Diseases

Anorexia – How to Deal With it

Anorexia is thought of by most people as a funny and preposterous. Some anorexic patients are thought of as crazy because of the many ways that they try to avoid becoming “fat.” Some anorexics eat pieces of paper or anything that is not even supposed to be edible. Although it may seem crazy, this disease [...]


Anti-Snoring Jab

It takes two minutes and costs just $5, but its effects could be priceless for the partners of loud snorers.
The “snoreplasty” involves injecting a chemical called sodium tetradecyl into the roof of the mouth.
It acts as a hardening agent that stops the soft tissue at the back of the mouth from vibrating.

A team led by [...]


Helminthic Infection – The Basic Information

Helminthic Infection is a problem that interrupts the quality of the life and sometime it may develops to the serious diseases.
The Helminthic is classified in 2 groups:

Nematodes: Known as roundworm and.
Platyhelminth: Known as tapewarm and flukes.

There are many kinds of roundworms in nematodes group such as Acariasis, Enterobiasis, Trichuris and strongyloides stercalaris.
Acariasis
Transmission by eating the [...]


Some metabolic diseases

There are some metabolic diseases we can do something about: PKU and a low phenylalanine, low-protein diets. You give them just enough proteins so that these patients can grow. Homocystinuria: we used to decrease their protein restriction a little bit but now betaine has sort of taken care of all of that, and we usually [...]