For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Acid reflux occurs when food and acid from the stomach flows up the esophagus. Normally, a circular sphincter muscle at the bottom of the esophagus opens to allow food into the stomach, and closes to prevent food and digestive acids from coming back up the esophagus.
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Exercise provides many health benefits. It boosts your cardiovascular and respiratory health, strengthens muscles, improves immunity and burns calories. Regular physical activity is also known to promote regular bowel movements, which can prevent hemorrhoids and even help them heal.
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Itchy, festering ears can result from eczema, a skin condition that affects infants, children and adults. Eczema of the ears can affect the ear lobe, skin covering the folds of the outer ear and the external auditory canal which is the tube through which sounds travel to reach the middle ear.
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Dry, inflamed, itchy scalp is a common condition in children and adults. Red blotches on the scalp may indicate several different disorders, including dermatitis, psoriasis, ringworm, folliculitis, head lice or dandruff, according to MayoClinic.com and Skinsight.com.
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Though they are often fodder for jokes, hemorrhoids are no laughing matter. They don’t pose a danger, but they are painful. For those who love to bike or who count on a bicycle as a means of transportation, hemorrhoids present a significant tactical problem.
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Kidney stones account for more than 650,000 emergency room treatments every year, according to the Urology Center of the Rockies. People develop different kinds of kidney stones because of hereditary, dietary and other factors. Apple juice can decrease the recurrence of brushite kidney stones.
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At some point in their life, most people experience acid reflux, more commonly known as heartburn. But for some, reflux is a common occurrence that causes significant discomfort. If chronic and untreated, reflux heightens your risk for more serious conditions, including Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal cancer.
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If you’re a coffee drinker, here’s one more of one of those “good-news/bad-news” situations that muddles your mind and drives you to straight to the coffee pot for another hit of joe.
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Most any food or compound you consume can elicit undesirable reactions. Fish oil provides a well-documented plethora of healthful benefits and is reputed to have few side effects.
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Fish oil provides many well-documented emotional, behavioral and physical health benefits. Unless you eat fish a couple of times a week, you probably don’t get enough omega-3 fatty acids. Fish oil restores the imbalance in omega-6 versus omega-3 fatty acids created by the typical Western diet.
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Living cells in your skin, called keratinocytes, produce a protective layer that provides flexible strength and keeps water and other external material out of your body. Keratinocytes provide this strength by producing a tough, triple-helix-shaped protein strand called keratin.
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A sheet of internal muscles called the diaphragm extends along the bottom of the rib cage and separates your chest from your stomach. The diaphragm participates in breathing, of course, but it also helps in the elimination of body waste and helps prevent stomach acid from backing up in your esophagus.
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Acne is a common skin condition that, according to WrongDiagnosis.com, affects almost 85 percent of people in the United States between the ages of 12 to 24. It is an inflammatory disease that is characterized by the appearance of varied lesions and blemishes on the skin.
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In most societies around the world, children sleep with their parents at least for the first several years of their life. Early anthropological studies found that in 90 percent of cultures, infants slept with their parents, and not in cradles or cribs, according to anthropologist Emmy Elizabeth Warner.
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An estimated 50 million Americans suffer from a chronic or recurrent ringing, roaring, whistling, hissing, clanging or shrieking sound in their ears, according to How Stuff Works.
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Gallstones affect 10 to 15 percent of Americans, and about 800,000 people a year have operations to remove their gallbladder because of gallstones, notes Gallstones.com. Gallstones are small stone-like substances made from bile pigment or cholesterol that has developed within the gallbladder.
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