DID YOU KNOW?

Did You Know?……..About Uterus Transplantation ————————————————————————- Did you know that just like kidney,liver and heart,UTERUS also can be transplanted to a woman’s body? Did you know that pregnancy can grow and develop almost upto term in the transplanted uterus and a live and healthy baby can be born? Yes.Uterus Transplantation has become a reality in …

GAS TROUBLE-GERD

GAS TROUBLE-GERD ——————————— Old trouble with new name!! ‘Dr,will you write on GERD?I suffer just that’….a friendly request reached me once.My friend didn’t meet a doc.Google was her homely inexpensive consultant.Like any other of my fraternity I too got irritated with such patients but of late I started taking advantage of the Google-provided awareness of …

A RARE LABOUR-ROOM EMERGENCY

A Rare Labour room Emergency ———————————————- Labour room is the most important work arena of a Gynaecologist.Labour pain is the hardest form of pain a lady is destined to suffer.In this era of ‘painless labour’ many in our country still do not opt for that.Of course the pain duration is much lessened with safe medicines. …

DIALYSIS

DIALYSIS ————- 10yr olds even know about ‘dialysis’ nowadays.Somebody in their household or neighbourhood must be undergoing this treatment which has become so common and so handy to sustain prolonged life for kidney failure patients.Before the advent of dialysis and kidney transplant,kidney failure led to death for sure.Nephrology (science related to kidney related problems)service including …

A FAULTY DEED RECTIFIED

A faulty deed rectified ——————————— We were proceeding to the footwear stand after a blissful worship at Thodupuzha Krishnaswami Temple.Mrs V whom I had met inside,was waiting for me there.She made the sandal paste mark(Prasadam) on my forehead more perfect wiping the extra portions with her hand and slipped in a piece of plantain cutting …

SHE IS ALIVE!!

SHE IS ALIVE!! ——————— Mrs X at 31 yrs,was happily pregnant with her second child.The first scan at 6weeks’ pregnancy time showed no evidence of a pregnancy inside the uterus.I always nurture in my mind a caution in such cases.it can be an ectopic pregnancy,ie,a pregnancy in a location other than inside the uterus,for example …

VARICOSE VEINS

Courtesy..Dr Shimna Azeez Varicose veins are big,dilated,entangled and curled blood vessels. “We need only garlic,orange juice and olive oil to ‘cure’ varicose veins”..were you confronted with such a video message in WhatsApp yesterday?This message was shared 30,000 plus times in Facebook at a jet speed!!! Many were lamenting,”How sad!The season for oranges has ceased.Cannot try …

FERTILITY TREATMENT-THE OTHER SIDE OF IT

Fertility treatment..the other side of it ——————————————————- Today the couple Mrs&Mr R came to me with their 6yrs old twin kids ,a male and a female.I remember to have referred this couple for higher level fertility treatment years back.The girl child was blind .The boy suffered Cerebral Palsy and was disabled physically and mentally. Mrs …