scholarly journals Assessment of Complications Caused by the Prescription-Free Consumption of Herbal Medicine with the Purpose of Weight Gain: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Niknafs ◽  
Abbas Alimoradian ◽  
Mehdi Salehi
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Herbal Medications ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Common ◽  
Chicory Roots

In recent years, the common belief that herbal medications cause no side effects, have led to an increase in the consumption of these medications without prescription. Ginseng is one of the most commonly used herbs in the world and is a native of Eastern Asian countries such as China and Korea. It is also known to have several medicinal purposes. However, unreasonable use of this herb can bear consequences. In the current article, 28-year-old woman has consumed 4 capsules each day, which contained Ginseng roots, Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) extract, and Ziziphora (Ziziphora capitate) extract without a prescription to gain weight, which has resulted in serious side effects - including hepatotoxicity, psychologic, and gynecologic disorders. However, these symptoms were controlled with Chicory roots, Purslane and Jujube oxymel. PM focuses on the cooperation between food categories, nutritional instructions, food modulators, and medications. Regardless of their several therapeutic effects, medical herbs have been known to cause quite serious side effects if consumed unsystematically and without the surveillance of a doctor

SINCE HERBAL MEDICATIONS ARE NATURAL, CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED COMPLETELY SAFE?

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
Aman Kaur Saini ◽  
Ashish Yadav ◽  
Mangal Ahlawat ◽  
Komal Komal ◽  
Rahul Goyat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Common People ◽  
Herbal Medication ◽  
Permissible Limits ◽  
Herbal Medications ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Domestic Use ◽  
The Common

The herbal medications cannot be considered absolutely safe and the unregulated domestic use of herbal medications can have potential life threatening side effects. A 29 year old male presented in emergency department of PGIMS,Rohtak in an intubated status with pancreatitis with MODS. The main etiology was uncertain even till the end. This case report emphasizes on the need of the hour is to educate the common people regarding the safety of herbal medication . Herbal medication can lead to life threatening consequences if taken outside the permissible limits.

scholarly journals A Case of Polyneuropathy Following a Single Dose of Diethylcarbamazine and Albendazole During Mass Administration of Drug - A Case Report

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
SC Kohli ◽  
UK Shrestha ◽  
VM Alurkar ◽  
A Maskey ◽  
M Parajuli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Single Dose ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Mass Drug Administration ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The global program to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis created by The World Health organization in 1997 is based on mass administration of single annual doses of diethylcarbamazine ( DEC) plus albendazole in non African regions and of albendazole plus ivermectin in Africa. The usual side effects of DEC treatment include fever, chills, arthralgia, headaches, nausea, and vomiting. Albendazole is associated with relatively few side effects consisting of occasional nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, headache, reversible alopecia, elevated aminotransferases and rarely leucopenia and rash. We report a case of polyneuropathy in a young individual following DEC and albendazole during mass drug administration. Keywords: Albendazole; DEC; Polyneuropathy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njms.v1i1.5800   Nepal Journal of Medical Sciences. 2012; 1(1): 56-58

Acute Pancreatitis Following Organophosphate Compound Poisoning: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Suman K. Jha ◽  
Sabin Chaulagain ◽  
Shiva Kumar Ojha ◽  
Angela Basnet Neela Sunuwar ◽  
Akanchha Khadka
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Acute Pancreatitis ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Organophosphate Compounds ◽  
The World ◽  
Agrarian Communities

Organophosphate compounds are chemicals containing central phosphate molecules with alkyl or aromatic substituent’s. They occur in diverse forms and are used as pesticides, herbicides, nerve agents, etc. Organophosphate compounds are frequently used as pesticides in agrarian communities all across the world. South Asian countries such as Nepal use vast quantities of Organophosphate compounds for pest control in agriculture. Therefore, accidental and suicidal ingestion of Organophosphate compound poisoning has been common especially among the agricultural rural communities. Apart from muscarinic, nicotinic and central nervous system effects in rare instances, Organophosphate compounds are known to cause pancreatitis.

Health Policy in East Asia: Objectives, Priorities and Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Gyu-Jin Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social Rights ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Policy Arrangements ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level

This article aims to identify how the economies that do not necessarily prioritise social rights in their social policy arrangements fare in achieving various healthcare objectives. The big five of East Asian countries – China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore plus Hong Kong – are considered as such cases. It first highlights a wide range of variations in their healthcare offerings. It then shows that, contrary to the common belief, they constitute a surprisingly high level of redistributive elements in them. Deviating from their overall welfare regime characteristics, each healthcare system presents a unique combination of policy objectives in social, medical, economic and political terms, raising a question of the utility of social rights as a central conceptual lens to understand the world of welfare capitalism.

The Decameron: On the Possibility of Love During Self-Isolation

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-178
Keyword(s):  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Human Being ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Consolation Of Philosophy

This article in the genre of the consolation of philosophy deals with the COVID-19 pandemic as a new superphenomenal experience marked by an extremely intense experience of one’s vulnerability and finiteness as well as by problematization of our previous ideas of a human being. The author offers a way to understand our situation and find solace by starting with the performative paradox of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, which contains one of the most famous descriptions of the plague and remains one of the most cheerful and life-enhancing texts in European literature. The article shows that, contrary to the common belief, the consolation offered in the The Decameron is not reduced merely to telling stories that entertain and distract us from tales of grief. Nor is it reduced to the invention of social practices for building a new and more perfect society, although all this, as the author shows, is undoubtedly there in the text and has a beneficial effect. The Decameron’s consolation ultimately consists of the assumption that man himself has metaphysical depths in his incomprehensible (although it is fully embodied in the Decameron) and impossible potential for lovingly accepting the reality of the world as a blessed Gift, to think of eventfulness itself as a gift. The article argues that the anthropology on which Boccaccio’s utopia is based is that of the feast or symposium understood in the spirit of the Platonic-Christian tradition. The author hopes that Boccaccio’s anthropological optics, designed to overcome the pessimism of reason and affirm the optimism of will and faith, can help the reader find meaning and joy in the midst of the suffering and death which are the irrevocable framework of life. This consolation can be heard in the cheerful voice of Boccaccio, which comes to us from faraway plague-ridden Florence and offers us his prescription for healing the “wounds of being.”

