"Every Human Being is the Author of its Own Health AND DISEASE"
Hey Everyone, this is my FIRST Blog, so it is kind of Introductory.
This series of Blogs which I'm going to publish at regular interval aims at helping people recognizing some of the most deadliest and rapidly expanding Diseases of today's World. So that you are well prepared in advanced to fight against it, BEFORE IT HITS YOU.
The biggest problem with most of the Disease is that they are capable of hiding inside your body until they become deadly and out of control. They don't produce easily observable drastic changes in the normal functioning of the body, and so the changes are passed on as GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Just as an example, the symptoms of AIDS don't appear instantly after the infection, it takes more than 5 or 6 years before the symptoms START APPEARING. And if ignored, the symptoms can pass on for another 4-5 years. So, its after 10-12 years that a person realizes, he is suffering from AIDS. But during all these years the HIV virus is invading your body, multiplying itself rapidly, killing host macrophages and T-helper cells. Thus weakening your Immune System.
A popular theory which explains this observation is ICEBERG PHENOMENON. It is the metaphor of the tip and the submerged part of an iceberg. It explains that in clinical practice, only a small proportion of cases of important diseases (the tip of the iceberg) are seen at an early stage in the natural history when intervention can achieve prevention, cure, or relief of symptoms.
That portion of disease which remains unrecorded or undetected despite physicians’ diagnostic endeavors and community disease surveillance procedures forms the submerged part of the Iceberg (which is about 85%-90%).
However, there are certain diseases which do not show this Iceberg phenomenon such as Rabies, Tetanus, Measles, etc.
In my posts I will clearly mention which diseases exhibit iceberg phenomenon so that an early intervention is made to prevent or treat the disease.
So, STAY tuned.
