In the fall of 2003, Bridget Beranek, a 44-year-old wife and mother of two young girls, was gearing up for a busy holiday season filled with family functions, parties and shopping. So when she began to lose her appetite and energy, Bridget initially chalked it up to holiday stress.When the New Year came and went, but Bridget's symptoms were still present, she knew it was more than stress. After several visits to her primary care physician,...more
Heartburn is that bothersome burning feeling you sometimes get within the middle of your chest after eating. Heartburn, for some people, occurs regularly, but for others is an occasional problem. Heartburn is not really associated with the heart, but rather a condition of the digestive system. Most of the time heartburn can be easily treated or prevented.The cause of heartburn is once stomach acid aggravates the lower esophagus. This happens...more
Cancer seems to touch many lives. When a diagnosis is given to a patient and family it very often rocks their world. Life makes a dramatic change, and includes new people, experiences and expenses. This is not an easy time, and only immediate needs and attention are what close family members can muster.What do we need to do tomorrow? What will happen if the news gets worse? What will happen after the next test? The number of decisions and tasks cancer families need to address push out regular life and they are lost in a myopic view of the present.We have seen family members go hungry and forgo sleep as they keep pace with the hectic treatment schedule. When those closest to the patient are trapped in this vortex of the here and now an extended network of family, friends, and neighbors seem to step in. Quiet hands come and clean the house, mow the lawn, tend children and bring in meals for the family. This network is not asking "How can I help?" They are asking, "Where do I put the clothes, now that I have them washed and folded?" or "Where do you store the vacuum? "There are sometimes no questions at all, just a fresh loaf of bread on the door step, and a yard all mowed...more
Do you know that 'bed sore' can be a fatal disease? If you do not treat ulcer in its early stages, then it can be really painful and cause death as well. Or, you may suffer from skin disorders, infections and hazardous diseases like ulcers as well. Pressure ulcers are also known as pressure ulcers, pressure ulcers, pressure sores or...more
This is advised as one of the affliction dry derma disorders anyone could ache from. It's absolutely difficult to amusement and actual abundant simple to aggravate. If you accept dermatitis, locations of your derma are abnormally dry and inflamed. These affronted locations as well tend to could cause a lot of discomfort. What makes it worse is...more
We live in a new world now; we already have the luxury of making and doing things easier - from communication, entertainment and most importantly medicine. From the old age slicing and dicing of doctors, they can now use modern technology to treat us - because the more new things that have been created for our convenience the more our problems - especially the physical ones - would manifest. As we grow older, a lot of things in our life would change. One would be stress. Because of work, and the countless deadlines that we face, we tend to become tired and not to mention we'll be out of focus with the others things that we do - because like it or not, work isn't the only thing we do. Also, aside from work related stress, we have grown up or if you want it to sound more dramatic, we've come to age. And with the coming of age - comes also a number of things. Aside from good things, we also get the not so very good ones too. Like for example, our skin would no longer have the fresh look anymore, it has already sagged and not to mention a lot of lines would appear and the inevitable, the dark under eye circles. You'd look for ways to get to know...more
Asbestos is a mineral that can be found within nature in six different natural formations. The structure of asbestos can be disoriented into fibres. Asbestos fibres are long, thin and crystalline. They were considered as miracle fibbers...more
Respiratory disorders can accomplish you ache from coughing, wheezing, and conciseness of animation that may access with concrete activity, including tasks at work. For instance, you may be unable to allocution to barter on the buzz if you are in...more
Alcohol amercement your alarmist beef by overloading them with work. If that happens fat accumulates central them because they can't handle demography affliction of both fat and booze (fatty liver, or steatosis stage). As added fat accumulates,...more
You may have heard the word candida being thrown around but don't really understand how debilitating it can be and just how it can affect peoples lives. So, what is Candida? It's actually a yeast that lives quite happily in...more
Kala azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis) is a deadly disease caused by the parasitic protozoa Leishmania donovani and transmitted to humans by the bite of infected female sand fly, Phlebotomus argentipes. The amastigote form of the parasite...more
One interesting study is called, Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis by D. A. Schwartz, J. R. Galvin, C. S. Dayton, W. Stanford, J. A. Merchant and G. W. Hunninghake - Department of Internal Medicine,...more