Archive for February, 2008

Are you embarrassed with hemorrhoids? Don’t worry about hemorrhoids as there are home remedies for hemorrhoids treatment.

Try to follow them for getting better relief for your hemorrhoids problem.

In fact, you need not get embarrassed with hemorrhoids as this is the most common health condition suffered by many people.

Almost eight out of ten people usually suffer with hemorrhoids. Internal hemorrhoids are not visible and won’t cause any pain for you but external hemorrhoids are more painful and cause trouble for you.

Certain useful remedies to get relief from hemorrhoids:

• Dry figs are more useful as food remedy for hemorrhoid treatment. Take 3 or 4 figs, soak them in water for overnight. Try to eat these soaked figs daily with empty stomach in the morning.
• Mango seeds are also very effective hemorrhoid treatment. Dry the mango seeds and make powder of these seeds. Try to take one and half gram of this powder as a daily dose. You can take this powder with or without honey.

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Chicken pox, a highly contagious disease, is most commonly found in children between the ages of 5-10 years.

A child infected with chicken pox can develop the signs of infection after 14 to 16 days, after being exposed to infection.

Chicken pox mainly spreads through air and affects the children who have weak immune system.

If your child has weak immune system, then he/she has more chances to get infected with chicken pox by direct contact with the infected or even by breathing the droplets of infection.

The red itchiness on the skin of a child affected with chicken pox is mainly due to presence of varicella-zoster virus, a part of group of viruses called herpes viruses. It easily spreads through air from one person to another through direct contact or by other means.

Most of you might think of chicken pox as a mild disease and at most lasts for about 2 to 3 weeks and also rarely cause complications. But be aware; some times chicken pox can also cause severe complications even in healthy children.

Ankylosing spondylitis is one of the most common types of arthritis which can mainly affect your spine.

It usually causes a swelling between your disks which mainly forms your spine (called vertebrates) and also in between the joints of your spine and pelvis.

Ankylosing spondylitis is usually referred as auto immune disease. This is because your immune system, which mainly protects your body from different forms of infection, attacks on your own body tissues and cells.

The other parts of your body which mainly gets affected with ankylosing spondylitis include areas where certain tendons and ligaments are attached to bones, eyes and also at the joints in hips, shoulders and knees and also feet.

As the condition of ankylosing spondylitis worsens and also the inflammation remains persistent, a new bone forms as a result of attempt of your body to heal the inflammation.

Even your vertebrae increase its growth together and form a vertical bony outgrowth and also become stiff and inflexible.

The condition of ankylosing spondylitis can change over time with the change in the improvement of symptoms.

Bacterial meningitis is a very rare, but actually a serious inflammation, which can become a life threatening problem for your kid, if not diagnosed in a better way.

Meningitis usually takes it origin in two different forms: one is viral and the other is bacterial.

Viral meningitis is very common and also not dangerous when compared with bacterial meningitis. As the symptoms associated with viral meningitis are quite similar to common flu, they cannot be diagnosed easily.

Kids are more prone to this bacterial inflammation!

Bacterial meningitis is most common in kids and children and it spreads easily between the children living in close quarters and also in teens and college students.

Children studying in boarding schools are considered to be at increased risk of getting this bacterial infection.

If your kids are suffering with any chronic illness like nose or ear infection, then they are more prone to get this inflammation. Impaired immune system is also one of the common reasons to increase the risk of bacterial meningitis in your children.

Bacterial meningitis is usually characterized with headache, chills, high body temperature or fever and also stiff neck, which cannot allow the person to lower his/her chin to chest.

Are you worried about feeling anxious without any particular reason? Then it could be due to generalized anxiety disorder.

It is very common for every one to feel anxious at particular situation in daily life.

In fact, this anxiety can help you to respond to certain appropriate dangers. But, if you feel anxious without any reason, then it can be some thing unusual.

How to differentiate between normal anxiety and anxiety disorder?

The most important primary manifestations of anxiety disorder include fear and worry. However, the disorder of anxiety is mainly characterized with certain physical and emotional symptoms.

Some of these symptoms are mentioned here, which can help you to identify anxiety disorder.

Emotional or psychological manifestations:

• Self consciousness and felling of insecurity
• Confusion in taking decisions
• Feeling restless
• Fear that you are dying
• Nervousness and behavior problems

Physical manifestations:

• Chest pain
• Hot flashes or chills
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness
• Frequent urination or diarrhea

These are some of the important symptoms which are commonly seen in persons who have anxiety disorder.

