Durg resistance: Challanges in the treatment of infectious diseases.

Drug resistance in treating infectious diseases has become a big concern for the medical field. 

My two patients came with same issue of urinary tract infection (UTI). In my 30 years of experience treatment of UTI is 4-5 days of homeopathy medicine. Both patients were suffering with UTI for 2-3 years. Both gave history of drug resistance. I was surprised with the case history and amount of drugs they had taken with temporary relief. With all confident I said, don’t worry within a week time you will be fine. To my further surprise it took almost 8 weeks to ensure no repeat attack. Both patients never had any further UTI attack in last 2 years.

During our CME programs all the doctors (Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda) were discussing in challenges in treatment of any infectious diseases.

Since long I have been hearing about the above problem. Big discussion is happening among the doctors in medical forum. Since I have been connected with many people and groups, I have seen the concern among the people also and due to it a negative image about medical field.

Today, I happen to attend the CME on infectious disease where every speaker showed concern about the drug resistance. So, I thought of writing a blog for the common person’s understanding, which can help them make the right decision if they or someone in their family is suffering from infectious diseases and what they should do so they are not facing the drug resistance issue and its complications. 

Infectious diseases are illnesses caused by harmful agents (pathogens/microbes) that get into your body. The most common causes are viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Infectious diseases usually spread from person to person through contaminated food or water and through bug bites.

Low immunity is the culprit of infection. One can have low immunity due to stress or due to ad-hoc approach in health management for a medicine-free life. Ad-hoc dieting or exercise to keep oneself fit can also lower the immunity.

Drug resistance is simply defined as the ability of disease-causing pathogens (e.g., bacteria or viruses) to continue multiplying despite the presence of drugs that usually kill them.

Treatment is planned according to the type of pathogens infecting the person. Delay in treatment is cause of increases pathogens load in the body, further complicating the treatment and delays the healing process.

Drug resistance is caused by changes (mutations) in the pathogen’s genetic structure. Drug Resistance during the treatment of infectious diseases has become a massive challenge in treatment. New drug research is a long-term process & will take a long time to come in the market. We know that post-COVID, pathogens are more intelligent in developing drug resistance due to new mutation. So, it becomes essential to use every anti-infection medicine wisely and judiciously. 

Do you that 3rd cause of death is due to infectious diseases.

Why pathogens are becoming drug-resistant:

Various pathogens cause infection. Each of these microorganisms will require specific drugs for treatment. Drugs (medicine) for treatment have various parameters in selection. The smallest mismatch in the section leads to drug resistance.

Below are a few reasons for the reader’s understanding from non-medical background:

• Inappropriate medicine (drug) selection due to self-medication or prescription by a non-medical person
• Inappropriate dose selection
• Improper medicine intake means not taking drugs as per requirements.
• Not completing the required course of medicine e.g. if one drug course is five days but taken for 2-3 days
• Overuse of medications by various other industries like animal, food and other industries
• Use of steriod for fitness
• Ad-hoc approach in dieting
• Lack of hygiene is a cause of multiple pathogens infection.
• Pressure for early recovery leading to steroid use.

Role of Alternative Therapy like Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Unani etc:

• Drug resistance in the acute phase also reduces the desired outcome by alternative therapy
• Alternative medicines are helpful but every science has limitations when misused. 
• Time is often critical, and alternative therapy may not have enough time to help. 

Role of Home remedies:

• Do read the blog on steam inhalation benefits and side effects: https://radhee.org/steam-inhalation-benefit-and-side-effects/ 
• Home remedies like Kada when overused lose its impact due to microbe resistance.

Challenges for Doctors and Conflicts with Patients:

• Patients and their family members feel doctors cannot help and prescribe costly treatment. The real cause is drug resistance, not a doctor or hospital.
• Every citizen must know that when patients are doing treatment under the guidance of quacks or well-wishers’ guidance, it complicates the cases and causes of drug resistance and can end in hospitalization with critical conditions.
• It also overburdens the healthcare infrastructure and delays the treatment, further complicating the patient’s condition. 

