Vertigo | Causes - Symptoms - Treatment

Vertigo is a condition where the sufferer feels as if rotating or moving or objects around it as if it moves or rotates and is often accompanied by disturbances of balance, nausea, vomiting, pallor and cold sweat.

Usually vertigo caused by vestibular system disorder that serves to maintain the balance of the body including the visual power and control of body movements. Vertigo can be acute, chronic or recurrent.

1. Avoid consumption of beverages containing caffeine, alcohol and smoking because it can aggravate symptoms of vertigo.
2. Sleeping with your head propped up on two pillows or more.
3. Do not change your body position too fast, especially from lying down to sitting or standing position.
4. When wake up early morning sat for a moment then stand up slowly.
5. Do not often bend when reaching for an object.
6. Avoid excessive head movement.
7. When you feeling the symptoms of vertigo, focus your vision to distant places to help reduce dizziness and nausea.

Migraine | Causes - Treatment

Migraine or vascular headache is a headache with a characteristic namely just on one of the side of head. This condition generally began occurs at the time puberty or early adulthood and is considered to be hereditary.

The cause of migraines is not known with certainty, experts associate this condition with dilation blood vessels thus stimulating nerve endings. Migraine is called chronic if the attacks occur repeatedly, Migraines are generally not dangerous and does not lead to disease or other disorders.

1. Sleep is the best medicine to relieve migraine, go to sleep in a fairly dark place.
2. Avoid certain foods especially that many containing tyramine (cheese) or sulfite (wines) or nitrates (nuts, processed meats).

Hair Loss Causes

Hair Loss (Alopecia) can be classified based on the causes factors and of hair loss patterns. Thinning hair in both men and women occurs naturally with increasing age, usually after fifty years.

Generally hair loss caused by pattern baldness, trauma, chemicals, certain medications, poor nutrition and stress. Other factors include the interruption of blood flow, infections, skin diseases, cancer, hormonal disorders and kidney failure or liver.

Hypertension

Hypertension can occur in men and women. Increased risk of hypertension in the age of 50 upward. Hypertension occurs when blood flow produces an enormous pressure on the artery wall.

Almost 90% of cases of hypertension is unknown actual cause. Most of the hypertension does not give symptoms (asymptomatic). Symptoms of drowsiness, nausea, vomiting and headaches experienced by person with hypertension is often caused by complications in organ due to hypertension.

Factors such as age, heredity , smoking habits, alcohol consumption, obesity, stress, kidney disease, adrenal disorders, congenital heart disease, certain medication, pre-eclampsia, high consumption of salt and less active of lifestyle may result of hypertension.

Types Of Hepatitis

Hepatitis is characterized by swelling and softer of liver and occasionally can cause permanent damage to the organ. Hepatitis is caused by viruses and generally consist of several types, including hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and G.

Most types of hepatitis are A, B, C. All the types of hepatitis have almost similar symptoms but different modes of transmission and its complications. Hepatitis A, e.g is transmitted through the consumption of foods and drinks that have been contaminated with hepatitis A virus (HAV).

Among all types of hepatitis, hepatitis B tends to cause severe symptoms and complications. Hepatitis B transmission occurs through sexual intercourse with individuals who has been infected or contact with the blood or body fluids of infected person with hepatitis B virus (HBV). The virus also can be spread to babies born from mother infected with HBV.

The other type, hepatitis C tends to be chronic and can be transmitted through by using syringe or contaminated blood transfusions or organ transplant procedure. Transmission of hepatitis C can also occur trough the use of shared razor, toothbrushes or nail clipper contaminated with hepatitis C.

Like hepatitis C, hepatitis D transmission also through sharing the syringe and sexual intercourse with individuals who has been infected. While hepatitis E transmission is almost the similar transmission with hepatitis A, which is through the consumption of foods or drinks that have been contaminated in endemic area (which have poor sanitation). In addition the factors above, hepatitis also can be caused by alcohol, drugs and certain chemical substances.

Dysmenorrhea - Painful Menstruation

Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) incurred prior to and during menstruation, is characterized by symptoms of abdominal cramps on the bottom. These symptoms are caused of the high production of prostaglandin hormones. Although it’s not harmful but symptoms of dysmenorrhea may be quite severe and can even interfere with daily activities.

Facts Dysmenorrhea

1. Dysmenorrhea can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cold sweats and dizziness
2. Although it’s not life threatening, dysmenorrhea can reduce the activity in women age less than 30 years old
3. One risk factors for dysmenorrhea : an early onset of puberty (under 11 years old)
4. In 1970-1980’s, the researchers found that the menstrual blood of women who experience abdominal cramps on bottom turned out contain high levels of prostaglandins.

Typhoid Fever

Typhoid fever is a disease caused by salmonella typhi bacteria and causes disturbances in the gastrointestinal tract. If it’s not treated appropriately, typhoid fever can be fatal ( cause death). Blood and digestive tract of patients with typhoid fever consist of salmonella typhi (S. Typhi).

Search this disease occurs directly through food or water (drink) contaminated. Typhoid fever generally occurs in areas with sanitation and poor drainage system.

Salmonella typhi bacteria will enter the digestive tract (gut) spread to liver, spleen and gall bladder through blood and breed there. Flies also play role in the spreading of typhoid fever by bringing salmonella typhi bacteria from feces to the food they got.

The symptoms of typhoid fever appears within 1-3 weeks after person are exposed the bacteria. Typhoid fever does not have potentially contagious when salmonella typhi bacteria are no longer contained in feces or urine, usually a week after symptoms is better.

Nevertheless there are some people who recover from typhoid fever but in their feces still contained salmonella typhi, they look healthy and show no symptoms of the disease but actually they still carry the bacteria cause typhoid fever in the body.

Anemia

Anemia is a blood disorder that most found, which the levels of hemoglobin in the blood has decreased to below the normal based on age and gender. Besides decreasing of hemoglobin, anemia has decline the number of red blood cells (erythrocites).

Hemoglobin is the component of red blood cells that carries oxigen from the Lungs to the body. Many types of anemia occurs among other :

Iron Deficiency Anemia, iron is essential component of hemoglobin, lack of iron deficiency can cause low levels of hemoglobin in the blood. Commonly,Iron Deficiency not only occurs in women of childbearing age, but also occur in infants, children and adolescents in its infancy.

Pernicious anemia is one of anemia which is lack of substance (intrinsic factor) needed for the body absorption and processing of vitamin B12. This type of anemia is often hereditary (inherited) and usually experienced by elderly people.

Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia is characterized by reducing the number of red blood cells and red blood cells has large size (abnormal) or called megaloblastic anemia. By bad diet and alcohol consumption habits is the most common cause folic acid deficiency anemia. Beside of folic acid deficiency can be caused by other factors such as malabsorption and use of certain drugs such as antibiotics. Symptoms of folic acid deficiency anemia include :

• Weight loss
• Diarrhea and
• Decreasing of ability for physical exercise (exercise)