Siddha Tips

How Smoking Impacts Your Organs?

As you inhale cigarette smoke, about 7000 carcinogens stir the crevices of your body. In India, about 3,00,000 people die every year due to smoking-related issues.

Here's a list of 5 such organs, which are the most affected by cigarette smoke:

1. Your lungs - Your lungs are probably the first organs to bear the wrath of cigarette smoke. Majority of the lung cancer cases are due to smoking. Other diseases include bronchitis and emphysema...more

Thalassemia is a grave blood disorder. That is why people who have been diagnosed with it need to be extra careful with how they live their lives. The focus is on always making healthy lifestyle choices. This improves the quality of their lives, helps manage the disorder and will have a less detrimental impact on their lifespan.

Keep the illness under control - With proper care and intervention, thalassemia can be managed efficiently. To continue being healthy, thalassemia patients must...more

Thalassaemia is one of the most difficult hereditary diseases to live with. Even though there is no cure, parents can prevent their child from being born with this terrible disease if they are careful. Thalassemia is a blood illness. It is an inherited disorder. If even one parent is a carrier of thalassemia, the child will be born with this blood disorder. Our blood contains haemoglobin - a protein molecule. It carries oxygen to all parts of the body. But some people are born with an unnatural ...more

Thalassemia is a blood illness that destroys haemoglobin in the blood. Unless managed properly, thalassemia can be fatal. Keeping the disease under control involves not just blood transfusion, folate intake and chelation therapy but also diet. What the patients eat has an impact on how well their bodies will respond to treatment.

Diet for thalassemia patients
Thalassemia can trigger nutritional deficiency illnesses, haemolytic anaemia, diabetes and iron build-up (because of regular ...more

The bile duct is a thin tube which collects bile from the liver, stores it in the gall bladder and carries it to the intestine. Cancer of the bile duct is also known as cholangiocarcinoma. It can either involve the upper part or lower part of the bile duct and is called intrahepatic, hilar or distal cholangiocarcinoma.

Anything causing inflammation in the bile duct increases the risk of this cancer. Examples include

smoking.
choledochal cyst.
infection with liver flukes...more

Nephrotic syndrome is a type of kidney disorder wherein, the body passes out excess amount of proteins through urine, owing to the damage caused to the tiny clusters of blood vessels in the kidneys. The symptoms include putting on excessive weight as a result of fluid retention, foamy urine and severe swelling around the region of the feet, ankles and eyes.

Common causes behind it:

Minimal change disease (also known as nil disease) leads to the abnormal functioning of the kidne...more

What is Diabetic Nephropathy?

Diabetic nephropathy (Diabetic Kidney Disease) is defined as the progressive damage to the kidneys caused by diabetes. It is characterised by the scarring of the glomeruli in the kidneys due to prolonged diabetes mellitus.

What Causes Diabetic Nephropathy?

Diabetes is a condition characterized by high concentration of blood sugar. Although the cause of Diabetes Nephropathy is not yet well defined, it is likely that the high sugar levels in...more

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is a serious complication that may arise during angiographic procedures and is elaborated as the impairment of renal function. It is estimated as either a 25% increase in the serum creatinine (SCr) from baseline or a 0.5 mg/dL (44 mol/L) increase in absolute creatinine value within two to three days after intravenous contrast administration of intravascular radiographic contrast material that is not attributable to other causes.

To simplify, contrast-...more

Vulvodynia is a condition which causes severe pain in the opening (vulva) of the vagina without any apparent reason. The pain might be chronic in nature and can go on for years. Vulvodynia might affect your emotional health in the long-term and cause anxiety, depression and disrupted sleep patterns, if not treated immediately.

Doctors are still unsure regarding the exact causes of Vulvodynia. But there are a few factors, which can increase your risks of suffering from this disorder:
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IgA nephropathy is also called Berger s disease. This kidney disease happens when your body produces too much of the antibody immunoglobulin A (IgA) and it builds up in the kidneys. As a result, the kidneys swell up and eventually, affect the functionality of these organs. The progression of the illness is slow but relentless. The pace depends from one person to the next.

What are the symptoms of IgA nephropathy?

In the very early stages, IgA nephropathy does not reveal any sym...more

The modern lifestyle, along with providing comfort, has also made us susceptible to a host of diseases and ailments. The regular and indiscriminate intake of junk foods, high-salt content foods, and sugar-laden fizzy drinks deprives the body of necessary fiber and essential nutrients. These habits can cause the condition known as the fistula. What more, stress and sedentary lifestyles also figure among the primary causes of the disease.

Problem
Fistula can generate extreme pain and ...more