As its name suggests, Zinda Tilismath has cast a spell for decades. From sore throat to dysentery to toothache to common cold, it has always offered a ready remedy. Now in its 90 years of existence, the magic medicine is holding out hope of cure to swine flu patients, claims Syed Zaheeruddin and Owais Farooqui of Karkhana Zinda Tilismath at a press conference here on Thursday.
Its basic ingredient being eucalyptus oil, the Zinda Tilismath has proved effective when administered to swine flu patients at the Sassoon General Hospital, Pune. Encouraged by this positive response, the hospital authorities have planned to carry out clinical trials, they claimed. The reported commendation by former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy, on the efficacy of Zinda Tilismath to combat H1N1 virus has come as shot in the arm for the proprietors.
They have now proposed to offer it at concessional price to people attending religious congregations, including the ensuing Haj pilgrimage.
As part of its 90-year celebrations, the company has planned to launch Zinda Balm, throat lozenges and a tooth paste, Mr. Zaheeruddin said.
The Unani medicine launched by Hakeem Moizuddin Farooqui in 1920 is intended to be used both internally and externally. But why the black logo? The person armed with an arrow depicts boundless strength and good health. The ‘arrow’ indicates how the medicine enters the body and kills the germs.
For the Farooky tooth powder the ‘shark’ symbol was chosen since the shark is known for its sharp and strong teeth.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
7 new cases of swine flu in AP
Seven confirmed cases of swine flu were reported from Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, a health official said here.
With this, the total number of H1N1 infections in the state has shot up to 116, Ms Jayakumari, the district health and medical officer (DHMO) said here.
She said 92 samples were tested on Tuesday. Twenty-three confirmed cases are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
Meanwhile, Mr S.V. Prasad, the superintendent of the AP Chest Hospital, said of the seven new positive cases, four have been admitted to the government-run medical facility. This includes a two-year-old girl and her 34-year-old father, Mr Prasad said.
A 26-year-old critically ill H1N1 patient, undergoing treatment at the hospital, is recovering, he added.
With this, the total number of H1N1 infections in the state has shot up to 116, Ms Jayakumari, the district health and medical officer (DHMO) said here.
She said 92 samples were tested on Tuesday. Twenty-three confirmed cases are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
Meanwhile, Mr S.V. Prasad, the superintendent of the AP Chest Hospital, said of the seven new positive cases, four have been admitted to the government-run medical facility. This includes a two-year-old girl and her 34-year-old father, Mr Prasad said.
A 26-year-old critically ill H1N1 patient, undergoing treatment at the hospital, is recovering, he added.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
WHO warns of swine flu pandemic's second wave
The World Health Organisation is urging the planet to brace for a second wave of the swine flu pandemic as the heavily populated northern
hemisphere edges towards the cooler season when flu thrives.
"The WHO is still mobilised and worried," spokesman Gregory Hartl said as the global health watchdog kept an anxious eye on some "mysterious" patterns of illness associated with the new A (H1N1) virus that appeared in April.
Influenza traditionally surges to its peak during the northern autumn and winter.
WHO Director General Margaret Chan warned on Friday that there had been second and third waves in previous pandemics.
"We cannot say for certain whether the worst is over or the worst is yet to come," Chan said in a videotaped address to a symposium on flu in the Asia-Pacific region.
"We need to be prepared for whatever surprises this capricious new virus delivers next," she added.
Some 1,799 people have died since the A(H1N1) was uncovered in Mexico and the United States nearly six months ago, according to the UN health agency.
By comparison, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 people die around the world every year from seasonal flu, and overall the symptoms of the new pandemic virus have proved to be mild in the great majority of known cases.
However, it has spread swiftly into 177 countries, proving to be more infectious than seasonal flu and more durable through warmer months.
Through a full season in the southern hemisphere, the pandemic strain gradually became dominant.
WHO monitoring showed that it was now on the decline there, except in South Africa, and in some later affected areas of Argentina, Australia and Chile.
Some 182,000 people worldwide are known to have caught swine flu based on laboratory confirmed cases, but the WHO has long advised countries to give up counting; the true number may in the millions, according to some experts.
It is also striking those in a more physically fragile phase of life, such as pregnant women or the chronically ill, as well as those who are obese and younger age groups than usual.
Many of the most severe cases are among 30 to 50 year -olds.
WHO officials are also mystified at the "most worrying" characteristic of this flu virus, Hartl explained.
About 40 percent of the most severe or fatal cases occur in people who are in perfect health, he said.
However, he was unable to say how many severe cases had occurred, although they are generally regarded as a small proportion of the outbreak so far.
hemisphere edges towards the cooler season when flu thrives.
"The WHO is still mobilised and worried," spokesman Gregory Hartl said as the global health watchdog kept an anxious eye on some "mysterious" patterns of illness associated with the new A (H1N1) virus that appeared in April.
