Today’s level of poisons humans have to face is a lot more than it was maybe 50 years back. Humans and animals as well are being poisoned through several different means. Though not intentional it is harming the way healthy humans live,...
What Is Hemodialysis? Aside from peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis is another procedure that uses a machine that filters all the excess salt, harmful wastes and fluids out from the blood. A needle is inserted into the arm through a special...
Delirium is one type of an organic mental disorder. According to DSM-IV, delirium is a disturbance of consciousness manifested by clarity of awareness of the environment. Delirium is characterized by impaired consciousness and cognition during...
Arthritis is most commonly associated with joint pains in old people. However, this is but one of the manifestations of this condition. Arthritis is a generic name for more than a hundred different conditions associated with the musculoskeletal...
Diabetes is a disease in which the blood sugar levels are quite high as compared to the normal levels. This condition gives rise to a lot of risk and complications in terms of heart diseases, retinopathy, kidney damages, infections, gangrene,...
Knowing the fact that a person has cancer and living with it daily is definitely not a small thing. The disease dominates the life of a person to such an extent that the normal lifestyle and routines are scattered and to get them back to regular...
Causes In most cases, cancer patients experience pain, especially when the disease has reached in its advance stage. The severity and duration of pain may differ. Some patients experience dull pain throughout the day, whereas some feel severe...
There are no gray areas about whether one has diabetes or does not have diabetes. But, there may be a condition wherein one has pre-diabetes i.e. the sugar levels are higher than normal but not equivalent to the diabetic level. This condition of...
Most of the cancer patients experience some kind of pain at some point of the treatment, which can be a persistent, continues or chronic pain. Types of pain Depending on the body part where the pain is experienced there are three types of...
When the blood sugar levels in the body increase beyond the normal desired levels, it is known as hyperglycemia (high-glucose-in the blood) or high blood sugar. Diabetes is the disease caused due to high levels of blood sugar. If care is not...