Common Ailments

January 19, 2010

Posted in Category : Common Ailments

The term pigmentation refers to the color of your skin. A natural substance called melanin gives color to your skin and hair. The higher the amount of melanin present in your body, the darker your skin and hair are likely to be. Darkening of the ...

January 19, 2010

Natural Cure For Hyperpigmentation (Skin Discoloration)

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Causes Hyperpigmentation is one of the most common skin conditions that people experience all over the world. It is characterized by the noticeable darkening of certain portions of the skin while the surrounding areas retain the original shade or ...

January 19, 2010

Symptoms, and Prevention of Swollen Adenoids

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We all have lymphatic tissue similar to the tonsils (known as adenoids) that are more pronounced when we are children. They are located in the airway between the back of the throat and nose. Adenoids tend to get enlarged more so in young children ...

January 19, 2010

Causes and Symptoms of Tongue Numbness

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Most of us have experienced numbness in our hand and feet at some time or the other. However, how often have you found the tip of your tongue numb? Tongue numbness is not something that we commonly experience or even hear about. In most instances, ...

January 19, 2010

Symptoms And Treatment for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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There are a number of epidemics that have gained worldwide notoriety and SARS is just one of them. For instance, the latest health scare going around appears to be swine flu. The number of half-baked rumors and alleged cures going around pose yet ...

January 15, 2010

Types & Symptoms of Leukemia

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Types Leukemia, or cancer of the bone marrow is a very serious form of illness, as are all types of cancer. Some knowledge of the growth or formation of blood cells will go a long way into helping you understand the condition better. The blood is ...

January 15, 2010

Hyperkalemia Causes, Symptoms – Treatment for Hyperkalemia

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Although you would rarely hear of the condition hyperkalemia, it is rather common and is known to affect about 8% of all hospitalized patients in the United States of America at any given time. The condition is basically the presence of too much ...

January 15, 2010

Salmonellosis: Food Poisoning

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Causes and Symptoms Salmonella is the term given to a bacterium which is responsible for a particular food poisoning that is known as salmonellosis. Bear in mind that you will find different varieties of such salmonella bacteria. For instance, in ...

January 13, 2010

How to Prevent Drug Addiction

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Drug addiction is widely prevalent and often misunderstood because too few really delve into the question ‘What is drug addiction?’ Such dependence refers to compulsive use of various drugs with no regard for negative costs even though these can ...

January 12, 2010

Symptoms & Treatment for Wet Macular Degeneration

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Macular degeneration occurs when the middle of the retina – the macula or the rear wall of our eye on which images we see fall before being processed by light-sensitive cells there – starts degenerating. Those at risk include women, smokers, ...