Showing posts with label symptoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symptoms. Show all posts

9/07/2009

Scarlet Fever: Symptoms and treatment


• Characteristics:
It differs from the rest for various reasons, the main one is the only eruption of bacterial origin.

• How to develop:
A microorganism that causes it is called beta-hemolytic streptococcus is a normal inhabitant of skin and throat and produces pharyngitis. In some cases a sort of toxin that is distributed throughout the body and causes high fever with spots on the skin. The characteristic rash of scarlet fever is that it covers large areas. There is but only swollen glands in the neck and high fever.

• Treatment:
Being a bacterium, it is medical with antibiotics, but in reality does not change much medication changes because when the eruption occurs, the bacteria is already eliminated by the body itself.
It has now become a less common disease.

Rubella: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
It is also a rash illness.

• How to develop:
The incubation is two weeks on average before the onset of the rash. The contagious period is two days until the disappearance of the rash. What differentiates Measles Rubella is essentially accompanied by lymphadenopathy (swollen glands in the neck, armpits and groin). In addition, the rash may be itchy. In some cases it is difficult to differentiate measles rubella.

No mortality or complications, but women who have had this disease in childhood and become infected during pregnancy, the baby comes what is called congenital rubella syndrome, which has a wide range of severity. If this occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy may lead to death since fetal malformations. If it occurs during the last trimester of pregnancy, can cause strain on the hearing (deafness) in the eye (cataracts, mirooftalmía, blindness) or microcephaly. It is therefore very important that before scheduling a pregnancy, women do a test to detect antibodies in the blood and in case of lack of them, receive the vaccine. The disease itself can affect any age but is most common in childhood.

• Treatment:
consists only of antipyretics. The swollen glands last one week and then return to normal.

Measles: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
It is a rash illness caused by measles virus. It occurs most frequently in childhood and mainly affects children under one year. The disease is characterized by fever, headache, feeling ill, all symptoms common to all viral diseases, the second or third day the rash appears that in this case begins on the face and spreads to the trunk and then to the extremities. The spots are reddish, the size of a grain of rice.

It is characterized as enantemática, and also affects the mucous inside the mouth are a few small white dots are called Koplick spots. Another feature is the triple cold: no runny nose, eye irritation and laryngitis. It is a mild disease and has a mortality rate of 1 / 1000. Before the vaccine virus was escalating on a biennial basis. Every two years the number of cases grew. With vaccination cycle was lengthened to four or five years. When you increase the number of cases, mortality rises to one in 500, and even goes one every 100. This disease is most sensitive in under a year and among the adults they may have respiratory or neurological complications.

• How to develop:
The incubation period is two weeks prior also. The infection occurs two days before the spots appear on the skin and up to four or five days after the outbreak. After 7 days the rash clears and there's no sequel.

• Treatment:
is to control fever without neglecting bacterial complications that require antibiotics.

Chickenpox: Symptoms and Treatment


• Characteristics:
Can occur at any age, but the group most affected is children between 5 and 10 years, so that the scope of transmission is more conducive school. It is highly contagious, so if someone who has had chickenpox is near a patient is likely to be attacked by the varicella zoster virus. It spreads through contact with secretions from the skin but also affects and respiratory droplets of saliva that are expelled when habar can carry the virus.

While this condition does not reproduce the virus can remain in the body for the rest of life, housed in the nerve ganglia. It may happen that at the time when defenses are low is produced, which is a concentrated eruption somewhere in the body.

• How to develop:
The incubation period is about two weeks. The infection occurs from one day before appearing in the vesicles, until the same are covered with scabs, which is about 5 to 7 days after the eruption. The blisters usually appear on the trunk and spread to the extremities in a centrifugal movement. They do not appear all at once but must first fever peak and then an outbreak of blisters, the next day another peak of fever
and another outbreak of blisters and the next day the same. The cycle is characterized by a pink stain on it then displays the gallbladder. This then breaks down, the crust is covered with yellow or brown and when the scab falls is a scar that usually disappears with time.

