Signs and symptoms Yellow, brown or black skin growths on the face, chest, shoulders and back. People with fair skin and older than 40 years are suffering most seborrheic keratoses. Seborrheic keratoses, which come from is not known but it is about benign skin tumors. The tumors are oval in shape and have a surface [...]
Signs and symptoms Grained, scaly, dark spots on the face, the scalp and the backs of the hands. People with fair skin that sun damage are the most affected by actinic keratoses. An actinic keratosis is not a normal cornification by best Arling. After the creation of an Actinic keratoses will first be flat and [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Een tekening op de huid die ontstaat voor of kort na de geboorte. Verschillende soorten van gewone geboortevlekken worden hemangiomen genoemd. Het zijn goedaardige, gewoonlijk pijnloze tekeningen op de huid zonder oorzaak. Ze ontstaan door een plaatselijke woekering van bloedvaten. Voor een uitgebreide bespreking van geboortevlekken, zie het stuk in hoofdstuk 1.1; [...]
Signs and symptoms Small, smooth, cherry red lumps on the skin. A cherry hemangioma is a benign skin tumor that is. The cause of a cherry hemangioma is not known, but are known to occur usually after the age of 40. Cherry hemangiomas are ubiquitous on the skin, but mostly they sit on the trunk. [...]
Signs and symptoms Flat, light brown to black spots on the face and the backs of the hands. Senilos lentigo or liver spots are not dangerous spots and increased pigmentation. They may have the size of a freckle, but can also be larger with a diameter of one inch. People over 55 years have regularly [...]
Signs and symptoms Flesh-colored, brown, blue or black spots on the skin. Most people have one or more moles. Moles are generally benign gezwelletjes which consist of an accumulation of pigment cells. You have them with hair, they can even enter the skin and wrinkling. In old age they may even just fall off. As [...]
Signs and symptoms Flesh-colored or lighter colored, wrinkled or knobby growths on the skin. An excessive development of scar tissue or keloid is also known as hypertrophic scars. It occurs in places where the skin has been damaged. This may be by surgery, vaccination, severe acne, skin burns or even a simple scratch. People with [...]
Signs and symptoms Small, hard, flesh-colored, white or pink, grainy bumps on the skin. A wart, verruca vulgaris, also known, is a benign gezwelletje which is caused by a virus which skin cells turn into a multiplication which is not inhibited. Warts are contagious when touched someone else can also have problems with. Usually there [...]
If you suffer from overgrowth of skin and you see that it changes or does not swear that it heals itself again it is advisable to consult a doctor. It can then decide to place a medical examination. There can in such case be skin cancer. When skin cancer is detected early and treated, the [...]
Signs and symptoms Pearl or waxy bumps on the skin of the face, ears or neck. Flat flesh-colored or brown scar-like abnormalities on chest or back. Basal cell cancer is a form of skin cancer which is most prevalent. In about 75 percent of cases of skin cancer or basal cell carcinoma involves basal cell cancer. [...]
Signs and symptoms Fixed-touch red nodules or flat disks with a scaly or crusty surface on the face, ears, neck, hands or arms. Another name for epitheelcelcarcinoom’s epithelioma or spin cellular carcinoma. Epitheelcelcarcinoom It arises from the middle portion of the epidermis and is a malignant tumor. Epitheelcelcarcinoom it may spread to internal organs or [...]
Signs and symptoms Superficial spreading melanoma, small disks with irregular borders and red, white, blue or blue-black spots on the trunk and limbs. Nodular melanoma: shiny, solid feeling, pearl gray to black bulges or disks that can occur anywhere on the skin. Acro lentigineus melanoma: acro means at the top or at the end standing. [...]
Signs and symptoms Aggressive form: purple-red lumps in every conceivable place. Dormant forms: dark blue or purple bumps on a toe or leg. The Kaposi’s sarcoma is a malignant disease. It is sometimes combined with other cancers such as lymphoma or leukemia. At first, the deviation red to purple, it seems quite a birthmark (hemangioma). [...]
The skin protects us from external dangers and therefore display the first line of defense when it comes to attacks from viruses, fungi, bacteria and poison. If bacteria have found a place in a wound because they may be some deviations occur. Invaders such as bacteria, for example, hair follicles are going to infect or [...]
Signs and symptoms Itchy, red sores with yellow, gray crusts on the face, arms or legs. Impetigo is quite common, this is a superficial skin condition which is caused by bacteria. The bacteria that cause impetigo usually penetrate the skin through a scratch, scrape, insect bite or a pre-existing skin condition. Impetigo can also be [...]
