Three litres
of cola a day enough to kill you!
A
30-year-old Briton died after he drank three litres of cola every day, causing
his lungs to swell to four times the normal weight. His mother said the man
‘drank absolutely excessively since he was 10 years old’. According to the
Daily Mail, Paul Inman of Haworth, West Yorkshire, would go out to buy the
drink up to three times a day, and would also drink glasses of water to quench
his thirst, the Bradford hearing was told. But the huge quantities of cola
drinks caused his lungs to swell to four times the normal weight, and the man
died in his sleep.
Inman
was found dead in his bedroom by a care worker, who was checking on him one
morning in March 2012. Detectives investigated the sudden death but found no
suspicious circumstances. Inman never stayed still and care staff had to keep
his cigarettes so he would not smoke 20 an hour. When he was 17, Inman was
diagnosed with schizophrenia but when his case was reviewed in 2008, doctors
diagnosed that he suffered from Asperger Syndrome – a form of autism.
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post-mortem examination found that Inman’s lungs were three to four times the
weight they should have been, pathologist Deirdre Mckenna said. She ruled out
the cause of that being epilepsy and a heart attack and put it down instead to
his excessive drinking. He was already known to have had low sodium levels
because of the volume of fluids that he drank. His mother said after hearing
the doctor’s report: ‘I’ve said all this time the cause of it was he drank
excessively, absolutely excessively. He had done since he was 10 years old. We
used to say he had a self-destruct button.’ The inquest recorded a verdict that
Inman died of natural causes.
Source:
http://health.india.com
31.05.2013
Financial
scheme for heart patients in Bengal
Heart
patients in West Bengal can go for advanced treatments at an affordable cost,
courtesy a unique financial scheme that was launched in the Kolkata on
Wednesday. Kolkata’s Belle Vue Clinic has partnered with India Medtronic
to extend its scheme of equated monthly installment (EMI) under the Healthy
Heart For All (HHFA) initiative. ‘We have started the EMI scheme for
cardiac patients as the major problem in India is affordability,’ said Munish
Sehegal, business model innovator of India Medtronic.
Over
three million deaths result due to heart diseases in India and the mortality
rate goes up due to affordability and unawareness. HHFA provides loan
assistance at easy instalments for implants, pacemakers, stents, implantable
cardiovert defibrillators and triple chambers pacemakers. The scheme
benefits patients covered under health Insurance and also patients who have no
health insurance or cannot get easy loans. According to estimates, cardiac
ailments claim 17.3 million lives all over the world annually.
Heart
disease or cardiovascular disease refers to a group of diseases that involve
the heart and/ or blood vessels. Some of the more common ones are coronary
heart disease, hypertension, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. While
susceptibility to heart diseases increases with age, gender, high blood
pressure, high cholesterol levels, stress there are many things we can do to
improve our cardiovascular health. A low fat, high fibre diet with fruits and
veggies, quitting smoking and giving up alcohol coupled with increased physical
activity and less stress can go a long way in improving cardiovascular
health.
Source:
http://health.india.com
31.05.2013
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