For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
Peeling on your hands can be attributed to a variety of conditions depending on your symptoms. In some cases your symptoms can present with blisters, which go on to pop, causing your skin to peel. Other conditions are caused by irritants that can dry your skin, causing them to feel itchy then peel.
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Seeing skin peeling on your fingers can be alarming. If itching, burning or pain accompanies this symptom, it could be caused by an allergy or common skin condition like eczema. If the problem persists, a dermatologist can diagnose the condition and prescribe a treatment or medication.
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Itchiness limited to the face and neck typically reflects inflammation of the affected skin, which can be caused by a variety of conditions.
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White spots or blotches on your elbows can have a variety of causes. In fact, a white patch on the skin should not be a cause for alarm. In most cases, the blotches are likely mild eczema or a superficial yeast infection.
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Caffeine is a stimulant that occurs naturally in tea and cocoa and is added in generous amounts to many beverages for the sole purpose of providing bursts of energy and staving off fatigue. Researchers have been trying to understand the effects of caffeine for decades.
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Vitamin D is an essential nutrient that is stored in the liver and is responsible for calcium absorption. Chronically low vitamin D levels can lead to brittle bones in adults and children. Direct sunlight is crucial for natural vitamin D synthesis in the skin.
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Caffeine is one of the most popular psychoactive drugs in the word. The stimulant occurs naturally in coffee and tea and is added to energy drinks in generous amounts. Caffeine is also found in some over-the-counter pain medications.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent reports that an estimated 45 million Americans smoke tobacco. Smoking also happens to be one of the leading causes of preventable and premature death, according to the American Heart Association.
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The knee is made up of bone, cartilage, ligaments, muscles, tendons and joints. If any one of these structures are damaged or diseased, you can experience knee pain, difficulties walking and limited mobility. Arthritis, which affects about 9 million Americans, can wear away tissues in the knee, causing swelling.
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Pimples on your legs can dampen your enthusiasm for donning clothes that expose your otherwise gorgeous gams. Whether on your legs or elsewhere on your body, pimples arise from the hair follicles of the skin. In addition hair-producing cells, hair follicles contain skin oil from sebaceous glands that empty into them.
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When you talk about a limb falling asleep, typically, you’re referring to a sensation of tingling, numbness or burning caused by pressure that constricts your nerves for an extended period of time. This strain interferes with electromechanical impulses between your brain and the affected limb, causing discomfort.
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Stomach pain and discomfort are among the top reasons people seek emergency medical care. In fact, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey between the years 1999 to 2008 found that visits to the emergency room for abdominal pain increased nearly 32 percent.
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Everyone is born with an immune system. It consists of a team of cells, proteins, tissues and organs that fight off illness, germs and other invaders. When an unsafe substance enters the body, the immune system kicks into gear and attacks. In a baby's first few months, her immune system is not fully developed.
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Pain and swelling in your shoulders, arms and hands could be a symptom of a variety of conditions, including arthritis, a traumatic injury or an illness. Your doctor will make a diagnosis based on your gender, age and a more in-depth examination of your symptoms.
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The National Institutes of Health reports that alcoholism is a chronic disease with four essential features: an alcoholic will crave alcohol, he won’t be able to stop drinking, he’ll have physical withdrawal symptoms; he’ll need greater amounts of alcohol to get high.
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The body has two different kinds of sweat glands: eccrine glands, which cool the body with perspiration, and apocrine glands, which are triggered by emotional stimuli. Eccrine glands are found all over the body.
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Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps the body absorb calcium and enables healthy bone mineralization. Other important functions of the nutrient include staving off certain cancers and heart disease. Vitamin D also seems to have skin-soothing properties.
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A long list of conditions can cause arm pain, from a heart attack to a bug bite, carpal tunnel syndrome to an autoimmune disorder. Some conditions that affect completely different areas of the body can even cause arm pain.
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Minoxidil, the generic name for Rogaine, is a medication that was originally used in pill form for treating high blood pressure because of its ability to dilate, or widen, blood vessels. When used for this purpose, one of minoxidil’s side effects was noted to be excessive hair growth.
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Any kind of tobacco smoking is addictive and harmful. According to the National Cancer Institute, or NCI, cigar smoke contains thousands of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals. There is no safe level of cigar-smoke exposure to you and those affected by secondhand smoke.
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