Dr Manish Khokhar

COVID-19 Management of mild cases · Mild cases are those with low-grade fever/cough/malaise/rhinorrhea/sore throat WITHOUT any shortness of breath · Admission in COVID care centers · Contact and droplet precautions, strict hand hygiene · Symptomatic treatment · Tab Hydroxychloroquine 400 mg BD for 1 day followed by 400 mg OD for 4 days in patients with high-risk factors for a severe disease may be considered Indications for hospital admission(moderate case) The following criteria may be applied to consider for admission (Any ONE of the following): 1. Respiratory rate > 24/min 2. SpO2 < 94% on room air 3. Those at high risk for severe disease:      a. Age > 60 years      b. Cardiovascular disease including hypertension      c. Diabetes mellitus/other immunocompromised states      d. Chronic lung/liver/kidney disease      e. Cerebrovascular disease Consider Tab HCQ** (400 mg BD x 1 day f/b 400 mg OD x 4 days) ** Oxygen Support: Target SpO2: 92-96% (88-92%

O besity is a worldwide issue in the present movement so it is so important to know about overview of obesity and its complication on health like heart disease, blood pressure(BP), cancer and kidney disease you can find an article on obesity facts overview, treatment, complication, and management.it is the world's deadliest disease. Our food supply is intermittent so our body has a specialized cell called Fat cell which stores energy and gives it back when needed during starvation. Due to  the  sedentary lifestyle and presence of nutritional abundance genetic system is altered, lead to increase energy stores and produce health complications. Obesity is a state of excess adipose tissue mass. It’s either overweight or lean but muscular.so most widely method is  BMI  which is weight/height (kg/m2). Other methods for an obesity measurement are skin fold: thickness, underwater weighing, CT, MRI, electrical impedance. Both man and women's BMI range from 19 to 26 kg/m2 but 30