Indian Journal of Preventive Medicine

Anaemia Mukt Bharat is an ambitious programme for reducing the prevalence of anaemia among the most vulnerable of populations in the country; that is women and adolescent girls. The diagnosis of anaemia under the programme is epidemiological and deals with the most common causes of the condition that is a dietary deficiency of iron and also co-existing infections like helminthiasis. However, occasionally the primary care personnel are likely to come across complicated cases of anaemia due to not so uncommon causes such as vitamin B12 deficiency. Though it appears straightforward to diagnose and treat a case of megaloblastic anaemia, sometimes the investigation results can be misleading and often alarming even to a patient. The programmatic approach in such cases is rather tardy and not very gratifying to the physician. We present a case of pancytopenia during the COVID-19 period which presented unique challenges, however, managed with consistent follow-up and referral care along with dietary management of the condition which resulted in the alleviation of symptoms. The lessons learnt could be integrated into the programmatic approach to rarer conditions precipitating anaemia in the adolescent age group. This age group is susceptible to many issues associated with the transition to adulthood including dietary fads

Turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn) is extensively used as a spice and grownup wide throughout Indian landmass. Turmeric plant has been utilized in ancient drugs as a remedy for varied diseases together with cough, polygenic disorder and internal organ disorders. For the previous couple of decades, in depth works are done to ascertain the medicine actions of Turmeric and its extracts. Curcumin is that the main substance of Turmeric and evidenced for its anti-inflammatory drug, inhibitor, antimutagenic, antidiabetic drug, bactericide, hepatoprotective, medication and anticancerous medicine activities. This review provides update in the main on the medicine activities of the Turmeric, its extracts and plausible medicative applications of Turmeric beside their safety analysis.

Introduction: SANE stands for sanitation, addiction, nutrition and environment conservation awareness campaign, it is a community driven project mainly conducted for the adolescents from 10-19 years in the Medhar block area, Mysuru.A systematic combination of all these components into a single campaign will be required to associate all of these components of health to spread awareness among the adolescents and promote healthy behaviour. Aim: Our aim is to spread health awareness among adolescents regarding Nutrition, Sanitation, environment conservation and addictions. Methods: This study is a community based study and we did outdoor presentations and demonstrations as intervention. The intervention was done on laptop with a presentation and specimens for demonstration were included. For 8 days we covered a total of 103 kids and conducted 12 group demonstrations. The field practise area was of JSS, UHC and sample size is 42. Results: Among the 42 participants we have found that there is an increase in knowledge, attitude and practices among the participants though none of them were significant it may be attributable to the small sample size. Knowledge, attitude and practices have all shown an increase after the intervention. Conclusion: We can conclude from the above study that intervention campaigns like the above SANE is one of the most simplest and effective ways to spread health awareness among adolescents. With targeted groups and by combining components of health we can make significant progress in increasing the health status of the community