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PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY Praram 9 Hospital Public Company Limited

Praram 9 Hospital Public Company Limited (the “Hospital”) has established a personal data protection policy with respect to the information you provide to the Hospital for service requests, website visiting or using the application of or from the Hospital, including your information forwarded from a third party. “Personal Data means any information relating to a Person, which enables the identification of such Person, whether directly or indirectly, but not including the information of the deceased Persons in particular.” Collection of Personal Data The Hospital shall collect your Personal Data that could identify you directly or indirectly for your benefits in a timely manner necessary for the service. In the event that you are the information provider to the hospital or request service from the Hospital through the website, application, or any other channel of the Hospital, such as for medical appointment, electronic transactions, newsletter subscription, asking for special assistance, as well as the offline transaction, including the patient registration at the hospital registration counter or from your consent in survey application or the electronic mail or filling / providing information for work application or any other communication channels between the hospital and you. The Hospital may obtain your Personal Data from any third parties, such as business networking partner, distributor, hospital service agent, or government agencies, etc. Personal Data Collected by the Hospital Categories of your Personal Data to be collected by the Hospital are subject to the situation of

Chronic Hip Pain

Causes of Chronic Hip Pain and Indications for Total Hip Replacement Causes of Chronic Hip Pain The most common cause of chronic hip pain is avascular necrosis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoarthritis from accident. · Avascular necrosis is the condition when the femoral head lacks blood, which causes the femoral head to collapse. It can be commonly found in people with the age of 30-40 years old. The causes often come from drinking alcohol, taking steroids, having accident of hip dislocation or broken hip femoral neck, and radiating around the hip bone. · Osteoarthritis often occurs in patients of more than 50 years old and the family has a history of osteoarthritis. Sometimes, it might occur from the stimulation of unsmooth joint surface since birth. When the unsmooth hip joint surface has friction, it might be the cause of hip pain and obstructed movement. · Rheumatoid Arthritis is a disease that comes from the inflammation of joint membrane that causes non-infection inflammation, which can occur with various joints around the body. The inflammation is intermittent and the joint surface is destroyed. The patient might have several symptoms, but the most commonly found is finger joint with arthritis for a long time. · Traumatic Arthritis occurs after injury or bone fracture around the hip joint. The joint surface might be destroyed or avascular necrosis might occur, which causes hip pain and frozen joint that leads to hip

Diabetes and Metabolic Center

Diabetes and Metabolic Center Diabetes and Metabolic Center is ready to take care of diabetic patients completely. There are the team of specialists in the endocrine gland; the nurses who provide the knowledge of diabetes; nutritionists; pharmacists; and physical therapists who will provide advice, give suggestions, take care, evaluate the results, provide the treatment, and monitor the patients closely. Diabetes and Metabolic Center provides the service in various aspects completely, whether they are the risk assessment before having diabetes, how to prevent diabetes, the control of sugar level to be similar to normal people to prevent the complications, providing the service for women who have diabetes while being pregnant for safe childbirth and good health; weight loss program to prevent diabetes and the risk of diseases, which are hypertension, lipid profile disease, and cardiovascular disease; treatment service for complications from diabetes, such as vascular disease; treatment for wound that is difficult to cure; treatment for complications in the nervous system; vascular surgery for foot care; providing knowledge about practices for diabetic patients; providing the diagnosis and treatment for endocrine gland system (hormone); and providing the service for annual health check-up for diabetes. With the complete and standard services from the team of doctors and specialists, Diabetes and Metabolic Center of Praram 9 Hospital has received the trust and impressed patients all along.

