3 Questions #10 5-15-15

1. What tasks have you completed recently? 
2. What have you learned recently?
3. What are you planning on doing next?

1. I have competed a blog on the heart,  I have colored my color plates, and I have done a blood lab.

2. I have learned about the immune system, and how the heart functions through the left and right ventricles, and the left and right atriums.

3. I plan on doing my glogs this weekend, along with studying for my final and my EOC. 

Wake Up Call Blog 5-15-15

Wake Up Call Blog

      The foods that are beneficial for a healthy heart are: Fish, whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables. These types of foods maintain blood sugar. The foods that are unhealthy for you and unbeneficial for a healthy heart are: Salty foods, fried food (this has a lot of fat in it), and fast food. A lot of these foods have have saturated fats in them. Saturated fats can raise LDL's and HDL's.

      Some activities that are hazardous to heart health is smoking, eating unhealthy, doing drugs, not exercising, etc. Some solutions are to quit smoking, avoid second hand smoking, stop doing drugs, and start exercising a little more. Smoking hurts your heart, because if reduces how much oxygen your heart gets, it raises your blood pressure, and can produce blood clots more faster. Some benefits to stopping the hazardous activities is a better heart, a lower blood pressure, and better lungs which help with the filtering of the heart.

     Aspirin can help in preventing heart disease by reducing the blood clot clumping, by doing this, it will thin the blood so that no blood clots can be produced which will help a heart attack.

 http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/glossary/g/saturatedfat.htm

 http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/PreventionTreatmentofHeartAttack/Aspirin-and-Heart-Disease_UCM_321714_Article.jsp

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This is a diagram that shows a myocardial infarction and the troponin levels that rise and decrease during and after a heart attack.

Blood Blog 5-7-15

What are the different blood types people can have?

What determines a person's blood type?

What is your blood type?

How is blood typing done?

Why is it important to know the type of blood?  What are the consequences if you don't?

The different types of blood that people can have are: A-, A+, B-, B+, AB-, AB+, O- and O+. What determines a person's blood type are the antigens on the red blood cells.  My blood type is O+ . Blood typing is done by the ABO grouping system which divides the blood types into 4 categories. It's important to know the type of blood because, the patient in need of a blood transfusion may have a fatal reaction if given the wrong blood type. Consequences include back pain, bloody urine, chills, fainting or dizziness, and flushing of the skin.