Complications of Drug Resistance:

• Long duration of recovery period
• Costly treatment
• Complications of multiple drugs side effects used for treatment
• Immunosuppressive disease leading to poor health for the rest of life
• Multiple organ failure
• Depression
• loss of career
• early age death
• etc

Takeaway messages for the reader:

• Don’t treat yourself.
• Do consult the Doctor (Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Unani)
• Consult qualified doctors to refrain from quack or well-wishers.
• Internet Wikipedia WhatsApp YouTube wellness website well-wishers shouldn’t be a choice when it comes to your health problems solution to live medicine free life.
• Judicious use of medicine to avoid drug resistance is a need of time.
• Instead of changing doctors, discuss with the Doctor and, under the guidance of the same Doctor, meet expert/consultant.

Remember, it is about your health, your suffering, your family’s suffering, your money, and your future, so don’t compromise with the wrong choice. I hope it helps in making the right decision.

Note: It is about your health and well-being, so don’t experiment or invite health issues due to ad-hoc health tips implementation.

Be Wise and Stay Healthy

Education Loan and Dilemma whom to approach?

Many financially poor but bright students need education loans or scholarships for further education and a promising career.

These bright students and parents are confused and tense about paying college fees due to their financial constrain. Students require financial support for college fees and study materials. Many students need financial help for hostel fees or traveling. Parents are worried that lack of funds will ruin their child’s dream of education and having a bright future.

There are many options for getting scholarships or education loans, so students and parents don’t have to worry; they have to explore them.

Below are a few tips on where to get scholarships and education loans to pay college fees or study materials

College Fee: 

1. The college management has information about government education scholarship schemes. 
2. Most of the college management has contact details of the Corporate and NGOs who support bright students with scholarships. 
3. College management can help students by giving a recommendation letter for loans or scholarships, which will ease the students’ search for financial support. 
4. Banks also support education loans against property or parents’ salaries or income. 
5. Crowdfunding 
6. Loans from relatives 
7. A loan from the organization where parents are working. 
8. One can do a part-time job to pay the college fee. 
9. Scholarship against merit is another option that the college gives. 
10. Scholarship exams are conducted from time to time by the government or corporate, or philanthropists. 

Study Material: 

• Library, book bank of ex-students study material, or loan for purchasing study material are options students can think of. 

Long term sustainable approach could be: 

Students supporting Students could be one more long-term sustainable approach. Ex-students or college Alumni can do the below things as a repayment back to their college as a moral and social contribution. 

Book Bank: 

• Every college or community can run a book bank where passed out students give their books and study material to the book bank after the result. 
• The students take books and study materials at the beginning of the year. 
• After the result is announced, books and study material is returned to the book bank for the next student. 
• The system goes on to ensure every student has books and study materials. 
• The Book bank is managed by a student welfare association or similar forum.  

Funds for Fee: 

• Every college should develop a fund bank. 
• Desired ex-students contribute small funds of Rs. 200 to 500 per year to fund bank. 
• Suppose 10-20% of students start contributing annually to the fund bank. 
• In that case, the fund bank will create a massive fund in the college, which can be further given to students as an interest-free loan that students have to return as EMI after getting a job. 
• These students also start annual contributions to a college fund for future poor students so those poor students can study due to fund bank loans as they could study. 
• The system can be run for years and years by college alums. 
• Funds contributions by Alumni will be a great asset for that education system and society. 
• The Alumni association manages the fund bank in collaboration with college management. 

College management should think on this line about developing the book bank and Alumni Fund for interest-free loans for poor students. 

Once passed out, students donate the books to a book bank where students can take a loan of books. Also, another option where students can study is to make a small donation every year to the college. 

It will help students and parents know whom to approach for higher study loans or scholarships. 

I hope students and college alums take up the above idea of book banks and fund banks. 

