Blake’s experience of nose surgery – back to his own life again!

Blake in his early adolescence encountered   a life threatening accident – A drastic car crash while traveling to Indiana. He was traveling to meet his grandfather one summer. Luckily, his family survived, but leaving certain injuries and scars. In the accident, his nose was left deformed with his nose tip being pointed at one side and with totally unsymmetrical facial contour. Few months after the accident and recovery, he realized that the people look at him in a different way deviant from before. It makes him feel awkward. Some of his peers started teasing him regarding his broken nose and the   weird shape he has been left.  Some elders suggested his family members to take some initiative to change his appearance.

He finally had to think about it. He consulted few professional plastic surgery specialists, who diagnosed him from various angles. His facial appearance was repeatedly checked by them. As he met one after other plastic surgery specialists, he realized that his nose requires a complex operation requiring incision at more than one site.  Rhinoplasty- what most surgeons’ mentioned seems to be a multi-step process.   There has to be an internal incision to fix the symmetry of his whole nose, including an external one to fix the tip of his nose. The consultants described him the anatomy of the nose and what has to be done before he can actually acquire his desirable appearance.

“I started getting mentally prepared, although I anticipated that the surgical procedure is complex. Mom was giving me the courage that things will be better. Nothing else mattered”. Blake shared about his feelings before surgery.  His decision of getting himself under the knife seemed essential at that moment. He was not willing to accept people’s scorn and wanted to get back to his ordinary life.

The surgery was held few hours before he was transferred to the cabin. “At the beginning, I could not feel anything, but after sometime I had unbearable headache. The doctors gave me painkillers”. Blake was given strong dose of opiates to soothe his pain along with some steroids to keep inflammation at lowest level. He was asked to have bed rest for few days.

All the best wishes for Blake

“I am really excited to see what’s inside these bandages.” Blake said when I went to meet him one day after the surgery. “I had extreme headache, but its fine now”, he admitted that he has started to feel optimistic towards the operation and hopefully he will be able to get back to his own life.

After interviewing Blake in his operation room, I felt sanguine in the same way that advancement of science and human expertise has indeed contributions to change one’s life. All my best wishes to young Blake. 

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Fascinating Korea- Best Medical Tourism Services Offered to World

Just a call and an amiable voice will welcome you to access the best of all treatments offered in medical science. Korea with its accelerated advancing medical treatments offer the most variegated treatment options. Let it be from your beauty concerns or health purposes, Korea is going to warmly welcome you with its most vivacious sources of exquisite sight-seeing places and outstanding level of services.

South Korea Serving World Population

 

Korea offers all sorts of medical healthcare services starting from regular body check-ups to the treatment of systemic disorders such as diabetes, whether it’s for the purpose of beauty enhancement or physical abnormalities, it all present here in Korea. The recent specialization in the beauty enhancement has led to increased demand for plastic surgeries. The plethora of plastic surgeries offered attracts the celebrities to come to South Korea for the betterment of their looks and appearances. All the medical services provided are dedicated to provide best medical treatments for ailments and a greater rate of patient satisfactory beauty enhancement treatments which ensures quality patient care, patient compliance and patient preferences even after the treatment is complete. This does not only provide patient the best treatment opportunities, but as well as assures continuity of the maintenance of best conditions.

Patient Care

 

If you want to keep your itinerary plan stress free, Korea has best services from medical visa application to the accessibility to the appropriate medical services. It offers various services which include airport pickup services, hotel reservations, medical services and many more. Beginning its services from Seoul airport, you can discover the smoothest journey to your desired destination.

There are varieties of hotels offered to meet the demand of the people across the world. First of all, there are 5 star hotels with their state-of-art performances to impress their guests, providing the best of their facilities. There are also other sorts of best price hotels maintaining cheap prices but offering good enough services for international guests. Anybody can find the low cost hotels at the core of the city meeting the demand of the great number of tourists and guests visiting from different countries across the world. There are facilities of online reservations so that you can ensure your stress free stay at Korea in advance from your own home.

Therefore, the heart of South Korea, Seoul, can be a best destination for both travel and treatment. With its quality healthcare, South Korea is serving the population of the world.

South  Korea

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Cataract Surgery- A Solution to Lucid Vision

My Grandmother came to live with us in one November. Her eyes have turned cloudy and ashen in color which is visible clearly and undoubtedly seem to obstruct her vision. Before, she went in to in operative room. I held her tender hand in mine. All that she needs now is courage.

She is going to be forty- three in upcoming December. She has never admitted that it was becoming difficult to see day by day even though she used to take help from others by asking again and again in order to confirm. Her iris has turned opaque with a grey layer. It is clearly visible from outside. Doctors said that they will have to carry out a surgical procedure and replace her translucent lens with an artificial one. After the procedure, she is expected to see clearly again!  

