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
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
A(H1N1): general practitioners need to be sensitised
Worried over the increasing number of A(H1N1) deaths in the State, experts in the frontline of combating the disease now feel that general practitioners should be sensitised on how to identify A(H1N1) symptoms in patients and provide them timely treatment.
“The role of general practitioners is important now because treatment can be effective only if it is started on time. Tamiflu, the only anti-viral drug for A(H1N1) can be effective only if it is administered within 48 hours of the person developing symptoms. It is dangerous to lose even one day because the patient might develop pneumonia and related complications,” Shashidhar Buggi, Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD), said.
Citing the example of his daughter, Arundathi Buggi, who had tested positive for the flu and was successfully treated, Dr. Buggi said: “None of the 2,700 and odd patients who visited our institute for screening and were administered Tamiflu came back to us with complications. All those who died in RGICD were those who had gone to other hospitals before and came to us in the last stage.”
Medical Director of Lakeside Hospital H. Paramesh said the deaths were occurring because the virus has a tendency to spread rapidly. “There have been cases wherein the patient has developed pneumonia within 24 hours of getting infected. The death of a techie in our hospital is one classic case. This person, who was hale and hearty before he got infected, died within five days of getting the virus,” he said.
But at least two patients, who had reported to the hospital in the last stage when there were no hopes of their survival, are on the road to recovery.
While an 18-month-old baby from Dharwad was successfully treated and discharged from the hospital a week ago, another 40-year-old woman from Haveri is recovering.
The woman was brought to the hospital 10 days ago. “She had developed bilateral pneumonia and her lungs were in a bad shape. She was on the ventilator for almost 10 days and we had lost hopes. She is recovering now and we have removed the ventilator. She will be discharged soon,” he said.
“The patients themselves are aware now. If their symptoms continue for more than two days, they ask the doctor whether it is A(H1N1), who in turn does not want to take any chance. They are referred to bigger hospitals,” he added.
Although no deaths were reported on Monday and the death toll remains 64, 14 more persons tested positive for the disease taking the total number of confirmed cases to 774. While 13 of the fresh cases are from Bangalore, one is from Belgaum.
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“The role of general practitioners is important now because treatment can be effective only if it is started on time. Tamiflu, the only anti-viral drug for A(H1N1) can be effective only if it is administered within 48 hours of the person developing symptoms. It is dangerous to lose even one day because the patient might develop pneumonia and related complications,” Shashidhar Buggi, Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD), said.
Citing the example of his daughter, Arundathi Buggi, who had tested positive for the flu and was successfully treated, Dr. Buggi said: “None of the 2,700 and odd patients who visited our institute for screening and were administered Tamiflu came back to us with complications. All those who died in RGICD were those who had gone to other hospitals before and came to us in the last stage.”
Medical Director of Lakeside Hospital H. Paramesh said the deaths were occurring because the virus has a tendency to spread rapidly. “There have been cases wherein the patient has developed pneumonia within 24 hours of getting infected. The death of a techie in our hospital is one classic case. This person, who was hale and hearty before he got infected, died within five days of getting the virus,” he said.
But at least two patients, who had reported to the hospital in the last stage when there were no hopes of their survival, are on the road to recovery.
While an 18-month-old baby from Dharwad was successfully treated and discharged from the hospital a week ago, another 40-year-old woman from Haveri is recovering.
The woman was brought to the hospital 10 days ago. “She had developed bilateral pneumonia and her lungs were in a bad shape. She was on the ventilator for almost 10 days and we had lost hopes. She is recovering now and we have removed the ventilator. She will be discharged soon,” he said.
“The patients themselves are aware now. If their symptoms continue for more than two days, they ask the doctor whether it is A(H1N1), who in turn does not want to take any chance. They are referred to bigger hospitals,” he added.
Although no deaths were reported on Monday and the death toll remains 64, 14 more persons tested positive for the disease taking the total number of confirmed cases to 774. While 13 of the fresh cases are from Bangalore, one is from Belgaum.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Three more die of A(H1N1) in Bangalore
Three more A(HINI)-related deaths were reported in the State on Sunday taking the number of people who have died of the flu to 64.
Those who died on Sunday are a five-year-old boy in Gulbarga, a 60-year-old man in Kolar and a 29-year-old woman in Bangalore.
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Those who died on Sunday are a five-year-old boy in Gulbarga, a 60-year-old man in Kolar and a 29-year-old woman in Bangalore.
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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 15, 2009
India's swine flu toll goes down, not up!
In a bizarre turn of events, India's official death toll from H1N1 went down on Friday despite two people dying due to swine flu during the day. That's because a trigger-happy administration had wrongly ascribed three deaths in Pune on Wednesday and Thursday to the virus without waiting for the test results.
