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Lupus Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Lupus? Lupus is an autoimmune disease that may affect various system of the body especially joints, skin, kidneys, brains or attacks healthy cells and tissues in the body. This disease leads to long term autoimmune disorder. It can affect men, women and children of all ages but most frequently in women between the age of fourteen and forty-five. Lupus is most common in women rather than some time lupus can cause serious and life threading problems. Lupus is a member of family of diseases which include multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis juvenile diabetes and others. Different types of lupus: There are several different kinds of lupus but the type we refer is known as Systemic lupus erythematosus (S.L.E): SLE is chronic autoimmune disorders most common and serious type of lupus that can affect virtually any organ of the body. Include joints, heart, lungs, skin, muscles, kidneys and brain. Other types of lupus are: Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) and subacute cu

Thrush Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Thrush? Thrush is a common infection of mouth caused by the candida fungus that affects many younger children and newborns. The fungus occurs widely and usually noticed in many people mouths. With the mouth it affects other parts of body including vagina which can cause diaper rashes and vaginal infection. If women’s are in under age of 20 or pregnant then it is common that period of time. Men can get thrush too only few develop the itchiness and rashes. In adults or older children, thrush is triggered most often by drugs or diseases. Person with diabetes, HIV infection or cancer have the risk of thrush. Causes of Thrush : Thrush can be cause by many factors like: Poor health or diet :  Some products like tea, coffee, sugar and wine increase urinary sugar and growth in the vagina. Antibiotics : Any type of antibiotic can increase the risk of thrush and may cause the body to weaken. Pregnancy : If women are pregnant then it may create high levels of sugars in vaginal

Eating disorder Causes Symptoms and Treatments

Eating disorder is characterized by abnormal or extreme disturbance in eating behavior which involve excessive or insufficient food take. Eating disorders is a dangerous problem such as mental illness, severe overeating, emotional disorder and family pressure. About 5-10 million females and 1 million males are affected by eating disorder in united state. It is a most common problem. There are varieties of disorder like: Bulimia Nervosa :  Bulimia nervosa is most common problem in young women. In this people consume large amount of food in short time, sometimes cannot stop themselves from eating more. Eat large amounts of food is called binging. Anorexia Nervosa : It means absence of appetite involves an aversion to food which leads to emaciation, excessive weight loss and starvation. Anorexia is serious disorder can damage your health. Women with anorexia nervosa miss at least three consecutive menstrual periods. Binge Eating : In this disorder you eat excessive amounts of foo

Heart Blockage Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Heart Blockage? Heart block is a disease that occurs with heart's electrical system as opposed to coronary artery disease. , It occurs when electrical pulses controls the beating of heart are disrupted. The heart system controls the rhythm and rates of heart system. Some people born with this problem while others are develop during their lifetimes. If it occurs with born it’s called congenital. If the heart block develops after birth, it's called acquired heart block. There are three types of heart blockage: First Degree : First Degree is the last serve, in this electrical impulses are slowed and it cause rarely. Generally no treatment is necessary for first heart block. Second Heart Block : In this the electrical impulses are delayed further or some of electrical impulses are unable to reach the ventricles. Third degree Heart Block : Third degree is most served when none of the electrical impulses reach the ventricles. Ventricular escape beats are very sl

Gum Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Gum Disease? Gum disease is an infection of the bones and tissues urrounded and supports the teeth. It is  very common problem in younger or adult people  can be happen with  all ages of people like children’s can get gum disease too and cause serious pain in teeth. There are two types of Gum Disease: Gingivitis: Many People have gingivitis disease and cause the gums to become red, swollen and bleed easily when teeth are brushed. Gingivitis is often caused by inadequate oral hygiene and untreated gingivitis can be advance to periodontitis . Periodontitis : Periodontitis causes the gum and bacteria can grow that damages the teeth. Plaque can spread the gum and toxins produced by the bacteria in plaque. Gums can also shrink and back from the teeth. Untreated gum can cause very serious problem, causing teeth to become loose or fall out. Causes of Gum Disease : Gums are serious infection disease caused by bacteria that are normally in the mouth and can be cause by va

How to Lose Weight (Fat)?

