Do You Know? Lice

Lice are a parasite of insect species that are not winged. Lice that infect humans are there three types, namely, head lice, body lice and pubic lice. The third form is almost the same type of lice, body lice, pubic lice, only longer and shorter than head lice. Head lice is about 2 mm and lay their eggs in the hair shaft. Head lice are found most frequently. Ancient history, that the only people who do not maintain the cleanliness is a paradise for lice is not true. Head lice can reach the hair is dirty or clean.

The symptoms that you are infested with head lice

• Itchy head, still carded.

• Redness or rash on the scalp.

• It is a white dust in your hair, especially behind the ears and neck that can not be removed. That the eggs of lice. Egg surface is very smooth and shiny can, in the way the hair should be brought along made the hairs on the ends of your hair.

Complication

Bacterial infections of the scalp.

As you get head lice

Breeding lice on the head. Ticks feed by absorption of the blood, and issued him with a material that causes an allergic reaction to itch on the scalp. Fleas lay their eggs, white pearls in her hair, which hatch in a week. Lice will crawl / jump into the scalp, but rarely seen. Head lice by direct contact of the head can be transferred, chair, comb / hair brush, hair accessories, towels and caps.

All You Can Do

• Use special shampoos to kill head lice that adult fleas. Repeat (do not die because of the eggs of the lice shampoo by) one week later to kill newly hatched lice for children.

• Wash hair as usual. Then wipe the liquid / shampoo, rub rub on the scalp and hair. Do not let liquid or shampoo in the eyes. Comb your hair and let dry. Again after 24 hours of hair shampoo. Dry your hair really soft and with the magnifying glass to remove all lice and their eggs.

• Check the head of another family member and treated if necessary.

• Ask your doctor if there are signs of bacterial infection (fever, pain in the head, pus).

Prevention

• Clean combs, hair brushes and hair jewelry by soaking in an antiseptic solution.

• Wash all towels, clothes, bedding in hot soapy water to kill any eggs. Or dry cleaning (dry clean).

• Dry Cleaning hat, scarf and jacket.

• Avoid common Combs / hair brush / hair accessories / towel / hat.

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Do You Know? How to Care Brazil Turtle

Brazil turtle is one of the turtles that were popular stand. Turtle Brazil is also known as the red-ear slider turtle Trachemys scripta elegans and Latin in this sheet and maintenance will be discussed in general maintenance for the species. Search / research is critical to developing the best treatment for the species to be maintained.

Interior Care

Form of accommodation in the room the aquarium is more useful. Puppies for turtles, water depths between 7.5 cm to 15 cm recommended by dry rock walls to relax. The aquarium size, is suitable for puppies 60 cm or 75 cm x 30 cm. If the turtles are to be grown up together, their habitat must be replaced even greater. Brazil turtles are good swimmers so water depth is not an important factor when they are ripe. Depth of 20 cm to 60 cm is sufficient for turtles between 10 cm and adult turtles.

Water

The water quality is very important for turtles. Many problems that can occur in water turtles can be avoided if the guards a little time and money designing and purchasing a filtration system to use for the turtle. For adult turtles, we recommend using a filter tube (cartridge), because it is easy to clean and provide good quality water filter. Newborns can be a bit difficult, because the water is shallow. This allows the filter or powerhead sponge used for shallow water. Change the water often becomes a necessity or obligation.

Lamp Image

Reflector lamps should be used as a drying system (pilgrims). This reflector should be able to provide a basking area 32 degrees Celsius in the housing industry. Habitat should also provide full-spectrum UV light to be fitted. UVB source is necessary for the synthesis of vitamin D3, which is responsible for calcium metabolism. Mercury vapor lamp can also be used to meet the need of heat and UV rays. Water the plants or plastic plants are encouraged to give a sense of security and hidden areas.

Outside Maintenance (Outdoor)

Anti-predator habitat offers many advantages over apartments and should be considered as an option in the hot weather be taken into consideration.

The pool can be made more comfortable in a safe environment to the living space outside the apartment. Larger pool could use a filter to provide a spectacular venue for your turtle stays.

Food

Be careful not to feed. For adult turtles is recommended only feeding 2 to 3 times per week and every day or every other day for puppies turtles, which grow quickly. Cursor consumed vegetables, greens like mustard greens, turnip greens, dandelion, spinach, carrots, zucchini and water plants such as duckweed, water lettuce, water, etc. Hyacinth. They also eat insects, worms and fish. Many commercial turtle food market has an excellent food for the turtle cursor.

Supplement

Additional calcium is very important. Powdered calcium can be sprinkled on food. Maintenance is recommended to use calcium with vitamin D3 if the animal indoors and calcium without D3 observed when outside the house (outside) on hold. Delivery of cuttlefish bone (cuttle bone) is also recommended to be eaten.