At a time when every death is adding to a sense of panic in Pune, in particular, and the country at large, you would think this could not happen. But it did. Pune district collector Chandrakant Dalvi formally announced on Friday that the toll in the city was down from 15 to 12: ``The throat swab reports of the three — Gautam Shelar (48 years), Swabhiman Kamble (9 months) and Bharati Goel (70 years) — have tested negative for H1N1 influenza. Therefore, they won't be considered as casualties of H1N1 influenza. And the death toll of the H1N1 viral infection in the city has come down to 12,'' he said.
As a result, the national toll, which had officially reached 24 by late afternoon on Friday, fell to 21 by the evening, one short of the figure when the day began.
The health authorities had earlier included these three in the H1N1 death toll reported from Pune on the grounds that they were suffering either from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or severe breathlessness, symptoms often associated with an H1N1 infection.
``All three had died before the throat swab reports were given by the National Institute of Virology (NIV). Hence they were considered as suspected H1N1 death cases. But now since their throat swabs have tested negative, we can not count them as casualties of H1N1 influenza,'' said Dalvi.
Even the Centre did not bother to confirm whether these cases had indeed tested positive. A ministry official currently camped in Pune told TOI: ``It was a mistake locally. The information that reached the Centre mentioned them as H1N1 deaths. The emergency medical relief control room in charge of keeping a tab on positive cases and deaths went by what the state told them,'' he said.
Joint director of state health services, Ashok Ladda, said, ``As per the new guidelines, any suspected case having ARDS or severe breathlessness is given Tamiflu tablets. We followed the treatment guidelines and had put them on Tamiflu along with other supportive medicines.'' He failed to explain why this should have led to their being automatically counted among the victims of swine flu.
NIV director A C Mishra explained, ``As the NIV is receiving throat swabs in bulk, over 600 on any given day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to carry out testing of all the samples the same day. Hence, as per the new testing protocol, any patient suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome or severe breathlessness is administered Tamilfu without waiting for the throat swab report. Administering Tamiflu to such a patient whose throat swab report is awaited, does not mean that he or she is positive.'' Clearly this elementary fact was lost on those responsible for keeping count.
At a time when every death is adding to a sense of panic in Pune, in particular, and the country at large, you would think this could not happen. But it did. Pune district collector Chandrakant Dalvi formally announced on Friday that the toll in the city was down from 15 to 12: ``The throat swab reports of the three — Gautam Shelar (48 years), Swabhiman Kamble (9 months) and Bharati Goel (70 years) — have tested negative for H1N1 influenza. Therefore, they won't be considered as casualties of H1N1 influenza. And the death toll of the H1N1 viral infection in the city has come down to 12,'' he said.
As a result, the national toll, which had officially reached 24 by late afternoon on Friday, fell to 21 by the evening, one short of the figure when the day began.
The health authorities had earlier included these three in the H1N1 death toll reported from Pune on the grounds that they were suffering either from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or severe breathlessness, symptoms often associated with an H1N1 infection.
``All three had died before the throat swab reports were given by the National Institute of Virology (NIV). Hence they were considered as suspected H1N1 death cases. But now since their throat swabs have tested negative, we can not count them as casualties of H1N1 influenza,'' said Dalvi.
Even the Centre did not bother to confirm whether these cases had indeed tested positive. A ministry official currently camped in Pune told TOI: ``It was a mistake locally. The information that reached the Centre mentioned them as H1N1 deaths. The emergency medical relief control room in charge of keeping a tab on positive cases and deaths went by what the state told them,'' he said.
Joint director of state health services, Ashok Ladda, said, ``As per the new guidelines, any suspected case having ARDS or severe breathlessness is given Tamiflu tablets. We followed the treatment guidelines and had put them on Tamiflu along with other supportive medicines.'' He failed to explain why this should have led to their being automatically counted among the victims of swine flu.
NIV director A C Mishra explained, ``As the NIV is receiving throat swabs in bulk, over 600 on any given day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to carry out testing of all the samples the same day. Hence, as per the new testing protocol, any patient suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome or severe breathlessness is administered Tamilfu without waiting for the throat swab report. Administering Tamiflu to such a patient whose throat swab report is awaited, does not mean that he or she is positive.'' Clearly this elementary fact was lost on those responsible for keeping count.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
‘Tamiflu can have bad side-effects on children’
Consumers in India will soon be able to buy anti-flu drug oseltamivir (marketed as Tamiflu by Swiss company Roche) from retail stores, with the
government planning to lift the ban on retail sales. However, researchers at Oxford University have questioned the safety of the drug for children. They found in a study that it caused vomiting, dehydration and other complications in about 5% of cases among children aged between one and 12 years.
