Fissures are literally defined as crack or split in something that causes long narrow opening. Medically fissures can be present normally or abnormally in the body, like fissure in the cerebral cortex is a normal feature of the body, while fissure in the anus is abnormal. The two most common types of abnormal fissures that …
Lifestyle diseases are the consequences of how a person lives his daily life, including his habits and nature of jobs. The lifestyle, that most of the people opt to live nowadays is sedentary, with very less or almost no physical activity. This routine, leads to a number of chronic non communicable diseases, which have serious …
Women face so many health issues that are unique and exclusive to them, like different gynaecological diseases, menopause, medical conditions related to pregnancy, breast and cervical cancers, uterine fibroids, and so on. Besides that, women are more prone to have emotional anxieties, phobias, panic attacks, etc. There is a wide spectrum of health conditions that …
Old age is the last stage of life process of a person. Statistically, a person above the age of 60 or 65 is considered old. Aging is an inevitable and irreversible phenomenon, thus every person born on this earth will become old and will have to face the discomforts and pain that it brings with …
Gout is one of the common types of arthritis, which mostly affects the small joint of big toe, though, it can affect any joint of the body. Other commonly affected joints are ankles, knees, elbows, fingers and wrists. Gout occurs due to accumulation of urate crystals in the joints. Urate crystals are formed due to …
Coeliac disease, sometimes called coeliac sprue or gluten sensitive enteropathy is a condition in which body’s immune system becomes sensitive towards gluten, a protein present in wheat, barley and rye. As a reaction, gluten triggers an immune response, destroying inner lining of small intestine. In long term effects, it leads to malabsorption of other important …
As we know some diseases are common in certain weathers, like summer season brings so many infectious hosts and diseases with it, like food poisoning, diarrhoea, measles, chickenpox etc. In countries like India where at some places temperature may rise above 50 degrees, sun and high temperatures are enough in themselves to cause so many …
Our modern lifestyles , never finishing physical and mental stress, exposure to ever increasing various levels of pollution and decreasing immunity of human body has led to various forms of modern day diseases and with them the consumption of medicines has become a regular routine of our lives without realising what mental and physical hazards …
Have you been advised surgery for tonsillitis. Tonsils are a pair of lymph nodes located at the back of the mouth. Tonsils fight against the infection which enters through our mouth. They normally help to filter out bacteria and other microorganisms to prevent infection in the body. So, tonsils are like the body guards which …
All raw food must be washed well before eating or cooking. If someone had contracted the infection, he/she should not cook or serve food to others for at least three to four days after the symptom has cleared. Finally, remember to quarantine the sick person to prevent spread or reoccurrence.
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