5 Lifestyle changes for preventing heart diseases
Nowadays, more and more young people are contracting heart diseases. With our busy lifestyles, we find it hard to commit to staying healthy and fit. It is essential to know what factors contribute to heart disease and how one can avoid them. It may sound…
Understanding Diabetes in women
In simpler terms, diabetes is a medical condition in which your body is unable to use food for energy production. Your energy agent, Glucose, is unable to go into cells of the body and slowly accumulates in the blood. It increases blood sugar levels which…
Diabetes In Children: An Understanding
Introduction Diabetes is a chronic medical condition that’s classified as hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia depending on high or low blood sugar levels, respectively. Type 1 diabetes occurs more in children compared to Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas stops producing a hormone…
Physical Activities to Maintain Overall Health at Different Age Groups
Now day’s physical activity is a significant and essential part of our lives for achieving optimum health and wellbeing. Physical activity simply means movement of the body that consumes energy. According to World Health Organization (WHO) physical activity is defined as ‘any bodily movement produced by…
Types of Commonly Found Respiratory Issues
Lung and respiratory diseases are among the most common health issues across the nations. Some common causative factors include increasing infections, lifestyle changes, smoking, pollution, work environment, etc. It has led to a rapid increase in lung infections and disorders for people. The breathing issues…
Breathe In 4 Yoga Asanas to Improve Your Respiratory System
“I’m so busy, I hardly have time to breathe”. We often hear or say this line to describe our fast-paced lives and daily schedules. Little do we realise, that in actuality, most of us HAVE forgotten the importance of maintaining a healthy respiratory system. We…
Happy Diwali For Diabetics: Yes, You Can Enjoy It Too
Diwali is the festival of happy meetings, chocolates, and sweets. With such mouth-watering stuff all around, it is difficult to limit your cravings. It is even tougher for diabetic patients to resist sweets and other food items during this festival as they are unable to…
Myths about Hypertension
Introduction High blood pressure or hypertension is a severe health concern. However, as it does not cause any distinct signs and symptoms, it may go unnoticed for years while silently damaging your heart, arteries, and other body parts and putting you at a high risk…
Control Blood Pressure By Adding These Physical Activities To Your Daily Routine
Hypertension is a lifestyle disease. Which means, how you live affects your blood pressure directly. This involves your eating habits and physical activity. In this article we will focus on the latter. Importance of physical activity for BP patients Exercising or doing physical activities is…
How to Avoid Work from Home Burn-Out In 8 Easy Steps?
Working home is not as easy as it sounds. It can be a challenge under the best circumstances now add in an international pandemic, children are home-schooling, a partner working from home, and ban on the face-to-face gathering. With the given situation, it can be…
10 Healthcare Items You Should Stock During Coronavirus Outbreak
With the coronavirus outbreak spreading throughout the world, people are advised to stay at home to self-isolate or quarantine. Keeping in mind that the virus has a serious health concern for older people with lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, the lockdown period might need some…
Breathe In And Breathe Out!!! Use These 5 Incredible Herbs to Boost Your Lung Power
For a person to live a happy and healthy life, all his vital organs should work properly. However, the heart and the lungs have to work 24×7 for us to live a fully-functional life. Both these organs, to be healthy, need proper care from our…
5 tips to prevent your feet against fungal infections in monsoon
Monsoon is the season of growth. When the showers start pouring, it leads to growth in greenery, coolness, beauty, peace, and, fungal infections! As the humidity rises in monsoons, it creates a favourable environment for germs to grow. Thereby making us prone to fungal infections…
Monsoon Health Tips: How To Maintain A Healthy Gut?
The monsoon season is one of those few months of the year anticipated by most people, as they look forward to those cold and soothing drops of water that compensate for the burning heat they’ve suffered through the summers. Whenever the rain hits, most of…
Say Cheese! 8 Ways to Take Care of Your Dental Hygiene
Having bad dental hygiene can lead to gum disease, oral cancer and bad breath. Even taking the wrong care of your dental hygiene can lead to these problems as well. Here are 8 tips that help you ensure that you always maintain good dental hygiene….
