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What Is The Percentage Of Curing Heart Troubles?

Hi doctors,

i have a little bit questions in fact, i have a 22 years old cousin,

diagnosed with hodgkin’s lymphoma,4th stage, and inflammation of the heart tissue

& the heart valve, he’s taking his chemotherapy, my questions are:

what is the percentage of curing since he have these heart troubles?

secondly, he has been diagnosed with high potassium percentage in blood, is there specific foods can be harmful to him? ( we know about diary products and bananas, but he ate spinach and endives today so is it bad?)

and my third question, he’s having a strange ammount of blisters in different sizes in his face ( and that’s from about 4 years) is this a sign of HIV??

its increasing very quickly these days and spreading along his face



please i need to have answers because we want to help him as much as we can and to take care of him... thank you in advance
Fri, 2 Jun 2017
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Hello,

If you are a friend or a cousin has heart problems, and has Hodgkin's disease usually they are not related, and I cannot tell you the treatment for heart troubles unless you tell me the exact diagnosis. Some inflammation in the heart can be cured by treating Hodgkin's disease which is curable by radiation therapy.

High potassium is a temporary condition and should be treated when it is present, but if it is a constant problem, you should look into checking your kidney problems, and also if you want to have a low potassium diet it should be avoiding tomatoes, and oranges banana and even apples.

Pimples may be related to HIV if you have the diagnosis first you have to have the diagnosis established by your physician if you do not have HIV, then it can be either skin infections.


Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Amrit Singh
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What Is The Percentage Of Curing Heart Troubles?

Hello, If you are a friend or a cousin has heart problems, and has Hodgkin s disease usually they are not related, and I cannot tell you the treatment for heart troubles unless you tell me the exact diagnosis. Some inflammation in the heart can be cured by treating Hodgkin s disease which is curable by radiation therapy. High potassium is a temporary condition and should be treated when it is present, but if it is a constant problem, you should look into checking your kidney problems, and also if you want to have a low potassium diet it should be avoiding tomatoes, and oranges banana and even apples. Pimples may be related to HIV if you have the diagnosis first you have to have the diagnosis established by your physician if you do not have HIV, then it can be either skin infections. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Amrit Singh