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Dr Willem van Aswegen is a qualified and well-versed physician with expertise in diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness.

29/06/2022

Lupus is a chronic (lifelong) autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. With autoimmune diseases, the body’s immune (defense) system cannot tell the difference between viruses, bacteria, and other germs and the body’s healthy cells, tissues, or organs. Because of this, the immune system attacks and destroys these healthy cells, tissues, or organs.

Lupus affects more women than men. Lupus is most common in women ages 15 to 44, or during the years they can have children. If you have lupus, your risk is higher for other health problems that are common in women, such as heart disease and osteoporosis.

If you are concerned, start by seeing your physician and a rheumatologist, a doctor who specializes in the diseases of joints and muscles such as lupus.

Contact the practice today for an appointment:
☎️ +27 (14) 004-0344

23/06/2022

There are several methods for treating low iron in people with kidney failure, but not all are available for everyone on dialysis. You and your healthcare professional will decide which method is best for you. You can:

💉 Take extra iron by mouth in tablet or liquid form.
💉 Get iron injected into a vein at the healthcare professional's office (called Intravenous iron or IV iron).
💉 Receive an injection of iron into the blood tubes during hemodialysis treatments.
💉 Have iron added to the dialysate (cleansing solution) during hemodialysis treatments (dialysate iron).

Most people on dialysis need extra iron because:

🩸 Your diet may lack iron-rich foods. Foods like red meats and beans, may be limited in your dialysis diet. Without enough iron-rich foods, you are more at risk for low iron.

🩸 You lose a little blood during hemodialysis treatments. At the end of each hemodialysis treatment, a small amount of blood is usually left behind in the dialyzer (artificial kidney). This can be a source of iron loss over time. However, if your physician finds that you are a good candidate for dialysate iron, you may be given this treatment during your dialysis to replenish this loss of iron during treatment.

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15/06/2022

Alzheimer’s disease is characterised as a form of dementia that results in memory loss and unusual, out-of-character behaviour.

No less than one in 14 people over 65 gets Alzheimer’s and for people over 85 that number is at one in six people. It’s important to recognise the signals and symptoms at an early date.

These are a couple of symptoms that will help you recognise Alzheimer’s disease:

💡 Memory loss: This is the most common symptom. People start to have trouble retaining new information. They start to forget things about recent events of conversations, for example.

💡 Cognitive functions: The ability to think, judge/decide and understand is slowly lost. Taking initiative and acting independently starts to become difficult. Social skills start to degenerate and people can get disoriented about time and/or place.

💡 Losing grip on reality: Alzheimer patients can start to become suspicious or paranoid. Half of all patients have delusions: beliefs that don’t comply with reality. Hallucinations are also a common symptom.

💡 Problems with everyday activities: Activities that have always been the most natural thing in the world are now done with more difficulty and clumsiness. At the same time, common social relations can remain intact for a long time. This is why it might appear to the outside world as if everything is alright.

Contact Dr van Aswegen for a full screening if you are concerned.

☎️ +27 (14) 004-0344
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07/06/2022

Dr Willem van Aswegen is a specialist physician practising from Life Healthcare Peglerae Hospital in Rustenburg. Dr van Aswegen treats general health conditions affecting different organs due to infection, injury or autoimmune disease.

Although Dr van Aswegen specialises in several fields of internal medicine, his primary area of interest is pulmonology, which involves managing COVID-19 patients, including other dire respiratory conditions such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, asthma and pulmonary embolism.

Dr van Aswegen is a natural-born leader known to have built a successful orientation programme, assisted with lectures, and led five registrars. His particular interest is pulmonology, but he specialises in several areas of internal medicine. Being the author of published research, Dr van Aswegen takes pride in his speciality, including his strides thus far.