Get A Glowing and Radiant Skin By Following These 6 Skin-care Hacks During The Quarantine
Quarantine is raising the bar for our communication skills but some of us are lagging behind when it comes to self-care. Initial stages of a pandemic caused a lot of problems to getting used to the new routine and panic, but now with six weeks…
10 tips for Asthma patients during monsoons
One of the main causes of asthma attacks is floating pollen in the air. And monsoons are the time when the number of pollen in the air increases due to increased growth in vegetation. On top of this, untreated cold and flu infections increase the…
How to eat sugar when you have diabetes!
It is often observed that when someone is told not to do something, they feel even more urge to do it! The science behind this observation says that people do so because they like to be in control of their lives. However, if you are…
5 Things To Eat To Improve Your Digestion And Boost Immunity
Unless you’re completely living off the grid, you would have heard all the buzz surrounding immunity and the importance of having a healthy immune system amid the current pandemic. But, did you know your gut health and your immune system are interlinked? Needless to say,…
10 Not-so-commonly Known Facts About Common Cold
Guess where does the name ‘common cold’ come from? It comes from the simple fact that common cold affects us more than any other disease or illness on this planet! It is so common that you get this disease at least once a year. And…
Foods to eat if you have hypothyroidism
Are you suffering from sudden weight gain, hair fall, or experiencing tiredness while working?—these can be the resultant effects of hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is a health peril under which the body is unable to produce sufficient thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones are effective in helping metabolism, growth…
Why seasonal changes make people fall sick?
During a medical research, it was noticed that grown-ups suffer from cold around 2 to 4 times a year and children around 5 to 7 times. Interestingly, it was noticed that this occurrence coincided with the change of seasons. Common diseases caused due to seasonal…
5 Herbs That Can Help You Improve Your Lung Health
We are in the middle of a pandemic that’s causing respiratory problems and other issues. As you already know, lungs remain pivotal organs of respiration, which carry oxygenated blood to the other organs of the body and eliminate the waste matter from the cells through…
Are you paying 900% more for your medicines? Calculate yourself!
At StayHappi pharmacy, we have always been proudly saying that we offer up to 90% savings on quality medicines. However, we realised that consumers may find it hard to believe! And honestly, it’s not their fault. Because, in a world where daring marketing claims are…
5 tips to eat healthy food at home during the pandemic
‘Coronavirus’ and ‘immunity’ are the two most talked about things of 2020. This unceasing spread of the disease has made us take our health more seriously than ever. And as daunting as it may seem, eating healthy doesn’t involve cooking something exotic or taking strict…
Stayhappi.Com: The One-stop Destination For All Your Medicines
At StayHappi, we believe that good healthcare should not be limited only to the people with deep pockets. We believe it should be easily accessible to everyone. Driven by this thought, we have commenced a nationwide generic medicines revolution! One-stop Shop For All Medicines In…
3 Generic Medicines To Stock Up For Monsoon
Monsoons are beautiful times, but they can get ugly pretty soon. As the air cools down and rain starts to pour, the number of disease-causing germs in the environment goes up too. The increase in humidity in the air makes favourable conditions for them to…
5 Foods To Boost Your Immunity This Monsoon
It is very common to fall sick during monsoons. The increased humidity in the air creates a favourable environment for bacterias and viruses to flourish. While we can always consult a doctor and get medicines to treat our condition, in the current scenario of the…
5 Common Diseases That Can Attack During Summers
Every season in India comes with its own set of diseases. The clouds of monsoon shower dengue, malaria and fever upon us; winds of winter bring along the risk of cold, flu and cough; and there’s a whole another set of diseases that are ‘hot’…
10 Tips To Keep Your Bones Strong
Our bones go through a process of breakdown and repair during our life. Calcium, a mineral found in abundance in the human body, is one of the vital nutrients that plays a key role in building and maintaining bone health. Most of the bone growth…
5 Habits To Avoid Migraine From Happening
Migraine is still a very misunderstood condition. Its exact causes are still pretty unclear and so are its symptoms. What’s very clear is the unbearable pain felt by the ones who suffer from it. So let’s start by understanding it properly. A migraine is basically…
What Is The DASH Diet For High Blood Pressure?
