What is whooping cough (pertussis)? A whooping cough is a type of disease in which severe cough is experienced by the patient for many months. Along with violent coughing, people make whooping cough sound as well sometimes. Sometimes people cough so hard that they hurt their rib. The disease is contagious and can spread from one person to another very …
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Do you experience severe pains running from your lower back through your legs? And still at a loss what to do to help yourself out of the condition? The medical term to describe intense pain originating from the lower back felt throughout the leg is Sciatica. This pain emanates from the tear on an intervertebrae disc ring as a result …
The “dog bite” is a kind of infection which appears after someone has been bitten by a dog. The patient infected via dog bite normally get infected by rabies. Along with the rabies other infections can also occur such as MRSA, tetanus, pasteurella and capnocytophaga canimorsus. Bergeyella zoohelcum is an emerging infection transmitted through dog bites. Infection with B. zoohelcum …
Addison’s disease is a disorder which occurs when the body produces less amount of adrenal secretion. It can also be said that in Addison’s disorder less amount of cortisol and aldosterone is secreted. Its prognosis is on all age groups as well as without any age bar. It only affects 1 in 100,000 people. Symptoms of Addison’s Disease …
Septicemia is also called blood poisoning. It occurs due to bacterial infection in the blood. Blood poisoning is also termed as bacteremia or sepsis. Sepsis is a fatal infection of the blood. These bacteria reach in blood through other organs such as lungs, kidney etc. it can be lethal if untreated. The untreated septicemia is called as sepsis. The blood clots …
Labyrinthitis is a disorder of inner ear. It is an inflammation in vestibular nerves of the inner ear and can appear in any age group no age limit is seen. Also known as vestibular neuritist, it is a most common complication of otitis media. Inflammation of inner ear occurs due to bacterial or viral infection. It is an autoimmune disease. …
Dystonia is a muscular disorder, which affects women more prominently than men. It is a disorder with uncontrolled muscular movement and it affects only one percent of the world population. It affects muscles or group of muscles where involuntary muscular changes or abnormal body postures appear. Different body parts are affected by dystonia. It usually appears in early adulthood. …
Small pox is a highly infectious viral disease caused two viruses, Variola major and Variola minor. A single contact with a person infected by smallpox is enough to contract the disease. Usually, the agents of spreading the viral disease are shared objects. Smallpox begin life in the body by attacking skin cells; the first sign that they have infested the …
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Poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that cause general muscle weakness in the body system of an infected person. The disease is called by other names like infantile paralysis or polio. The disease commonly affect children and become full- blown within a few hours to few days; and most times the first body part to be affected is the leg. …