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Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are both come under the common term “eating disorder”, in both of these there occurs severe disturbance in the behavior of eating. In anorexia nervosa, there is a refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, while in bulimia nervosa there are recurrent episodes of binge eating which is […]
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Headache is sometimes is a sign of trivial things like lack of sleep, tension, etc but sometimes a manifestation of some underlying disease, like tumor of the brain, hemorrhage in subarachnoid space, meningitis, other neurological diseases, low vision, hypertension, etc, that’s why it is necessary to rule out the causative factor. Classification of headache according
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Arthritis means inflammation (it includes warmth, pain, and pain on pressure) of a joint, it is also responsible for limitation of joint movement which is affected, the cause of arthritis is may be due to pyogenic or septic arthritis or due to rheumatoid arthritis. Types of arthritis: Monoarthritis (which involves one joint at a time,
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder in which there is an absence of any structural pathology, as nothing is obtained from any investigatory procedures like endoscopy, colonoscopy, etc. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of the young age group, mostly present before the age of 45 years, but some
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Kidney stones have many names like renal calculi or urinary calculi or nephrolithiasis, they are common, they are usually visible on X-ray. Basic constituents of kidney stones are cystine, struvite, uric acid, and calcium salts. Calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate are more common constituents of kidney stones. Calcium stones are more commonly found in males,
COPD is the disease in which there is airway obstruction, which does not change significantly over several months and it is not reversible unlike asthma reversed. This disease is suspected in the patients who are over 40 years of age, who present with symptoms of cough for a long time and with sputum production and
Asthma is an obstructive pulmonary disease, it is characterized by inflammation of the airway, which is chronic in nature, which leads to tightness of chest, wheezing sound, and difficulty in breathing, this condition is due to obstruction of airflow which may be present for a long time or short time, and is reversed by the
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are chronic inflammatory disorders of unknown cause which involves the gastrointestinal tract. Inflammatory bowel disease mainly occurs in age groups of 15 years to 30 years and between the age group of 60 to 80 years. Types of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis involves the only colon,
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Inflammation of tonsils is called tonsillitis. Tonsils are mass of lymphoid tissue that is situated at the back of the throat, one on each side. Tonsils have a defensive role and they act as a guard at the portal of food and air passage, they enlarge when coming in contact with some foreign substance. Tonsils
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Back pain is common in humans because of upright posture. Back pain is uncommon in children, when present it indicates some organic disease, but in adults, it is mostly due to psychological factors play a key role in producing back pain. In teenagers back pain that arises due to wrong posture and trauma or injury.