The name ‘DASH Diet’ itself suggests its benefit- Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension. As diet plays a vital role in increasing blood pressure, nutritionists have created specific dietary strategies to help reduce it. A result of which is the DASH diet. This article will quickly…
Improve Your Immunity With These Simple Tips
The immune system is our body’s first line of defence against infections and other harmful invaders. Our immune system, which is made up of a network of cells, tissues, organs and proteins, does a super job of fighting against the microorganisms that cause diseases and…
10 Signs that you may have hypothyroidism
The thyroid gland is the small, butterfly-shaped part of our body in front of the windpipe. It releases the thyroid hormone that controls the growth and metabolism of the body thereby regulating body temperature, heart rate, and even brain function. That’s why the health of the…
5 Eating Habits To Improve Your Digestion
What you eat, how you eat and when you eat. These are the three main factors that affect your digestion. You must maintain a balance between them always. If either of them goes out of balance for a long time, you may suffer from upset…
9 Foods That Are Rich In Vitamin D
What is Vitamin D? Vitamin D is a fat-soluble nutrient vital for maintaining healthy and strong bones. Vitamin D helps absorb calcium (one of bone’s main building blocks) from food and other supplements. It is the crucial constituent that stops bones from going soft &…
5 Sugar Substitutes For Diabetics
Diabetes is the fastest growing disease in India with over 72 million people affected by the condition. Worryingly, this figure is set to almost double by 2025! Currently, India has almost half of the world’s diabetes burden and is posing a serious challenge to the…
5 Super Foods That Help Regulate Blood Pressure
Hypertension (or high blood pressure) is considered to be a silent killer, because it can go unnoticed for years. While having hypertension is not in your hands, as it’s caused by various factors like family history, gender, and race, some preventive measures definitely are. You…
5 Foods To Cure Vitamin B12 Deficiency
While you do need medication to cure B12 deficiency, you need care too. Which means looking beyond medication. Why? B12 is an essential nutrient that should be consumed about 4.6 micrograms per day. But your body cannot make it on its own. Which means, you…
10 Foods To Lower Your Cholesterol Levels
What is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all the cells in the body. The human body needs some amount of cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help digestion. The body itself produces all the cholesterol required…
Get Muscle Cramps Often? These 8 Foods Can Help
Do you often wake up abruptly in the middle of the night to an unbearable cramp in your calf? Does your leg often stiffen near your hip joint while you are on the back seat of a bike? Do you get a cramp in your…
Top 4 Reasons How Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer
Though smoking is considered to be the most common cause of lung cancer, it’s not the only one. Cases show that lung cancer can happen even to people who have never smoked tobacco in their life, and that the disease is not restricted to smokers…
7 Foods To Eat When Your Blood Sugar Level Drops
Glucose is essential for the body to function properly however, low or high blood sugar can each cause irreversible damage to your body. Some doctors believe that a drop in blood sugar is more dangerous than an increase in the blood sugar levels. Essentially, this…
Are you damaging your liver by doing these 5 things?
Before you know how you might be damaging your liver, we would like to ask you a question- have you ever wondered what does your liver do? If not, here’s what it does. It metabolizes fat, synthesises protein, stores vitamins and minerals, filters blood coming…
How does the body react to improper sleep
Ever woke up in the morning, cranky, tired, and exhausted? Spent a night of continuous tossing and turning in your bed, waiting for the sleep to set in? Sleep is an essential part of our routine and necessary resting time for the body to recuperate…
Immunity-Boosting Foods: The Key to Fighting COVID-19
As we undergo the lockdown, we can’t afford to put our health on the back burner. Considering the current crisis, now is a great time to boost our immunity in the best way possible; the natural way. Some foods are naturally immunity-boosting and help to…
Things To Do During The 21-Day Lockdown
Are you bored out of your wits during the quarantine? Is the thought of being locked down stressing you out? We have compiled a list of things you can do yourself and with your loved ones that will take the edge off the days ahead….
