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Do you often feel a burning sensation and discomfort in your chest that tends to may radiate to radiate towards the neck or throat? Or, a feeling of food or liquid coming up in the throat or mouth, especially when bending over or lying down? Don’t be alarmed: In all probability, it is a quite common condition called as ‘heart burn’.
Heartburn, or pyrosis, happens when a valve called lower oesophageal sphincter (LES), located at the lower end of the food pipe, doesn’t function properly. “It usually occurs after meals and is also popularly called as acid indigestion,” says Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon consultant (gastroenterology) Paramvir Singh.
Is it serious?
Medicos claim that heartburn is usually not serious. However, the condition can trigger other problems like persistent sore throat, hoarseness of voice, chronic cough, asthma, chest pain and a feeling of persistent lump in the throat. Frequent or severe heartburn can limit daily activities and can create complications. “Complications can include bleeding due to oesophageal ulcers, narrowing of food pipe, lung problem and inflammation of throat,” warns Mr Singh.
How to control it?
Lifestyle modifications is usually helpful to reduce heartburn. “Avoid lying down right after eating, stop smoking and minimise alcohol consumption, avoid eating large meals, avoid chocolates excessive tea/coffee, fried and fatty foods, mint like peppermint, carbonated beverages, citrus fruits or juices, tomato sauce, ketchup, mustard and vinegar,” advises Mr Singh. If the condition do not improve, some medications may be required such as an antacid.
When to seek medical advice?
Heartburn can be often confused with a cardiac problem. “The symptoms are quite confusing since similar discomfort is felt as a precursor to heart attack. When a person faces frequent heartburn or it is associated with exertion and the discomfort does not reduce by taking antacid, it’s better to consult a doctor immediately,” says Calcutta Medical Research Institute senior consultant (internal medicine) Tapan Kumar Banerjee.
Apart from this, doctors recommend people should seek medical advice when the following symptoms occur: Heartburn recurring in a week, discomfort reappearing as the antacid effect wears off, problem in sleeping, difficulty in swallowing, sudden weight loss or black stool.
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bebe, watsoever she may be,her personal choice,but she has given a new definition of body,zero size,which means,no tummy,no loose muscles,thin active body, do u like it.one can have it if over-eating is stopped combined with exercise. ...
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Cambodian women have found a unique way to cure acne - a condom lubricant designed for sex workers and gay men.
Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told.
\"After I used it for three days, all of my acne dried up and went away. Many people believe in it,\" Telegraph quoted her, as saying.
Khen Vanny, 29, from Phnom Penh, said women of all ages have taken to using the lubricant to get rid of spots.
\"It is very effective. Some people don\'t believe in it but people who do really get a good result,\" she said, adding: \"My youngest sister and my aunt use it too.\"
Another woman told Khmer-language Kampuchea Thmey newspaper that she had used many kinds of medicine to treat acne but none had worked.
\"After that my friends, who work at garment factories in Phnom Penh, advised me to apply the lubricant from Number One Plus condoms on my face every night,\" she told the paper.
\"And just within three to four nights, the acne on my face gradually and then totally disappeared,\" she added.
-TOI...
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My son's girlfriend saw me teaching everyone trading and wondered why i dint learn some grooming techniques too... she wants me to learn threading so i can thread her face whenever she wants.... is there any place i can learn threading.... how does one thread... so even i can thread my eyebrows and mustache and everything that i may develop going forward coz i am given to understand that women begin sporting male characteristics if they engage in masculine pursuits like trading... i am serious where can i learn threading?...
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A car that gives a mileage of 10 kilometers per liter of petrol leaves 232 grams of CO2 per km...
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Dear RN,
Sorry to interupt, but I think you need to see your Doc. Although it starts as viral infection, soon bacterial infection too sets in due to decreased immunity of the body. We do have wide range of antibiotics to take care of that. It does help preventing the complications which can occur due to viral infections, although very rarely reported. Secondly, Doc helps by adding Vit C, pain killers and decongestant medicinal drugs for faster recovery. Its good to hear that you dont have hypertension or Diabetes, but it doesnot mean that you may not suffer from hypotension (low BP) or hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), especially so during an ilness. If crocin is not able to work for more than 4 hours, I request you to see your Doc. Please take care. ...
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A paracetamol tablet that fails to bring the fever down or, more seriously, a capsule for a heart condition that has no curative effect — imagine putting your faith in a medicine that doesn\'t cure you, or worse, actually harms your body. That could be a growing reality in India, with experts in the Indian pharma industry fearing that one in five drugs sold in the country are fake.
ASSOCHAM estimates that the lethal market is growing at 25% annually. In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development\'s latest figures say 75% of fake drugs supplied the world over have their origins in India.
