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  🔎There will be more variants with such intense circulation : The WHO epidemiologist has warned of more notorious virus variants in the future. Ever since the pandemic started in 2020, the coronavirus has mutated several times. Of all the variants of the virus, the variants of concern or those which have driven waves of infection worldwide are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron. The Delta variant was detected in India and was the most disastrous of all. It had almost crippled the hospital management in the country. Dr Kerkhove warns of more serious variants in the future. 🔎 ​Future variants will be more transmissible : Currently, the Omicron is said to be the most transmissible variant of the virus. It was found in December 2021 and ever since has remained the most dominant strain of the virus. Though the symptoms associated with Omicron infection are mild in nature, the virus is said to have the highest potential for transmission. The WHO has ti...

Diabetes is a serious condition that causes higher than normal blood sugar levels. Diabetes occurs when your body cannot make or effectively use its own insulin, a hormone made by special cells in the pancreas called islets (eye-lets). Insulin serves as a “key” to open your cells, to allow the sugar (glucose) from the food you eat to enter. Then, your body uses that glucose for energy. But with diabetes, several major things can go wrong to cause diabetes. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are the most common forms of the disease, but there are also other kinds, such as gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy, as well as other forms.  🔎What are the different types of diabetes? The most common types of diabetes are type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.    🔎Type 1 diabetes:  If you have type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin. Your immune system attacks and destroys the cells in your pancreas that make insulin. Type 1 diabe...

  🔎What is tomato flu Tomato Flu is a rare viral disease, which causes red-coloured rashes, skin irritation and dehydration, and the disease gets its name from the blisters it causes, which look like tomatoes. It is a form of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Till now, most of the reported cases of Tomato Flu or Tomato Fever are among children from age 1-9. The illness is rare in adults as they usually have immune systems strong enough to defend them from the virus. 🔎Case of Tomato flu:   The tomato flu was first identified in Kerala's Kollam district on May 6, 2022. The study said the tomato flu virus shows symptoms similar to those of Covid-19 but the virus is not related to SARS-CoV-2. Rather than a viral infection, tomato flu could be an after-effect of chikungunya or dengue fever in children. 🔎 Is Tomato Flu a form of COVID-19?  Though some symptoms are similar to COVID-19, the tomato flu has nothing to do with COVID-19. These sympto...

 Introduction : Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox. 🔎Case of monkey pox :  As of late July 2022, the CDC had confirmed almost 2,900 cases of monkeypox and a related virus in the U.S. That was up from 35 confirmed cases in early June. The agency had confirmed over 16,800 cases of monkeypox worldwide as of late July, up from over 1,000 cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in early June. On July 23, 2022, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the fast-spreading outbreak to be “a public health emergency of international concern.” 🔎Monkey pox cases in India : The 2022 monkeypox outbreak in India is a part of the ongoing outbreak...

  🔎What is normal blood pressure? Normal blood pressure for most adults is defined as a systolic pressure of less than 120 and a diastolic pressure of less than 80. Elevated blood pressure is defined as a systolic pressure between 120 and 129 with a diastolic pressure of less than 80. 🔎What is normal blood pressure according to age? 🔎High blood pressures is more likely to cause: 🧿Heart attack 🧿Stroke 🧿Heart failure 🧿Vision loss 🧿Kidney failure 🧿Dementia 🧿Erectile dysfunction 🔎How to treat high blood pressure? Some of the suggested lifestyle changes by the physicians are as follows: 🧿Quit smoking 🧿Lose weight 🧿Avoid alcohol or at least limit the intake 🧿Eat a low-sodium and low-fat diet such as the DASH diet 🧿Avoid too much stress 🧿Eat foods rich in potassium, magnesium, and calcium such as bananas and milk 🧿Regular monitoring of blood pressure after reaching the age of 35 years 🧿Practice medita...