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What is Ringworm? Ringworm is a type of highly fungal skin infections that causes ring-like red rashes on the skin. There are many type of fungal and some can affect the nails, skin and hair. It can affect adults but Children are specially affected by ringworm. These rashes may appear anywhere on the body. Dogs, pets or cats may be a source of transmitting the disease in human body. The medical term of ringworm is tinea. Causes : It is common it affect people of all ages, especially among children’s. It is caused by fungus not caused by a worm. Some of these fungus bacteria are useful while other can cause infection and spread easily from one person to another. You can get ringworm by touching an infected cat or dog. Ringworm of the scalp can spread when children share hats, brushes or combs. It can spread by sharing towels, sport gear or clothing. The fungus bacteria can spread in warm, moist areas. Sign and Symptoms: ·       ...

What is Listeriosis? Listeriosis is an illness that arises from serious infection usually caused by when a person eat contaminated food with bacterium listeria. Infection is uncommon but most frequently affect pregnant women, newborn, adult and old people whose immunity is weak. In pregnant women this infection causes miscarriage. It cause wide range of infection include pneumonia, osteomyelitis and meningitis. Causes of Listeriosis : Listeria bacteria can be found in water, soil, plants, decaying vegetation and animal feces. Contamination can occur at any point in the distribution, farming and food distribution. Some factors are: Raw vegetables that can contaminated from the soil or from manure used as fertilizer. Raw milk product made from raw milk Certain process food- hot dogs, deli meats, soft cheese that have contaminated Most often this bacteria cause gastrointestinal illness, skin lesion and abscesses. In some causes you can develop inflammation or blood infection....

What are Dandruff? Hair dandruff is a common long time problem but not a life threatening problem. More than 60% of people are facing this problem. Dandruff is a condition skin cells flaking off your scalp. Exact cause of dandruff is not yet agreed but it may be a lack of confidence, hormonal imbalance, sleep, anxiety and self-esteem. There are number of ways to reduce the risk of dandruff some effective treatment and strategies are available. 1) Massage your scalp with aloe Vera leaves and let remain for an hour. 2) Prepare a mixture of lime juice and vinegar. Massage thoroughly into scalp and hair. 3) If you have oily scalp wash your everyday and if you have dry scalp wash your hair 3 days in a week. 4) To reduce dandruff massages your scalp with coconut oil for 30 minutes at least 2 times in a week. 5) Consider your diet eat healthy and balance diet which include green vegetables and fresh fruit which provide a sufficient supply of nutrients. 6) Make a mixture of one cup ...

You can't wear your tight t-shirt or your favorite dress. Feel awkward when you stand in front of mirror. Tummy problem can be happen with both men and women. You have been missing your daily routine due to your busy schedule. You have definitely understood that quick weight loss is impossible. The best way to lose weight is slowly. Let's go to the easiest way to reduce your tummy fat. 1) Exercise: Exercises is the first priority, you can use some weight machines, gym equipment's which help to reduce tummy fat. Do jogging or cycling, jumping and dancing. 2) Yoga Exercise: Yoga is very beneficial bot only for your tummy even for all over the diseases or health problem. Pawanmukhtasana is help to reduce tummy fat. Paad-pashchimottanasan helps to reduce abdominal fat and wind from the intestines. 3) Heavy dieting is worst option to reduce your weight even this lead to lack of vitamins in your body. So, never skip your breakfast, Eat several meal instead of large meal...

What is Phobia? We all know that everyone has a fear and afraid, for most people these fears are minor and some time it become tremendous anxiety for your life. Phobia is one of those problems it is an irrational fear and fear can be from any type like fear of road travel, from specific situation, animals or from medical situations. A phobia is a kind of anxiety disorder, usually it evident between the ages of 15 and 20 years and affected both male and female. The good news for phobia is that it can be cure or managed. Some specific types of phobias are: Specific Phobia : Involve fear about specific situations, height, living creatures, places, specific objects or activities. Complex Phobia : Social phobia and agoraphobia are known as complex phobia. A fear of flying or a person may be afraid from crashing, loosing self control etc. Agoraphobia : A fear from the market places, open spaces, being alone at home, inescapable place or situation. Social Phobias : A person fee...

What is Acne? Acne is a common disease related to skin condition that causes zits or pimples. Anyone can get acne but it is most common in young, teenagers and adults. This includes blackheads, whiteheads and red inflamed patches of skin. Pimples occurs when your hair follicles under your skin or plugged with oil and dead skin cells. Mostly pimples appear on your face, back, chest, neck and shoulders. There are various types of pimples: Whiteheads: Looks very small and remain under the skin. Blackheads : They are clearly visible, black and appear on the surface of skin. Papules: They are usually pink, small bumps and visible on the surface of skin. Pustules: They are red and have pus at the top and visible on the surface of the skin. Cysts: They are painful and filled with pus. Nodules: They are large, painful and solid painful and clearly visible on the skin. Causes of Acne: Some causes are: Over production of oil can block your follicles and ...

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...

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 vag...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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  exerc...

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 spre...

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...

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 o...

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...

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...

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...

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...