Health library
Guides for the problems people bring to a neighbourhood hospital.
120 articles written for families around Gurugram. They explain warning signs and everyday care. They do not sell a package, and they do not replace OPD.
High blood pressure between clinic visits
What home blood pressure readings mean, and when a high number should send you to hospital in Gurugram.
Chest pain: which kind should not wait
How to tell ordinary chest discomfort from pain that needs emergency care, without pretending you can diagnose it at home.
Cholesterol without giving up a normal Indian kitchen
What cholesterol numbers mean in everyday Indian meals, and which habits move them more than a crash diet.
Walking when the heart is the reason you get tired
A practical walking plan for people with blood pressure, a stent, or breathlessness on hills, written for city pavements.
Salt, pickles, and blood pressure in a real kitchen
Where hidden salt sits in Indian food, and how to cut it without making every meal taste like hospital food.
When the heart flutters or skips a beat
Common reasons for palpitations, which ones settle with less tea, and which need an ECG the same day.
A parent had a heart attack young. What now?
How a family history of early heart disease should change check-ups, without turning a healthy adult into a patient overnight.
Feet that swell by evening
Why ankles swell after a day of standing, which medicines cause it, and when swelling means the heart or kidneys.
What actually happens at a blood pressure visit
A plain account of a hypertension check at a charitable hospital: the cuff, the questions, and the tests that are not automatic.
Festivals, sweets, and a heart that already has a file
How to sit through a wedding week if you have blood pressure, diabetes, or a previous heart problem.
Type 2 diabetes, explained without the scare poster
What type 2 diabetes is, why the body stops handling sugar well, and what a first visit should cover.
Fasting sugar and HbA1c are not the same test
Why a morning sugar and a three-month HbA1c can disagree, and which one to ask about at the lab.
Low blood sugar: the signs and the first step
How to recognise a hypo if you take diabetes treatment, and what to do before you try to drive home.
Feet, diabetes, and the cut you cannot feel
Daily foot care for people with diabetes, and the wounds that should be seen the same day.
Diabetes and the eyes: why ‘I can see fine’ is not a test
How diabetes harms the retina quietly, and when blurred vision needs a doctor rather than a new pair of glasses.
Eating out when you have diabetes
How to order at a dhaba or a wedding without pretending you will eat boiled vegetables forever.
Sugar that appears in pregnancy
What gestational diabetes means for mother and baby, and why the test is offered even when you feel well.
A short walk after meals and what it does to sugar
Why ten minutes after eating helps blood sugar, and how to do it in a small house or a unsafe street.
When sugar and blood pressure travel together
Why diabetes and hypertension are treated as a pair, and which organs pay if one of them is ignored.
How to prepare for a blood sugar test
Fasting rules, what to do about morning tablets, and how not to waste a sample at the lab.
What the antenatal visits are actually for
Why pregnancy check-ups exist, what is usually examined, and which symptoms should not wait for the next date.
Anaemia in pregnancy: tiredness is not the only clue
Why haemoglobin falls in pregnancy, what food can and cannot do, and when a transfusion is even discussed.
Periods that do not keep a calendar
Common reasons periods come late or early, which patterns need a pregnancy test, and what is not a hormone emergency.
PCOS: what daily life can change, and what it cannot
A clear account of polycystic ovary syndrome, periods, weight, and why the ultrasound alone is not the diagnosis.
Hot flushes and the years around menopause
What menopause does to sleep, bones, and periods, and which bleeding is not ‘just the change’.
Breast changes that should be examined
Which breast lumps, skin changes, and discharges need a clinician, and how a self-check is done without terror.
Urine infections: burn, frequency, and what not to delay
Why urinary infections are common in women, how to ease them, and when fever means the kidney is involved.
The first weeks after birth
What is normal after delivery, how to watch bleeding, and the mood changes that need more than ‘be grateful’.
Calcium, vitamin D, and women’s bones
How much of the bone problem is food, sunlight, and pregnancy, and who actually needs a tablet.
Planning a pregnancy before the test turns positive
The three months before conception: folic acid, thyroid, medicines to stop, and illnesses to mention.
Fever in a child: what parents can watch
How to measure a child’s fever, when home care is enough, and the signs that belong in a hospital the same day.
Vaccines children are due for, in plain words
Why the childhood vaccines exist, how to read a card, and what a mild fever after a dose does and does not mean.
What to feed a child who eats two bites
A practical plate for toddlers: protein, iron, and the snacks that spoil dinner, without a fight at every meal.
Coughs and colds that fill a classroom
How long a child’s viral cough can last, what helps, and the breathing signs that should end the home trial.
When a child is drying out
How to spot dehydration during loose motions or fever, and how to use oral rehydration without a measuring panic.
Screens, sleep, and a child who will not settle
How phones steal sleep from children, what a realistic limit looks like, and when behaviour needs more than a scolding.
School bags, headaches, and the annual health check
What a school health check should notice, and when headaches or abdominal pain on Monday morning are a clue.
