Hospital alarm system will sound when people light up

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An alarm-and-loudspeaker system at a Scottish hospital is designed to shame seditious smokers and stem the smattering of cigarette butts.

The trial alarm will be installed at the hospital's main entrance.

(Credit: Forth Valley Royal Hospital)

Calling itself one of the most modern and well-equipped hospitals in all of Europe, Scotland's 2-year-old and $480 million Forth Valley Royal Hospital is hoping that a new alarm system will help deter smokers who continue to ignore no-smoking signs outside the main entrance.

The alarm, which is followed by a presumably shaming loudspeaker message to stop breaking the rules, is sensitive enough to be triggered by a single smoker lighting up. A representative of the company that installed the machine said in a hospital statement that its purpose is twofold: to encourage better health and to keep the hospital grounds tidier.

"Despite warning signs telling patients, visitors, and staff that smoking is banned in the hospital ground, people continue to smoke," according to the statement. "It is a constant battle picking up discarded tabs."

The hospital says roughly 30 percent of the local adult population smokes (above the national average of 25 percent) and that in 2010, nearly 3,000 people in Scotland's Forth Valley died from smoking-related illnesses. The Scottish government has charged the hospital with helping 5,000 people in Forth Valley quit smoking by March 2014. In 2011, facility personnel apparently helped roughly 1,600 people permanently put out their cigarettes.

Meanwhile, hospitals elsewhere in the world are starting to enforce bans on smoking anywhere on hospital grounds, including one hospital in Canada that, starting April 1, will even ban smoking in the hospital system's parking lots and bus shelters.

If the alarm at Forth Valley helps cut down the number of smoking instances at the hospital's main entrance, the hospital will install others at various points around the hospital perimeter.

While Forth Valley Director of Public Health Anne Maree Wallace said she's has no doubts that "the vast majority of staff, patients, and visitors want a smoke-free environment, and agree that people smoking outside hospital entrances is unacceptable," it remains to be seen which will prove more annoying to the staff and patients: cigarette smoke at the entrance or the sounding of the alarm.

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Gallstones Cause disorders of the reproductive system

A healthy liver is a sign of good general health. When the ducts of the liver are obstructed by hundreds of thousands of gallstones, there is congestion in the bile ducts.

Male and female reproductive systems both depend largely on the smooth functioning of the liver. Gallstones in the liver hinder the movement of bile bile ducts, and this impaired digestion and distorts the structural framework of hepatic lobules. It decreases the production of liver albumin and coagulation factors. Albumin is the protein more common and the most abundant in the blood, responsible for maintaining the osmotic pressure of plasma to its normal level of 25mmHg. Coagulation factors are essential for the clotting of blood. The osmotic pressure reduced the supply of nutrients to the cells, including those of the reproductive organs. This can lead to lymphatic drainage reduced. Poor lymphatic drainage in the reproductive organs can cause a retention and edema, and retention of metabolic waste and dead cells. This can cause progressive alteration of sexual functions.

Most of the diseases of the reproductive system are the result of improper lymphatic drainage. The thoracic duct (see circulatory disorders) drains lymphfluid of all the organs of the system digestive, including the liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach and intestines. This large pipe often becomes severely congested when gallstones in the liver interfere with good digestion and absorption of food. It is obvious, yet hardly recognized in medicine, the congestion in the thoracic canal affects the organs of the reproductive system. These bodies, like most others in the body, need to release their cells over turned and the metabolic waste issue in the thoracic duct.

Lymphatic drainage with a disability from the pelvic region female is responsible of the suppressed immunity, menstrual problems, premenstrual stress (PMS), symptoms of menopause, pelvic inflammatory (PID), cervicitis, all uterine disease, vulvar dystrophies with growth of fibrous tissue, tumors of the ovary cystsand, and the destruction of cells, deficiencies in hormone, the libido, infertility and genetic mutations leading to cancer cells.

Chest blocking can also lead to lymph congestion, in the left breast leaving deposits of deleterious substances behind which can cause inflammation, lump formation, blocked milk ducts and cancerous tumours. If the right lymphatic channel, which drains lymph half right thorax, head, the neck and right arm, becomes congested, waste accumulates in right breast, leading to similar problems.

Continuous restriction of the pelvic region lymphdrainage male benign and malignant causes enlargement of the prostate as well as inflammation of the testes, penis and urethra. Impotenceis a probable consequence of this evolution. The steady increase of gallstones in the liver, a common factor among men of average age in rich societies, is one of the main reasons for blocking lymph in this vital part of the body. Venereal diseases occur when the exposed parts of the body reaches a high level of toxicity. Microbial infection is preceded by a major lymph congestion. The collapse the ability of the lymphatic system (which includes the immune system) to repel the invasions of microorganisms is the real reason for most disorders of reproduction and sexuality.

When all gallstones in the liver are removed and a healthy diet and lifestyle are maintained, lymphatic activity can return to normal. Reproductive tissues receives an improved power and becomes more resistant. Infections are blurred. cysts, the fibrous tissue and tumor are broken down and removed; and sexual functions are restored.

Aside from disorders of the reproductive system, removal of gallstones in the liver and gallbladder through a series of liver flushes can relieve many other health problems such as problems related to the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems and persistent allergies and pain, Cleansing the liver of gallstones bile ducts is a powerful to improve and regain health.

[This is an excerpt from the book "The Amazing liver & gallbladder Flush' by Andreas Moritz, available on http://www.ener-chi.com/book.htm"]

Andreas Moritz is a writer and a practitioner in the field of integrative medicine and author of 13 books on various subjects relating to holistic as Timeless Secrets of health & rejuvenation, Cancer Health is not a disease, its mechanism of survival A, The Amazing liver & gallbladder Flush and his most recent book of vaccine Nation: poisoning the Populationa coup at a time.

Andreas Moritz can be contacted on http://www.facebook.com/enerchi.wellness

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