• Treatment:
It is usually indicated none for chickenpox. There are antiviral drugs such as acyclovir that is active and inhibits virus replication, but as a harmless disease is not given any treatment. The only case that is of some seriousness is that of newborns or immunocompromised patients (patients with cancer or AIDS), who already have weakened immune systems.

More discomfort passes itching. In children must be careful with superinfection, because scratching, bacteria from the skin get into the small wound that is infected gallbladder and producing what is called impetigo. To relieve itching powders are used menthol and antipyretics to control fever peaks. In some cases it is necessary to administer some sort of anti-allergic, prescribed by the physician. Also the use of water d'alibur helps keep skin clean and prevent superinfection. Permanent hygiene is desirable, so that the bath itself is not contraindicated even if the problem can be occasioning injuries drying, because if you rub the skin with a towel break the blisters.

Aspirin should not be given in cases of chickenpox because it increases the risk of Reye syndrome, a neurological disease in which there is a commitment by the liver and consciousness. So it is convenient to control the fever with other medications.

9/03/2009

Vaginal Infections: Symptoms and treatment


Abundant secretions and odor and pain during sex, almost always betray the presence of an infection that requires medical attention. As vaginal infections may not be found in a routine gynecological visit is very important to know your symptoms and communicating with your doctor. An infection that is not more dangerous time of what is believed. For example, bacterial vaginosis is associated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy complications and possible postoperative infections, why is so important to detect early and treat it.

Infection: Bacterial vaginosis.
Symptoms: Flow scanty white or greyish and foul odor. Possible irritation and itching.
Treatment: The gynecologist prescribes specific remedies. Avoid self-medication because it can worsen the situation.

Infection: Fungal infections.
Symptoms: The fungus Candida invasion is the most common. The flow is similar to cottage cheese and often itch.
Treatment: Eating yogurt containing "lactobacillo acidophilus" can prevent the risk of future infections.

Infection: Trichomoniasis.
Symptoms: It is a parasite that is usually transmitted during sexual intercourse. It can cause itching and pain when urinating and during sex.
Treatment: It is best to early treatment involving the prescription of a drug, both women and their partners.

Infection: Herpes simplex virus.
Symptoms: Itching and stinging treble on the vulva and vagina.
Treatment: There is no permanent cure, but the prescription antiviral drugs can stop the outbreak.

Infection: Human papillomavirus.
Symptoms: vaginal warts can cause itching or burning during intercourse.
Treatment: Some types of papillomaviruses present a risk of developing cervical cancer, so it should be surgically removed.

8/31/2009

Symptoms of hair loss


Hair loss can affect each other as various genres can also take many different forms:

"Hair loss can affect the child, adult, male or female.

-Cover all or part of the scalp.

Hair loss can be isolated or accompanied by many signs:

-fatigue
-oily hair
"brittle hair
-fine hair
-films or crusts
-itch

These signs are important in determining the cause of hair loss and the factors that contribute to hair loss.

Conduct in hair loss cases:
Hair loss requires a doctor to determine the cause, you sometimes need a blood test to develop a treatment for hair loss.

6/23/2009

Symptoms of panic attacks

From a clinical point of view, to talk about panic attack, the individual must express fear or discomfort, accompanied by four or more of the physical sensations that we explain below. They start so suddenly and sharply, reaching its highest expression in the first ten minutes of attack. Once a person knows his problem, he suffers psychological characteristics presented here.

PHYSICAL SENSATIONS
• Palpitations.
• Sweating.
• Tremors or shaking.
• Feeling of choking.
• Tightness in the chest.
• Nausea or abdominal discomfort.
• Instability, dizziness or fainting.
Feeling of unreality (fiction) or be separated from oneself (depersonalization).
• Fear of losing control and going crazy.
• Fear of dying.
• tingling or numbness (paresthesia).
• Chills or hot flushes.

PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
• The person is afraid of suffering another attack of terror (fear of fear ").
• Leave aside the pleasant situations because you fear a new crisis.
• Stop off alone. The person seeking permanent containment.
• She was a tendency to seclusion and the patient becomes a true prisoner of fear.
• When you try to hide their problem from others, the person develops a social silence, which leads to further isolation and loneliness.
• You feel a deep guilt for suffering from this fear and involving the people we want in this nightmare.
• Depression occurs and attempt to end life.

