For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Feeling your heart palpitate can be a frightening experience. If your heart begins to palpitate after you've eaten a food that contains gluten, you may be having an allergic reaction to the gluten. Unlike mild allergy symptoms, heart palpitations are a sign of a serious complication called anaphylaxis.
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Stomach viruses that cause vomiting and diarrhea, also called gastroenteritis, are among the most unpleasant facts of life for both adults and children. These illnesses are typically short in duration but produce intense symptoms.
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From time to time, you may experience a period that comes late or early. This is perfectly normal and most women will experience this due to stress, changes in hormone levels or after pregnancy. The period can also come early due to dieting or rapid weight loss.
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Acne is one of the most common skin conditions in existence, affecting millions of individuals worldwide, reports a 2009 paper published in "Dermato-endocrinology."
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The gallbladder serves mostly as a storage unit for bile, which is released from the liver to digest fats so they can be absorbed. During gallbladder surgery, your surgeon removes the gallbladder, usually because it has filled with gallstones.
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When you think about food allergies, shoulder and knee joint pain is not a symptom that typically comes to mind. For people who suffer from arthritis or other inflammatory joint conditions, food allergies can cause a flare-up of pain caused by inflammation.
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Discover effective and affordable home remedies to cure heartburn fast, including baking soda, apple cider vinegar, and organic honey. Learn how to get rid of heartburn naturally with these easy steps.
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Your body’s overproduction of a shiny substance called sebum is the most common reason for oily skin on your forehead. While an oily forehead often causes self-esteem issues and discomfort, you can take several steps to relieve the condition and restore a healthy appearance to your skin.
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Many people are drawn to the idea of hanging upside down to relieve back pain or improve posture, which it can. Always, however, ease into hanging upside down. Use an inversion table, which allows you to control the degree to which you invert.
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Caffeine and sleeping pills remain some of the most popular supplements taken on a daily basis. Although they are helpful in the short-term, these supplements create a never-ending cycle of stimulation and drowsiness that move you ever further from a good night’s sleep.
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Dextrose is a common name for the ubiquitous sugar molecule, glucose. In nature, dextrose is exceedingly common. Starch, as in rice and potatoes, is made up of long chains of dextrose, while table sugar contains dextrose chemically bonded to fructose, another sugar molecule.
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The human body has hundreds of bursa located between the bones and soft tissue, like tendons, muscles or ligaments. These small, fluid-filled, slippery sacs are responsible for reducing friction between the soft tissue and bones in the elbows, knees, hips, shoulders and ankles.
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Epilepsy is a neurological disease stemming from a deregulation of brain signaling. Nerve cells within the brain, called neurons, commonly communicate with each other through cell junctions called synapses.
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Seroquel is the brand name of a drug known as quetiapine. This drug is used to treat psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Because Seroquel changes the way chemicals in the brain work, it can have a number of side effects.
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There are many physical alterations during the teenage years as prepubescent girls and boys reach maturity. Typical body changes include new hair growth and pimple outbreaks. Some teenagers have a less common change. They suddenly notice clear spots or lines floating across their visual fields.
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Located in the very back of the mouth, wisdom teeth are the last to erupt and usually appear anytime from your late teens to mid-twenties. People normally have four wisdom teeth, according to the Better Health Channel, with one tooth on the top and bottom of each side of the mouth.
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There are numerous diseases that affect the tailbone. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health or NIH, the tailbone, also known as the coccyx, is a small bone located under the sacrum at the bottom of the spine.
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A yeast infection is caused by the imbalance of naturally occurring yeast in the vaginal canal. The symptoms of the infection include increased itching and irritation, odor as well as redness around the vagina.
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Chest pain, with or without burping, can be caused by many factors, ranging from indigestion or a pulled muscle to serious events like cardiac arrest.
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Moles can be an unsightly nuisance, possibly posing health risks when they are misshapen and oddly colored. Normal moles are rounded and have a brown or black color; sometimes they are raised from the skin. Most remedies include surgical and laser procedures to remove the mole.
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