Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Chronic, mild cough sometimes with sputum. Weight loss. The term used interchangeably with emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Emphysema is very common and in most cases due to prolonged smoking, heredity and even earlier on asthma may also have some influence. Cigarette Smokers have the greatest chance of getting [...]
Signs and symptoms Attacks of shortness of breath. Cough. Tightness of the chest. Wheezing Asthma is characterized by spasms of the muscles in the lining of the airways. Under normal circumstances the muscles in the wall of the bronchi only together as a protective response to prevent harmful substances into the lungs. In asthma, these [...]
Signs and symptoms Cough. Physical activity is not tolerated. Repeated pneumonia. Chronic diarrhea. Shortness of breath. Loss of appetite. Shortage of salt and heat exhaustion in hot weather. Cystic fibrosis or CF is a hereditary disease that affects both the airways and affects the digestive tract. It is the most common, fatal, inherited disease and [...]
Signs and symptoms There are often no symptoms. Generally unwell. Fever. Shortness of breath especially on exertion. Emaciation. The cause of sarcoidosis, also called Besnier-Boeck disease, is unknown. The disease can be almost any part of the body damage, including skin, eyes, peripheral nerves, liver, lymph nodes and heart, but 90 percent of cases the [...]
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Feeling fatigue and weakness. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Cough. Interstitial lung diseases are a group of more than one hundred eighty chronic diseases, non-malignant and non-infectious. These diseases are characterized by the infiltration of inflammatory cells in the walls of the alveoli, leading to abnormal scar tissue [...]
Signs and symptoms Shortness of breath. Fever. Decreased blood pressure and rapid pulse. Cough. Pain on the side of the atelectasis. Shock. Atelectasis is the overlap (collapse) of a portion of the lung, or sometimes an entire lung (collapse). The cause blockage or obstruction of a bronchus, in most cases by a mucus plug, but [...]
Signs and symptoms Often not. Sometimes chest pain. Shortness of breath sometimes. When a pneumothorax (collapsed lung) is present in the pleural air outside the lung, but within the chest. The medical term for this is pneumothorax. When a spontaneous pneumothorax occurs, it is usually the result of the bursting of a bubble on the [...]
Signs and symptoms Painful abdominal cramps. Bloody stools. Nausea and vomiting. Weight loss. Tumors of the small intestine almost never. Only 4 percent of all tumors in the gastrointestinal tract, are tumors of the small intestine. Fortunately, most tumors of the small intestine are benign. The tumors are most common in people between 40 and [...]
Signs and symptoms Often there are no present. Occurrence of change in bowel. Blood in the stool. Mucous discharge from the anus. Small, invisible amounts of blood in the stool. A benign tumor of the colon is common. People over 60 years, more than 50% chance of a benign gezwelletje of the colon have. Often [...]
Signs and symptoms Rectal bleeding. Change in bowel habits. Abdominal pain, often krampend. Microscopic amounts (occult) blood in the stool. Unexplained anemia. Unexplained weight loss. Sometimes none of. Cancer is most common in the colon and rectum in adults. Colorectal cancers are also called these two forms. Colorecatle cancer is increased if there is a [...]
Signs and symptoms Severe constipation. Malnutrition. The large intestine can be increased so much that it no longer can propel the stool. This can be congenital, but also suffered a cause. This is called megacolon. Often there is a nerve disorder of the colon that causes it not be possible to propel the stool. Hirschsprung’s [...]
Signs and symptoms Increasing abdominal pain. Bloating. Nausea and vomiting. No stool or wind may have to leave. Fever. Low blood pressure. Thirst. When there is a peritonitis, it means that there is an inflammation of the peritoneum. The peritoneum is the membrane that is in the abdominal organs. Bacteria are the main cause of [...]
Signs and symptoms Fever. Abdominal pain. Pain in the chest. Joint pain. Skin problems on the lower legs. A recurrent fever, inflammation of the intestine is also called familial Mediterranean fever called. Familial Mediterranean fever is a hereditary disease.
Signs and symptoms Bloating. Painful cramps in the middle of the abdomen. Vomiting. No stools or wind may have. When speaking of an intestinal obstruction, there will be a partial or total closure of the large / small intestine occur. This allows the digestion products is not their road through the intestines. When an intestinal [...]
Blood vessels by the stomach is well fed. At least until it is interrupted or impeded. If this is so, there may be a shortage of food and oxygen occur. This deficiency can be caused necrosis. Here we discuss vascular abnormalities. Mesenteric ischemia. When someone has vascular deviation mesenteric ischemia, there is a partial or [...]
The 3 inch out of the rectum is also called the anus. Causes the anus, through a ring of muscle, for the expulsion of the solid waste products from the digestive system. The anus is very simple structure. This is different when you go to other parts of the digestive system looks. The most common [...]
Signs and symptoms Bright red blood on toilet paper in the water of the toilet bowl or on the stool itself. Anal protrusion of soft tissue. Soreness, especially during a bowel movement. Clusters of veins which are the lowest part of the anus and rectum holds, are also known as hemorrhoids. The hemorrhoids arise because [...]
Signs and symptoms Secretion of pus. Fever. Pain in or around the anus opening. Pain or discomfort with bowel movements. Anorectal abscesses affecting the area around the anus to. These abscesses are sometimes a sexually transmitted disease, sometimes cracking but often clogged anal glands. An abscess near the anus that easily accessible, can be cut [...]
Signs and symptoms Blood, mucus or pus in the stool. Constipation. Diarrhea. Severe pain in the rectum. Fever. By a bacterial or viral infection may be an inflammation of the rectum. An inflammation of the rectum can also be caused by Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Sometimes it happens that there is an inflammation of [...]
To the digestive system is not only the digestive tract. The liver, gallbladder and pancreas are also part of the digestive tract. The liver is a single organ, the largest in the body of man that is singular, and is also the organ with the most functions. The liver is not small, an average liver [...]
Signs and symptoms Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). Fatigue. No appetite. Nausea and vomiting. Changes in taste and smell. Slight fever. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Often this inflammation caused by a virus. It is also possible drugs or toxins that have caused inflammation. At present there are only three types [...]
This piece is a continuation of acute viral hepatitis Acute hepatitis A is the infecteuste form of hepatitis. It is also the most frequent. The disease often runs out because it comes into contact with contaminated water or food. Once it has risen it can take several weeks before a phenomenon occur in the stool. [...]
This piece is a continuation of acute viral hepatitis Hepatitis B is the more severe form of viral liver infection. It will have the same symptoms as hepatitis A. The difference is that often the symptoms are worse, and it may take longer. This may cause liver damage caused. One in ten people with hepatitis [...]
This piece is a continuation of acute viral hepatitis Hepatitis C is similar to Hepatitis A and B. The symptoms are just as bad, and there is hardly for jaundice. In fact, most people do not notice when they have hepatitis C, or occasionally have a mild fatigue. To find out yet whether the patient [...]
Signs and symptoms Often not. Fatigue. Loss of appetite. Nausea and vomiting. Continuous or recurrent jaundice. Slight fever. There are two types of chronic hepatitis. These are the chronic persistent hepatitis and chronic active hepatitis. The chronic persistent hepatitis is mild form of chronic active hepatitis. The chronic persistent hepatitis is sometimes caused by hepatitis [...]