Archive for June, 2010

Meniere’s syndrome

Meniere’s disease is an inner ear disease. The main clinical manifestation of the disease is sudden vertigo or nystagmus, and has marked vertigo and intermittent period. High risk group is middle-aged women, the first attack of patients is before their age of 50, the amount accounted for about 65%; most of the patients had unilateral tinnitus entrainment.
The symptoms of Meniere’s syndrome are different, the main symptoms of attack is sudden onset, can attack at any time, even after falling asleep. The most common symptoms are when patient open eyes, they feeling of the house are turning around; when eyes closed, they conscious body rotation under severe vertigo when the patient can suddenly fell to the ground. Patients during the onset of the symptoms of eyes or turn his head will increase the symptoms, so most patients supine with eyes closed, head and body were not rotating. Most patients with unilateral tinnitus and hearing loss, few are bilaterally. About 25% of the patients before the onset have tinnitus and hearing loss occurs, after the attack is increased.
The remaining 25% have tinnitus or deafness gradually after the onset. Tinnitus or deafness is sensorineural tinnitus or hearing loss, tinnitus also increased when the symptoms are severe. Patients often accompanied by hardly eyes open, nausea, vomiting, pale, sweating, or diarrhea, low blood pressure and a series of symptoms. Some patients accompanied by headache; in the end were particularly conscious awareness.
To intermittent exacerbation of two forms: one is the vertigo and associated symptoms suddenly disappeared and a kind of dizziness is vertigo gradually faded. Meniere’s disease intermittently period for varying, from months to years, and extent of each attack are not the same. The hearing gradually diminished with increasing frequency of attacks, leading to deafness.

 

Stockholm syndrome

Stockholm syndrome is known as hostage syndrome, it is happened when a crime victim affective for the offender, or even to help criminals turn a complex. The emotion will lead to the victim have good feeling to offenders; they become dependence, and even help offenders to harm others.

Hostages would produce a psychological dependence on the hijackers’ foreign oil. Their fate is in the hands of the hijackers, the hijackers let them live, and they will be grateful. Their fate accompanied with the hijackers. And the future of the hijackers is seemed as their own future. And it is the safety of the hostage-takers as well. So they adopted a “we against them” attitude, so they consider people who come to save them as enem

 

Menstrual period

Menstrual period is a circle of physiological changes that can occur in fertile females overt menstruation (where there is blood flow from the uterus through the vagina) occurs primarily in humans and close evolutionary relatives.

Physiological maturation of the female means a period every month, that is, menstrual period

Female endocrine control by two hormones: hormones and progesterone. Hormones represent estrogen, and progesterone on behalf of Androgen. Female hormones can help women in development, appear to stimulate cellular metabolism and the physiological characteristics of the females, progesterone can help stabilize the uterus and fertility, endometrial contains large amounts of progesterone. In the week before the menstrual period, levels of two hormones in the body began to fall; there will be a series of physical corresponding characterization. When begin to enter the period, you will have bad temper, impatience and irritability. The verge of bursting like a balloon bookend by a tip, the temple can immediately broke out.

 

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Lupus is an autoimmune disease, slow onset, insidious, clinical manifestations are diverse, dynamic and involves many systems and organs of a kind of autoimmune disease, due to cellular and humoral immune dysfunction, resulting in a variety of autoantibodies. May involve the skin, serosa, joint, kidney and central nervous system and is characterized by autoimmune. Patients are susceptible to a variety of antibodies, not only affects the humoral immunity, also affect cell immunity, complement system also changes. Pathogenesis was mainly due to immune complex formation. The exact cause is still unknown. Recurrent disease was alternating with remission. It is more commonly happened on young women.

 

Do You Know Trachoma?

Trachoma is caused by Chlamydia trachoma is and it is spread by direct contact with eye, nose, and throat secretions from affected individuals, or contact with fomites (inanimate objects), such as towels and/or washcloths, that have had similar contact with these secretions.

This disease persists in many parts of the developing world particularly in communities without adequate access to water and sanitation. In many of these communities, women are three times more likely than men to be blinded by the disease, due to their roles as caretakers in the family.

WHO Guidelines recommend that a region should receive community-based, mass antibiotic treatment when the prevalence of active trachoma among one to nine year-old children is greater than 10 percent. Subsequent annual treatment should be administered for three years, at which time the prevalence should be reassessed. Annual treatment should continue until the prevalence drops below five percent. At lower prevalence, antibiotic treatment should be family-based.

