Miscellaneous

What is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS):

It is very commonly observed, that many people experience a condition of endless fatigue, they remained fatigued even after rest. Major health issues correlated with CFS are Depression, Widespread pain, Severe fatigue, cognitive dysfunction etc. If you feel such symptoms, you may be having CFS, that is usually remained unidentified and un treated, but it […]

Medicinal issues

A simple painkiller drug can be damaging

NSAIDs are very common drugs used to treat pain. Basically our body has a mechanism to develop inflammation that involves many steps, one of these steps include a mediator called COX, which has two types, COX-1 and COX-2. COX-1 is responsible to maintain many physiological procedures in the body normally, like : Gastroprotection by mucosal […]

Medicinal issues

How does painkillers damage your stomach

Stomach releases gastric juice for the digestion of food in stomach. This gastric juice contains an enzyme, called pepsin and HCl, which is required to activate pepsin, which digests proteins. Our stomach also contains a large number of proteins, but remains safe from this digestive juice. Actually on the inner side of stomach, there is […]

Medicinal issues

How painkiller medicines damage your kidney

Painkiller medicines work usually by reducing inflammation, and any thing which reduces inflammation it also reduces blood flow to inflamed area, so keeping in view firstly an NSAID drug  may reduce blood perfusion to an area, if it happens to renal perfusion, it would decrease GFR and promote kidney damage. NSAIDs can also cause vasoconstriction […]

Liver health

How does liver impact skin health

Liver is a vital organ and takes part in about 500 different biochemical pathways in our body to regulate normal functions. Where liver takes part in almost all body functions, a healthy skin also depends upon healthy liver functions. Let’s take view of some important liver impacts on skin. i) Acne:It is a common skin […]

Cardiac health

What are the early signs of heart attach

For managing angina attach, time plays very important role. It is very important to treat angina as soon as possible, because more the delay more the heart damage is. So one of first priorities in managing a heart attach is timely first aid. Some important early signs of angina are: Chest discomfort: There may be […]

Diabetes

Diabetes and fasting

Patients with diabetes mellitus (abnormal glucose levels), have a very important issue that they may have hypoglycaemia (low glucose level), that is an emergency condition and must be managed immediately in order to avoid any serious or permanent damage. So, diabetic patients must have to be careful about any hypoglycaemic episode. What are general trends, […]

Cardiac health

What the blood pressure is infact

Blood pressure is the term, that is frequently used among patients. What the blood pressure is infact? Actually blood pressure is the force that is excreted by the blood upon the blood vessels. If this force is more/less than normal force, it will start to make problems. Mathematically blood pressure is the multiplication of cardiac […]

Miscellaneous

Diarrhea is a serious issue

Diarrhea is defined as the passage of three or more loose stools in a day. It is important to understand that only loose stools does not always mean diarrhea, it becomes diarrhea, if there are more stools than 3 in a single day. Diarrhea may be of different types. Watery diarrhea: It involves stools with […]