Acute Infectious Disease

What is acute infectious disease?

• Infection that occurs acutely
• Infection  caused by a microorganism, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that enters the body of  an organism.
• They are usually transmitted  by a specific kind of contact
• Last for a short period of time

Mechanism of infection 

There are many types of acute infectious diseases. Some of them are:

• Acute appendicitis
• Acute bronchitis
• Acute tonsillitis
• Acute kidney failure
• Tuberculosis

 ACUTE APPENDICITIS

This is an inflammation of the appendix, which is the worm-shaped pouch attached to the cecum, the beginning of the large intestine.

SYMPTOMS:

• Abdominal pain
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Vomiting
• Nausea
• Fever
• No appetite
• Sharp pain in your lower right abdomen

Foods to take:

• Green vegetables
• Fruits (except tropical fruits)
• Milk
• Prunes

Foods to avoid/limit:

• Meats
• Animal proteins
• Alcohol
• Coffee and tea
• Sweets
• Spices(spicy food)
• Fried food
• Cooked eggs

RECOMMENDED  DAILY DIET

• Upon rising:

A glass of lukewarm water with half a freshly squeezed lime and a teaspoon of honey.

• Breakfast:

Fruits and milk, followed by nuts, if desired.

• Lunch:

Steamed vegetables, 2 or 3 whole-wheat wheat tortilla and a glass of buttermilk.

• Mid-afternoon:

A glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice or sugar cane juice.

• Dinner:

A bowl of fresh green vegetable salad, with lime juice dressing, sprouted seeds and fresh homemade cottage cheese or a glass of buttermilk.

• Bedtime:

A glass of fresh milk or an apple.

ACUTE BRONCHITIS

This is a disease of the lower respiratory tract in the lungs. It is often caused by a viral infection, such as a upper respiratory infection or influenza that settles in the lungs, which results in inflammation bronchi

SYMPTOMS:

• Fever
• Cough
• Chest pain
• Changes in colour of mucus
• Wheezing
• Produces blood in the phlegm

Foods to take:

• Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids
• Fruits
• Water
• Garlic, ginger and onions
• Barley soup or drinks

Foods and items to avoid/limit:

• Cigarette
• Coffee and tea
• Dairy products
• Dried food
• Refined sugar
• Salt

RECOMMENDED DAILY DIET

Diet:

Three meals a day comprising of fresh juicy fruits to be consumed every 5 hours.

Thereafter, adopt the following diet:-

• Upon rising:

The freshly squeezed juice from half a lime added to a glass of slightly warm water along with a little honey.

• Bronchitis Breakfast:

A cup of fresh milk sweetened with honey and nuts along with fresh fruits.

• Lunch:

A tortilla – preferably whole wheat, along with a pat of butter and a bowl of steamed vegetables

• Mid afternoon:

A glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice.

• Dinner

A bowl of fresh green vegetable salad, with lime juice dressing, sprouted seeds and homemade cottage cheese. 

• At night, before heading to bed:

A few dates soaked in milk.

ACUTE TONSILLITIS

This is an inflammation of one or both tonsils. In another word, an infection and swelling of the tonsils, which are oval-shaped masses of lymph gland tissue located on both sides of the back of the throat.

SYMPTOMS:

• Fever
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Difficulty in breathing
• Difficulty in swallowing
• Snoring
• Sore throat

Foods to take:

• Drink plenty of warm liquids (soup, tea, luke warm water)
• Soft foods (yogurt, puddings)
• Ice cream
• Scrambled egg
• Fresh fruit juice
• Chicken
• ü Vegetable broth
• Mashed potatoes

Foods to avoid/limit:

• Hot food
• Spices
• Acidic beverages
• Fried food
• Cigarette
• Crunchy food
• Carbonated drinks

RECOMMENDED DAILY DIET

• Drinking boiled milk, to which a pinch of pepper and turmeric have been added. For best results, this concoction should be consumed for three nights in a row
• Squeezing the juice of a lime into a glass of lukewarm water and adding ¼ teaspoon of salt to it, along with 1 or 2 tablespoons of honey. Patients should sip this slowly
• A combination of vegetable juice, which includes 100 ml cucumber juice, 100 ml of beet juice and 300 ml of carrot juice is very effective. Consuming each of these juices individually can also be equally helpful.
• Gargling with a solution made using fenugreek seeds simmered in a litre of water for about half an hour.
• Applying a cold pack to the throat every two or three hours, through the day.

