A study to evaluate the effectiveness of hemonutri ball on haemoglobin level among adolescent girls at selected Government Higher Secondary School in Villupuram District

BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a distinct age group (10-19yrs) with complex need because of physical and psychological development during puberty. Iron deficiency is the most nutritional disorders in world, nearly 4.5 billion people of the world population are iron deficit. Anemia continues to be a major public health problem among children in many regions of the world. Hemonutri ball helps to increase the Haemoglobin level among the adolescent girls. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of Hemonutri ball on Haemoglobin level among adolescent girls in Experimental group and Control group. DESIGN: True experimental pre-test and post-test control group design. SETTING: Government Higher Secondary School at Thaiyur and Chenji in Villupuram District. PARTICIPANTS: 60 children fulfilling the inclusion criteria. SELECTION CRITERIA: Adolescent girls with experimental group 30, control group 30, age group of 13-17 yrs. were included. METHODS: 30 adolescent girls in experimental group, 30 adolescent girls in Control group selected by Probability Simple Random Sampling technique. Level of anemia was measured by Sahli’s hemoglobinometer. RESULTS: The result has shown that out of 60 samples, the level of Haemoglobin in pre-test among adolescent girls in Experimental group majority of the adolescent girls had 0 (0%) level of anemia in, normal level, mild level and severe level. and 100% of them had Moderate level of anemia. Whereas in control group, majority of the adolescent girls had 0 (0%) level of anemia in, normal level, mild level and severe level. and 100% of them had Moderate level of anemia. In Post-test level of Haemoglobin of adolescent girls in Experimental group 18 (60%) of them are in normal, 12 (40%) of them are in mild anemia, 0 (0%) of them are not in moderate anemia, 0 (0%) of them are not in severe anemia. In control group 0 (0%) of them are not in normal, 10 (33%) of them are in mild anemia, 20 (66.66%) of them are in moderate anemia, 0 (0%) of them are not in severe anemia. The paired ‘t’ test value of level of Haemoglobin was 59.08% (P < 0.05) in experimental group and 8.8106 wherein control group. The unpaired ‘test’ value 9.45, table value 2.00 at (P < 0.05) level of significance showed the significant effectiveness on Hemonutri ball on Haemoglobin level. It seems that Hemonutri ball improves the Haemoglobin level in experimental group. CONCLUSION: Hemonutri ball administration is effective to improve the Haemoglobin level among the adolescent girls. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS: Hemonutri ball can be given to the adolescent girls those who are having low Haemoglobin level to prevent anemia. Hemonutri ball are considered as the most essential home remedy for anemia, because of its high iron content and Vit-C that regenerates and reactive the red blood cells, supplying fresh oxygen to the body and increasing the blood count regularly

Impact of Food Safety and Standards Regulation on Food Business Operators

The main aim of the study is to understand food regulation and food safety in India context and global aspects. It also explains the major health problem and recent past reports of FSSAI. The primary data were collected from food business operators (mobile food vendors, many small scale hotels, and local restaurants). It also helps to ensure the knowledge and awareness level of the food business operators. This study is to understand the view of food-business operators in a B-grade city of India “Salem” in Tamil Nadu about the FSSAI regulations and the status of performance of the food safety department in maintaining safety and quality of food and also to know about the level of awareness among the usage of fortified foods among food-businesses. The Study concludes that the Food and Safety Officers should regularly visit for inspection and monitor the food business operators for the betterment of public health. There should be proper awareness about the ingredients are used in fortified food among food-businesses to eliminate malnutrition and avoid food adulteration. The future rules and regulations of FSSAI should be strictly implementing all over India and properly monitor their activities of food business operators to fulfil the FSSAI standards

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATEDCLEANING OF CEILING FAN

The main objective of the project is to reduce the human effort and sluggishness of human when the operation is in large scale and to avoid the risk in case of any accidents. The proposed system that is portable and ensure regular cleaning of the ceiling fan using some mechanical setup such as scissor lift, lead screw whose movements are controlled by microcontroller which controls a pneumatic control and some cleaning mechanisms

Sampled Reference Frame Algorithm Based on Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation for Five Level Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter

In This paper the Sampled Reference Frame Algorithm for Five Level Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter is presented. This simple method is less computation method than Sector Identification. This SVPWM can drive any Multilevel Inverter with good DC utilization, less switching stress. This is used for high voltage and high power applications. By using Sampled Reference Frame Algorithm, there is no use of look up tables, sector selection, no need of reference voltage and angle information, 3φ to 2φ transformation. The inverter's structure of these inverters is developed by using MATLAB SIMULINK software

Stoichiometry control of sputtered CuCl thin films: Influence on ultraviolet emission properties

We demonstrate that the chemical composition of the sputtered CuCl thin films could be finely controlled by adjusting the bias to the substrate. The films deposited without any intentional bias were Cl rich (CuCl1+x), a bias of −22 V yielded stoichiometric CuCl, and a further increase in the negative bias resulted in Cl deficient films (CuCl1−x). The crystalline and optical properties were found to be associated with the chemical composition. Cl rich films showed a deep level green emission at around 515 nm in addition to ultraviolet (UV) excitonic emission. The stoichiometric films have higher optical quality, exhibiting a sharp UV emission at around 385 nm at room temperature, compared to nonstoichiometric samples. Visible luminescence related to deep level defects was not observed in the stoichiometric films. Changes in energy of the flux from the target and the subsequent ion bombardment on the substrate surface are correlated with the variations in chemical composition and their impact on the film microstructure and UV emission

