Alternative treatment for any disease is always valued especially when it is concerned with natural supplements of the deficient nutrients.
Megavitamin therapy also called Orthomolecular medicine is one such form of complementary and alternative medicine that seeks to prevent or treat diseases with nutrients prescribed as dietary supplements or derived from diets.
Orthomolecular medicine means therapy with the right molecules.
Orthomolecular medicine focuses on what it sees as the right nutritional molecules in the right amounts for the individual.
It often recommends megavitamin doses much larger than those considered medically necessary.
In general, the vitamin megadoses advocated by orthomolecular medicine are unsupported by scientific consensus.
Megadose therapy is a practice particularly common among cancer patients.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Swine Flu Hits India
A serious matter of concern...India is also being hit by this deadly Swine Flu disease.
A 20-year-old man, who was tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) earlier this week, has transmitted the virus to his brother and a four-and-a-half year old girl travelling with him on the same plane - taking the total number of swine flu cases reported to seven.
Shiv Lal, head of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases,said "The youth had returned to India from the US via London on May 30. He got down at the Hyderabad airport and went straight home. It is now confirmed that he transmitted the virus to his brother and a young girl who was travelling with him in the same flight,"
"This takes the total to seven influenza A (H1N1) infections in India," he added.
Lal said the three people are being monitored in hospitals in Hyderabad.
After his case came to light, authorities swung into action and tried to trace the others who had come into contact with him. It was reported that his brother was also showing the same symptoms and was tested for the infection.
"He tested positive. Among the passengers near him was a four-and-a-half-year-old girl. She was sitting with her mother on the next row. When she was tested, she was found positive," he added.
"Samples of her mother was also sent for testing and were found negative. But we are doing a repeat test," Lal added.The repeated test also shows that the mother is also being infected by the disease.
India reported its first swine flu infection May 16 - a 23-year-old man who travelled by Emirates Airline from New York to Hyderabad via Dubai.
"A team of NICD officials is on its way to Hyderabad along with a multi-disciplinary rapid response team," he said.
The infected have been put on Oseltamivir,the anti-flu drug which is very effective against the H1N1 virus. the official said.
Health screening of passengers coming from the affected countries is continuing at 21 international airports and about 1.3 million passengers have been screened so far.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported about 21,940 confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection from 69 countries and 125 deaths till June 5.
A 20-year-old man, who was tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) earlier this week, has transmitted the virus to his brother and a four-and-a-half year old girl travelling with him on the same plane - taking the total number of swine flu cases reported to seven.
Shiv Lal, head of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases,said "The youth had returned to India from the US via London on May 30. He got down at the Hyderabad airport and went straight home. It is now confirmed that he transmitted the virus to his brother and a young girl who was travelling with him in the same flight,"
"This takes the total to seven influenza A (H1N1) infections in India," he added.
Lal said the three people are being monitored in hospitals in Hyderabad.
After his case came to light, authorities swung into action and tried to trace the others who had come into contact with him. It was reported that his brother was also showing the same symptoms and was tested for the infection.
"He tested positive. Among the passengers near him was a four-and-a-half-year-old girl. She was sitting with her mother on the next row. When she was tested, she was found positive," he added.
"Samples of her mother was also sent for testing and were found negative. But we are doing a repeat test," Lal added.The repeated test also shows that the mother is also being infected by the disease.
India reported its first swine flu infection May 16 - a 23-year-old man who travelled by Emirates Airline from New York to Hyderabad via Dubai.
"A team of NICD officials is on its way to Hyderabad along with a multi-disciplinary rapid response team," he said.
The infected have been put on Oseltamivir,the anti-flu drug which is very effective against the H1N1 virus. the official said.
Health screening of passengers coming from the affected countries is continuing at 21 international airports and about 1.3 million passengers have been screened so far.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported about 21,940 confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection from 69 countries and 125 deaths till June 5.
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