Shingles: chicken pox adult
The viral disease herpes zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is a sometimes very painful nerve inflammation that can affect anyone who has had chickenpox. If the disease is detected at an early stage, there is a good chance of recovery. The varicella zoster virus usually appears in childhood from chickenpox, which manifest themselves in an itchy rash combined with fever. The body has preserves the infection, the virus migrates to the nerve roots of the spinal cord, and remains there in an inactive state. With a strong weakening of the immune system, for example, by stress or other diseases may break out again and cause shingles. The disease begins with a burning sensation and sometimes pain in the affected nerve areas. Weakness and fever can be added as accompanying symptoms. After a few days along the nerve trunk occur...
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What to do with large and small burns?
In young children burns from hot liquids are the most common cause of accidents. Burn injuries in adolescents and adults it is the result rather from the improper handling of fire and flammable liquids or electrical accidents. If a larger area of skin affected, the paramedics had to be called in addition to the application of emergency measures. If a larger area of skin affected, the paramedics had to be called in addition to the application of emergency measures. The first degree burns it is sunburn, the skin is red and painful, but recovers completely. Second-degree burns are recognizable by forming of blisters and severe pain. For third and fourth degree burns, the pain is missing because the nerve endings are destroyed in the skin and underlying tissues. What degree combustion you has, can often be seen after a...
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Canker sores – harmless or contagious disease?
If suddenly the glass of orange juice causes burning pain in the mouth and the food causes problems, canker sores may be the cause. This is usually only lentil-sized but extremely painful and causes mucosal lesions. Are the most common mouth ulcers type in adults, but also among children may already be affected. What are canker sores? Canker sores occur on both the inside cheeks, throat and palate and on the tongue. In 80 to 90 percent of all cases, these are so-called minor aphthous ulcers that are between two and ten millimeters in size. The canker sores initially as greasy white-coated bubbles with red inflamed edge and burst after some time. Then canker sores causes an inflammation of the injured mucosa. It leads to minor aphthous ulcers but only superficial damage the mucosa, and they usually heal in...
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What you can do for the health of heart
The heart pumps per minute about 5 liters of blood through the circulatory system, providing tissue and organs with vital nutrients. No other organ is so important for survival.But the heart is also susceptible to a number of diseases, which are favored by different risk factors. While you can live with one lung, kidney or a defective liver, broken heart is appear serious threat to the existence. This is reflected in the fact that in spite of modern medicine, heart still exposed cardiovascular diseases and this is the leading cause of death worldwide. These are mainly pathological changes of the coronary arteries due to vascular deposits, known as atherosclerosis, and heart attacks thereby, lead to death. As the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease apply high blood fat levels, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. These, so-called, metabolic syndrome...
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Diabetes in dogs
Diabetes mellitus – Dogs also suffer from diabetes. Your dog is constantly thirsty and losing weight despite increased appetite? Then your dog may be has diabetic. For what little is known, even dogs can suffer from the people at belonging to the endemic diseases, diabetes mellitus. Although dogs can just as we humans suffer from any form of diabetes, is in practice almost exclusively of diabetes mellitus type I, in which the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas no longer work enough. Unlike humans, however, the sugar metabolism disorder developed only in adult animals. This small breeds and castrated females are sick much more frequently. Although the causes are still poorly understood, genetic predisposition and certain hormones to the triggers of canine diabetes mellitus appear, is usually irreversible and requires the lifelong administration of insulin. With Insulin sugar dogs can...
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