These telling figures have now made the drug controller general\'s office decide to undertake the world\'s largest-ever study to assess the actual size of this menacing market.
Expected to start soon, the Rs 50 lakh study, to be spearheaded by drug controller general of India, Surinder Singh, and expected to take six months, will see drug inspectors pose as patients and pick up 31,000 drug samples.
The study has already identified 61 popular drug brands from nine therapeutic categories that will be tested.
They include anti-tuberculosis medications, anti-allergics, drugs to counter diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, anti-infective steroids, anti-malarials, NSAIDs, anti-histaminic and multi-vitamin preparations.
The health ministry’s estimates are more conservative: It says 5% of drugs in India are counterfeit while 0.3% are spurious. A counterfeit medicine is one that has no active ingredient or is an expired drug which has been re-labelled and sold. It’s slightly different from a fake drug, which may not resemble the original in any way. Under Indian law, both counterfeit and fake drugs are described as spurious medicines.
Health secretary Naresh Dayal said, \"The counterfeit drug market in India, which we believe is still not that large, has the potential to become extremely threatening. We need to know its actual size in order to combat it.\"
Singh told TOI , for the study, the country has been divided into five stratums, as instructed by the Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad. \"The detailed project design has been finalized and sent to the ministry for financial approval.\"
\"Three to four generic makes of each of the 61 popular brands are being shortlisted. Then, two to three drugs from each of these generic drug makes will be picked up, mostly those which are fast moving. The study wants to find the actual size of the counterfeit market in India, whether the drugs tested are fake or genuine and whether the drugs are of standard quality,\" a DCG official said.
\"India annually sees 1,000 drug inspectors pick up 40,000 drug samples for regular testing according to which 0.3%-0.4% were found to have zero active content while 8% were found to be substandard,\" another official said.
Said Department of Biotechnology secretary, M K Bhan, \"Counterfeit drug market is still not a colossal problem in India. We will have to keep a close watch on the market’s expansion and punish those involved with it very strongly.\"
According to drug expert, C M Gulati, the estimates made about India’s counterfeit drug market is highly exaggerated. He said, \"Under US law, any drug which is not authorized is considered counterfeit. There is no evidence that 30% of Indian drugs are counterfeit, as sometimes claimed. The drugs in India are so cheap that the profit margin is paltry. At present, in 90% cases, it’s as expensive to make spurious drugs as to make real drugs. India is the only country where tableting, packaging and carton costs are more than the cost of the actual active medicine.\"
Dr Gulati added that less than 3% of the Rs 32,000 crore pharma industry in India is counterfeit and spurious. In India, less than 1% of the drugs manufactured are tested. Each of the 26 government labs test only 2,500 drug samples annually and have backlogs of 6-9 months.
In an attempt to tackle the menace of fake life-saving medicines, the WHO, its member countries including India and 20 international partners recently launched a massive campaign to combat the lethal counterfeit drugs industry.
WHO has asked India and China to be part of an alert system which will inform drug exporting and importing nations about counterfeit consignments, their size, location and batch numbers.
*Kounteya Sinha ,TNN-et
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Prices of commonly used medicines are expected to fall with the government planning to cap trade margins paid by companies to retailer at 50%.
The move is expected to push down prices of over of around 200 drugs, including those used as analgesics, cough syrups, tonics, antibiotics, medicines used to treat infectious diseases, bronchial disorders and lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension and anxiety disorders, may come down by more than 50% in a large number of cases.
For bringing in uniform trade margins, government has proposed marketing expenses, or MAPE in trade jargon, of 300% be added on to the ex-factory price and trade margin of 50% be calculated on the maximum retail price (MRP).
While patent holders are known to charge a high premium in the name of innovation, large margins are common even for non-patented medicines which are sold under generic names or the branded generics. In some cases the trade margins go beyond 1,500% of the cost at which the medicine is sold to the retailer.
For instance, a strip of 10 tablets of Ceticad bought by the chemist at Rs 1.60 from the manufacturer, is sold at Rs 26 in the market, translating into a margin of over 1525%. If government is able to cap margins, cost of the medicine for the consumer will drop to Rs 6.40.
Ceiling on trade margins has proved to be a bone of contention between the government and industry, with the latter unable to do much. Last year, the industry had agreed to cap margins of 886 formulations of 100-odd drugs, but the move was not implemented by all companies.
The issue of huge margins came into light nearly three years ago when chemicals minister Ram Vilas Paswan ordered a market survey of prices of three drugs - Cetrizine, Omeprazole and Nimesulide.
\"If the norms are issued, then the entire industry (branded generic and generic-generic categories) would implement it,\" sources said. They said the 300% limit has been proposed after factoring in the cost incurred on manufacturing by smaller players.