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Do You Know? Types of Worms in Human Stomach

To your child? Quote one of the drugs worm ads that we see too often on television really for us that live in our bodies and are parasites that can affect our health bring.

There are several types of worms in the human stomach, suck the juice from the diet, including our blood directly from the body. If left unchecked, would be very dangerous for the health of our body.

Let us discuss them one by one, what kind of worms in the stomach

Ver-band (Ascaris lumbricoides)

This worm has the form of a bracelet with a size between 6-13 mm and to grow as thick as a pencil. These worms live in the human stomach and suck juice from the small intestine of food.

Although this worm can easily drop to the dirt we remove, but this worm is very dangerous because it can produce up to 200,000 eggs in one spawning per day.

In addition, the nematode larvae into the bloodstream and lymph. Is a very dangerous when larvae are in the dissemination and met in the lungs, because it causes lung inflammation and cough. Ascaris adults who have moved to the annex is also very dangerous because it bring a cause inflammation of the intestine, the rupture of the plant and death.

Symptoms, if it can be felt about living in our stomach, no appetite, abdominal swelling, as the problems of famine, the faces of sick bodies, thin and pale. Stool watery fate, mixed with mucus and blood.

Roundworms can be human, by the maintenance of personal hygiene and the environment are avoided, in which we live person to another person by the hand of foods that can not be maintained kebersihannya.Penyakit transferred.

Pinworms (Oxyuris vermicularis)

Pinworms are often referred to as worms, pinworms, or because of its sweetness, almost like a wire, known white and has a body length of 3-5 mm.

Pinworms attack more children, especially children, who often put his hand into the mouth without washing them first. Pinworms live by eating the gut contents, so that the child who is malnourished and pinworms are growth impaired by food juices should be absorbed by the body to produce food, but be pinworms.

Pinworms usually cause itching around the anus, so if you see your children often, scratching his ass immediately aware that your child has pinworms contracting the disease. Pinworms can cause infections in girls the vagina, because the worm larvae that live dispersed around the anus into the vagina.

Ver Mine (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus)

Hookworm, including the types of worms in the stomach that is very scary, because his whole life of this blood-sucking hookworms his host, we intestine so that patients experience acute anemia due to lack of blood. The hookworm can be by the skin of the larvae of the worm transmitted infection in the foot, are transported into the intestine through the blood vessels, and eventually settled in the small intestine.

(Taenia sp)

Tapeworms are hooks to the body, join the human intestinal wall. Named for its long ribbon tapeworm mitip flat and a small head. Tapeworm usually attack humans, food, love to eat the meat is cooked mainly beef and pork until done.

The symptoms of the infected with the tapeworm feel bad and then into the stomach, but after the meal, the pain was gone immediately, pallor, dizziness, loss of appetite, abdominal pain and often sticky mud.

All the worms in the worm-like "favorite" in the stomach is very dangerous and interfere with our health. Than cure, it would be much better if we do not prevent that, we had our children and our whole family worms.

Tips to prevent illness Worms

• Maintain the cleanliness of ourselves and our environment, to clean, especially in our homes.

• Use shoes when we set our feet on the ground to prevent the worm larvae penetrate the skin of the feet.

• You are cutting your nails regularly to prevent worm eggs embedded in your long nails and in our bodies.

• Washing fruits and vegetables will be consumed with a net. Especially fruits and vegetables are eaten only cooked.

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Do You Know? Ants, Animals Small Group Life

Did you know the second strongest animals in the world? Ants are the second strongest animals in the world after Rhinoceros Beetle. Although his size is very small, a male ant can lift a load weighing fifty times its own weight. Incredible!

Ants, including insects of the family eusosial Formisidae and included in the order Himenoptera along with wasps and bees. This small animal group consisted of 12 000 more. Kind also vary, there are worker ants, ant males, and the queen ant.

There are also called white ants or termites and ants known velvet. Actually, termites do not have a close relationship with ants, it's just the same social structure. Velvet ant body like a big ant, but the animal is a female wasp is not winged.

Ants live in groups and each group can consist of thousands of ants. Each group is usually able to control and occupy certain areas to breed, including finding food. In addition, these animals have regular nests.

Ants and mneguasai spread to almost all parts of the land on earth. Only a few places that are not controlled, namely in Hawaii, Greenland, and Iceland.

The Origin of Ants

Ants are the descendants of generations of wasps Vespoidea. There is analysis showing that these animals have evolved from dragonflies vespoid about 120 million-170 million years ago during the Cretaceous. In this period, the fossil form is a form of middle of the ants and wasps.

In 1966, there is the discovery of fossils of ants (from the Cretaceous) in the sap of trees found by EO Wilson with his friend in New Jersey. This fossil has been outstanding for more than 80 million years. This fossil discovery provides evidence that modern ants and wasps have a relationship. Ants in this period the characteristic blend of modern ants and wasps.

