Documents tagged 'Symptoms'
Published: 23/05/2008
Many of us have the same question, what is obesity and what causes it? Obesity is a serious medical condition. This occurs when there is an imbalance in calories and the results are many times attributed to factors environmentally and genetically.
In the 80's, there were literally half of the...
Published: 23/05/2008
Diabetes is a disease which effects over twenty million people in the United States. It is a disease which affects everyone of every race, creed, sex and shows no discrimination. So what exactly is Diabetes?
Diabetes is disease that comes in three types: Type 1 diabetes, which is most...
Published: 22/05/2008
You would probably be forgiven for not knowing what Fibromyalgia is. Although studied and treated for several centuries, Fibromyalgia was not recognised as an illness until 1987. The term is derived from Latin and Greek words that literally translate as pain of the muscles. The condition is...
Published: 22/05/2008
The normal baby blues can happen in the days right after childbirth and normally disappear within a few days to a week. As a new mother, you can routinely have mood swings, sadness, crying spells, loss of appetite, sleeping problems or feel irritable, restless, anxious and lonely.
Usually,...
Published: 22/05/2008
When an individual experiences an allergic reaction, it means that the strong defense in the body is sensing that something is potentially harmful to the effective processes of the body. This is sort of an armor that the body has in order to fight infections, producing antibodies, and various...
Published: 22/05/2008
Millions of individuals suffer from allergies. You can visit any local pharmacy and observe numerous products that specialize in providing allergy relief. However, these products fail to actuallycure allergies. These products are designed to provide temporary relief to the symptoms that allergy...
Published: 21/05/2008
Depression is a sense of feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most people feel this way occasionally for short periods. However, clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with your daily life for an extended...
Published: 21/05/2008
Allergic reactions are among the most universal medical problems affecting Americans in our day. An allergy is an immune system response to a stimulus from the environment. The body wrongly sees the stimulus as harmful, and attempts to combat it, causing the symptoms of an allergic reaction. The...
Published: 19/05/2008
Anxiety disorders can totally change and upset the life of the sufferer as well as that of his/her loved ones. These disorders are based on anxiety, fears, and or phobias.
A simple definition states that anxiety is worry that is illogical or irrational, it is not based on facts. Obviously a...
Published: 19/05/2008
Why is it so difficult to stop smoking? To stop smoking is difficult because of the nicotine. The nicotine is as addictive as the worst drugs, and it is a product that is a natural part of the tobacco.
With the course of the time, the smoker becomes physical and psychologically addict to the...