Blood pressure is an important indicator of a human health on day to day basis and plays an important part in our health condition. A long term issue of blood pressure could cause serious problems. A lot people perceive high blood pressure fetal and don’t give importance to the low blood pressure. But the other extreme of the spectrum can also cause the severe medical problems and hazardous consequences.

The low blood pressure or hypotension means that the blood supply to your heart and the other parts of your body is below than their requirement and in this blood pumping to your heart would be low. The symptoms of the low blood pressure include fatigue, continuous lethargy, dizziness, weakness etc. This could be the due to the continuous malnourishment, prolonged weakness and under nourished body system. The heavy loss of the blood could also cause the hypotension or in the medical language “Hypovolemia”
Now the point arises that how to control the hypotension? Mostly medicines are not advised in this case and it is eating cured by eating healthy and enriched food with vitamins proteins and sugar. These natural proteins play an important role in curing the low blood pressure. Here are some tips to overcome the problem of hypotension.

Herbs are being used to cure the hypotension since long. To cure hypotension you can use Indian Spikenard herb which would definitely going to make you relieved. It would be resulting in better result if used in combination with the cinnamon and camphor.
If you are facing the problem of hypotension then you can increase the use of salt in your meal and try to use salt water on daily basis. Beetroot juice on daily basis can also work in the problem of the hypotension. For this you need to take at least one cup of the beetroot daily.

Low blood pressure means low kevel of the vitamin B group protein and vitamin C. So you must start consuming the food enriched with these elements as this could be the best remedy for curing the low blood pressure in the long run.

One other remedy from the low blood pressure is the water bath mixed with the Epsom salt. For this before going to bed you need to add Epson salt (1-1.5 kg) in the normal hot water and lie down in the water fro almost 10-20 minutes. You can also do it whenever you want to but make sure that you are protecting yourself from cold as well.

Individuals all over the world have suffered or are suffering stress. It’s very common. The number of people with stress is increasing due to deprivation of sleep and outdoor activities, as well as busy lifestyle. Doctors explain that stress leads to headache, high blood pressure, heavy stomach and eating habit disorders. Nevertheless, you can fight stress with these useful tips:

1.    Eat a balanced diet – Regular intake of fruits and vegetables eases stress. You must not deprive yourself from eating this kind of food.

2.    Evaluate your Activities –  Take your activities one at a time. Don’t accept task which are hard to manage and can cause complications and high blood.

3.    Regular Exercise –  It is the best way to keep you healthy in body and mind. Engage in outdoor exercises like jogging and biking with friends. It helps to be stress-free.

4.    Skip Alcohol – Alcohol and most especially drugs can really cause stress. It weakens your ability to manage stress plus it causes your feelings to shift from happy to sad.

5.    Yoga – This is the most effective way to battle stress. It’s free and relaxing.

There are other practical ways to beat stress. You can adopt the above mentioned tips to have a healthy lifestyle.

Obesity has grown to be a threatening problem as dangerous as the global warming over the last decade. It is increasing at an alarming rate in all parts of the world even after so many campaigns and health knowledge provided by the media. Can anyone blame the food industry for this? Are they playing a responsible role to the society by selling obesity? There are uneducated people who do not even know the meaning of healthy food and unknowingly they are consuming way more foods than they actually need.

Food industry has been very dishonest and irresponsible in few occasions. For an instance, once it was declared that hydrogenated fat is a replacement for butter and are helpful for people with heart problems. But later research found that it was just the opposite case. It meant more harm to heart than butter.

Obese people are going seriously wrong somewhere. Either they have far too much to eat or they eat the wrong food at the wrong time. And when it comes to dealing with obesity, people couldn’t be more confused. We are overwhelmed with information and we do not know what to do. We sometimes go the wrong way and pass it to our next generation.

Governments of all countries have taken steps to make all the food companies provide certain information about their products so that customers can see it and then buy. Things like how much calorie they contain and how much fat they have are normally written on the packets.

Now it is our duty to choose whether we want to lead a fit and healthy life or a life that is so measurable that we feel shame to go out of our home.  Before consuming a food, always ask yourself the question, is it the right food? You can play the blame game and say that the food industry has trapped you into this but it is you who is supposed to take care of your health not the food industry.

We all are super concerned about our physical health as people can see it. But what we do not know is, our physical health depends a lot on our mental health. A healthy mental condition would mean a happier life, better relationship and a peaceful mind.

There are ways you can actually improve your mental health.

To start with, make it a habit to smile. It is helpful for those who want to get healthier mentally and it is more important for them who are suffering from depression and sadness. You can always smile at your will. This helps you to open the doors of positive emotions that can drive away your depression to a great extent. You might be thinking that what is the use of a fake smile? Well, your fake smile will undoubtedly spark your mood and soon you will be happy enough to have a real smile on your beautiful face.

The next important thing is to act as a happy person. I know you are thinking, how you can act as a happy person after having all these problems. I know. But who does not have problems? We all have our own problems to deal with. But it does not mean that we would give up living of life.  We can still be happy and joyful. And being happy relaxed your nerve cells and when you are happy and relaxed, you are in a better position to sort out and resolve your problems.

You will also have to interact with people. Some of us are depressed; we no more like talking to people. Because our head and mind are occupied with all the problems and we hardly feel like to have a conversation. You will have to come out of it and start talking and sharing with people. Share your feeling, joys and sorrows. Make friends and try to develop a positive relationship with them. This would make you a lot relaxed and you might find the solution of your problems while talking and interacting with other people. Always remember, we are given ears, eyes and mouth, which means nature wants us to interact with one another. Do not keep everything to yourself.

