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Last Updated: 4 years ago• Featured Tip
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MS - ENT, DNB (ENT), MBBS

ENT Specialist•Mumbai
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Diphtheria is an infectious disease which occurs in the throat. Let us know more about what Diphtheria is.

What is Diphtheria?
Diphtheria is a serious infectious disease that affects the throat and is caused by bacteria and viruses which usually damage human tissue in the throat. Diphtheria is highly contagious and can be spread to other persons easily. It causes serious problems in people who have never been vaccinated. It can be identified by a sheet of greyish material covering t...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS, DLO

ENT Specialist•Faridabad
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Diphtheria is an infectious disease which occurs in the throat. Let us know more about what Diphtheria is.

What is Diphtheria?
Diphtheria is a serious infectious disease that affects the throat and is caused by bacteria and viruses which usually damage human tissue in the throat. Diphtheria is highly contagious and can be spread to other persons easily. It causes serious problems in people who have never been vaccinated. It can be identified by a sheet of grayish material covering t...more
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General Physician•Mumbai
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Accept the fact and remember when tracheotomy tube is in place larynx gets closed and hence you are not able to talk and once we are confident that there is no problem in breathing after hole closure than you will be able to talk but as of now accept the fact
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Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS, DNB (General Medicine)

General Physician•Delhi
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A quite serious bacterial infection, diphtheria is caused by the Corynebacterium diphtheria. It usually tends to affect the throat and the mouth of an affected person, although there are other varieties which can infect your skin as well. However, the most common cases of diphtheria affect the throat and the mouth.

Symptoms of diphtheria in general
It may take up to five days for symptoms to show up when you are infected with the disease. Some of the symptoms would be:

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Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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LCPS, BAM&S

Integrated Medicine Specialist•Pune
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A quite serious bacterial infection, diphtheria is caused by the Corynebacterium diphtheria. It usually tends to affect the throat and the mouth of an affected person, although there are other varieties which can infect your skin as well. However, the most common cases of diphtheria affect the throat and the mouth.

Symptoms of diphtheria in general
It may take up to five days for symptoms to show up when you are infected with the disease. Some of the symptoms would be:

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Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS (M.A.M.C), M.S. ENT

ENT Specialist•Delhi
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Viruses are the most common cause of pain in the throat or sore throat, and it is often accompanied by cold symptoms like running nose, red watery eyes, cough and sneezing. Smoking, irritants in the air and pollution are the main causes of sore throat. It becomes very difficult to swallow food in such a condition when an individual experiences pain, itchiness or irritation in their throat.

The main causes of occurrence of Sore throat include:

-Leukemia in exceptional cases
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Try to increase your immunity, take lot of green leafy vegitables and have fiber rich diet like beetroots carrots cucumber, also doing excercise can help you to increase testosterone level so it can help you with your erection and decrease your brain fogging.
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MD - Pulmonary Medicine, MBBS, DNB ( Pul...read more

Pulmonologist•Thane
6 months and if no symptoms before starting treatment. Latent tb is not so actively treated if no symptoms if lung lesions or abdomen lessions with positive tb gold then should continue taking for 6 months you can. Take tb drugs post breakfast also.
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General Physician•Vadodara
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add citrus fruits like orange mausambi kiwi gooseberry anwala non stop. lamonade with black salt, ginger. two three times. kiwi is best for platelets. papaya leaf juice freshly made 10 ml with water 2-3 times for long time. blood in stool if stool is hard small cut in anal mucosa that is most common cause.
locally apply anovate/shield/ oxeurate any one ointment Two times for minimum 2-3 weeks. mucosa heale so no blood.
apply with index finger.
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DNB ( Med), MBBS

General Physician•Delhi
Red spots will come to normal automatically depends on what antibiotic chosen
disease can progress or reduce.
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MD - Medicine, Bechelors of Alternative ...read more

Alternative Medicine Specialist•Delhi
Don't eat rise, and oily food, fast food avoid drink coconut water at morning time. Eat kivi food drink boile water also. Take vitamin b complex tab.
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MBBS, Basic Life Support (B.L.S), Advanc...read more

General Physician•Delhi
I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
Let's connect over a call so that we can discuss your concern in details and make a treatment plan for you.
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D.N.B, M.B.B.S.

Internal Medicine Specialist•Delhi
Hi, if it is truly hepatitis a and you are having itching, then you should get your lft get done. You can reach out to me with lft report url/consult-privately/doctor/dr-sarweshwar-sripada-internal-medicine-specialist.
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MBBS , MD - Biochemistry

General Physician•Lucknow
Yes, it may cause swollen lymph nodes. Generally typhoid is cured with a treatment of 7-14 days. You should start feeling better after 2-3 days of treatment.
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