Every time when you visit your favorite eat out and have your favorite spicy pasta, you develop severe abdominal cramps with pain and bloating. This has been happening for quite some time. Thinking it to be a minor gastric problem, you ignore it. Don’t ignore it any further, as it may be one of the …
When you are exercising you suddenly feel breathless, your hands turn cold, and you feel dizzy. You experience extreme fatigue. If this has been for quite some time, you could be suffering from a condition called as an iron deficiency anemia. Knowing more about iron deficiency anemia When there is a deficiency of a protein …
My cousin, a new parent, is very fond of her 3 month old son. The baby is always cheerful and playful. However, once we found that, despite any apparent reason, the baby kept on crying. Even her mother was not able to soothe her. The baby’s abdomen was looking distended. Suspecting some abdominal ailment, we …
My neighbor’s son, a 5 year old boy, has an abnormal gait. He finds it difficult to walk properly. His parents always face problems when purchasing shoes for him, as none would fit him. The reason- he has inwardly turned feet. In medical terms the condition is called as ‘intoeing’ or pigeon feet. About Intoeing …
Intertrigo, not a very commonly used term, but a very common condition that causes rash in the skin folds, where two skin rubs against each other. Intertrigo is actually an inflammation in warm moist areas of the body where two skins contact and rub against each other. Intertrigo is very common in people who are …
Among the various organ systems that functions effectively to keep us alive and healthy, one very important organ is our kidney. Every human consists of a pair of bean shaped kidneys placed on either side of the body. The kidneys function to filter the waste products from the body and excrete it in the urine. …
A man in his forties experienced symptoms like severe abdominal pain with cramps, diarrhea, bleeding in the stools and weight loss. After performing diagnostic procedures like colonoscopy, and testing of stools the doctor confirmed that the man was suffering from ulcerative colitis (inflammation of large intestine) which is an inflammatory bowel disease. Understanding Inflammatory Bowel …
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) – a very complicated term that most of you might be hearing for the first time. To know what an ICD is, how is functions, where and why it’s used, you need to brush up your knowledge about the basic function of heart. Heart – as we all know, a small …
You know what is bleeding like nobody else for just a small cut bleeds profusely. You need to know why it takes long to arrest bleeding. Make sure you do not have idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Understanding ITP ITP, also called immune thrombocytopenic purpura, is a disorder of bleeding or clotting that affects the platelets …
