An Important Need to Monitor from an Early Age the Neurotoxins in the Blood or by an Equivalent Biomarker.

An overwhelming amount of evidence now suggests that some people are becoming overloaded with neurotoxins. This is mainly from changes in their living environment and style, coupled with the fact that all people are different and display a broad distribution of genetic susceptibilities. It is important for individuals to know where they lie concerning their ability to either reject or retain toxins. Everyone is contaminated with a certain baseline of toxins that are alien to the body, namely aluminum, arsenic, lead, and mercury. Major societal changes have modified their intake, such as vaccines in enhanced inoculation procedures and the addition of sushi into diets, coupled with the ever-present lead, arsenic, and traces of manganese. It is now apparent that no single toxin is responsible for the current neurological epidemics, but rather a collaborative interaction with possible synergistic components. Selenium, although also a neurotoxin if in an excessive amount, is always present and is generally more present than other toxins. It performs as the body's natural chelator. However, it is possible that the formation rates of active selenium proteins may become overburdened by other toxins. Every person is different and it now appears imperative that the medical profession establish an individual's neurotoxicity baseline. Moreover, young women should certainly establish their baselines long before pregnancy in order to identify possible risk factors.

Recomendaciones para mejorar la atención en enfermería / Recommendations to improve attention in nursing

El personal de enfermería desempeña una actividad fundamental en los servicios de salud, con fuerte apego a principios científicos y éticos; sus intervenciones permiten fortalecer la calidad en los servicios de salud, através de acciones interdisciplinarias. Se analizaron las inconformidades relacionadas con atención de enfermería que recibió la Comisión Nacional de Arbitraje Médico (CONAMED) de junio de 1996 a diciembre de 2001. Con base en el análisis se elaboraron recomendaciones dirigidas a prevenir el conflicto, mejorar la práctica de enfermería y propiciar la adecuada comunicación con el paciente, familiares y equipo interprofesional de salud. Se integró un grupo representativo de las instituciones educativas y gremiales de enfermería más prestigiadas y reconocidas, para su validación externa. De esta manera, la CONAMED y el grupo de validación externa, proponen al personal de enfermería atender las siguientes recomendaciones: 1) Mantener una comunicación efectiva con las personas a las que proporciona atención; 2) Reconocer en la persona su concepción holística; 3) Proporcionar cuidados que garanticen la atención libre de riesgos y daños innecesarios; 4) Establecer una coordinación efectiva con el equipo interprofesional de salud; 5) Actuar con base en los principios éticos que rigen la práctica profesional de enfermería.

Nurse personnel performs a fundamental activity in t health services, with strong attach at scientific and ethical principles, whose interventions can fortify the services of health quality, through interdisciplinary actions. We analyzed the compliants related to nursing attention that were received in CONAMED since June 1996 to December 2001. Wedevised recommendations directed to prevent patient-health care professionals conflicts, improve the practice of nursing and favor adequate communication with the patient, family and interprofessional health care team. Those recommendations were presented to the more prestigious and recognized educational and professional groups of nursing, for their external validation. In this manner, CONAMED and the external group of validation, propose to nurses to attend the following recommendations: 1) Maintain an effective communication with the patients that provides attention; 2) Recognize the holistic concept in the person; 3) Provide cares that guarantee tree-risk attention and prevent unnecessary damages; 4) Establish an effective coordination with the health care interprofessional team and 5) Act based on ethical principles that govern the professional practice of nursing.