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Cholera-The Dreaded Disease

Introduction-Symptoms And Spread The microbe responsible for cholera is Vibrio Cholerae. It is a disease of small intestine. Cholera has been relatively uncommon in industrialized nations in the last century. In approximately 5% of the affected persons, the disease assumes serious proportions in form of profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and stage cramps. The symptoms may [...]

Constipation-Stitch In Time Saves Nine

Constipation What it is: Doctors define constipation as a condition which the bowels are evacuated after a longer interval or with difficulty and the person is not satisfied. The interval varies from person to person and is difficult to generalize. Some evacuate their bowels once, others twice a day, while there are still others who [...]

Diabetes-The Universal Killer

What Is It? Sugar, starches and other food that we eat have to be finally converted to energy. For this purpose our body makes use of an enzyme-insulin. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which our body is not able to produce sufficient quantity of this enzyme or is not able to use it properly. [...]

Anti Aging: Some Of Its Facts

None of us in general (and women in particular) wants to be labeled ‘OLD’. .However, with the passage of time age starts showing on our face. This could be in the form of dark circles around eyes, wrinkling of skin,…Anti aging means dealing with these problems or preventing them (prevention is better than cure). Here [...]

Appendicitis And Its Consequences

Appendicitis must be cured as soon as possible as the inflammation crosses the extent it forms an abscess or a breakage of the appendix that can occur and lead to abdominal peritonitis.

Tuberculosis And Its Treatment

One should consult a physician when nausea, vomiting, fever and jaundice appears. Some patients might build up skin rashes and bruises by the use of the drugs, others might feel numbness in hands or feet and some might have eye sight problems. The doctor needs to be informed if these kinds of circumstances appear as [...]

Manage Diabetes To Manage Life

Diabetes is a very chronic and severe condition in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone needed to convert glucose into energy. As we all know that high blood sugar levels related with diabetes is the nation’s 5th leading cause of death by this disease and this disease can lead [...]

Acute Chest Pain-The First Step To Sickle-Cell Disease

The ultimate cause of the sickle cell disease is the acute chest pain. Prominently the acute chest pain is related to the mortality of the sickle cell disease. In sickle cell disorder, the RBC’s that is the red blood cells are shaped irregularly and different from normal shape. This disorder results into lethal consequences like [...]

Tests For Heart Diseases

Strokes and heart disease are two of the main under takers in United States. Heart disease is the single-leading cause of death in the United States, executing almost 500,000 Americans every year. Stroke is the third-leading cause of death. About 700,000 Americans have a stroke each year.

Blood Clotting-Body’s Defensive Mechanism

Body’s defense mechanism plays an important role in maintaining the turbidity of the blood. It is the natural mechanism of the body which allows the inhibition of the foreign body in the organ system. Blood coagulation is also one of the parts of defense mechanism. Soon after the injury the blood starts the process of [...]

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