Loose motions in children, without harmful shortcuts
Home care for a child’s diarrhoea, the danger of anti-diarrhoeal syrups, and when blood in the stool changes the plan.
Growing pains, and the limp that is not one
How to tell evening leg aches from a joint, a injury, or an illness that needs a doctor.
When to bring a child in, and when the night can wait
A parent’s list of red flags, written so you do not sit on a dangerous illness or spend every evening in a queue.
Knee pain that stairs make worse
Why knees hurt on stairs, what rest can do, and when a lock or a swelling needs a clinician.
Back pain from a chair, not a disaster
How desk backs hurt, which patterns are muscle, and the rare signs that mean a nerve or something worse.
Thin bones after fifty
What osteoporosis means, who should think about it, and how falls become fractures.
Sprain or fracture after a twist
How to handle the first hour after an ankle or wrist twist, and what still needs an X-ray.
Calcium and vitamin D without the extra tubs
Who is actually short of vitamin D in Gurugram, what sunlight can do, and when a test is worth paying for.
Neck pain from the phone
Why the chin-down posture hurts, what helps this week, and when arm numbness is more than a strain.
Morning stiffness that lasts too long
How to tell ordinary morning stiffness from inflammatory arthritis that should be seen early.
Lifting at home without wrecking your back
A simple way to lift buckets, gas cylinders, and children, and the pain that means you should stop and get examined.
Acidity and the late, heavy dinner
Why heartburn shows up at midnight, what to change this week, and the chest pain that is not acidity.
Constipation that is a habit, not a disease
How water, fibre, and a toilet routine fix ordinary constipation, and which changes need a doctor.
Fatty liver: the report people file and forget
What a fatty liver on ultrasound means, what actually shrinks it, and which drinks and medicines make it worse.
Gallstone pain: the wave under the right ribs
How biliary colic feels, what fatty meals have to do with it, and when a stone becomes an emergency.
Food poisoning in a Gurugram week
What to do in the first day of vomiting and loose motions, and the signs of dehydration that should end the home trial.
Piles: itch, bleed, and the habit underneath
What haemorrhoids are, how to calm a flare, and the bleeding that should not be blamed on piles forever.
Irritable bowel, stress, and a gut that overreacts
What IBS is, how it differs from an ulcer or an infection, and what actually reduces the flares.
Abdominal pain that should not be watched overnight
A plain guide to stomach pain: wind, acidity, and the patterns that belong in a hospital.
Asthma when the air is already dirty
What asthma feels like in a polluted city, how inhalers actually work, and the night symptoms that should not be ignored.
Breathing on a bad air day
What to do when the AQI is ugly: who should stay in, which masks help, and symptoms that are more than irritation.
The cough that does not leave
How long a cough can last after a virus, and when it needs a chest examination and a test for tuberculosis.
Snoring, pauses, and sleep that does not restore
When snoring is a joke and when pauses in breathing are a disease that strains the heart.
Tuberculosis: the cough people still hide
Why a long cough should be tested, how TB treatment works, and why stopping early brings the illness back.
How to use an inhaler so the medicine arrives
The steps of inhaler technique, why a spacer exists, and the mistakes that make a correct prescription fail.
Chest infections when the monsoon starts
How a monsoon cough differs from asthma, who needs antibiotics, and how to keep a household from sharing one fever.
Stopping smoking without a lecture
What actually happens in the first weeks without tobacco, and the aids that are worth asking about.
Stress that has moved into your sleep
How worry steals sleep, what a wind-down actually looks like, and when sleeplessness is an illness.
Anxiety that shows up as a body symptom
How panic feels like a heart attack, how clinicians tell them apart, and what to do during a surge.
Low mood that is more than a bad week
How to recognise depression, what families can say, and why ‘be strong’ is not a treatment.
The tiredness of the person looking after everyone
Caregiver fatigue: the short fuse, the lost sleep, and the guilt that stops people asking for a turn.
Phones, mood, and a mind that will not idle
How endless short videos change attention and mood, and a realistic way to get the evening back.
A breathing practice that is small enough to do
A slow-breathing method for anxious moments, who should not force deep breaths, and what breathing will not fix.
Exam stress in a teenager
How to tell ordinary exam nerves from an illness, and what parents can do in the month before a board paper.
Loneliness in older adults
Why loneliness is a health risk after retirement or a bereavement, and practical ways families can reduce it.
A thali that does the job
What a useful everyday plate looks like in a North Indian kitchen, without a diet plan you will abandon.
Iron on an ordinary Indian plate
Which foods contain iron, why tea blocks it, and when food is not enough for anaemia.
Water in the Gurugram summer
How much to drink in the heat, who should not force litres, and the signs of heat illness.
How to read a packet without a nutrition degree
The three lines on an Indian food label that matter: sugar, salt, and the serving size trick.
Protein for a vegetarian household
How to get enough protein from dal, dairy, eggs, and paneer without a powder you do not need.
Weight that arrives a kilo at a time
Why waist size matters more than a crash diet, and a pace of loss that does not wreck your eating.
