One should not treat a cough as a simple symptom. It is to be thoroughly investigated for the cause of the cough and to be treated accordingly. Cough due to upper respiratory tract infections or sinus infection will be controlled with antihistamines and suitable antibiotics. For sinusitis, even home remedies like putting turmeric in boiling…

Recently, I had been to Delhi for a conference at Pragathi Maidhan, where I met a friend from Ram Manohar Lohiya Hospital (RML), New Delhi, who was coughing continuously during our 25-minute discussion. Then I asked him, being an employee of RML, “Why this continuous cough to you? Are you not being to the concerned…

As it was mentioned in the previous episode, the causes of impotency are due to some diseases and use of some medicines and many other socio psychological factors, the management of impotency will be discussed in this issue. Erectile dysfunction is a common disease of the male reproductive system, which seriously affects the life quality…

Few years back if I remember right in 1998 when I was about to close my clinic around 11.30 PM a lady around 24 years came along with a man around 30 years who is nothing but her husband came to my clinic in anxiety, stress and emotion stating that “doctor this is the fourth…

Despite extensive research on the treatment of mental disorders in various populations, unfortunately, the disgrace attached to mental issues means that many victims are not coming forward to take the proper scientific treatment. On the other hand, the patients are becoming prey to unqualified, self-styled psychoanalysts and are becoming sicker and mentally hostile. Therefore, in…

Since mental illness has been posing a threat to the health of families and society all over the world in several developing and developed countries, in achieving health for all people, WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2030 was formulated for the essential role of mental health. The strategies include to strengthen effective leadership and…

In recent times the mental health of all people from school children to teachers, parents, mothers, youth is posing a problem for the society. Suicide is a major national public health issue in India. 171,000 suicides were recorded in 2022, registering a 4.2% increase over 2021 and a jump of 27% compared to 2018. The…

Last week three women and two men total of five persons brought a 24-year-old young lady to my clinic who was very noncooperative to come with them with a complaint of that she was beating children and biting her husband. When I saw at her, several amulets or talismans popularly known in vernacular language as…

In continuation of the last episode, causes for Cockroach phobia and other related phobias the treatment will be discussed in this issue. Among all phobias according to research published by Becker et al., 2007, stimuli included in the specific phobia subtypes, animals are the most feared. In addition, animal phobia presents a high lifetime prevalence,…

My classmate when I was in college doing my BSc Mr. Rathod called me the other day and said Dr. Surya Rao you knew that I had two daughters. The eldest is in MSc Mathematics and the younger one is studying B.A. I am worried to say that my eldest daughter very often develops difficulty…