Thursday 23 February 2017

An excuse to play copaweson (by Kezia Carbon)

I believe that there is no one better to do this topic, it's right up my alley. But anyways! I am sure that everyone has seen at least one Judge Judy commercial break where some medical product is being advertised, with the nice music and the white lady's voice. And then at the very end when stating the side effects, she starts to speak very quickly. "Side effects may include stroke, allergic reactions.........or even may result in death".

A drug for inflammatory heart disease was advertised on one of the commercial breaks. Although we did not directly address this illness in class, we did cover some aspects of it.



Inflammatory Heart Disease as its name implies is the swelling of the heart muscles, pericardial sac and myocardium. Perhaps you will remember the cardiac tamponade we discussed in class; where the pericardial sac fills with fluid, pressure is exerted on the heart and ventricles are unable to effectively pump blood out of the heart.


Inflammatory heart disease is caused by pathogens, viruses, bacteria and toxic materials from the environment.......which includes people. When heart muscle especially the myocardium is infected by viruses, it results in chest pain, shortness of breath, edema, fatigue, and pain in heart muscle, oh and back to the commercial.......death! 




Antibiotics can be used to treat the disease and if heart failure occurs, long term medications will have to be taken. But as the saying goes, prevention is always better than cure. So if you are in an uncomfortable situation, especially during carnival and independence season, you know, when all these foreigners are here, use inflammatory heart disease as your scapegoat.




References

The Inflammatory Heart Diseases. Lu.L.,Sun.R. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25682012  

Inflammation and Heart Disease. American Heart Association.<http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Inflammation-and-Heart-Disease_UCM_432150_Article.jsp#.WK8e7NIrKM8

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