Hyderabad: The short duration rainfall of 10 minutes is causing discomfort to people in the hot and humid conditions leading to headaches, severe body pain and also burning sensation in the eyes.
Dr Sudheer Nadimpalli, pulmonologist said, “The hot and humid condition is ideal for viruses to flourish. They are in the atmosphere attacking human beings causing these conditions. Many a times, flu like conditions present themselves as headache, body pain and also in the form of inflammation. There are other symptoms like irritation, depression and also lethargy which are seen in people.”
The number of patients reporting with these symptoms has seen a rise in the last two weeks.
Dr H Kishan, general physician said, “There is a lot of wind movement and this allows viruses from one place to easily come over to another place. When that happens, the most vulnerable population like small children and elderly citizens are first affected. Also those who are low on immunity find themselves susceptible to these viruses. If the symptoms are mild like headache, body ache or pains then it’s a mild attack. But if it represents in a severe form like a high grade fever or severe fatigue or loss of body fluids then it is often a very severe attack and requires proper treatment.”
Experts state that this year, the humidity and heat levels are too high as compared to the last two years. Due to this reason, there is a lot of uncomfortable feeling, no proper sleep at night and also there is a constant worry about the failure of rains.
Psychologist S. Srivastav said, “There is general worry about the failure of rains. Hence this worry also exerts itself in the form of a physical symptom like headaches and inflammation. There have been a few cases in the last one month where despite strong medicines patients’ relief was not to the optimum level. They were then sent in for counselling and it required a few sessions to calm them down and the medicines were found to work.”
