by Umair Shafiq Khanday Elderly persons have decreased feedback mechanisms to thirst, so they get dehydration unnoticed. Patients with uncontrolled diabetes, heart failure and kidney diseases, and those hypertensive patients using diuretics have high chances of dehydration.
Umair Shafiq Khanday
Diabetes is responsible for over 50 per cent of all foot amputations in the United States of America
Diabetes creates a crippling crisis for feet and in serious cases requires surgical intervention.
Diabetes is a disease that causes faulty or insufficient insulin production or low sensitivity to insulin. Insulin is an essential hormone that is responsible for helping cells absorb sugar from the blood to use for energy.
When this process does not work correctly, sugar remains circulating in the blood, causing health problems. Prolonged periods of high sugar levels in the blood can damage many areas of the body, including the feet.
by Umar Shafiq Khanday Tobacco is deadly in any form and threatens the lung health of everyone exposed to it. Tobacco kills one person every four seconds. World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31.
Umair Sahfiq Khanday
Nurses are the most important link between a doctor and a patient. A doctor only prescribes and diagnoses medications, but in the end, it is the nurse on whom the actual responsibility for treatment depends. Without nursing staff, a medical facility may not work even for a day.
Staff nurses and other officials of Chest Diseases Hospital Srinagar have started wearing masks following the apprehensions that some patients might be carrying the Coronavirus infection. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12, every year. It is also the anniversary of the birth of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale.