The sinuses are a connected system of hollow cavities in the skull. The paranasal sinuses are located in your head near your nose and eyes. They are named after the bones that provide their structure.
• The maxillary sinuses (The biggest sinus cavity is the maxillary cavity, and it is one of the cavities that most often becomes infected.), in the cheekbones.
• The frontal sinuses, in the low-center of the forehead.
• The ethmoid sinuses, between the eyes, at the nasal bridge.
• The sphenoid sinuses, in bones behind the nasal cavity.

Sinus infections happen when fluid builds up in the air-filled pockets in the face (sinuses), which allows germs to grow. Viruses cause most sinus infections, but bacteria can cause some sinus infections too.The sinuses make thin mucus that drains out of the channels of the nose. This drainage helps keep the nose clean and free of bacteria. Normally filled with air, the sinuses can get blocked and filled with fluid. This is also called rhinosinusitis, with “rhino” meaning “nose”. The nasal tissue is almost always swollen if sinus tissue is inflamed.

Several factors can increase your risk of getting a sinus infection:

• A previous cold
• Seasonal allergies
• Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
• Structural problems within the sinuses (such as growths on the lining of the nose or sinuses, known as nasal polyps)
• A weak immune system or taking drugs that weaken the immune system

For infants and young children, spending time in day cares, using pacifiers or drinking bottles while lying down could increase the chances of getting sinusitis.

For adults, smoking increases the risks for sinus infections. If you smoke, you should stop. Smoking is harmful to you and to the people around you.

Symptoms

Common symptoms of sinus infections include:

• Runny nose
• Stuffy nose
• Facial pain or pressure
• Headache
• Mucus dripping down the throat (post-nasal drip)
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Bad breath

There are different types of sinusitis:

• Acute bacterial sinusitis: This term refers to a sudden onset of cold symptoms such as runny nose, stuffy nose, and facial pain that does not go away after 10 days, or symptoms that seem to improve but then return and are worse than the initial symptoms (termed “double sickening”). It responds well to antibiotics and decongestants.
• Chronic sinusitis: This term refers to a condition defined by nasal congestion, drainage, facial pain/pressure, and decreased sense of smell for at least 12 weeks.
• Subacute sinusitis: This term is used when the symptoms last four to twelve weeks.
• Recurrent acute sinusitis: This term is used when the symptoms come back four or more times in one year and last less than two weeks each time.

How can I tell if I have a sinus infection, cold, or nasal allergy?

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a cold, allergies, and a sinus infection. The common cold typically builds, peaks, and slowly disappears. It lasts a few days to a week. A cold can transform into a sinus infection. Nasal allergy is inflammation of the nose due to irritating particles (dust, pollen, and dander). Symptoms of a nasal allergy can include sneezing, itchy nose and eyes, congestion, runny nose, and post nasal drip (mucus in the throat). Sinusitis and allergy symptoms can happen at the same time as a common cold.

If you are fighting off a cold and develop symptoms of a sinus infection or nasal allergy, see your healthcare provider. You will be asked to describe your symptoms and medical history.

The goals of treatment for sinusitis are to:

• Improve drainage of mucus and reduce swelling in the sinuses.
• Relieve pain and pressure.- take some pain killer
• Clear up any infection.- by suitable antibiotics ( Augmentin would be better)
• Prevent the formation of scar tissue, and avoid permanent damage to the tissues lining the nose and sinuses.

SOME HOME REMEDIES TO TREAT SINUSITIS:

1. Use a humidifier.
2. Breathe in steam vapors.
3. Put a warm, wet towel on your face. It can take off some of the pressure.
4. Try a nasal saline solution (Saline is salt water).
5. Flush out your sinuses using bulb syringes or Neti pots.
6. Drink lots of fluids but avoid alcohol .
7. Eat immune-boosting foods
8. Rest.

Today, 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 4.2 billion people lack safely managed sanitation services. Unsafe hygiene practices are widespread, compounding the effects on people’s health. The impact on child mortality rates is devastating with more than 297 000 children under five who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water.