Most of us suffer from the fat in different parts of body. Women got liposuction on their thighs, saw the fat come back on their abdomen within about 12 months. It is natural that men should have less than 18% total body fat and women have less than 23% body fat. In the body fat is produced when the diet provides more calories. Lose weight quite be difficult and a tough challenge for many people. Here are some tips to lose your weight and help some really healthy life. 1) First decide how much weight you want to lose. Calculate your desired weight according to your height and make a healthy weight loss target. 2) Now we talking about diet- are the key to weight loss . Eat three times in a day include salad and lean meats in your diet. Use less oil, low salt, eat healthy home cooked meals and seeing results in no time. 3) Writ your plan gives 20 minutes on your daily exercise. No chocolate or biscuit in the week choose healthy snacks only like fruit, fresh vegetables. Exer

Angina Causes Symptoms and Treatments

What is Angina? Angina or angina pectoris  is one of many causes of chest pain or discomfort, squeezing, or painful feeling that occurs when the heart is not getting enough blood. Usually angina is felt in the arms, throat, shoulders, jaw, neck or back. Angina is also called angina pectoris. Angina is a common disease but can be hard to distinguish from other types of chest pain. It can be affected both men and women.                                                                   Causes of Angina : Angina is caused by reduced supply of blood to the heart for a short period of time. The most common cause of reduced blood flow is coronary artery disease. Angina is classified in three types like: (stable, unstable, and variant) Stable Angina : It is usually caused by physical exertion. When someone  exercise or walk,  climb stairs,, your heart demands more blood, other physical factors like cold temperatures, emotional stress, smoking also cause angina. Unstable Angina : Un

Scabies Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Scabies?                                                                     Scabies is a common skin disease caused by a very small species of mite or small itchy bumps. Scabies not always transmitted sexually. Scabies can also be passed between members to members or by shared clothing, skin to skin, bedding and towels. Scabies can affects all ages of people and often affects several family members at same time. The scabies rashes frequently found between ankles, wrists and fingers. It may infected by other bacteria or further problems. Causes of Scabies : Scabies is an infection caused by an infestation with the scabies mite that is spread by direct skin-to-skin contact with a person, sleeping in the same bed with or touching someone who has scabies. Mites may live only for several days but usually spread through skin-to-skin contact; it burns very vastly under the skin. In a female mite lays 3 to 4 eggs per day into the skin and creating small, threadlike tunnels that

Miscarriage Causes Symptoms and Treatments

What is Miscarriage? Miscarriage is very common problem in women and losing a pregnancy can be heartbreaking/ A miscarriage is the spontaneous abortion before the fetus can survives. A miscarriage usually occurs before the 13 week of pregnancy or in the first 20 weeks. About 1 in 5 pregnancies will end in the first trimester. It often happen when women is not aware that she is pregnant. Causes of Miscarriage : The reason of miscarriage occur is not identified. Some of Causes are: Chromosomal abnormality means something is not correct with baby's chromosomes. Abnormalities chromosomal damaged egg or sperm cell. Age factor : Women over the age of 45 can have 50% chances of miscarriage; women aged in between 35 to 39 can have 20-35% chances of miscarriage. Uterine abnormalities : Some women are born with abnormally shaped uterus or double uterus.Uterus abnormalities may cause problems with blood supply and create complications for the baby to develop and gro

Food Poisoning Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Food Poisoning?                                                                                                                                       Food Poisoning is very common disease yet distressing, usually mild and sometimes life-threatening infection affects millions of people in the United States each year. Food poisoning also known as food borne disease contains a toxin, infectious, chemical and cause symptoms in the body. Food Poisoning is a wide variety of disease caused by beverages or ingesting food with harmful bacteria or viruses. More than 250 diseases can cause food poising, people can die as a result of food poisoning, can occur at any age of people. Causes of Food Poisoning : Food poisoning may affect one person or a group of people who ate the same contaminated food. Commonly it occurs after eating at restaurants, picnics, school cafeterias or in a function. Germs in to the food may affect like: • Meat comes into contact with bacteria • Wate

HIV Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is HIV? HIV is the infection now spread to many countries in the world. About 40 million people are currently living with HIV/AIDS infection and 25 million have died from this infection.HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV is like virus including the causes of flu. HIV virus infects human being and other blood cells which lead to problems with their immune system. AIDS is condition caused by HIV virus and most advanced stage of infection. AIDS is the final stage of HIV and a group of symptoms and disease associated with the damage HIV. The difference between AIDS and HIV is that means if anyone having AIDS then He/she is HIV positive that damage your immune system. AIDS is not a single disease caused by HIV. Causes of HIV : HIV can be caused on because the virus is present in the bloo

Pinworm Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Pinworm? Pinworm is an intestinal infection or a type of little worm caused by tiny parasitic worms. These parasites are also known as threadworms or seatworms. Pin worm is most common infection in united states. Pinworms are small, white and thin measuring about 1/4 inch to 1/2 in length. These problems are most common in school age children and its egg spread directly from person to person or children to children. They can spread by touching food bedding or other items of if children scratch their bottom or neglect to wash hand after using bathroom. Adults are less affected from pinworms. About 40 millions of people are infected from pinworm in US. Causes of pinworm : A pin worm is infected due to the poor hygiene when you accidentally swallow pinworm eggs or someone with pinworms scratches around the anus and touches you or a surface that you later touch.Over the next several weeks egg mature and hatch in to adult worm. Pinworm spread easily in school children, families, c

