Western Medicine

When a woman gets pregnant body undergoes various changes. Pregnancy is a very exciting time, and problems, including heartburn, can make it difficult to enjoy all its aspects. There is an old wives tale that pregnant women suffer from acid reflux, which means the baby is born with a full head of hair. However, the […]

 Heart block is a conduction deformity of the heart conduction system from the SA node to Purkinje fibres. But the most common site of blockage is the Septum between the upper and lower chambers. That means atrioventricular Septum. It is a fibrous septum which attaches to all four heart valves. They are the atrial semilunar

What is heart rhythm? Heart Rhythm represents the place of origin of the electrical activity of the heart. In a normal healthy heart, electrical activity is started from the sinoatrial node, located on the upper part of the right atrium wall. In a normal healthy heart, electrical activity is generated and transmitted to the lower

A bounding pulse means a high volume pulse, which can be felt on the radial or carotid artery. There are a lot of reasons for that. Collapsing pulse means high pulse pressure. Pulse pressure is the gap between systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. Systolic blood pressure is the blood pressure in the aorta

This test is done for children who are diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. This is done in the ward setting as well as at home. Every day early morning, a urine sample should be collected from the patient just after waking up because protein concentration in urine is high in the early morning. And the diagnosis

After fits or vomiting, neutrophil and other white blood cell counts can increase falsely. But if the reason for seizures or vomiting is an infection, it improves the white blood cell counts.  But white blood cell count can increase, followed by fits or vomiting without any infection or inflammation. Normal blood flow in vessels is