If you just watched “Due Date” you found something that might put you in such of a curiosity: medical marijuana to treat glaucoma. What is glaucoma? And how should marijuana taken to treat such? Keep reading!

Glaucoma is the damage of the optical nerve with the increasing of the eyeball pressure (IOP = Intra Ocular Pressure) as the result of it. There are two types of glaucoma: open and closed angle type. Apparently, glaucoma is the number one cause of the blindness cause in Unites States, and number two in Indonesia. Open angle or chronic glaucoma is the most found type of glaucoma among the patients, thus it progressively cause the blindness. In 1970, a research found that marijuana can decrease the IOP those of glaucoma patients. Eventually, NEI (National Eye Institute) continued this research in 1978, created derivatives of marijuana into oral administration and showed some significant result of the decreasing of IOP.

But, since the using of marijuana is still illegal so it is not suggested that any chronic glaucoma patient to consume it as the sole treatment. Obviously, there are many legal treatments from drug administration to the eye surgeries. However, the side effects of marijuana are more dangerous than the main effect to the eye. So if you have a glaucoma, never hope that your doctor would prescribe some marijuana!

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Such prohibition of drinking alcohol for people under 21 is pretty reasonable. In fact, alcohol has caused many health problems for adult, moreover for underaged children, this could be fatal since alcohol badly affect the growth and the development of children. Do you want to know? I encourage you to read this article!

In many developed countries like USA, alcoholism in children related to bad example set by their own parents that like to consume alcohol much. Also this may be triggered by some family problem which put the children into depression so to set the children to start drinking alcohol.

Alcohol consumption during the period of growing and developing can harm many organs such as brain, nerve, liver, and heart. There are many health problem that you may find for such alcoholism in children:

1. Declining achievement

Alcohol kills more brain cells than you ever think, this could be the worst case if your kid become an alcoholism. He or she may not have enough attention to make for his or her achievement at class

2. Physical imbalance

Alcohol has been proven to block the inhibition process in the brain, so this may make the kid to become physically imbalance and easily to fall, as this is more often found in drunken adults who just had much alcohol.

3. Mood swing

Yes, alcohol can cause mental problem. Alcoholic children would easily to have mood swing as they easily get sad or excessively happy in a very short time. Yet, this may also affect their social life to their friend as they may act differently from the kid at his or her age.

What you have to do is not to set some example by drinking some alcohol in front of your kid. Stop it or your kid would follow you! Try to spend more time with your kids than having alcohol to solve any problem that you have.

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