What are the warning signals of stroke?

A stroke is a condition where a blood clot or ruptured artery or vein interrupts blood flow to an area of the brain.

A stroke is a condition where a blood clot or ruptured artery or vein interrupts blood flow to an area of the brain.

Main part - The warning signals include:

• Sudden confusion, trouble in speaking or understanding
• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, on one side of the body
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause
• Sudden trouble in walking – loss of balance or co-ordination and also dizziness
• Sudden trouble in seeing in one or both eyes

Anyone can suffer from stroke, but most of the factors could be controlled with proper nutrition, physical activity or with medicines. The risk factors include:

• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• High blood fat
• High homocysteine
• Diabetes
• Overweight and obesity
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Oral contraceptives
• Hormone therapy
• A family history of stroke
• Excess alcohol
• Abuse of drugs like cocaine, amphetamine etc.
• Smoking cigarettes

We can do a lot with the right food and a good lifestyle.

Could you tell me, why should not I use this drug which can make me to feel euphoric and energetic?

You are clever, it makes one addict and when everybody knows that you are cocaine addict your social status is gone, the court of law can punish you and in many cases the partner leaves you and even the court can ban you to see your children. Is it worth? The answer is certainly no.

The adverse health effects are worse and they are:

Seizures, respiratory failure, heart attack, stroke and violent behaviour are the expected problems. Deaths are also reported in combination with heroin and several other drugs and tablets. Muscle weakness is also the effect of long time abuse. The psychological effects could not be neglected. The euphoria can be followed by depression and the feeling of discomfort, the result is you abuse further.

Cocaine amplifies sexual interest and enjoyment, but the big problem is it can also lead to impotence with frequent usage. There are other legal drugs to make you happier, but you must also be careful with social drugs also.

Every medal has two sides and there are only few exceptions for this truth.

Frequent intranasal intake can bring problems to cartilage separating the nostrils and this may lead to severe pain. To mask this lidocaine is mixed with cocaine and we have seen this in tens of thousands of samples from patients. Lidocaine is a local anaesthetic.

Both women and men abuse cocaine and this is also same in all countries or cultures. Think of Maradona, the soccer idol of Argentina. In every country respectable people from all the fields abuse it.

The most common names of cocaine include:

• Snow
• Flake
• Coke
• Blow
• Powder lines
• Free base
• C
• Rock
• Nose candy
• Dust

Say always no to drugs…

Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline alkaloid from the leaves of coca plant and it is stimulant of the central nervous system as well as an appetite suppressant. It is a powerful addictive drug if it is snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.

It is normally rich man’s drug; most of the successful personalities in every field of life are abusing; students, heroin addicts, sportsmen, star cooks, stars from cine field and many successful persons in our world. They want to show off, that is why the traces of cocaine found in the 1000 DM currencies which are used to sniff the cocaine. I have experienced several persons, who abuse cocaine, most of them are also afraid of their increasing age and it is mostly all artists.

62 years old man leaves his business and takes a eighteen year old girl friend, uses this to increase his potency and his son who found this in his father’s office room brought me for analysis. You may ask how we get this information, it is very easy because a mother, a wife or parents find some unknown substances from their beloved and they bring this substance to us with the request to make a screening to find out what it is. We search among 2000 substances, once we have the result; they seek our advice and counselling for the whole family. In this speech you get all the information and we give the necessary advice. Sometimes the concerned persons are also willing to talk to us and from these experiences we learn a lot which is not written in any text book.

The usual request of first users is, make my result negative, otherwise my house owner throw me out or my father will kill me, but there will be no help from our side. They must stop abusing.

Crack is a cocaine free base produced from cocaine hydrochloride to smoke.

Cocaine makes one feel euphoric, very energetic, alert, thus less sleepy, confident, and excited and this is the reason for its abuse. If taken with alcohol, the toxicity is increased.

As a chemist I may have a different opinion, but here I am the clinical toxicologist who wants to help the addicts. Look, most of the scientists are for me innocent fanatics who lived and live for chemistry and extract or synthesize substances, but they see only the positive health aspects of the substance as mood enhancers, but the marketing manager comes in picture and sees this in a different way. For him, only one thing is important, that is the huge profit. Do not forget the chemist and clinical toxicologist need not have the same opinion in everything. In the office I am only a clinical toxicologist and in my leisure time, I am a chemist as well as clinical toxicologist, smile.

