Dengue, viral fever, and typhoid all start with high fever — but they are caused by different things, need different tests, and require different treatment. In Hyderabad’s monsoon season, malaria and chikungunya are also in the mix, each with overlapping...
Most Indian diets — particularly vegetarian ones — are significantly under-supplied in protein. The traditional Indian meal pattern is built around carbohydrates: rice, roti, poha, upma, idli. Protein (dal, curd, egg) is present but often in quantities insufficient to...
India has 77 million people living with diabetes — the second highest number in the world — and that number is rising faster than in almost any other country. The primary driver is not genetics alone. It is the rapid intersection of a genetically vulnerable population...
Managing diabetes in Hyderabad presents a specific set of dietary challenges that a general diabetes diet guide simply cannot address. Hyderabad is a city of biryani, haleem, double ka meetha, mirchi bajji, and paya — a food culture built around rice, refined maida,...
One of the most common laments from diabetic patients at Suguna Clinic in Bandlaguda Jagir is about dessert. Sweets — mithai, kheer, gulab jamun, halwa — are woven into Indian social and family life. Refusing every dessert at every wedding, festival, and family...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections managed at Suguna Clinic in Bandlaguda Jagir — and one of the most commonly mismanaged, particularly when patients self-treat with leftover antibiotics, take antibiotics for too short a...
Fungal infections are among the most common skin and mucous membrane conditions treated at Suguna Clinic in Bandlaguda Jagir — and Hyderabad’s hot, humid climate makes them particularly prevalent and persistent. But there is a specific, serious, and increasingly...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most consequential diagnoses a patient can receive — because what happens in the first 6–12 months of the disease largely determines how much joint damage will occur over the following decades. The immune system attacking the...
If you have ever had chikungunya, you will not forget it. The joint pain — sudden, severe, symmetrical, incapacitating — is unlike anything else that common viral illnesses produce. The name itself comes from the Makonde word meaning “to become contorted”...
“Viral fever” is by far the most commonly heard diagnosis in Bandlaguda Jagir — and also one of the most frequently mismanaged, with antibiotics prescribed reflexively for nearly every fever that does not immediately reveal something more specific. The...
