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Meningitis is a rare disease, our brains have what is called a blood brain barrier that protects are brain for contamination by the blood. However, some infections can trick the barrier, which then decreases its ability to work properly.

Meningitis is a viral. It’s means the cause is infection with a virus. Bacterial meningitis is quite rare but it can be very serious and needs urgent treatment with antibiotics. It is a inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord called the meninges. It is rarely occurs when an infection in the body spreads through the blood and into the cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid that cover the outside of the brain and spinal cord.

Meningitis is a serious medical problem because it is difficult to treat. Blood flows into the brain from the neck through a network of blood vessels. This network contains special cells that prevent many chemicals from passing into the brain. This system is known as the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier prevents harmful substances from getting into the brain. The blood-brain barrier “knows” which substances the brain needs and which will damage brain cells.

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Asthma can be seriously threatening to the life of the patient. Although death only happens sometimes the possibility of it happening cannot be completely ruled out. There are a very small percentage of people who do not respond to the treatment offered at the hospitals. These people develop a situation known as acute respiratory failure.

This is a very serious and highly complicated condition. In respiratory failure the bronchial tubes are almost totally blocked. This inhibits the passage of gases to the extent that the lungs cannot get any life sustaining oxygen and at the same time they cannot get rid of the poisonous carbon dioxide as well. This is a state where without the process of respiration the person slowly suffocates to death.

In such a situation assistance of machines that can simulate breathing is taken. These machines are called ventilators. They have tubes that are inserted into the trachea and the respiratory muscles are paralysed. Then the process of breathing is completely taken over by the machine which pumps in required amount of oxygen into the system and removes the carbon dioxide.

The amounts of oxygen can be adjusted with the help of dials on the ventilators. The process of usage of ventilators can take place for two to three days. Once the condition of the patient improves the machine is gradually turned down and the patient is weaned from the ventilator. This process may take some time but the assisted ventilation is a very highly successful process and is also readily available in almost all the bigger hospitals with an intensive care unit.

There are very few cases of deaths because of asthma if the patient has received medical help in time. Most of the time deaths happen because the patients fail to identify the symptoms in time. Most of the deaths from asthma occur quite all of a sudden without much prior warning and expectation. This proves the need for identifying the symptoms well in time and taking serious precautions to avoid worsening of the situation.

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More than 17 million people in the US alone suffer from asthma, a serious lung ailment, resulting in 5,000 asthma deaths a year. Asthma is an allergic inflammation of the lungs, which is generally triggered by pollens, molds, dust, animal dander, air pollution, chemicals, exercise, temperature changes or ingestion of certain foods.

During an asthma attack the walls of the lungs become inflamed and the mucus membranes fill with fluid and thick, sticky mucus making it difficult to breathe. Asthma symptoms can include a scratchy throat, coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing and a tight feeling in the chest. An asthma attack can be mild, moderate or severe and lasting for a few minutes, hours, or even several days.

Knowing when to get emergency help for a severe attack can save your life. If you are experiencing the following, you should seek immediate medical attention:

-your medication does not control your symptoms

-you have extreme difficulty breathing, talking and walking,

-your fingernails or lips are turning blue,

-your chest feels tight and your ribs are pulled inward as you breathe,

-your nostrils flare when you breathe

The key to understanding and controlling asthma is to know yourself. One person may get a severe asthma reaction from a slight whiff of perfume, while another asthma sufferer has no reaction at all to the very same trigger. Everyone who suffers from asthma is unique and is effected differently, there are several variables to consider:



asthma triggers and allergies



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Hypothyroidism is when the body produces very low level of thyroid hormone by thyroid gland. This is a tiny gland situated at the base of the throat and is very important for regulating the production of thyroid hormone. This hormone is responsible for the functioning and maintenance of body energy level and also for metabolism.

Many factors are known to be responsible for hypothyroidism, but according to research the major cause is an autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto’s disease. Other known causes include iodine deficiency, birth defects, hereditary and inflammation of the thyroid gland.

Some of the symptoms of hypothyroidism include depression, low sex drive, abnormal or irregular menstrual cycle in women, memory loss, hair loss, constipation, weight gain, hoarse voice and chronic fatigue and weakness.



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Asthma is a chronic lung disease. It’s inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes a whistling sound when you breathe, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. The coughing often occurs at night or early in the morning. Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts in childhood. Asthma affects 7% of the population, and 300 million worldwide. Nearly 100 million of these people are children. During asthma attacks, the smooth muscle cells in the airways constrict, and the airways become inflamed and swollen and breathing becomes difficult. Public attention in the developed world has recently focused on asthma because of its rapidly increasing prevalence, affecting up to one in four urban children.

Asthma Day

In every year mid of the year 6th May is celebrated as Asthma day throughout the world. This day makes all the patients feel appreciated and cared for after a year long of suffering. The organizations such as Gina and WHO dealing with this condition come up with different programs making people aware of the condition and suffering of these patients.

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It is important to know that Actos is a serious drug with serious side effects. This year the most popular diabetes drug Avandia was removed from the market in Europe due to the fact that it causes direct heart attacks. This is not a small thing this is critical to your heart health. The Avandia drug destroyed the valve of the heart. When this happens your legs swell and you have shortness of breath. This should matter to you because Actos side effects have been found to cause the same heart problems.

Sadly while Avandia has received all the publicity for being a deadly drug Actos has been found to do the very same thing. A recent scientific research study found that Actos works to reduce blood sugar the same way Avandia did, but it also causes the heart to have deep trouble. All diabetes drug are dangerous and will ruin the heart, this is due to the pathway that is used to lower the blood sugar. It must be noted that diabetes medications have never proven to help a type 2 diabetic more that lifestyle changes. In fact a recent diabetes type 2 study showed that lifestyle changes beat a popular diabetes drug in reversing type 2 diabetes. The Actos heart problems and side effects may be avoidable.

