Factors affecting the healing of an illness

Factors affecting the healing of diseases:

1. The accuracy of diagnosis.
This is the main gate towards the right treatment.
The accuracy of diagnosis influenced some of following:

- Knowledge of one’s illness.
The more familiar with the symptoms of disease, the greater accuracy of diagnosis.

- Experience of physician or health practitioners is very influential.
The longer and more frequent meet the patients, the more familiar recognize the symptoms of a disease.

- Completeness of submitted complaints.
The more complete the complaints submitted, the more precise the diagnosis direction. However, often patients don’t feel that anything happened is part of disease symptoms, then in this case, the expertise of physicians to explore the complaints is very important. And also, the honestly of patient is emphasized.

- Adjunctive examinations.
To get a definite diagnosis, it is often need adjunctive examinations (such as laboratory, X-ray, ECG, EEG, etc.), especially for a disease to be diagnosed with certainty, such as suspicion of tuberculosis, scarlet fever, etc.

2. Medications.

The accuracy of the drugs against disease is one of the keys of healing disease. But the treatment is actually easier than diagnosis, because it has been available in the manual medication guidelines.

Some thing that affect the treatments are:

- Correspondence between the drug with the disease.
- The sensitivity of drugs against the disease.
- Dose of drugs according to patient weight and age.
- Factor of allergy to the drug.
- Patient compliance in taking medications.
- Etc.

3. Patient’s psychological condition, which in outline:

- Psychological conditions underlying the emergence of the disease.
Many diseases arose due to poor psychological patients, either directly or indirectly. If it still dominates the psychological condition, it is quite difficult to achieve a cure. Therefore, sometimes by removing the patient from psychological condition that disrupt it really help healing process.

- Trust of patients to doctors who handle it.
It is very important, considering the following:

a. If the patients is very confident with their doctors, then they will tell the whole complaints honestly. This will make it easier to diagnose.

b. If the patients is very confident with the doctor, then in psychology has led to suggestion to recovery.

4. The pattern of patients life.
This include diet, occupation, lifestyle (such as smoker, alcohol drinker, sleep patterns, high fat foods intake, etc.), exercises, etc.