If you’ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol, what does that actually mean? Chances are you’ve heard a lot about high cholesterol. You might be feeling nervous about the lifestyle changes that invariably need to come from having high cholesterol. What can you really expect from this kind of diagnosis? ==> Dietary Changes One of the [...]
Perhaps the most dangerous thing about high cholesterol is how hard it is to see it coming. Unlike other health conditions that come with warning signs well ahead of time, by the time warning signs show up with high cholesterol you may already be in mortal danger. The best and only sure way to catch [...]
This generation will not stand a better chance against heart failure if not for the efforts of people like Joseph Lister, Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and much recently- Norman Heatley. From the tiny grain of a scientific observation made by Joseph Lister in 1871, each one of them contributed something significant that led [...]
Rheumatic heart is a disease which is as dreaded as any fatal disease and can take a worse turn when it happens simultaneously with pregnancy. While pregnancy is regarded as a normal process to perpetuate a species, the presence of a growing fetus in the uterus makes for a more complicated treatment process. When [...]
The start was nothing dramatic, just a sore throat. Two to four weeks later, pain has developed in skin and joints, temperature is up, there’s difficulty breathing and so many other discomforts. The diagnosis: rheumatic heart fever. Getting well from the signs and symptoms, doesn’t mean that the worst is over because it can [...]
It is an established fact that strep throat infection is the leading cause of rheumatic fever which is the causative factor for the life-threatening rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic fever still tops the list of the causes of rheumatic heart disease. Wthout any medical intervention, the streptococci can attack the heart causing serious repercussion. Damages to [...]
Penicillin and its development in the early 40′s made the treatment of rheumatic fever possible but not the complete eradication of the causal streptococcal bacteria. Rheumatic heart disease is a complication of the rheumatic fever, a condition where the heart valves are potentially damaged. Rheumatic heart disease treatment begins with prevention. Stopping the infection once [...]
Rheumatic fever which may result to rheumatic heart and death were confirmed to be about twenty times higher in many economically deprived and crowded communities.. This is understandable when one considers their reduced access to medical care as well as medical information. For instance, are they aware that a simple throat infection is the leading [...]
Two sisters grimly succumbed to death in two years for the same sickness: rheumatic heart disease which they developed when they were still young. The parents blamed the genes for the disease. That generalization was not accurate. It began with not giving medical intervention to a strep throat which was assumed to be just another [...]
A person getting the diagnosis for the first time about rheumatic heart disease is commonly perplexed with the discovery and the medical jargons. You are awed and couldn’t make head or tails of the medical jargons that are thrown your way. Isn’t simplifying the explanation for the pathophysiology of rheumatic heart disease a challenge [...]
