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  • Blood Circulation and its effect on our health
    Our body circulatory system have 3 parts: pulmonary circulation (lungs), coronary circulation (heart), and systemic circulation (the rest). This system mainly involves the heart, the lungs and the blood vessels. The lungs provide oxygen for the heart to pump to the rest of our body. This is done through blood circulation, the blood carries the oxygen from the lungs to the heart.
  • Nitric Oxide, Cardiovascular Health, Cerebrovascular Disease
    Cerebrovascular refers to the blood vessels (arteries) that supply blood to the brain, and cerebrovascular disease, in simple terms, refers to an abnormality of the brain due to a disruption in this blood supply in some way
  • Ringworm Home Remedies - Treatment For Ringworm
    Ringworm is a contagious fungus infection that can affect the scalp, the body, the feet (athlete's foot), or the nails. Tinea (pronounced: tih -nee-uh) is the medical name for a group of related skin infections, including athlete's foot, jock itch, and ringworm.
  • Body Odor and Perspiration - Causes and Home Remedies
    Body odor is the unpleasant smell caused by the mixing of perspiration, or sweat, and bacteria on the skin of the human body. As this sweat appears on the skin surface, it softens the epidermal keratin producing smell as a result. Bacteria feed upon the keratin and sweat and produce odor.
  • Blackheads - Causes and Home Remedies
    Blackheads are happen when the pores are clogged close to the surface of the skin. Because they are exposed to the skin surface, blackheads don not usually become inflamed.
  • Baldness - Causes and Home Remedies
    Baldness typically known as excessive hair loss from your scalp and can be the result of heredity, certain medications or an underlying medical condition.
  • Bad Breath - Causes and Home Remedies
    Bad breath is a very common problem and there are many different causes. Bad Breath is usually caused by the breakdown of proteins by bacteria in the mouth. Food eaten such as garlic and spicy foods once absorbed into the body can release odor through the lungs when you breathe.
  • Backache - Causes and Home Remedies
    Back problems affect all kinds of people. Ever since human beings stood upright they have been having trouble with their backs. Mostly 80 percent of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives, and slightly more men suffer from it than women.
  • Relapsing Fever - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    This is a multisystem disease caused by the spirochetes Borrelia (B.) hermsii, B. turicatae, and B. parkeri. Borrelia recurrentis is confined to the Horn of Africa and causes louse-borne, epidemic relapsing fever.
  • Puerperal Infection - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Puerperal infection is a bacterial infection that occurs following childbirth. The infection may also be referred to as puerperal or postpartum fever.
  • Prostatitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Prostatitis is a form of inflammation of the prostate gland. Because women do not have a prostate gland, it is only found in men. It may account for up to 25 percent of all office visits by young and middle-aged men for complaints involving the genital and urinary systems.
  • Poliomyelitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease. This illness is caused by three types of poliovirus. The poliovirus is a virus most recognized for its destruction to the nervous system causing paralysis.
  • Pneumonia - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung. It is mainly caused by infection with bacteria, viruses, and other organisms. Pneumonia may also occur from chemical or physical injury to the lungs, or indirectly due to another medical illness, such as lung cancer or alcohol abuse.
  • Pleurisy - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Pleurisy is caused by swelling and irritation of the membrane that surrounds the lungs. It is also called Pleuritic Chest Pain. This is the condition which is make breathing extremely painful, and sometimes it is associated with another condition called pleural effusion where excess fluid fills the area between the membrane's layers.
  • Plague - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Plague is a bacterial disease of rodents that can be spread to humans and other animals by infected fleas.
  • Pertussis (Whooping Cough) - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Pertussis is also known as whooping cough. It is a highly contagious disease marked by severe coughing. It is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It is named after the "whoop" sound children and adults make when they try to breathe in during or after a severe coughing spell.
  • Peritonitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Peritonitis is inflammation and usually infection of the abdominal cavity and its lining.
  • Pericarditis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Pericardium is a sac of tough fibrous tissue that envelops the heart and the roots of the blood vessels which enter and leave the heart. The pathognomonic physical finding of acute pericarditis is the pericardial friction rub, which is usually auscultated along the lower left sternal border. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a useful, simple tool that may aid in the diagnosis of acute pericarditis.
  • Pediculosis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Pediculosis is an infestation of the hairy parts of the body or clothing with the eggs, larvae or adults of lice. Head lice infestation is most affected on children aged 3 to 10 and their families.
  • Human Parainfluenza Viruses - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV) are a group of viruses that cause different types of respiratory infections and are most common in children and babies. Most HPIV usually cause infections of the upper airway such as a common cold, ear infections, or sore throat.
