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What type of Diet should be taken in Hypertension
In deciding the diet as part of management of high blood pressure for better patients’ health, it is important to know what food items to be taken as well as what food items to be avoided. To decide what diet to take and what diet to avoid, the knowledge about nutrition and diet is essential. But the basic principle of hypertensive diet is restriction of sodium and fat (mainly unsaturated fatty acids, which are found in fats of animal origin) intake and to consume adequate amount of vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers, antioxidants (all these can be found in fresh fruits and vegetables) etc.
The main aim of hypertensive diet is to provide adequate nutrition for maintenance of good patients’ health (if possible optimal health) and to help in controlling blood pressure to within normal limit. As diet plays a major role in causation of hypertension, it is wise to have diet which is beneficial in hypertension.
Preferred foods in hypertension (high blood pressure):
The foods which are preferred in high blood pressure generally have low sodium content and have high potassium content. Com
Know about Cell Phone Elbow
While surfing the net I came across a term called “cell phone elbow”. Frankly I have heard terms such as tennis elbow, but cell phone elbow I have never heard before. So I decided to find more details about the disease and found it to be actually “cubital tunnel syndrome” in medical term. I thought I should write some information regarding cell phone elbow (and why it is called so) or cubital tunnel syndrome, as cell phone use is so common these days.
Cell phone elbow is the second most common nerve compression syndrome in upper extremities, after carpal tunnel syndrome. The disease commonly occurs among users of cell phones, especially for long duration. During talking, when a cell phone user holds the phone to their ears they stretch a nerve (the ulnar nerve) which provides nerve supply to smaller fingers (ring finger and little fingers of hands). If the
What are the Symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anemia?
Anemia is low (lower than normal) hemoglobin level in blood. Iron deficiency anemia is one of the common forms of anemia, especially in the developing countries where number of causes of iron deficiency anemia exists. In the developed countries iron deficiency anemia is less commonly seen and the causes of iron deficiency in developing countries differ from that of developed countries. Iron deficiency anemia occurs due to lack of adequate number of mature and healthy red cells due to deficient iron. Red blood cells (hemoglobin present in red blood cells) are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues. If there is inadequate number of mature (healthy) red cells the oxygenation of tissues suffer and the patient suffering from iron deficiency anemia become weak, and easily get tired.
Iron deficiency anemia occurs due to deficiency of iron (as the name suggests) and due insufficient iron there is less hemoglobin in the red blood cells and as a result the tissue (including heart) oxygenation suffers and the patient become weak, pale and easily fatigued.
What are the symptoms of iron deficiency anemia?
What are the Signs and Symptoms of Addison’s disease?
Addison’s disease has number of symptoms (what patient complains about his/her medical condition) and signs (what the doctor elicit by examining the patient). The symptoms of Addison’s disease includes headache, light headedness, fatigue, muscle weakness, difficulty in standing, joint pain, muscle pain, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, anxiety, change in personality and mood.
The clinical signs of Addison’s disease include low blood pressure (hypotension) and orthostatic hypotension (blood pressure fall on standing from sitting position). Hyper-pigmentation (pigment deposition in skin and darkening of skin as a result) of skin, even in the areas of skin not exposed to sun. The common areas where darkening of skin occurs are creases of hands, buccal mucosa, nipple etc. Hyper-pigmentation of skin occurs in primary form of Addison’s disease and not in other forms (secondary or tertiary). In long
Diagnosis of Kidney Stones
Diagnosis of kidney stone is suspected clinically when there is pain in abdomen in the area where the kidneys are located. Nature of pain is also suggestive of the disease, such as spasmodic colicky type of pain which comes in waves and goes away. When there is pain in the back, it indicates that the kidney stone may have obstructed the outflow of urine from kidney.
The diagnosis of kidney stone is based on imaging studies. There are several other tests, which may be useful in finding out the cause of the kidney stone. For diagnosis of kidney stones X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan (computed tomography) etc. are done.
Conventional/traditional X-rays can detect most kidney stones, as they have high concentration of calcium (approximately 10% of kidney stones can not be detected by normal X-ray due to low calcium content), which make them radio-opaque. Usually KUB (kidneys, ureters and bladder) X-ray is done.
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