Showing posts with label Medical treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical treatment. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2010

What Is Hypoglycemia? What Are The Causes Of Hypoglycemia?

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Hypoglycemia is below normal level of glucose in blood of human. Hypoglycemia is increasingly common in people with diabetes. Hypoglycemia can occur at any age group due to many reasons. The treatment for hypoglycemia is to raising blood Sugar level to normal level.

Symptoms of Hypoglycemia hinges on how low in level of blood sugar of patient drops.
Most common symptoms are narrated below.

  •   Nervousness
  •   Vomiting
  •   Headache, Sweating,
  •   Palpitation
  •   paralysis
  •   Depression, anxiety, trouble in speaking
  •   Heavy breathing, coma
Common causes of Hypoglycemia are mentioned below and Treatment of hypoglycemia
  •   Diabetes
  •   Metabolic problems
  •   Genetic inheritance  
  •   starvation of food
  •   Problems caused by surgery
  •   Side effects of certain drugs
  •   aged patient with  fairly long illness.
  •   Disease of certain body organs.
Treatment is focused on immediate raising patient’s level of blood sugar to normal level. Patient with hypoglycemia must have to take food or juice added with sugar. Consumption of more sugar is important in raising blood sugar level. Consuming glucose tablets and drink plenty of juices from fruits are advisable.
 Mild hypoglycemia is not risky although severe hypoglycemia is very risky disease and it is advisable to hospitalize patient with severe hypoglycemia immediately and strictly adhere to medicine advised by medical professional.



Author-N.B.V







Monday, September 27, 2010

WHAT IS AGORAPHOBIA, WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF AGORAPHOBIA AND WHAT ARE THE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO CURE THIS DISEASE?


Phobia is intense fear of some situation; object or place.Agoraphobia is fear of visiting to public places. It is the worst kind of phobia that makes patient mentally handicapped.


What exactly is Agoraphobia?
Agoraphobia is extreme fear of visiting market place.
Generally Patient with Agoraphobia has fear of Visiting following places.
·         Shopping market                                                           
·         Cinema theater
·         Sea shore
·         Tunnel
·         Bridge
·         Social gatherings, such as marriages, events, parties etc
·         Transportation
·         Air planes
·         Elevators
·         Patient feels an intense PHOBIC feeling and panic attacks while visiting public places. Patient cannot face this overwhelming 
      Feeling of fear or embarrassment.Patient readily escape from public places like there is no tomorrow.

Causes of agoraphobia:
·         Genetic inheritance may be main contributing factor
·         Severe Anxiety syndrome and worsened panic disorder may induce panic attacks. This situation makes patient more venerable to agoraphobia.
·         Feeling of loneliness
·         Feeling of helplessness. Patient has the extreme fear filling that he will not face either certain circumstances, or situation. This mentality makes patient fearful, depressed and agoraphobic.
·         Nervous personality of person makes him hopelessly fearful.

Symptoms of agoraphobia 
  Agoraphobia causes symptoms, similar to panic attack and severe anxiety disorder.
  These symptoms are mentioned below.

§  Loss of breath
§  Palpitation-increase heart rate
§  perspiration while visiting public places
§  Patient has hard feeling of loose his self control whiles visiting public places.
§  He will afraid of facing certain situation.
§  Trembling while facing certain object, place or situation.

Medical Treatment of Agoraphobia:
·         Anti depressants
·         anti anxiety medicines
Medical supervised treatment will help patient to recover from worsened condition.
Bold approach:
Agoraphobic patient has fear of visiting public places.
Gradually exposing agoraphobic patient to place which he fears, is the best therapy.
Apply this technique frequently.
After repeatedly facing feared situation, Patient will realizes his senseless fear.

Yoga, meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy
These therapies are helpful to relax patient, provided proper guidance of experts are available.