Obesity is an affection defined as an increase in body weight beyond the limitation of skeletal and physical requirements, as the result of excessive accumulation of body. Obesity shows the existence of great hormonal disorders in the body. At the same time it is also one of the modern society specific affections. According to a…
Osteoporosis is a chronic disease manifested by the demineralization of the skeletal system. The inner structure of the bone is affected first of all. The bones become porous and fragile. The risk of fractures in small effort is increased and this may occur even during normal movements in advanced stages. According to the degree of…
Ear infection is a disorder holding the first place in the pediatricians’ records. Up to the age of three, four out of five children come to the physician with this problem. In figures, it means about 124 million consultations yearly only for this disease. Some of the children coming for consultation have a predisposition and…
Chronic pancreatitis is a permanent inflammatory process of the pancreatic tissue, which injures the structure of the pancreas and disturbs its functions. In time, as the disease develops, occur the endocrine and the exocrine insufficiency of the pancreas. As morphological alterations, the following may occur: local or diffuse fibrosis of the pancreatic tissue, parenchymatous calcifications…
The gums are pink in color and they bleed only in very rare cases. Eighty percent of the Earth’s population suffers from gum infections in a form or another. The most frequent ones are gingivitis and paradontosis. Unfortunately, people don’t pay enough attention in time, and paradontosis settles unnoticeably and develops slowly with the passing…
It is yet another disease that seriously harms the human body. A lot of people have parasites, but, as they are not aware of their presence, they don’t get treated, either. To a patient who gets to the physician, complaining of chronic fatigue, inguinal or vaginal inflammation, or Candida and of many other symptoms, as…
Parkinson’s disease is a degeneration of the central nervous system caused by affected brain cells or even by the destruction of a number of them. The disease is related to old age, but not only to that, because young patients, too, are affected by the latter situation, as an aftereffect of various forms of encephalitis…
Pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of the upper renal tract; it can be acute or chronic. Usually, the infection is localized to a single kidney, including renal interstitial tissue and renal pelvis. In most cases pyelonephritis is caused by: urinary bladder infections (cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis) which do not respond to treatment or relapse and can…
Viral infection attacking the respiratory system, the flu kills thousands of people yearly, although there are complex medical treatments for its cure. Certainly, the worldwide tragedies, such as the one in 1918, when the flu killed 50 million people, can be avoided these days. However, each year medicine faces new stems, because the flu virus…
Psoriasis is a chronic disease with a long term development, manifested mainly by the occurrence of specific formations upon the skin, whose aspect varies with every individual in particular. In certain cases the psoriasis manifestations at skin level vanish, only to reappear after some time, in the same or in a more severe form. In…