February 2nd, 2010 at 11:31am
Use of antibiotics causes bacteria to one’s heart and frequent use of it can lead to resistance to these drugs. When a person suffers from same disease again and again, antibiotics are no longer sustainable cure. Antibiotics used for diseases are usually caused by bacteria and not viruses or parasitic. Its symptoms are caused by infection and may cause fever, dizziness, body becomes weak and so forth.
It is therefore important to immediately consult a doctor to determine whether symptoms are because of bacteria, viruses or parasites. If it has been caused by bacteria, here are some general tips to antibiotic drugs became a truly effective for eradicating the bacteria.
Purchase on the advice of doctors
Purchase antibiotics only on the advice of doctors because the originality and relevance are very important to cure disease.
The Right Dosage
Dose of antibiotics must be taken properly and in accordance with the syllabus given by the doctor. Antibiotics in liquid form should be provided with a spoon as advised by the doctor.
Avoid repeat of antibiotics for pain varies.
Make sure you do not take antibiotics by doctors who had given previously. If you experience symptoms of fever and pain, it is better to get a new antibiotic on the advice of a doctor.
Follow the Rules.
Antibiotics should be provided in the amount and time period specified by the doctor. It must spend the disease even though you are healed.
Do not fear Antibiotics.
Antibiotics are not drugs that should be avoided. In fact, it is important in healing disease.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:25pm
Imagine you are sitting with your two-year old baby and watching a quiz show. A young mother participating on the quiz show is faced with the question:-
- Which disease is responsible for the largest number of deaths among children under five years?
Answers like malaria, measles, polio race through your mind.
Well, the answer is “pneumococcal disease”. It is caused bya bug called pneumococcus (streptococcus pneumoniae).
Pneumococcus can give rise to a host of dieases:
- Pneumonia (infection of the lungs)
- Meningitis (infection of the lining of the brain)
- Bacteremia (blood infection)
- Otitis Media (infection in the middle ear)
Pneumococcal disease can lead to hearing loss, learning disabilities, speech delays, paralysis, brain damage and sometimes may even be fatal.
A recent UNICEF report estimated that 410,000 children under the age of five die of pneumonia every year in India alone. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has termed pneumonia - “the forgotten killer of children”.
- Now the question is - “Can pneumonic disease be prevented”?
Yes - vaccination can help prevent the disease as well as reduce the spread of this bug to other children.
March 21st, 2009 at 5:51pm
What are Regular Bowel Movements?
Having three bowel movements per week to three movements per day is considered as normal in general population.
Irregular Bowel Movements
An individual has irregular bowel movements, if he/she has:
- Over three loose stools per day (diarrhea - loose bowel movements)
- Less than three stools per week (constipation)
- Change in usual stool frequency
- Change in stool consistency
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March 9th, 2009 at 9:53pm
Most uses of radiation and radioisotopes emerge as spin off from the field of atomic energy. Many of these are unique. A few of them are indispensable. Medically needed radiation procedures save lives.
Currently, cancer hospitals diagnose about 800,000 new cancer cases annually. About two thirds of them need some form of radiation therapy. Using the technology developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), a private company fabricates cobalt-60 teletherapy unit appropriately named Bhabhatron; it is cheaper than the corresponding imported equipment. India supplied Bhabhatron II, an advanced unit to Vietnam under an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Board of Research in Isotope Technology (BRIT) supplies 10 to 15 high intensity cobalt-60 sources to cancer hospitals annually for use in cobalt-60 teletherapy units which are the highly reliable work-horses to treat many forms of cancer in hundreds of thousands of patients nationwide.
Manual after-loading system fabricated by BRIT uses indigenously prepared caesium-137 tubes to treat uterus cancer. Radiation oncologists use Iridium-192 in the form of wires to treat breast cancer. Immuno deficient or Immuno-compromised patients cannot be given normal blood transfusion. They may suffer a serious condition called post-transfusion graft-versus-host-disease. The only way to avoid this condition is by eliminating the T-lymphocytes from the donor’s blood by exposing the blood to low dose irradiation before transfusion. BRIT has developed irradiators for this purpose and supplied 18 of them to various hospitals at Rs. 3 million per piece which is twice cheaper than an imported unit.
BRIT also periodically supplies technitium-99m, a radioisotope useful in 80% of diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. Its popularity increased as it became available in portable generators. The Regional Centers for Radiopharmaceuticals (RCR) at Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Dibrugarh extend life saving nuclear medicine services to thousand of patients; the RCR at Dibrugarh serves more than ten thousand patients per year.
Diagnostic radio-pharmaceuticals help to study static and dynamic functioning of various organs in the body. Specialists can image the organ by detecting the gamma radiation emitted from the radio-pharmaceuticals accumulated in
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