Vitamins are essential for our daily life. Its shortage in our body can cause many disorders, decreased enzyme activities also affect the genetic factors. Vitamins should be supplied through the diet in the required amount. If it is not supplied properly, vitamin tablets will be prescribed. And also vitamin tablets are the co-medication for therapies such as anticancer, antitubercular, antiviral and anti-HIV treatments. Many newspapers reported that vitamin therapies are causing major health problems like nephro/urolithiasis, it can increase mortality rates in smokers by increasing the risk of lung cancer, it can cause abortion when it is taken during pregnancy. Thus here, we reviewed the adverse effects of vitamin therapy from various reported cases, books, instructions provided from various health organizations and also newspapers, and magazines. It can help health professionals to control and monitor the vitamin therapies and make awareness about the adverse effects and possible side effects of regular vitamin uptake to society.

Background:The contemporary lifestyle has made Cancer as one of the most deadly diseases. Treatment modalities of cancer are many, while chemotherapy seems to be the most common. Though, chemotherapy subsides the disease, it has many side effects in which Chemotherapy induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) is frequent. This study aims to evaluate various antiemetics in the prevention of Chemotherapy induced Nausea and Vomiting in cancer patients specifically in Breast, Lung, Cervix and Head & Neck cancers so that the rate of emesis, efficacy and comparative efficacy of different antiemetic combinations in cancer patients can be determined. Methods: A prospective observational study was carried out at a tertiary care hospital in Tamilnadu, South India between January to June, 2015 in which 241 cancer patients receiving antiemetics in their prescriptions meeting our inclusion criteria were analyzed using standard guidelines. A well designed data collection form was prepared to collect the datas. Results: It was observed from our study that the efficacy of different combination of antiemetics, mostly given as triple based regimen, relied on the treatment regimen of the particular cancer, thereby its emetogenic level and NCI-CTC grading score and it was found out that Ramosetron based triple antiemetic regimen was slightly better than Granisetron based regimen to control CINV. Conclusion: It is the need of the h to promote optimal antiemetic medication and ensure that cancer patient receives evidence-based, effective treatments for their health problems.

Learning about hygiene during menstruation is a vital aspect of health education. Menstrual hygiene deals with the special health care needs and requirements of women during monthly menstruation. These areas of special concern include choice of the best "period protection" or ABSTRACT Background: Menstrual hygiene management has been defined as, women and adolescent girls using a clean menstrual management material to absorb or collect blood that can be changed in privacy as often as necessary for the duration of the menstruation period using soap and water for washing the body as required and having access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials (UNICEF and WHO, 2014). Management of menstruation in a hygienic manner is essential for females because poor maintenance of hygiene during menstruation causes reproductive tract infections. The aim is to assess the practices of menstrual hygiene among women of age group 18-45 in a rural setting. Methods: A prospective, randomised, observational study was carried out in the outpatient department of obstetrics and gynaecology in a rural setting using a well-designed questionnaire. Results: Out of 186 study subjects, sanitary pads were used by 83.87%.An adequate washing of external genitalia was followed, that is 3-4 times/day (51.61%). Only 8.07% of them used vaginal washes.82.25%seemed to change the sanitary pad before sleep. 38.37% used more than 4 pads per day. The frequency of baths varied from twice (69.35%) to once (25.8%) per day. Only 8.06% used OTC to manage menstrual pain.61.39% of them stored the sanitary pads in the bathroom.67.74% burnt, 16.12% threw along with domestic waste, 6.45% threw in open places and 9.67% buried the pads. Conclusions: Overall, the study reported a satisfactory menstrual hygiene practice.