Share and forward the blog to needy students, college management, Alumni Associations, and Student welfare associations, which will ensure no students have to give up study due to lack of funds. 

All the best to all the bright and enthusiastic students for their careers. 

Safety tips for Alzheimer Disease

If any family member is suffering from the Alzheimer Disease or memory loss problem do following step so they don’t go missing or if lost it becomes easy to find her/him
1. Explain them situation with some examples and stories to accept the situation so they can cooperate
2. Spend some quality time with them and don’t remind them their condition. Act cool and change the topic if they trying hard to remember things
3. Remember they are more upset / Confused with their own problem then you are
4. Enroll them to carry I card
4. Print their name, your contact number on back of their shirt / trouser / saree / kurta at end corner
5. One can put tracking chip on the abdominal fat
6. One can make tattoo of their name and contact number on their forearm
7. Never keep them alone and ensure the door is lock which they can’t open
8. Keep some campaign to take their care
9. Play memory exercise games
10. Follow doctors instruction and medication properly

Missing Person Search Step

If any one of near and dear one go missing follow below steps simultaneously to ensure you can find him/her on earliest.

1. Register FIR in local Police station and ask police to record the statement.
2. Ensure police does investigation for this complain as a serious nature as kidnapping
3. Give 50 or more copy of photos to all the Beat Marshal, Biker and traffic – Hawaldar/Constable to search locally within local area and city/ town
4. Ensure missing person photo is shared in all the near by police station
5. Ensure the police website is updated on missing person link
6. Enrol local police to use their network of Khabri
7. Enrol the local police to do the wireless message within city / taluka / district and across the interstate
8. Ask Police to do local TV and Radio announcement
9. Enrol police to do mobile van loud speaker announcement
10. Along with FIR copy and 50 photos with detail – register with missing person Cell
11. Take out 5000+ posters of A3 size or bigger with name of missing person, age, date of missing, contact numbers and paste in public places like railway station, bus stops, temples, church, gurudwara, masjid colleges, auto and taxi stands, toll naka etc etc
12. Do Social Media campaign FB , Twitter , LinkedIn and whats-app
13. Enrol DCP / Add CP level officer to monitor the process of local police station
14. Enrol the Civil Defense and Home guard volunteers and other NGO volunteers to spread locally to do personal search
15. Ask few friends to take their vehicle and move with constable to inquire in public places.
16. Enrol All India Medical Association – Local chapter, Municipal Corporation’s hospital group, Hospital Association to share the detail on whatsapp for any such person admitted in their hospital
17. Enrol Cable operator to publish the photo advertisement and below liner during the popular show.
18. Ensure all the above things are done at same time so enrol relatives / friends with one one responsibility
19. If 24 hours passes then do give photo advertise in all the local and national news paper in front page
20. If it is kid or girl ensure you use the interstate police support and wider media like TV and social media
21. Interstate search by repeated wireless messages by local police, Child Helpline / Red Cross also provide the great support with their country wide network
22. Enrol the NGO like red cross who are working for missing people
23. Just be positive and keep praying in your mind
24. Never follow or take support of any rituals remember only positive actions helps.
25. Faster you take the action faster is positive outcome
26. Connect the following government/ NGO agency to help you                                                                                               – National Center of Missing Children – http://www.missingindiankids.com/                                                              – Child Helpline

I personally pray that no one’s family member should go missing and If lost please follow above steps simultaneously to ensure that you can find him/her on earliest.

Do help in spreading this post so people who have missed their family members this steps provide as a guide to find them.

 

Early relief and rescue operation during disaster

I always feel any relief work should be dignified and not add further psychological problem to the victim.  Early rescue by experts and  trained volunteers will help in early rehabilitation.

Preparedness for any emergency and self help and minimum external help is the most ideal way to reduce the impact of any disaster.

Below are my view to reduce the impact of disaster and organized the better management during the rescue and relief operation post disaster.

