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Addisons Disease Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Addison's disease (chronic adrenal insufficiency) is a rare and progressive disorder that affects between one and six in every 100,000 people. It occurs in all age groups and afflicts men and women equally.
Adhd Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
ADHD is caused by changes in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. These chemicals help send messages between nerve cells in the brain.
Akinetic Mutism Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Diffuse brain damage underlies akinetic mutism in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It can also occur in a stroke that affects both anterior cerebral territories.
Amnesia Dissociative Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Dissociative amnesia is more common in women than in men. It may also block memories of childhood sexual abuse, later recalled in adulthood.
Anaemia Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Anaemia can be caused by iron or vitamin deficiency, blood loss, a chronic illness, or a genetic or acquired defect or disease.
Angina Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Angina pectoris is the result of myocardial ischemia caused by an imbalance between myocardial blood supply and oxygen demand.
Antisocial Personality Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Antisocial personality disorder is negatively correlated with all DSM-IV Axis. Fire-setting and cruelty to animals during childhood are linked to the development of antisocial personality.
Aortic Aneurysm Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
An aneurysm (AN'u-rizm) is a bulge in a blood vessel, much like a bulge on an over-inflated inner tube.
Aortic Regurgitation Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Aortic valve regurgitation or aortic regurgitation is a condition that occurs when your heart's aortic valve doesn't close tightly.
Aortic Stenosis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Stenosis by all means narrowing. Normally, oxygen rich blood is pumped from the left ventricle, through the aortic valve and into the aorta.
Aphonia Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Some voice disorders are idiopathic and may occur due to stress. Vocal abuse (e.g., smoking, drinking excessive caffeine or alcohol, excessive exposure to fumes/toxins, etc.) is another potential cause of aphonia.
Appendicitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Appendicitis (or epityphlitis ) is a condition characterized by inflammation of the appendix. Appendicitis begins when the opening from the appendix into the cecum becomes blocked.
Arrhythmias Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
An arrhythmia is a change in the rhythm of your heartbeat. Most people have experienced these occasional, brief irregular heartbeats that feel like a skipped, fluttering or racing heartbeat.
Aspergers Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Aspergers Disorder may also suffer depression as a result of extreme anxiety or loneliness. Asperger's syndrome affects males more than females.
Asthma Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Asthma occurs when the main air passages of your lungs, the bronchial tubes, become inflamed. This airway narrowing causes symptoms such as wheezing , shortness of breath , chest tightness, and coughing , which respond to bronchodilators.
Atrial Fibrillation Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
The heart has two upper chambers and two lower chambers. Atrial fibrillation is a condition in which the upper chambers of the heart contract at a very high rate and in an entirely disorganised manner.
Autisim Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
They are able to earn degrees and to maintain gainful employment. Others never develop the communication and self-help skills necessary to live independently.
Autism Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Autism (say: aw -tih-zum) causes kids to experience the world differently from the way most other kids do. Kids who have autism usually keep to themselves and many can't communicate without special help.
Avoidant Personality Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Avoidant personality disorder important environmental factor is parental rejection. Rejection by parents appears to be particularly devastating.
Bacterial Vaginosis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bacterial vaginosis is a mild infection in the vagina caused by a type of bacteria (germ). For grammatical reasons, some people prefer to call it vaginal bacteriosis.
Bad Breath Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Chronic bad breath, known as Halitosis , does not come from the stomach. The only odor that comes from the stomach is when you burp.
Baretts Oesophagus Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Barrett's oesophagus is a condition in which abnormal cells develop on the inner lining of the lower part of the gullet (oesophagus). Barrett's oesophagus is estimated to affect about 700,000 adults in the United States.
Bedwetting Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bedwetting often runs in families Most kids who wet the bed have a relative that did it, too. If both parents wet the bed when they were young, it's very likely that their child will as well.
Bells Palsy Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bell's palsy is a neurological disorder caused by damage to the seventh cranial nerve, also known as the facial nerve, which results in weakness or paralysis on one side of the face.