Intestinal Cancer

Intestinal Cancer: Know Fast, Able to Cure Secretion is a normal thing that everyone needs to do as a routine. In fact, there are many people that have secretion that is not routine because it takes 3-5 days until the secretion will occur. The abnormality is often found, like melena, and might think that it might come from hemorrhoid even though such abnormality might become the silent danger that can lead to critical illness. Colon cancer is the cancer that can be commonly found in Thailand and around the world. The patient will have abnormal secretion, like constipation, diarrhea, and melena. Some patients come to see the doctor because of blood loss until having anemia. Mostly, the cancer is found around the colon in the abdominal cavity more than the direct intestine. This type of cancer comes from having high fat food regularly and another part comes from heredity. It cannot be completely cured. The endoscopy or other methods are needed to detect the disease and remove the bad flesh to prevent the spreading of the disease. The detection of colon cancer starts from detection after the screening test and when the symptoms occur. For example: Melena, which is the basic symptom that most patients come to see the doctor and feel quite anxious. Some people might secrete with blood or some people might secrete in blood with no feces at all. The diagnosis

GERD

What is gastroesophageal reflux disease? How does it happen? Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) means the disease with the symptom that comes from the abnormal flow back of acid or digestive juice in the upper esophagus, which can occur in the afternoon or at night. The symptom might occur from irritation, which might be esophagitis with wound or esophagitis without wound. If the acid flows back above the sphincter of the upper esophagus, it might cause atypical or extraesophageal GERD. For example: Lung or throat symptom and Laryngophryngeal Reflux (LPR). Normally, the body will have the mechanism to prevent the flow back of acid in the stomach and above in the upper gastrointestinal tract system. For example: The constriction of esophagus from top to bottom, and the function of sphincter of upper to lower esophagus. The membrane of esophagus has the mechanism to prevent the destruction from acid. For the cause of GERD, it is believed that the sphincter of lower esophagus is abnormally loose, which causes the flow back of acid into the esophagus. Normally, if GERD flows back to the pharynx, it will stimulate the sphincter of upper esophagus to shrink in order to prevent the GERD from flowing back. It is believed that the preventive system of patient with atypical or extraesophageal GERD has malfunctioned so the GERD can flow back into the pharynx, larynx, and lungs. Symptoms of patient depend

Addict to fast food

Addicted to fast food, tea, coffee, liquor, and stress can cause the risk of gastrointestinal cancer Because the current lifestyle is changing according to the social trend that is full of hurry from both traveling and working, the majority of people turn to consuming fast food or food with high fat. Some people drink tea or coffee instead of breakfast or even drink soft drink instead of fresh water. The hurried society also leads to stress accumulation. Many people choose to manage the stress by using improper methods, such as smoking or drinking liquor. These lifestyle behaviors are important to increase the chance of causing the serious illnesses, especially gastrointestinal disease, like cancer, which is a serious illnesses with unclear symptoms. However, we can monitor the warning signals for abnormalities. For example: Constipation with chronic diarrhea; weight loss with unknown cause; and melena. Gastroscopy is used to search for abnormalities and look at the gastrointestinal tract system to search for abnormalities and assess the risks in the gastrointestinal system disease to plan the prevention and provide the treatment immediately. Warning signs that you should see the doctor · Epigastric rising sensation · Difficulty swallowing · Chest pain · Nausea or chronic vomit · Hematemesis · Weight loss with unknown cause · Feel the lump in the abdominal cavity · Chronic fatigue · Abnormalities regarding secretion, such as constipation or chronic diarrhea, constipation with diarrhea, or melena What

Thyroid Gland

Thyroid Gland Diseases and Other Symptoms Thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system around the front of the throat with the weight of 20 grams and looks like butterfly wings. What are the functions of thyroid gland? It produces and secretes thyroid hormone into the bloodstream. Then, it activates other parts of the body, which is under the control of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus. The body will have the system to control the function of thyroid to maintain the level of thyroid hormone to stay in the normal level at all times. The thyroid hormone is important to stimulate the function of body parts throughout the body, especially the heart and the brain. Moreover, it can control the metabolic system of cells, lipid profiles, digestive system, body temperature control, function of muscles, or even the strength of skin, hair, and nail. Therefore, if there is an abnormality in the thyroid, it will affect the systems of the body and cause further abnormalities. Thyroid Gland Diseases 1. Hyperthyroidism It can be divided into 3 types, which are Graves’ disease, toxic multinodular, and toxic nodule. Currently, it is believed that the body has the abnormality of immune system, which causes the autoantibody. This substance will stimulate the thyroid gland to work harder and produce more thyroid hormone. Therefore, the patient will have thyroid hormone level higher than normal, which will stimulate the

