Rebuild Kerala
Prevention
Power of Prevention is one of the secrets to a successful life; I am learning it slowly, steadily, silently.
When I share my life’s journey, DATA has become key in day to day life, whether it’s about wellbeing or managing life’s challenges, DATA is inevitable.
Prevention still remains the most valuable lesson I have learnt over the years from Amma and Appa, grandparents, relatives and friends, and a whole lot of able medical practitioners.
How do we stay well? Is being well all about free from diseases or a medical condition?
Never!
Being well and healthy is about mental, physical, and social wellbeing in harmony with nature.
Many of us are being treated for existing issues, unavoidable; however we can work towards choices that will have huge positive impact in our lifestyle.
We can start from our family, school, neighborhood and extend it to our state and create a community that is healthy to take up the future challenges while rebuilding our state.
First and foremost make a medical history of your family, and determine the common conditions that prevail in your family, up to your grandparents and immediate aunts and uncles, parents and siblings. DATA has to be accurate and definite.
Diabetes, Hypertension, High Cholesterol, Heart Attack, Stroke, Cancer, Asthma, Rheumatism etc. run quite common in most of the families, knowing and sharing family history and conducting relevant screenings at appropriate time can determine the potential to develop any of these conditions.
RISK and managing RISK is part of Prevention
Knowing our risk is the key and the data that one collects from family will give a heads up on the habits, we need to change, managing our risk with the right choice of diet, exercise, body weight, drinking and smoking habits will help us manage the risk.
We need to create a society with healthy people to rebuild our state to the future.
I have heard people say: the guy never smoked, never drank, exercised every day, ate healthy and still died of a heart attack!!
Don’t blame anyone, that’s why we are still humans!! We die! We have to. We cannot control death, but we can manage risks and stay healthy as much as we are here.
Just like the disaster kit, keep a medical history, let students start recording their medical history in a diary, let schools teach the students to log their medical history from the time they can and let parents fill in the diary until such time.
This information becomes very valuable in our life, later on when we go for any checkup wherever we are
Weight, height
Surgeries, injuries
Medications (which includes prescription and non- prescription like vitamins, herbal, supplements even recreational drugs)
Allergies to medicines, food and environment if any.
Immunization records
If you can take a recorded diary of events that helps the analysis faster and more accurate. Always write down why you are visiting the doctor, what you need to change and what your current problem is.
One prevention tip I want to adapt is a constant advice given by my dear Suchi “ Chechy please rest for some time you are not getting younger by the day, You cannot continue like this”
Truly I want to abide by her advice, my problem is when I wake up every morning at 5AM my brain is scheming the activities my mind has searched and found to accomplish for the day.
I want to give this tip: as we get older our coordination and reflexes slowdown, which makes us prone to injuries and falls, believe me I have come down the steps a few times. The tip is when you grow old, change the exercise and sports that you were doing when you were younger.
So whatever your age is there is prevention to be done that will change the rest of your life.
To continue…..
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