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Monday, May 31, 2010

NO SMOKING DAY 31ST MAY

LETS MAKE THIS WORLD SMOKE FREE..... LET INITIATE A HEALTHY LIVING

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

ACR Criteria for the diagnosis of Churg-Strauss Syndrome

Patient is classified as CSS if at least four of six criteria are present
  1. History of asthma
  2. Eosinophilia: Eosinophilia >10% on differential white blood cell count.
  3. Mono- or polyneuropathy
  4. Pulmonary infiltrates, migratory or transitory pulmonary infiltrates due to vasculitis.
  5. History of acute or chronic paranasal sinus pain or tenderness or radiographic opacification of the paranasal sinuses.
  6. Extravascular eosinophils

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

world asthma day..................... HOW I CAN ASSESS MY ASTHMA CONTROL

ASTHMA IS A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISORDER OF THA AIRWAY. THE PRESENT AIM OF ASTHMA MANAGEMENT IS TO KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL. THERE ARE SEVERAY WAY TO ASSESS ASTHMA CONTROL. A PATIENT CAN ASSESS ASTHMA CONTROL BY FOLLOWING QUESTION--
1. HOW MANY TIME UR ASTHMA KEEP U AWAY FROM UR DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES
2. HOW FREQUENTLY U HAVE BREATHING PROBLEM
3. HOW FREQUENT UR NIGHT SYMPTOMS
4. HOW FREQUENTLY U NEED RESQUE INHALER /NEBULIZER
5. WHAT IS UR PEAK FLOW READING
6. DO U THING UR ASTHMA IS IN CONTROL

BY ASKING ABOVE QUESTION AND SUBSEQUENT RESULT WILL GIVE IDEA ABOUT ASTHMA CONTROL. THE BETTER UR ASTHMA CONTROL THE BETTER IS UR QUALITY OF LIFE.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

emphysema in non smoker

Emphysema develop mostly in smokers however there is report of emphysema in person who does not smoke. The causes of emphysema in non smokers includes

Nutritional Emphysema
alfa-1 antitrypsin deficiency
HIV
chronic asthma
treated pulmonary tuberculosis
Drugs—injectables
             Methylphenidate
             Methadone
              Heroin
Drugs—inhalation
             Marijuana
             Toluene (glue sniffing)
Connective tissue disease
              Cutis Laxa, Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Occupational exposures
              Coal mine dust, silica dust, cadmium
Biological dusts
              Farmers, grain workers, wood workers, cotton textile worker
Biomass fuels
Congenital
              Salla’s disease, Menkes disease, Hypocomplimentemic urticarial vasculitis (HUVS)


ref
1 . Emphysema in the Nonsmoker. Delano S. Fabro, Jr, DO,*† and Douglas S. Frenia, MD*. Clinical Pulmonary Medicine • Volume 15, Number 1, January 2008
2 . COPD in non smoker. PJ Barens Lancet aug.2009

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