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Thrombosis – Recognizing Symptoms / SignsThe leg swells, the skin tightens and shows a bluish discoloration: these complaints are among the serious symptoms of thrombosis. Thrombosis is one of the typical diseases in old age, as the risk of thrombosis increases with years of life. In order to recognize thrombosis in time and treat it as quickly as possible, it is important to know the typical signs of thrombosis. But how do you actually recognize a thrombosis??

care.de informs you about the typical symptoms of thrombosis and explains how thrombosis can make itself felt.

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Thrombus: symptoms – How to recognize a thrombosis?

Pain, swelling and a bluish discolored, shiny skin – These are the typical symptoms of a deep vein thrombosis in the leg. However, thrombosis can manifest itself in several ways. This depends mainly on how large the blood clot is and what form of thrombosis is present. Often a thrombosis runs completely unnoticed. Is only recognized by a secondary symptom such as pulmonary embolism.

Coronavirus: health protection

Simple tips for everyday life in the Corona pandemic

The coronavirus has greatly changed our daily lives. Fortunately, we can get vaccinated against Covid-19 this year! The new virus variant is even more contagious, dangerous and widespread. Therefore, we must continue to be careful. Our behavior is our most powerful tool. This is how we protect all of us – old people, children and everyone in between. Every time we actively slow down the virus, together we make a step forward. AHA+L has become even more important: Keeping distance, following hygiene rules, everyday life with mask (tightly fitting over mouth and nose), ventilation – always in the package!

Symptom list: Cough, elevated temperature or fever, shortness of breath, loss of sense of smell/taste, runny nose, sore throat, headache, aching limbs, general weakness.

Tobacco smoke harms childrenSmoking is harmful – the word has long since spread. But many people still don't realize how much children suffer from the vice of their parents and relatives.

"Phew, that stinks", Children often report when someone lights a cigarette near them. Children cannot choose their air. They depend on adults to protect them from the blue haze. Because Tobacco smoke is the most dangerous pollutant in the air she breathes.
Cloud by cloud, the ember cone of a cigarette tip enriches the room air with about 4.000 toxic substances. Many of them are much more concentrated in secondhand smoke than in one puff of a cigarette. Some of the substances, such as formaldehyde and ammonia, are particularly irritating to the respiratory tract. 40 others are even carcinogenic.

While tobacco smoke is also harmful to adults. Children, however, absorb many more pollutants through the air they breathe: they breathe in and out two to three times as much air per minute as adults and therefore absorb more environmental toxins. In addition, the ratio of skin area to body volume is greater in young children, so they also absorb more environmental toxins through this route.

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No more mandatory masks in Spain

In Spain, as of today, masks are no longer required in almost all indoor public spaces. The government in Madrid passed a decree to this effect on Tuesday. The obligation to wear a mask now only applies in public transport, in hospitals and in homes for the elderly. "We are making progress in returning to normalcy as it was before the pandemic" , wrote Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Twitter. He justified the extensive lifting of the mask obligation with the success of the vaccination campaign against the Coronavirus.

92.5 percent of the country's residents over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated against the corona virus – one of the highest rates in the world. Two years ago, Spain was one of the worst hit countries in Europe by the pandemic.

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Revenues remain stable

This is how much ARD and ZDF take in through the broadcasting fee

Cologne – Broadcasting fees are the most important source of income for ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio. There were hardly any consequences for the level of revenues in the Corona year 2020, as the balance sheet now shows. But that could change in 2021.

Sars – Fighting a Global ThreatA chase around the globe: In the spring of 2003, a highly contagious disease was spreading. Germany was also affected. In the end, a coronavirus was unmasked that kept the world in suspense for weeks.

By Inka Reichert and Remo Trerotola

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One of the first cases occurs in Hong Kong

Professor Liu rattled as he was introduced to the 21. February 2003 enters the entrance to the hotel in Hong Kong. He feels bad. Sweat runs from his forehead. The medic wants to get to the room as soon as possible – and rest. He suspects that he has influenza.

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For days, schools in NRW puzzled over how to proceed with still unused Corona tests – then on Thursday evening, the Ministry of Education tried to provide clarity and wanted to inform schools about the procedure that same evening. According to a ministry statement obtained by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, schools are now allowed to decide for themselves how to deal with the "surplus antigen self-tests" handle, store them themselves and also further "occasion-related" USE.

By definition, infectious diseases are illnesses that are transmissible from person to person – or even from animal to animal or animal to person. Causes are Bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. How long an infectious disease lasts, how severe it is and whether it can be cured at all depends on the pathogen and also on the condition of the infected person. Sometimes people or animals are only carriers of the disease, without showing any symptoms themselves.

How infectious diseases are best treated depends on the nature of the disease. While there is still no cure for many viruses, antibiotics are effective against many bacteria. However, as the pathogens are increasingly developing resistance, this form of therapy is considered to be more and more problematic. There are effective remedies for fungal infections, such as skin or nail fungus.

Infectious diseases: List from A – Z

Things to know about the coronavirus infection COVID-19

Slums in Kenya The Corona plight of HIV-infected peopleIn Kenya, the Corona pandemic is hitting HIV-infected people particularly hard. In the slums of Nairobi, many of them no longer make it to the doctor. Money is lacking, there is fear of infection – and hunger is growing.

Kenyan social worker Rose Omia asks to be let in, carefully pushes open the door of Christine Awour Omondi's corrugated iron hut. Omondi is a mother of three children and HIV-positive. She can no longer leave her corrugated iron hut in the Mathare slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi under her own steam. After an accident, she had to have her right leg amputated a year and a half ago.

Omia wants to know how Omondi is doing. And whether she is particularly afraid of contracting the corona virus. "No, if you take the drugs regularly, you don't get sick faster than other people", answers Omondi. Nevertheless, she is in big trouble because of the pandemic. "Those whom I used to be able to ask for money or other support, now have nothing either."

Moving on after a serious illness

Trauma : "All severe illnesses can lead to PTSD"

Fear of death, helplessness, being alone in an intensive care unit: a life-threatening illness also puts a strain on the psyche. How to find your way back to life afterwards? Psychologist Jenny Rosendahl works on therapy.

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