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MEASLES: IS NOT JUST A LITTLE RASH, IT CAN BE FATAL

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This weather is a tempting environment for many diseases like chicken pox, hay fever, asthma, typhoid etc. etc. And measles is one these opportunistic unwanted guests which keep an eye on your home (body) to hold you in its embrace but sadly won’t love you. Yes, this creepy undesired disease can leach your immunity to the extent that you feel helpless to kick it off your home (body). Not only it will target your drawing hall (skin) but if not removed from the home (body) on time, it can enter your bedroom (brain) and can harm you badly and leave you with many scars (complications).  Courtesy: Internet So today I will tell you how, why and when it attacks you and how to prevent yourself from its complications. And yes what homeopathy can offer you in this disease. Measles is a highly infectious acute viral (paramyxovirus family) disease found to be common among children; however it can catch adults as well who are immuno-compromised or never had previous confront....

ANYONE CAN GET TUBERCULOSIS (TB); DON’T HIDE, ACT RIGHT

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Reproduced from internet Whenever I doubt patient of chronic cough if I inquire whether he had any history of TB, he gets reluctant to answer. Many doctors face this situation and find difficulty in getting the information. TB has always been a taboo in our society and accepting having the disease brings on resistance from society.   Even after rigorous efforts of World Health Organization (WHO) that memorializes each year World TB Day on March 24 to raise awareness about the consequence of tuberculosis (TB) on health, poor response from masses is observed. Due to social stigma, delayed reporting, not realizing that anyone can get it or for any other reason treatment is delayed, its outcome can be worst to deadly. Certainly despite significant efforts over the last years this deadly disease continues to claim over 4500 lives a day . Anyone Can Get TB TB disease spreads from person to person through air. It is thought that it is a disease of poor...

HOW YOU CAN PREVENT YOURSELF FROM COMMON COLD

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The common cold is a viral infection of upper respiratory tract involving nose and throat. Though it is considered harmless it affects more than  10 million cases per year in India and 1 billion in the USA annually.   SYMPTOMS Person usually recovers in seven to ten days, but some symptoms may last up to three weeks. The duration or severity of symptoms can vary from person to person depending on immunity or other factors like smoking or person having weak immunity such as children, elders, pregnant, nursing mothers or having other health problems  especially those affecting respiratory system. The symptoms may include; ·   Runny (watery, thicker and yellow or green discharge) or     stuffy nose ·   Sneezing ·   Sore throat ·    Cough ·   B ody ache or headache ·   Low-grade fever (below 100.4 0 F) ·     Malaise (feeling unwell) ...