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First aid regime for persons whose heart stops beating for 10 seconds before losing consciousness.
COUGHING REPEATEDLY AND VIGOROUSLY DEEP,INHALE DEEPLY BEFORE EACH COUGH WHICH MUST BE PROLONGED AS WHEN PRODUCING SPUTUM FROM DEEP INSIDE CHEST.COUGH MUST BE REPEATED EVERY TWO SECONDS WITHOUT LETUP UNTIL HELP ARRIVES OR HEART IS FELT BEATING NORMALLY.DEEP BREATH GETS OXYGEN INTO THE LUNGS AND COUGHING MOVEMENTS SQUEEZES THE HEART AND KEEPS BLOOD CIRCULATING.THE SQUEEZING PRESSURE ON THE HEART ALSO HELPS IT REGAIN NORMAL RYTHEM.(people who drive the car alone,or staying alone in a house,or generally a loner should know about this regime.)
CARRYING MOTHERS AND SMOKING
‘PASSIVE SMOKING DANGEROUS FOR FOETUS’
Exposure to second hand smoking during pregnancy can be just as detrimental to a developing foetus as primary exposure through maternal smoking.Both active maternal smoking and secondary mternal exposure results in similarly increased rates of genetic mutation that are basically indistinguishable..
NO STRANGERS’ VOICE
A developing foetus begins to hear at about 30 weeks and as the delivery date approaches a foetus begins to distinguish its mothers’voice from that of a stranger.
2 groups of 3 each pregnant womens’ foetal heart rates were measured before,during and after a prerecorded 2 minute poem was played thru a speaker held above the mothers abdomen.Heartbeat increased about five beats a minute in 21 of 30 foetus who heard recordings of their mothers voice.It slowed down to 4 per miniute in 21 of 30 foetus who heard recordings of strangers voice.There is some sort of representation that the foetus is matching with the sound,
says Ms Barbara S.Kishlevsky,professor Nursing and Obsterics and gynaecology,at Queens University,in Kingston,Canada. Published in May 2003 issue of PSYCHOLOGI L SCIENCE.
Why are the hottest days of the year called the ‘DOG DAYS’?
Hottest day in Europe mostly occur in July.According to an old superstition this was also the period when dogs had a tendency to go mad.”Dog Days’ is a translation of the LATIN word ‘CANICULARES DIES’ around since the times of the ancient Romans.contrary to popular belief,”dog days” has nothing to do with the dogs on earth – more to do with the dog in the sky.It refers to ‘sirus’ the dog star.During the height of summer the Dog star,”sirus”rises along with the sun.The ancient Romans believed that this star added to
The heat of the sun and in the process caused the weather to become unbearably hot.
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First aid regime for persons whose heart stops beating for 10 seconds before losing consciousness.
COUGHING REPEATEDLY AND VIGOROUSLY DEEP,INHALE DEEPLY BEFORE EACH COUGH WHICH MUST BE PROLONGED AS WHEN PRODUCING SPUTUM FROM DEEP INSIDE CHEST.COUGH MUST BE REPEATED EVERY TWO SECONDS WITHOUT LETUP UNTIL HELP ARRIVES OR HEART IS FELT BEATING NORMALLY.DEEP BREATH GETS OXYGEN INTO THE LUNGS AND COUGHING MOVEMENTS SQUEEZES THE HEART AND KEEPS BLOOD CIRCULATING.THE SQUEEZING PRESSURE ON THE HEART ALSO HELPS IT REGAIN NORMAL RYTHEM.(people who drive the car alone,or staying alone in a house,or generally a loner should know about this regime.)
CARRYING MOTHERS AND SMOKING
‘PASSIVE SMOKING DANGEROUS FOR FOETUS’
Exposure to second hand smoking during pregnancy can be just as detrimental to a developing foetus as primary exposure through maternal smoking.Both active maternal smoking and secondary mternal exposure results in similarly increased rates of genetic mutation that are basically indistinguishable..
NO STRANGERS’ VOICE
A developing foetus begins to hear at about 30 weeks and as the delivery date approaches a foetus begins to distinguish its mothers’voice from that of a stranger.
2 groups of 3 each pregnant womens’ foetal heart rates were measured before,during and after a prerecorded 2 minute poem was played thru a speaker held above the mothers abdomen.Heartbeat increased about five beats a minute in 21 of 30 foetus who heard recordings of their mothers voice.It slowed down to 4 per miniute in 21 of 30 foetus who heard recordings of strangers voice.There is some sort of representation that the foetus is matching with the sound,
says Ms Barbara S.Kishlevsky,professor Nursing and Obsterics and gynaecology,at Queens University,in Kingston,Canada. Published in May 2003 issue of PSYCHOLOGI L SCIENCE.
Why are the hottest days of the year called the ‘DOG DAYS’?
Hottest day in Europe mostly occur in July.According to an old superstition this was also the period when dogs had a tendency to go mad.”Dog Days’ is a translation of the LATIN word ‘CANICULARES DIES’ around since the times of the ancient Romans.contrary to popular belief,”dog days” has nothing to do with the dogs on earth – more to do with the dog in the sky.It refers to ‘sirus’ the dog star.During the height of summer the Dog star,”sirus”rises along with the sun.The ancient Romans believed that this star added to
The heat of the sun and in the process caused the weather to become unbearably hot.
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- An albatross can sleep while it flies.
- Pumpkin/ the darker the shell longer it lasts.
- Black whales are born white.
- During menstruation the sensibility of a woman’s middle finger is reduced.
- An olive tree can live upto 1500 years.
- On an average it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give berth.
- The creator of the NIKE “SWOOSH” symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
- ‘PHOBATRIVAPHOBIA’—is fear of trivia about phobias.
- It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
- Grenades were invented in China over 1000 years ago.
- Bacteria that causes tooth decay,acne,tuberculosis and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
- Babies start dreaming even before they are born.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siera,Italy,if your name is MARY.!!
- It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from earth.
- Redheads require more anaesthesia to “go under” than other hair colors do.
- MORE THAN 40,000 PARASITES AND 250 TYPES OF BACTERIA ARE EXCHANGED DURING A TYPICAL FRENCH KISS!!
- Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
- Extremely high pressure water can cut thru easily a steel beam.
- Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty while shaking hands.
- Jumbo jets uses 4000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- Finger nails grow faster on the hand you favour.
- The weight of a CARAT is based on the weight of a carrot seed.
- Iron weighs more after it is rusted.
- Ten of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi River.
- A hardboiled egg will spin.An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.
- In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
- All babies are colour blind when they are born.
- All the swans in England are the property of the Queen.
- In Florida it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swim suit.
- German soildiers both hetero sexuals and homosexuals are allowed to have sex with each other.
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