Cataract- A grey layer formation over lens

I thought, the operation is longish, but I discovered with my greatest surprise that my grandmother could return home by late evening. Her one eye was covered with layers of dressing, but other than that there is no trace of the operation is left. By the next few days, she recovered with better eye through which she could perceive the world even more clearly than before.

Cataract surgery- the procedures

The cataract surgery is considered one of the minimally invasive operative procedures. Usually, the grey layer of the eye, known as cataract cannot be easily removed; therefore, the eye is exposed to ultrasound with a frequency of few thousand times in one second, which causes the layer of the cataract to be broken. Further, the broken pieces are removed by the incision of few millimeters which varies from 3 to 9 mm in the eye. Normally, the eye lens is removed and replaced with an artificial one, which can perform as efficiently as the natural one. Usually, the surgical operation is carried out by following procedures:

·   Preoperative medications: Topical application antibiotics such as ofloxacin or ciprofloxacin to inhibit the pathogens.

    Postoperative medications:  Post-operative medications includes few variety of medications which includes the following:

Eye drops has to be applied carefully to obtain optimal results

1. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs):  Drugs such as diclofenac sodium, bromfenac, Nepafenac and ketorolac is used to alleviate inflammation and cystoids macular edema.
2. Corticosteroids:  Prednisolone, Rimexolone and loteprednol etabonate are corticosteroids which can be used to reduce the inflammatory effects of the eye after the operation.
3. Combination drugs:  The drugs are sometimes used in different drug a combination which help to increase patient compliance and provides a convenient dosage regimen.

Although, the operative procedure is non- invasive and simpler, the outcome of the surgery depends upon the efficient technique and proper application of the medication to prevent further infection; it is preferred to be careful whenever medication is applied as the dosage forms require clear understanding of the steps of application. 

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Glaucoma-Treatment Strategies

Glaucoma is a disease which is caused by the development of the excessive pressure in the eye which may lead to the visual loss and cannot be retrieved again. The core purpose of the glaucoma treatment is to reduce the intraocular pressure (IOP) and slow the process of loss of vision.  It is intrinsic to understand that the pressure inside the eye increases due to the increment of amount of fluid inside the eye.  Therefore, the treatment of Glaucoma targets to reduce the amount of fluid being formed and if that is not being alleviated by medicines, treatment procedures such as laser treatment and conventional surgery are used.

Loss of vision in the eye due to high pressure  causing optic nerve damage

The treatment of glaucoma begins with application of medications such as ophthalmic solutions such as eye drops which includes the following classes of drugs:

Prostaglandins: It is sometimes considered as the first-line therapy for glaucoma. It usually works by relaxing the muscles of the eyes and draining of the fluids which enables the pressure to be reduced. The latanoprost,bimatoprost, tafluprost, travoprost are some of the common prostaglandin analogues used in the treatment of glaucoma.

Beta blockers: It helps reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) by enervated production of fluids in the eye. Examples include timolol, levobunolol, carteolol, metipranolol and betaxolol. Sometimes, these are used in combinations of drugs in order to attain effective treatment outcome.

Alpha-adrenergic agonists: It also plays role in the reduction of ocular fluids and prevents further production of it, thereby, reducing the overall ocular pressure.Examples include apraclonidine, dipivefrin and brimonidine. It can also be used after the laser trabeculoplasty (described below) is conducted.

Cholinergic agents:  The  drug such as pilocarpine is used in the treatment of glaucoma.

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: The medications such as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors are mainly responsible for reduction of fluids in the ocular cavity. It also plays certain role of excretion of water from the body leading to more frequent urination. The drugs such as dorzolamide and brinzolamide are used in the treatment of Glaucoma.

Combination glaucoma drugs: The drugs are combined with one another and used in the liquid dosage form to increase compliance and to obtain highest patient outcome amongst patients.

If the medications are not sufficient to reduce the adverse condition of the patient, the other strategies of treatments are adopted. Such strategies are more complex and demands technical expertise in order to treat the ailment. They are given as follows:

Laser treatment/Trabeculoplasty: It is a laser treatment where the eye is exposed to the laser beam which causes some burns in the eyes tissues as a result of which the excessive fluid in the eye is exudates causing reduction in the eye pressure. It is a very complex process which includes expert diagnosis and study of the physiological a deviation to upshot the required consequences.

Laser Trabeculoplasty

Conventional surgical procedures/ Trabeculectomy: The conventional surgical procedure is an alternate form of treatment in circumstances where medications are effective in upbringing of the desirable result. The surgical operations are carried out such that drainage of the ocular fluid is initiated by the removal of certain tissues in the eye wall.

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world at present. The sooner, the problem is diagnosed, the better the ailment can be treated and therefore, the active consultancy to an expert ophthalmologist is always preferable.