Echocardiographic evaluation of left atrial performance by using left atrial appendage flow velocity

Background:&nbsp; Left atrial (LA) functional Study has a traditional role in evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function. The widely accepted echocardiographic parameters used in routine clinical practice to assess left ventricular diastolic function include pulsed-wave doppler mitral inflow analysis, tissue doppler imaging measurements, and LA dimension estimation. Left atrial appendage doppler studies using early diastolic emptying velocity, late diastolic emptying velocity and LAA filling velocity imaging to assess LA function were validated in patients with valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Currently, there is no evidence regarding the Left atrial appendage doppler studies used in identifying the performance of left atrium and diastolic function in patients with Normal Sinus Rhythm. Objectives: This study aimed to identify the performance of left atrial function in patients with normal sinus rhythm using Left atrial appendage doppler studies. Methods: In a study population of 63 patients aged &gt;18 years old who undergone routine echocardiographic study for Cardiac evaluation between Jan 2017 to Jan 2018, among which 40 (64%) were males and 23 (36%) were females. For those Patient’s, left atrial appendage flow velocity and diastolic doppler parameters are noted from G E echocardiography machine by the single observer. Results: The Mean Left Atrial Appendage (late-diastolic emptying velocity) in diastolic dysfunction patients (39.74) associated with impaired left atrial function, when compared with the mean Left Atrial Appendage (late-diastolic emptying velocity) in patients without diastolic dysfunction (54.76) respectively. Conclusion: In this study, we founded that Patient with diastolic dysfunction had an impaired left atrial function that was measured by left atrial appendage flow velocity

Analysis of individual case safety reports of spontaneous reporting in adverse drug reaction monitoring centre at a tertiary care hospital

Background: In developing countries like India, the increased economic burden in healthcare system is due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) related hospitalizations which in turn are related to polypharmacy associated with increased potential of ADRs. World Health Organization (WHO) started the program for international drug monitoring (WHO PIDM) in the year 1968. India is one of the member countries under WHO PIDM using the Vigibase for analysis of individual case safety reports (ICSRs). Aim of the study was to analyse the ICSRs by spontaneous reporting at ADR monitoring centre.Methods: The present study was focused on analyzing the ICSRs of spontaneous reporting using Vigiflow data from the ADR monitoring centre (AMC), Madras Medical College, Chennai.Results: A total of 541 ICSRs from the period between July 2017 and June 2018 were analysed. Among 541 ICSRs, 814 ADRs were analysed and found that the majority of the ADRs belonged to SOC of gastrointestinal disorders and the most of the ADRs were implicated by antimicrobial agents followed by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Among all the ICSRs, majority of the ADRs occurred in males (n=292) and the maximum number of ADRs were in the age group of 45-60 years (n=197). Of the 541 ICSRs, 313 were found to be of “serious” category and majority of the ICSRs outcome was found to be “recovered” (n=262). The causality assessment of the ICSRs were anlysed and found that the maximum number of ICSRs were under “probable” category as per WHO-UMC scale.Conclusions: Robust pharmacovigilance activities plays important role in minimizing the ADRs for better patient safety

Luciferase reporter phage phAE85 for rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate luciferase reporter phage (LRP) phAE85 in rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in a region where TB is endemic.MethodsOne hundred and ninety primary isolates on Lowenstein-Jensen medium were tested. Middlebrook 7H9 complete medium with and without rifampicin at 2 μg/mL was inoculated with standard inoculum from suspensions of the clinical isolate. After incubation for 72 h, LRP was added. Following 4 h of further incubation, light output from both control and test was measured as relative light units. Strains exhibiting a reduction of less than 50% relative light units in the drug containing vial compared to control were classified as resistant. Results were compared with the conventional minimum inhibitory concentration method (MIC) of drug susceptibility testing.ResultsThe two methods showed high level of agreement of 97% (CI 0.94, 0.99) and P value was 0.000 1. The sensitivity and specificity of LRP assay for detection of rifampicin resistance were 91% (CI 0.75, 0.98) and 99% (CI 0.95, 1.00) respectively. Time to detection of resistance by LRP assay was 3 d in comparison with 28 d by the minimum inhibitory concentration method.ConclusionsLRP assay with phAE85 is 99% specific, 91% sensitive and is highly reproducible. Thus the assay offers a simple procedure for drug sensitivity testing, within the scope of semi-automation

Pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii disease in immunocompetent host: Treatment outcomes with short-course chemotherapy

Mycobacterium kansasii, most virulent of all atypical mycobacteria, causes pulmonary disease identical to the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Early identification of the species and prompt initiation of treatment for M. kansasii is necessary to prevent morbidity and mortality due to this disease. This case series highlights the similarity in the clinical presentation of both M. tuberculosis and M. kansasii and response to direct observation of short-course chemotherapy with rifampicin, in the management of pulmonary M. kansasii disease. Larger studies are required to evaluate the long-term effect of short-course chemotherapy, especially use of moxifloxacin, in the management of pulmonary M. kansasii disease