For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Hair loss, or alopecia, can be a side effect of toxic chemicals and metals. Hair loss does not usually occur with acute poisoning, which can be lethal. But in cases of chronic poisoning, when the poison is taken in small doses over a long period of time, hair loss is a common symptom.
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MAOs, or monoamine oxidases, are enzymes that break down neurotransmitters and stop their messaging activity. MAO-A breaks down serotonin, epinephrine and norepinephrine; MAO-B deactivates dopamine.
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Xanax is the trade name for alprazolam, a benzodiazepine drug usually prescribed for anxiety disorders, panic disorders and mild depression. As with other psychoactive drugs, Xanax may cause dependence, and you can experience withdrawal when you stop using it.
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A miscarriage, also known medically as a spontaneous abortion, is the natural loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. Miscarriages occur for a range of reasons, including illness, infection, and hormonal or genetic abnormalities.
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An enlarged thyroid gland is called a goiter. If you have a goiter, you may experience symptoms, such as a noticeable swelling just below your Adam’s apple, a tightness in your throat, problems with swallowing and breathing, cough or hoarseness.
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Nasal polyps are small benign growths in your sinus cavities. They may develop if you’ve had chronically inflamed sinuses due to asthma, allergies, recurring infection or sinusitis. If they grow large enough, they may cause breathing difficulties and infections.
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Beta blockers are conventional drugs that block the stress hormones that trigger the “flight or fight” response. These hormones place demands on the heart muscles, nerves and blood vessels throughout your body and can contribute to disorders such as anxiety, hypertension, glaucoma, angina and cardiac arrhythmias.
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Metoprolol is a conventional drug prescribed for hypertension, angina, arrhythmia and heart failure as well as to prevent heart attacks. It relaxes blood vessels, slows your heart rate, improves circulation and lowers blood pressure.
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Your bladder muscle, also known as the detrusor muscle, relaxes when the bladder is storing urine, and contracts when it is expelling urine. If your bladder muscle cannot relax, you may have an overactive bladder and bladder control problems, like incontinence, which can be uncomfortable and embarrassing.
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that carries messages about cognition, pleasure, pain, movement, learning and sleep between nerve cells. People with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia and manic depression have too much dopamine in their brains.
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Uterine fibroid tumors are benign growths that develop on the muscle walls of your uterus. They can cause a lot of discomfort in the forms of excessive menstrual bleeding, pain in your pelvic area, and unusually long periods.
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Hemorrhoids, also known as piles, occur when the veins and tissues in your rectum and anus become swollen and inflamed. If you have hemorrhoids, you may experience pain, bleeding and itching around your anus.
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which is a chemical that carries messages between cells. It’s involved in regulating many everyday activities, including memory, sleep, mood, learning, movement and behavior.
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Uterine fibroids are benign muscle tumors that appear in premenopausal women. One of the symptoms of fibroids is heavy and prolonged menstrual bleeding. This is not only uncomfortable, but can lead to anemia if not treated. Herbs may help stop heavy menstrual bleeding naturally.
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Upper respiratory infections like bronchitis and pneumonia often produce a cough, which is the body’s attempt to clear the airways of mucus. Commercial cough expectorants thin mucus secretions and help remove them from the lungs, but they can have unpleasant side effects.
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A stroke is an interruption of the blood supply to your brain that results in the death of brain cells. You may experience symptoms like difficulty walking and speaking, numbness on one side of your body, headache and blurred vision.
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Staph infections occur when staphylococcus bacteria, which normally live on the skin or in the nose, get into the bloodstream and attack other organs, causing diseases like pneumonia, endocarditis, impetigo, blood poisoning, boils and toxic shock syndrome.
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