2009 November

Eczema rash treatment

You know the old saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover?" Well, unfortunately, people judge books by their cover all the time, whether they mean to or not. When it comes to judging other people, your skin serves as your book cover and if it isn't in tip top shape, people may make decisions [...]

Macronutrients

Your car needs energy in order to operate. It gets that energy from the gasoline you so lovingly pump every week. With the gas, your car can drive you forward, reverse backward and get you to your destination. Without it, your car would sit in your driveway all day and do nothing. The human body [...]

Cervical dystonia

Cervical dystonia is a movement disorder that can cause abnormal postures and involuntary twisting as well as repetitive movements in the head and neck area. It is also known as spasmodic torticollis. This is a very painful condition that causes a lot of discomfort to the person who is inflicted with this disorder. Individuals who [...]

Kidney cyst symptoms

Kidneys are very important organ in the body and play a major role in filtering toxins in your system. Certain conditions and imbalances can arise that can cause cysts to be formed on the kidneys of some people. Kidney cysts are like other cysts that form on the body only they form on the kidneys. [...]

Cysteine

When the subject of cysteine and what it is comes up, people are usually talking about N-Acetyl-Cysteine, which is chemically altered version one of the bodies nonessential amino acids. It is actually a precursor to glutathione is an essential amino acid which destroys free radicals in the body. Cysteine is also called NAC. Cysteine is [...]

Rickets disease

Rickets disease is a problem that is often found in young children, and it can cause deformity and fractures. This is because rickets causes the bones to soften due to a lack of Vitamin D and calcium. While rickets is not something that commonly occurs in developed countries, it is a serious problem that often [...]

Inguinal hernia

When a part of the small intestines bulges through a weak area in the lower abdominal muscle the condition is called an inguinal hernia. Sometimes intra-abdominal fat can also bulge through this weak abdominal muscle in the groin area. The groin area is between the abdomen and the thigh. There is an inguinal ring in [...]

Bradycardia

When a person is diagnosed with having bradycardia it means that they have a heart arrhythmia and that their heart beats at a rate slower then 60 beats per minute. It is caused by a disruption of the normal electrical impulses that control the rate at which the heart pumps blood through the circulatory system. [...]

Bedwetting alarm

If you are a parent of a child who is constantly wetting the bed at night even though they are older, you are probably getting quite desperate for a solution. The good news is that you can now buy a bedwetting alarm to help the child to stop wetting the bed. Many children continue to [...]

Post-polio syndrome

During the early part of the twentieth century polio was one of the most worrisome diseases in America. The reason for this fear was the fact that polio could cause some patients to experience paralysis in their lower bodies, full body paralysis, or even death. While many of the polio infections caused no symptoms at [...]