Mohamed Zaki

Purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of treadmill exercise on intraocular pressure in normal subjects, Fifteen normal subjects were enrolled in this study (10 women and 5 men) with age ranges between 30-40 years. They per-formed a supervised treadmill exercise program (3 sessions/ week, 40 minutes/session for 3-months) where intraocular pressure was measured before exercise and 30 minutes after exercise, at baseline and after 3-months of training.
Results; showed that there was a significant decrease of the intraocular pressure which scoped in the maintenance of the good nourishment for the eye tissues.
Conclusion; It was concluded that regular treadmill exer-cise was of great benefit in the preservation of normal intraoc-ular pressure in response to age-related changes of ocular health.

{Background, a major cause of death in developing countries is umbilical cord infections. Aim of this research was to compare the effect of topical application of breast milk versus distilled water on umbilical cord stump separation time and occurrence of bacterial colonization among neonates. Design, quasi- experimental design. Setting was postpartum unit at El Manial Maternity Hospital. Sample, a total of 100 neonates was randomly selected immediately after admission to the postpartum unit according to certain criteria. The sample was randomly assigned into two groups (50 neonates each) group A who received cord care with breast milk, and group B who received cord care with distilled water. Tools, three tools developed and filled by the researchers: - structured interview schedule; cord swab bacteriological examination tool; and follow up schedule for signs of cord infection tool. Results indicated that, no statistically significant differences between groups were found in relation to, maternal socio-demographic or neonatal characteristics. Gestational age mean was 38.60 + 1.08 weeks gestation for neonates in breast milk group while, it was 38.92 + 1.15 weeks gestation for neonates in distilled water group (T= 1.42

Background, a major cause of death in developing countries is umbilical cord infections. Aim of this research was to compare the effect of topical application of breast milk versus distilled water on umbilical cord stump separation time and occurrence of bacterial colonization among neonates. Design: quasi- experimental design. Setting was postpartum unit at El Manial Maternity Hospital. Sample, a total of 100 neonates was randomly selected immediately after admission to the postpartum unit according to certain criteria. The sample was randomly assigned into two groups (50 neonates each) group A who received cord care with breast milk, and group B who received cord care with distilled water. Tools, three tools developed and filled by the researchers: - structured interview schedule; Cord swab bacteriological examination tool; and Follow up Schedule for signs of cord infection tool.
Results indicated that, no statistically significant differences between groups were found in relation to, maternal socio-demographic or neonatal characteristics. Gestational age mean was 38.60 + 1.08 weeks gestation for neonates in breast milk group while, it was 38.92 + 1.15 weeks gestation for neonates in distilled water group (T= 1.42, P=0.15). Neonatal weight mean was 2973.00 + 218.96 gm for neonates in breast milk group and it was 2898.00 + 315.08 gm for neonates in distilled water group (T= 0.71, P=0.47). Umbilical cord separation time occurred early for neonates in the breast milk group Vs neonates in the distilled water group (5.60 + 1.04 & 7.92 + 1.08 days, respectively). Moreover, low percentage of neonates in the breast milk group and Distilled water group had bacterial colonization (14% & 10%, respectively) with no statistical significance difference between groups was found (X2 =0.37, P= 0.76). In conclusion, use of topical application of breast milk on umbilical cord care was associated with shorter cord stump separation time than in distilled water. Also, breast milk reduced incidence of omphalitis, and reduced bacterial colonization especially with pathogenic microorganisms as the same as distilled water. This research recommends that, breast milk can be used as easy, cheap and highly effective for umbilical cord care.

Background, a major cause of death in developing countries is umbilical cord infections. Aim of this research was to compare the effect of topical application of breast milk versus distilled water on umbilical cord stump separation time and occurrence of bacterial colonization among neonates. Design: quasi- experimental design. Setting was postpartum unit at El Manial Maternity Hospital. Sample, a total of 100 neonates was randomly selected immediately after admission to the postpartum unit according to certain criteria. The sample was randomly assigned into two groups (50 neonates each) group A who received cord care with breast milk, and group B who received cord care with distilled water. Tools, three tools developed and filled by the researchers: - structured interview schedule; Cord swab bacteriological examination tool; and Follow up Schedule for signs of cord infection tool.
Results indicated that, no statistically significant differences between groups were found in relation to, maternal socio-demographic or neonatal characteristics. Gestational age mean was 38.60 + 1.08 weeks gestation for neonates in breast milk group while, it was 38.92 + 1.15 weeks gestation for neonates in distilled water group (T= 1.42, P=0.15). Neonatal weight mean was 2973.00 + 218.96 gm for neonates in breast milk group and it was 2898.00 + 315.08 gm for neonates in distilled water group (T= 0.71, P=0.47). Umbilical cord separation time occurred early for neonates in the breast milk group Vs neonates in the distilled water group (5.60 + 1.04 & 7.92 + 1.08 days, respectively). Moreover, low percentage of neonates in the breast milk group and Distilled water group had bacterial colonization (14% & 10%, respectively) with no statistical significance difference between groups was found (X2 =0.37, P= 0.76). In conclusion, use of topical application of breast milk on umbilical cord care was associated with shorter cord stump separation time than in distilled water. Also, breast milk reduced incidence of omphalitis, and reduced bacterial colonization especially with pathogenic microorganisms as the same as distilled water. This research recommends that, breast milk can be used as easy, cheap and highly effective for umbilical cord care.

Detailed studies on the effect of urbanization and industrialization processes on outdoor thermal human com- fort in Greater Cairo region, Egypt have been performed in this study. Four different districts in Greater Cairo region have been selected to represent rural, suburban, typical urban and industrial areas. The data of surface dry, wet bulb temperatures and wind speed for two different periods represent non-urbanized and urbanized periods have been used. Discomfort indices for the two periods have been calculated for the four districts.
The study revealed that urbanization and industrialization processes have resulted in the distinctly modification of human comfortable at all districts. The feeling of quite comfortable reduced from the old non-urbanized period to the recent urbanized period at the four districts. During the recent urbanized period, the rural area has the highest total number of quite comfortable hours while both urban and industrial areas have the lowest total number of hours. The serious hot uncomfortable didn’t occur at all districts during the old non-urbanized period while during the recent urbanized period, all people had felt extreme serious hot uncomfortable only at urban and industrial areas. It could be concluded that the urbanization and industrialization processes cause increase of human serious hot uncomfortable feeling which in turn leads to more hindering for the human activities while the rural conditions leads to optimum weather comfort for further and more human activities.