ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER Health anxiety is an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition. It’s also called illness anxiety and was formerly called hypochondria. This condition is marked by a person’s imagination of physical symptoms of illness. Or in other cases, it’s a person’s misinterpretation of minor or normal body sensations as …
ICE-CREAM HEADACHES Ice cream headaches are brief, stabbing headaches that can happen when you eat, drink or inhale something cold. Biting into an ice cream cone is a common trigger, but eating or drinking other frosty items, such as ice pops and slushy frozen drinks, can have the same “brain-freeze” effect. Officially known as cold …
GANGLION CYST A ganglion cyst is a round, fluid-filled lump of tissue that usually appears along tendons or joints. It typically occurs on the wrist or hand, but it can also appear on the ankle or foot. Ganglion cysts can be as large as an inch across. Ganglion cysts can be painful if they press …
GALACTORRHEA Galactorrhea is a milky nipple discharge unrelated to the normal milk production of breast-feeding. This nipple discharge may leak from the breast on its own or when the breast is touched. Galactorrhea itself isn’t a disease, but it could be a sign of an underlying problem. It usually occurs in women, even those who …
ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT (ASD) An atrial septal defect is a type of congenital heart defect characterized by an abnormal opening in the wall(septum) between the two upper chambers of the heart (atria). The heart has four hollow chambers: two receiving chambers known as the right and left atria and two pumping chambers known as the …
ADDISON’S DISEASE Addison’s disease is a rare endocrine disorder that occurs when the adrenal gland is unable to produce enough of the hormone cortisol and in some cases the hormone aldosterone. The adrenal glands are small glands located on top of each kidney and are responsible for making different hormones including the steroid hormone cortisol …
Have you heard of that saying? Eat healthy, feel healthy! Eat crappy, feel crappy! Same rule goes for your teeth. Because they are the first stage your food passes from. If food is healthy, your teeth will stay healthy; if food is crappy, well, I don’t think I really need to complete the sentence. You …
HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE (HD) Huntington’s disease is an incurable hereditary brain disorder that results in the progressive degeneration of the brain cell. The disorder has a great impact on a person functional ability and may affect movement, behaviour, and cognition. Huntington’s effect about 4 to 15 in 100,000 people and most people develop symptoms in their …
ABDOMINAL DISTENSION An abdominal distention is the outward expansion of the abdomen beyond the normal girth of the stomach and waist. in another word, abdominal distention is a visible or actual increase in abdominal size Abdominal distention is not a disease in itself but rather a symptom or indicator of an underlying disease or dysfunction …
STOMACH CANCER Stomach cancer is the growth of cancerous cells within the lining of the stomach. Stomach cancer usually develops in the mucous forming cells that line the stomach. This type is referred to as adenocarcinoma and accounts for around 90 to 95 percent of all stomach cancers. Also known as gastric cancer, stomach cancer …
