Many people who choose to order food drive-thru for some reason do not have the time or just lazy out of the car. But the drive-thru clinic is being planned researchers are more intended to help treat patients more quickly and effectively.

Initial ideas drive-thru clinic that triggered by researchers from Stanford University was intended to address pandemic influenza, particularly cases of swine flu (H1N1) is now being spread. To handle these cases, the speed and accuracy of patient treatment is urgently needed.

For that, researchers try to test the effectiveness of the clinical scenario by creating a drive-thru clinic. A garage or room to place medical clinic built, paramedical staff, patients and all the medical equipment to treat patients had available. The whole scenario is described in The Annals of Emergency Medicine.

In this scenario, the patient was taken to a garage which has three stations to handle the patient. The first station serves as the registry. The second station serves as the checkpoint on the spot. The third station served as a patient who must receive more treatment and should be out of the car.

Emergency medical equipment was available in the garage. Sister will do screening on patients to determine his physical condition. If detected an unstable situation, the patient will be directed straight into the path of the drive-through clinic. Where patients can get medicines and treatment directly.

Meanwhile, if the patient is detected ill and needed medical treatment, they were immediately taken to the emergency. Results from this study shows, doctors who participate in clinical trials of this drive-thru were able to identify and treat patients accurately up to 95 percent.

The garage is used as a drive-thru clinic had already tested the level of carbon emissions and expressed monoksidanya safe, both for medical staff and patients. Another positive outcome of this study is the average patient (which does not require more) can be handled by the medical team in just 26 minutes.

As quoted from Healthbolt, Friday (28/1/2010), temperature and facilities designed in a drive-thru clinic that would be made in such a way that patients feel comfortable.

The existence of a drive-thru clinic is expected to help speed up the handling of patients in a pandemic situation or other emergency situations

Vitamin D is essential for bone health because it plays a role in calcium absorption in the stomach and digestive tract. Without enough vitamin D, your body will not be able to properly absorb calcium and therefore have weak bones. Vitamin D is pro-hormones that our body uses to transport calcium from the digestive tract through the blood to the bone, heart, brain, lungs and other organs that need it.
Source of Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a soluble vitamins in the fat that naturally is only available on very few types of food. Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) found in some plants and fungi. Several types of fatty fish, like cod, tuna and salmon, contain vitamin D2 because they are eating the algae processing of vitamin D with the help of sunlight.

Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is produced when the body of ultraviolet light on our skin and stimulate its production. To get adequate vitamin D3, describe your skin in the sun for 10-15 minutes several times a week. Radiation that alter vitamin D in the skin has the same wavelength with the causes skin blackened, so the use of sunscreen will inhibit the production of vitamin D. With aging, the effectiveness of the skin to produce vitamin D decreased.

Vitamin D from food, supplements and sun exposure are biologically inactive and had to undergo two hydroxylation processes in the body to activate it. The first process occurs in the liver and alter vitamin D into 25-hidroksivitamin D [25 (OH) D], also known as calcidiol. Calcidiol most widely available in the body than other forms of vitamin D. The second process occurs mainly in the kidney and form the active substance-dihidroksivitamin D 1.25 [1.25 (OH) 2D], also known as calcitriol. This form of vitamin D which helps absorption of calcium.

Liver and kidneys of our very important role in changing the form of vitamin D to inactive become active. The main reason why alcohol worsen the condition of the bones are negative effects on the heart. Some kidney diseases are also a trigger of osteoporosis. Some research, for example, showed that patients suffering from urolithiasis (stone formation process in the kidney, bladder and urethra) have a bone mass lower than average.
Prevent Osteoporosis with Vitamin D

Osteoporosis can be prevented with daily intake of vitamin D for 200-400 units. Many multivitamins and calcium supplements also contain vitamin D. The average one multivitamin tablet contains 400 IU of vitamin D. Therefore, a multivitamin tablet every day is enough vitamin D to meet your needs.

Please note that in the process of conversion of calcidiol to calcitrol, parathyroid hormone (PTH) is that stimulate the kidneys to process. If you have too many calcidiol in the body, will be too much parathyroid hormone is released. Because these hormones also stimulate the formation of osteoclast (cells that dissolve bone), too much PTH will cause bone loss. Because of that, too much vitamin D is also not good for your bones.