Poor circulation: assessment or warning?
Circulatory problems can have various causes. Often they are the result of low blood pressure, infection or a new drug. However, they can also occur as a secondary symptom of various diseases and should be monitored accordingly. If not enough blood through the veins reaches the heart, as it can be about after long standing or sudden getting up the, system helps the body by a short-term hypoperfusion of the brain. Dizziness, sweating, tinnitus can be the result. This blood pressure is normally compensated quickly and you feel after a short pause or sitting down again better. In individuals with a permanently low blood pressure of these symptoms occur faster and more often. Often this young, slim women are mostly affected by. Often they freeze easily, have a high need for sleep and are quickly exhausted. Especially among young...
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Do not panic if you have it
Irritable bowel syndrome, irritable colon or nervous bowel called, causes similar symptoms such as various intestinal diseases, but it is harmless. Organic causes have been excluded, individuals must find out for yourself what can relieve their individual complaints. Irritable bowel syndrome is not organic, but a functional disorder. Among other things, the bowel movements compared to healthy subjects are faster or slower, while the pain sensitivity is more pronounced. Patients have, in addition to stabbing abdominal pain and bloating either diarrhea or constipation , or both alternating. Often, the symptoms improve after a bowel movement. The causing a nervous bowel are still unknown, so the differential diagnosis bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and colon cancer as well as celiac disease and various food intolerances in the foreground. These underlying diseases excluded in some cases, but the...
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Recognize signs of rheumatism in time
In rheumatism is the most common is inflammatory of joint disease. Also, is considered to be that older people are affected only, but the disease occurs in all age groups. Since the creation process of rheumatic diseases hitherto unexplored, the treatment options are merely symptomatic, but have a longer symptom-free period. Rheumatic diseases are not strictly limited to the joints, but also can be related with skin, eyes or internal organs. In normal usage, however, availability of rheumatoid arthritis meant a relapsing disease of the joints. The causes of this incurable disease have not been clarified to date. It is believed that it is an autoimmune response wherein the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissue and destroyed in the course of an inflammatory response. In addition to blood tests, X-rays of the affected joints made diagnostic value,...
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Thrombosis: a not to be underestimated risk
If suddenly swells the calf hurts or discolored reddish blue, there is absolute need for clarification because it could be a leg vein thrombosis, which should not be underestimated. Not only the veins can be damaged by thrombosis, but it can also cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Most commonly caused thrombosis in the legs is the deep leg veins. Here, a local blockage of blood vessels is referred to by a blood clot as thrombosis that blocks or impedes venous return of blood to the heart. The result is a backwater of the blood, the affected leg is det thick and feels heavy. Due to the local strain of the closed vein occur severe pain. Dissolves blood clots and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs, it can cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism here are clogged with parts of...
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Basal insulin: You eat it, when you want!
More and more Americans ill with diabetes commonly called metabolic disorder diabetes mellitus. An unhealthy lifestyle, lack of exercise and obesity in younger people are increasingly affected and as subsequently suffer from Type 2 diabetes. If treatment with insulin necessary, then use modern therapies on a two-phase replacement of the missing hormone insulin after the so-called basal-bolus principle. In congenital or acquired insulin-dependent diabetes the body lacks the ability to self-produce the pancreatic hormone – insulin , which transports the glucose derived from food into the cells. The lack of this hormone can have life-threatening consequences and lead to the so-called diabetic coma, the unnaturally high sugar content of the blood vessels and organs can cause damage. The supply of insulin in blood sugar levels can be kept at a healthy level and glucose metabolism are normalized. Those who...
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Varicose Veins: not just a blemish
Varicose veins, medically called varices are dilated veins nodular, usually in the legs. The serpentine bluish swellings are not only ugly, but sometimes dangerous. To prevent possible vascular inflammation, all signs should be treated at an early stage with medicine and support the weakened veins through regular exercise. Women arteries do not have their own muscles and are in their task deliver deoxygenated blood to the heart and to carry back, dependent on the pressing action of adjacent muscles. In order to prevent the lowering of the blood, in case of prolonged immobility, the veins have valves that keep the blood down, whichever is higher. This venous valves may be impaired in their function due to a congenital connective tissue so, visible sacs due to increased pressure in the blood vessels. Varicose veins are not only a cosmetic trouble,...
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