Health Tip Guide

                                          INFLUENZA   -  An acute contagious respiratory infection marked by fever , chills ,muscle aches,headache, prostration , runny nose , watering eyes, cough and sore throat. ⁃ The disease usually strikes during winter. ⁃ In patients with serious pre-existing illnesses(such as diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart disease and renal failure) and people over 65, influenza frequently is fatal. ⁃ The disease spread primarily by inhalation of infectious aerosols, although spread by personal contact also is possible. ⁃ Epidemics or pandemics arise intermittently around the world during periods of viral evolution;in the winter of 1918-1919 an influenza pandemics claimed 20 million victims. ⁃ Sporadic cases occur each year in the U.S , where 36,000 deaths annually.

ADDISON’s DISEASE   -> A rare illness marked by gradual and progressive failure of the adrenal glands and insufficient production of steroid hormones. Inadequate amounts of glucocorticoids ( e.g.cortisol) and mineral corticoids (e.g.aldosterone )             ETIOLOGY  -> Autoimmune destruction of adrenal glands (80% of cases), chronic infections(e.g , tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus,either virus such as, Lyme disease or histologists), or cancers that metastasize to the adrenal glands from other organs(e.g, insufficiency is related to supression of hypothalami c-pituitary- adrenal axis function.           Symptoms   -> A feeling of fatigue and weakness         -nausea /vomiting         - Abdominal pain          -Craving for salt and dizziness         - Hypo tension          TREATMENT ...