Most Common Branded Diabetic Drugs And Their Generic Alternatives
Diabetes is a condition that needs medication regularly in order to keep the sugar levels in control. Therefore, anyone affected with diabetes often need to take several drugs and medications that include insulin or blood-glucose-lowering pills, blood pressure pills, and even cholesterol-lowering pills. This could…
Habits That Help You Control Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes is essentially known as a ‘lifestyle disease’. Everyday habits like food intake, exercise (or the lack of it), smoking, drinking and even sleep patterns decide a lot about the occurrence and severity of diabetes. If diagnosed, one of the first instructions given…
Understanding HbA1c: A Necessity for Diabetic Patients
The term ‘HbA1c’ refers to Glycated Haemoglobin. By measuring HbA1c, clinicians are able to find out our average blood sugar levels for the past three months. For people with diabetes, this is important, as the higher is HbA1c, greater is the risk of developing diabetes-related complications. When your…
Symptoms of Diabetes – Warning Signals that tell you might be diabetic
Prediabetes – 4 early signs of diabetes and 4 preventions
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 is primarily a lifestyle-related disease. Which means, it develops gradually in your body and suddenly hits you some day with the bad news. However, the good news is that you can detect some early signs of diabetes, change your lifestyle habits,…
You may get DIABETES if you are doing these things
You may know that diabetes (or type 2 diabetes) is primarily a lifestyle-related disease. It takes time to develop in your body and show itself completely. Prediabetes is a condition when your blood sugar level is more than normal, but not high enough to be…
Health Benefits of Nutraceuticals
A famous quote by Hippocrates, considered the father of modern medicine, reads “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. This saying aptly describes the relationship between appropriate foods and health and their therapeutic benefits. Our lifestyles have changed drastically over the last…
The State of Generic Medicines in India
Generic medicines are equivalent to brand-name medicines with respect to dosage, strength, the process of administration, quality, performance and intended use. The difference lies in the drug being marketed under its chemical name without any brand name under which it is sold. The Indian government…
Simple solutions to minimise your medical bills
Hospitalization or a lengthy medical treatment can be very costly. It is quite common for patients to gasp with horror when the final medical bills come in from the hospital or from the treatment facility. Huge, and sometimes unexpected, medical expenses are often the cause…
Why to prefer Generic Medicines over Branded Medicines?
A large section of Indians don’t have the financial capacity to spend on quality medicines. In 2011 the problem was so grave that the added cost of medicines & healthcare to their annual expenses pushed almost 60 million people below the poverty line. The Indian…
Stop paying more for your medicines
Generic medicines have set off a paradigm shift in the global healthcare inclusion index. These medicines are extremely low-priced and affordable to people of every section of the society. Generic medicines have played a vital role in containing global healthcare costs. Studies have shown that…
5 super foods that helps you live a healthier life!
In a world where we suffer from immense amounts of stress, pollution and in some cases lack of exercise, we must endeavour to keep ourselves fit and agile and most importantly away from life altering diseases. Apart from trying to make necessary lifestyle changes, we…
Generic medicines – myths and truths
Generic medicines have been quite successful in western countries and have been in the trend since the early 2000s. However, India has started to explore the tremendous potential and benefits of generic medicines only recently. It is quite natural that there would be confusion, questions…
Spreading happiness with generic medicines
India is the 11th largest pharma market in the world and set to rise to the 9th position by 2022. However, Global Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index tells a different story. In its 2016 index report, India ranked 145th among 195 countries, scoring poorer than…
How are generic drugs different from branded drugs?
Generic drugs are shaping the future of the Indian healthcare ecosystem. In 2017, Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi announced that the Indian government will bring a legal framework to promote generic medicines. As per this directive, the doctors will be required to prescribe the active…
Most Common Generic Medicine Names You Must Know
A marketed drug can be called by three different names – the Chemical name, which denotes the chemical structure i.e., the atomic and molecular structure of the medicine. It is usually too complex to be remembered by a common man without a medical or pharmaceutical…
Know Your Medicines! Your Basic Guide to Read that Prescription
How many times have you walked out of your doctor’s office completely clueless even after he explained the whole prescription to you in detail? Having a basic knowledge of what goes into your doctor’s prescription can be invaluable in situations like these. For starters, you will be…
Five Must-Have Medicines to Have In Your Bag Before You Travel.