2/03/2009

Treatment of pneumonia in children

In colder periods of winter, when colds and tonsil infections are on the agenda, not a few boys who become ill with pneumonia. The first symptom of this infection are serious chills. It produces a sudden rise in temperature (up to 39 or 40 °) and the child feels pain in the chest.

When you cough, which makes continuously expels a purulent sputum, sometimes tinged with blood. Other symptoms of pneumonia are loss of appetite, sweating abundant, and often weak pulse, gasping for air and headache.

Good prognosis. In general, any patient with pneumonia should be considered as serious or potentially serious. Small with acute symptoms, infants and chronically ill should be placed, at least during the first five days of the process.

The other kids can be cured at home with a strict medical supervision. Must stay home between 10 and 15 days, and drink plenty of fluids. But if parents follow the doctor's instructions on diet and hygiene measures, relief will soon make act of presence.

11/27/2008

Stye - Symptoms and treatment

A stye is a painful inflammation, such as a grain of pus, whose origin is infection from the base of the lashes. You can engage the upper eyelid or lower, and usually evolves spontaneously according to a very rapid cycle of no more than 48 hours.
On some occasions, the picture is a little more complex, since it forms a tip of pus with intense pain. Where is the eyelid, may catch the eye while reaching almost closed. Anyway, not in any danger and can be treated at home without difficulty.

SYMPTOMS
• The eyelid becomes red coloration is swollen and hurts a lot.

• Inflammatory Process, the appearance of a tip with or without pus with an inflamed base.

Treatment
• Prepare a chamomile tea with warm water, soak a cotton and makes encouraging local press gently on the affected area. Perform this exercise for five minutes and Repeat several times a day.

• When action by the heat can leave the pus remove gently with cotton soaked in hot water.

• If the infection does not improve after the fourth day, presents eye (conjunctivitis) or the red eye and eyelid, please consult your doctor.

10/17/2008

The 8 most common symptoms of karma

These are the problems of origin karmic more common.

1. Irrational fears or phobias, whose origin can not be explained by any event in modern life.

2. Feelings of guilt permanent excess of consideration for the sensitivities of others, deferring their own desires for the benefit of the wishes of the other.

3. Sexual problems or repeated sexual fantasies that seem inexplicable. In the fantasies themselves are not a problem, but they are all too real and disrupt their relationship, can be treated in a karmic memories.

4. Prejudices that seem illogical or even irrational within the framework of morality prevailing at present.

5. Labor problems by an inability to adapt to technological advances and how to work.

6. Problems of identity. Doubts about who really is one. Feeling that one is an impostor.

7. Hypochondria and fear of death that can not be explained by experience of life today. The recall, albeit vaguely, that one dies in another time, it may be the cause of a neurosis of karmic origin. The manner of death is crucial to pass a variety of phobias (fear of fire, vertigo, claustrophobia, fear of water, etc.)..

8. Difficult relations, without explanation. Many of the important relationships of this life have been brought in previous lives. The subjects of such relationships kármicas typically family members, friends, lovers, colleagues and even pets. The most probable is that they must resolve a situation with every last one of them. Those links are bidirectional. These are mutual agreements in which two individuals at a time.

10/06/2008

How to lower fever - Treatment

When the temperature rises
During childhood, the situation is repeated often: the child has his face flushed, and is off more heated than usual. He puts the thermometer and has a fever.

How to act?
One of the most frequent causes of the increase in body temperature is the infectious diseases (respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary ...) usually produced by viruses. But it also tends to appear before a fever when there is excessive heat or dehydration. While it is not usual, it is sometimes a symptom of other more serious disorders, so we must never stop investigating their origin.

¿Combat, or wait?
Some pediatricians prefer no system for treating fever. They are convinced that it increases the body's defense capabilities against infectious diseases. Others, by contrast, are not in favor of keeping it so uncomfortable it is. The proper attitude is to treat it wherever high (over 38 ° C), the patient is upset, disoriented or have ever suffered convulsions of fever.