Flood in J&K or any other part of country or any disaster, needs lots of human hours of experts in field and material for rescue and relief work. Ideally speaking the helps which are planned in advance and as per demand and need of situation to reach on earliest means a true help.

Delay in relief work happens due to collecting the things on last moment for rescue and relief work will not only increases the pain and suffering of the victim but also increases the impact of disaster. This also invites delayed rehabilitation. Increase economical loss, waster of rescue and relief material.

Untrained amateur well wishers helps is also added disaster not only for victim but many time whole rescue and relief operations is mismanaged or delayed.

Restricting the people to enter the disaster area for volunteering works is also the need of time as many times more than the victim volunteer management becomes a big task for the government authority.

Most of the time army of false victim also gathers at the disaster area that travels to get relief work across the country and takes away the maximum relief material and actual victim doesn’t get anything.

We say it’s a disaster management but looks till now in India disaster mismanagement.

We at RADHEE NGO developing the technology which is in process where we can reduce the response time for rescue and relief work and give dignified relief work.

Objective of RADHEE is “Early Help, Right Help”.

Use of technology and the content management system is the best solution which we are in process of developing for our mission on Early Rescue and Relief Work.

 

When patient is hospitalized – Tips for how to give (as a relatives/ friend ) or get (as a family member) help

When patient is hospitalized – Tips for how to give (as a relatives/ friend ) or get (as a family member) help

In today’s ear of small nuclear families, both husband and wife / both parents are working to meet both ends of costly living so it becomes very difficult to manage if any one of the family member falls sick and need hospitalization for long duration.

Friend in need is friend in deed. Lets make this help meaningful by following few tips

Blog talks about two aspects 

1. what to do as relative and family member when you visit the hospital or become support system
2. What to do as a patients family member to get help from relatives and friends.

When you visit hospital follow simple things that will be more appreciated by patient and his/her family

Simple Do’s and Don’t to make your visit meaningful and welcoming to hospital 

1. Don’t ask how it happened (as they are suffering and told to many which further can add to their suffering)
2. Don’t give negative examples
3. Don’t scare to patients and his/her relatives by any examples
4. Never be superstitious / astrologer
5. Never give medical advise as they are already in experts hand in hospital.
6. If you feel something is going wrong in hospital with patient, study it, think before what suggest
7. Message before going and ask what will be good time to call / visit and what they should carry to hospital or what help is required.
8. Don’t plan help by yourself but asking what they can do will be more meaningful. It’ll avoid duplication and gaps
9. When offering help be specific what you can do and at what time for e.g – I can sleep at night or I can drop kids at school or get kids from school or help them in home work or can do bank work or help in office work or cook some food etc
10. Only commit when you are 100% sure of full filling it
11. Remember your last moment change of plan will disturb the over burden family members who is already in stress.
12. Don’t over crowd in hospital or at home at same time but call other relative and friends so few can visit everyday
13. Depending upon the type of sickness plan for long term meetings and support
14. Make the environment cheerful with meaningful talks, discussion jokes etc
15. Don’t eat or drink at home of sick person as they get over burden by relatives/ friend hospitality which reduces time for quality care of patients for early recovery.
16. Be patience in listening and Never give advises
17. Before talking think since person is suffering has become sensitive so be careful to start a topic
18. Smile and gentle touch, says more than words
19. Don’t talk loudly as due to suffering patients may become sensitive to noise
20. Take food as per advise from the doctor
21. Don’t force to eat which is against the medical advice, in fact support in diet
22. Don’t expect any thank you for your help as in stress family members do acknowledge timely help but may forget to verbally to acknowledge
23. Remember your required help is biggest support in speedy recovery of patient.

As a patient’s family member do following things to reduce your stress  and get quality help from relatives and friends.