Practices When Getting Sick for Diabetic Patients

Practices When Getting Sick for Diabetic Patients When getting sick, the body will respond in the form of hormones to fight the disease or the illness, which causes the blood sugar to become higher than normal condition. At the same time, the sickness; like nausea, vomit, and bored of food, might cause the loss of appetite and the risk of low blood sugar, especially when using insulin or taking some groups of medicine to reduce the sugar level. Therefore, the practices are needed to make sure that the blood sugar is in the safe level to prevent from coma from high sugar, which are Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Syndrome. There are 3 types of Glycemic Emergencies, which are: 1. Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) Diabetic Ketoacidosis occurs when there is the acute sickness, such as infection, surgery, accident, or receiving some types of medicine that causes the high blood sugar. The blood sugar is often found more than 250 mg./dl. The symptoms are thirsty, dry throat, fatigue, nausea, vomit, gasp for breath, and fruity-smelling breath, including drowsiness and unconscious. 2. Hyperglycemia Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Syndrome (HHNS) High blood sugar with high osmolarity is often found in the elderly who have poor diabetes control and acute sickness as well as severe dehydration with the blood sugar of higher than 600 mg./dl. In some cases, the blood pressure might become low and the consciousness will gradually reduce until being

Diabetes Control

What will happen if you cannot control diabetes? The diabetes with poor management and inadequate treatment will cause significant bad effects to the patient. It might cause disabilities and complications throughout the body, including complications in the feet, kidney, eyes, nervous system, and cardiovascular, which is the cause of chronic illness and premature death. Chronic complications that can be commonly found in diabetic patients Eye disease: Macular degeneration, diabetic cataract, and blindness The retina of the eye becomes abnormal due to the degeneration of the retina, which causes blurry eyes and black spots. The blood vessel in the eye might explode and might cause blindness if does not receive the treatment. Diabetes is the number 1 cause of blindness from the retina. Therefore, diabetic patients should receive the eye check-up annually for at least 1 time per year to prevent the complications in the eyes from diabetes. Kidney disease: Nephrosis or kidney failure from diabetes When the arterial wall of the kidney is destroyed by high blood sugar for a long time, the kidney function will gradually degenerate. If the diabetes is not controlled, it might become chronic kidney failure. Therefore, diabetic patients should choose healthy food; reduce sweet, oily, and salty food; quite smoking; exercise regularly; and have the health check-up annually to reduce the risk of kidney disease. Coronary artery disease Patients who have diabetes for a long time often have higher chance in getting

Stiff Shoulder

What are stiff shoulders? What are the treatment methods? The shoulders are one of the important joints of the body. The shoulders consist of Humerus and Glenoid. In the physical description, it looks like a golf ball on a tee. Therefore, the stability of the shoulders shall rely on shoulder membrane, tendon, and surrounding muscles in order to move as desired. For example: Reach the objects above the head, encircle the hands to scratch the back, and wear the clothes. Stiff Shoulder The stiff shoulder can be found in the middle age persons and can be found in females more than males. The pain often occurs around the shoulders, which causes the difficulty in doing daily activities. For example: Wear clothes, scratch the back, or shoulder pain while sleeping. It can be divided into 2 main types, which are: 1. Primary Stiff Shoulders, which is stiff shoulders with unknown cause. 2. Secondary Stiff Shoulders, which is stiff shoulders that comes from the pathology in the shoulders. For example: From an accident in the shoulders or some types of diseases, like diabetes, thyroid, kidney disease, heart disease, etc. Period of Stiff Shoulder There are 3 stages of stiff shoulder, which are: 1. Inflammatory Phase 2. Frozen Phase 3. Thal Phase In the diagnosis for stiff shoulder, apart from history-taking and physical check-up, the x-ray, ultrasound, or MRI is needed to find the clear cause for