CHRONICLES : BODY LANGUAGE & DIAGNOSTIC ( PART I)

WHAT OUR BODY IS  TELLING US...

PART I

·        Before any examination,  body  language happens to help sometimes. Notice how shape, color,movement, size & expression or attitude refer to deep

     health conditions.  

Bell's  Palsy

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uman body never lies, according to a saying. In daily life as well as when affected by disease. Let’s see how it express itself in ailments.

      To people and clinicians acquainted with  healthcare conditions, there are some details that help map out the beginning and the worsening of a pathology. The body has a story on its own; and the following physical change gives very often some clues to pinpoint a lot of diseases when it is not about all of them.

This physical change comprises besides the BMI

1.      Shape

2.      Siᴢe

3.      Position

4.      Location

5.      Colour

6.      Sounds

       The BMI, the Body Mass Index refers to weight and height at once. Overweight people tend to develop current conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, colon cancer, lipidemia, coronary heart disease, sleep apnea and so forth. So do underweight ones when suffering from a proteino-calories deficiency like that happens in underdeveloped countries.

      By the same token, any modification in size, shape are also features of many underlying disorders.

     At the level of face, to begin with, the facial nerve, the WII, when affected, gives birth to some modifications. Bell’s palsy is the best example of the involvement of this nerve. Clinically Bell’s palsy reunites the following signs: eyelid drop, incapacity to close one eye, congested nose, and drop tear; Horner’s syndrome, with its cluster of clinical features and signs at the face is another example of expressive body language related to cerebral and nerve disorders.

CHRONICLES:THE ATM BATTLE PART 1

ATM % ( AIDS-TUBERCULOSIS-MALARIA)

SEX, AIR  &  MOSQUITOES

          

Tuberculosis is back, a Bronx Lebanon Hospital surgeon had been noting a few years ago. But the worst  of this returning is that  this  disease is now resistant to traditional  drugs.

What continues to matter about the ATM  Battle is how  these three infectious disease are transmitted. It is helpful to emphasize from the beginning that human being, protozoan and the breathing air have something to do with  the spreading of these three infections. The least we could say  is mother nature as a whole and living beings seem to play a key role in this dreadful ballet.

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is a sexually transmitted condition and for so falls into the category of STD ( Sexually Transmitted Disease). 

Tuberculosis  involves person to person contact  through a medium named air.

Malaria refers to climate, water, marshes but transmission there involves a protozoan  through  Anopheles mosquitoes bites.

If we cannot eradicate these pandemics, we can at least put them under control.  A lot of preventive  measures  are still going on that help limit their spreading.