Health Education

Overweight and Obesity in Adults

Obesity is a condition with an excessive accumulation of fat in the body. Body Mass Index or BMI is a rough guide to ascertain whether a person is obese or not. BMI is the ratio of a person’s weight (in kilograms) to the square of his or her height (in meters). A person with BMI of 30 or above is considered as obese whereas one with a BMI between 25 to 30 is considered to be overweight

Micro-needling in Skin Conditions

Microneedling is the name of a procedure that is carried out to stimulate remodeling of skin layers with the use of a device known as Dermapen. The procedure involves insertion of automatically controlled multiple vibrating needles into the skin to induce natural regeneration of skin components for wrinkle improvement, skin tightening, reduction in pore size, and improvement of stretch marks. Therefore, this basically is a technique by which body’s innate ability to repair skin through the production of collagen is utilized.

Finding a Right Doctor for You

Finding the right doctor for oneself or one’s family can be a daunting task especially when the need arise suddenly. Nevertheless, it is an exercise that pays rich dividends in the form of confidence, appropriate attention, and good health. Therefore, our first suggestion to readers is to engage in this exercise at the earliest. There is no single formula that can help achieve this objective for everyone as people have different needs, options, and priorities based upon myriad factors.

Excessive Hair Loss from the Scalp

Excessive hair loss from the scalp is an extremely common condition. We either experience it ourselves or hear about this condition someone who is close to us. This happens to be the case far more frequently than any other hair problem.

Wrinkles Treatment

With every passing year, the skin continues to get thinner and less elastic which shows up as increased the lines and furrows on its surface known as wrinkles. Eventually every one of us is going to get wrinkles. However it is possible to prevent and treat wrinkles using modalities that are much less cumbersome, safe, effective, and are research based

Scabies

Scabies is an itchy condition of the skin, seen in human beings, caused by a small organism with itching of various grades getting more intense in the late evenings and night. It infectious and close contact is the commonest mode by which it spreads from one person to another.

Pimples

The cause of pimples is a hormone-based blockage of skin pores and tiny pipes leading to them through which skin secretions escape on to the surface. This blockage causes swelling of target skin glands with bacterial growth and pus formation.

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a slowly progressive set of behavioural and clinical features that include dementia and may or may not include forgetfulness, difficulty in problem solving, declining decision making capability, change in mood or behaviour, and ability to reason. Though Alzheimer’s is a disease of the elderly, but an early onset variant too is known to occur.

Head Lice

Head lice (lice is the plural of louse) is one of the commonest parasitic infestations involving infection of hairy areas (usually scalp) with the adult mites and their eggs leading to varying degrees of skin and hair changes

Diabetes and Skin care

Diabetes or “sugar” manifests itself in myriad presentations. Surprisingly enough, it is one of those diseases that happen to be diagnosed accidentally as the affected individual is more likely to have approached healthcare provider for a seemingly different reason. Since our skin is highly sensitive to changes in blood sugar levels, it very often gets involved in diabetes. There is research based evidence to prove that 30-70% of diabetics develop skin problems. That explains why it is so important to pay attention to the skin for diabetics or those at risk. The sensitivity of skin ranges from subtle to established changes which can precede or accompany raised blood sugar levels.

Hypertension

Hypertension is one of the commonest diseases in which there is an excess pressure exerted by the flowing blood against the walls of vessels which exceeds desirable levels. Hypertension can have no symptoms for long periods of time thereby silently damaging susceptible organs

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation) CPR is an emergency combination akin to making available an artificial heart and lungs to a person so desperately in need of them that he or she may lose life for want of it. CPR comprises of techniques designed to be carried out by a person without any healthcare background as you never know when you may be called upon to save a life.

Anaemia

A common condition of blood insufficient oxygenation that affects millions worldwide, sometimes without their knowledge

Quitting Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the commonest substances that cause dependence that is in use in vast geographical regions of the world. Apart from its intoxicating and dependence causing effects, alcohol is directly responsible for adverse events related to health, marital discord, social interactions, crime, road safety, and longevity

Aging related Health Issues

Ageing is a natural and physiological set of processes characterized by a gradual decline in the structural and functional capabilities of an individual with the passage of time

Breastfeeding of Infants and Young Children

Breastfeeding of infants and young children is a moral, natural, and unique function that women engage with their infants and young children with unparalleled advantages for themselves, their recipients, communities, and the humanity.

Influenza

Influenza is a viral disease with global distribution and is characterized by sudden onset of fever, malaise, joint pains, running nose, and infection of the throat, nasal passages, respiratory passages, and the lungs

Quitting Smoking

Tobacco smoking has been, and still is, a major cause for disease and death among human beings. It is responsible for every fifth death in America. The number of deaths caused collectively by drugs, HIV, motor vehicles accidents, alcohol, and firearm accidents, all combined, are still less as compared to the number of deaths due to tobacco smoking. No human organ is immune to the adverse impacts of tobacco smoke. It is indeed shocking that the menace of tobacco smoking is on the rise. According to 2012 data, nearly one billion people were daily smokers as against just 721million in 1980. Nearly 6 million deaths due to tobacco smoking are reported every year and this figure is rising every year. It is estimated that in the next 15 years tobacco smoking related deaths could touch the 8 million mark.

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is an incurable long-running disease primarily affecting skin, and sometimes joints and nails in addition or in isolation that results in red scaly patches wherein skin is involved. Some patients have localized lesions confined to palms and soles, or only nails and or joints

Adolescent Health

Adolescents are the individuals between the ages of 10 and 19. This period of one’s life is a transitional phase with a strong bearing upon one’s current and future health.

Retinoids for External Use

We recommend use of Tretinoin as it is an established and effective treatment option for pimples and certain other disorders. The drug is approved by the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) of the USA. It is widely used for the treatment of wrinkles, pimples, enlarged skin pores, and skin blemishes across the globe.

Ring worm

This is an infective condition of the skin that is caused by fungus which has tendency to grow fast in the hot, humid regions of the body.

Oral Lichen Planus (OLP)

Lichen Planus is a condition in which the defect lies in the body’s defense mechanism, causing damage to the inner lining of mouth. This condition can be precipitated by an allergy to dental materials, oral products, bad oral hygiene, certain medicines (Aspirin type compounds, Sulfonamides, antimalarial drugs, Beta Blockers, or ACE inhibitors that are use for the control of high blood pressure).

Improving Access to Healthcare

Access to healthcare is not easy for everyone. Such an access can be readily available for some while for others it may be difficult to extremely difficult or sometimes even unavailable due to several factors

Physical Activity

Physical activity is movement of body muscles accompanied by burning of calories. Physical activity is so important for normal health that a modest regular physical activity has the potential to check overweight, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, fractures, cancers, and depression.


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