 It is a hellish experience to suffer from a series of health problems for many years without really knowing the reason for the same.
No one would endorse this statement better than Shiva shanker, aged 47 years who had been suffering from recurrent bouts of coughing, vomiting, for the past fifteen years, which were though to be due to problems in the respiratory tract and was treated for asthma and TB.
A few months ago his food pipe was greatly constricted making it impossible to eat or drink, to the extent an endoscope could not be inserted while trying to probe.
Shiva shanker a resident of Thiruvayaru was asked to consult Dr Rajkumar who was featured on JAYA TV, treating a patient with a similar problem and explain the same in simple terms.
At Chennai after all the diagnostics tests were done, his condition was identified as Achalasia Cardia, which typically means that the smooth muscles lining the esophagus lose the normal peristalsis ( the ability to push food) leading to the incomplete opening of the lower esophageal valve resulting in difficulty to swallow and regurgitation.
The relief from this condition was brought about by surgically cleaving the esophageal muscle by a procedure called Heller’s myotomy, thus ending his years of suffering. |
Patient: Doctor, what I need is something to stir me up; something to put me in a fighting
mood. Did you put something like that in this prescription?
