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24/09/2024

24/09/2024

CHOLERA

Cholera is a bacterial disease that is usually spread through contaminated water, cholera causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, left untreated cholera can be fatal within hours.
Also cholera takes 12 hours and 5 days for a person to show symptoms after consuming contaminated water or food.
It affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if left untreated.
The Bacterium that causes cholera is VIBRIO CHOLERA

SYMPTOMS OF CHOLERA

Diarrhea
Nausea and vomiting
Dehydration
Muscle cramps
Shock
Dry mouth
Low blood pressure
Irregular heartbeat
Sunken eyes

HOW IT IS SPREAD

Cholera bacteria is passed through f***s
It is spread by eating, drinking food or water that is contaminated by the f***s of an infected person.

PREVENTION

Wash your hands with soap and water frequently
Drink only safe water
Eat food that's completely cooked and hot
Avoid raw or under cooked seafood
Stick to fruits and vegetables that you can peel your self eg bananas, orange, avocado etc

TREATMENT

ORS(oral rehydration salt)
Intravenous fluid
Antibiotics
Zinc supplement

07/09/2024

HEALTH BENEFITS ON VEGETABLES
Vegetables are full of essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that provide many important health benefits to your body. For instance, carrots are known for being very high in vitamin A, which plays an important role in eye health, as you grow older.

Vegetables also offer many other health benefits like:

Improved Digestive Health

Vegetables are a good source of dietary fiber, a type of carbohydrate that helps pass food through your digestive system. Studies show that fiber may also improve vitamin and mineral absorption in the body, which could potentially raise your daily energy levels.

07/09/2024

KEY FACTS ABOUT FOLIC ACID
Most adults and children can take folic acid.
If you're pregnant or trying to get pregnant, it's recommended you take folic acid until you're 12 weeks pregnant. It helps your baby grow normally.
You're unlikely to get side effects with folic acid, but some people feel sick, lose their appetite, get wind or feel bloated. These side effects are usually mild and do not last long.
It's best not to drink alcohol while taking folic acid, as it can stop your folic acid from working as well.

07/09/2024

Folic acid is the synthetic version of the vitamin folate, also known as vitamin B9.

Folate helps the body make healthy red blood cells and is found in certain foods.

Folic acid is used to:

treat or prevent folate deficiency anaemia
help your baby's brain, skull and spinal cord develop properly in pregnancy, to avoid development problems (called neural tube defects) such as spina bifida
help reduce side effects from methotrexate, a medicine used to treat severe arthritis, Crohn's disease or psoriasis
Folic acid is available on prescription. It comes as tablets or as a liquid you swallow.

You can also buy lower dose tablets from pharmacies and supermarkets.

Folic acid can also be combined with:

ferrous fumarate and ferrous sulphate, to treat iron deficiency anaemia
other vitamins and minerals, as a multivitamin and mineral supplemen

14/07/2024

HYPERTENSION

hypertension is a condition where the pressure of the blood is raised above normal. Blood pressure varies and increases with age and it can be affected by the lifestyle.

WHAT CAUSES HYPERTENSION

Blood pressure is typically recorded as two numbers

The Systolic pressure ( As the heartbeat)over The diastolic pressure (as the heart relaxes between beats).

The normal values are 120/80 values between 120-130/80-90 are higher than 140/90 are termed hypertension..

Medical Conditions which can cause hypertension include KIDNEY DISEASE, OBESITY.

An increase in blood pressure does not usually cause any noticeable symptoms, severely elevated pressure may result in

*Headache

*Increase in heart rate.(palpitations)

*General feeling of tiredness

*Ill health.

Blood pressure is affected by the force with which the heart pumps blood ,each antihypertensive drugs works in different way to reduce pressure.

Anti hypertensive drug do not cure hypertension but can reduce blood pressure and control the conditions.

Treatment relieves

*Headache

*Palpitations

RISK FACTORS

*Age (Risk becomes higher in the elderly)

* Family history of hypertension

*Gender (Risk is higher in men than women)

* Stress

*Diabetes

*Smoking

*Obesity

COMPLICATIONS CAUSED BY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

*Effects in the Brain

*Effects in the Heart

*Effects in the Eye

*Effects in the Kidneys

*Effects in the Arteries.

SELF HELP

*Regular exercise improves physical fitness

*Changing to low fat cholesterol

*Smoking should be stop

*Alcohol consumption should be moderate.

*Reduce stress by allowing more time for relaxation

*DASH( A dietary approach to stop hypertension) eating plan rich in calcium and potassium may be advised.

*Regular checking of your blood pressure is the best way to detect hypertension

06/07/2024

WHAT IS ANEMIA

A condition in which the blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells.

Anaemia results from a lack of red blood cells or dysfunctional red blood cells in the body. This leads to reduced oxygen flow to the body's organs.

SYMPTOMS OF ANEAMIA
* Extreme tiredness
*Lethargic & Feeling duzzing / Lazy
*Unable to concentrate
* Unable to carry on physical task and activities
* Inattentive
*Unable to use cognitive skills
* Swollen hands and feet
* Breathlessness
*Sudden behavioural change like loss of temper and canky
* introvert behavior

SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD)
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited blood disorders that affect red blood cells and hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the body. In SCD, red blood cells become hard and sticky, and can take on a C-shape similar to a sickle. This makes it difficult for them to move through blood vessels, which can cause pain and other complications.

SYMPTOMS OF SCD
*Shortness of breath/ dizziness
*Headache
*Coldness in the hands and feet
*Pale skin due to aneamia
*Jaundice or yellow eyes and skin
*Chest pain
*Leg ulcers that doesn't heal

01/07/2024

CAUSES OF VIRUS .
Virus are very tiny germs they are made of genetic material inside of a protein coating viruses , causes familiar infectious disease such as the common..
Cold
Flu
And Warts.
They also cause severe illness such as
HIV/AIDS
Small pox
And Ebola.

01/07/2024

VIRAEMIA.
Viraemia is a medical condition where virus enter the blood stream and hence have access to the rest of the body ,it is similar to BACTEREMIA, a condition where bacteria enter the blood stream. The name comes from combing the word Virus with the Greek word for blood (HAIMA)------ VIRAEMIA

21/06/2024

SICKLE CELL DISEASE

Hbss disease is also known as the sickle cell anaemia is the most disorder affecting hemoglobin, this condition is a form of sickle cell disease, people with this disorder have a typical hemoglobin molecules called HEMOGLOBIN S which can distort red blood cells into a sickle crescent shape