  • Otitis Externa (Swimmer's Ear) - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Otitis externa is commonly known as swimmer's ear. Otitis externa is a serious ear inflammation that can usually be treated very successfully with topical antibiotics. Acute external otitis is commonly a bacterial infection caused by streptococcus, staphylococcus, or pseudomonas types of bacteria.
  • Osteomyelitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Osteomyelitis is bacterial infection. Actually it is a swelling of bone tissue that is usually caused by pyogenic bacteria or mycobacteria.
  • Ornithosis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Ornithosis is an infectious disease that affects many bird species around the world. It can also be transmitted to humans and other mammals. In Germany, ornithosis is a very common disease which is found in pigeons
  • Necrotizing Enterocolitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious illness in babies. Here I would like to clear you that each word in necrotizing encrocolitis has proper meaning like "necrotizing" means damage and death of cells, "entero" refers to the intestine and "colitis" means inflammation of the colon (lower part of the intestine).
  • Hepatitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    The actual meaning of hepatitis means is "inflammation of the liver". This disease is occour due to different type of viruses. The most common cause is infection with one of 5 viruses, called hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.
  • Helicobacter Pylori - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are a type of bacteria infection. This infection can contribute to the development of diseases, such as heartburn, bloating, nausea, gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), and ulcers in the stomach and duodenum.
  • Heart block - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Heart block is a condition where the heart beats irregularly or much more slowly than the normal heart beat. Every normal heart has a normal rhythm. That rhythm varies from person to person. In most healthy people, the heart at rest beats about 60 to 100 times per minute.
  • Heart Attack - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    A heart attack is one of the dentures illnesses in all over the world. It occurs when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies this happen because it isn't receiving oxygen.
  • Headache - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Headache is a term used to describe aching or pain that occurs in one or more areas of the head, face, mouth, or neck. Some people say the pain is like a band slowly tightening around their head. Others describe pain that worsens when someone turns on a light. Both are descriptions of headaches.
  • Hay Fever - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Hay fever, also known as seasonal allergic rhinitis. It is caused by an allergy to grass or hay pollens. The hay fever season generally begins with the release of pollen by trees. This may start as early as February and continue to late May. Trees such as birch and oak are particularly to blame.
  • Gynecomastia - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gynecomastia is a condition in which firm breast tissue forms in males. The breast tissue is usually less than 1-1/2 inches across and is located directly under the nipple.
  • Graves' disease - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Graves' disease is one of the most common forms of hyperthyroidism. It occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your thyroid gland and causes it to overproduce the hormone called thyroxine.
  • Granuloma inguinale - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Granuloma inguinale is a sexually transmitted infection that affects the skin and mucous membranes of the anal and genital areas. Granulation tissue is tissue formed during wound healing that is rich in blood capillaries and has a rough or lumpy surface.
  • Granuloma annulare - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Granuloma annulare (GA) is a common condition of unknown cause which affects the skin. It is especially common in children and young adults, although it may affect people of all ages, and is twice as common in women as it is in men.
  • Gout - Home Remedies, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gout is one of the most common forms of arthritis. It appears as an acute attack often coming on overnight. It is mostly found that within 12-24 hours there is severe pain and swelling in the affected joint.
  • Goodpasture's syndrome - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Goodpasture's syndrome is a rare disease. It is mostly affect the lungs and kidneys. In Goodpasture's syndrome, the immune system makes antibodies that attack the lungs and kidneys. It was first described by Ernest Goodpasture in 1919, and subsequently his name was given to the disease.
  • Gonorrhea - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease. Gonorrhea is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae which is a bacterium that can grow easily in the warm, moist areas of the reproductive tract, including the cervix (opening to the womb), uterus (womb), and fallopian tubes (egg canals) in women, and in the urethra (urine canal) in women and men.
  • Goitre - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Goitre is also called a bronchocele. It is a swelling in the neck due to an enlarged thyroid gland. Goitre can mean that all the thyroid gland is swollen or enlarged, or one or more swellings or lumps develop in part or parts of the thyroid.
  • Glossitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Glossitis is the infection of the tongue. Due to this the tongue swells and change color. A white border sometimes surrounds them. It is also known as benign migratory glossitis because the appearance is constantly changing
  • Glomerulonephritis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Glomerulonephritis is a type of kidney disease; it is caused by inflammation of the internal kidney structures (glomeruli).
  • Glaucoma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve. Due to illness of glaucoma there are maximum chances of vision loss and blindness.
  • Gingivitis (Sore Gums) - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gums around the teeth due to improper cleaning of teeth. Gingivitis may be caused by a build up of plaque and tartar. If not treated, gingivitis can progress to more-serious gum diseases, such as periodontitis, and eventually to the destruction of bone and to tooth loss.