Signs and symptoms Small pimples with a white head around hair follicles. Folliculitis is an infection of the hair follicles. It is common and in nine out of ten cases are caused by fungi or staphylococci. The infection can occur anywhere on the skin caused by abrasive clothing, clogged hair follicles or trauma. For example, [...]
The average person has normal blood pressure, which is 120/80 mm Hg. This value means that a maximum pressure of 120 mm when pumped by the heart, and between the two layers at a pressure of 80 mm Hg. Two factors determine the blood pressure in a person’s body. The amount of blood pumped by [...]
High blood pressure is in most cases caused by increased resistance in the bloodstream. This is possible because the blood vessels, in terms of diameter, have narrowed. The heart will have to work harder for the same amount of blood throughout the body to pump water. High blood pressure is often only made when a [...]
When over a period of years, high blood pressure is measured can cause damage throughout the body. This happens only when the hypertension is not treated. For example, a heart attack occur. Also, there is kidney damage, vision loss and stroke occur. Damage to blood vessels. When blood vessels long to work with high blood [...]
By making changes in lifestyle, more exercise and extra attention to food. Often this treatment is most effective medication for high blood pressure to address. Because hypertension can be caused by various reasons, there are a lot of drugs. The doctor will decide for you which medicine is best for your type of high blood [...]
The coronary artery is the leading cause of death in the Netherlands. There are about 30,000 people die annually from diseases of the coronary arteries. The disease will never be right, but will develop in years. The effect is very effective. Over 30 percent of all cases without a death warning. The blood vessels that [...]
If an artery is narrowed or closed may prevent a chest pain occurs when there is an effort. This can cause a heart attack. For the physician it is a challenge for coronary artery disease to detect, and reduce the consequences. Unfortunately it is not possible to use a stethoscope to detect a coronary artery [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain from the heart (a tight, band-shaped, tightness, sharp and often suffocating, usually at the breastbone (sternum) and often radiates to the throat or arm). A feeling of heaviness in the chest or cords together. Attacks are usually triggered by exertion or emotional stress. Anxiety. Angina pectoris derives its name from the [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling (edema) of the ankles, bed rest with swelling of the back. Shortness of breath. Weakness and fatigue. Only the term heart failure occurs in most cases not much good in people. They think like a heart attack, while the weakened heart rarely stops pumping. There is loss of efficacy in heart. [...]
Alarming signs and symptoms Severe shortness of breath. Restlessness and fear, fear of suffocation. Pink, frothy sputum. Sweating. Paleness. When the pressure in the pulmonary veins to high pulmonary edema will occur. This pressure will be large amounts of fluid from the veins are compressed, and air sacs of the lungs. This causes the edema [...]
Alarming signs and symptoms Severe, persistent chest pain, often described as a heavy, oppressive feeling. The pain may radiate to the chest from the left shoulder and arm, back, and even teeth and jaws. Persistent pain in the upper abdomen. Shortness of breath. Episodes of fainting. Nausea, vomiting, fainting and sweating may occur. Quick succession [...]
The heart must always pumping. With good or bad weather. When this process gets interrupted, the heart will not be able to pump blood around the body, causing vital organs of oxygen can get stuck. The easiest is to the heart as two pumps. Both of these two pumps are empty spaces which are surrounded [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Palpitations or skipped heart. Attack-wise light-headedness. Discomfort in the chest. Shortness of breath. When the rhythm of your heart is not right, this is called palpitations. Also, this is called an arrhythmia. It depends which tachycardia originated, only then can the correct signs are given. It may be that you know [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Shortness of breath and fatigue. Alarming signs Extremely short of breath and weakness. Loss of consciousness, convulsions. Electrical pulses from the sinus node controlling heart rate. The pacemaker cells will continue to send electrical pulses through the two atria. The muscular walls of the atria will be pulling them together. From [...]
Signs and symptoms Immediately bewus thinner loss without demonstrable cause. There is no pulse to feel. Most people are terrified to have a heart attack. It is the biggest killer of middle-aged men. It is also five times more common in women than moons. Medicine today is not how it is possible how the heart [...]
Signs and symptoms A swollen and painful thickening of the skin, usually pink or red. The swelling and redness of the skin expands and becomes very painful. Fever or a feeling of exhaustion. A furuncle is an infection or steempuist in a place or a measurement of hair follicles. This infection is in most cases [...]