ACUTE  KIDNEY  FAILURE

1. Acute renal failure
2. Normal kidney
3. Chronic renal failure

This is the sudden loss of your kidneys’ ability to perform their main function of eliminating excess fluid and salts (electrolytes) as well as waste material from your blood. When your kidneys lose their filtering ability, dangerous levels of fluid, electrolytes and wastes accumulate in your body.

SYMPTOMS:

• Shortness of breath
• Nausea
• Fatigue
• Drowsiness
• Oligourea
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Blood in stool
• Absence of urine

Foods to take:

• High iron foods ( grapes, red meats)
• Soy
• High calcium foods (milk ,yoghurt)
• Water
• Fiber
• Lemons, herbs and spices

Foods and items to avoid/limit:

• Salty foods
• High potassium foods (banana, potatoes, tomatoes)
• Nuts, peas, seeds and lentils
• Cigarette
• Alcohols

RECOMMENDED DAILY DIET

• Breakfast:

Scrambled eggs, one slice of toasted white bread with margarine, and a serving of cranberry juice, coffee or tea.

• Lunch:

A basic sliced turkey sandwich (turkey, sourdough bread, mayonnaise, tomatoes, and lettuce), one apple and diet soft drinks.

• Dinner:

Broiled garlic shrimp served with white rice, asparagus, small bits of pineapple and water.

• Snacks:

Graham crackers and grapes

TUBERCULOSIS

An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body, often developing long after the initial infection.

SYMPTOMS:

• Fever
• Sweats
• Fatigue
• Cough (more than 2 weeks)
• Loss of appetite
• Sudden weight loss
• Chest pain
• Bloody phlegm

Foods to take:

• Honey
• Fresh fruit juice
• Whole grains
• Green vegetables
• Unsaturated fats
• Lean meats and fish
• Beans, peas, nuts and seeds

Foods and item to avoid/limit:

• Salty food
• Alcohol
• Coffee and tea
• Cigarette
• Sugar
• Fried food

RECOMMENDED DAILY DIET 

• An all-fruit diet for three days. Take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits at five-hourly intervals.
• A fruit and milk diet for further 10 days, adding a cup of milk to each fruit meal.

Thereafter, adopt a well-balanced diet, on the following lines:-

• Upon rising:

A glass of lukewarm water mixed with half a freshly-squeezed lime and a teaspoon of honey.

• Breakfast:

Fresh fruit, a glass of milk, sweetened with honey, and few nuts, especially almonds.

• Lunch

A bowl of freshly-prepared steamed vegetables, whole wheat wheat tortilla with butter and a glass of butter milk.

• Mid afternoon

A glass of fruit juice or sugarcane juice.

• Dinner

Raw vegetable salad and sprouts with vegetable oil and limejuice dressing, followed by a hot course, if desired.

• Bed time snack:

A glass of milk with few dates.

References:

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Acute+infection

http://www.diethealthclub.com/health-issues-and-diet/appendicitis/diet.html

http://www.diethealthclub.com/health-issues-and-diet/bronchitis/diet.html

http://www.diethealthclub.com/health-issues-and-diet/tonsillitis/diet.html

http://www.renaldiethq.com/all-about-the-renal-menu-diet-plan/

http://www.diethealthclub.com/health-issues-and-diet/tuberculosis/diet.html

Nephritis

Nephritis refers to the inflammation of kidneys. Nephritis is a kind of chronic and lingering clinical disease. Nephritis is the most common producer of glomerular injury. It is a disturbance of the glomerular structure with inflammatory cell proliferation.

Nephritis can lead to:

• Oligouria(urine output decrease)
• Uremia(retention of waste product in the body)
• Hematouria(present of blood in the urine)
• Proteinuria(present of protein in the urine)

Nephritis is one of the highest cause of human death. Proteinuria is the most severe because it leads to losing of protein in the body.This may cause blood clotting in the body and sudden stroke occur.

For better curing the patient with chronic disease,we need to prescribe a  well and suitable diet for the patient.

What causes nephritis?