Could you tell me, why should not I use this drug which can make me to feel euphoric and energetic?

You are clever, it makes one addict and when everybody knows that you are cocaine addict your social status is gone, the court of law can punish you and in many cases the partner leaves you and even the court can ban you to see your children. Is it worth? The answer is certainly no.

The adverse health effects are worse and they are:

Seizures, respiratory failure, heart attack, stroke and violent behaviour are the expected problems. Deaths are also reported in combination with heroin and several other drugs and tablets. Muscle weakness is also the effect of long time abuse. The psychological effects could not be neglected. The euphoria can be followed by depression and the feeling of discomfort, the result is you abuse further.

Cocaine amplifies sexual interest and enjoyment, but the big problem is it can also lead to impotence with frequent usage. There are other legal drugs to make you happier, but you must also be careful with social drugs also.

Every medal has two sides and there are only few exceptions for this truth.

Frequent intranasal intake can bring problems to cartilage separating the nostrils and this may lead to severe pain. To mask this lidocaine is mixed with cocaine and we have seen this in tens of thousands of samples from patients. Lidocaine is a local anaesthetic.

Both women and men abuse cocaine and this is also same in all countries or cultures. Think of Maradona, the soccer idol of Argentina. In every country respectable people from all the fields abuse it.

The most common names of cocaine include:

• Snow
• Flake
• Coke
• Blow
• Powder lines
• Free base
• C
• Rock
• Nose candy
• Dust

Say always no to drugs…

Hookah

What is hookah smoking?

Hookah smoking is a rapidly growing form of tobacco use worldwide.

Narghile or bong or hookah or water-pipe smoking, where the principle of smoking is the same, has been extensively practised in India, in the Middle East and other countries for more than 400 years, with a recent rebirth of this, predominantly among youth. 25% of youth at the age of 13 to 15 smoke water-pipes today in Germany. It is also a problem for the youth in USA and other countries.


Is it used only to smoke tobacco?

Hookah is generally used to smoke tobacco, cannabis or other substances. As you see the danger of coming in contact with cannabis is there always.

What is the difference between cigarette smoking and hookah smoking?

There are two main differences between cigarette and hookah smoking. Water-pipe cool the smoke before it enters the person’s lungs, it makes then easier to smoke and a large amount of smoke is inhaled quickly than the smaller, more frequent inhalation cigarette smoking.

The components of the tobacco used are variable and not well standardized and the result is high amount of aerosol in water-pipe smoke as well as other substances including cadmium.

What are the health risks of hookah smoking?

It is a health risk because you smoke there tobacco or cannabis or other substances or drugs which may be more dangerous, but the significant health risk is associated with pipe sharing with all possible severe infections.

Could you compare the hookah smoke with cigarette smoke?

It is very difficult to standardise these values, but with the available data it is possible to compare them. Hookah smoke contains high amount of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide and heavy metals.

The nicotine content of hookah is 2% to 4% compared to 1% to 3% in cigarette smoke and the amount of carbon monoxide is 0.34% to 1.4% in hookah smoke and 0.41% in cigarette smoke.

The levels of lead, arsenic and chromium are also high in hookah smoke.

Moreover, hookah is smoked sometimes hours together so that the quantity of the poison gone to the blood is also more.

How could one inhale so much of smoke without any problem?

Hookah smoke is moisturized and this allows to smoke and inhale deeply without irritation.

What are the possible infections?

The possible infections include tuberculosis, herpes simplex, helicobacter pylori, hepatitis C, Ebstein-Barr virus, pulmonary aspergillosis, respiratory viruses and HIV.

My friends say it contains fewer toxins than cigarette smoke because the smoke in hookah is filtered through the water, is it correct or not?

It is wrong and it is a common misconception to make it acceptable to the society and never believe it.

What is your last word about hookah smoking?

Mouths away from this hookahs because in several places or in parties alcohol, illicit drugs like cocaine or amphetamine or other psychoactive drugs also mixed, I tell you, this is dangerous for your health and could lead to your downfall for ever.

What should be done?

Educate the youth about the danger of this and drugs abuse in geneal. If you do it in a proper way we could convince them. It is the duty of our parents, educational institutions, doctors and all other who always boast to have influence in our society.

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