For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Your pectoral muscles are the large muscles in your chest, spanning from just below your collar bone down through your top six ribs. You use your pectoral muscles when you flex your shoulders and raise your arms over your head, such as when you apply underarm deodorant.
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The pasty, parched feeling of a dry mouth is annoying, particularly when you are running and need every drop of moisture you can get to keep from feeling overheated. A dry mouth, which is also called xerostomia, is usually a sign of other problems or a side effect of medications.
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Pinched nerve syndrome is when nerves in a certain area of your body, most often your neck or back, are being compressed. Bone conditions such as arthritis or disk problems can contribute to pinched nerves. You may feel pain, tingling or numbness in your legs or arms if you've got a pinched nerve.
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Medical conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can all cause your lungs' airways to become inflamed and make it difficult for you to breathe.
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Glaucoma is an eye disease that can lead to permanent loss of vision if the condition is not treated. Pressure within the eye, called intraocular pressure, increases and can hamper normal drainage of eye fluids. Both of these factors can cause the optic nerve to become damaged.
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Crest Whitestrips is a type of tooth whitening product. A strip of flexible material is coated on one side with a peroxide-based gel that bleaches dark stains on your teeth.
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Everyone's bowel habits, including the frequency, shape and color of movements, are different. When your bowel movements suddenly change to a very dark color, you might become alarmed. Color changes can indicate health problems, but think first about your diet. A number of foods can turn bowel movements dark.
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People generally wear perfume and use scented toiletries to impart a clean, fresh, sometimes sexy scent as they pass through a room. If you have perfume allergies, the lingering fragrance in the air or on your skin can cause a plethora of unpleasant symptoms.
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Bone marrow is a soft spongy material that is located inside of the bones. Bone marrow is necessary for the transition that stem cells make to become one of the types of blood cells (red blood cells, platelets or white blood cells).
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A hip replacement is major surgery in which your eroded or otherwise damaged hip joint is replaced with a synthetic ball and socket. Arthritis is a common cause for hip damage that leads to total joint replacement. Walking after a hip replacement is painful and difficult at first, but will get easier as you recover.
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Foot pain can be tough to resolve because most people are always on their feet. Your big toe, the largest of your foot's digits, sustains much of the pressure you put on your foot when you walk. Pain that is located in, around and under your big toe can be severe and seemingly never-ending.
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Stomach pain, cramps, gas, bloating and diarrhea that occurs after you have eaten dairy products might indicate that you have lactose intolerance. Simply put: Your body is not able to digest milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy foods.
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Your child's stuffy nose and mild cough can travel downwards through the respiratory system and transform into a chest cold in no time. The congestion and breathing difficulties that are often symptoms of a chest cold might be scary, but in most cases are manageable at home.
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An endocrinologist is a medical doctor that specializes in the area of studying the endocrine system--the system of glands in your body and associated hormones that the glands produce.
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When hair follicles become red, itchy and infected, folliculitis is the probable cause. Folliculitis can result from shaving, friction between the skin and clothing, excessive sweating or infected cuts or wounds.
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Stretch marks are called as such because they develop when your skin has stretched significantly in a short period of time. Common reasons for developing stretch marks are pregnancy, rapid weight gain and steroid usage.
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A bed bug is a brown insect that measures less than 1/2 inch long even as an adult. The insect does not have wings and likes to burrow in dark places, such as in bedding, in cracks in the wall, and behind peeling or loose paint and wallpaper in the wall.
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Wetting the bed at night is a type of urinary incontinence called nocturnal enuresis. One of the causes of nocturnal enuresis is drinking fluids at night. Adjusting your bathroom habits and beverage choices can help you stop wetting the bed at night, even when you enjoy a nightly beverage.
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Croup, the common cold and chronic asthma are among the childhood illnesses and medical conditions that can cause your little one to develop labored breathing.
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A man's mustache grows just like scalp hair--from hair follicles situated in your skin. Some men grow a mustache that's thick and full, while others' are sparse and thin, just like the variations of scalp hair from one person to the next.
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