Action on two fronts.
Two types of measures to help lower it. On the one hand, it will ensure that the room temperature comfortable, that the child does not have an excessive amount of clothing and drink plenty of fluids. When the fever is not very high, it will cool further compresses the body through warm water. If it is high, it will be more effective to introduce a child in a bath of warm water, two or three degrees lower than your body temperature.

Antitérmicos.
The drugs are another possibility. Each child responds better to one another, and agrees not to use two different exceed the dose. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a good antitérmico, but is not indicated when there is vomiting or gastrointestinal discomfort. Nor should it be used if the little sick of flu or chickenpox, because it could encourage the emergence of Reye's syndrome, a serious disease, though rare.

Children are generally very well tolerated commercial preparations of paracetamol, but can be given if there is any injury to the liver. Both these medicines such as aspirin should not be taken at intervals of less than four hours.

Whenever there is a fever it is necessary to diagnose the cause. This is easy when you see other symptoms, but if not it is necessary to use analysis and X-rays.

10/02/2008

Aspirin: a reign of more than 100 years

It was in the nineteenth century was born when this medicine. Its inventor, a German chemist and pharmacist named Felix Hoffman, came to him after a series of investigations aimed at finding something to calm the pain of his father, who was suffering from rheumatism. Thus, in 1897, arrived at the famous acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
However, when taken one, we must remember that:

■ It should do so in the midst of a meal. Thus, it is less aggressive to the stomach. Otherwise, it may appeal to those pharmaceutical formulations that contain protective stomach.

■ For oral route may be chosen in different forms (powder, effervescent, chewing ...) Its effects vary depending on the dose: in the adult, 1 gram
daily acts against the pain of medium intensity. Between 1 and 2 g combat fever, and between 3 and 3.5 g has an anti-inflammatory action and medicines. (These doses must be taken under strict medical supervision).

■ Some of the symptoms presented by the overdose of this drug are redness of the ears, visual, vomiting, dizziness ... Aspirin poisoning is especially dangerous in infants and young children.

■ Aspirin should not be affordable for the kids. Especially because the infant formula are sugary and they can be mistaken for a snack.

■ The effervescent formulas have less risk of poisoning, given that one of its components is the salt. However, when there are kids at home, we must also save them locked up.

10/01/2008

The growth can cause discomfort?

Between six and nine, children often have pains in the legs for no apparent reason. They often held responsible "estirón."

Some pediatricians may refuse to grow up hurt. But the truth is that, in most cases, after examining the child, can not find a cause that justifies it. The odd thing is these strange pains that do not occur when the child plays or runs, but at night, while resting.

Nor causing redness or swelling, and if you touch the parties concerned that the child does not feel it hurt more. Once the doctor has ruled out that these pains are symptoms of rheumatic fever, a problem hip or other diseases, we can be reassured: disappear as they arrived.

How to prevent child sinusitis?

Irritant cough at night, nasal obstruction and a tendency to get many colds are the most common symptoms of inflammation of the sinuses in children.

The most prone to sinusitis are those who have some small disorder of the upper respiratory tract: deviation of the nasal septum, polyp of the nasal mucosa, hypertrophy of the adenoids, allergic rhinitis ..., all these processes that encourage repetitive colds.

Is not chronic
During childhood, the sinusitis are more larvae into adulthood, and rarely come to chronic or complicated by an infection (sinusitis suppurated). The latter cause headache, fever and a runny nose or nostril of a greenish-yellow exudate, symptoms similar to those of adults.

The diagnosis is made by radiogafía, and treatment must be provided by an otolaryngologist. If there is a hypertrophy of adenoids, it is imperative to remove after six years.

Attacking time
It is not difficult to prevent the child suffering from sinusitis again. Often it's enough to clean the nasal passages with saline solution when acatarrado, and remind you to blow often. A child with sinusitis should not dive.

9/25/2008

Allergy or irritation to the eyes?

Many children complain of itching, tearing or discomfort in your eyes. Faced with these symptoms vague and unspecific, very often their papas not resist the temptation to administer drops.

