Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Q: I’ve been always perplexed and fascinated with the universal expression called allergy. I tend to have allergic rhinitis [nasal allergy], or quite something like it, at least twice a year. My friends are no exceptions. Yet, I find the illness complex and confusing. Could you separate the chaff from
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE We are now at the threshold of a new era in which millions of people would be safe from some of the most terrible diseases that have haunted humankind. Poliomyelitis, neonatal tetanus, leprosy, Guinea worm disease, night blindness, and Chagas disease, will soon join small pox as the illnesses of
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Q: I was at a site when an unexpected, unfortunate accident happened. There were just a few people around and none of them, as luck would have it, knew ‘how-to’ about first-aid. It was, of course, providence that the victim was saved, when a good Samaritan, who’s driving a car,
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE There are some disorders that you can’t freely discuss with your loved ones, friends and others, unlike a sinus infection. One such annoyance is anal fissure — a small tear in the thin, moist tissue that lines the anus. The condition often triggers bleeding and mild-to-moderate pain. And, once the
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was born to a porcelain painter couple, in Meissen, Saxony, Germany, on April 10, 1755. His birthday, therefore, is fittingly celebrated as World Homeopathy Day, every year, in his honour, and to recognise, no less, the great contribution, also value, of
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Wear a mask always. Keep social distance. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap, or sanitiser. All these instructions to avoid COVID-19, a solemn question in point today, are not new. My good old granny was fastidious to a fault, so to speak, about washing hands with soap, as soon as
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Occupational health and safety is a matter of concern. It relates to the adaptation of a working environment for workers, especially in the preferment and preservation of their physical, mental and social well-being in every occupation — to the utmost extent. The question of occupational health and safety is also
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Sigmund Freud, the plumber of the mind, ‘distilled’ the direct and unconscious foundations of psychological illnesses, including the mode in which they are ‘voiced.’ Carl Gustav Jung, the explorer of the psyche, amplified Freud’s standpoint by presenting how direct and indirect emotional and other outlines encompass emblematic exemplifications of our
