The arrival of monsoon brings much-needed respite from the summer heat, but it also introduces various health challenges like digestive problems, infections, and lowered immunity. Adopting a suitable monsoon diet is key to maintaining your health and energy levels during this season.
Prenatal mental health is indeed a reality and not a myth. Pregnancy is a period of significant physical, emotional, and hormonal changes, and it can have a profound impact on a woman's mental well-being. While it is often a time of joy and anticipation, it can also bring about various emotional and psychological challenges. Prenatal mental health issues can include prenatal depression, prenatal anxiety, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), perinatal bipolar disorder, etc.
Cardiovascular issues have become a major concern post-COVID era. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but it can also have a significant impact on the cardiovascular system. Studies have shown that COVID-19 patients are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications such as myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart failure, and blood clots. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that can cause chest pain, fatigue, and shortness of breath. Arrhythmias are abnormal heart rhythms that can cause dizziness, fainting, and even sudden cardiac arrest. Heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. Blood clots can also form in the veins, leading to deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or stroke.
Melasma is a hyper pigmentary disorder creating brown to gray-brown patches on the face, it is more commonly seen in women than in men. It is very commonly seen in pregnant women and women consuming oral contraceptives and hormones. In females, it is caused due to the female hormone stimulation on a predisposed genetic background. It is commonly observed on the cheeks, chin, nose bridge, forehead, and above the upper lip. Melasma creates a negative impact on the patient's quality of life and responds poorly to the treatment. However, recent studies have stated that melasma may not only be a disease of melanocytes, but also a photoaging skin disorder.
Ocimum sanctum L. is commonly known as Tulsi in Hindi or Tulasi in Sanskrit and holy basil in English is an herb belonging to the family Lamiaceae. It is widely used in the Indian subcontinent and important constituent of Ayurvedic medication with a history of usage for more than 3000 years. Ayurveda refers tulsi as a wonder herb with "Solution of Life" for its medicinal properties and therapeutic abilities. In the Indian Materia Medica the leaves of tulsi plants are cited as a treatment of bronchitis, ailment and respiratory ailments. Modern medicine acknowledges the plant for medicinal potency and also establishes evidence for presence of secondary metabolites that render the therapeutic properties. Tulsi is known for its unique fragrance due to the presence of volatile oils such as monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes.
First 2 to 3 weeks of monsoon is transitional phase between hot, dry, sweaty summer and watery, humid rainy monsoon, thus it becomes more crucial period as it witnesses complete environmental change.
During summer human body’s natural tendency is to dehydrate or excrete the watery content more in the form of sweat. With the arrival of monsoon total scenario changes as the humidity in the atmosphere rises. So excess water intake may causes new diseases like common cold, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, worms and worsens the chronic diseases like eczema (a type of skin disease), sinusitis(the inflamed sinuses), gastric ulcers/gastritis.