Oil and ghee, measured
How much cooking fat a household actually needs, and why the type of oil matters less than the spoon.
A tiffin that comes back empty
School-tiffin ideas that do not depend on a thermos of maggi, and the lunch that keeps a child going until the bell.
The health check that is worth doing
Which tests earn their place in a routine check, and which packages are noise.
Getting blood pressure checked before it hurts you
Why a cuff belongs in ordinary adult life, how often to use it, and what a camp reading does not decide.
Vaccines adults forget they need
Tetanus, flu, hepatitis, and the vaccines that matter in pregnancy and after a dog bite.
Cancer screening conversations that are actually useful
Which screening tests have a role, and why a random ‘cancer marker’ blood test is not a check-up.
Seeing a dentist before the tooth shouts
Why a six-monthly look at the mouth prevents night-time toothaches, and what to do when pain has already started.
Eyes after forty
Why near vision changes in the forties, and the eye diseases that do not announce themselves with a blur you can buy glasses for.
A family health file that fits in one folder
What to keep, what to throw away, and how a single folder saves a visit from starting at zero.
Questions worth asking before you leave the room
Five questions that turn a rushed OPD visit into a decision you understand.
Falls at home after sixty
Why older adults fall in ordinary rooms, how to fall-proof a house, and when a fall means a fracture.
Memory changes: what is age and what is not
When forgetting names is ordinary, and when getting lost or unsafe cooking needs an assessment.
When the medicine bag is the illness
How older adults collect strips, which combinations cause falls, and how to ask for a review.
Hearing loss that isolates
Why people hide hearing loss, how it mimics dementia, and when an ear is a wax problem rather than age.
Eating well after sixty
Why appetite falls with age, how to keep protein up, and the weight loss that is not ‘just old age’.
Stiff joints in winter
Why cold weather stiffens knees and fingers, and how to stay mobile without a bottle of pain gel as the only plan.
A reason to leave the house after retirement
How to replace the structure a job gave you, and why a weekly commitment is better than a vague plan to stay active.
How to bring an older person to OPD
What to pack, what to say first, and how a companion makes a geriatric visit shorter and safer.
Dengue warning signs in season
How dengue usually starts, which painkillers to avoid, and the warning signs that need a hospital the same day.
Typhoid fever: the long fever
How typhoid differs from a two-day viral fever, why a Widal test is not the whole story, and what care looks like.
Handwashing that actually removes germs
The moments when washing hands changes illness in a house, and the version that is theatre.
Malaria, viral fever, and the fever you should test
How malaria presents, why a fever with chills still needs a test, and what a negative one-day report does not rule out.
Skin infections in the wet months
Ringworm, boils, and the folds that stay damp: what to change, and which creams make fungus worse.
Flu season in a household
How influenza spreads, who should be more careful, and a reasonable way to share a house without sharing the fever.
Looking after a small wound
How to clean a cut, when a tetanus dose is due, and the redness that means a wound is infected.
Antibiotics are not for every fever
Why a fever does not automatically need an antibiotic, and how short courses train resistant germs.
Toothache until you can be seen
What to do for a toothache before a dental visit, and the swelling that should not wait.
Ear pain in the wet season
Why ears hurt with a cold, what not to put in the canal, and the discharge that needs a clinician.
Sinus pressure and a blocked face
How sinus pain feels, what steam can and cannot do, and when a blocked nose is a dental or eye problem.
A red eye: allergy, infection, or a warning
How to tell a common red eye from a painful one that needs urgent care, and why steroid drops are not a first guess.
Headaches, screens, and the wrong glasses
When a headache is eyestrain, when it is migraine, and when it is a blood-pressure or sinus problem instead.
Gums that bleed when you brush
What bleeding gums mean, how to brush without making it worse, and the mouth signs that are not simple gingivitis.
Sore throats and a voice that has gone
Which sore throats are viral, which need a test, and how to rest a voice that has to work tomorrow.
Ear buds, wax, and the itch they make worse
Why ear wax is useful, how buds cause the blockage they are meant to cure, and the safe way to hear again.
Stroke: the signs to act on immediately
Face, arm, speech, and time. What a stroke looks like in a house, and why you should not wait to see if it passes.
Heart attack signs in the room you are in
What a heart attack feels like beyond the cinema version, and what to do in the first minutes.
Heavy bleeding: what to do before help arrives
How to press on a wound, what not to tie, and when bleeding is an emergency even if the person is talking.
Burns in the kitchen
The first ten minutes after a kitchen burn: cool water, no toothpaste, and the burns that need a hospital.
Choking: what to do and what to stop doing
How to help a choking adult or child, and why you should not poke a finger blindly into the mouth.
Head injury at home
Which knocks on the head can be watched, and the signs of bleeding inside the skull that appear later.
Allergic reactions: rash, wheeze, and collapse
How to recognise a serious allergic reaction, what to do about a known adrenaline pen, and why a mild rash still gets watched.
Heat stroke in a Gurugram summer
How to tell heat exhaustion from heat stroke, and how to cool a person while you get help.
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