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Most poisonings occur when parents or caregivers are home but not paying attention. The most dangerous potential poisons are medicines, cleaning products, antifreeze, windshield wiper fluid, pesticides, furniture polish, gasoline, kerosene and lamp oil
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Alternative Medicine
Epilepsy is a recurrent seizure disorder caused by abnormal electrical discharges from brain cells, often in the cerebral cortex. It is not a distinct disease, it is a group of disorders for which recurrent seizures are the main symptom
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Alternative Medicine
Syphilis is caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum. A spirochete is a thin spiral- or coil-shaped bacterium that enters the body through the mucous membranes or breaks in the skin. In 90% of cases, the spirochete is transmitted by sexual contact
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Health & Fitness
A toothache, also known as odontalgia or, less frequently, as odontalgy, is an aching pain in or around a tooth. In most cases toothaches are caused by problems in the tooth or jaw, such as cavities
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Dental
Uterine fibroids: Uterine fibroids are benign tumors of the uterus (the womb) and the single most common indication for hysterectomy.
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Alternative Medicine
The appearance of cellulite is called orange peel or cottage cheese because of the dimpled effect it has on the skin. But what is it exactly? Cellulite refers to fibrous tissue and subcutaneous fat that causes these dimples in the skin
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Health & Fitness
Whiplash is a relatively common injury that occurs to a person's neck following a sudden acceleration-deceleration force, most commonly from motor vehicle accidents. The term "whiplash" was first used in 1928
Posted: 2008-07-11
Category: Health & Fitness
Alopecia areata (AA) is a non-scarring, inflammatory, hair loss disease that is seen in men, women and children. This condition is commonly manifested by patchy areas of hair loss on the scalp and other body areas. In severe cases, alopecia areata can progress to complete loss of all body hair
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Hair Loss
Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix. Once it starts, there is no effective medical therapy, so appendicitis is considered a medical emergency. When treated promptly, most patients recover without difficulty
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Health & Fitness
Urticaria, commonly referred to as hives, is the most frequent dermatologic disorder seen in the ED. It appears as raised, well-circumscribed areas of erythema and edema involving the dermis and epidermis that are very pruritic. Urticaria may be acute (lasting less than 6 wk) or chronic (lasting more than 6 wk)
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Alternative Medicine
Gastroenteritis refers to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, involving both the stomach and the small intestine and resulting in acute diarrhea. The inflammation is caused most often by infection with certain viruses, less often by bacteria or their toxins
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Alternative Medicine
Neem is a fast-growing tree that can reach a height of 15-20 m (about 50-65 feet), rarely to 35-40 m (115-131 ft.). It is evergreen but under severe drought it may shed most or nearly all of its leaves. The branches are wide spread
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Health & Fitness
As head of one of India's most venerated family businesses, Tata, 69, has unique stature. The Tata Group, which is one of India's largest conglomerates, includes India's largest software house, one of its most prestigious hotel chains (the Taj)
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Entrepreneurs
Did you know that about twelve million Americans have one tattoo! A tattoo is a design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment. The design is made on the skin with a temporary dye such as henna or ink
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Arts & Entertainment
A rash is a general term for a change in the color, or texture of area of your skin. Rashes can have a number of causes, including allergies, irritants, or illness. To help determine the cause of the rash, your health care provider will look at the rash
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Health & Fitness
An umbilical hernia is a protrusion of the gut under the skin of the navel. There are two very different forms in children and adults. In children, there is a hole between the muscle layers of the abdomen
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Health & Fitness
Vegetarian diet could enable arthritis patients to protect themselves against heart attacks and strokes, a research has suggested. Rheumatoid arthritis can afflict people of any age, being more common in women than men
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Nutrition
Arthritis is basically a medical condition in which an individual suffers from joints pain. It is caused by damage to the joints and has become quite widespread in the present day world. Many people above 55 years of age are suffering from arthritis today
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Alternative Medicine
The very first pregnancy in a woman’s life brings various fears to the mind, but the thought of that cute infant, safe in momma’s tummy, vanishes all qualms. And feeling those first movements, made by the tiny creature within, is a great marker of pregnancy
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Women's Issues
Though all babies may seem just the same at their birth, they do have different personality traits. These personality attributes of a child roughly determine his nature, character and approach, after he grows
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Babies
Store shelves are overflowing with mints, mouthwashes and other products designed to help people combat and prevent bad breath. Yet these products help control bad breath (halitosis) only temporarily.
