches as a hand lifts, improving the blood, is the pressure, strengthens the immune system, decrease asthma symptoms, and sleep becomes like a baby ".

The treatment course consists of ten lessons of one hour. In the first stage patients are taught to breathe properly during laughter, the second - to pull a smile on the face, the third - without shame ape and pantomime show, while the fourth - to listen and tell jokes.

Earlier, American scientists in the study found that laughter is indeed able to extend human life, because it lowers blood pressure. It is noteworthy that the effect of laughter on the body equivalent to the result of physical

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Trolleys in supermarkets teem with bacteria

Scientists from the University of Arizona conducted a study that found, and is it really safe shopping carts, in which parents put their kids. The result was that the trolley handles dwells more bacteria than a toilet of the same supermarket.

Was checked 85 trucks and 72 per cent of them were found fecal bacteria. To 36 investigational sites have decided to look more closely and take with them samples.

The results were disappointing - at half the trucks discovered the bacterium E. coli. Not to mention other kinds of bacteria.

Note that in 2006 in the U.S. during the epidemic of E. coli E. coli killed 3 people and sick 200.

According to Professor of Microbiology, Charles Gerba, the shopping carts are more bacteria than the toilet, because it is held constant cleaning toilets with disinfectant. But the truck wipe very rarely write personal money.

Want to be happy - smile

To be happy to help a sincere smile, to bring about positive thoughts, say researchers from the University of Michigan business in the U.S.. According to them, a fake smile affects mood and performance, and sincere, conversely, improve something, and more.

Often when working with clients from a specialist requires a constant smile on his face, but this practice leads to emotional exhaustion and, ultimately, adversely affects the quality of work. In order to test the effect on the performance of the smile, the experts have chosen a group of drivers of buses, monitored by two weeks.

Part of the volunteers had to smile "on duty" smile, the other - constantly thinking about nice things or remember something positive, to smile. As it turned out, insincere smile worst effect on women - they are upset and became worse faster than men in the same situation. Conversely, a sincere smile affects a woman's health better and faster than men's.

According to the authors, this effect is due to the fact that women's emotions are always more intense, and any falsehood in them causes the female internal conflict, leading to a deterioration of health. Nevertheless, scholars believe that the principle of "think positive" can help improve mood and performance for at least several hours for both men and women.

Influenza retreats

The incidence of influenza and SARS is gradually declining. Talking about it and the oversight agencies, and urban hospitals. "Index of influenza, the calculated" Fontanka "is also on the decline: antivirals will cost townspeople this week a little cheaper than last. Experts believe that such rates may stabilize the situation by the end of next week.

Influenza is slowly receding. According to the St. Petersburg Rospotrebnadzor on 17 February, the city registered 9,000 people to seek medical advice (it's a thousand less than last week). The same number, incidentally, is, and the epidemic threshold.

Infant morbidity, according to the Education Committee, also on the decline. To date, close to 278 classes of two children's institutions of the Kalinin and Nevsky districts. Recall that last week because of quarantine for influenza and SARS have been closed 602 class at 9 schools.

Reducing the incidence of confirmed and specialists urban infectious diseases hospital Botkin. "We have really began to receive fewer patients. - Said "Fontanka" the chief doctor of the hospital Alexei Yakovlev. - Of course, the situation is still kept at the level of the epidemic, but there is a tendency to decline. "

Now the city recorded six fatal cases of swine flu. In the past year, according to the main infectious diseases of the Health Committee of city administration, in St. Petersburg was recorded 30 deaths from the virus AH1 N1. In Rospotrebnadzor note that this is one of the worst forms of influenza.

But the buzz in drugstores, such as at the peak of the epidemic last year, no. How can I ensure correspondent Fontanka, all antiviral drugs are available. Only the powder for inhalation "Relenza", as we have already mentioned, best to book through an online pharmacy or over the phone - in the shops it is not always.

One of the most popular drugs, "Arbidol, sold in all dosages. Recall that last week there were just big bags cost from 695 to 749 rubles.

Recommended by the World Health Organization "Tamiflu" at a price has not changed. Minimum the cost is 1,150 rubles. Price tincture of calendula, too, rests on the same mark for two weeks. The pharmacy can be purchased for 8.5 rubles. But the spray from the cold "Nazol and homeopathic remedy" Otsillokoktsinum "fell by 32% and 9.7% respectively.

Masks also have a free market. For 3.5 rubles can buy the most simple gauze, and for 9 rubles - a three-layered.

Index Flu "(obtained by calculating the arithmetic mean of the amount spent from St. Petersburg to all 8 major drugs that are recommended for use in the influenza period: Arbidol", "Remantadin, Tamiflu, Relenza," Otsillokoktsinum " "Ferveks", "Nazol and tincture of calendula) in comparison with last week also went on a slight decline. "Medication Basket townspeople now cost about 5% cheaper.

The immune system goes crazy from the sun

Intense sunburn causes the immune system to grow cancer cells, say scientists from yniversiteta George Washington in the USA. Researchers now know why sunburn provoke the development of melanoma - one of the most deadly forms of skin cancer.

A team of scientists led by Dr. Edward de Fabo conducted a series of experiments on laboratory mice and found that when exposed to ultraviolet B-type run specific processes in the immune system.

Macrophages are white blood cells migrate to the superficial layers of the skin and produce immune proteins, called interferon-Y. But instead of protecting the body, as it should be all interferons, type Y can grow cancerous tumors by preventing the natural immune response to it.

"We did not expect to see the IFN-Y as an accomplice in the development of cancer - said De Fabo - he must kill her." Scientists believe that their discovery will help in the creation of new drugs against melanoma, and again warned of the dangers of excessive tanning. Indeed, until the immune system to prevent sunburn is impossible.

Lifestyle has the greatest influence on its duration

Life expectancy of your parents or grandparents are not guarantees of personal longevity: a factor in personal lifestyle plays a more important role in maintaining health for many years than genetics, according to Swedish researchers University of Gothenburg. Hereditary factors play a major role in determining the length of life, since life has a big impact, according to clinicians. Doctors refer to these long-term survey of almost 2 thousand men.

Observed that those who do not smoke, consume moderate doses of coffee and have a good socio-economic status at age 50, and has a good physical performance at the age of 54 years and has a low level of cholesterol in midlife, had the best chance to celebrate their 90 th anniversary. Our own lifestyle and habits lay the foundation for our longevity, which is not inherited automatically, convinced doctors.