OSTEOPOROSIS As one grows old, it's natural to grow weaker. still, that weakness shouldn't leave you confined indoors. It's essential to stay alert to the changes in your body. Eating right and working out regularly …
OSTEOPOROSIS
OSTEOPOROSIS
As one grows old, it’s natural to grow weaker. still, that weakness shouldn’t leave you confined indoors. It’s essential to stay alert to the changes in your body. Eating right and working out regularly keeps you fit. Consulting with your family doctor
periodically is also essential for early opinion of ails related to aging. Osteoporosis can affect anyone but it’s most frequently seen in senior people because the complaint affects bones and as you age, your bones get weaker, making you more susceptible to the condition.
WHAT IS OSTEOPOROSIS?
Put simply, Osteoporosis is a bone complaint in which bone viscosity reduces making it brittle. A healthy bone under the microscope looks like a honeycomb. When the holes and spaces in this honeycomb structure are much larger, it’s reflective of osteoporosis.
Bone is constantly being broken down and rebuilt all through one’s life. When you consume food rich in calcium, vitamin D and potassium, the body uses these nutrients to make bone mass. The structure and strengthening of bones continue till themid-30s. After this age, bone viscosity gradationally reduces. still, in some people this process happens briskly and with indeed lower compass for reconditioning of the bone towel. This renders the bones weaker and extremely brittle. This condition is nominated as Osteoporosis.
WHO IS AT RISK OF OSTEOPOROSIS?
This condition can affect anyone irrespective of race or gender. still, it’s set up to be most common in women who have reached menopause. This is due to the connection between bone towel reconditioning and estrogen. Post menopause, there’s a lower product of estrogen and this reduces bone viscosity. A lack of estrogen in youngish women can also lead to osteoporosis for the same reason.
Non-gender related factors that in doctor risk of Osteoporosis:
DIAGNOSIS OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Most frequently osteoporosis is diagnosed only after a bone fracture. still, a fracture means substantial loss of bone viscosity, making the recovery process a long and delicate bone
. Hence if you’re in the threat order, especially if you have a family history of the complaint, it’s stylish to consult with the doctor
on what can be done to ameliorate bone health.
One of the ways to find out whether you have osteoporosis is by getting a bone mineral viscosity( BMD) test. A BMD test uses a special machine to measure how important bone mineral you have in a certain area of bone. A bone viscosity test can help determine if you have weak bones or osteoporosis before you break a bone. It’s also done while witnessing treatment for osteoporosis to check if the bone viscosity is perfecting and to insure the osteoporosis drug is working.
TREATING OSTEOPOROSIS
There’s no one
single, standard system to treat osteoporosis. Treatment varies from one existent to the coming depending on the following factors:
- GENDER. Some Osteoporosis drugs are approved from men and women, but there are few that are tailormade for a specific sex based on what the underlying cause for the condition is.
- AGE. Some osteoporosis drugs work better on premenopausal women who are at risk of the condition, while some benefit older women more.
- PERCENTAGE OF BONE LOSS. Depending on the amount of bone loss and the rate at which the loss is occurring in the individual, the drug may vary.
- GENERAL, OVERALL HEALTH. Before prescribing drugs to treat osteoporosis the doctor needs to know if you have undergone any other treatments or have other health issues. Certain osteoporosis drugs cannot be given to individuals who have undergone radiation treatment for cancer. Hence the doctor needs to understand the patient’s medical history thoroughly before commencing treatment
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