scholarly journals RIFAXIMIN INDUCED HYPONATREMIA: A CASE REPORT

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Upadhyay ◽  
Prabhat Agrawal ◽  
Manish Bansal ◽  
Anjalika Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Rare Side Effect ◽  
Middle Aged Woman ◽  
The Common ◽  
Irritable Bowel

ABSTRACTRifaximin is one of the common drugs used in clinical practice in the management of traveler’s diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and hepaticencephalopathy. Hyponatremia is one of the rare side effects of this drug. We hereby present the case of a middle-aged woman who was a known caseof IBS: Diarrhea predominant who developed symptoms of hyponatremia after a short duration of rifaximin treatment, no other cause of hyponatremiawas found on evaluation, so we suspect this as a rare side effect of rifaximin therapy.Keywords: Rifaximin, Hyponatremia, Irritable bowel syndrome.

scholarly journals Sugammadex: Efficacy and Practicality in the Dental Office

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Goetz ◽  
Benjamin Pritts ◽  
Bryant Cornelius. DDS
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Neuromuscular Blocking ◽  
Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs ◽  
Dental Office ◽  
Rapid Reversal ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rescue Agent ◽  
Novel Drug ◽  
Nondepolarizing Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

Sugammadex is a novel drug capable of reversing paralysis induced by the common steroidal nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs, rocuronium and vecuronium. Reversal is complete at any depth of blockade dependent on the dose of sugammadex administered. This allows rocuronium to be used as a rescue agent in scenarios where succinylcholine is contraindicated. Sugammadex is considered a safe drug with minimal side effects compared with traditional reversal with neostigmine and glycopyrrolate. This article features a case report where succinylcholine was undesirable and rapid reversal of paralysis with sugammadex was used during general anesthesia for dentistry.

The Skeletal and Dental Effects of Rapid Maxillary Expansion

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Linder-Aronson ◽  
J. Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Rapid Maxillary Expansion ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Maxillary Expansion ◽  
Skeletal Changes ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Stability

The investigation is a continued examination of the dental and skeletal changes accompanying rapid maxillary expansion on 23 patient. It also examines the stability of these changes 5 years post retention The results show that the final increase in width between the upper first molars recorded 5 years post retention Was 45 percent of that initially achieved by rapid maxillary expansion. The mean final increase in the inter canine width was only 23 percent of the expansion achieved initially. The results do not support the common belief that rapid maxillary expansion increases the overjet and reduces the overbite. No unfavourable skeletal and dental side effects of rapid maxillary expansion could be found.

scholarly journals Proteinuria due to increased dose of deferasirox in a pediatric patient with thalassemia major: case report

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Sarbay ◽  
Mehtap Akbalik Kara
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Pediatric Patient ◽  
Thalassemia Major ◽  
Iron Chelator ◽  
Creatinine Ratio ◽  
Urine Protein ◽  
Spot Urine ◽  
The Common

Deferasirox is an iron chelator that used in B-thalassemia in worldwide. Nephrotoxicity is one of the common side effects of the deferasirox. Nephrotoxicity can be seen in the form of nephritis and tubulopathy. A 6-year-old male whose ferritin levels were above 3500 ng/mL is reported in this article. Deferasirox was increased from 30 mg/kg/day to 40 mg/kg/day because of the high levels of ferritin. In complete urinalysis of the patient after 3 weeks later +3 protein was detected, and spot urine protein/creatinine ratio was 2.5. In patient without symptoms and findings, deferasirox was discontinued. In his follow-ups, no proteinuria was detected in the complete urinalysis at the second week after the drug treatment was discontinued.

scholarly journals Unusual Suicide Case: Survived After Long Suffering

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Arfa Rahman ◽  
Homayra Tahseen ◽  
Quazi Tarikul Islam ◽  
HAM Nazmul Ahasan
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Case Report ◽  
General Ward ◽  
Young Lady ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Unnatural Death ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Suicide Case ◽  
The Common

Hanging is one of the common forms of violent mechanical asphyxial death. When compared to other forms of unnatural death all over the world this method stands on top as death is instantaneous.Hanging is always suicidal unless otherwise proved. The aim of this study is to gain new knowledge that would enable the design of effective of measures that would help to prevent suicide by hanging. In this case report, we will discuss the unusual presentation of a young lady who attempts suicide frequently did not result in death. We present data indicating that victims can be resuscitated even after prolonged period of suspension & unconsciousness & some of the reasons why asphyxiation by hanging may be delayed when there is no damage to the spinal cord. The logical, thoughtful management options that we chose at various stages of her disease in general ward with the use of colistin which eventually led to her cure are also discussed here. Emphasis is given on how these tricky cases can be deal with prognostically good results could be achieved, if such victims are vigorously & promptly resuscitated, irrespective of her initial presentation. Bangladesh J Medicine January 2021; 32(1) : 53-57

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