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Post- Menopausal Women Health and Hormonal Therapy

Debora could feel that something was wrong with her body. She knows that things started to change along with the attenuated menstrual cycle. In course of time, she encountered that she is having rapid mood swings, hot flushes at night and gradual development of insomnia. It makes her anxious about the impact on her professional life. Finally, she decided to find a way out. She consulted a gynecologist and came to know about the hormonal therapy (HT). The story of Debora is prevailing in every corner of our society. Usually, such predicaments are visible in women of ages around 45 to 55 with deterring hormonal levels. Undoubtedly, the post- menopausal changes lead to one of the significant women health problems which goes unnoticed until it erupts to create bigger obstacle in life.

The cause of such changes can also result in an early stage for various purposes such as surgery of the uterus technically known as the hysterectomy, in which the reproductive organs such as ovaries are removed. Such women surgery at an earlier stage can abruptly lead to ineluctable problems with the lack of female hormones in the body. Furthermore, these changes can cause bone thinning effects such as osteoporosis, the disease occurs as result of gradual reduction of bone density. It is also a leading cause of coronary heart disease, Parkinson like symptoms and even earlier death.

The earlier the problem is detected, the better it can be combated. The conditions of post- menopausal or premenopausal (earlier than menopause) can be treated with   hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) which is strictly suggested by the doctors to prevent further women problems. It is very important for any women to know about any therapy before, she decides to avail the treatment and therefore, the components of hormonal therapy must be known. There are two female hormones which prominently regulates the menstrual cycle. They are estrogen and progesterone. The hormonal therapies are provided as the following regimen:   1) It can be provided as continuous therapy where both the estrogen and progesterone are combined.

2) It can provide as cyclic and sequential with suggested Estrogen being given every day.

3) Progesterone is added for 10-14 days out of every week.

The medicines are available in various dosage forms. The systemic hormonal therapies are provided in form of pills, skin patches, gel, creams, or spray forms. On the other hand, there are vaginal products available in low dosage forms such as creams, tablets and as rings ( Intrauterine device, IUD) which are sometimes implanted inside uterus. Obviously, it is always preferable to consult any gynecologist before any health regimen is adapted.

The women’s health is one of the primary concerns in the health sector today as any neglectfulness of it has enormous impact over the quality of life as a whole. Therefore, it must be dealt with utmost alertness.

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The Enigma of Elderly Rejuvenation

The science of regenerative therapies is nascent but it has successfully incorporated the hope of retrieving youthfulness which can only be found in the sci- fi books and films. The introduction of the stem cells therapy has not only added a new horizon but also revolutionized the way the anti-ageing therapies can be provided to the patients. The enormous ability of the stem cells to regenerate the cells and   utilization of such capability of cells in body can be used to combat ageing amongst people.

 The scientific quest for the proper generation and incorporation of the stem cells inside body is advancing leading to ramification of various strategies in regenerative therapy.   

The most common signs of ageing are wrinkles, slacking of skin, loss of volume leading to loss of tautness of skin. There is several anti-ageing skin products in the market which promises to attenuate the process of ageing of skin, but, so far has barely been found to be effective to retrieve younger looking skin. The fact that the cells of one’s body can be a magical solution to not only to prevent ageing but also may act as a sustainable method to develop a younger looking countenance in course of time! Do you find it miraculous? If so, then don’t. This is how science has advanced to provide such renovation to the human body.

 The enigma of elderly rejuvenation

There are various sources of stem cells which can be utilized in order to retrieve younger looking skin health.  The available skin cells are embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells known also as iPCs and lastly the adult stem cells. The embryonic stem cell is a source which is extracted from the embryos. It can also be taken from specific tissues such as brain, liver and muscles can be used. However, the drawback of embryonic cell is that it can cause immunogenic reactions inside the body as they are not the cells from the individuals under treatment. The iPCs are extracted fibroblasts cells which are rather modified so that no immune response is erupted inside the body. The disadvantage that remains for utilizing iPCs in treatment is that a cancer causing gene can be triggered in the process. Lastly, the adult cells seem to be the most promising of all as it has no such disadvantages other than the difficulty of proliferation of the cells in mass amount which is required for the regeneration therapy.

The process of anti-ageing therapy seems to be a lengthened one. The certain specific healthy cells are extracted from the body. The cells proliferated in order to increase in the number which is necessary for the effective stem cell therapy. The agile youthful cells are then incorporated in the body whenever there is cell injury, death or disease. The integrated cells are then able to perform its function which ultimately results in the rejuvenation amongst elderly by gaining further cell volume under the skin, tightening of skin and ultimately removal of wrinkles leading to a youthful, flawless skin with exquisite appearance.

The enormous ability of the stem cells to replace the damaged and diseased cells has led to an unbelievable advancement in the treatment of anti-ageing. The scientific quest for the perfection although under progress, it has taken the regeneration therapy to a new height of success. The dream of preventing ageing and possession of beautiful, attractive appearance will no longer remain oneiric but be founded around you!   

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