 

What is Emphysema?

Emphysema is a illness state with symptoms of remote terminal bronchioles (respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs and alveolar) and diminished airway elasticity, excessive swelling, inflated, and lung volume increase or accompanied by damage of pathological airway wall. Pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema has following types: senile emphysema, compensatory emphysema, interstitial emphysema, focal emphysema, the intermittent pulmonary emphysema, and obstructive lung swollen.

May be no symptomatic or appear only short of breath in labor movement in early time, and gradually could not do their jobs. With the progress of emphysema, breathing difficulty responding increased, and even the slightest activity or fully at rest is still feeling short of breath. In addition, patients can still feel weak, weight loss, anorexia, abdominal fullness. The main cause of emphysema is chronic bronchitis, therefore besides short of breath, there are symptoms of cough, sputum and others, early expiratory phase only extend or negative results.

 

Bronchial asthma

Bronchial asthma is a combination of cells, especially mast cells, eosinophils and T lymphocytes participate in the chronic airway inflammation; among susceptible persons such inflammation can cause recurrent episodes of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and coughing and other symptoms, and more happen at night or early morning; such symptom is often accompanied by extensive and changing expiratory flow limitation, but can be part of natural remission or remission by cure; such symptoms are also associated with airway responsiveness to many higher-stimulating factor.

Asthma-related symptoms are cough, wheezing, difficulty breathing, chest tightness, sputum, etc. The typical onset of sexual partners, the performance is a wheeze of breath dyspnea. Severe cases may be forced to take seats or were orthopnea, cough or sputum slightly large number of white foam, and even cyanosis. Symptoms of asthma attack in minutes, after a few hours to several days, can a bronchodilator or relieve it.

 

Swollen gums

The so-called gum swelling pain is real pain in the tooth roots, and meat swelling around the tooth, so that swollen gums, also known as gum swelling and pain. Swollen gums mainly is a gum inflammation, gum inflammation through the teeth and under, calculus, oral dead multi-directional communication, leading to gingival attachment gingival swelling and pain caused by dental plaque.

Sore gums mainly due to suffering from gingivitis or periodontitis in itself, the most common disease caused by periodontitis, periodontitis was mainly due to the proliferation of gingival inflammation on the gums, the formation of the periodontal subgingival bag, a large number of plaque attached to the tooth surface and between teeth, dental calculus and mouth wash less than the dead, leading to mobility of the bacteria attack gums, once formed in the gingival pocket, gingival capillaries begin to swell, increased vascular pressure, congestive gums a long time in the state, outside pocket vulnerable to the impact.

 

Somthing about Synovitis

Synovitis is a multiple caused diseases, the incidence of major parts of the knee. Human synovial knee joint is the largest joint surface structure of the largest and most complex joint, knee joint synovium as widely and in more superficial parts of limbs; it suffered more damage and the chance of infection, mainly because of knee synovitis, knee sprain and a variety of intra-articular injury, caused by a syndrome. It is likely to cause some patients with temporary or permanent loss of labor; both the patients and the harm to society are large. Although the number of effective treatment is increased, many patients still can not cure. Some patients, especially young, need bear the many social and family responsibilities, while in the long endure the pain of torture. This is undoubtedly urgent medical workers to solve.

 

What is Psychosis?

Psychosis refers to a serious psychological disorder, the patient’s understanding of emotion, will and movement behavior of mental activity can result in a durable clear exception. patients can not a normal study, work, life, movement behavior is difficult to be generally understood, seemed odd, different; in morbid psychology of domination, there is suicide or attack the actions that harm others; have varying degrees of self-control deficiencies, patients often lose their sense of psychiatric symptoms that their psychology and behavior is normal , and refuse treatment.

Schizophrenia, manic depressive psychosis, climacteric psychosis, paranoid psychosis, and various organic diseases associated with mental illness and so on. Patients and their families and psychiatrists should be treated with.
There are a lot of people love to have neuropathy and mental diseases, especially mental illness equated, and love to laugh at with the tone that: you have neuropathy. In fact, it is a misunderstanding. Nerve disease and mental illness should be distinguished, and mental illnesses are the scope of mental illness, neurosis is in the scope of organic pathology.