Conditions treated at the clinic

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Type 2 diabetes develops when the body becomes resistant to insulin and the pancreas can no longer keep blood glucose in range. It is usually silent for years, which is why screening matters. Well-controlled diabetes carries a near-normal life expectancy; uncontrolled diabetes damages the eyes, kidneys, nerves and arteries.

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Hypertension is sustained blood pressure at or above 140/90 mmHg. It is largely symptomless yet is the single biggest contributor to stroke, heart failure and chronic kidney disease. Treatment is judged on home readings over weeks, not one anxious clinic measurement.

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Migraine is a neurological disorder, not simply a bad headache. Attacks last hours to days and are often one-sided, throbbing and worsened by movement, light and sound. Frequent painkiller use can itself convert episodic migraine into daily medication-overuse headache.

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The thyroid gland sets the body's metabolic pace. An underactive gland (hypothyroidism) slows everything down; an overactive gland (hyperthyroidism) speeds it up. Both are easily diagnosed with a blood test and both respond well to treatment when the dose is monitored properly.

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Fatty liver is fat accumulation inside liver cells, commonly found incidentally on ultrasound. Early grades are fully reversible, but persistent inflammation can progress over years to fibrosis and cirrhosis. It travels with diabetes, obesity and abnormal lipids as part of metabolic syndrome.

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Gastritis is inflammation of the stomach lining, often caused by H. pylori infection, painkiller use, alcohol, irregular meals or stress. Long-term acid-suppressant use without a diagnosis masks symptoms and can cause vitamin B12 and magnesium deficiency.

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IBS is a disorder of gut-brain interaction causing recurrent abdominal pain with altered bowel habit, without structural damage. It is a positive diagnosis based on symptom pattern after excluding coeliac disease, infection and inflammatory bowel disease — not a diagnosis of exclusion by endless testing.

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Most short fevers in adults are viral and resolve within three to five days with rest and fluids. Antibiotics do not help and add risk. The physician's task is to identify the minority that are not viral — dengue, typhoid, malaria, pneumonia or urinary infection — and to monitor for complications.

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Typhoid is a bacterial infection caused by Salmonella typhi, spread through contaminated food and water. It causes a stepwise rising fever over a week and, untreated, can lead to intestinal perforation. Diagnosis needs a blood culture — the Widal test alone is unreliable in endemic areas.

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Dengue is transmitted by the day-biting Aedes mosquito. Most cases recover fully, but the critical phase — usually days 4 to 6, as the fever falls — is when plasma leakage and bleeding can occur. Careful daily monitoring and hydration, not platelet transfusion, are the mainstay of care.

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Anaemia means the blood carries less oxygen than it should. It is a sign, not a final diagnosis: iron deficiency, B12 or folate deficiency, chronic disease, thyroid disorder or blood loss from the gut each need different treatment. Finding the cause is as important as correcting the count.

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Vitamin D and B12 deficiency are extremely common in Indian adults because of limited sun exposure, indoor work and vegetarian diets. Symptoms are vague — tiredness, aches, poor concentration — so deficiency is often mislabelled as stress. Correction is straightforward once confirmed by testing.

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Urinary infection ranges from simple cystitis to pyelonephritis, where infection reaches the kidney and causes fever with flank pain. Recurrent infection deserves investigation for stones, diabetes, incomplete bladder emptying or prostate enlargement rather than repeated blind antibiotic courses.

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Joint pain has very different causes: wear-and-tear osteoarthritis, crystal-driven gout, and autoimmune inflammatory arthritis each need different treatment. Early recognition of inflammatory arthritis matters most — starting disease-modifying therapy within months prevents permanent joint damage.

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Asthma causes reversible narrowing of the airways with wheeze, cough and breathlessness. It is controllable in almost everyone with the right inhaler, correct technique and trigger management. Inhaled steroids are the treatment; over-reliance on a reliever inhaler is the commonest reason for emergency visits.

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Cholesterol itself causes no symptoms; the risk is the silent build-up of plaque in arteries over decades. Treatment decisions are based on your total ten-year cardiovascular risk — age, blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and family history — rather than on the LDL value in isolation.