World Heart Day 2011

What Can I do to Avoid a Heart Attack or a Stroke?

Q: What can I do to avoid a heart attack or a stroke?

A: WHO estimates that more than 17.3 million people died of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack or stroke in 2008. Contrary to popular belief, four out of five of these deaths occurred in low– and middle–income countries, and men and women were equally affected.

The good news, however, is that 80% of premature heart attacks and strokes are preventable. Healthy diet, regular physical activity, and not using tobacco products are the keys to prevention.

Eat a healthy diet: 
A balanced diet is crucial to a healthy heart and circulation system. This should include plenty of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, fish and pulses, and restricted salt, sugar and fat intake intake.

Take regular physical activity: 
At least 30 minutes of regular physical activity every day helps to maintain cardiovascular fitness; at least 60 minutes on most days helps to maintain healthy weight.

Avoid tobacco use: 
Tobacco in every form is very harmful to health – cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or chewable tobacco. Exposure to second–hand tobacco smoke is also dangerous. The risk of heart attack and stroke starts to drop immediately after a person stops using tobacco products, and can drop by as much as half after one year.

Check and control your cardiovascular risk:

• Know your blood pressure:
  High blood pressure usually has no symptoms, but can cause a sudden stroke or heart attack. Have your blood pressure checked.
• Know your blood sugar:
  Raised blood glucose (diabetes) increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. If you have diabetes it is very important to control your blood pressure and blood sugar to minimize the risk.
• Know your blood lipids:
  Raised blood cholesterol and abnormal blood lipids increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Blood cholesterol needs to be controlled through a healthy diet and, if necessary, by appropriate medications.

Source: WHO

Dengue Bulletin

PARACETAMOL CAN PROVE

TOXIC IN DENGUE

Paracetamol should not be taken when you have dengue, because the therapeutic dose is very close to a toxic dose when you have dengue. Paracetamol is toxic to the liver, and since the dengue virus causes transitory hepatitis, using Paracetamol has caused sudden, severe, medicinally-induced hepatitis, which is believed to have caused some deaths. 

Source: http://www.naturalhealthstrategies.com/natural-treatment-dengue-interview.html

DENGUE BREAKOUT IN LUDHIANA

Dengue break out in Ludhiana, fresh cases in last 2 days reported....Be aware friends and take care of your family, loved ones and yourselves. Do follow preventive measures so as to fight collectively in terms of prevention and on time management. God bless !!!

Safety and Precautions for Prevention

The guidelines below will give you an overview of how you can prevent the Aedes mosquito from breeding.

-  Prevent Mosquito Breeding (Growth)

- Clear any stagnant water in your air cooler unit.

- Remove water in plant pot plates. Clean and scrub the plate thoroughly to remove mosquito eggs. Avoid the use of plant pot plates, if possible.

- Loosen soil from potted plants to prevent the accumulation of stagnant water on the surface of the hardened soil.

- No tray or receptacles should be placed beneath and or/ on top of any air-conditioning unit so as not to create a condition favorable for mosquito breeding.

- Change water in flower vases. Clean and scrub the inner sides of vases. Wash roots of flowers and plants thoroughly as mosquito eggs can stick to them easily.

- Clear fallen leaves and stagnant water in your scupper drains and garden. These leaves could collect water or cause blockages to the drains, thus resulting in the buildup of stagnant water.

- Discard items that collect rain or run-off water, especially old tyres. Keep containers outside the home and gutters dry.

- Insist that public-health officials safeguard your community by eliminating stagnant water sites in construction and wastewater treatment areas.

Precautions for Safety from Mosquito Bites

·    Sleep on a bed inside a mosquito net.

·  When outdoors, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants. Wear longer clothing that covers exposed skin in the arms and legs to thwart bites.

·   Apply insect repellants on skin. Use mosquito patches, sprays, or use high-tech gadgets such as the ultrasonic anti-mosquito repellant.

·    Warn children not to play near still water.

·    When available use air-conditioning. Attach screens to all windows and doors.

·    Avoid hanging clothes in dark corners as these serve as hiding places for mosquitoes.

Warnings !!!

·    Do not ignore mild symptoms of fever, body pains, and rashes on body or infections. Do 

     visit the nearby Physician to properly diagnose and treat the condition.

·   Self-medication or prescription of quacks (unregistered practitioners) / pharmacists is just like suicide in such cases because you never know which medicine is going to act in opposite direction in such cases like Aspirin can worsen Dengue patients condition very progressively. So always do visit a registered Medical Practitioner whenever you experience any symptoms.

·   Taking some home remedies, which is a fashion in Dengue season, like Juices of some fruits or some leaves or anything else is nowhere beneficial in Dengue. Only medicines can save a Dengue patient if intervened in time.

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NEWS DESK

Ambulatory BP Predicts Renal and CV Events

In a study of 436 patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis (mean age 65.1 years), ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measurements showed risk of both renal and cardiovascular (CV) events to be highest when daytime systolic BP was 135 mm Hg or higher, when diastolic BP was in the highest quintile, and when nighttime systolic BP was 124 mm Hg or higher. Nighttime diastolic BP of 70 mm Hg or higher was a predictor of CV events and end-stage renal disease. Office BP measurement were not predictive of CV or renal events, researchers reported in Archives of Internal Medicine (2011;171:1090-1098).

Persistent Hematuria in Kids Portends ESRD

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is more likely to develop in adolescents and young adults with persistent microscopic hematuria, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2011;306:729-736).

Over nearly 22 years of follow-up, treated ESRD developed in 26 of 3,690 (0.70%) persons aged 16 through 25 years who had been diagnosed with persistent asymptomatic isolated microscopic hematuria at baseline compared with 539 of 1,199,936 patients (0.045%) without such a diagnosis. In adjusted analyses, ESRD was 18.5 times more likely to develop in subjects with hematuria. The authors noted, however, that the incidence and absolute risk of ESRD remain quite low.

Source: Nephrology and Cardiology News Portal/2011/September

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