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A dose for your mind

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  A DOSE FOR YOUR MIND According to a study, about 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide every year. 139,123 Indians committed suicide in 2019 and the national suicide rate was 10.4 (calculated per lakh of population). WHO has declared sucide as being a serious health issue in India. The question here is why? How can a person end there own life? Do things get so tough that death seems the only solution? Or do we just get engaged in our work lives so much that ignore all the little happiness life gives us daily.  You yourself might have come across a time wherein you felt lost in life, thank God that you had the courage and will to declutter that mess and continue on your path. Our conditioning from the very start is such that it might feel obvious to get exhausted at some point in life, right from the beginning we try to stand on societies expectations, be it in academics, lifestyle, fashion, carrier,family. We work hard to reach the mark set by the society, or to overcome that mark
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BRAIN WITH PING PONG BALLS

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Jessie Hill, a six-year-old girl, had half of her brain removed surgically, by Dr. Ben Carson at John's Hopkins Children's Centre in Baltimore.  Jessie was a normal child until she was 6 years old. That is when she began having seizures. Her parents learned she had a disease on the right side of her brain called Rasmussen’s Encephalitis. If left untreated, it would spread to the left side of her brain and eventually kill her. Dr. Ben Carson recommended hemispherectomy surgery and removed the diseased right half of Jessie's brain in a surgery that lasted hours long. The surgery was followed by rehabilitation that helped Jessie regain all the lost functions.  In an interview, Jessie recalls,  “I remember just being. I wanted to go home. I didn’t really understand why I was there like — I just didn’t want to be any part of therapy or anything because it was painful.” During her treatment in Baltimore, her parents formed the Hemispherectomy Foundation.  INTERESTING TO KNOW: W h
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CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)

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CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined as a disease state characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible (http://www.goldcopd.com/). It is the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. It is more prominent in low and middle-income countries.  It basically includes 2 diseases, Emphysema, and Chronic bronchitis. CAUSES AND RISK FACTORS: Cigarette smoking - Subsequent longitudinal studies have shown an accelerated decline in FEV1 in a dose-response relationship to the intensity of cigarette smoking, which is typically expressed as pack-years. Hyperresponsiveness of alveoli - A tendency for increased bronchoconstriction in response to a variety of exogenous stimuli, including methacholine and histamine, is one of the defining features of asthma. Dutch hypothesis suggests that asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema are variations of the same basic disease, which is modula
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ASTHMA

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 ASTHMA Asthma is a syndrome characterized by airflow obstruction that varies markedly, both spontaneously and with treatment. It is a major non-communicable disease, affecting both children and adults. It affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 and caused 461000 deaths. It is the most common chronic disease among children.  CAUSES AND RISK FACTORS: Asthma develops due to interaction between various host and environmental factors.  The host factors are: Atopy (Type-1 hypersensitivity): Atopy is the major risk factor for asthma, and nonatopic individuals have a very low risk of developing asthma. Atopy is due to the genetically determined production of specific IgE antibodies, with many patients showing a family history of allergic diseases. The environmental factors include: 1) Allergens (Airborne)  2) Chemical  3) Irritants 4) Viral Upper Respiratory Infections 5) Physical Stress 6) Emotional Stress 7) Air pollution 8) Occupational Asthma 9) Tobacco The risk factors include
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