Glomerulonephritis may be caused by problems with the body’s immune system. Often, the exact cause of glomerulonephritis is unknown. Damage to the glomeruli causes blood and protein to be lost in the urine. The condition may develop quickly and kidney function is lost within weeks or months ( rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis). A quarter of people with chronic glomerulonephritis have no history of kidney disease.

The following may increase your risk of this condition:

• Blood or lymphatic system disorders
• Exposure to hydrocarbon solvents
• History of cancer
• Infections such as strep infections, viruses, heart infections, or abscesses

Many conditions cause or increase the risk for glomerulonephritis, including:

• Amyloidosis
• Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease
• Blood vessel diseases such as vasculitis or polyarteritis
• Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
• Goodpasture syndrome
• Heavy use of pain relievers, especially NSAIDs
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura
• IgA nephropathy
• Lupus nephritis
• Membranoproliferative GN

Common symptoms of glomerulonephritis are:

• Blood in the urine (dark, rust-colored, or brown urine)
• Foamy urine (due to excess protein in the urine)
• Swelling (edema) of the face, eyes, ankles, feet, legs, or abdomen

Symptoms may also include the following:

• Abdominal pain
• Blood in the vomit or stools
• Cough and shortness of breath
• Diarrhea
• Excessive urination
• Fever
• General ill feeling, fatigue, and loss of appetite
• Joint or muscle aches
• Nosebleed

The symptoms of chronic kidney disease may develop over time. Chronic renal failure symptoms may gradually develop.

Patients with Nephritis should avoid smoking, intake of alcohol, white bread, tea, coffee, fried foods, meat products, sugar cakes, pastries, condiments and syrups to get better result and to cure this disease.

Food to take:

• Grapes

They have been a superb pill for strident as well as ongoing nephritis. They retain a superb diuretic value upon reason of their tall essence of H2O as well as potassium salt. Their cost in kidney troubles similar to nephritis is softened by their low albumin as well as sodium chloride happy.

• Bananas

They are also effective for nephritis.Due to low protein, salt, and high carbohydrate content bananas are considered as suitable for nephritis patients.

• Avocados

They have been changed as a shave food in nephritis. The value of this ripened offspring arises from a vast unfeeling as well as small protein contents.

Food to limit/avoid:

• Decrease Salt Intake

A diet low in salt content should be followed if swelling of the hands or feet is present. Consuming no more than 1500mg of sodium a day. You can reduce the amount of sodium in your diet by avoiding processed foods, which tend to be high in sodium, and choosing fresh foods instead. In particular, canned foods, broths, soups, pretzels, chips and condiments typically contain the most sodium. Look for foods labeled “low sodium,” meaning it contains less than 140mg of sodium. Also avoid adding salt to foods. Just ¼ teaspoon of salt adds 600mg of sodium, which is almost half your daily allowance for salt.

• Limit Consumption of Protein

Protein consumption should be limited in those with proteinuria, a condition in which protein is present in the urine. Proteinuria is dangerous because it can damage the kidney and even lead to kidney failure. It also contributes to swelling of the body due to loss of proteins. Moderate protein intake of about one gram of protein per kilogram of body weight a day is recommended.

• Vitamin D Supplementation

Vitamin D supplementation may be required for patients with chronic membranous nephritis that is not responsive to treatment. Vitamin D is converted to its active form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, in the kidney. In chronic kidney disease, the ability of the kidney to synthesize this vitamin is reduced, therefore supplementation is sometimes warranted. The recommended dietary allowance of vitamin D is 15mcg a day for adults ages 19 to 70 years and 20mcg a day for adults age 71 years and older.

• Reduce Fat and Cholesterol

A low fat, low cholesterol diet should be followed to avoid further elevation of cholesterol levels associated with membranous nephritis and to lower the risk of cardiovascular events. Dietary modification alone, however, will not lower your cholesterol as it is primarily caused by an increase in cholesterol synthesis by the liver and not because of diet. Saturated fats should be avoided as well as foods high in cholesterol. This includes foods such as eggs, whole milk, butter, fatty cuts of meats and fried foods. Your doctor may recommend a cholesterol lowering medication such as a statin to keep your cholesterol levels under control.

