Changes

Nowadays various laboratory tests are available to diagnose this, such as blood glucose etc.

Nowadays various laboratory tests are available to diagnose this, such as blood glucose etc.

===== Gandha pariksha =====

===== ''Gandha Pariksha'' =====

The physician should be able to smell normal and abnormal smells of the entire body of patient by olfactory sense organ.  

The physician should be able to smell normal and abnormal smells of the entire body of patient by olfactory sense organ.  

Various types of odour are recognizable from the breath. The odour of alcohol, and odour of diabetic ketoacidosis have been described as ‘sweet and sickly’. The odour in condition of uraemia is ‘ammonical or fishy,’ and hepatic failure is ‘mousy’. Halitosis is common in patients with poor dental hygiene and associated with chronic gingivitis. In suppurative conditions of lungs, breath may have putrid odour.

Various types of odor are recognizable from the breath. The odor of alcohol, and odor of diabetic ketoacidosis have been described as ‘sweet and sickly’. The odor in condition of uraemia is ‘ammonical or fishy,’ and hepatic failure is ‘mousy’. Halitosis is common in patients with poor dental hygiene and associated with chronic gingivitis. In suppurative conditions of lungs, breath may have putrid odor.

===== Sparshana pariksha (palpation) =====

===== Sparshana pariksha (palpation) =====