How to ease Mouth Ulcers ?

In this fast moving world, where there is no time to give ourself

some of the common problems always arise, in our life. One of the common is mouth ulcers. Here are some tips to ease-

• Gargle with a solution made from salt mixed in warm water. A saline mixture has a sterlising effect on mouth blisters and sores.
• Avoid caffeinated drinks and hot foods that contain sodium or spices.
• Rubbing garlic directly to the ulcers also helps. It may sting initially, but the ulcers will be gone soon.
• Add a tsp of honey to a glass of wter and use it to gargle or gargle with coconut oil.
• Mouth ulcers can be result of a lack of vitamin c. drink plenty of orange juice or take a supplement.
• Raw onions are good for ulcers as they contain sulphur. munch them alone or eat with salads.
• Take a glass of chilled water and one glass of hot water and gargle alternately with both.

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Quit, Quit and Quit Smoking

You want to quit smoking. You have promised to quit smoking. But for some reason you haven't been able to quit smoking. Why is it so hard ? You are not alone

• 70 % of somkers want to quit. Millions of people each year try to quit smoking but fail.
• Most smokers make multiple attempts to quit before being successful.

Do You Stop and Start and Stop and Start

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, and it plays a lot lot of impact on your health. Some consequences of smoking are-

• Every 6.5 seconds, someone dies from diseases related to tobaco use.
• Worlwide, smoking cause nearly 5 million deaths every year.
• Half of all smokers who begin to smoke as teenagers can be expected to die from tobaco use.
• Fatal heart attacks are 4 times more common in young men who smoke than in those who dont smoke
• 1 out of every 3 cancer deaths is related to smoking.

The early and long term benfits of quitting is good for health. you all know that cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemicals, some of which are known to cause cancer.. The good news is that after quitting can reverse the efffects of smoking.

After Quitting

• 20 minutes: heart rate begins to normalize.
• 12 hours: Carbon Monoxide levels drops to normal.
• 2 weeks to 3 months: Circulation can improve, lungs can work better.
• 1 to 9 months : Shortness of breath and coughing can decrease, lungs can increase ability to handle mucus and reduce the risk of infection.
• 1 year: risk of heart disease falls to half that for someone who continues smoking.
• 5 years: Risk of stroke is sharply decreased.
• 10 years: Risk of lung cancer falls to half that for someone who continues to smoke.
• 15 years: risk of heart disease becomes the same as for someone who has never smoked.

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Amazing Human facts

Some of the most amazing human facts.

• The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
• About 10% of the world population is left handed.
• While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
• In one square inch of skin, there are four yards of nerve fibres, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells and 3 yards of blood vessels.
• One human brains generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephone.
• A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over their lifetime.
• Most people have lost fifty percent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.
• If you could save all the time your eyes blink in one lifetime and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years.

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Know About Thalassemia

Thalassemias are hereditary disorders characterized by defective production of haemoglobin. This leads to low production and excessive destruction of red blood cells. About 100,000 babies worldwide with severe forms of the disease each year, of about 8000- 10,000 are in India alone.

How is the disease transmitted ?

All forms of thalassemia are transmitted only through heredity. It cannot be caught from another child who as it. The disease is passed on through parents who carry the thalassemia gene, but do not suffer from it. When two carriers become parents, there is a 25% of their child having a severe form of disease(thalassemia major). There is 50% chance that the child will become a carrier like its parents(thalassemia minor) and 25% chance that the child will be completely free of the disease or carrier state.

How does thalassemia affect a child ?

Most of the children with thalassemia appear to be healthy at birth. But during the first year or second year life they become pale, listless and fussy, have a poor appetite and grow slowly. Without treatment, the spleen, liver and heart soon become greatly enlarged. bones becomes thin and brittle, face becomes distorted. Heart failure is the leading causes of death among children with untreated thalassemia major.

What is the treatment ?

The use of frequent blood transfusion every 3 to 4 weeks, is the only treatment of thalssemia major.. The repeated blood transfusions lead to a buildup of iron in the body which can damage the heart, liver and other organs. An iron binding agent can help to rid the body of excess iron but its expensive treatment with a lot of complications. Children with thalassemia major who are treated with frequent blood transfusions and iron chelation live to 20 to 30 years rarely. Thalassemia has been cured using bone marrow transplants.. This form of treatment is available for a small minority of patients who have a suiatable bone marrow donor.

Test for Thalasemia Blood tests can show whether an individual has thalassemia or is a carrier. Early diagonsis is important so that treatment can prevent as many complications as possible.

The disease can be prevented by a program of health education, testing of carriers, genetic counselling and avoiding marriage between two carrier individuals to help them have healthy children.

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Podiatry Foot Care

What is Podiatry ? Podiatry is a field of medicine that strives to improve overall health and well being of patients by focussing on preventing, diagonising and treating conditions associated with foot and ankle.
Why is Podiatry (footcare) important ?
As everyone knows that feet are very important in our movement, when we have any injury in our feet we know that its how difficult to walk.
Few facts about Feet:

• Diabetic foot is one of the common causes of hospital admission in diabetics.
• Diabetes is leading cause of Non Traumatic lower foot amputation.
• In India alone there are 40,000 Diabetic Foot amputation in a year.
• More than 50% of diabetic amputations can be avoided by good foot care.

What does a Podiatrist ( Foot Care specialist) do ?

A Podiatrist takes care of foot related problems in a clinic or in a hospital.

• Simple heel pain or foot pain.
• Nail problems like fungal infection of nails and in grown toe nails.
• Infections of feet like Atheletes Foot.
• Corns, Callouses and Planter warts.
• Flat feet, high Arch feet, Bunion deformaties and hammer toes for which advice is given.

If you are Diabetic when to see Podiatrist:

• If there is no complain see the Podiatrist once in a year.
• If there is numbness once in a six month.
• Neuropathy with fungal infection in nails once in three months.
• If there is any ulcer see the podiatrist atleast once in a week.

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