1. Pen down what help you are looking from relatives and friends to manage home, hospital and work. Plan it
2. This will help you what to ask specific help from relative and friends. It’ll become easy for them also to commit and full fill it
3. Don’t over burden one or two relatives or friends but instead divide the work.
4. If any of relative or friends hasn’t called it may mean they may not be aware about your situation so if you are looking for any help don’t hesitate to call and ask for help.
5. Don’t feel bad if relative and friends refuse to give specific help you asked in such scenario share your other requirement so they can choose as per their priorities and commitments
6. Remember in today’s ear time is biggest problem as we all are over burden with many things so understand your relatives and friends problem as well if they refuse help.
7. Have a discussion with treating doctor what is going to be prognosis, plan of treatment and cost involved in it
8. In today’s era everyone has mediclaim but in case you don’t have do ask your treating doctor about medical social worker and understand if patient can get help from any government’s medical help plans
9. Every government and private hospital above bed of 40 has to appoint full time medical social worker
10. Medical social workers are aware about all the government schemes, bank loans paper work needed to get it, corporate who support the bills of patient.
11. If you need any monetary help show how you can repay not in wage idea but give clear picture of repayment mode.
12. Banks also gives loans for hospital bills which one can repay in installments for which you need a good paper work. Take help of treating doctor and medical social worker of hospital.
13. Ensure if you are real need then only ask for the monetary help form corporate as you may be taking away help from someone who may be in need more than you.
14. Do take care of your heath also as if you are fit you can take good care of your suffering family member

Hope above tips help to reduce the stress and better planning for the patient’s treatment.

Do share your experience which has help in speedy recovery / reduce suffering / support to patient’s family.

Your feed back, suggestion will help me  and others as well.

Stay Fit and Help others when in need.

 

My Social View

Social Problem V/S Responsible Citizen

If we Indian will become responsible citizen then 50% social problems will be solved automatically and it’ll help us to enjoy true super power and comfort of living.

Problems like garbage disposal sense in public places, cleanliness of public places, diseased due to dirty environment  water conservation sense, noise pollution, stopping to electricity wastage, following traffic rules etc etc

GDP loss due to careless behavior to make the country dirty and reduce living standards is such a big loss that if we don’t become responsible for our act basic Living cost will be go high time to time  and will add the with law and order problem due to lack of basic survival issue

Here is few GDP loss and % in the budget for the cause

– Drought and Flood causes – GDP loss of 13%

– Garbage collection from the road/street and public places, wet and dry garbage segregation and cleanliness of public place – 12% in the budget allocation

– Water borne diseases due to poor waster water disposal & vector borne disease – 2% GDP loss

– River and nala cleaning – 6% of budget

– Accident – Road, Rail,  industrial or fire – 7% GDP loss

– 1% population become disable or unable to attend office for more than year due to accident or disaster

– more can be added to the list but over all understanding is that its making living costly and unhealthy

This losses can be easily reduced as it don’t need any magic but only needs let everyone say let me do my part of duty as an Indian Citizen

Spreading the word and let me start to do it and let other follow approach is only solution

Looking forward for comment/ spreading the words  and how we can make people to enroll to say its me  who is committed to keep India clean and let people follow me instead i may follow others

 

 

What is my blog about

This Blog is all about getting knowledge which one can trust in different situation like medical or disaster or accidental emergency

 

Blog will also have articles how to do compensation in case of accident / disaster or health emergency.

 

My view on social issues.

Voting – few hours of exercise V/S 5 years of the hardship

Election is on its way. Let all educated citizen start searching the right candidate in our area for voting as our laziness on day of voting is going to cost 5 years of hardship and big hole in pocket with some stress oriented disease in gift .. Like/ Comment/Share for brighter and happy future of self.
Start saying I’m 100% going to vote and find the right candidate in my area …as I’m responsible citizen and will do my part of duty for myself and my futures and my country.

Once all will say I’m doing surely it’ll make a difference

I am doing my part of enrolling people for voting in advance please you also follow this initiative in your own way. Let this election we have 100% voting so no political party can take educated public for granted and play poor and religious base dirty politics to make our life hard and expensive living.

