Dr. Pallavi Raut

BP of 135/88 is still ok, what you need is salt reduction in your diet and exercise, since you r a sportsman you must be exercising regularly so now reduce the salt intake by reducing the intake of pickels, papads, cheese, butter,chips and wafers and all other foods that have high salt content. Also go for regular BP checkup’s.

lybrate-user its a good thing that you have to take asthma meds only when you get the attacks, that itself indicates, that if you want, you can go for cardio exercises, start simply by going for walks, start initially with just may be 15-20 min of brisk walk, increase the duration of walk by 5-10 min evey 15 days till you can do brisk walking for almost 45 min to 1 hr once you r comfortable with brisk walking you gradually star adding a 30 sec to a min of sprinting to your walk. This will increase your endurance I feel the major hindrance to your cardio is not your asthma but your weight, your BMI is almost 31, if you can reduce your weight and get down your BMI to 25 (that is weight of around 72) you will feel much better. This is going to be difficult but if you want you csn easily do it at your age of 21 Remember persistence is the key to weight loss, it will be a long and tedious journey, but where there is a will there is a way All the best to you.

You need a blood test to confirm the diagnosis of hepatitis B infection It is not caused by drinking alcohol, however alcohol will definitely cause liver problem over a period of time, If you stop drinking alcohol then definitely the liver can recover from the effects of alcohol ,provided the damage to the liver is not serious (like cirrhosis) however you will have to stop alcohol for ever and not just for 6 mths,

U r likely to have a urine infection, plenty of liquids, cranberry juice, barley water can help you to some extent.

Lybrate-user, herpes infection r of different types and are caused by different viruses like herpes simplex and herpes zoster, not all herpes infection can be sexually transmitted, so you can get herpes even without sexual contact.