Kathmandu Medical College And Teaching Hospital

23/04/2024

Cancer Element ethylene oxide found in Indian spices Everest and MDH !!

एभरेस्ट र MDH मसलामा क्यान्सर उत्पन्न गर्ने तत्त्वहरू रहेको !!

India's food safety regulator will conduct quality checks on products of popular Indian spice brands MDH and Everest Group after Hong Kong banned the sale of some products for allegedly containing a cancer-causing pesticide, a senior Indian official said on Monday.

25/09/2021

We would like to express our heartfelt condolences and sympathy upon the untimely demise of Sneha Poudel. May god provide strength to her families, friends and colleagues.

08/02/2020

कोरोनॉ भाईरस का लक्ष्यण !!

08/02/2020

coronavirus
Symptoms are similar to a common cold.

They include:

1) a runny nose
2) headache
3) cough
4) fever
5) shortness of breath
6) chills
7) body aches

Please be safe and be aware !!! Please minimize the gathering in large number. Always masks and open using only one finger. Throw away the mask once used. Use anti soap cream to wash the hands !!! Spread the news !

19/01/2018

Prion diseases

Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals. They are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to induce inflammatory response.

The causative agents of TSEs are believed to be prions. The term “prions” refers to abnormal, pathogenic agents that are transmissible and are able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins called prion proteins that are found most abundantly in the brain. The functions of these normal prion proteins are still not completely understood. The abnormal folding of the prion proteins leads to brain damage and the characteristic signs and symptoms of the disease. Prion diseases are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal.

sources : cdc.gov

12/08/2016

Madura Foot

Madura foot, also known as Eumycetoma, is a chronic fungal disease of the foot. This isn’t anything like athlete’s foot, this is an entire tropical ecosystem established on your extremities. You get the fungal infection from working on farm fields, where the spores spread from the soil to open cuts on your feet, where they quietly take root, and don’t cause any pain, just some milky discharge, for up to a year. Then BAM enormous pus filled nodules all over your feet...all the way down to the bone. There’s no vaccine or real cure for the disease, leaving the treatment to antifungals or amputation if they don’t work.
sources: brainz.org

11/08/2016

Necrotizing Fasciitis

Aaaahhh! AAaaaaaaaah! AaaahhhhhH! Whew, now that that’s out of my system...AAAAAAHHHH! hell. Necrotizing Fasciitis aka flesh-eating bacteria, are far more common than we want them to be, and any doctor you talk to will have seen the disorder at least once in their life. It tends to hit when you’re already suffering from something else: MRSA, immunocompromised, diabetes, alcoholism, etc. Even worse, if it gets you, there’s no saving the tissue. They just have to cut out the affected bit — ideally just a few small lumps of skin, but potentially a huge chunk of flesh, a limb, or even your testicles. That’s right, you can get it in your balls.
sources: brainz.org

10/08/2016

Filarial Worm

Another horrible parasite, but what makes this one even worse is the simple fact that it can live in your eye. Even worse, there are some leeches which will latch onto your eyeball. You know what’s super creepy about the Filarial worm? It’s so common that it’s the second most common cause of blindness in the world. That means it happens to people. Eyes are itching just thinking about it :P
sources: brainz.org

09/08/2016

Cornu Cutaneum

Cutaneous horns are technically tumors, but seem to be more signs of satanic possession than anything else. It’s a tumor that causes horns to grow out your skin — which is even creepier because how in the hell do we even possess the mechanisms to grow horns? Hair, teeth, nails, all that stuff is already in the body, so when a tumor causes it, it makes some sense. But horns? Well, technically it’s keratin, the same stuff as fingernails, but it’s still creepy. And they don’t know what causes it, but they think it’s linked to HPV and radiation. Mmmm...sexually transmitted radioactive disease. Nice. Luckily you can just chop them off at regular intervals.
sources: brainz.org

05/08/2016

Guinea Worm

Guinea worm disease, aka Dracunculiasis, is one of those horrible, horrible stories that people tell you about travelling to third world nations — in fact, it’s one of the most commonly bandied tales of woe. First, you swallow the baby worm with dirty water, at which point it happily chills out in your digestive tract for a year, before metamorphosing into something much nastier. It then migrates to a limb — usually a food — and forms a large and incredibly painful blister. You know how they get it out? They fish out one end, and pull it out slowly over the course of days or weeks of agony. You try and pull it out too fast, and it snaps, recoiling into the body to live again.
Sources: brainz.org

05/07/2016

Avian Influenza

Avian influenza (AI) is an infectious viral disease of birds (especially wild water fowl such as ducks and geese), often causing no apparent signs of illness. AI viruses can sometimes spread to domestic poultry and cause large-scale outbreaks of serious disease. Some of these AI viruses have also been reported to cross the species barrier and cause disease or subclinical infections in humans and other mammals.

AI viruses are divided into 2 groups based on their ability to cause disease in poultry: high pathogenicity or low pathogenicity. Highly pathogenic viruses result in high death rates (up to 100% mortality within 48 hours) in some poultry species. Low pathogenicity viruses also cause outbreaks in poultry but are not generally associated with severe disease.

Sources: World Health Organization (WHO)

27/04/2016

Celebral Palsy (CP)

It is a group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary between people. Often, symptoms include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensation, vision, hearing, swallowing, and speaking. Often babies with cerebral palsy do not roll over, sit, crawl, or walk as early as other children their age. Difficulty with the ability to think or reason and seizures each occurs in about one third of people with CP. While the symptoms may get more noticeable over the first few years of life, the underlying problems do not worsen over time.

Please view it on wikipedia. An information is fruitful !!!
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy