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7 Reasons Why You Should Consider Choosing Home Care Services for Your Sick Loved Ones

  Managing a sick loved one is often emotionally and financially draining. Whether it’s a surgery or a palliative condition, healthcare emergencies can fire a hole in your wallet and your heart. Before the advent of home healthcare services, patients had to be taken to the hospital for minor health scares. Today, however, with quality home care services, patients can relax and recover at their own homes. Here are the 7 reasons why you should consider choosing home care nursing services for your sick loved ones. Affordable Healthcare The Indian healthcare system has become quite expensive. It is not optimal and affordable to take your sick loved ones to hospital. Home care healthcare services are a better alternative, where the trained nurses offer extensive care right at home.    Ideal for Families What happens when your beloved grandfather falls sick? Or someone has an emergency surgery? While hospitals can provide the best first-level healthcare services, the home ...

HIV Awareness: Know More About AIDS

  HIV is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which affects the immunity of the patients, weakening them drastically. AIDS or the Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Virus is the final stage of HIV, which is often fatal for the patients. HIV virus attacks the cells in the immune system and if it’s left untreated can progress into AIDS. How Does HIV Spread? The HIV spreads through human fluid interaction that include: Semen Blood Anal fluid Vaginal fluid Breast milk People with HIV can spread the virus through sexual intercourse, using tainted drug injections, and through a HIV postive mother’s milk.  The Stages in HIV The HIV disease consists of three stages, Acute HIV Infection Clinical Latency AIDS A person infected with HIV passes through these three stages, making them weaker at every phase. Acute HIV Infection Once a person gets exposed to HIV through bodily fluids, the first symptoms start to show up around two to four weeks. The usual signs of contracting the disease...