Dr. Pratik Banerjee

If your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points in either direction, it would change the electrical chemistry in your body, there would be no electrical power and in short duration you would drop dead!

Answers to the following 3 questions will tell you why your body’s pH balancing regulates your health and life-

Q1) What is pH?
- pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, and our blood pH must be slightly alkaline for us to keep healthy. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 7 neutral and 14 very alkaline. The ideal pH level for your blood is around 7.35 and we help our bodies to maintain this pH balance by eating more alkaline-forming foods and fewer acid-forming foods.

Q2) How does your body strike a balance?
- When we consume acid-forming foods, our body works to bring our blood pH back into balance by releasing alkaline-rich minerals into our bloodstream (e.g. calcium, phosphorus and magnesium).
- If we don’t eat enough alkaline-generating foods, then our body pulls these minerals from our bones, teeth and other organs. This can be a risk to our immune system making us weaker.

Q3) What should you eat?
Eat a diet that consists of 60-80% alkaline-forming foods and about 20-40% acid-forming foods.
- Alkaline-forming foods: Most fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts, seeds, and herbal teas.
- Acid-forming foods: Most grains, beans, meats, dairy products, fish, fast foods, and processed foods.

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Get your calcium and Vit D3 levels done. Please also get your BP and blood sugar done up. A hemogram would be okay.

Let him be on cetriz 1omg once in the night for the next three weeks. He has to be on a high protein diet.

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Please get your electrolytes done. you might be having a sodium drop. dytor and telma may be the reason of sodium drop. the drop in sodium may be the reason of depression

The vaccine has been created . But it has to be kept in ones mind whether the vaccine is needed or not. It might not be as effective as claimed.

If the patient is stable and not critical, then put her on a lot of fluids high protein diet and keep an eye on the temperature.

Have at least three litres of fluid daily.

Workout daily to stay fit.
Dr Banerjee