Usually the relief is spectacular and the symptoms disappear. But this solution is not as simple as it sounds, since many eye drops containing corticoldes and can exacerbate a viral infection corneana or cause glaucoma; also trigger an infectious process more complicated.

It is for this reason that you never have to use eye-drops in an indiscriminate manner, at least not without first consulting with the pediatrician or ophthalmologist if the picture is complicated.
Meanwhile, and until able to consult with your pediatrician, you can use the eye with bathrooms shared tea or chamomile tea, which is an excellent anti-inflammatory and nonallergenic.

9/22/2008

Detect symptoms of alopecia

The word means alopecia hair loss learned. Without a doubt, has preoccupied in all cultures and civilizations by their attributes of power and virility in men, and beautiful women. Today, in our culture, the social and professional relationships is also considered a very precious right.

However, we can not forget that alopecia means loss of hair and gained no more than a sign that "something is happening." It is not a disease, is a symptom of either the accelerated development and early diagnosis of a physiological process (common baldness) or an internal.

Thus, detection of alopecia deserves the special attention of a dermatologist.
By hair loss can be discovered diseases as serious as lupus erythematosus, or infectious (syphilis), and even your moral (lymphomas,
metastasis).

The dermatologist is able to discover what is behind the disease symptom, and to distinguish two main types of alopecia: the scar (permanent damage of the hair follicle, which is irreparable, but you can try a surgical solution) and no scarring (damage temporary repair). In the latter case, they can stop its progression (common baldness) or cured (alopecia areata), though not always guaranteed.

All data and appreciates the deck dermatologist taking into account the character and history of the patient and their family history. And we have a wide range of products, with new drugs under study that portend a very promising future.

9/10/2008

Symptoms of diabetes

What are your symptoms and how it is diagnosed
The most common symptoms of diabetes include excessive thirst, increased frequency of urination or impulse to urinate (especially at night), weight loss and blurred vision. If your presentation at least two of these symptoms, it is very important that as soon as possible acudir to consult your doctor so you can make the necessary evidence and discard or confirm the diagnosis, whatever the case.

A test that is performed to diagnose diabetes is known as "test glucose tolerance", and consists of chipping with a lancet the thumb or index of the person to be fasting, to review their blood sugar levels in the blood test before food. In healthy people, these levels should be less than 100 milligrams of glucose in a deciliter of blood.

Takes enough vitamin E
Recent studies have found lower concentrations of vitamin E in patients with diabetes than in healthy subjects completely. A new study conducted by the school of medicine at the University of Naples, said that taking daily supplements of the vitamin may improve the action of insulin in diabetes patients and in healthy men. Corn oil, wheat germ and nuts are rich sources of vitamin E.

Subsequently, it gives the person to swallow a drink containing 75 grams of glucose, it becomes to take another blood sample an hour, and then, within two hours. If the new person does not exceed 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood in the first hour, and 150 milligrams in the second, then is considered a normal state of health.

A diagnosis of diabetes must be confirmed positive, if at least two of three readings are abnormal.
If only one reading is abnormal, then it is possible that there is some sort of impaired glucose tolerance without this mean you want to be diabetes. But nevertheless, this implies that the person tends to introduce diabetes in the future and therefore it is advisable to begin to take care of now.
Another consideration that may make your doctor is the urine, which notes the possible presence of sugar in it.

If you have questions or want to know where to turn in the event that these symptoms above, it is more advisable to consult a doctor or endocrinologist, a nutriólogo, which can tell what to do in the event that your diagnosis proves positive.

Although diabetes can not prevent as such because there is a genetic predisposition to the disease, there are measures in the lifestyle of people who can reduce the risk of that disease. A balanced diet that contains few children from sugars (candy, cakes, ice cream, soft drinks, etc..), High in fiber (whole grains, fruits and vegetables), water and practice of physical activity throughout life, are factors that alone helps to have normal levels of blood sugar.

Anabolic steroids - Benefits and side effects

Its advantages
The anabolic steroids have been used successfully in the medical world to treat different types of injuries and illnesses, but all reports made so far indicate that the only benefits in healthy people are increasing muscle size and strength and physical endurance to train longer. But there is no evidence that any of these benefits can endure for long.