Hives Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Hives? Hives is also known as urticaria. Simply meaning of hives are red welts, raised, itching appear in varying shapes and sizes on the surface of skin. Hives are appear anywhere on the body like throat, lips, face or ears. Rashes produce an allergic reaction to medicine or food. Hives can change size and move around one place and reappearing in other place. There are some types of hives: Acute hives : This type of reaction is usually less than six weeks. It is usually caused due to food allergen. Chronic hives : This type of hives appears at least six week or more. The cause of chronic hives is unknown yet. Physical hives : Mostly caused by scratching or due to cold, sunlight, heat, exercise or fresh water. These skin reactions generally appear after rubbing and disappear with in 30 minutes. Solar hives : Solar hives are caused on areas which have been exposed to sun. It occurs very rarely. Solar hives appear immediately into the sun and disappear about an hour. Cholinergic

Sleep Disorders Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Sleeping is most important function in our life, but sometime most of us facing problem in sleeping, awake in the middle and fatigued during the day. Sleep disorder is a medical disorder of the sleep causes other sleeping problem or more than just sleepiness. It’s very difficult to stay asleep through the night. Poor sleeping problem may cause negative impact on your health, energy, emotional balance or productivity or sometime repeated sleeping problem may cause metal problem or serious problem. If you have problem sleeping at night or wake up, then you feel very tired. Most common sleep disorder is sleep apnea or chronic insomnia . Causes of Sleep Disorder : There are various causes of sleep disorder like excessive weight due to aging loss of muscle tone, due to disturbance in the normal circadian pattern. Other causes are: • Due to life stresses such as death of loved one, job loss or change or extreme temperatures. • Many medicines can affect your sleep. • Over the age of 65 any o

Fibromyalgia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a common syndrome affects the soft tissue and muscles. Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder that causes profound fatigue, widespread pain, diffuse tenderness and intense pain all over the body. It may worse at some time and also change location pain becomes that part of body that are used most. More than 6 million of people are affected in the united state. Often fibromyalgia is considered as arthritis-related condition which is not truly a form of arthritis because it does not cause damage or inflammation to the muscles, joints or tissue. Mostly 80 or 90 percent of people affected with fibromyalgia are women and middle age people. Causes of fibromyalgia : Exactly no one knows the causes of fibromyalgia, even doctor and researchers working on the causes and identify the number of changes in the body functions. It is caused by an interpretative defect in the central nervous system brings about abnormal pain perception. Some of cause’s factors include

Bursitis Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Bursitis? Bursitis is a inflammation of bursa of synovial fluid in the body. Bursa is a jelly-like sac which forms under the skin and usually contains a small amount of fluid. Most commonly bursitis is lies between the tendon or a skin and bone. In human body there are around160 bursa are located adjacent to the tendons near the large joint such as muscles, bones, joints, elbow, knee and tendon. Bursa decrease assist movement and friction of the tendon, most often bursitis occur near to joint and bursa become inflamed. Bursitis is most common in women, elderly or middle age people. Causes of bursitis : Anything that become inflamed the fluid-filled can cause bursitis and reduce friction between moving parts. Bursitis can be caused by trauma , chronic overuse, rheumatoid arthritis or infection which can lead to inflammation. The following risk factors are: Repetitive stress : this stress occur when stair clim

Anismus Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Anismus? Anismus is a medical condition, a cause of constipation and painful defecation. it consist other medical names include paradoxical puborectalis contraction and pelvic floor dyssynergia. It refers a malfunction of the puborectalis muscle and external anal sphincter during an attempted bowel motion. Anismus is mostly occurs in young children and women and in people with certain rectal problems. Causes of anismus : Causes of anismus are similar to constipation and it is probably a specific voluntary sphincter muscle abnormality. There are numbers of factors can cause the anismus like: • Dehydration or inadequate fluid • Lack of physical activity • Irritable bowel syndrome • Problems with the rectum or colon • Anismus is the real cause of constipation • Lack of some minerals and vitamin • Anxiety is a cause of anismus slow down bowel and resulting constipation Symptoms of Anismus : Symptoms are often same as constipation. Some symptoms include: • Constipation or pain with

