Depression - Guide to mental wellness

Depression Warning Signs

The normal problems of life mean that everyone suffers sadness or has "the blues" from time to time. But if loneliness and anguish have taken a toll on your life, you may have depression. Depression makes it difficult to justify and live life like you once did. Just getting through the day can be enormous. But no matter how dejected you feel, you can recover. Knowing the symptoms causes, and treatment of depression is the foremost step to cure the problem.

What is depression?

Sadness or deterioration in mood is common results to life’s battles, misfortunes, and setbacks. Many people prefer the word “depression” to these kinds of signs, but depression is much more than just sadness.

Whatever the symptoms, depression is varied from normal sadness in that it encircles your day-to-day life, disturbing your ability to work, study, eat, sleep, and have fun. The feelings of misery, sadness, and uselessness are acute and unyielding.

Are you depressed?

If you relate yourself with many of the following symptoms and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from depression.

·    you feel hopeless about life and things in general

·    you’ve lost interest in activities you used to enjoy before

·    you feel tired and lethargic all the time

·    your sleeping pattern and food habits have drastically changed

·    you can’t concentrate on a given task no matter how hard you try

·    You can’t curb your negative thoughts and feeling of hopelessness

·    you are much more short-tempered and aggressive than you usually used to be

·    Consumption of alcohol more than normal quantity or engaging in other unproductive behavior

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA CAUSE AND TREATMENT

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA

A disorder first explained in 1965 is a sleep disruption in which the person stops breathing for at least 10 seconds each hour during sleep. The occurrence of halts in breathing is called apneas, which literally means "without breath". 

An apnea is a period during which breathing either terminates or is notably reduced. It is caused by winding down the throat muscles; the soft tissue at the back of the throat subsides and closes, resulting in choked airways. Several types of sleep apnea prevail, but the most familiar type is “obstructive sleep apnea”. 

The most distinguishable sign of obstructive sleep apnea is snoring. Anyone can develop obstructive sleep apnea, although it mostly affects middle-aged and older adults and people who are obese.

What are the symptoms and signs of sleep apnea?

A symptom is something the patient experiences and reveals, while a sign is something other people, such as the medical practitioner recognize. For example, an ache may be a symptom while a rash may be a sign.

1) Patients may feel exceedingly sleepy during the day, sleep is discomposed, there is customarily snoring which may be noisy, during sleep there will also be periods of silence where no breathing exists and then gasps.

2) Less frequently, the sick person may maybe distressed from insomnia, morning headaches, moodiness and anxiety, poor concentration, irritability, and depression.

3) Blood pressure time and again advance (hypertension), weight may scale-up, increased urination and waking up at night to urinate (nocturia).

4) Some sufferers complain of heartburn.

5) A remarkable number of patients wake up during the night with a dry mouth/throat.

6) Uncontrolled daytime drowsiness.

7) Morning headaches.

8) Weakened emotional or psychological functioning.

WHAT IS SWINE FLU - SWINE FLU PREVENTION & TREATMENT

WHAT IS SWIN FLU AND ITS TREATMENT

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Swine flu prevention is more important than treatment.

WHAT IS SWINE FLU?

Swine flu is a respiratory infection caused by the viruses named as influenza viruses and this virus infects the respiratory tract of the pigs and produces the same symptoms like human influenza viruses such as sneezing, coughing, fever etc. transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common but the persons who are in regular exposure to pigs are at a high risk to develop swine flu and it is called zoonotic swine flu. 

Actually, there are three genera of influenza viruses that are influenza a, b and c. 

In pigs influenza is common and the c is rare while influenza b is common in birds and the main thing is all of these three genera produce the flu in humans. 

Swine influenza is caused by influenza a subtypes that are H1N1, H1N2, H2N3, H3N1 & H3N2. These subtypes are reported at the different time periods.

VARIOUS SYMPTOMS OF SWINE FLU

The incubation period of swine flu virus is two to three days means the symptoms started to appear after two to three days after you got exposed to the virus. Swine Flu symptoms are as follow:

1. High grade fever

2. Sore throat

3. Body ache

4. Headache

5. Vomiting

6. Diarrhea

7. Runny nose

8. Chills

9. Fatigue

HOW IS SWINE FLU DIAGNOSED?

Before diagnosed we should know the history of this Swine Flu Virus. Below we discuss all the things related to the History of Swine flu and how it will be diagnosed.

History of Swine Flu: Swine flu is diagnosed by taking the history whether the person came in the contact of other people who is having the above symptoms and the person also develops the same symptoms.

Nasopharyngeal swab test: In this test, the sample of your nose or throat secretions are collected by a sterile swab stick and then these secretions are diagnosed for the influenza virus. This test can be positive or negative if it is positive it can be positive for influenza subtypes A & B as we told you previously in this article. If it is positive for type B then the person is not having swine flu infection but if it is positive for type A then the person is having swine flu.

PCR technology: This test is done by the specialized doctors in the specialized laboratories.  In this the swine flu is diagnosed by identifying the particular antigens that are surface proteins associated with the virus subtypes.

TREATMENT OF SWINE FLU

The treatment for swine flu is supportive. It consists of:

• Bed rest
• Isolation
• Increased fluid consumption
• Antipyretics (to decrease the body temperature)
• Cough suppressants
• Analgesics to relieve pain due to body ache, headache & fatigue

Swine flu is a viral infection so it is treated by the antiviral drugs. The main anti-viral drugs are oseltamivir(tamiflu) and zanamivir (relenza). Tamiflu is an oral drug while the zanamivir is given by inhalation. Tamiflu should be given within two days while a person develops symptoms to treat the flu symptoms. This medicine helps to prevent the fatal effects of swine flu.

Swine Flu Vaccine: One vaccine called the vaxigrip is also used to prevent the swine flu. Swin Flu Vaccine is easily available at various Medical Shops.

Ventilator support: some of the patients develop the severe effects of swine flu which are respiratory discomfort, pneumonia so they are put on ventilators which give the respiratory support to the patient.

Antibiotics: as patients develop the other infections (pneumonia) so the antibiotics are given to them to treat the infections.

In the Next Article we will Share the Various Health care tips to take care of yourself from wine Flu. We share various Prevention of Swine Flu Virus which can really very effective to save a life. So Stay in Touch with us.