or contraction, of the heart, moves the blood throughout the body. Each heartbeat is controlled by electrical impulses traveling through the heart. In the normal heart, these electrical impulses occur in regular intervals. When something goes wrong with the heart's electrical system...
If your blood pressure gets seriously low, your body might not get enough oxygen to carry out its normal functions. That can impair the functioning of your heart and brain and cause breathing problems. You could lose consciousness or go into shock (when the organs shut down). Shock symptoms ...
Hypoglycemia.If you can't eat because of the stomach pain and vomiting that comes with cholera, your blood sugar may drop too low. Low blood sugar can cause symptoms like seizures, passing out, and even death, if it is severe enough. Children with cholera are more likely to have low blo...
Contrary to popular belief, gonorrhea cannot be transmitted from toilet seats or door handles. The bacterium that causes gonorrhea requires very specific conditions for growth and reproduction. It cannot live outside the body for longer than a few minutes, nor can it live on the skin of the ha...
Shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing Low blood pressure, leading to lightheadedness, passing out, or shock Anaphylactic shock is an emergent, life-threatening condition that occurs when blood vessels dilate excessively due to an allergic reaction, which causes a significant drop in blood pressure...
If you are breastfeeding, you are likely to have questions about the possibility of passing medication to your newborn. There are wide variations in the concentration of antidepressant in breast milk, depending on such things as the dose, your metabolism and when your baby feeds. Fortunately, ...
Heat exhaustion, which occurs when your body can't cool itself through sweating, can progress to heat stroke if left untreated. Both can cause your body temperature to rise to dangerous levels, dizziness, nausea and fainting or passing out. ...
quality of lifePASISkindex-29symptomsSummary Background The main dermatology textbooks describe only in passing pruritus in psoriasis and rarely mention other symptoms. A quantification of the presence of symptoms is not available for clinical subgroups of psoriasis. Objectives To investigate the ...
Also known as social phobia, social anxiety (SA) is an intense fear of social / performance situations. It’s normal for everyone to have passing worries about social situations, but when you are fearful of social occasions a lot of / all of the time, it could be social anxiety. Some ...
The official diagnosis can be made when any 5 of the following symptoms are present: restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis (you keep passing urine), gastrointestinal disturbance (upset tummy, diarrhea), muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycard...