Heart disease or cardiovascular events are the main cause of death (as well as morbidity) and medical emergencies during long international flights and during international travel. During travel heart patients need extra caution as they are more prone to suffer from complication. As the saying goes “prevention is better than cure”, the heart patient should take some extra precautions to prevent any heart problem.
To do’s for heart patient during in-flight as well as during travel: Extra supplies of all the medications used for heart trouble should be kept in carry-on luggage. Along with medications a copy of a recent ECG (electrocardiogram) and the name and telephone number of the traveler’s physician at home should be kept. If heart patient is using pacemaker, these are not affected by airport security devices. Electronic telephone checks of pacemaker function cannot be transmitted by international satellites during flight, which may sometimes (rarely) give trouble to the heart patient who is traveling.
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Mental health or psychiatric health is an important aspect of health. Without sound mental health, an individual can not be considered as healthy. According to the World Health Organization definition of “health” also if a person is healthy, he/she need to be in a sound state of mental health. If anyone need advice and counseling for mental health, to get the information you need to surf the net and get any information you need online.
More than two third of adult population in many developed nations get counseling by a psychiatrist (a psychologist by many people). The number and percentage of psychiatric counseling is only increasing day by day, due to stressful lifestyle we live in. Many of these counseling are depression counseling, to overcome and tackle depression. The situation is worsening day by day and psychiatrists are in great demand to solve the problems faced by many individuals.
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Constipation is one of the commonest cases a clinician or doctor comes across, especially in the developed countries. The main reason of exceedingly common occurrence of constipation in the developed countries is the consumption of less dietary fibers. Constipation is not as common in developing countries as it is in developed countries due to the food habit, which includes the whole grains and lots of vegetables and fruits in developing countries. Western diet is mainly include refined and processed foods with little if any fiber, which leads to constipation. The only permanent solution to chronic constipation in absence of any underlying serious pathophysiology, is to change lifestyle (regular aerobic physical activity) and food habit permanently.
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Diarrhea lasting for more than 4 weeks is considered as chronic diarrhea and need to be evaluated to exclude serious underlying pathology. Chronic diarrhea is one of the common cause of bad health state of many persons. In contrast to acute diarrhea, most of the causes of chronic diarrhea are generally noninfectious. The following are the causes of chronic diarrhea:
* Secretory causes of chronic diarrhea: Excessive use of stimulant laxatives, chronic ingestion of alcohol, certain drugs and toxins, endogenous laxatives like bile acids, idiopathic secretory diarrhea; bowel resection, disease, or fistula (reduced absorption), certain bacterial infections, Addison's disease, congenital electrolyte absorption defects, partial bowel obstruction which may be due to fecal impaction, hormone-producing tumors (carcinoid, medullary cancer of thyroid, mastocytosis, gastrinoma, colorectal villous adenoma) are the secretory causes of chronic diarrhea.
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Monavie is a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) company, which produce and distribute nutritional beverage. The nutritional beverages of Monavie are produced from blended fruit juice concentrates and some of the products are with freeze-dried acai berry powder. The company was founded in the year 2003 to market and distribute diet and weight loss supplement products. The MonaVie nutritional beverage was launched in the year 2005 as a MLM (Multi Level Marketing) company with main office of the company in th Salt Lake City, Utah in United States. MonaVie nutritional beverages are claimed to contain high concentration of antioxidants and thus have health benefits, but there is controversy over the claim of health benefits of Monavie nutritional beverages. Many organizations and individuals have questioned the legality of health benefit claims of Monavie nutritional beverages.
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The causes of unintentional weight loss are many and in most of the cases of weight loss the cause can be found by careful physical examination and some direct investigations or testing. But in approximately 20%-25% of the cases of weight loss the cause can not be found despite extensive testing and in general their survival is much better than those individuals for whom the cause can be found.
The causes of weight loss are different in elderly and for the young adults. For the elderly the common causes of unintentional weight loss are depression, cancer and gastrointestinal pathology and for young adults the common causes of unintentional weight loss are diabetes, eating disorders and other psychiatric illnesses, hyperthyroidism and infections like HIV. The causes of unintentional weight loss are also different in males and females (in young adult females anorexia nervosa can be a leading cause of unintentional weight loss).
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Weight loss of more than 5% (five percent) of body weight without an intention in less than one year time can be called unintentional weight loss and it can be a signal to a serious underlying pathology and underlying systemic disease. It is advisable for general physicians to investigate to find out the cause of weight loss of more than 5% in 6-12 months period. Weight loss should not be ignored if it is not intentional, as it may be due to serious medical problem and early diagnosis of the underlying disease can be managed better if diagnosed in time and as early as possible.
Despite significant variation in the quantity of food and calorie intake as well as highly variable physical activity or consumption of calories, normal human beings generally able to maintain bodyweight surprisingly without much fluctuation.
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Colon cleansing is part of alternative medicine and covers broad areas of removing toxins (that are not clearly identified) from gastrointestinal tract and removal of fecal waste from GIT. Colon cleansing is also sometimes called colon hydrotherapy, as it uses colonic irrigation with enema. But colon cleansing is also done with oral therapy. Generally herbs of medicinal value are added to the water which is used as enema for purpose of cleansing the gastrointestinal tract of toxins (can be called detoxification) and fecal waste.
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Diagnosis of the cause of indigestion may pose a problem. Proper history (a thorough interview) with a thorough physical examination may be essential for diagnosis of indigestion. Most of the cases of indigestion are generally due to GERD and functional dyspepsia. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) produces heartburn, that is exacerbated by meals and may even awaken the patient in the night. Individuals with functional dyspepsia have epigastric pain as the main symptom.
As most of the cases of indigestion are due to gastroesophageal reflux disease and functional dyspepsia, the general principle of diagnostic testing are directed at diagnosing gastroesophageal reflux disease and functional dyspepsia.
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Diet is an important factor for maintenance of optimal health of every individual. Without a healthy balanced diet it is not possible to maintain health. The major constituents of diet are proteins (the building blocks of life), fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The first three are essentially for providing energy, growth & development, for providing fat stores to withstand short lean periods. The vitamins and minerals are also essential for maintaining good health. Vitamins and minerals in many cases act as cofactor in different important reaction for maintenance of optimal health.
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