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Health & Fitness
Ectopic pregnancy is not a normal pregnancy. In normal pregnancy, the sperms reach the egg in the fallopian tube, where fertilization occurs and then, this fertilized egg travels on to reach the uterus and implants itself there to complete the gestation period
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Women's Issues
All of us are aware of the word �stress� and even have a personal view of what it actually is. For employed people, it means work overload, deadlines and pressures. For school going kids, it means having to cover too much syllabus, in too less time
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Stress
Looking good is one of the prerequisites of feeling good and vice versa. However, many-a-times, enhancing your outer appearance can also make you feel good on the inside too. Loitering in the house, looking extremely shabby, is hardly going to do anything to lift up your spirits
Posted: 2008-07-09
Category: Beauty
Black mambas are one of Africa’s most dangerous and feared snakes. Nothing is truer when you are standing in front of big black mamba hissing loudly, mouth gaping, striking rapidly in your direction. But are all the frightening stories about black mambas true? I don’t think so
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Pets
The Bugatti Veyron is a car built around an engine. Essentially, Bugatti made the decision to blow the doors off the supercar world by creating a 1,000-horsepower engine. Everything else follows from that resolution.
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Cars
Dehydration (hypohydration) is the removal of water (hydro in ancient Greek) from an object. In Physiologic terms, it entails a relative deficiency of water molecules in relation to other dissolved solutes
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Dizziness is one area where doctors and patients fail to see eye to eye. People are seen by multiple specialists and end up with different opinions. You may have the impression that no one is listening to or cares about your problem. After a while you wonder if you're imagining things
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
A drug allergy is a faulty immune system reaction to a drug. It's typically the same process that occurs when people have allergic reactions to pollen, insect venom, animal dander or peanuts
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Ear problems are often caused by an infection. However, other conditions may also cause ear pain or discomfort. Follow this chart for more information about ear problems.
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating foods that have harmful organisms in them. These harmful germs can include bacteria, parasites, and viruses. They are mostly found in raw meat, chicken, fish, and eggs, but can spread to any type of food
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
The gradual hearing loss that occurs as you age (presbycusis) is a common condition. An estimated one-quarter of Americans between the ages of 65 and 75 and around three-quarters of those older than 75 have some degree of hearing loss.
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
Pneumonia can be an extremely serious condition. In the very old, the very young, or people with compromised immune systems, it can be deadly. In an otherwise healthy person pneumonia is less serious
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that causes skin cells to grow too quickly. In psoriasis, patches of red, thickened skin with silvery scales develop, usually on the elbows, knees, scalp, and trunk. These areas can be itchy and painful
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Earthworms, considered to be farmers’ friends, can do oodles of good to your small kitchen or flower garden too. They consume dead organic matter and convert it into rich humus, aiding growth of healthy plants
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Environmental
Hypothermia describes a state in which the body’s mechanism for temperature regulation is overwhelmed in the face of a cold stressor. Hypothermia is classified as accidental or intentional, primary or secondary, and by the degree of hypothermia
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
Latex is a milky fluid produced by rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis). Using different methods, latex can be processed into a variety of products, such as gloves and balloons
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
Oral thrush is an infection of yeast fungus, Candida albicans, in the mucous membranes of the mouth. Strictly speaking, thrush is only a temporary candida infection in the oral cavity of babies
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Dental
Peripheral nerves are a collection of nerve fibers that originate from many different kinds of neurons. Motor fibers originate from motor neurons that are located in the spinal cord. Sensory axons originate from neurons that are located outside the spinal cord in large clusters called ganglia
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
Pneumonia is a lung disease that can be caused by a variety of viruses, bacteria, and sometimes fungi. Pneumococcal pneumonia is an infection in the lungs caused by bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Natural latex rubber (NLR) is the cloudy, white sap exuded from beneath the bark of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). Synthetic latex is made from petroleum, acetylene, coal, natural gas or oil
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by an abnormally low level of blood sugar (glucose), your body's main energy source.Hypoglycemia is commonly associated with diabetes
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Diabetes
Night eating syndrome is not the same as binge eating disorder, although individuals with night eating syndrome are often binge eaters. People with binge-eating disorder eat large amounts of food at different times of day, while those with night eating syndrome eat the majority of their food at night
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Oral candidiasis is an infection of yeast fungi of the genus Candida on the mucous membranes of the mouth. It is frequently caused by Candida albicans, or less commonly by Candida glabrata or Candida tropicalis
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Dental
Peripheral neuropathy is disorder of nerve(s) apart from the brain and spinal cord. Patients with peripheral neuropathy may have tingling, numbness, unusual sensations, weakness, or burning pain.