Influenza traditionally surges to its peak during the northern autumn and winter.
WHO Director General Margaret Chan warned on Friday that there had been second and third waves in previous pandemics.
"We cannot say for certain whether the worst is over or the worst is yet to come," Chan said in a videotaped address to a symposium on flu in the Asia-Pacific region.
"We need to be prepared for whatever surprises this capricious new virus delivers next," she added.
Some 1,799 people have died since the A(H1N1) was uncovered in Mexico and the United States nearly six months ago, according to the UN health agency.
By comparison, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 people die around the world every year from seasonal flu, and overall the symptoms of the new pandemic virus have proved to be mild in the great majority of known cases.
However, it has spread swiftly into 177 countries, proving to be more infectious than seasonal flu and more durable through warmer months.
Through a full season in the southern hemisphere, the pandemic strain gradually became dominant.
WHO monitoring showed that it was now on the decline there, except in South Africa, and in some later affected areas of Argentina, Australia and Chile.
Some 182,000 people worldwide are known to have caught swine flu based on laboratory confirmed cases, but the WHO has long advised countries to give up counting; the true number may in the millions, according to some experts.
It is also striking those in a more physically fragile phase of life, such as pregnant women or the chronically ill, as well as those who are obese and younger age groups than usual.
Many of the most severe cases are among 30 to 50 year -olds.
WHO officials are also mystified at the "most worrying" characteristic of this flu virus, Hartl explained.
About 40 percent of the most severe or fatal cases occur in people who are in perfect health, he said.
However, he was unable to say how many severe cases had occurred, although they are generally regarded as a small proportion of the outbreak so far.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
3 more die of swine flu, death toll crosses 50
Three more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu on Saturday, pushing the country-wide fatalities from
the HINI pandemic to 51.
A death each occurred in Pune, Tamil Nadu and Goa with four more testing positive for the virus in Assam even as close to 2,600 patients were undergoing treatment across the country.
With a 60-year-old man succumbing to the disease in Pune in Maharashtra, the city recorded its 20th swine flu death.
All educational institutions in Pune, which reported its first fatality on August 3, had been shut for the past one week to prevent the spread of the infection.
The flu claimed its third victim in Tamil Nadu when a 45-year-old man died at the government hospital in Chennai.
The man, whose throat swabs tested positive on August 19, was admitted to the hospital on August 12 with complaints of breathlessness and bleeding piles.
A 67-year-old man, suspected to be suffering from the swine flu, died at a private hospital in Goa, health officials in state capital Panaji said.
Shiva Murthy, who arrived from Bangalore yesterday, was admitted to the hospital with high fever, they said adding he breathed his last this morning.
His throat swabs had been sent for HINI testing to Delhi and the reports were awaited, the officials said.
Courtesy:TOI
the HINI pandemic to 51.
A death each occurred in Pune, Tamil Nadu and Goa with four more testing positive for the virus in Assam even as close to 2,600 patients were undergoing treatment across the country.
With a 60-year-old man succumbing to the disease in Pune in Maharashtra, the city recorded its 20th swine flu death.
All educational institutions in Pune, which reported its first fatality on August 3, had been shut for the past one week to prevent the spread of the infection.
The flu claimed its third victim in Tamil Nadu when a 45-year-old man died at the government hospital in Chennai.
The man, whose throat swabs tested positive on August 19, was admitted to the hospital on August 12 with complaints of breathlessness and bleeding piles.
A 67-year-old man, suspected to be suffering from the swine flu, died at a private hospital in Goa, health officials in state capital Panaji said.
Shiva Murthy, who arrived from Bangalore yesterday, was admitted to the hospital with high fever, they said adding he breathed his last this morning.
His throat swabs had been sent for HINI testing to Delhi and the reports were awaited, the officials said.
Courtesy:TOI
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Swine flu tests in city by IPM now
In a significant development that would cut down the delays in swine flu diagnosis, city-based Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) has received recognition to take up swine flu tests independently from National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi. From now on, there is no need to send samples for testing to NICD.
Health authorities on Wednesday also informed that in due course antiviral drug Oseltamivir will be made available in the open market. Guidelines are being chalked-out to implement and regulate its availability in the retail market.
A few medical outlets would be chosen to retail the Oseltamivir drug.
Five corporate hospitals-Apollo, KIMS, Sharvana, Global and Image Hospitals-will coordinate with the government and treat swine flu patients.
Four more laboratories-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostic (CDFD), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Onan Biotech, Kamineni Life Sciences have come forward to take up swine flu testing.
“We expected more private hospitals to join. Yet, we are not disappointed and we hope that in due course more private hospitals will start treating swine flu patients,” Health Secretary L. V. Subramanyam told media persons after attending a meeting with private hospitals on Wednesday. In all, the five new hospitals are providing 26 isolation beds.
