Disease Symptoms

Not many people knows that the cardiovascular disease(CVD) is a woman’s disease.Although CVD is one of the most preventable disease,The American Heart Association discovered that CVD makes more victims annually than cancer itself,even breast cancer.Women’s symptoms of CVD such as dizziness or overwhelming fatigue are often confused with stress symptoms and women don’t pay them much attention.The most met women’s symptoms for heart disease are:unusual fatigue,trouble sleeping,shortness of breath,indigestion,anxiety.nausea,irregular heartbeat,a burning sensation on the chest or abdomen,pain on one or both arms,cold sweat,weakness and pain or pressure in the back chest.

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Recognizing these symptoms and treating them on time improves the chance of survival.Women suffering from CVD have higher death rate and complications risks than men.Women are adviced to do frequently heart exams and ask their doctor of any problem they seem to have with their hearts.Women should pay attention to their blood pressure,cholesterol level and lifestyle.

A study shows that CVD kills one woman per minute and most of the women who died had no pre CVD symptoms.The same study shows that anually die more women from CVD than men.

The American Heart Association categorized the women in 3 categories,based on certain symptoms or way of being:
a.high risk.Here are included those women who have a history in heart disease and have 20% chance to have a heart attack in the next 10 years.
b.intermediate risk.Here are included women who have calcium in coronary arteries,metabolic syndrome or multiple heart risk factors.These women have 10-20% chance to heave a heart attack in the next 10 years.
c.lower risk.Here are included those women who have less than 10% chances of having a heart attack in the next 10 years and have no symptoms like high or intermediate risk women.

Medicine gives some piece of advice to prevent a heart attack,or to prevent death.Doctor suggest that women should not smoke.Women should maintain a healthy weight.Woman who recently suffered of a heart disease should go to a rehabilitation program.Women should eat healthy.Their diet should be consisted in vegetables,fruits,grains,low-fat products.High risk women should take fatty acids supplements.Cholesterol and blood pressure should be kept at normal levels.The medication used for cholesterol and blood pressure can vary,depending on a woman’s level of risk.Some doctors recommend the aspirine therapy.

This therapy is recommended on women over the age of 65 years old to prevent heart attack.This therapy is not recommended to healthy under 65 years old women.It can cause gastric problems.Women who experienced a heart attack should use beta blockers.High risk women should use ACE inhibitors.Angiotensin receptor should be used on women who had a heart failure.

Learning these symptoms and recognizing them by the women can prevent death occurring among women.

Cholera is an acute disease.The body’s intestine is infected with the Vibrio Cholerae bacterium.The infections comes sometimes without symptoms and it’s not very severe,but other times it can have complications.Cholera was discovered in the US 200 years ago,but it was partially exctinct by the time,with the development of new sewage and water purification.

Cholera is not a major treat.It can be easily prevented and treated,but if not treated,this disease can be deadly.

Here are some symptoms of the disease cholera:watery diarrhea,severe vomiting and major leg cramps,sometimes fever and loss of electrolytes which lead to:profound dehydration,circulatory collapse and anuria.Cholera incubation time is usually 24 to 72 hours since the body was infected with this disease.

People can take cholera from different locations.Either is in the food we ea eat,in the water we drink,or things we touch,cholera must be treated qucikly,otherwise the infected person might die from dehydration caused by vomiting and diarrhea within hours.People,who wish to travel in areas infested with cholera,must get a piece of advice before leaving there.The US Center of Disease Control has a telephone line for the public and travellers learn how to prevent cholera and other diseases.

To prevent cholera,when travelling in areas which can be infested with the cholera bacterium,certain recommendations must be respected:
1.water must be drank only boiled or treated with clorine and iodine.
2.food must be eaten only hot,because the heat destroys bacteria.
3.fish dishes must be avoided,especially ceviche.
4.salads must be avoided,the vegetables must be cooked.
5.different bevereages and food from street vendors must be avoided.
6.persons who travel to areas were the risk of infection with the cholera disease should not bring back with them perishable food or seafood.

At this time it has been developed a vaccine for cholera,called Wyeth-Ayerst,but is not highly recommended,because of the low immunity it provides.

In time,two other vaccines were made:Ducoral and Mutacol.It seems that this vaccine offers a little bit more protection against the cholera disease.

Even if this disease can provoke death,cholera is a simple disease that can be treated immediatly.The patient’s lost fluids by vomitting or diarrhea must be immediatly replaced.The patient can be treated orally.He must drink large amounts of a mixture made out of salts,sugars and water.If the case of cholera is severe,the fluid replacement is made intravenous.Rehydration must be combined with antibiotics,because medication destroys the bacteria inside the body.The best antibiotic used against cholera bacterium is the tetracycline.But there are other antibiotics which are good against cholera,antibiotics such as:cotrimoxazole,erythromycin,doxycycline,cloramphenicol and furazolidone.

If cholera is treated immediatly,it’s death rate is 1%,which means that a person from one hundred die because of the cholera disease.If not treated,the death rate is higher:50 to 50% of the untreated patients die from cholera.