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
There are a range of bacteria that may cause an infection leading to 'typical pneumonia' including Streptococcus pneumoniae which causes pneumococcal pneumonia. This is the most common cause of pneumonia
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
Dehydration can be defined as the condition in which the body experiences excessive loss of water. Usually experienced in the summer time, the most probable causes of dehydration include vomiting, diarrhea, blood loss and malnutrition
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Health & Fitness
Also known as nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder or NS-RED, night eating disorder is not an eating problem strictly speaking. It is known as a sleep disorder type that enables people to eat while seemingly asleep
Posted: 2008-07-08
Category: Alternative Medicine
An ulcer is an open sore that forms when the lining of the gut is corroded by acidic digestive juices. Peptic ulcers can form in the lining of the stomach (gastric ulcers), duodenum (the first part of the small bowel or intestine)
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Ritu Beri is one of the top Indian fashion designers who have been continuously serving Indian fashion industry with her feminine and funky designer apparels. She is one such shining star of our country
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Celebrities
Sebaceous hyperplasia is the term used for enlarged sebaceous glands seen on the forehead or cheeks of the middle-aged and elderly. Sebaceous hyperplasia appears as small yellow bumps up to 3 mm in diameter.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Skin toners are necessary for all skin types. Skin toners helps to improve blood circulation to the skin surface and gives the skin the glow that is associated with its good health. You can also make a natural skin toner at home. Tomato juice is a good skin toner.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Beauty
There are a number of plants that grow towards sun. This activity of plants, to bend towards light, is known as phototropism. Usually, the upper portion of the plant i.e. the stem and the leaves look for a sunny spot and try to reach out
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Landscaping
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Writing & Speaking
Bodybuilding workout is something that should not be taken lightly at all under any circumstance. This is because if while doing right kind of bodybuilding exercise can nicely tone up the muscles and make you fit
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Muscle Building
Endometriosis is a problem affecting a woman's uterus - the place where a baby grows when she's pregnant. Endometriosis is when the kind of tissue that normally lines the uterus grows somewhere else
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Women's Issues
The prostate gland, which is normally about the size and shape of a walnut, wraps around the urethra between the pubic bone and the rectum, below the bladder. In the early stage of prostate enlargement, the bladder muscle becomes thicker
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.[1][2] These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Fatigue: A condition characterized by a lessened capacity for work and reduced efficiency of accomplishment, usually accompanied by a feeling of weariness and tiredness. Fatigue can be acute and come on suddenly or chronic and persist.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Fibroids are the most common non-cancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. Fibroids are made of muscle cells and other tissues that grow in and around the wall of the uterus, or womb. The cause of fibroids is unknown
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Women's Issues
Fibromyalgia makes you feel tired and causes muscle pain and "tender points." Tender points are places on the neck, shoulders, back, hips, arms or legs that hurt when touched
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Fish oil has always been known to contain omega 3 fatty acids, which are quite beneficial for people suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, bipolar disorder and cancer
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Influenza (say: in-floo-en-zah) is also called the flu. It's an infection that causes fever, chills, cough, body aches, headaches, and sometimes earaches or sinus problems. The flu is caused by the influenza virus (say: vy-rus)
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Food poisoning is a common, yet distressing and sometimes life-threatening problem for millions of people in the U.S., and throughout the world. People infected with foodborne organisms may be symptom-free
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Gout (also called metabolic arthritis) is a disease created by a buildup of uric acid. In this condition, monosodium urate or uric acid crystals are deposited on the articular cartilage of joints, tendons and surrounding tissues due to elevated concentrations of uric acid in the blood stream.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Brown spots, melasma, freckles. These are all words to describe areas of the skin that are pigmented due to sun exposure, medications, or genetics. Bleaching products are used to suppress pigmentation in order to lighten hyperpigmented areas
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Windows form one of the most important aspects of a house. Not only do they provide your house with proper ventilation, but also ensure adequacy of natural lighting. In fact, there must be enough windows in your house to let you get along the day, without turning on any artificial lighting
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Home Improvement
Home Staging is brushing up of your existing house. It is about creating the best impression with whatever kind of home you have got. Home Staging makes your house look better and bigger
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Relationships
Hyperventilation is rapid or deep breathing, usually caused by anxiety or panic. This overbreathing, as it is sometimes called, may actually leave you feeling breathless. When you breathe, you inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Anxiety
Low blood sugar or hypoglycemia (usually a blood sugar level of less than 4 mmol/L) can happen when diabetes medicine (pills or insulin), food, and exercise are out of balance. Low blood sugar can be mild, moderate, or severe. These tips will help you to prevent and treat low blood sugar.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Diabetes
When a toenail is ingrown, the nail is curved downward and grows into the skin, usually at the nail borders (the sides of the nail). This “digging in” of the nail irritates the skin, often creating pain, redness, swelling, and warmth in the toe.
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
A condition resulting from excessive intake of iron. Iron poisoning generally only occurs when too many iron supplements are taken - most cases involves children accidentally eating too many iron tablets
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Jock itch (also known as tinea cruris) is a common fungal infection that affects the skin of the inner thighs, buttocks and genitals. The fungus that causes jock itch thrives in warm, moist areas
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Alternative Medicine
Headache is one of the most common ailments affecting thousands of people every day. Migraine alone directly affects about 12% of the population. The symptoms and pain associated with the various types of headache can be difficult for your doctor to recognize
Posted: 2008-07-07
Category: Medicine
