Flu terhadap laki-laki

Penyakit flu memang bisa menyerang siapa saja. Tapi ternyata laki-laki lebih mudah terkena virus flu dibanding perempuan. Ini karena laki-laki tidak memiliki hormon estrogen yang melindungi tubuh dari infeksi.

Karena tidak memiliki hormon estrogen, maka kaum laki-laki sering disebut dengan jenis kelamin yang lemah. Para peneliti menemukan bahwa perempuan memiliki sistem kekebalan tubuh yang lebih kuat dibandingkan dengan laki-laki karena hormon seksualnya.

Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa hormon seksual perempuan yaitu estrogen dapat meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh yang utama dalam mencegah serangan bakteri atau infeksi lainnya.

Berdasarkan temuan ini ada kemungkinan meningkatkan penggunan obat berbasis estrogen untuk membantu pertahanan tubuh kaum laki-laki. Dalam penelitian ini lebih difokuskan pada enzim yang disebut dengan caspase-12.

Enzim ini kemungkinan dapat melindungi tubuh terhadap infeksi dengan cara menghalangi peradangan di tubuh untuk melawan bakteri atau kuman lain yang tidak diinginkan.

Studi menunjukkan bahwa estrogen yang dibuat secara rekayasa genetis dapat memberikan kekebalan bagi tubuh. Hasil ini dilaporkan dalam jurnal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa perempuan memiliki respons terhadap anti peradangan yang lebih kuat daripada laki-laki. Ketika studi ini dilakukan pada tikus, ada kemungkinan juga berlaku pada manusia dengan membuat obat immunityboosting," ujar peneliti Maya Saleh, seperti dikutip dari Dailymail, Jumat (26/3/2010).

Dr Saleh menambahkan bahwa laki-laki memang lebih rentan terhadap infeksi oleh bakteri, virus, jamur atau cacing dibanding perempuan. Selain itu juga didapatkan sekitar 30 persen laki-laki mengalami sakit pilek dan flu, sedangkan perempuan hanya 22 persen saja.

Penelitian sebelumnya telah mengungkapkan mengapa beberapa orang dapat menahan rasa sakit sementara orang lain harus berjuang mencari obat agar bisa merasa lebih baik. Hal ini kemungkinan juga dipengaruhi oleh seberapa banyak hormon estrogen yang dimiliki orang tersebut untuk memberikan sistem kekebalan tubuh yang maksimal.

Sementara itu ilmuwan dari Stanford University di California menyimpulkan bahwa perbedaan diantara keduanya juga bisa terletak pada pikiran orang tersebut terhadap sesuatu. Rasa sakit bisa dihambat atau dikurangi dengan mengatakan pada diri sendiri bahwa hal tersebut sebenarnya tidak ada.

five craziest disease

1. Addison's Disease
Addison's disease including hormone disruption. The disease is spelled 'mad' because it can cause death from emotional stress that comes suddenly. This disease can not be cured but can be dikendaikan with drugs.Addison's disease is also called Addison's Polyglandular. This disease occurs because the body is unable to produce adrenaline, a hormone responsible for stress. Without the adrenaline, the organ of the body can not respond to the stress that makes the sufferer so emotionally unstable and depressed.Addison's disease can cause irritability, emotional outburst and depression because patients suffering from shortages of salt and low sugar content.Symptoms such as chronic fatigue, muscle weakening, loss of appetite, drastic weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure that cause frequent fainting and some areas of the skin changes color to dark.If you happen to children the effect is more pronounced than in adults. Medications are usually given steroids to control the disease.
2. Reflex Sympathetic dystrophy (RSD / Reflex Sympathetic DystropThe disease is included in a nervous breakdown. People suffering from this disease becomes like crazy because the pain of burning a body like fire. Healing disease is very complex because it arose spontaneously, drugs are given only reduce the symptoms alone.RSD sufferers like being tortured every morning get up from the pain of burning feet, arms, and the patient feels like being in hell fire. Every touch something feels warm and swollen and also appear excessive perspiration.The disease is believed to be a chain reaction of abnormal sympathetic nervous system, namely the body systems that regulate blood flow in the skin. This disease can spontaneously disappear by itself but when it arises incredible pain. Many patients undergo intensive treatment over the years only to relieve sakit.3. Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) or IkanPenyakit Odor Syndrome was due to a rare metabolic disorder. This disease makes people mad because it causes the sufferer smelling like fish. Although difficult to cure there are several ways to reduce the symptoms.Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) or also known as fish odor syndrome, is a very rare metabolic disorder, which causes defects in the normal production of the enzyme Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3).When FMO3 is not working correctly or the amount generated is not sufficient, then the body loses the ability to destroy the trimethylamine (TMA) of the precursor compound within the digestive food into trimethylamine oxide (TMAO).This is what causes TMAU, trimethylamine which will eventually accumulate to produce urine odor, sweat and breath that smells very strong and fishy.Although frequent bathing, using deodorant, perfume and cologne are not quite eliminate the odor that clung to the body. As a result, the patient may become psychologically collapsed and social life.There is no medicine to cure TMAU. Patients affected in this disease may reduce odor by limiting foods that do not trigger the occurrence of TMA. But this is quite inconvenient because almost all everyday food such as eggs, beans, meat and fish contain choline which is an amino acid molecules that form the TMA.
4. Morgellons Disease

This type of disease is a disorder of the skin. Morgellons disease is to make the sufferer can become crazy because it always feels itchy with no known cause. This disease is still debated whether even real or just imagination of the sufferer.The cause of this disease is unknown because the complained of itching elusive. Patients will usually complain about itching and want to constantly scratching. Patients sure there's something under the skin which can infect such as parasitic worms.This is what makes someone scratching continues for attempting to remove the cause of feeling the itch. Patients will say that he had to scratch continuously to remove these parasites from the skin.Patients often describe something that lives under the skin as small fibers. When viewed under a microscope is believed to white, blue, red or black. In addition, there is also believed as the colored sand grains such as black or white in the skin.
5. Harlequin ichthyosis
This is a genetic skin disease. It usually appears in newborns whose skin scaly crust and shaped like a diamond. There is no cure for this disease.Babies with this condition are born with a hard skin, thick and exceptional drought in almost all the skin of his body.These conditions make babies trouble controlling the loss of fluid, difficult to regulate body temperature and difficult to fight infection. As a result many of these babies who become dehydrated or lack of fluids and infection at birth.Such patients usually die as infants. Only a few patients that can only survive to adulthood, and even then the struggle is very difficult because each time must apply moisturizer (lotion) to his body.
This is not about the disease because of crazy people who actually nerve and brain disorders like schizophrenia. But the insanity of this disease which is very strange and can not be cured to make the sufferer very tortured.As quoted from FoxNews, Sunday (04/07/2010), people who suffer from this disease by its surroundings seem strange