Month: February 2021

Nutrition counseling is the assessment of an individual’s dietary intake after which, they are helped set achievable goals and taught various ways of maintaining these goals. The nutrition counselor provides information, educational materials, support and follow-up care to help an individual make and maintain the needed dietary changes for problems like obesity.

I assist people dealing with weight-related health problems by evaluating the health risks and help in obesity management. I also help patients manage various food allergies.

As a hepatologist, I specialize in the treatment of liver disorders, pancreas, gallbladder, hepatitis C, jaundice and the biliary tree. I also see patients suffering from pancreatitis, liver cancers alcoholic cirrhosis and drug induced liver disease(DILI), which has affected the liver.

As a gastroenterologist, my primary focus is the overall health of the digestive system. I treat everything from acid reflux to ulcers, IBS, IBD: Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis, and colon cancer.

Endoscopy is a nonsurgical procedure to examine a person’s digestive tract. It is carried out with an endoscope, a flexible tube with a light and camera attached to it so that the doctor can see pictures of the digestive tract on a color TV monitor.

Gastroenterology is a specialty that evaluates the entire alimentary tract from the mouth to anus and involves studying the diseases of the pancreas.

A liver transplant is a surgical procedure that removes a patient’s non-functioning liver and replaces it with a healthy liver from a deceased donor or a portion of healthy liver from a living donor. It is reserved as a treatment option for people who have significant complications due to end-stage chronic liver disease or in case of sudden failure of a previously healthy liver.