Fever is a symptom of an infection. Increase in normal body temperature above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit(F) or 37 degrees Celsius is usually Fever. Fluctuations in body temperatures are common with minor infections, or even to healthy people. However, temperatures of 103°F and above are considered potential danger.
Diabetes is a disorder that affects the way your body uses food for energy. Normally, the sugar you take in is digested and broken down to a simple sugar, known as glucose. The glucose then circulates in your blood where it waits to enter cells to be used as fuel. Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, helps move the glucose into cells. A healthy pancreas adjusts the amount of insulin based on the level of glucose. But, if you have diabetes, this process breaks down, and blood sugar levels become too high.
Acidosis, excessive acid in the body fluids. It is the opposite of alkalosis (a condition in which there is excessive base in the body fluids). This can occur as a result of overproduction, underexcretion, or both. With overproduction, the body makes too much acid. This can occur in sepsis, a life-threatening widespread infection in which the body makes too much lactic acid. With underexcretion, the body is unable to rid itself of excess acid. This can occur in renal failure and various lung diseases.
Flu, scientifically termed as influenza, is caused by influenza viruses and is a highly contagious respiratory infection. Influenza A usually arrives between early winter and early spring. Influenza B can appear at any time of the year. Those viruses take effect through mucus membranes in the mouth, nose or eyes. It is often transmitted by the person with the flu coughs or sneezes resulting airborne and can be inhaled by any person nearby. One can also get the flu by touching contaminated surfaces like telephone or door knob and then touching self nose or mouth. That has risk of infection in highly populated areas like schools, buses and crowded urban palces.
The flu virus is usually more active from October through May, the time of year typically known as "flu season."
Debility is a broad medical term used to describe someone who is in a state of weakness and often refers to a loss of ability. When in a state of debility, everything seems an effort and what you used to enjoy doing now seems to take too much energy. The body is weakened and with it so is the immune system, leaving you vulnerable to a number of illnesses and infections that you would, under normal circumstances, fight off fairly easily.
A bleeding disorder is an acquired or inherited tendency to bleed excessively. Normally, blood remains in the circulatory system inside the blood vessels. However, if veins or arteries are injured, they will begin to leak blood, either externally or into body tissues. The body stops the blood loss through a complex clotting process called hemostasis. During hemostasis, the injured blood vessel constricts to reduce blood flow, platelets adhere to the injury site and clump together to form a loose platelet plug, and a process of clot formation called the coagulation cascade is initiated.
Obesity is an excessive fat accumulation in human body. Normally, fat should be 25%-30% in women and 18%-23% in men. In contrast, women with over 30% body fat and men with over 25% body fat are considered obese. In humans, certain amounts of fat are necessary to store energy, heat insulation, shock absorption and other functions.
Obesity patients are at higher risk of suffering diseases like high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, gallbladder disease, and different cancers. The probable cause of obesity is consuming excess calories.
Skin Abrasion is the damage of the upper layer of epidermis as a result of applied frictional force. Skin is a largest organ of the human body, with different texture, movement and protection. It can be segregated to the epidermis and the dermis. The epidermis relates to the surface layer and consists of several sheets of skin cells. Another is dermis, which lies beneath the epidermis and contains elastic fibers and protein fibers like Sebaceous glands, hair follicles, nerves and blood vessels.
Chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by the Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV), also known as Human Herpes Virus 3 (HHV-3). It is usually more severe in adults and young infants (aged 5 to 9) than children. Children suffered once are unlikely to suffer again due to natural immunity that raised against the illness. Winter and spring are the most common time of the year to transmit. Chickenpox causes itching, skin irritation; scratches at the blisters can aggravate to seriousness and cause severe condition due to blisters breakage. Scratched or burst blisters can cause lifelong scars. The main concern for any individual is to minimize the itching, irritation and to resist the urge to scratch the blisters. Some most common similar viral exanthems are Measles (Rubeola), German Measles (Rubella), Fifth Disease (parvovirus B19), Mumps Virus, and Roseola (Human Herpesvirus 6).
Chickenpox virus can be spread easily and promptly from an infected person coughs, food shares, drinks, sneeze etc. One can also be infected from the fluid of a chicken pox blister. A person suffering from chickenpox can spread the virus even before they see any symptoms. Chickenpox can be easily spread from 2 to 3 days before the rashes appear until all the blisters have crusted over. People accommodating Chickenpox patients, never having suffered from it and never having had vaccine are in higher risk of getting chickenpox.
Edema was formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy. Basically, it is the swelling of the body by the excess fluid deposited in the tissues. All tissues of the body are made up of cells and connective tissues that hold the cells together. This connective tissue around the cells and blood vessels is known as the interstitium. Most of the body's fluids found outside of the cells are normally stored in two spaces;
Breasts are an important part of the natural beauty and sensuality of womanhood. Women need to give special care to keep them healthy, beautiful and firm. As time passes, breasts start to droop a little due to lack of bone structure – they have ligaments and connective tissues as their support.
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