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to improving standards of living for people. The improved standards made possible by WASH include, among others, better physical health, protection of the environment, better educational outcomes, convenience time savings, assurance of lives lived with dignity, and equal treatment for both men and women. Poor and vulnerable populations have lower access to improved WASH services and have poorer associated behaviors. Improved WASH is therefore central to reducing poverty, promoting equality, and supporting socioeconomic development. Drinking water and sanitation were targets in the Millennium

Water

A person without access to improved drinking water – for example from a protected borehole well or municipal piped supply for instance – is forced to rely on sources such as surface water, unprotected and possibly contaminated wells, or vendors selling water of unverifiable provenance and quality.

For many communities, water sources are usually far from their homes, and it typically falls to women and girls to spend much of their time and energy fetching water, a task which often exposes them to attack from men and even wild animals.

Sanitation

Without improved sanitation – a facility that safely separates human waste from human contact – people have no choice but to use inadequate communal latrines or to practice open defecation. For women and girls, finding a place to go to the toilet outside, often having to wait until the cover of darkness, can leave them vulnerable to abuse and sexual assault.

In the immediate environment, exposed faecal matter will be transferred back into people’s food and water resources, helping to spread serious diseases such as cholera. Beyond the community, the lack of effective waste disposal or sewerage systems can contaminate ecosystems and contribute to disease pandemics.

Hygiene

In some parts of the world there is little or no awareness of good hygiene practices and their role in reducing the spread of disease. However, it is often the case that even when people do have knowledge of good hygiene behavior, they lack the soap, safe water and washing facilities they need to make positive changes to protect themselves and their community.

Improved water supply and sanitation provide individuals with increased comfort, safety, dignity, status, and convenience, and also have broader effects on the living environment. The social welfare effects are difficult to quantify, given their subjective nature. Nevertheless, those benefits are consistently cited as among the most important for beneficiaries of water supply and sanitation and may be particularly relevant for women.

Body shaming is the act of suggesting that someone’s body isn’t good enough, and that they should not be satisfied or comfortable with its current composition, proportions, or exposure to the gaze of others. It is rude and disrespectful behavior, and there is no body type that creates an exception that would make body shaming less rude or less disrespectful.

A person’s body is their own. It is none of your business. You are not their medical practitioner, and you are neither assisting nor improving the lives of anyone by boorishly sharing your opinions and “helpful” intentions. There is no person on the planet that is not keenly aware of the ways in which their body does not meet the current standard. There is not one person who needs you to point it out.

Body shaming includes:

Suggesting that slender people are too thin, their bosoms and backsides are inadequate, that they’re weak and not manly, that they’re unhealthy and that their eating or exercise habits must be disordered. Dismissing very slender people as stuck up, meek, cowardly, weak, pathetic, neurotic, or shrill because of the composition of their bodies.

Suggesting that fat people are too fat to deserve basic human dignity, that fatness is a result of a flaw of character or failure of self discipline and therefore deserving of derision and mockery.

Suggesting that a body is too old to be beautiful. That the signs of maturity and experience are unsightly and revolting, and should be covered or “fixed”. That people over a certain age should cover up, that a woman’s body is meaningless after menopause, that older adults should not reveal their bodies or sexuality.

Suggesting that short people are undesirable and therefore foolish to attempt to begin a romantic relationship with a potential partner of average or above-average height.

Suggesting that tall people should only wear or do certain things because of their height, and that tall women should avoid high heels or shorter partners.

Suggesting that bodies are not sufficiently gendered: that muscular bodies are not feminine enough, that willowy bodies aren’t masculine enough, and that bodies that do not clearly evoke a gender are an embarrassment to be fixed.

Suggesting that some bodies are to be hidden from view. Too fat, skinny, tall, short, unusual, scarred, tattooed, devoid of curves or of defined muscles, unusually or deeply pigmented, affected by physical or medical challenges…and that they should not choose clothing that allows their skin and form to be visible for what it is and to celebrate it.

Body shaming is all around us. Judging has become such an automatic response that people tend to do it without any prior thoughts. Some people try to find humor in degrading someone else’s body which is highly undesirable. The problem is not just limited to judging others but judging our own selves. Thinking about the parts of your body you could change or comparing them with the notion of “perfect body” our media has successfully created. It saddens me to witness the social media popularizing certain body types as beautiful. Today, almost all the teenagers are highly active on social medias. When platforms like Facebook and Instagram reinforce the ideal concepts of beauty, it distorts the thinking processes of the teenagers who in turn experience insecurity and face issues of low self-esteem later in life.