  • Giardiasis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Giardiasis is a diarrheal illness caused by a microscopic parasite, Giardia intestinalis (also known as Giardia lamblia). It is the most frequent cause of non-bacterial diarrhea in North America.
  • Genital herpes - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). It is mainly caused by the herpes simplex viruss type 1 and type 2.
  • Gastroenteritis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gastroenteritis is the irritation and inflammation of the digestive system. It is inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It is caused by a virus.
  • Gas Gangrene - Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Gas gangrene is a life-threatening infection of muscle tissue caused mainly by the bacteria name as Clostridium perfringens and also several other Clostridium species.
  • Frostbite - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Frostbite is the freezing of the skin and also the bodily tissues under the skin. This condition happens when you are exposed to temperatures below the freezing point of skin.
  • Freckles - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Freckles are small spots of melanin on the skin. Freckle is also known as mole. Actually it is a flat circular spot on the skin about the size of the head of a nail. It mostly develops after repeated exposure to sunlight, particularly in someone of fair complexion.
  • Folliculitis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Folliculitis is the infection of hair follicles. Folliculitis can affect both women and men. It can also occur at any age. It can develop on any part of the body.
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes. It is caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) includes a range of features seen in some babies who were exposed to alcohol before birth.
  • Fluorosis - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Fluorosis are describes as a state of toxicity of the trace element. It is occurring due to fluorine (commonly referred to in its ionic state as Fluoride) within an organism. Fluorosis is not limited to humans, and can affect any aspect of the ecosystem.
  • Flatulence - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Flatulence is the illness in which patient having excessive stomach or intestinal gas. This can result in uncomfortable feelings of bloating, as well as increased belching or passing of gas from the rectum.
  • Flat Feet (Allen Arches) - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
    Flat feet are a condition in which the foot doesn't have a normal arch. Some children have flat feet, also known as fallen arches. This is when the arch on the inside of the foot does not develop. It is also called pes planus or fallen arches.
  • Fistula - Causes, Symptoms, Types and Treatment
    A fistula is an abnormal connection between an organ, vessel, or intestine and another structure. As we know that the last stage of digestion is the collection of and passing from the body of solid wastes.
  • Eye Stye Treatment - Home Remedies for Stye Treatment
    An Eye Stye (sty) is a common infection of the hair follicle of an eyelash. Due to eye styes it causes a sore similar to a pimple in the gland at the edge of the eyelid which leads to blockage of the hair follicles that may become swollen.
  • Exophthalmos - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Exophthalmos is a very common problem of eyes. Exophthalmos is the bulging of one or both eyes. A portion of the eye may be exposed in some cases. We know that orbit of eyes is made of bone.
  • Escherichia coli and Other Enterobacteriaceae Infection
    Human newborns are ill due to serious infections name as Escherichia coli.The GI tract of most warm-blooded animals is colonized by E. coli. It symptoms may occur within hours or a few days after birth.
  • Erythema - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Erythema nodosum is characterized by tender, red bumps, usually found on the shins. It is one of the cardinal signs of inflammation. There are many causes and manifestations of erythema, including photosensitivity, erythema multiforme, and erythema nodusum.
  • Erysipelas - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Erysipelas is a form of cellulitis. It is a bacterial infection affecting the most superficial layers of the skin. Erysipelas is also known as St. Anthony's fire, an accurate description of the intensity of this rash.
  • Epiglottitis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Epiglottitis is an inflammation of the epiglottis. Due to its place in the airway, swelling of this structure can interfere with breathing and constitutes a medical emergency.
  • Epididymis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    The epididymis is a structure which lies on and around each testicle. It functions in the transport, storage and maturation of sperm cells originating from the testicle. When a man complains of scrotal pain, acute or chronic epididymitis is far and away that most common diagnosis.
  • Enterobiasis - Types, Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    Enterobiasis is the medical condition of being infected with pinworms. The medical name for the pinworm is Enterobius vermicularis. The pinworm is about the length of a staple. It lives for the most part within the rectum of humans.
  • Endocarditis - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    Endocarditis is an uncommon but not rare disease it is a infection of bacteria. It is affecting about 10,000 - 20,000 persons in the United States each year.
  • Encephalitis - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    Encephalitis is refers to brain inflammation. It is caused by a virus. Sometimes, encephalitis can result from a bacterial infection, such as bacterial meningitis, or it may be a complication of other infectious diseases like rabies or syphilis.
  • Empyema - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Empyema is a collection of pus which is found in the pleural space (the cavity between the lung and the membrane that surrounds it). It is usually caused by a bacterial infection of the lungs.
  • Ehrlichioses - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Ehrlichioses are tick-borne infections which are cause an abrupt onset of fever, chills, headache, and a general feeling of illness (malaise).