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31/05/2022

Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to eating gluten. 🍞

If you have celiac disease, eating gluten causes your body’s immune system to attack your small intestine. This damages the lining of your small intestine and prevents your body from absorbing required nutrients. Over time, untreated celiac disease can lead to malnutrition, intestinal damage, and other serious health complications. 🥐

Celiac disease occurs in approximately 1 percent of the world’s population, but most people with the condition are undiagnosed. It can develop at any age, as some people develop it as a child and others as an adult. Celiac disease is an underdiagnosed, undermanaged condition associated with serious long-term complications, including the development of osteoporosis, neurologic disorders, gastric ulcers, and cancer (such as lymphoma). It often runs in families. 💊

If someone in your family has celiac disease, talk to your healthcare professional to see if you should also be tested for celiac disease. 💉

23/05/2022

Researchers are still learning how the immune system can fend off the novel coronavirus after vaccination or previous infections. 💉

In a new study, researchers say people with “hybrid immunity” from having been vaccinated and previously having COVID-19 have significant protection against the disease. The researched found that having COVID-19 before vaccination or getting a breakthrough infection after vaccination both provide a type of “super immunity” to future infection. 😷

The researchers said their findings illustrate the importance of people who’ve had COVID-19 to still get vaccinated.

For more details on the research, follow this link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00143-8/fulltext

18/05/2022

Long COVID-19 can be pretty debilitating. People can suffer from lasting symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, memory loss, and shortness of breath. These symptoms can last weeks to months. 🩺

Researchers identified four critical biological factors that could raise a person’s risk of Long COVID-19.

Here are the factors:
😷 High viral load means that significant amounts of the virus’s RNA have been found in a person’s blood shortly after getting infected.
😷 The Epstein-Barr virus. This virus is very common, and people often get it when they’re young. It typically becomes dormant, but if it reactivates when a person is infected with the coronavirus, it can increase the risk of Long COVID-19.
😷 The third factor is autoantibodies. The immune system creates these. Unfortunately, they attack body tissue or organs. And researchers found high levels of these autoantibodies were linked to lower levels of protective antibodies that fight Covid.
😷 Lastly, the final factor is Type 2 diabetes. If you have Type 2 diabetes, it could put you more at risk for Long COVID-19. However, the researchers believe there are likely other medical conditions that could put you at risk of Long COVID-19.

Of all these four factors, the most influential one is autoantibodies. They were linked to two-thirds of the cases during the study.

Although there is no cure for Long COVID-19, researchers suggest that people who develop high viral loads might benefit from antivirals right after getting diagnosed. The quicker the virus is eliminated, the less likely a person might develop Long COVID-19.

10/05/2022

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection. You get it when the blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, bites you and stays attached for 36 to 48 hours. If you remove the tick within 48 hours, you probably won’t get infected. 🕷

When you do get infected, the bacteria travel through your bloodstream and affect various tissues in your body. If you don’t treat Lyme disease early on, it can turn into an inflammatory condition that affects multiple systems, starting with your skin, joints, and nervous system and moving to organs later on.

The chances you might get Lyme disease from a tick bite depend on the kind of tick, where you were when it bit you, and how long the tick was attached to you.

05/05/2022

Each year the World Hand Hygiene Day campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. 🖐️🧼

Washing your hands properly with soap and water can help prevent the spread of the germs (like bacteria and viruses) that cause these diseases. Some forms of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections can cause serious complications, especially for young children, the elderly, or those with a weakened immune system. 👹

25/04/2022

World Malaria Day is celebrated annually on April 25th. 🦟

This annual event is a worldwide effort to raise awareness of Malaria and funds for the treatment and prevention of malaria.

The day also marks the continuing great achievements in the fight against Malaria.💪

22/04/2022

An important part of managing your diabetes and preventing complications is measuring your blood glucose levels.
Who should be measuring their blood glucose levels? 🥼

👉 Those taking insulin
👉 Those who are pregnant
👉 When blood glucose control is hard to manage
👉 When you struggle with frequent hypoglycaemic episodes

Monitor and take care of yourself 🩺

13/04/2022

Diabetic Nephropathy is a condition resulting from uncontrolled diabetes. It is classified as one of the end-organ diseases in diabetic patients.💉

Poorly controlled blood glucose levels have damaging effects in the blood levels, including those of the kidneys. The kidneys act as a filter system for the body and when the blood vessels responsible for filtering get damaged, the kidneys function fails. ❌

While chronic kidney disease has no cure, better management of your diabetes and treatment of obesity is essential in slowing the progression or preventing the development of chronic kidney disease. 🩺

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