Disadvantages
(side effects)
Physical.
If the use of hormones does not cause side effects, would be allowed to use all the athletes. The rules that prohibit the use of male hormones are basically designated to protect the physical and mental health of athletes.

Excessive doses can cause, among other things, cancer, hepatitis, risk of heart attacks and direct damage to the same muscle as well as increased cholesterol levels in the blood, stimulate the production of cancer cells, causing the body stops production of testosterone, which in turn would cause severe effects on libido and sexual functions.

Some of the most notorious are the increase in body and facial hair, increased sebaceous secretions (oily skin), acne and priapism (persistent and painful erections). The frequent users also may experience cramps and spasms associated with rapid changes in their muscle mass.

Ordinarily, when used oral steroids, can suffer from gastrointestinal problems, including loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and bowel irritation. When steroids are introduced into the body, a portion of the male hormone becomes the female hormone (estrogen), it can get to develop the bust in men.

Since the beginning of their use, can have headaches, bleeding from the nose, fatigue, weakness and fainting. In youngest users can cause cessation of bone development, which affects their growth, and further intensify even more the appearance of acne.

As if all this were not enough, a recent report indicates that excessive testosterone can cause the growth of prostate and block the flow of urine. It has also been seen in both men and women cause temporary infertility.

Psychological. Steroids, on the other hand, largely affecting the central nervous system and, indeed, psychological symptoms can be even more palpable that the biological at 70 per cent of cases are the first to appear.

Many consumers say they feel very well during the period using steroids, but studies say the opposite has been found that those who have used changing moods, showing aggression, violence, depression (especially when there is a dependency steroids), paranoia, extreme irritability without apparent cause, disappointment and sense of invincibility.

Steroids also increase the level of cortisol, a hormone the body, which is largely the cause of stress. This can cause neurological problems and hypertension. A study conducted by Harvard University, concluded that one eighth of the users of anabolic steroids suffered from the so-called "body-of Psychosis," which includes symptoms of hallucinations and paranoia.

The anabolic steroids as all types of drugs, have advantages and disadvantages; unfortunately, the latter are higher. At first, steroids were classified as miracle drugs.

A large number of athletes took their use to view their surprising results, why is that they have been awarded their jobs. However, increasingly people are within their influence, making the drug not only covering the sports world, but also in many developed countries is a fashion in gyms and even in schools and universities.

The psychological and medical communities around the world continue to study how beneficial and harmful are, and are increasingly being uncovered negative effects that positive.

8/18/2008

Symptoms sopechar for a spell

You should not let fears and auto seizes you and see where there is no danger, but you know it is desirable to distinguish some of the symptoms of the curse. When things begin to emerge irredeemably evil and everything seems to conspire against you, analyzes the circumstances with objectivity and realism to find out if your ills come from the damage you want a third party.

If your partner relationship is good and you have an open dialogue, if the bad streak that cross product is not something obvious, the routine of living together, etc.. And if your love remains strong and safe, you should consider other possibilities. It is likely that someone is sending negative energy into your home.

Think about what is happening and looking for clues among these: headaches, stomach or sudden attacks of insomnia, both you and your partner; discussions absurd, ill humors, failures at work and at the project level , Domestic accidents and problems in sexual intercourse and marriage. These setbacks can give you the track to see if indeed someone is doing harm.

8/07/2008

How hypnotizing it by simply one person?

With a little practice you can reach hypnotizing it by simply being hypnotized or yourself. You must take into account several factors before choosing the method they employ.

The first thing is to have a room comfortable, enjoyable, without objects that distract attention, without noise or annoying temperatures. It is recommended that is illuminated by a dim light and the colors are soft.

The subject to hypnotizing it by simply must lie down on a comfortable sofa, with arms and legs stretched out parallel to the body. There are two positions that can also assert: sitting in an armchair, with limbs supported in soil and armrest and head slightly tilted on the back or head pitch forward and hands on the thighs.

The essential thing is to be completely relaxed and this must be feeling very comfortable. We propose three simple symptoms.