All Entries in the "Diseases" Category
What causes common cold?
As the name suggests, every year there are over one billion common cold episodes in the United States. It is more common than any other type of illness. Children having common cold may have it until they grow up. Common cold and flu is a contagious disease. Common cold is a year round disease.
What are the symptoms of common cold?
Symptoms of common cold ensure better remedies for common cold. Common cold symptoms appear in 1 to 2 days after affecting with common cold causing virus. As the symptoms run ahead the color of nose discharge become yellow and green. Clear symptoms of cold are necessary for common cold treatment or cold remedies.
What is the treatment of beriberi?
The main goal of the treatment of beriberi is a thiamine replacement in the body. Thiamine supplements are used for this purpose. Thiamine can be taken orally or in the form of injectable. Treatment of beriberi is necessary for a better recovery and quick improvement of beriberi symptoms.
What is the diagnosis of beriberi?
To start a clinical treatment of beriberi, the diagnosis of beriberi is most important and preliminary aspect. Erythrocyte transketolase activity in the peripheral blood is measured. There is not practical way to determine the concentration of thiamine level and thiamine deficiency in the body.
What are the symptoms of beriberi?
The disorder of beriberi affects the whole nervous system. Gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases are caused due to beriberi. Body converts carbohydrates into glucose in the presence of thiamine in the body. The most common symptoms of beriberi are fatigue and lethargy.
What are the causes of beriberi?
Causes of beriberi include deficiency of thiamine or vitamin B1 in daily diet. The function of this vitamin is to convert all forms of carbohydrates into energy that helps in nervous function, muscle and heart function. Fresh foods as well as unrefined cereals contain vitamin B1.
What causes dehydration?
Dehydration can be a serious condition if the treatment of dehydration is not given properly. Dehydration results in excessive loss of water from a body. As a result of dehydration minerals and electrolytes are lost from the body and it is very important to replace these electrolytes and minerals. There are many causes of dehydration. [...]
What is cholera?
Cholera is an infectious disease of intestine caused by taking contaminated food and water. Cholera disease is caused by bacterium Vibrio cholerae. With short incubation period of 1 to 5 days, it produces enterotoxin, which can cause watery diarrhea and lead to dehydration. This can cause even death in case of improper cholera treatment.
What are the symptoms of dehydration?
Dehydration or baby dehydration causes the body to take lot of water with decreased urine output to conserve the water loss. As a result, the urine will ultimately become yellow and concentrated. As the loss of water from the body increases, there will be more symptoms of dehydration. Some of the signs of dehydration are:
Why vomiting occurs?
In adult vomiting occurs due to food poisoning, any infection, illness or motion sickness along with high fever. Different stimuli can cause vomiting to occur. These stimuli ranges from kidney stones to migraines. Sometimes it happens that after seeing someone vomiting can cause other to start vomit at the same time.
Treatment of food allergy
The treatment of food allergy like diagnosis of food allergy is complex. This syndrome is not a big problem for those nations who think that for every ill there is a pill. Food allergy treatment is given from several directions like:
Diagnosis of food allergy
Food allergy affects nearly every one in life. Food allergy is basically an abnormal response to food which can be triggered as a result of specific reaction in the immune system and often they are expressed by characteristic allergy symptoms. Other kinds of reactions to foods, not included in food allergies may be food poisoning, [...]
Treatment of larynx cancer
Before starting larynx cancer treatment plan, the doctor first needs to know the extent and stages of cancer. People with larynx cancer should take an active part in decision making process of larynx cancer treatment. The goal of larynx cancer treatment is to remove it completely to prevent cancer spread to other parts of the [...]
Diagnosis of larynx cancer
Concerning larynx cancer symptoms the doctor may refer some tests and scans for larynx cancer diagnosis. The larynx cancer treatment depends on the symptoms of larynx cancer and larynx cancer diagnosis. An examination of the throat and neck may show throat cancer. Signs of larynx cancer include bloody phlegm and lump on the outside of [...]
Symptoms of larynx cancer
It should be noted that if patient has a hoarse voice for more than 3 weeks the it can become a sign and symptoms of larynx cancer and this is among the most common symptoms. One of the most common causes is the inflammation of larynx(acute laryngitis).This is due to over use of voice like [...]