• Limit plant protein

Protein intake should depend on the condition of renal function. If patients with Nephritis suffer from Oliguria, Edema, Hypertension and Nitrogen qualitative retention, the intake of protein per day should be limited less than 20-40 grams so as to unburden the kidney, and avoid the deposition of non protein nitrogen in the body. In particular, the large amount of Fat moans alkali in the plant protein will worsen the intermediary metabolism of kidney. So we shouldn’t take beans and bean product as supplemental nutrition, such as soybean, mung bean, broad bean, soybean milk, and bean curd, etc.

• Avoid spicy condiments

Spicy condiments such as pepper, mustard, hot pepper, etc is bad for renal function. In addition, excessive aginomoto will make patients thirsty and drink more.

• Limit fluid volume

If patients with Chronic Nephritis have hypertension and edema, they should limit the fluid intake. The volume should be limited in the range of 1200-1500ml per day, 400ml drink and water in the food included. If the edema is serious, we should strictly limit the water intake.

Tips

Patients with Nephritis must avoid spinach, chocolate, cocoa and rhubarb because it contains oxalic acid in large quantities. Common salt also should be eliminated from the diet. Carrot juice is an effective remedy for nephritis. One portion of carrot juice, sundry with a tablespoon of sugar as well as a teaspoon of uninformed orange Juice, should be taken any day, first thing in a morning when stomach is empty.

References:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000484.htm

http://www.livestrong.com/article/361280-nutrition-diet-for-chronic-membranous-nephritis/

http://www.kidneycn.com/kidney-diseases/nephritis/nephritis-diet/1200.html

http://www.kidneycn.com/kidney-diseases/nephritis/nephritis-diet/824.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephritis

Picture references:

http://www.ingenioushealth.com/2011/12/tis-season-to-be-brain-full.html

http://www.howmanycaloriesinanapple.org/calories-in-a-banana/

http://www.photovaco.com/photos/food/carrot-juice-135/

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-8317681/stock-vector-no-food-drink-sign.html

http://onlyloserscomplain.com/fast-food-revelation/

Hepatitis

What is Hepatitis?

This is the swelling and inflammation of liver. It is not a condition, it is more commonly used to refer to a viral infection of the liver.

Hepatitis can be caused by:

• Immune cells in the body attacking the liver and causing autoimmune hepatitis
• Infections from viruses (such as hepatitis A, B, or C), bacteria, or parasites
• Liver damage from alcohol, poisonous mushrooms, or other poisons
• Medications, such as an overdose of acetaminophen, which can be deadly

HEALTHY  liver                      vs                HEPATITIS  liver

Food to Use?

• Steamed green vegetables
• Fresh vegetable juices
• Squashes
• Whole grains
• Legumes, including tofu, tempeh, and soups with mung beans
• Fish, organic chicken, and turkey
• Plenty of fresh water; add juice of half a lemon to a quart of distilled water
• Fresh fruit in season, one to three pieces a day, depending on season and climate

Foods To Avoid?

• Alcoholic beverages of any kind

• Hot foods 

Such as chili peppers and onion; use only moderate amounts of garlic. Ginger is the preferred spice because it has a protective effect on the liver.

• Pain-relieving drugs

Asprin and products containing acetaminophen. Many are toxic to the liver.

• Most pharmaceutical drugs, especially anti-inflammatories and antibiotics. Check the Physician’s Desk Reference, available in a home edition and at most libraries, if you are uncertain about the potential toxicity to the liver

• Fried greasy foods

They are often difficult for the liver to handle

• Stimulants like coffee, black tea products

They increase body metabolism and act as a central nervous-system stimulants, increasing body heat

• Refined sugar products such as cakes, cookies, candy, and ice cream; or foods with white sugar, honey, and maple syrup. 

Refined sugar suppresses the immune system, stimulates metabolism, and increases heat in the body. Depend on fresh fruit in season for natural sweets.

Nutritional Supplements to Add?

• Antioxidants

Such as milk thistle, vitamin E (400 to 800 lU/day), vitamin C (1 to 3 grams per day), grape-seed extract (150 to 200 mg/day)

• Essential fatty acids

Be sure there are enough in your diet. Use one or two teaspoons of organic flax seed oil a day on salads or steamed vegetables, or take capsules.

• B vitamins 

Take a B-vitamin complex supplement that contains thiamine, choline, riboflavin, and niacin.

 

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References :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002139/

http://www.christopherhobbs.com/website/herbal/hep_c/nat_liver_therapy_excerpts/10_foods_to_use_and_avoid.html