“The world is too big to have one sort of view to show beauty”. It’s time to break the mold if we want to stop body shaming in all forms. Motivate, encourage and support the differences. If each one of us start to accept our own body structures, nobody can make us feel bad about it.

FIVE WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF:

1. You can wear WHAT YOU want and whatever makes you feel confident whether it’s being fully covered from head to toe, naked or anywhere in between.However, its not that wear a bikini to go to a temple. Always be appropriate to the area and situation it’s but YOUR choice. And should always be your choice.

2. Don’t be insecure about any part of your body. Or trying covering it up because you think “it’s dirty”. It’s ain’t. Your body is royal. Your skin is precious. Every part of you is important. Dress how you please BUT don’t think “oh, I can’t wear a bikini because of my cellulite, or stretch marks, or butt acne, or belly rolls, or bra bulges, or not having the same skin tone or being hairy or whatever you feel you’re insecure about.”

3. No matter what has happened to you, your body is not shameful. You are is not a disgrace. You my loves, are a fucking warrior made of resilience.Having scars (sometimes you can’t see them) on your body for all the battles you’ve fought. Every scar has a story. You are admirable. Wear your skin with pride.

4. And you know what for most of us who have hated our bodies for so long it’s difficult to “love ourselves”.But accept who you are, what you are now AND ALWAYS work on getting stronger. You will find moments of self love and then you’ll be addicted to it, and you’ll know how to truly take care of yourself. It will happen.

5. No matter what you start taking HEALTHIER options for you to get better. Yes, accept yourself and love yourself but also take steps for you TO BE HEALTHY. For your to get better, to get stronger, to get healthier than you were before.

Please choose kindness. Choose empathy. See the beauty in every body, and choose to spend your time bringing people and ideas together. We each have a staggering array of our own flaws on which to focus — let us not mock others for the state of their earthly form.

We often blame the society for what is happening around but we need to realize that it us who form the society. Thus, the first step is to fight our own thinking patterns to accept ourselves and then we need to make others aware of the same. Embrace who you are!

Since ancient times India is known for diversity and prosperity in its Culture. It has one of the oldest civilization and culture in the world. Despite of such diversity Indian culture has the immense power to unite peoples together. There are fifteen national languages recognized by the Indian constitution and these are spoken in over 1600 dialects. With language changing across different parts of country, culture is also diverse. The Culture of India has played a vital role in its civilization.
Changing Values
We all know that Change is the law of nature. This law is governing almost everything in this universe and so as the Indian Culture. Over Centuries Indian Culture has influenced by a lot of changes and many of them has incorporated in this culture remaining the other features intact. These Changes are more or less like two faces of a coin. Some changes are beneficial for our society and culture, and some others are dangerous. In other words these changes have both Positive and Negative aspects. Changes In Indian Culture that are Positive for Indian Society
A few Centuries ago “Sati pratha” was abolished and “widow remarriage” was approved. These Changes were the major achievements of Indian Society. These changes have removed the traditions and methodologies which was a curse to all the women and humanity. These Changes were the major revolution in the Indian Society. From that time,changes have influenced a lot to the Indian Society. Now a days, there are many visible changes in our society.

Tulsi Benefits: Basil plants will be found in most homes in India. It is also worshipped in Hinduism. It is considered a symbol of happiness and well-being, but aside from mythological significance, Tulsi is also a well-known medicine. It is used in many diseases. There is an effective medicine in many major and severe diseases ranging from cold and cough.A single basil leaf can overcome many of your problems. Ayurvedically, every part of the basil plant is good for your health. So let’s know where else you can use basil leaves in addition to cough and cold.
Make the tea by adding at least 10 to 12 basil leaves and then drink it cures cough, cold and fever. If you have a respiratory disease and feel unable to breathe then put basil leaves with black salt in your mouth like a betel nut, you will get relief from this disease. If you roast basil leaves on fire and eat it with salt, then it also cures bad throat. Chewing 4 roasted cloves with basil leaves will give you relief from cough. Do you know that applying basil leaves mixed with alum also heals wounds quickly? This is because basil contains anti-bacterial elements that do not allow the wound to ripen. Apart from this, basil seeds have been considered helpful in the treatment of cancer in many types of research. However, this has not been confirmed. Most women complain of irregularities in periods. In such a situation, basil is very beneficial. Helps to remove irregularity of menstrual cycle.