story of my visit

Thanx Sharmin Sis,

Umair

Please take care Umair 

Zaini.

Thank you zaini sis for your concerns ... i will try my best too take care of my self ...

Umair

Manal,
Can you tell me in details, how your brother used to take Nigella for his asthma ... i know  a few of my cousins and otherrelatives who are patient of Asthma ... i willl be realy thankful of you .

Take Care
Umair

Hi Umair

He used to take a small tea spoon of the nigella oil every morning ( But now in some sites i read that the oil should be taken mixed with something, honey for example, because taking it alone may cause some digestive discomfort)

Also he used to put one tea spoon of oil in boiling water then inhale the vapour.

Hope  this helps

manal

Thank you Sis . i will share this to my Aunties, Thanx Alot

Best Regards for your Bro .
Take Care
Umair

Manal,

Did this alleviate your brother's asthma symptoms?

Thank you for sharing this info,

Sharmin

Sharmin

His Kind of asthma is the one that gets better when you pass puberty ( not totally disappear but gets better) At the time when he was using the nigella (when he was young and controlled by my mum, not anymore now that is why he stopped taking it cause he could not bear the taste) it used to reduce the frequency of his attacks ( he had severe ones that needed hospitalization) and the vapour helped him a lot.

Now being an adult, it is much much better than when he was young and he is on the ventolin inhaler only (which i don't believe is good but he is too relctuant to try any natural or any other treatment)

But to sum up, it helped him a lot in his childhood in terms of symptoms and frequency

manal

Thank you Manal,

I am glad that your brother is doing better now.  I would be nice if he continued to use the nigella but boys can be finicky - I have two younger brothers too. 

Sharmin

Manal ,
its good to hear that your bro is doing fine ... i believe too much on nigella , a few time my parents told me to not use i but i tries hard to convince them and fotunately i got succes in doing it .. Thanx GOD .... Alot of Best Wishe and Best Regards for your brother .. May God Bless him with the best of health and he never got attack of Asthma again ... AMEEN

Take Care
Umair

Thank you so much Sharmin and Umair for your wishes

manal

  Manal Sis  ,

Umair

visit at 04-April-2009

i went to Lahore to visit my doctor , and there was a wedding as well .. i wsn't willing to attend that bcoze i hd pain/ache in my ankle and my foot was swollen too much ... now a little detail wat happened in my last visit ( this one ) ...

i was setting my file, preparing my questions and while waitng for my turn , suddenly a voice touched my hearing and that was a my thal center friend ... i met him there and talked till my turn came and then i went In  ... i talked about my reports to my Doc she said nothing but wasn't looking happy to see CBC and LFT but hte only S.fe report that was hsowing improvement in it ..
i asked her about the swelling on my ankle,  she said , it seems bcoze of worm/insect bite's infection .. she told me to dip the infected foot  in semi-warm water adding salt into it ... she said to star interferon Therapy and i resist a little bit , but she said i have both Hep-B & C infections soo she think it is neccesory ...  as my Fe was a litle high than her desired level to start interferon therapy soo she said , it (S.fe) will take 1 month to come below 1000 and after that we will think of interferon ... i thanx GOD that i got another month to try milk thistle and Nigella seeds with Honey , i m taking milk thistle since 16-Feb ( a little gap 25-03 when i had malaria ) , but now i m regular with both ( nigela with honey and Milk thistle )  ...  soo nothing is new in this visit .. but wat happened after this visit that i have mentioned in another thread (in,  just wondering how is umair doing ) ... my ankle is not aching as it was a couple of days ago ,  but swelling is still preset all over ankle ... just hoping that it will vanish soon ...  onething , she said  to increase the dose of desferal to 4 vials, as my previous dose was 3 vial a day , i replied " Ma'am i have tried this dose and on this dose since Febraury-20 and never felt any side-effect or any reaction , so i think 5 vials will be fine as well   with a griny smile "  she smiled and said
" Really she kept smiling and said that is proper dose for you i dont want to putt you on maximum dose , i want to keep you just behind the extreme levels of desferal dose , bcoze it can harm as well , she further said that i want to keep you on 90% of the dose that you can consume to stay in safe zone " ... ( my Weight is 41kg and according to 50mg/kg i can consume 2050mg , and maximum dose is 55mg/kg = 2255 ) ...

when i asked her Can i take 20-25 mg Zinc ?, i said i m taking Osteocare in which zinc is only 10mg should i take 1 Teaspoon of Zincat syrup ( 10mg zinc more zinc )  , she replied " you shouldn't regularly take zinc for long time in high doses , then i asked " if not regularly, then on alternate days " and she agreed ..


No New Medicine , i like to try new meds but this time no new medicine ...

Take Care
Umair

If you take zinc you need to also take something with trace amounts of copper, as zinc alone can cause copper deficiency.

Andy ,
does OsteoCare has Copper in it ... which one osteocare i got there is nothing else listed on the pack  of it  but only Zinc, MAgnessium,  Calcium and vit-D , and nothing else listed on it ...
but i red on site that ostecare tablet contains a few more minerals as well ?  ....

Umair