Factors inter-related with anxiety disorder:

Many complex factors can contribute towards the development of anxiety disorder. Some of the most important factors include:

A cough that usually carries up yellowish-gray or green mucus and persists for three or more months, then it is a dangerous sign of chronic bronchitis. Release or production of mucus is quite normal.

The airways involved in your respiratory system normally produce certain amounts of mucus every day and these secretions are not accumulated. Rather, they continuously clear into your throat and swallowed with saliva.

If there is an inflammation in your main air passages of your lungs, they often produce huge amounts of discolored mucus that comes up with your cough.

Discolored mucus associated with the cough often refers to a secondary infection in your respiratory organs, which can lead to a life threatening problem for you.

Chronic bronchitis must be necessarily treated if air passage restriction is present within your lungs. The only way for you to get rid of this lung inflammation is stop smoking.

It can be the best treatment for this kind of lung disorder. If the inflammation is in advanced stage, then you will be treated with oxygen therapy.

Some of the other treatments involved in chronic bronchitis are outlined here:

Many people get confused with heart pain and heart burn which is caused due to GERD, gastro esophageal reflux disease.

GERD is typically marked by a heart burn and lasts up to two hours after you take meals.

How heart burn caused due to GERD differ from heart pain?

Actually, as the esophagus lie just behind the heart, chest pain caused due to GERD is often seems to be a heart pain. A heart burn and GERD have no connection with your cardiac system.

The main difference between a heart pain and GERD is, the heart burn which is caused due to GERD does not start with any physical activity while the pain related to heart is often triggered with exertion.

You need to consult the doctor immediately when you find these following abnormalities:

• Vomiting followed by severe chest pain
• Blood vomiting
• Whenever you feel difficulty in swallowing solid and liquid foods
• If vomiting is followed by a chest pain
• Severe pain in chest area which is especially radiated towards back, neck or arm

How GERD can harm your regular health conditions if untreated?

Persistent GERD if untreated can lead to numerous stern health conditions. Some of these major effects include:

Anorexia nervosa is a common illness which is mostly seen in teenage girls and women.

Not only girls, it can also affect boys and men, but theses cases are very rare.

People with this eating disorder are mainly possessed with the food and their normal body weight.

Anorexia nervosa is more importantly a psychic disorder, in which you go beyond controlled dieting.

It is very essential to treat this kind of psychological eating disorder in order to avoid vitamin and mineral deficiency. These are certain tips which can be helpful for you to reduce the symptoms of anorexia nervosa.

Certain nutritional guidelines for anorexics:

1. Maintaining a diet with orange or carrot juice is a primary step which you need to consider, if you are suffering with anorexia nervosa. Take orange or carrot juice for every 2 hours combining with warm water for three to five days.
2. Try to maintain a fruit diet with 3 meals in a day for at least three days and then start taking foods which can be easily digestible like butter milk, juicy fruits etc. for 10 days and finally start a well balanced diet which includes raw vegetables, fruits, grains and also nuts and seeds.

Are you worried about rigorous hair loss? Then it is very essential for you to get tested for thyroid problem in your body.

For most of the people, severe loss of hair is also considered as one of the major symptoms for hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism.

Hair loss is usually associated with thinning of hair and falling of huge amounts of hair while you take shower.

These worst manifestations can be accompanied with certain changes in hair texture like your hair can become drier, coarse and can be easily scrambled.

How to handle hair loss due to thyroid problem?

It is very easy to handle this symptom of thyroid problem if you follow simple steps. Here are some of the important and simple steps related to hair loss due to thyroid problem.

• Proper evaluation: It is very essential for you to get proper evaluation by your personal dermatologist before confirming it as thyroid problem. Hair loss can be due to any reason like genetic problem, lack of proper care and can also be due to family history and hormonal imbalance. So, be sure about the cause for hair loss and proceed with the treatment. Don’t take your own decisions without proper evaluation.

Most of you might be in misconception that stomach virus is some thing which affects the stomach.

But, in fact, this stomach virus mainly affects your small intestine and this condition is considered as stomach flu.

Several different viruses are responsible for this condition and this stomach flu is highly contagious.

How stomach virus transmits?

Viral gastroenteritis commonly known as stomach flu is highly contagious and easily transmitted through unwashed hands.

You will be affected with this stomach virus, when an infected person shares your food, drink or even utensils or even by eating food and drinking beverages that are contaminated with stomach virus.

Even if you no longer have the symptoms of stomach flu, it can be still contagious, as the virus can be found mainly in the stool after you recover from the illness. Any one can become infected with this virus without having the signs of the virus and they can still spread the infection.

This outbreak of the infection can occur mainly in households, nursing homes, restaurants, child care centers, cruise ships, schools, and dormitories and also in other places where people gather in groups.