Its time all educated people act as learned responsible citizen and also guide the poor what is right voting means and encourage them to vote the right candidate.

If everyone encourage and ensure to motivate to their colleague, employee, servants, drivers, neighbours, friends, relatives, people whom we meet in our day today life for voting i think we have covered 80% population

Uttarakhand Flood V/S Assam Flood

Dear All,

I’m happy to see so many NGO and public are giving their support/view on flood situation of Uttarakhand.

One good thing lots of analysis are done for the Uttarakhand flood  – whether its natural or manmade calamity, how the hydroelectrically power plants have impacted to  cause this type of devastation, how was government response, how Army done the rescue operation and role of army in disaster rescue and How NGO’s and internal NGO’s supporting in the rescue and relief work  etc etc.

Since many days I’m following the Uttarakhand disaster information from the government’s view-point, media and NGO stand and public suffering and participation.

Government, Army and Few NGO have done a commendable job.

Media gave lots of coverage to the Uttarakhand flood with braking news, however I couldn’t see any responsible journalism for the people of Assam as at the same time more than 1 lakh people in 11 district of Assam are affected by flood and every day one more village is getting submerge inside the water due to continuous heavy rain

West Bengal is also seeing flood like situation but not much covered in Media as breaking news

Since Media didn’t cover the Assam Flood situation no NGO or public wants to go and do rescue or relief or rehabilitation work,  The simple reason being who will give donation if they don’t know the news of the flood in Assam through Media as a breaking news.

Does NGO and donation are dependent of the media’s breaking news?

More than needed materials are poured in the Utarakhand with every NGO and public clamming we are only doing best things and what we are demanding is needed so generously donate to our NGO only.

While in Assam very few NGO’s have reached, people are still to evacuate even though the Assam government with Army is doing its best, though gap remains.

2 types of people are getting relief material during the disaster

1. Actual Victim

2. People across the India reached the area claiming themselves as a victim only to get relief material.

These 2^nd type of people also have a hope that they will get home of their own and relief material worth many days so such people reaches every disaster area.

Many of these 2^nd type of people has home in every disaster affected area – this is due to supply is more than demand and given without verification.

Here I don’t mean to say people shouldn’t donate or help the disaster victim but demand government to give actual facts so that our hard-earned money reaches only to the needy/ victim

No government has come out with the assessment report of the loss and need

I don’t blame the public as no much real information is reached to them still we Indians are generous to donate and help during such situation knowing facts that half of the money is going to be waste.

Billion dollars of fund is raised and most of it will not reach to the actual victims

Here I want to raise the points with active and vibrant citizens of India and share my experience about the disaster management

It’s time we do professional and organised rescue and relief work.

Government should ensure the 2^nd type of  people from across the India shouldn’t reach to disaster affected area to get the relief material and hamper the relief work, and ensure that  relief material reaches to the actual affected victims

Let relief work reached to every affected area equally and simultaneously.

Let not NGO raise the fund in the name of disaster on false data.

Let media play responsible journalism

Let public and corporate donate on demand even after many days of disaster

This can happen only if we have central agency to coordinate and monitor the relief work, cordon the area for the public. Provide the trained and skilled volunteers who can do equal and graceful distribution of relief work under the guidance of the government and local authority.

Let Indian Citizen play a role of responsible citizen

Report of the relief and rehabilitation work at every few hours to few days and raise fund and material on demand.

RADHEE Disaster and Education Foundation is in process of developing the inventory software for early rescue and relief work and disaster management system for professional way of handling the disaster and reduce the impact of disaster.

Objective is to reduce the response time and give trained and skilled help to the victim to reduce the impact.

I humbly appeal and request many people to join this big mission of professional and graceful disaster relief work

Your support in many ways will help us to reach our mission

We invite people and expert in industry to give their view/ feedback/ share thoughts on the above topic