Background. Since 2004, Malaria Program in Indonesia has used Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) to replace the chloroquine resistance. The recommended ACT is Artesunate dan Amodiaquine (AAQ) combination for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. To relieve side effects and clinical complaints of malaria , health workers usually gave symptomatic and other drugs in addition to antimalarial drugs.…
The increasing of diabetic prevalence encouraged scientists to discover sweetener as sugar substitution. Stevia is a perenial shrub (known as Stevia rebaudiana) of the aster family that has been used for hundred of years to sweetening. Stevia is a natural, non caloric, sweet tasting plant known for its pleasant sweet taste without leaving bitter aftertaste. The leaves contain primarily stevio…
A chemical weapon is defined as a substance that is intended for use in military and non-military operations to kill, seriously injure or otherwise incapacitate people, or to harm or destroy their habitat or economy. Chemical weapons can be made by toxic chemicals reaction. Chemical weapons misused may lead to terror, injury, death and environmental damage. The chemical Weapons convention (CWC…
Household insecticide was widely and repeatedly used in a closed in the community, despite of the potential accumulation of its hazard to human health and the environment. The control of all pesticides (household, as well as agricultural pesticides), i.e. registration for licensed certificate, licensed renewal, and evaluation of the safety was conducted and supervised, so there are a doubling-u…
Household pesticides are in general used continually in closed room enabling the occurrence formulation. This occumulation depends on several factors like the pesticide formulation, the route of its exposure into the body and the users behavior. Mostly insecticide exposure comes into human body through inhalation and dermal absorption. Lifetime Average Daily Dose (LADD) of an insecticide is an…
Peptic mucus synthesize especially prostaglandine E2 and I2. Prostaglandine E2 and I2 can impede acid secete and stimulate mucus and bicarbonate secretion. Misoprostol, a synthetic methyl ester analogue of prostaglandin is both a powerful inhibitor of gastric secretion and is able to protect the gastroduodenal mucosa from damage. Misoprostol and other prostaglandine derivatives can be alternati…
The use of household insecticide in continous use in a closed room, allowing its accumulation. Occurrence of this accumulation depends on several factors such as pesticide formulation, route/entrace exposure to pesticides the attitude/behavior of pesticide users. In general insecticide enters the body through inhalation and dermal obsorption. This article describes the information of hosehold i…