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What do you know about Chagas disease?

Chagas disease What do you know about Chagas disease? While reaching for toys, a child in a remote Bolivian village plays a windowsill in the mud hut and came into contact with an insect, the insect vector, or their droppings. Later, the child suffers from inflammatory swelling, symptoms of Chagas disease. A man sleeping on the dirt floor of his dwelling, is bitten by the same type of insect. Years later has an advanced case of Chagas disease. From the southern border of the United States to the central regions of Argentina, an estimated 12 million people suffer from this affliction. It is called one of the biggest problems in Latin America. Continue reading ‘What do you know about Chagas disease?’ »

Heart Disease: Risk and procedures to prevent

heart disease Heart Disease: Risk and procedures to prevent Every 34 seconds someone in America dies of heart disease. This identify that heart disease is a health complication. Heart disease is a common word to refer to a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions affecting one or more components of the heart.

There are many risk factors can lead to heart disease. One factor is advancing age. More than 83 percent of people who die of coronary heart disease are 65 years or more. At older ages, women who have heart attacks are more likely than men are to die from them within a few weeks. If your parents have heart disease, are also more likely to develop heart disease than others. Most people with a strong family history of heart disease have one or more risk factors. According to one study, smokers are four times higher than nonsmokers to develop coronary heart disease. Continue reading ‘Heart Disease: Risk and procedures to prevent’ »

Bronchiolitis in children

Bronchiolitis in children Bronchiolitis in children Pinworms develop because of unhygienic habit of not washing hands before having food. They are small worms that look like small pieces of wire and cause itching in the anus. Pinworms infect humans and live only in the intestines. Every school kid is this problem is at one time or another. They can touch another child infected with pinworms or an object with the eggs of pinworms.

The eggs of pinworms get the eggs on nails and why it’s a good idea to wash your hands regularly. If the food was eaten with unwashed hands, these eggs go into the body through the digestive system. In the small intestine, pinworm eggs hatch and move into the large intestine. There, they cling to the intestinal wall and stay there for a few weeks to mature. After the female pinworms move towards the final of the intestines to lay their eggs near the anus region. Usually, the eggs are placed in the night and that’s when the area itches. It takes one to two months time after the consumption of eggs to the maturation of pinworm eggs must be new. The eggs hatched in the year and get the baby’s skin will crawl pinworms inside the body to grow. Continue reading ‘Bronchiolitis in children’ »

Some Knowledge about Vertigo

 Some Knowledge about Vertigo This extreme dizzy sensation is famously associated with a phobic fear of heights. While an attack of vertigo can indeed be triggered by the fear of falling from a high place, vertigo itself is usually the symptom of one of a number of disorders affecting the inner ear. An attack of vertigo usually involves the sensation of the head spinning around and around, and a loss of balance: the patient may suddenly fall right over. Sweating, nausea and vomiting may also occur.

The most common condition behind attacks of vertigo is Meniere’s disease, a degenerative condition of the middle ear usually affecting people for the first time in their fifties. Apart from the dizzy spells and periodic loss of balance, a person with Meniere’s disease (sometimes known as Meniere’s syndrome) may experience ongoing ringing in the ears (called tinnitus), and gradual hearing impairment. The cause of Meniere’s disease is little understood but believed by some medical practitioners to be caused by congestion of the lymphatic system. While medications such as Dramamine help manage the vertigo, they will not cure the disease and will not prevent the loss of hearing. Continue reading ‘Some Knowledge about Vertigo’ »

How to Identify Causes of Amnesia

cause of amnesia 300x300 How to Identify Causes of Amnesia People with amnesia generally know who they are, but difficulty to learning new information and forming new memory.

What causes it? Amnesia can be caused by damage to the brain area important in memory processing. Unlike the temporary loss of memory (transient global amnesia), amnesia may be permanent.

Cause

Normal memory function involves many parts of the brain, and any illnesses or injuries that disrupt the brain can affect memory twists. Amnesia can be caused by damage to brain structures that make up the limbic system, which controls emotion and memory function. Continue reading ‘How to Identify Causes of Amnesia’ »

Causes of Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids 300x198 Causes of Hemorrhoids People with hemorrhoids were stereotyped by the comic strips or the actors laughter of stocks. This is why few people with hemorrhoids tend to going in a doctor and to have back irritations and feelings of pain to be consulted by a specialist. Instead of that they await just the pain to drop and the concern just about it certain an other hour; particularly if the pain becomes chronic. If you are really worried to have hemorrhoids, a careful life style will help much. Here some causes of the hemorrhoids which you could have practised. Continue reading ‘Causes of Hemorrhoids’ »

Cancer in Children

cancer in children Cancer in Children Are Children can get cancer?
Children can get cancer, but cancer in children is not common. In developed countries with data that more complete statistics, cancer each year occur at 120-160 per 1,000,000 children under the age of 15 years. Approximately, one in every 300-500 people will get cancer before the age of 20 years.

Why Kids Hit by Cancer?
For most cancers, the answer to this question is uncertain. From every child who has cancer, is almost impossible, we know why he had cancer.

From the statistical point of view, we found that cancer in children can be associated with genetic defects, chromosomal aberration, immune deficiency, infections such as Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis B virus and HIV infection (human immunodeficiency virus), exposed to light radiation, treatment of immune suppressive, or even due to anti-cancer treatment. Continue reading ‘Cancer in Children’ »

Dizziness and unconscious

unconscious Dizziness and unconscious There are many causes of dizziness. Fortunately, most were mild dizziness, fast passed and not dangerous. Dizziness can be caused by many things, including the medicines, infection and stress. The word “dizzy” in fact can also describe the various feelings.

Vertigo and Loss of Balance

Vertigo is a feeling as if you or around you are spinning. You can feel the room was spinning, or you feel round took place in the head or your own body. Vertigo is usually associated with inner ear problems. Inner ear has a very sensitive organ in the sense motion. Viral diseases, physical trauma, or other disturbances can cause the device to send false messages to the brain. Continue reading ‘Dizziness and unconscious’ »

Know Your Cough Symptoms

cough-symptoms One of the patient’s complaints often expressed as the symptoms of cough medicine. Actually not a disease cough, these symptoms are reflex-automatic reaction of the body to protect the lungs if any foreign objects into (other than air) or due to a stimulation of the respiratory tract. The cause could be due to mucus and foreign objects such as food, dust, smoke, and so on. Coughing can be a symptom of a disease or the body’s reaction to the throat irritation. Continue reading ‘Know Your Cough Symptoms’ »

The signs of Cancer

Signs of Cancer Compared with men, women are more concerned about his health. They are also cautious and want it checked out when seeing a strange phenomenon in the body. Someone on the health concerns are also associated with age. “Young people are generally better because it considers only the ignorant parents who might get the disease,” said Mary Daly, oncologists Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA.

Talk about symptoms that weird in the body, following the signs to watch cancer. Although not specific, but the following symptoms are usually accompanied by other signs. Noteworthy is, the earlier known, the greater the chances of cancer cure. Continue reading ‘The signs of Cancer’ »

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