Binge Eating Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Eating binges can be called compensatory behaviour. Binge eating disorder is a little more common in women than in men. People who binge may eat when they're not really hungry and continue eating even long after they're uncomfortably full.
Bird Flu Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Although their symptoms are similar, SARS is caused by completely different viruses. Influenza viruses also are more contagious and cannot be as readily contained as SARS by isolating people who have the infection.
Blepharitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
One of the most common eye problems in older adults is a skin condition called blepharitis . In severe cases, it may also cause styes , irritation and inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva.
Boils Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Boil or furuncle is a skin disease caused by the inflammation of hair follicles , thus resulting in the localized accumulation of pus and dead tissues.
Borderline Personality Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Borderline personality disorder (BPD is a common disorder with estimates running as high as 10-14% of the general population.
Brain Tumours Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Brain tumors occur when cells in the brain begin to divide out of control and start to displace or invade nearby tissues. Occasionally, brain tumors can spread throughout the body.
Brief Psychotic Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Brief Psychotic Disorder illness usually begins abruptly and disappears within a month. Brief Psychotic Disorder is a psychosis that has a rapid onset, generally following a major stressor.
Bronchiectasis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bronchiectasis is a lung condition in which some of the bronchi and bronchioles have lost their elasticity and have expanded and filled with fluid.
Bronchitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bronchitis include a cough that produces mucus (sometimes called sputum), trouble breathing and a feeling of tightness in your chest.
Bronciolitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bronchiolitis starts out with signs and symptoms similar to those of a common cold but then progresses to coughing and wheezing.
Bulimia Nervosa Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Bulimia Nervosa is best considered as three separate illnesses that share the essential features described above. They will be discussed below under three different headings; Simple, Anorexic, and Multi-impulsive Bulimia Nervosa.
Cataract Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
A cataract is a cloudy or opaque area (an area you cannot see through) in the lens of the eye.
Catatonic Schizophrenia Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Schizophrenia results from problems with early brain development. The way brain cells communicate with each other through nerve pathways.
Cellulitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
The word cellulitis literally means inflammation of the cells. The infection usually involves the face, or the arms and legs.
Chalazion Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
A chalazion is usually a reaction to trapped oil secretions and not caused by bacteria, although the site can become secondarily infected by bacteria.
Chicken Pox Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Chickenpox was once considered a rite of passage for most children. The red, itchy rash is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is part of a group of viruses called herpesviruses.
Cholecystitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Cholecycstitis is a painful inflammation of the gallbladder, the small, pear-shaped sac under the liver that stores bile.
Chronic Fatique Syndrome Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disease that was first named in the 1980s. Even now, as increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with CFS, many people inside and outside the health professions still doubt its existence or maintain that it's a psychological ailment.
Cirrhosis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Cirrhosis is a chronic (ongoing, long-term) disease of the liver. But as liver function deteriorates, you may experience fatigue, nausea, unintended weight loss, and swelling in your legs and abdomen.
Coeliac Disease Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Coeliac disease is a condition that affects the small bowel, caused by an abnormal immune response, or sensitivity, to a dietary protein known as gluten.
Conjunctivitis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Conjunctivitis , commonly known as pink eye , is an infection of the conjunctiva (the outer-most layer of the eye that covers the sclera ).
Cough Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Coughing is an important way to keep your throat and airways clear. Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of burden that are irritating the air passages.
Crohn's Disease Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines. Both inflame the lining of your digestive tract, and both can cause dirk Bouts of watery or bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Cushings Syndrome Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Cushing's syndrome is a condition in which there is an excess of cortisol (cortisone) Exposure to too much cortisol can occur from long-term use of synthetic glucocorticoid hormones to treat inflammatory illnesses.
Cyclothymia Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
Some theories posit that the hypomanic episodes have meaning in the context of a person seeking to achieve goals or to avoid depression. Symptoms of cyclothymia include periods of hypomania.
Cystic Fibrosis Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment
The life expectation for people with cystic fibrosis has been steadily increasing over the past 40 years. Some people with CF have serious lung and digestive problems.
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