Nivedita Kauri

Mucormycosis is a serious but rare fungal disease. It usually occurs as an opportunistic infection in immunocompromised people. India is reporting several cases of mucormycosis in COVID or Post-COVID patients. Let us have an overall idea about this fatal disease. Contents in this blog post (Save your time by clicking on the desired section) Why mucormycosis is also called the Black Fungus Disease? What is mucormycosis? How do these fungi get entry into the human body? What are the types of mucormycosis? What are the signs and symptoms of mucormycosis? Why the COVID-19 patients or... ...are getting affected by mucormycosis? What are the precautions to be taken? Watch the video about Mucormycosis in Bengali Why mucormycosis is also called the Black Fungus Disease? In mucormycosis, the affected skin can get blackened. Sometimes, black colored discharge can come out through the nostrils even through the eyes. What is mucormycosis? Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal disease. It is caus

Have we ever thought that a small creature of a few nanometer size can frighten this earth of billions of people? Unfortunately, it happened. Corona Virus came all of a sudden into the picture of our daily life. It has made millions of people sick and snatched away millions of people from their families. The devil virus can immensely damage our lungs. Blood oxygen level falls. But if we can measure the oxygen level in our blood, we can somehow manage the case. Even this can be helpful to save precious lives.  Pulse-Oximeter is such a wonderful device that can measure the oxygen saturation of blood, to be more precise oxygen saturation of haemoglobin without any invasive procedure. Contents in this blog post (Save your time by clicking on the desired section) How it works? How to use it? Precautions to be taken Values of SpO2 False Reading Preferred finger and body posture Watch the video about Pulse-Oximeter  in Bengali How it works: The oximeter works on the principle of spectrophotom