A migraine is a powerful headache causing severe pulsing or throbbing pain on one side of head. The headache may frequently be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and flashes of light. A migraine can last from a few hours to a few days. The severity often prevents one from doing routine activities. Sufferers get confined to … Continue reading Migraine Headache
A headache is a painful sensation in any part of the head. It affects everyone regardless of age, sex or social status. A number of conditions can cause headache. It may be associated with other symptoms also. Headache is the most common condition for which people seek treatment. A minor headache is not bothersome. But … Continue reading Headache
The common cold is a viral upper respiratory tract infection. The common cold makes many kids miss school and adults work from home. It is usually harmless and resolves within 5-7 days. The common cold is the most common viral infection in the word. It is contagious and occurs mostly during the winter and rainy … Continue reading The Common Cold
Sore throat is painful, itchy and burning sensation that occurs in the back of your throat. It is more common in winter and monsoon months. There is usually nothing to worry about a sore throat. It heals within a week normally. The medical term for sore throat is pharyngitis. Most of the cases of sore … Continue reading Sore Throat
Snoring is the sound produced by air when it passes through relaxed tissues of throat. Vibrations of the tissues as we breathe cause the sound. Snoring is a common problem and almost everyone would have suffered at least once. But when it becomes chronic or causes sleep apnea, it has to be treated. The good … Continue reading Snoring and Sleep Apnea
Dysphagia can occur to anybody of any age group. Difficulty in swallowing is known as dysphagia in medical parlance. Swallowing seems very simple but, it's actually a very complicated process in our body. It's controlled by many muscles and nerves, of mouth, throat and food pipe. Finally, our brain further controls these nerves and muscles. … Continue reading Difficulty in Swallowing
Children frequently complain of earache. In ENT practice, earache is the most common presenting complaint in kids. It can be mild in some while in others it can be severe and excruciating. How to know if your kid has earache? Your kid may have ear pain if he Points to his ear repeatedly Pulls his … Continue reading Earache in Kids
Choosing a hearing aid is not easy. Picking the model and make of hearing aid involves a lot of considerations. But before we venture into that, let us have a look at what are Hearing Aids indeed. These are electrical devices which amplify sound reaching the ear. They help those with hearing loss hear better … Continue reading Choosing a Hearing Aid
Oscar Wilde famously wrote and I quote, "the tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young". As we delve into it further and look around us, one of the most common sights is the elderly struggling with their not so perfect ears. After a certain age our ears … Continue reading Hearing Loss in Old Age
This phrase, survival of the fittest, is the most famous one in evolution and a corollary from the Darwinian Evolution theory. The fittest would mean the one with the best reproductive capacity (as in to perpetuate your own kind, not just the sex!). The form of life that would produce plenty of copies of itself … Continue reading Survival of THE FITTEST