  • Ebola virus - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Ebola haemorrhagic is a fever (EHF) which is viral diseases. It is causing death in 50-90% of all clinically ill cases. Several different species of Ebola virus have been identified. It is initial recognition in 1976.
  • Diphtheria - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Diphtheria is a very contagious and potentially life-threatening bacterial disease. Because of widespread immunization, diphtheria is very rare in the United States. It mainly affects the nose and throat.
  • Dientamoeba fragilis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Dientamoeba fragilis is an infection which occurs very rearly in humans. It is not an ameba but a flagellate. This protozoan parasite produces trophozoites which is a cysts have not been identified. Infection may be either symptomatic or asymptomatic.
  • Dermatophytosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Dermatophytosis is also known as tinea or ringworm. It spread in the scalp, glabrous skin, and nails of the infected people. It is caused by a closely related group of fungi known as dermatophytes which have the ability to utilise keratin as a nutrient source.
  • Dacryocystitis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Dacryocystitis is an infection of the tear sac that lies between the inner corner of the eyelids and the nose. It is infection of the lacrimal sac. Dacryocystitis is occour suddenly without any any symptoms at first and it present for a longtime in the body.
  • Cutaneous larva migrans - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Cutaneous larva migrans is a parasitic skin infection. It is caused by hookworm larvae . This larva is that usually come from infest cats, dogs and other animals. It is found in southeastern and Gulf States, and in tropical developing countries.
  • Cryptosporidiosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrheal disease. It is caused by microscopic parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium. Once an animal or person is infected, the parasite lives in the intestine and passes in the stool.
  • Cryptococosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Cryptococosis is a fungus infection. It is cause due to the fungus name is Cryptococcus neoformans. This fungus is ordinarily found in soil. It is the cause of the most common life-threatening meningitis in AIDS.
  • Croup - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    Croup is a common respiratory problem in all over the world. It is characterized by a harsh and barking cough. Mostly children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years old are affected with viral croup. Croup is most likely to occur during the winter months and early spring, and symptoms are most severe in children younger than 3 years of age.
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare. Actually it is a degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder. Typically, its symptoms occurs at about age 60. There is currently no single diagnostic test for CJD. While CJD can be transmitted to other people, the risk of this happening is extremely small.
  • Conjunctivitis - Symptoms, Home Remedies and Treatment
    Conjunctivitis is caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. This illness often affects newborns. It is transmitted to the eye at birth or by fingers and occasionally by the water in swimming pools, poorly chlorinated hot tubs, or by sharing makeup. It is Also called swimming pool conjunctivitis.
  • Common cold - Symptoms, Home Remedies and Treatment
    Common cold is often known as acute viral nasopharyngitis. It is a mild viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). Over 200 viruses can cause a cold.The common cold is more common in cold weather than in summer but there are still plenty of colds around in summer particularly when we go on holiday.
  • Colorado Tick Fever - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Colorado Tick Fever is an illness caused by a virus. This virus is carried by small mammals, such as ground squirrels, porcupines, and chipmunks, and by ticks. This type of fever manly founds in the United States. This disease is caused by infection with the Colorado tick fever virus, a member of the Coltivirus genera.
  • Coccidioidomycosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Coccidioidomycosis is the infection which is caused by the dimorphic fungus name as Coccidioides immitis. Most people who catch by it do not get sick at all. They don't even know they have the disease.
  • Clostridium Difficile - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that is related to the bacterium that cause tetanus and botulism. It

    represents one of the most common hospital (nosocomial) infections around the world.
  • Clonorchiasis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Clonorchiasis is an infectious disease caused by the Chinese liver fluke, Clonorchis sinesis. Clonorchiasis is a known risk factor for the development of cholangiocarcinoma which is a neoplasm of the biliary system.Clonorchis sinensis is also known as a trematode.
  • Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) is the label given to a group of overlapping syndromes that have in common a clinical pattern of persistent, severe, and diffuse cutaneous candidal infections. These infections affect the skin, nails and mucous membranes.
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS). Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disease that causes you to become so tired. This is called chronic fatigue. Physical or mental activity often makes the symptoms worse.
  • Cholera - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Cholera is an acute, diarrheal illness. It is caused the bacteria name as Vibrio cholerae. It is the infection of the intestine. The infection is often mild or without symptoms, but sometimes it can be severe. Vomiting also occurs in most patients.
  • Cellulitis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
    Cellulitis is an acute inflammation of the connective tissue of the skin. Science it is a illness of skin so it can affect any area of the body. It is most often found that it started in an area of broken skin, often from a cut, burn, or an insect bite. The infection spreads from the skin to underlying tissues.
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