Shape and Body Composition 

In general, the body of ants is divided into three parts, namely the head, chest, and abdomen. Compared with other insects that also has an antenna (the organs of touch animals), ant morphology more clearly.

Like insects in general, the ant's body also has the outer frame. This framework serves as a place providing protection and muscle attached. The nervous system consists of a small animal muscle in the ventral nerve throughout the body.

A pair of antennas located at the head of an ant. This antenna serves to detect chemical stimuli. In addition, the antenna is also used to communicate with other ants. Her eyes can detect movement very well.

Ants have three pairs of legs in the chest. To be able to climb and stand, at each end of the legs have claws. In general, the ants have wings. Ant females will release their wings after mating and become queen of the ants without wings. Types of ants that has no wings is ant worker and soldier ants.

The last part is the abdomen. In this section, there are some important internal organs (including reproductive organs). To paralyze prey and protect the nest, there are several types of ants that use sengatnya, such as Formica ant species yessensis. Ants of this species have glands that produce formic acid can be sprayed into the enemy.

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Do You Know? Shellfish

Shellfish are aquatic animals that include soft-bodied animals (molluscs).

Shells are common sense and has no biological significance but its use is widespread and used in economic activity.

In the broadest sense, means all mollusc shells with a pair of shells (see bivalves). With this understanding, more precisely people call shellfish and clam commensurate with the meaning used in America. Examples of such usage can be seen on the term "craft of shells."

• The word can also mean any bivalve shellfish that lives attached to an object. Into it, including the types that can be eaten, such as blood clams and green mussels (kupang awung), but not including the types that can be eaten but sprawled on the sand or water base, such as the seashell and mussels.
• Shells are also used to refer to a variety of shellfish are thick shelled, calcareous, with a radial pattern on the shell firmly. In this sense, green shells are not included in it and is more appropriately called kupang. Understanding the closest in English is Cockle.
• In the narrowest sense, which is referred to as the shells are blood clam (Anadara granosa), a type of shellfish cultivation which are common in the Indo-Pacific region and many are sold in shops or restaurants that sell seafood.

Common characteristics
All shellfish has a pair of shells (also called graft or valve) is usually a mirror symmetry that is connected by a ligament (connective tissue). In most shells there are two adductor muscles that govern open-shell lid.

Shellfish do not have a head (also the brain) and only simping who have eyes. Organ which is owned by the kidneys, heart, mouth and anus. Shellfish can move with "legs" of such a flat organ that issued from the shell at any time or by opening and closing their shells as a surprise.

Open circulation system, meaning no blood vessels. The supply of oxygen from the blood of a very liquid rich in nutrients and oxygen that surrounds the organs.

Shellfish food is plankton, by filtering. Shellfish themselves are prey for squid and shark.

All shellfish is when a young male. Some females will be in line with the maturity.

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Do You Know? Kiwi Bird

New Zealand natural beauty more perfect by the presence of a number of unique animals living together stunning and natural. If you have the opportunity to visit this country, you will see so menawannya typical animals in there that do not necessarily exist in other countries. There are 4 unique and rare group of animals that will amaze you, namely birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.

The atmosphere of the morning in New Zealand are always opened with the sound of birds. No wonder this country is called the "land birds" because it has so many species of birds unique. At least there are about 45 species of birds such as bellbird, albatross, where he was, the black robin, black stilt, brown teal, Fantail and kiwi. Kiwi is an animal of rare bird species endemic to New Zealand. This bird is very famous throughout the world as the New Zealand identity. Body size of a chicken with feathers berwaran brownish gray and the beak and sharp stakes. He is nocturnal or out at night. Kiwi bird has no wings so that he can not fly. These animals are very attached to the history and the lives of the new seladia, and kiwi have now officially become a national icon that country.

Mammals in this region is divided into 2, namely land mammals and marine mammals. Pekapeka. is the original term for short-tail bats in there and the only land mammals typical new zealand. These unique animals are so small for this type and most dangerous bat in the family. He also nocturnal animals, go out at night to hunt for food, and fly with the squeaky voice sonar issue. Marine mammal species that dolphins and whales you may encounter in other countries, but elephant seals and leopard seals in the waters just south of new zealand.

New Zealand has a unique reptile animals, namely lizards, geckos, tuatara and frogs. Tuatara is a rare animal that lives only in New Zealand. You could say this animal is proportional to the Komodo dragons in Indonesia, since they are relics of the dinosaur species. New Zealand Department of Conservation states that the species of tuatara have become extinct since 60 million years ago, and the rest are able to survive only found in this region. In addition, there are 4 species of frogs which is also a rare animal and is found only in this region. But you probably will not notice it, because they come out at night and be able to disguise very well in nature. Frog's unique in this country is they do not sound like a frog in general, also in breeding as they do not experience the metamorphosis of another frog. But the frog embryo develops in the egg and hatch directly with an almost perfect form of toad.

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