Archive for October, 2011
Asthma
People with asthma often have a background therapy, plus a special treatment in a crisis. When seizures are acute hospitalization is necessary to achieve intensive treatment. During an asthma attack, the airways constrict unencumbered and respiratory secretions. We therefore use medicines to dilate the bronchi and to limit the production of secretions. Some drugs are [...]
Pregnancy and drugs
Virtually all drugs cross the barrier and reach the fetus plancentaire. Certain substances (including alcohol) are particularly dangerous in early pregnancy which is the phase of development of members and internal organs. Researches on the teratogenic (causing birth defects) drugs are relatively limited. Not to take risks, most doctors recommend that pregnant women not to [...]
Physical development of children
Physical development of the child corresponds to all the phenomena of growth. They concern the size and weight, but also the evolution of different body parts, organs and viscera, and bones. Physical development is not homogeneous. Very fast in the womb and during the first three years, then slows to flare at the beginning of [...]
Kidney Stones
Urinary stones, nephrolithiasis, come in the form of stony concretions. They can form at any level in urine. Then they block the normal drainage of urine and cause damage, inflammation and infection. Calculations are made of organic and inorganic substances. Their size ranges from sand grain to the stone several inches in diameter. They appear [...]
Neuroleptics
Neuroleptics are drugs that are part of psychopharmacology that is to say that they can act on a psychic state. There is talk of psychosis when the subject has a misperception of reality with illusions, delusions and often hallucinations. It uses two types of drugs in psychosis, neuroleptics and antidepressants. The first act in all [...]
Liver cancer
Liver cancer is characterized by a malignant tumor in the liver. Early in the disease, the symptoms seem benign. They can manifest as fatigue, mild fever, back pain and diarrhea. After a while, the subject lost weight and became anemic. When the tumor grows, it begins to compress other organs adjacent to the liver. It [...]
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor in the breast, affecting mostly women. Men also may be suffering from breast cancer, but much more rarely. Breast cancer becomes increasingly common with age, reaching a maximum frequency around 50 years. The late forms evolve more slowly. Symptoms Nodule in the breast, breast deformity, skin irregularities, pain in [...]
Brain Cancer
Brain cancer is a malignant tumor that grows faster or slower. It is dissociated brain metastases, a complication of cancer, whose origin lies elsewhere in the body. Gradually, as the tumor grows the pressure inside the skull increases and seriously damages the brain. But the tumor is not only to increase intracranial pressure. It is [...]
Testicular cancer
Testicular cancer, testis cancer is a malignant tumor that develops in one of the testicles. There are two main types of testicular cancer. In the first, the cancer cells are transported by the lymphatic channels and invade lumbar ganglia to form metastases. In the second, the cancer cells spread through blood and lymph, which may [...]
Insomnia
Insomnia is a disruption of sleep patterns. It can result in difficulty falling asleep, waking nights, interspersed with, or an early morning wake up before the end of the sleep cycle. People with insomnia often have the impression of insufficient sleep rather than genuinely troubled. This gives the impression of the insomniac tired upon waking. [...]
Entries (RSS)