Lyme disease come from the bite of an infected tick with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria.It’s probably the most common disease spread by ticks in the US.It was first discovered in a small town in the USA,called Lyme in 1975.

Mostly of the lyme disease reports were from the US,especially from the east coastal states,north coastal states and northern California,Connecticut,Rhode Island,New York,New Jersey,Delaware,Pennsylvania,Maryland and Wisconsin.

The black-legged tick spreades lyme in northeastern US and The Great Lakes Region.Black-legged ticks live in woods and places with grass,yards for example.In the Pacific there is the western-black legged tick who spreads lyme disease.

These ticks become infected because they’re eating from infected animals such as mice,chipmunks.

This tick ussualy lives 2 years and feeds only 3 times:once as a larvae,once as a nymph and once as an adult.

By their opinion,doctors suggest that lyme disease has three stages:early lyme disease,early disseminated lyme disease and late lyme disease.

Early lyme disease is the first stage of this illnes.This stage developes many symptomes such as:fatigue,chills,fever,headache,muscle and joint pain,swollen lymph nodes,tiredness and erythema migrants.

Erythema migrans is one of the first symptoms of lyme disease and it’s consisted of a circular skin rash that grows regularly.This skin rash can appear from 1 day to 1 month since the bite of the infected tick,but it usually appears in 7 days since the bite and has a 2 inches diameter.After it enlarges,the rash appears as a large „bulls-eye”.The rash is usually worm but it’s not painfully.Erythema migrans doesn’t appear on every patient who suffers from lyme disease.The patient recognises the disease when is on it’s second or third stage.

To prevent lyme disease people should protect themselves from tick bites,they shoyld remove imediatly any attached tick on their skin and get early treatment.Antibiotic treatment is adviced because untreated lyme disease can leave severe health problems on the future.Antibiotic treatment should last from 3 to 4 weeks.The problem is that a prevent method wasn’t discovered yet.It’s being worked at a vaccine,but all the doctors suggest that the best method to prevent the infection with lyme disease is to avoid exposure to ticks.People should not stay in places with wild mice,dead or alive,avoid woods with thick ground cover.There are suggestions regarding clothing.

Doctors suggest that people when are working in the garden to wear long clothes to protect their skin and to prevent an infected tick to come in contact with the skin.Insecticid is a good way to prevent ticks coming near a person or inhabited areas.After getting inside the house people should always check theirselves for tick.Ticks usually stay behind the knees,between the fingers and toes,under the arms,in the ears,behind the ears and on the neck.

Parkinson disease is also known as Pallidotomy.It’s a disease of the nervous system and it’s based on trembling of the arms and legs.Parkinson is caused by the loss of the brain cells of the substantia nigraBecause of the loss of these cells,less dopamine is produced and because of that,the striatum(the area that co-ordinates movement) doesn’t work properly.A study shows that one person in every 500 is infected a year with Parkinson disease.People could get this disease by exposing theirselves on certain risks such as:
1.pesticide and herbicide exposures.
2.rural living.
3.previous head injury.
4.impairment of smelling capacity.
5.obssesive personality.
6.severe emotional trauma.
7.severe emotional stress.

This disease is difficult to be recognised in it’s early stages.Because it has no regular symptoms,the doctors find it difficult to diagnose Parkinson disease in it’s early stage.Early treatment may help so that the disease won’t spread that quickly.

These are some early symptoms of parkinson disease :
a.difficulty of moving and slowness.These are probably the first symptoms of Parkinson disease.
b.a tremor when the body is relaxed,usually on resting.Tremors often come when the person is awake.
c.a response to the drug levedopa,the first treatment in Parkinson disease.
d.bradykinesia-movement initiated slow.The person finds it hard to move from a resting position.The person often tends to stop suddenly.
e.poor balance and unstable walking.An affected person with Parkinson disease walks very hard and very slow.
Other symptoms may include:expressionless face,reduced manual dexterity,handwritting difficulties,drooling,sleep problems,urination at night,depretion and anxiety,constipation and difficulty in turning in bed at night,weakness of face and throat muscles.The person with Parkinson disease finds it hard to talk or to swallow,and because of the disease the person may choke or drool.

Early symptoms of Parkinson disease also include stiff fingers or shoulder or stiff muscles.Stiff muscles is a very common Parkinson symptome.Also there are symptoms like:decreased dexterity and coordination,cramps in the muscles and joints,oily skin and increased dandruff,digestive problems,increased sweating,low blood pressure,freezing.,sleeping problems,mood problems and postural instability.
Symptoms usually affect on side of the body for the first or two years.The tremor can also affect the chin,lips and tongue.Tremors are reduced by complete relaxation or sleep.
In Parkinson the protein level is low.

A person which suffers from Parkinson disease cand become passive,dependent,confused.A sick person will not talk as much as it used to do.Parkinson disease can bring depressions on people as an effect of the disease.
Because the symptoms are not obvious all the time,people are recommended to take maybe an annual exam for Parkinson disease,exam which is called DATScan.Recent medicine won’t prevent or cure the disease but it can make life easier of a person who has this horrible disease.