It was the exact date last year (December 2, 2007) when I was stunned with a question regarding this. I was taking the Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam back then, I can still remember this somewhere around item number 60 to 70. The question could have been more easier if they have had left the obvious answer, but since I was gunning for my Nursing license then the questions on the exam should be tough. After reading the question, I did not care to look for the answer since I knew that it was an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but what the heck, when I tried to look at what letter it was located I was stunned. Using the process of elimination I was left with two choices, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). I am under time pressure then but with this two choices left, I wasted 5 minutes thinking if it was a trick question or a typographical error or whatnot. In the end I chose obsessive compulsive personality disorder. So did I get it right? When I got back home, I checked my Psychology book and was happy with the choice I made 2 months after, I am an official R.N. Good Luck ...

What does water dispenser, asbestos and mesothelioma cancer have in common? How were they interconnected? Well here's how I found out about it. Our water dispenser broke down, leaking, and leaving the floor inside our house with a pool of water. My mom wanted to buy a new one, but I insisted to have it fixed first. Well it's not because I don't want my mother to spend some money for a new one, but because secretly, I was so curious about how a water dispenser looks like inside. Just because... So I called up "mang ega" the mcgyver here in our place, mostly he is an old electrician, mechanic, somewhat a jack of all trades in what he does, fix things. Mainly he was the one who fixes my car whenever it has electrical problems, he's old but he's good. I was watching him when he opened our water dispenser and was a bit surprised since it's a mess. Damn rodents made a cave like hole inside. How? Well there was a styrophore that is covering up the water container inside and you get the idea. From then on, he explained to me some obvious parts inside that water dispenser. There were two ...

My post about Punas Boys (children and teenagers who wipe the windshield of passing vehicles) was just about a point-something percent of the growing numbers of poverty here in the Philippines, lest in the heart of Manila. Sometimes we do not know if we would believe this kind of style. Why? Well because most often than not, these children and adults who are begging for some change in your pockets are mostly ran by big underground syndicates. Sometimes they become abusive, doing everything just to get the sympathy of the people passing by. How do they become abusive? Well here are a couple of things that they do, most of them are considered to be an old trick in the book. Sometimes you would see a blind man that is being accompanied by someone while begging for alms on vehicles that are stuck on traffic. Sometimes they stay just right behind you while you are ordering a food on the streets. This is a lot more common on University Belt, I know since I have been victimized a couple of times by this. You have just ordered a set of siomai and already someone is begging for it. Imagine that, and then since ...

My sister was just watching 3 Dads and 1 Mom, and I just happen to have a peek at what she was watching and in the show, I saw a man eating an milk ice cream. It thought it was just an ordinary ice cream. Then came a this lady, which is the "mother" in the show and she was being hysterical just because of that ice cream. I asked my sister what that ice cream is because the lady wouldn't be that mad if that ice cream is just an ordinary one. The my sister just told me that the ice cream was not meant to be an ice cream, and it was not meant for the man either, because it is for her baby. And so I easily picked up and realized that it was frozen breast milk and not manufactured milk. I was like, what the!? And I was just thinking what kind of taste would that have? The man even said that the ice cream was tasty. And I saw a worried look in the lady because she can't help but think that her breast milk was being eaten by the supposed to be father. Then as I was ...

At first it was only milk, now everything tends to be exaggerated to what is happening. Left and right text messages informing everyone about the threat that melamine could be in any food that came from china and not just from the milk. Well over exaggeration is fine as long as were thinking about the safety of our health. The one thing that will suffer the most here are the vendors that were selling such products, and the people from binondo who were also selling these kinds of products that have milk ingredients in it. From candies, to chocolates, now tofu, soya and noodles are also the one of the suspected products to contain melamine. I bet the Filipino - Chinese community here in Manila are somewhat pissed off since this will greatly affect their businesses specially that it less than a hundred days before Christmas and people are now rushing to buy stuffs near the binondo area ( divisoria ). I also feel for the business of KA UBE of Eng Bee Tin, since most of his products are chinese delicacies that may or may not contain some kind of milk in it. Though there are no known cases of ...

1. The Keyboard You're Using Right Now Your keyboard can be an incredibly accurate representation of what's in your nose and your stomach. Of thirty-three randomly sampled computer keyboards tested by a British consumer group this year, four were dirty enough to be considered a health hazard, and one harbored hundreds of times more bacteria than your average toilet seat. Of course, not everyone's keyboard is this dirty; contributing factors include not washing your hands after using the bathroom, picking your nose, and eating at your computer (especially at work), as the crumbs left behind tend to become little bacteria factories. Experts recommend regularly swabbing your keyboard with lightly dampened alcohol wipes on a regular basis-and be sure to shake those cookie crumbs out, too. 2. The Kitchen The way some folks keep their kitchens, it would be more sanitary to prepare dinner in the bathroom. You wouldn't know they were a health hazard to look at them, but everything from chopping boards and dishcloths to the plastic washing-up bowls they use in the UK and elsewhere can, and often do, harbor an immense amount of food-borne bacteria. Put them all together-knives and a chopping board used to prepare raw chicken or fish ...

Are you a smoker? Are you addicted to smoking? If you are then I know that you are fed up from hearing about the ill fated effects of smoking, about the countless cancers, numerous diseases, huge posters that depict the so-called body of a smoker, text messages about "what is on a cigarette stick" , Department of Health's Mascot "Yosi Kadiri", etc. But still, people who knew those continue to puff cigars. And people who campaign against smoking still blame smoking as a number one reason for lung cancer, buerger's disease, raynaud's disease, etc. But for as far as what I have researched, SMOKING ALONE does not produce those gross and commonly fatal effects of smoking. Smoking alone cannot cause Buerger's disease, you need to be 30 years old and above and a male to have it. Smoking alone cannot cause Raynaud's disease, you need to be 40 years old and above and female to have it. Smoking alone cannot cause Deep Vein Thrombosis, you still need to be obese, hyperlipidemic, have been using oral contraceptives for a long time, have a history of diabetes and myocardial infarction. You cant have Pneumonia by smoking alone, you also need to have inhaled air pollution, ...

Important: this is a brief guide to the emergency help that can be given in the event of a heart attack or cardiac arrest before the arrival of emergency services. It is not intended as a replacement for a first aid or resuscitation course. What should you do if someone has a heart attack? If someone has a cardiac arrest or heart attack, there are only a few minutes to act before it is too late. It is vital to know what to do beforehand. To perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and artificial respiration (mouth to mouth resuscitation) effectively, training and frequent practice on resuscitation dummies are essential. How can you tell if someone is having a heart attack? If the person is unconscious: are they breathing? Look at the patient's chest to see if it is rising and falling. do they have a pulse? Place two fingers on one or other side of the person's voice box in their throat to feel if they have a carotid pulse. If the patient has a pulse but is not breathing: could it be because of suffocation? Feel inside the mouth with a finger to see if there is anything blocking it or the windpipe and remove any food or ...