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Eating Disorders - Bulimia

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The term bulimia means excessive or abnormal desire for food which is better described as ox-hunger. Bulimia Nervosa disorder has the character of repeating occurrence of binge eating which develops the person with lack of sense for having no control on eating behavior and encourages self-induced vomiting and intake of laxatives and drugs to get rid of this eating habit. This eating disorder is usually of three types - Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. It involves long lasting and obsessive eating pattern in the person suffering from this eating disorder. Over the decades, the number of people suffering from bulimia has increased enormously.


Preconception planning is an important step for women with preexisting conditions to take when considering the possibility of becoming pregnant. This should be done to ensure that the illness will not adversely affect the development of the unborn child or endanger the lives of both mother and child.

One of the most important things for a woman to ensure while she is pregnant is that she remains healthy throughout the nine-month period. This is because anything that affects the mother will affect the baby in her womb. With that taken into consideration, women should be aware that any preexisting condition they might have and/or the medications that they are taking can have a profound effect on their pregnancy and their baby. In some cases, this may increase the risk of babies being born with birth weight problems (either overweight or underweight), developmental problems, preterm labor, premature rupture of membranes, pre-eclampsia, congenital heart block, or deformities. It may even be the cause of death for both mother and child.


Irritable Bowel Syndrome – what causes it?

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a common condition; still, no specific cause has been identified. There are many suggestions as to why Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) develops in certain individuals but no one knows exactly why. Some experts think IBS is a Motility Disorder. This suggests that IBS patients have an oversensitive or hyperactive gut and will react to changes influenced by stress, food and hormones.


Can Vitamin Supplements Be Harmful?

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Vitamin supplements are essential as a substitute for the deficit of the quantity of vitamins in our system. Nevertheless, a good diet based on nutrients with high concentration of vitamins is always a most effective solution than supplements. But once a diet is not sufficient, dietary supplement vitamin could be the answer.


Gilles Tourette syndrome

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Tourette syndrome, aka Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, is a neurological or neurochemical disorder that is characterized by tics. Tics are involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way. Symptoms to Tourette's include multiple motor and often times several vocal tics present at some time during the disorder. These various tics are not necessary to occur simultaneously.


Skin Scabies

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The word scabies comes from the latin word for itch. Scabies, a transmissible ectoparasite skin infection, is characterized by superficial burrows, secondary infection and intense itching.

Unlike a lot of different infections and diseases the cause of scabies is actually known. Caused by the mite, variety hominis, it results in extremely itchy skin and rashes. This itchiness is because the pregnant female mites tunnel into the stratum corneum of the skin to deposit eggs in the burrow. Hatching in 3-10 days, the larvae move about in the skin. It is in the skin where they become mature adults. Adult mites will usually live in the skin for three to four weeks. Although, the mites aren't able to live their entire life in the skin, they are able to cause a lot of itching before they finally die.


Knowing Sinusitis And How To Deal With It

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Sinusitis to our knowledge is very common for most people. Even though being such a common problem it tends to cause too much trouble. There are three types of sinusitis which affects our life Acute, Sub acute and chronic. Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinus membrane which can either be infectious or non-infectious.


Research has shown that risks for cancer increase among men who have two alcoholic drinks a day and women who have one alcoholic drink per day.  While everyone has been widely aware of the fact that smoking cigarettes greatly increase your risk of contracting cancer, there has been very little publicity of the fact that alcohol can act as a similar carcinogen.


Neurotransmitter imbalances can affect your physical and mental health. Neurotransmitters are powerful chemicals that regulate numerous physical and emotional processes such as cognitive and mental performance, emotional states and pain response. Virtually all functions in life are controlled by neurotransmitters.  

 


Adult Scoliosis

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Adult Scoliosis is a spinal abnormality that occurs during adulthood, or is a continuation of the disease that was undiagnosed or ignored during childhood or adolescence.

Adult Scoliosis is generally idiopathic, which means that its cause is unknown. However, several other types of Scoliosis also occur in adults. These include congenital curve, paralyticcurve, and myopathic deformity.

 

A congenital curve is present at birth, and if undiagnosed or untreated, may worsen in adulthood due to age and weakening of the spine. This results in Adult Scoliosis. A paralytic curve may be caused by an injury to the spine, while myopathic deformity may result from diseases like polio or cerebral palsy. Degeneration, osteoporosis, and spinal surgery are other causes of Adult Scoliosis.

 


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