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Self-acupressure can help relieve constipation

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New York:  Self-acupressure, a simple technique, can help relieve people suffering from constipation, new research shows.

“Patients can perform this simple intervention themselves to treat their own constipation and improve their quality of life. It can also help to limit health care costs and excessive medication use,” said Ryan Abbott, the study’s principal investigator and visiting assistant professor of medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

It involves timageshe application of external pressure to the perineum – the area between the anus and genitals.

For the study, the team from UCLA’s Center for East-West Medicine recruited 100 patients who met the established criteria for constipation.

Patients were encouraged to perform the exercises on their own for four weeks when they felt the urge to defecate.

Nearly 72 percent of participants said that perineal self-acupressure helped them have a bowel movement.

Nearly 54 percent claimed it helped avoid hemorrhoids or lessen the severity of existing hemorrhoids.

“All primary care and general internal physicians should consider this technique as a first line intervention together with conventional treatment,” Abbott added.

The research was published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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