During health human blood maintains an Oxygen saturation of about 94-99 %. This is also called SPO2 ( the amount of blood saturated with oxygen or also the percentage of Oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood). This level is measured by a simple device that is clipped on to your finger and which ... Views: 541
Case by case consent is being given for starting Plasma therapy for patients seriously affected with Covid-19.
What is Plasma Therapy?
Convalescent Plasma therapy involves the use of Plasma from a recovered patient of Covid-19. It is presumed that the patient who has recently recovered ... Views: 527
This article is about Dry Cough - that common cough which can come at any time, can cause immense distress during the day to you as well as people around you, and sometimes keep you awake at nights!
What are the common causes?
POST NASAL DRIP - Nasal allergies, nasal infections, enlarged ... Views: 502
There are three paired major Salivary Glands in the human body and countless minor salivary glands.
The Major Salivary Glands are - Parotid (in front of the ear, on the cheeks), Submandibular (high in the neck, just below the jaw bone on each side) and the Sublingual (on the floor of the ... Views: 694
Being an ENT Specialist with a considerable Paediatric practice, I am frequently asked by parents whether their child needs the annual Flu Vaccine.
They often tell me "according to the Internet she/he should get it".
Following this line of reasoning, I decided to abandon my textbooks for a ... Views: 498
The sense of SMELL is one of our five basic senses - apart from touch, vision, hearing and taste.
It is a higher and an aesthetic sense which, apart from helping us get the flavour out of food (Flavour is a combination of the sense of Taste and Smell) also helps us appreciate the finer things ... Views: 601
Vertigo, Dizziness, Giddiness, Imbalance are complex related symptoms that can trouble the patient as well as confound and confuse the clinician trying to make sense of it.
Vertigo is typically the sensation that the world around you is spinning or sometimes that the world around you is steady ... Views: 550
There are multiple intricate mechanisms that help us to maintain our balance.
These include
- Inner Ears - The Vestibule in the inner ear contains the Utricle, Saccule and the three Semicircular canals that help to orient our body in a three-dimensional plane as well as maintain balance during ... Views: 643
Tonsil Stones or Tonsilloliths are hard yellowish deposits that build up inside the Tonsils.
Tonsils are the paired round red balls at the back of the throat, on each side, whose primary responsibility is to act as the body's first line of defence and trap Bacteria, Viruses etc that come ... Views: 529