Learning..Writing..ME

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” 
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Quote that sums up what I want to say about my experience doing edublogging.  It’s my first time to write or make a blog, I thought at first it’s hard because writing is really not my passion and making a blog meaning I have to read a lots of books which is not one of my thing to, it’s like I’m doing it for the sake of having a grade…

But then when I started writing my first blog, I was surprised that I enjoyed doing this especially when people started commenting on it there was this feeling of joy and pride to myself that WOW I can write, and people appreciate it.  I know it’s not the best blog that you can read but still it makes me proud  that one of the blogs that you’re reading, its mine, I made that myself.

My thoughts about writing has changed when I started making my  own blog, there’s this sense of fulfilness as a medical technologist student, and it’s a great practice to share what I have learned in school especially about my course. And now I read a lot because I want to learn a lot. And I want to go to many places.

Thanks to edublogging ,now I can say I can be whatever I want to be, I can go wherever I want to go, I can do whatever I want to do If i will try. You’ve got nothing to lose but you’ve got something to gain.

A small dosage of Toxicology

Botox, produced by Clostridium botulinum, is a drug made to treat health problems. A small dose can cause temporary removal of wrinkles, facial of that, blepharospasm (uncontrollable blinking) and strabismus (misaligned eyes). However, regardless of how it can help in the field of medicine, science stated that Botulinum was considered as the most toxic substance in the world. It has been estimated that 1 teaspoon of the poison can kill 1.2 billion people. When the chest muscles or the diaphragm are exposed to this chemical, respiration is inhibited, and if treatment is not received in time, it results to death from asphyxia.

Toxicology

Toxicology is the study of toxins and its adverse effect on living organisms. It involves the study of the symptoms, mechanisms, detection, and treatments a toxic substance brings and needs. The relationship between a dose and the effects it could bring once an organism was exposed is highly significant to this study. All substances are toxic under the right circumstances. LD50 is a term which refers to the dose of a toxic substance which kills 50 percent of a test population (usually rats and the like are used when the test concerns about human toxicity)

Factors affecting the activity of the posion

Factors related to the exposure to the drug:

The primary concern is the dose of the drug. The route of exposure affects the absorption. Administration relative to stress, food intake and ingestion of some toxicants can cause emesis (vomiting) if the stomach is empty, but if party filled, the toxicant may be retained and poisoning may occur.

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Biological Factors:

The amount of the toxic substance required to cause poisoning is correlated to the body weight of the organism. Nutritional and dietary factors, hormonal and health status may also affect poisoning. Nutritional factors may affect the toxin by altering absorption.

Chemical Factors:

     

The chemical structure of the compound determines solubility then influences absorption. Non-polar or lipid soluble substances tend to be more readily absorbed than the polar substances.

Fortunately, at times, an organism has the ability to show less response to a specific dose of a chemical than how it should be demonstrated.

     

The disappearance (due to metabolic change) or elimination of chemical compounds from the body is termed half-life. It is the amount of time necessary for the elimination of half of the compound. The rate of elimination is dependent on the concentration of the substance.

To furthermore understand the field of toxicology, please watch this video.

References:
http://topyaps.com/top-10-deadliest-poisons/

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/botox.html

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Toxicology-What-is-Toxicology.aspx

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/210103.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lCQ96LKOyM

Endocrinology

Whenever I hear endocrinology, there are a lot of things that comes into my mind but hormone is one word that I’m mostly familiar with because it involves Pimples and  we all know that Pimple is the first thing that will pop out on our Minds when we hear hormone. And they say that you have hormonal imbalance if you have pimples. And that’s my brief information about endocrine…

What is your idea when you hear or see the word endocrinology?? Here’s basic information about endocrinology…

Endocrinology is a branch of biology that deals with the endocrine system, its disease and its secretions such as hormones as well as its other functions such as metabolism, respiration excretion, reproduction, movement and sensory perceptions. An Endocrinologist is the one who treats the people having this kind of diseases.

The simplest way to define Endocrinology is the study of hormone. And what is hormone then? A Hormone when released in the circulation it can easily bind to a specific receptor on the target tissue, then it can trigger into a lot of reaction and this are examples of the diseases reaction involving hormone:

          -Diabetes

-Thyroid

-Cholesterol disorders

-Hypertension

-Osteoporosis

-Adrenal and pituitary glands

-Hormonal disorders causing infertility

-Low blood sugar, lack of development

-Low blood pressure

-Weight problems

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health”.

For my first blog i didn't elaborate the different kinds of glands that were involve on the endocrine system.This is only the glimpse of the endocrinology that came out of my mind because for me I want to see you what would be the first idea that will come to your mind when you hear the word endocrinology. As you follow and keep viewing my blog I will introduce to you the different kinds of hormones, its mechanism and glands that produce them and their actions in our body. For you also to appreciate the amazing work of the endocrine system (endocrinology) in our body.


Enjoy Reading^^ God Bless!!!      

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Endocrinology-What-is-Endocrinology.aspx

http://www.indy-endo.com/endocrol.html

http://www.superpages.com/supertips/endocrinology.html