Type 2 diabetes can be reversed when the source of the problem is heal. The problem is not sugar or eating fast food. The pancreas of the diabetic is failing and the body is not producing good insulin.

This can be cured without the dangerous of medication. The danger of diabetes and obesity drugs are causing problems to many people and must be avoided if possible. If you can reverse this without drugs do so. The Actos side effects and heart problems can possibly be avoided by lifestyle changes. See here where lifestyle beat drugs to reverse type 2 diabetes CLICK HERE borderline diabetes diet



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Group b strep poses serious concerns when it impacts a newborn.An infant with a a group b streptococcus infection is at significant jeopardy of severe complications and even death. The infection could abruptly develop into pneumonia, sepsis (an infection that spreads across the body), and meningitis. Given the risks a group b streptococcus infection poses to babies physicians generally agree that it is necessary to reduce the danger that the infection will be transmitted to the baby from a mother who carries, or has any of the risk factors, for the bacteria.

There are therefore several circumstances that doctors factor in in figuring out whether there is an increased risk that the mother will transmit the bacteria to her infant. The mother’s medical history includes the detection of the GBS bacteria during a prior pregnancy. The second is when the woman tests positive from a GBS screening during weeks 35 and 37 of the pregnancy. Among the factors that places a pregnant woman at risk for group b strep is when her membranes rupture in excess of eighteen hours preceding labor. If a doctor is advised of a known history or the presence of any of the risk factors yet does not administer antibiotics and the child afterwards develops a Group B Streptococcus infection and suffers substantial injury as a result, the doctor might be liable for failing to meet the standard of care.

Consider the report of a lawsuit regarding a nineteen year old female who, prior to reaching full term, was admitted to a hospital to give birth to her baby. It was known by the doctor who delivered the infant that the woman had suffered a rupture of her membranes beyond eighteen hours preceding the beginning of labor. Yet even though this put the expectant mother at risk of a Group B Strep infection the physician failed to give antibiotics for Group b streptococcus. Once birth her newborn was depressed and required resuscitation. The medical staff at the hospital eventually became aware that this was on account of a Group B Strep infection. Regardless of attempts at treatment by the hospital staff the newborn died 2 days after birth due to complications from the infection. The mother went forward with a claim and the law firm that represented her announced that following trial a jury awarded the mother $457,000 for her loss.

As this claim illustrates not administering correct antibiotics in the course of labor for an expectant mother whose membranes ruptured more than eighteen hours before may lead to the transmission of group b strep to her newborn. The implications might be tragic. The infant could suffer permanent harm or, as in the case previously mentioned, might not live. Under such circumstances, the failure to follow through with the administration of the proper antibiotics in the course of labor or, if needed, following delivery may lead to liability under a medical malpractice or wrongful death claim.



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Asthma (Az-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation (IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning.

Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive amounts of mucus, often in response to one or more triggers. In children, the most common triggers are viral illnesses such as those that cause the common cold.This airway narrowing causes symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. The airway constriction responds to bronchodilators.

Asthma affects a person’s bronchial (pronounced: brahn-kee-ul) tubes, also known as airways. When a person breathes normally, air is taken in through the nose or mouth and then goes into the trachea (windpipe), passing through the bronchial tubes, into the lungs, and finally back out again. But people with asthma have airways that are inflamed.

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The failure to diagnose meningitis is becoming a leading cause of medical malpractice cases. Meningitis is an infection of the membrane surrounding the spinal cord and brain. It is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Bacterial meningitis is far more serious, and may result in brain damage, hearing loss, learning disability or even death.

Early diagnosis and identifying the specific type of bacteria that caused the meningitis is crucial because antibiotics can prevent some types of meningitis from spreading and infecting other people.

Meningitis occurs significantly in college students. It is believed that they may be at greater risk due to shared utensils, active or passive smoking, irregular sleeping patterns, and crowded living conditions such as dormitories. Other high-risk groups include infants and young children, refugees, and military personnel.

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“Meningitis” and “encephalitis” are two words that pop onto most people’s radar screens from time to time, and usually in some scary context, like hearing of a cluster of cases in their child’s school, or reading media reports of epidemics occurring nationally or internationally. While most people understand that these words mean there is some sort of infection of the nervous system, other distinctions and implications are often left unstated and, as a result, can be vague or confusing.

The basic concepts are built into the words themselves. Starting at the ends of the words and working forwards, “-itis” is the medical suffix meaning inflammation. Although it’s possible for inflammation to occur without an infection being present, as a practical matter, in most cases of meningitis or encephalitis the inflammation is indeed due to an infection.

The next step in understanding these concepts is to analyze the first parts of the words. “Mening-” refers to the meninges which are the membranous coverings of the brain and spinal cord. So “meningitis” means inflammation or infection of these membranous coverings. By contrast, “encephal-” refers to the encephalon or brain (originating from the Greek word “enkephalos”), so “encephalitis” means inflammation or infection of the brain itself.

Although no case of meningitis or encephalitis is trivial, depending on the particulars, some cases end up as temporary illnesses from which there is full recovery, while others can be severely damaging or even lethal. In a nutshell, cases of meningitis caused by viruses are usually associated with good outcomes (even without treatment), while cases of meningitis involving bacteria are very serious and require emergency treatment with powerful antibiotics. All cases of encephalitis–usually caused by viruses and not by bacteria–are serious, and antiviral treatment is available for some of the viruses involved, but not all.

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