 And well let's quickly move on to yet another edition of the special lockdown questions broadcast on Republic TV this afternoon. Today we have two special guests joining me to eminent cardiologist Dr. Ranjan Shetty, the head of department for interventional cardiology at Manipal hospitals in Bengaluru. A big thank you doctors for joining us this afternoon. Our viewers will be dialing in soon to put out their concerns, their questions, many questions really waiting for you this afternoon. Another caller calling from New Delhi, Ish Sate calling from the national capital. Ish go ahead with your question, Dr. Shetty will be taking your question. Okay. Good afternoon. Go ahead Ish Sate, we can hear you. Hello. Yes, yes go ahead. Yes doctor, Dr. Good afternoon. Please go ahead. Dr. I have problem of heart and I have a stunt in my heart. And the second problem is that I am suffering from fibrosis peritoneum. And I am here in India from last three months actually. I stay abroad and there I am taking this medicine which is called esterine and mesochrolol. And for my fibrosis peritoneum I am taking prednisolone 20 milligram. So I would have to know do I have to take any precaution during this corona virus? Yeah, I think what is very important is you need to continue all your medicine. There is no doubt about that. All your medicine including aspirin, the beta blocker, the cholesterol and even steroid what you are taking for fibrosin peritonitis should be continued. The precaution what you need to take is just like the precaution which everybody should take. You should try to avoid getting COVID. That means you should practice social distancing should not move out unnecessarily. Even you know if there is some family member of you who needs to go out regularly I think you should even practice social distancing from them. If possible you should try to stay away and maintain distance. Because the medicine there is no doubt. All medicines which people need to take all heart medicine, all non-heart medicine which people need to take, they should take. They should not stop any of their medicine for the fear that if they get COVID it's going to be more dangerous. It may not be true. In most of the condition they have to continue all their medicines. All right. Let's quickly move on to our new next caller MD Iqbal calling from Jammu. Dr. Shetty will be answering your question. Go ahead MD Iqbal. All right we seem to have lost that connection but if I could take a quick question from Dr. Shetty himself. Dr. Shetty you know we were talking about all right I think we have the caller back with us. MD Iqbal go ahead your question to Dr. Shetty please. Hello. Yes we can hear you. Go ahead. Yeah ma'am. Hey Darsha. Namaskar. Hello. Namaskar. Dr Sam, Ma'am Yanard's patient. Yeah ma'am. Yeah I am going. Okay. So when I check BP, I get 100 pulpitations, which is the sound in my ears when I sleep. I am also a memory of the guest. I have been a guest for 20 years. I am not afraid of this heart. What is this? Okay. Your heart rate is a bit high, normal. But sometimes due to lack of exercise, it can happen. It would be better if you exercise regularly, do more walking. This is not a serious disease for you. BP, you control it. High intensity, intermittent high intensity exercise. This means you go at normal speed for 2-3 minutes. You go at a very high speed for 1 minute. Then you go at a normal speed for 2-3 minutes. With high intensity intermittent exercise, your heart rate is less. With yoga meditation, your heart rate is less. This is not a serious disease. You exercise regularly and your heart rate will be less. No matter what, everyone has to follow the basic preventive measures. Social distancing, hand washing, covering your face, not touching your face. That is the basic that everyone has to follow in and out. Next question to Dr. Shetty, this one coming from Chinnai. Vijay Kumar calling from Chinnai. Go ahead, Mr. Vijay. Hello. Mr. Vijay, you can hear you. Go ahead. Hello. I am Vijay Kumar from Chinnai. Okay, Vijay Kumar. On 2016, I had a Bipo surgery for 3 blocks. So, simultaneously I had some infection on the neck. So, given the antibiotic, I think they recovered. Then after one or two months, again I got an infection in Chinnai and the creatinine level increased to 5.5. And they have given some dialysis for 8-9 dialysis. Afterwards, they revived it. Now it is 2.32 creatinine level. But every month I will go for check-up. But this month they have closed the OP, I cannot go out there. What can I do, sir? What measure are you suggesting me? Okay, this is I think a very good question. If the person is stable and if he is on regular check-up, these are the times if possible you should avoid visiting hospital because most hospitals, OPDs are closed now, plus also going to hospital where there is likely to be crowd, then there is chance of spread of infection. So, most hospitals now have option of video consultation and electronic form of consultation and video consultation. We at RR Hospital also opened a video consultation. So, I think people should utilize this video consultation which are available in most of the hospitals. If the question is only discussing a report and just explaining your symptom, then probably this is the time not to visit your hospital and try to do it by using media now. Either you can email your doctor or email your hospital, do some tele-consultation or video consultation. Even what we are suggesting most of our patients is to, even if your surgery is elective, we are trying to postpone those elective surgeries also. So, most hospitals are now running more emergency care which includes both COVID as well as non-COVID emergency. The routine procedures are being postponed. So, I should thank the government of India here which has allowed now video consultation for doctors. It was a very rapid approval which was given and thanks to this most hospitals have started video consultation with almost all their doctors. A big thank you doctors for speaking to us this afternoon, taking all of those very important questions, addressing those concerns, taking your time out and joining us on this particular broadcast. We leave it at that but thank you and also a big thank you for serving us in this time of crisis. Thank you.