Life is a precious gift. Every single moment that we pass, are worth a lifetime. You have to celebrate every single moment of your life. Celebrate even the tiniest joy and happiness. Be happy when you have achieved something. If you are happy, people around you will be happy and a happy atmosphere can do wonders to one’s life and mind.

Rehabilitation aims to improve the ability of people of all ages to perform day-to-day activities, and to restore their physical, mental and social capabilities as far as possible. Acute illness in older people is often associated with loss of their usual ability to function, and common disabling conditions such as stroke, fractured neck of femur, arthritis and cardio-respiratory disease become increasingly prevalent with advancing age.

Disability is an interaction between factors intrinsic to the individual and the context in which they live, and interventions at both a medical and a social level are needed in response .Doctors tend to focus on health conditions and impairments, but patients are more concerned with their effects: the limitation of their activities and restricted participation in everyday life.

Rehabilitation is a problem-solving process focused on improving a patient’s function. This includes not only physical function, but also psychological and social functioning. It covers:

Assessment. The nature and extent of the person’s problems are identified from a comprehensive assessment using the framework in. Specific assessment scales such as the Elderly Mobility Scale or Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living can be used to quantify components of disability.

Goal-setting. Goals set are specific to the patient’s problems, realistic and agreed by the patient with the rehabilitation team.

Intervention. This includes active treatments to achieve the set goals and to maintain the patient’s health and quality of life.

Reassessment. There is ongoing re-evaluation of the person’s function and progress towards the set goals. This requires regular review by all members of the rehabilitation team, the old person and the carer.

The core rehabilitation team includes several professional disciplines like Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist, Speech and language therapist, Dietitian, Social worker, Nurse, Doctor, although others may be involved as needed, e.g. audiometry for hearing impairment, podiatry for foot problems and orthotics where prostheses or splinting are required. Good communication and mutual respect are essential. Rehabilitation is not where the doctor orders ‘Refer to physiotherapists’ or ‘Get a home visit’, and takes no further role.

The interventions used in rehabilitation can be divided into ‘hard’, i.e. hands-on treatment by therapists using a functional, task-orientated approach to improve day-to-day activities, and ‘soft’ interventions such as psychological support and education, often just as important to progress. The emphasis on the type of intervention will be different depending on the patient’s disabilities, psychological status and progress. The patient has to be an active participant in the process, working to overcome disability with the encouragement and help of the rehabilitation team.

Effective rehabilitation has a major impact on reducing disability in older patients after acute illness or emergency and elective surgery. There is good evidence that rehabilitation improves functional outcome following stroke and myocardial infarction, and in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It also reduces mortality after stroke. Rehabilitation obviously involves complex multi-component interventions and it is not clear which has the greatest effect. Is it specific therapy techniques, better delivery and organization of care, or simply staff enthusiasm? The concept of the ‘black box’ of rehabilitation has been used to describe this poor understanding of the process, and is the subject of ongoing research.

The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognised in 1981. It is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Since 1981 AIDS has grown to be the second leading cause of disease burden world-wide and the leading cause of death in Africa, where it accounts for over 20% of deaths.

HIV is present in blood, semen and other body fluids such as breast milk and saliva. Exposure to infected fluid leads to a risk of creating infection, which is dependent on the integrity of the exposed site, the type and volume of body fluid, and the viral population. HIV can enter either as free virus or within cells. The modes of spread are sexual (man to man, man to woman and oral), injectable roots (blood or blood product recipients, injection drug-users and those experiencing occupational injury) and vertical (mother to child). The transmission risk after exposure is over 90% for blood or blood products, 15-40% for the vertical route, 0.5-1.0% for injection drug use, 0.2-0.5% for sex organ mucous membrane spread and under 0.1% for other mucous membrane spread.

Now have a look to this short chart below about major spreading pathway of AIDS. I think it will be very helpful for you to remember before being engaged to any risky behaviour mentioned here:

Vertical transmission: Older gestational age; prolonged rupture of fetal membranes; any injury to the fetus; elective caesarean delivery; twin fetus

Breastfeeding: Longer duration feeding; Young motherhood; breast infection
Sexual transmission: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) especially sex organ ulcers; any form of anal sex with or without condoms; Rectal or vaginal injury; sex during menstruation; Male-male or male- female sex; Non-circumcised penis; increased number of sex partners; Linked commercial sex

Injection drug use transmission: Sharing equipment; Frequency of use; Intravenous use; Cocaine use

Occupational transmission: Deep injury and then Visible blood on device; use of previously used arterial or venous device.

World-wide, the major route of transmission (> 75%) is heterosexual. About 5-10% of new HIV infections are in children and more than 90% of these are infected during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. The rate of vertical transmission is higher in developing countries (25-44%) than in industrialised nations (13-25%). Of those infected vertically, 80% are infected close to the time of delivery and 20% in uterus. In developed nations, because of routine antibody screening, the likelihood of acquiring HIV from blood products is now less than 1:500000. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that because of the lack of adequate testing facilities in resource-poor countries, 5-10% of blood transfusions globally are with HIV-infected blood. There have been approximately 100 definite and 200 possible cases of HIV acquired occupationally in health-care workers. Infection related to health-care settings is substantially higher in developing nations, where it is estimated that 40% of syringes/needles used in injections are reused without sterilization.