Myeloproliferative Disorders Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What are myeloproliferative disorders? Myeloproliferative disorders are a group of disease or a subset of bone marrow disorder. Normally in this condition the bone marrow makes too many white blood cell, red blood cell or platelets which develop in to mature blood cell over time. Myeloproliferative disorders is a serious condition, may pause certain health risk, It may affected at any age of people. Mostly men are affected more likely than women. The myeloid stem is developing in to three type of blood cell like: Red blood cell that carry oxygen White blood cell fight from disease and infection Platelets help to prevent bleeding by causing blood clots. There are four types of myeloproliferative disorder which include: Polycythemia vera : It is a kind of disorder involving the red blood cells or erythrocyteso, occurs when the bone marrow produces too many blood cells. They cause

Spinal Stenosis Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Spinal stenosis? Spinal stenosis is abnormal narrowing of one or more areas in your spine and everyone will experience low back pain. It may occur in the center o your spine most often in your lower back and neck. About 75% cases are occurring in the lower back which can cause pain along the back of the leg. Stenosis affects equally men and women, most common over 50 years old. Mostly adult people are affected. Types of spinal stenosis include: Lumbar stenosis : Lumbar stenosis is narrowing of the spinal nerve roots which compress the lower back or choked. It may affect younger person due to developmental causes. It can produce numbness or weakness in to the legs and buttocks. Foraminal stenosis : Nerve root leave the canal through a hole in the side of the spinal canal called the lateral foramen. Foraminal is common result of disc degeneration. Other causes of neural foraminal are arthritis, chronic meningitis, osteoarthritis and tumors. Central stenosis : Central stenosis is

Cardiogenic Shock Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Cardiogenic shock? Cardiogenic shock is a condition in which the heart has been damaged and heart suddenly unable to supply enough blood to meet your body's requirement. This shock decreased pumping ability of the heart. Cardiogenic shock is a complication of variety chronic and acute disorders, it is based upon an inadequate circulation of blood. Most often cardiogenic shock is caused by a severe heart attack which leads to death from oxygen starvation. It is very dangerous for health. Causes of Cardiogenic : Cardiogenic shock occurs when your heart can't pump enough blood. Cardiogenic shock is caused due to damage of the heart muscles by a heart attack. It happens when your heart's main pumping chamber is damages due to lack of oxygen. Cardiogenic is one type of shock other type include vasodilatory (VAZ-oh-DILE-ah-tor-e) shock and hypovolemic (hy-po

Trauma Disorder Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Trauma? Trauma is a disorder psychic or behavioral state resulting from physical injury, mental or emotional stress. A traumatic event for one person is a challenge to another person. The trauma effects of major events as kidnapping, rape, war, abuse, accident, life-threatening illness or natural disaster. There are two types of trauma: Mental Trauma : Medical Stress includes painful feelings or frightening thoughts and response to serious injury. Emotional Symptoms include anger, irritability, confusion, fear or anxiety, feeling sad and hopeless. Physical Trauma : Physical Trauma cause physical pain or injury. Physical symptoms include insomnia, pain, aches, and fatigue or muscle tension. Some time traumatic injuries cause of death. But the right treatment helps and support families to recover from this disease. Physical and emotional trauma can cause stressful event. Trauma can be affected to anyone whether it is children, women, men or someone has almost died or may suff

Anasarca Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Anasarca is a medical condition referred to a person who experiences generalized edema. Anasarca is a general swelling throughout the body, considered a massive edema due to effusion of fluid in to the extracellular space. There may be other type edema occurring simultaneously, other organs and cavities also affected by edema. Anasarca is different condition than a slight swelling mostly occurs in the feet. Anasarca is very common in patients with kidney failure and heart failure. Usually anasarca indicates severe illness and may often be seen in the serious condition. Usually it is caused by cirrhosis of the liver or renal failure and increase over a short period of time. To manage the swelling treatment will be seen by doctor. Causes of Aanasarca : There are some medical conditions which leads to swelling include. There are different causes which affect both men and women: Eclampsia / Pre-eclampsia Liver failure due to cirrhosis leads to a variety of other complications Kidney dise

Amnesia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Amnesia? Amnesia is a condition resulting in loss of memory because of brain hemorrhage. It can be last for two hours, two months or few hours for a long time. Many people have amnesia in the form of a transitory "blackout”. Amnesia may also involve a total loss of memory about the period or event. In severe cases, people not only loss his past memory but also have painful event, period of time and his or her identity. Person who has amnesia lives only with present no collection of the past. This loss of memory occurs due to some brain hemorrhage, head injury, stroke, psychological experience or a result of disease such as trauma or stress. Some common types of amnesia are: Anterograde Amnesia : In this condition the person short term memory is impacted due to injury to the head which causes brain trauma. Retrograde Amnesia : In this condition memory loss for events before brain hemorrhage. Lacunar amnesia : This type of amnesia create blockage in your mind. Transient Glo