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Cancer types, Causes and Symptoms

Cancer types and Symptoms Cancer is one of the most significant diseases in human body. Cancer is start with abnormal cell and grows out of control. Cancer spread very fastly and extent infection in body. Its cells spread from one part to another part of our body through blood and lymph system. Symptoms and signs of Cancer: Cancer is just like a group of disease. The symptoms of cancer will depend that from which part of the body is affect. The symptoms of cancer are swelling in the body, bleeding from the mouth, skin, and pain. Some symptoms are different like excessive sweating, weight loss, low blood count, lymph node (under the skin) and other specific condition. Some signs are depend on the type of cancer. Bones are also affected with cancer. Causes of Cancer: There are lots of causes for cancer in human life. One of the main cause is environmental factor due to genetics, pollutions, chemicals. Life style is another factor of cancer such as Tobacco, smoking, diet, chemicals, due t...

Mumps Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What are Mumps? Mumps are a contagious viral disease of the human that leads to painful swelling of the parotid glands also known as saliva glands. Mumps is caused by a virus that usually affects to children but adults can also get it. Mumps spread through saliva and infect many parts of the body like in cheek, neck, below your ears and near your jaw line, these glands become painful and swell. Mumps is that disease which is spread form one person to another through the infected person release virus in the air. Mumps is disease which recovers completely and no long term mark left. Mumps symptoms are seen in 14 to 16 days, during the time virus will multiply in the cells and increase the level of circulating in bloodstream. Causes of Mumps : Mumps are caused by virus (paramyxovirus), many other infections disease is caused by this virus. It is mainly infected salivary glands and reproduces which located below and in front of the ears. It is spread by direct contact of infected person. ...

Asterixis Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Asterixis? Asterixis is a type of movement disorder characterized by arrhythmic flexion movements of hands evoked by dorsiflexion of the wrists and outstretched arms. It is an involuntary tremor of the wrist loss of sustained contraction of the arms against ones will. It is produced by lapse of sustained posture. Mainly it causing hand tremors and the tremor occurs in both wrists and is not rhythmic characterized by metacarpophalangeal joints, jerky, irregular movements at the wrist and often accompanied by lateral movements of the fingers. Sometime this condition is called liver flap because it indicate brain damage or liver damage. Asterixis might be caused by kidney problems. Causes of Asterixis : The common cause of asterixis is liver failure or it might be caused by the problems of kidney failure. This is called azotemia. Kidneys have trouble in filtering out nitrogen-based compounds. Other causes are DRUGS (ABC) like alcohol, anticonvulsant phenytoin and carbamazepine, ...

Paraplegia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Paraplegia? Paraplegia is that condition which is used to define the body loss movement sensory function or impairment in motor which is usually caused by damage of the spinal cord injury or congenital condition. In this disease both legs and arms are affected. The result is loss movement and feeling. Spinal canal area which is affected in paraplegia is lumbar, thoracic or sacral regions. Paraplegia is defining the paralysis which affects only the lower half of the body. Causes of Paraplegia : The common cause of paraplegia is damage to the spinal cord or from vehicle accidents, sports injury, injury to the nervous system, infection, genetic disorder, spinal tumors, stroke, compression of the spinal cord which resulting swelling and inflammation. Differential Diagnosis of paraplegia : There several differential diagnosis which is found by Trauma Causes, infectious disorder, development disorder, anemia, acute infection(paralysis) and stroke. Symptoms of Paraplegia : The sym...