For adults in Delhi, Gurgaon (Gurugram), Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad. Dr. Prabhat Arya is an internal medicine doctor (MD Medicine), registered with the Delhi Medical Council (DMC-83759). He covers the whole of internal medicine: sugar, BP, thyroid, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, fevers, and the everyday illnesses in between.
Reviewed by Dr. Prabhat Arya, MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine), Delhi Medical Council Reg. No. DMC-83759 · Updated
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Most laboratories in NCR will collect a blood sample from your home. Choose one accredited by NABL (India’s laboratory accreditation body), and keep the report ready for the call. He will tell you which tests are needed and why each one.
Heat. Water through the day, ORS if you sweat a lot, and no afternoon sun.
Fever months. After the rains come dengue, malaria, typhoid and chikungunya.
Smog and cold. Bad air days are hardest on asthma, COPD and heart disease, and BP often runs higher.
Drink water through the day, use ORS if you sweat a lot, and stay out of the afternoon sun. If you take water tablets or have heart or kidney disease, ask him how much fluid is right for you.
Go to hospital now if someone in the heat becomes confused, faints or has a fit, has very hot skin (whether sweating or not), or is vomiting and cannot keep fluids down. Call 112, and cool them with water and fanning while you wait.
After the rains come dengue, malaria, typhoid and chikungunya. For a fever, take paracetamol only, at the dose on the pack and never more than its daily limit. Avoid painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin unless a doctor has told you to, because in dengue they can make bleeding more likely. If you take aspirin or a blood thinner every day, do not stop it yourself; ask your doctor the same day the fever starts. Drink plenty of fluids. If a fever lasts more than two days, or comes with shivering, get a blood test and a consultation.
Go to hospital now if, with or after a fever, there is severe belly pain, vomiting again and again, bleeding from the gums or nose, black stools, unusual drowsiness or restlessness, cold and clammy hands and feet, passing little or no urine for six hours, or difficulty breathing. In dengue these signs often come as the fever is settling, around the third to seventh day.
On bad air days, people with asthma, COPD or heart disease feel it first. Take your preventer inhaler every day as prescribed, keep your reliever with you, wear a well-fitting N95 mask outdoors, and move your walk indoors, or to the early afternoon; avoid early morning and late evening, when the air is usually at its worst. Blood pressure often runs higher in the cold, so check it at home; your medicine may need adjusting.
Go to hospital now if you are too breathless to finish a sentence, your lips turn blue or grey, your reliever inhaler is not helping, or there is chest pain or tightness.
Book a time: Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm and 5 to 9 pm. Keep your reports and medicines beside you.
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