Healthcare News & Views
Have you noticed your child lose focus or attention and drift away mid discussion or activity? Has the frequency of his behavioral change increased? Do you notice him/her often lose interest in something very quickly, only to attach it to something else? 
Let’s not ignore these symptoms. There is a chance your child is suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Continue reading “How do You Tell If Your Child has ADHD?”
Attention to health of women has increased in the past decade. With increasing number of diseases and illnesses attributed to lifestyle changes and environmental causes, the need to adopt an ‘early diagnose, early treat’ approach has gained prominence. 
So from cancer to HIV, and from depression to maternal health, here are top 11 health issues that every woman in India should be aware of. Continue reading “Top 11 Health Issues Indian Women Should Know About”
A special research published in JAMA Pediatrics, which was conducted by Dr. Jacques Montplaisir and fellow associates, determines a possible connection between childhood sleepwalking or sleep terrors and parental history of sleepwalking. This exposes the supposed genetic link associated with the disorder.
Continue reading “Sleepwalkers Could Produce Sleepwalking Offspring”
Nightfall, also known by other names viz. wet dreams and nocturnal emission, is not a rare condition as it occurs at some point of time or the other in one’s life. Men are the most common sufferers and are usually embarrassed to discuss about it with their parents or peers; however, it needs to be dealt with.
Continue reading “Lift Yourself Up from Nightfall: Home Remedies for Wet Dreams”
If the last time you let your anger get better of you and it took you by surprise, you need to take a more serious look at the problem. If you’ve raised your voice more than once at a dinner party, punched a wall after a fight, stormed out of a room in anger or more importantly, felt the increasing urge to do any of the aforementioned things, you’re probably angrier than you think you are.
Anger and anxiety are problems that can easily go undiagnosed and untreated. The issues may be boiling under layers of denial and ignorance years before they finally burst out. The more serious worry though is that people may not even be aware that they may be suffering from serious anger issues.
Even if you think you have your anger in control, here are some things you probably didn’t know your anger could lead to. No matter in what stage you think you are, inadvertently your anger is taking control of you with every temper tantrum. There is a list of scary and serious effects of anger including, mild to severe headaches, digestion problems, such as abdominal pain, stomach uneasiness, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure and skin problems. If you’ve been battling with anger for a while, you must have also been warned against the high level of stress it causes you, the risk to your heart .
To get you acclimatized to your issues, you need to identify your problem. Here are some quick pointers:
Notice your behavior carefully for a week. If you think your problem is not chronic, or not as serious, be vigilant with yourself. The next time you get angry, make a mental note. If your anger episodes are occurring more frequently than you thought, Houston, we have a problem.
Here’s the tricky part. Even if you’ve not yelled at the cashier, packed a punch at the punks who ticked you off or raised your voice in anger, you may still want to take a closer look at yourself. You may be repressing anger by keeping it bottled up. It is just harmful as aggressive anger, possibly even unhealthier.
Usually when a person gets angry, the body reacts to that anger. If a colleague is inefficient, your employees have walked in late or your spouse is driving you up the wall, your body will react first. That pain in your neck will start acting up, your joints will probably call for attention or the throbbing pain in your temple will return. This is your body telling you that a storm is coming.
Once you’ve identified your issues, try and figure out if it is only one problem you’re stresses about or many. If it’s a one-situation only anger, then it is slightly easier to handle. For instance, if only work-related issues stress you out, then the problem is at work, and not at home. If this is not the case though and the problem is your temper and not the environment, then you need to work on yourself.
The point of the matter is, don’t take your anger lightly. If not today, a year or five later, you will be left facing either physical or mental consequences of your anger. Treat it now when you can. Here are some simple DIY anger management tips:
A visit to a doctor is probably the smartest thing you will do all day. Not only will you know how serious your problem is, a therapist might help subdue the problem before it gets worse.
If you see the familiar symptoms of the imminent anger outburst, excuse yourself and walk away. Find an activity that will help you cool off. Take a walk or go for a run. Go talk to a more friendly voice or put on your favourite music playlist. Change the mood and return when you feel calmer.
You can be better than that. If you’ve already realised you have no patience for incompetent drivers on the road, or your child’s messy bedroom, don’t return to the same issue. Accept some inevitable life truths, and try moving on from the small stuff.
Distraction is the key here. People who have anger issues usually hate the Hulk monster they become once they turn green. So add an aspect to your personality that you really enjoy. Take up cooking, music or sports. Become a cinephile for a month. Change your activity monthly.The important positive to remember here is the amount of advancement medicine has made in terms of mental health. So today you have therapists, pain relievers and medication to help you pull through. The equipment is ready, so it’s now time to let go and breathe easy.
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) aka coronary artery disease (CAD) has been ranked as the number one disease alongside lung disorders to cause the most number of deaths in India. But, what more disinteresting (for short people maybe) about this disease is the latest news published in New England Journal of Medicine about a scientific study by UK’s University of Leicester. It revealed that short heighted people are more likely to get exposed to the risk of ischemic heart disease.
Continue reading “Could Short People be at High Risk of Coronary Artery Disease?”
Sinusitis is an indication of unhealed allergy or cold symptoms that have reached to a severe state. Usually, acute sinusitis, just as common cold, prevails for 7-10 days. Conversely, chronic sinusitis develops when the same condition goes longer than 8 days or so. Relatively, the treatment also changes. Sinusitis is nothing but infection caused near the nasal passages, sinuses, or cavities.
To get relief from your blocked or infected sinuses, try these operative treatments.
Continue reading “How Can I Save my Sinuses from Sinusitis?”
Tuberculosis (TB) is mostly detected in the lungs, which is called pulmonary TB. The gradually developing bacteria causing the infection are studied to thrive in areas where oxygen and blood are in abundance. However, the infection could spread to other areas as well. While the treatment could last from 6 to 9 months, there have been cases where patients had to undertake a 2 year long treatment.
Continue reading “WHO Announced India as the Highest ‘Tuberculosis’ Burden Land”
Glaucoma can be the worst nightmare for anyone as blindness could be no less than a curse which makes you to depend on others for completing ordinary routine tasks for the rest of your life. According to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), there are 12 million Indians suffering from the visual condition at present. Furthermore, you will be shocked to know that 50% of the population in India doesn’t even know that they have the condition. This is an eye-opener for all of us and demands to acquire satisfactory enlightenment about the eye condition.
Continue reading “Half of Indian Eyes Could be Suffering from Glaucoma”
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible dementia where the brain is unable to transmit signals properly due to the death of the brain’s nerve cells. Its symptoms usually include forgetfulness, abstract thinking, poor judgment, communication problem, impaired memory, and confusion.
