Cataract is an eye disease that causes blindness. When cataract occurs the lens of the eye is interfered with an opaque area that does not allow to see clearly. The condition is characteristic to strike people over 40. The most probable causes of it is considered excess of sun, aging, smoking, problems of metabolic character, adverse effect of some medications, former eye problems or illnesses, also a family history of cataract. More »
Archive for February, 2010
Wisdom Teeth
Wisdom teeth are called the third teeth (molars). They are known to appear after all the rest and bear such a name because they erupt in late teens or even early twenties when a person admittedly and eventually becomes wise. There are supposed to be four of them; but there can be three, or none. Frequently they lead to the condition when a mouth is overcrowded and cause various dental problems. More »
Paralysis
Paralysis represents a temporary or permanent condition when a person cannot move one or more muscle. The paralyzed area of the body is also characterized by the loss of sensibility. Permanent paralysis usually occurs when the nervous system is damaged. More »
Meniere’s Disease
Meniere’s disease got its name after the French physician Prosper Meniere. It is a condition connected with the inner ear and the fluid balancing regulating system in it. This illness represents a following combination of conditions: episodic vertigo, tinnitus, aural pressure and temporary hearing loss. It usually starts with the increase of pressure in one ear building up to tinnitus and leads frequently to hearing loss. Vertigo is usually unexpected and gives no notice; it is able to last few hours but can make a patient suffer for several days as well. Generally, improvement in hearing comes after the vertigo attack recedes. More »
History of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is not actually a new condition – it has long been known but only was termed as such in more recent years. More »
Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease, or Alzheimer’s, is a very wide-spread illness among senior people who have crossed the age line of 65. This mysterious disease is considered terminal and degenerative and has no cure so far unfortunately. It generally starts much earlier than it is diagnosed and develops gradually. It can start with short-term memory loss and this symptom is often erratically referred to aging, or rather stress. But it is usually followed by fits of anger, also confusion, language problems occur, a person starts to experience mood swings, then long-term memory loss follows, and eventually comes decline of senses. In the end the Alzheimer’s patient looses all bodily functions little by little and dies. These are common symptoms and they differ in any individual case. More »
Compulsive Shopping Disorder
Compulsive shopping disorder refers to obsessive compulsive disorders and has a more popular name of shopaholism. The meaning is simple – addiction to shopping and spending. More »
Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia in rough translation from Greek means bad counting. In medical terms it stands for the condition when a person experiences difficulties with mathematics. Which means that a person fails to understand the very concept of numbers, their abstract notion of comparative quantities; such a person has no idea of so-called ‘number sense’. More »
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
We live in a world that moves around at a crazy speed, our lives are too busy and complicated, we are forced into rough competition far too often… Sometimes we just do not have time to stop and relax and enjoy this very life. This hectic run makes us tired and irritable and there is no surprise that anxiety appears as well. We start to worry about the things that actually do not require being worried about. But the further the worse and soon we find out that these worries are killing us and we cannot control them. The problem has become so severe that among the most popular non-prescription drugs in the U.S. have become anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills. More »