The move would affect 5-7% of the Rs 30,000-crore pharma market, and almost all major manufactures who are present in these categories. The ministry intends to put out draft guidelines and will take a final decision only after consulting the industry.
Sources said the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority will monitor margins charged by these companies, once guidelines are issued.
\"If companies are not agreeable to limiting margins, then they would be asked to switch to the branded category,\" sources added. For branded drugs, which are outside the purview of price control, industry had agreed to cap margins at 10% to the wholesaler and 20% to the retailer. -toi...
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Eat enjoyable and nutritious foods
Eat three or more pieces of fresh fruit and salad each day, varying their colour. Choose wholesome food rather than refined, processed food that are full of additives . To preserve nutrients, eat freshly cooked food, rather than frozen or packaged foods.
Avoid large meals
It is better to eat several small meals a day, rather than a large lunch and dinner, which is hard to digest and also can make you feel sleepy. Instead, consume five to six small meals a day, of healthy foods. This way, every time the food is eaten, the body burns calories while breaking it down, eventually helping to raise the metabolism.
Don’t eliminate, moderate
Drastic changes are hard to maintain. Enjoy favourite foods in small amounts, occasionally. Eat just enough to satisfy your taste buds, and freeze or lock away the rest.
Sit down and eat slowly
Eat slowly, to give your body time to release the enzymes that tell your brain you’ve had enough. Also the slower you eat, the sooner you’ll feel full.
Watch your timing, chances are if you eat too much after 9 p.m., you’ll gain weight
If you have to eat dinner late, eat a small snack earlier - so that you won’t be as hungry, during dinner time.
Don’t overeat if you are stressed out
Avoid mindless eating and modify your habits to control stress. Take up healthy habits to de-stress , such as an outdoor activity, breathing and relaxation techniques.
*namita jain
The author is a clinical exercise specialist, lifestyle and weight management consultant from the American Council on Exercise.
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But reality is diffrentrt tical UPA says health for etc do they mean?
"The UNICF RepoIndia needs to make major strides on health front: Unicef
Tue, Aug 5 05:48 PM
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) India and China need to make strides on the health front to help the world achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs), Unicef (United Nations Children's Fund) said Tuesday in a fresh report.
The report 'State of the Asia Pacific's Children Report 2008', said: "It is a fundamental truth that unless India achieves major improvements in health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education, gender equality and child protection, global efforts to reach the MDGs will fail."
China too needs to make significant strides to regain early progress it made in child survival. "Global achievement of the health related MDGs depends largely on India's success and on China accelerating progress even further," the report mentions.
Without improved health care, 13 of the Asia-Pacific countries will struggle to reduce their child mortality and maternal mortality rates by two-thirds, a target that the UN has marked as health MDG.
At least 2.5 million child deaths occur in these two countries every year - accounting for nearly a third of all child deaths in the world. While 2.1 million children die in India every year, the number is 415,000 in China.
In India, the maternal mortality rate too is very high with at least 301 mothers out of every 100,000 dying during childbirth.
The report, however, mentions that the region's robust economic growth, the fastest in the world since 1990, has lifted millions out of poverty.
Child survival, regarded by Unicef as a key test of a nation's progress in human development and child rights, has improved considerably.
"But gains have been overshadowed by deepening disparities, which means that health care often fails to reach the poorest."
The report underscores a disturbing trend across the region - public health expenditure remains well below the world average of 5.1 percent of the GDP.
While South Asia including India spends only 1.1 percent of GDP on health, it is 1.9 percent in the rest of Asia-Pacific.
In addition, as more services within countries are privatised and the government share of health budget diminishes, public facilities become more run down and health workers leave for better-paid jobs in the private sector or outside the country.
"The divide between rich and poor is rising at a troubling rate within sub-regions of Asia-Pacific, leaving vast numbers of mothers and children at risk of increasing relative poverty and continued exclusion from quality primary health-care services," the report says.
Pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition are the major causes of child death in the region. But vast inequities in income, geography, gender and ethnicity are essentially what stand in the way of children surviving and thriving.
While taking note of the low prevalence of baby birth in hospitals, underweight mothers are making the situation more complicated.
"In India one out of every three women is underweight putting them at risk of having low birth weight babies, and these babies are 20 times more likely to die in infancy than healthy babies."
As the world has moved past the half way mark and into the final lap towards the MDGs with a 2015 deadline, what is needed now is political will and sound strategies to dramatically increase investment in public health services that specifically target the poorest and most marginalised, it said.
Without improved health care, 13 of the Asia-Pacific countries will struggle to reduce the child mortality rates by two-thirds, a target that the UN has marked as health MDG.
The Unicef said in the report that countries like India must increase their public health expenditure by two more percent of the GDP to boost healthcare facilities for the poor and underprivileged.
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