Meanwhile, health authorities on Wednesday confirmed two more cases of swine flu, taking the total number to 95 in the State.
Authorities informed that there a possibility of a few more swine flu positive cases already undergoing treatment at one or two private hospitals in city. Authorities will visit private hospitals to identify these patients.
In the meeting with representatives of corporate hospitals, authorities informed that IPM, as of now, will remain the only swine flu testing centre in the State. “Private labs with good infrastructure and willing to take up swine flu testing will coordinate with IPM to obtain NICD recognition. We will request NICD to expedite the process,” Mr. Subramanyam assured. IPM can conduct 40 tests in a day. “IPM can take up 40 tests a day. We are fully prepared and we are open to work with private laboratories if the samples to test are more,” said IPM director P. Sucharitha Murthy.
Health authorities on Wednesday also informed that in due course antiviral drug Oseltamivir will be made available in the open market. Guidelines are being chalked-out to implement and regulate its availability in the retail market.
A few medical outlets would be chosen to retail the Oseltamivir drug.
Five corporate hospitals-Apollo, KIMS, Sharvana, Global and Image Hospitals-will coordinate with the government and treat swine flu patients.
Four more laboratories-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostic (CDFD), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Onan Biotech, Kamineni Life Sciences have come forward to take up swine flu testing.
“We expected more private hospitals to join. Yet, we are not disappointed and we hope that in due course more private hospitals will start treating swine flu patients,” Health Secretary L. V. Subramanyam told media persons after attending a meeting with private hospitals on Wednesday. In all, the five new hospitals are providing 26 isolation beds.
Meanwhile, health authorities on Wednesday confirmed two more cases of swine flu, taking the total number to 95 in the State.
Authorities informed that there a possibility of a few more swine flu positive cases already undergoing treatment at one or two private hospitals in city. Authorities will visit private hospitals to identify these patients.
In the meeting with representatives of corporate hospitals, authorities informed that IPM, as of now, will remain the only swine flu testing centre in the State. “Private labs with good infrastructure and willing to take up swine flu testing will coordinate with IPM to obtain NICD recognition. We will request NICD to expedite the process,” Mr. Subramanyam assured. IPM can conduct 40 tests in a day. “IPM can take up 40 tests a day. We are fully prepared and we are open to work with private laboratories if the samples to test are more,” said IPM director P. Sucharitha Murthy.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
‘No need for panic buying of masks’
There was no need for panic buying of surgical masks and not every person going on the street needs to wear it, said Dr. Lavanya Nutan Kalva, who heads the infectious diseases wing at Apollo hospitals here.
With scores of people, including school children wearing the protective masks in the wake of the spread of A (H1N1) influenza virus, she said that family members of swine flu patients, first care providers, doctors and patients need to protect themselves and not others.
There was no need for students in schools and colleges to wear the masks.
But there was an absolute need to provide good ventilation in the classrooms as the virus would circulate longer in the air in a closed room if a sick child sneezes or coughs. “ It is the intensity of the exposure and the period of exposure that matters. A good flow of air reduces viral burden,” Dr. Lavanya added.
Besides, most of the time, the surgical masks get moist around the lips and nose and they fail to give adequate protection at that point of time.
Also, a mask once removed for drinking tea or coffee must not be re-used.
She said that covering nose and mouth with a handkerchief would not be helpful either.
However, the surgical masks were good in protecting against droplet infections like the ones caused by A (H1N1) influenza virus, where the size of particle was greater than 10 microns.
Air-borne isolation masks like N-95 were useful in protecting against particles of five microns and less in size. She reiterated that no parent should send a sick child with flu-like symptoms to school.
A person must return to school or work only there were no symptoms for at least for 24 hours, she said.
With scores of people, including school children wearing the protective masks in the wake of the spread of A (H1N1) influenza virus, she said that family members of swine flu patients, first care providers, doctors and patients need to protect themselves and not others.
There was no need for students in schools and colleges to wear the masks.
But there was an absolute need to provide good ventilation in the classrooms as the virus would circulate longer in the air in a closed room if a sick child sneezes or coughs. “ It is the intensity of the exposure and the period of exposure that matters. A good flow of air reduces viral burden,” Dr. Lavanya added.
Besides, most of the time, the surgical masks get moist around the lips and nose and they fail to give adequate protection at that point of time.
Also, a mask once removed for drinking tea or coffee must not be re-used.
She said that covering nose and mouth with a handkerchief would not be helpful either.
However, the surgical masks were good in protecting against droplet infections like the ones caused by A (H1N1) influenza virus, where the size of particle was greater than 10 microns.
Air-borne isolation masks like N-95 were useful in protecting against particles of five microns and less in size. She reiterated that no parent should send a sick child with flu-like symptoms to school.
A person must return to school or work only there were no symptoms for at least for 24 hours, she said.
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