Many have irregular heartbeats that could contribute to a stroke

Many have irregular heartbeats that could contribute to a stroke By LOH FOON FONG

KUALA LUMPUR: Unknown to them, thousands of Malaysians are walking time bombs liable to explode anytime.

These people are unaware they have irregular heartbeats which could lead to blood clots or burst arteries that could result in death or severe physical incapacitation such as paralysis.

Atrial Fibrillation-Strike Out Stroke chairman Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian said 20% out of 49,000 patients with high blood pressure, were discovered to have irregular heartbeats.

Dilema of shaking hands

I AGREE 100% with Veteran filmmaker Tan Sri L. Krishnan who said, “Do you know why we Indians greet each other by putting our palms together?” while demonstrating the traditional Indian gesture of greeting. “So that we do not have to wash our hands after shaking someone else’s,” he quipped.
We Myanmar Muslims usually give salaam like a salute with our right palm on forehead. This is better than shake hands…

Blessing in disguise: R Ba Pe proposed but God disposed.

In my Final Part 2 Medical, short case, Professor Reggie Ba Pe was my examiner and I got the paraplegic patient.

We all know that in CNS cases like this, if not well prepared the candidate could easily fail.

But for me in addition to my good preparation and extra four months’ revision just before examination had given me plenty of times to even review the prescribed text book Davidson for seven times. (I used to read cover to cover including foot notes)

I have a good luck of coaching on these CNS cases esp. PARAPLEGIA by about half a dozen of the BEST lecturers: Prof. Dr Daw Myint Myint Aye, Dr U Kyaw Myint, Dr U Mg Mg Wint, Dr Daw Ma Ma Gyi, Dr Than Yin Mar, Dr U Kyaw Hla and others.

Courage သတၱိ

ဒီမုိ ဖက္တီး Said:
မေၾကာက္တာဟာ တကယ့္သတၱိ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေၾကာက္လ်က္ နဲ႔ ကုိယ္လုပ္သင့္ လုပ္ထုိက္တာကုိ လုပ္တာဟာ တကယ့္သတၱိပဲ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဒူးတုန္တုန္နဲ႔ လုပ္တဲ့သူဟာ ေတာ္ေတာ္ သတၱိရွိတယ္လုိ႔ ေခၚရမွာပဲ။
— ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္

Baby Sleeping times: Reversing Night And Day Reversal

Compiled from few different sourses. This first one’s Source: Gist from,”Kids and Sleep” Brown University by Jean Twomey, PhD

Healthy sleep habits promote

1. Optimal functioning – Health, development, learning
2. Positive mood. – Happier baby or toddler, happier parents, family well-being

Babies can be helped to develop good sleep habits

1. Establishing healthy sleep habits early can prevent sleep
   problems
2. Babies/toddlers don’t just outgrow sleep problems
3. Positive outcomes on interventions for early childhood sleep problems

Interesting F/Bs (foreign bodies) I encountered

Some foreign bodies may be found in the rectum that were initially swallowed but then present with complications in the rectum. Yesterday, I had seen a Burmese worker complaining of a bone piece in his anal canal. At first I cannot believe him when he complained of pain in anus and he could feel the big fish bone stuck across the anus. I even try to explain that it may be the tip of the Sacrum/Coccyx bone. Photo by Ko Min Min

Stiff Neck (Torticollis or wryneck) exercises

Crown prince pretended to be deaf and dumb to avoid kinghood (in English and Burmese)

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1. The Story of The Dumb Prince, The Illustrated Jataka & Other Stories of the Buddha by C.B. Varma  (IN ENGLISH)
2. Jataka tales by U Ba Kyi: Pretending to be deaf and dumb to avoid kinghood. (IN BURMESE)

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Chanda Devi, the wife of the king of Kashi had no son. This filled her life with misery. Sakka, the king of the devas, when saw her grief he decided to help her because she was a virtuous lady. So, he persuaded the Bodhisatta, who was then born in the realm of the Tavatimsa to prepare for his descent in her womb for the sake of her happiness. The Bodhisatta then entered the womb of the queen. When born, there was a heavy rain-fall in the city. As he was born wet he was called Temiya.

The Obesity Epidemic

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Frozen shoulder or stiff shoulder

Source: Adhesive capsulitis of shoulder. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frozen shoulder, medically referred to as adhesive capsulitis, is a disorder in which the shoulder capsule, the connective tissue surrounding the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, becomes inflamed and stiff, greatly restricting motion and causing chronic pain.

Adhesive capsulitis is a painful and disabling condition that often causes great frustration for patients and caregivers due to slow recovery. Movement of the shoulder is severely restricted. Pain is usually constant, worse at night, when the weather is colder, and along with the restricted movement can make even small tasks impossible. Certain movements or bumps can cause sudden onset of tremendous pain and cramping that can last several minutes.

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