While the drug provided a small benefit by shortening the duration of illness in children with seasonal influenza and reducing household transmission, it was found to have little effect on asthma flare-ups, says the study published in British Medical Journal.
Researchers have clearly said that the harmful effects of Tamiflu and Relenza — another commonly used anti-viral drug — far outweigh their benefits and the results found for seasonal flu would apply for H1N1 too. The way out, they say, is to limit Tamiflu use, especially in children, to serious cases.
Indian doctors say this is the latest in a long series of questions raised about the H1N1 ‘‘wonder drug’’. Earlier, another study had reported that Tamiflu caused nausea and nightmares in children.
Said AIIMS professor of medicine Dr Randeep Guleria: ‘‘There have been other reports. In Japan, it was found to cause neuro-psychiatric manifestations like suicidal tendencies in patients. The drug’s literature, I believe, mentions this. That’s why we have been constantly warning against indiscriminate use.”
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government planning to lift the ban on retail sales. However, researchers at Oxford University have questioned the safety of the drug for children. They found in a study that it caused vomiting, dehydration and other complications in about 5% of cases among children aged between one and 12 years.
While the drug provided a small benefit by shortening the duration of illness in children with seasonal influenza and reducing household transmission, it was found to have little effect on asthma flare-ups, says the study published in British Medical Journal.
Researchers have clearly said that the harmful effects of Tamiflu and Relenza — another commonly used anti-viral drug — far outweigh their benefits and the results found for seasonal flu would apply for H1N1 too. The way out, they say, is to limit Tamiflu use, especially in children, to serious cases.
Indian doctors say this is the latest in a long series of questions raised about the H1N1 ‘‘wonder drug’’. Earlier, another study had reported that Tamiflu caused nausea and nightmares in children.
Said AIIMS professor of medicine Dr Randeep Guleria: ‘‘There have been other reports. In Japan, it was found to cause neuro-psychiatric manifestations like suicidal tendencies in patients. The drug’s literature, I believe, mentions this. That’s why we have been constantly warning against indiscriminate use.”
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Monday, August 10, 2009
'Allow pvt hospitals to diagnose, treat swine flu'
To control the spread of swine flu in the country, which have result in six deaths, industry chamber Assocham today asked Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to permit reputed private hospitals and accredited charitable institutions to diagnose and treat suspected such patients.
The chamber said the government hospitals are over congested to tackle current outbreak of the disease.
"Established and credible laboratories in private sector including charitable centres are well equipped to diagnose and offer treatment for swine flu," Assocham President Sajjan Jindal said in a release.
Jindal said, since authorised health institutions in the government sector are limited in number to check blood samples of suspected and afflicted swine flu patients, credible health institutions in private sector be allowed to detect the flu and treat it.
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The chamber said the government hospitals are over congested to tackle current outbreak of the disease.
"Established and credible laboratories in private sector including charitable centres are well equipped to diagnose and offer treatment for swine flu," Assocham President Sajjan Jindal said in a release.
Jindal said, since authorised health institutions in the government sector are limited in number to check blood samples of suspected and afflicted swine flu patients, credible health institutions in private sector be allowed to detect the flu and treat it.
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Swine flu helpline numbers and hospitals
WHO declared the start of the Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic on June 11, 2009. Over 1,000 people across the world have succumbed to the disease including a 14-year-old girl in India.
Here is the list of helpline numbers in India:
All India toll free H1N1 helpline: 1075 or 1800-11-4377
Delhi: Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital: 011-24525211, 23404328, 23365525
Deen Dayal Hospital: 011-2512 5259
Chennai: Communicable Diseases Hospital - 044-25912686.
Coimbatore Medical College Hospital - 09442012555
Kolkata: Infectious Diseases Hospital: 09433392182/ 09434009077
Hyderabad: AP Chest Diseases Hospital: 040-23814939
Mumbai: Kasturba Hospital: 022-23083901, 23083902, 23083903, 23083904
Pune: Dr Naidu Infectious Disease Hospital - 09923130909
Bangalore: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases - 91-80-26632634
Lakeside Hospital - 80-5360823
Pune doc, Chennai boy die; swine flu toll 6
The H1N1 panic is spreading as fast as the virus across the country with two deaths being reported early on Monday morning. In Pune, an Ayurvedic doctor, who was brought to Sassoon hospital in Pune after reporting of symptoms, died of swine flu-related complications. A four-year-old boy from Chennai also died while being treated for other complications.
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