There’s actually a medical term for this: “ponytail headache syndrome.” This disorder doesn’t affect everyone, but those who experience it know this can be a painfully frustrating type of discomfort. Ponytail headache syndrome seems to be a type of allodynia. Allodynia, which is associated ...
COPD is caused by long-term exposure to cigarette smoke, chemicals or fumes at work, air pollution, or other irritants. Over time, exposure to these toxic substances damages the airways and makes them less elastic. The walls between the air sacs are destroyed, making it difficult for the al...
There’s actually a medical term for this: “ponytail headache syndrome.” This disorder doesn’t affect everyone, but those who experience it know this can be a painfully frustrating type of discomfort. Ponytail headache syndrome seems to be a type of allodynia. Allodynia, which is associated ...
Term to replace the older term, “trypanosome stage,” which was often confused with the flagellate genus Trypanosoma. It denotes the stage (infective stage for South American trypanosomiasis and African trypanosomiasis, and the only stage found in humans in the latter illness) in which the flagell...
The senior partner, who is more than 65 years old, is wiping down the keyboards, mice, and handles with disinfectant to cleanse fomites containing the coronavirus (fomite comes from the Latinfomesmeaning “tinder,” a term for something that can start an infection first used in 1546 by Girola...
Blood glucose monitors (BGM)are a must for diabetic households because they measure the amount of sugar in the blood. If your family has a history of diabetes, obesity, or you just generally want to prepare for long-term collapse, pick up anall-in-one BGM kitthat comes with the reader,...
Conspiracy theories having to do with medicine are quite common, and we’ve written about them here before, particularly among the antivaccine movement. I even coined a term, the “central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement” and argued that the entire antivaccine belief system, as ...
This medical condition occurs when a women experiences abnormal uterine bleeding, which is a broad term that is used to identify any form of blood discharge from their uterus. It occurs in up to twenty-four percent of women between the ages of forty and fifty-five. There are two classificati...
For example there are some viruses which cause cancer. I do not wish to inadvertently block immunity to one of those! We are constantly meeting new viruses and our bodies have to learn to cope with them.. We have no idea of what long term problems we are storing up. And these links ...
ear infection, but ear infections tend to get better without them. If children have repeat ear infections, a doctor may prescribe long-term oral antibiotic treatment. Inserting ear tubes or removing the adenoids or tonsils may also be a solution for children who have repeat middle ear infections...