You have finally booked your tickets for that long-awaited vacation. Most of the boxes from your ‘Things to Buy’ list is already ticked, but have you packed the most essential item required when you are travelling? Generally, people tend to miss out on one of…
StayHappi – Making quality healthcare accessible and affordable
Generic medicines have brought about a paradigm shift in the global healthcare inclusion index. These medicines are extremely affordable which means that every section of the society has access to quality healthcare. Studies have shown that generic drugs are 30-90% more affordable as compared to…
Spreading happiness throughout india with generic medicines
India is the 11th largest pharma market in the world and set to rise to the 9th position by 2022. However, Global Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index tells a different story. In its 2016 index report, India ranked 145th among 195 countries, scoring poorer…
StayHappi – India’s leading generic medicine pharmacy, further expanding their presence in South India
After making a mark in various parts of India, StayHappi is all set to expand further in the South Indian market. Recently, StayHappi joined hands with South India’s leading pharma retail chain, Thulasi Pharmacy, as a result of which StayHappi generic medicines will be available…
5 Lifestyle changes for preventing heart diseases
Nowadays, more and more young people are contracting heart diseases. With our busy lifestyles, we find it hard to commit to staying healthy and fit. It is essential to know what factors contribute to heart disease and how one can avoid them. It may sound…
Understanding Diabetes in women
In simpler terms, diabetes is a medical condition in which your body is unable to use food for energy production. Your energy agent, Glucose, is unable to go into cells of the body and slowly accumulates in the blood. It increases blood sugar levels which…
Diabetes In Children: An Understanding
Introduction Diabetes is a chronic medical condition that’s classified as hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia depending on high or low blood sugar levels, respectively. Type 1 diabetes occurs more in children compared to Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas stops producing a hormone…
Physical Activities to Maintain Overall Health at Different Age Groups
Now day’s physical activity is a significant and essential part of our lives for achieving optimum health and wellbeing. Physical activity simply means movement of the body that consumes energy. According to World Health Organization (WHO) physical activity is defined as ‘any bodily movement produced by…
Types of Commonly Found Respiratory Issues
Lung and respiratory diseases are among the most common health issues across the nations. Some common causative factors include increasing infections, lifestyle changes, smoking, pollution, work environment, etc. It has led to a rapid increase in lung infections and disorders for people. The breathing issues…
Breathe In 4 Yoga Asanas to Improve Your Respiratory System
“I’m so busy, I hardly have time to breathe”. We often hear or say this line to describe our fast-paced lives and daily schedules. Little do we realise, that in actuality, most of us HAVE forgotten the importance of maintaining a healthy respiratory system. We…
Happy Diwali For Diabetics: Yes, You Can Enjoy It Too
Diwali is the festival of happy meetings, chocolates, and sweets. With such mouth-watering stuff all around, it is difficult to limit your cravings. It is even tougher for diabetic patients to resist sweets and other food items during this festival as they are unable to…
Myths about Hypertension
Introduction High blood pressure or hypertension is a severe health concern. However, as it does not cause any distinct signs and symptoms, it may go unnoticed for years while silently damaging your heart, arteries, and other body parts and putting you at a high risk…
Control Blood Pressure By Adding These Physical Activities To Your Daily Routine
Hypertension is a lifestyle disease. Which means, how you live affects your blood pressure directly. This involves your eating habits and physical activity. In this article we will focus on the latter. Importance of physical activity for BP patients Exercising or doing physical activities is…
How to Avoid Work from Home Burn-Out In 8 Easy Steps?
Working home is not as easy as it sounds. It can be a challenge under the best circumstances now add in an international pandemic, children are home-schooling, a partner working from home, and ban on the face-to-face gathering. With the given situation, it can be…
10 Healthcare Items You Should Stock During Coronavirus Outbreak
With the coronavirus outbreak spreading throughout the world, people are advised to stay at home to self-isolate or quarantine. Keeping in mind that the virus has a serious health concern for older people with lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, the lockdown period might need some…
Breathe In And Breathe Out!!! Use These 5 Incredible Herbs to Boost Your Lung Power
For a person to live a happy and healthy life, all his vital organs should work properly. However, the heart and the lungs have to work 24×7 for us to live a fully-functional life. Both these organs, to be healthy, need proper care from our…