Signs and symptoms A very painful and hot to the touch area of the skin in the face, arm or leg, that looks red and swollen with stripes and blisters. Cellulite occurs when connective tissues beneath the skin is inflamed. This inflammation is often caused by a bacterial infection. A skin infection, fungal infection or [...]
The definition of the term mental health is difficult. It is not surprising that many generations under discussion. For us, mental health, at least not the absence of emotion or conflict. It could be described as the ability to cope with unpleasant periods in your life as a traumatic experience or loss. This should take [...]
Signs and symptoms Certain portions of the skin may be red and swollen and painful. Lymfadenitis is caused by an infection of the lymph nodes. This infection can be followed by bacteria, viruses, fungi or other pathogenic microorganisms. Lymphangitis is similar to lymdadentitis but concerns the lymphatic system. It coexists with abscesses and cellulitis with pus. [...]
Signs and symptoms Alone or together in a group portrait, small, fluid-filled blisters on a somewhat elevated, red, painful area of skin. Small painful ulcers in the mouth with a white or yellow center and a red border. Rash Fever is very common. Fever Rash or fever blisters can occur on the body size mostly [...]
The heart of man has four bedrooms, four valves. Two of these valves allow blood from the upper chambers to the other ventricle is pumped. The other two valves allow the blood to other parts of the body is brindle. The valves ensure that blood can eat only one side, and not against the current [...]
Signs and symptoms Primary (two of the following signs must be present for the diagnosis): Heart inflammation (carditis), sometimes noticeably by weakness and breathlessness. Arthritis from one to another joint about. Involuntary movements of limbs and face (chorea). Swollen red spots on the skin. Bumps under the skin (subcutaneous nodules). Secondary (the presence of a [...]
Signs and symptoms Fever. Unusual tiredness and loss of appetite. Heart murmur. Night sweats, chills. On the inside of the four bedrooms, sitting endocardium. This is a membrane that covers the room. An infection of the endocardium can occur when the heart has a soft place, so that bacteria can reproduce. If you have a [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Shortness of breath, especially after exertion. Rapid fatigue. Frequent episodes of bronchitis. Discomfort in the chest or heart palpitations. The left side of the chamber is connected to the ventricle below it through the mitral valve. When the opening of the mitral valve narrows, the passage of the blood go stiffer. [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Short periods of rapid heartbeat (palpitations). Chest pain. Shortness of breath. Easily fatigued. On the left side of the heart, the upper cavity, also called the atrium, the ventricle below it connected by the mitral valve. The mitral valve consists of two slip. The valves allow the passage of blood from [...]
Signs and symptoms None. No physical exertion as possible. Shortness of breath. Chest pain (angina). Fainting. The aortic valve allows blood to is off the main pumping chamber (left ventricle) into the main artery, the aorta, to flow, which in turn the oxygenated blood to smaller and smaller arteries and the tissues of the body [...]
The blood flows from the four areas of the heart valves. In the section above are the most common valve abnormalities discussed the aortic and mitral concerned on the left side of the heart. Rarely also develop abnormalities of the pulmonary and tricuspid valve. The blood flows from the upper chamber, the right atrium through [...]
There are three layers of heart tissue: the epicardium, a thin, very slick coating on the outside, the myocardium, the muscle itself in the middle, and the endocardium, the inner boundary, a very smooth surface that makes contact with the blood into the ventricles . The whole body is on the outside protected by the [...]
Signs and symptoms Short periods of rapid heartbeat (palpitations). Shortness of breath. Weakness. Chest pain. Fainting. Fluid retention (edema). When the heart muscle is damaged or partially damaged, this is called in the medical world cardiomyopathy. This is loosely translated muscle disease. Cardiomyopathy may occur in several forms. Forms of cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy. In dilated [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain or tingling in one area on one side of the body or face, preceded by a rash consisting of tiny, fluid-filled blisters. Shingles is an infection caused by the same virus as chickenpox. After you have had chickenpox, the virus still present in your body. Years later it may come up [...]
Signs and symptoms Small, pearly nodules on the skin with a core consisting of white, cheesy material. Molluscum contagiosum is caused by a relatively common viral infection of the skin. Typical of any small, round bumps on navel is a small black top. In children they appear nodules usually in the face, trunk or limbs. [...]
Signs and symptoms An itchy, red, wet, scaly and cracked skin between the toes. Itchy, fluid-filled lumps on the side or bottom of the foot. Strong dry areas with little white flakes on the side of the foot, the soles or palms. Itchy, red or gray, scaly patches on the scalp with partial baldness or [...]
Signs and symptoms Itchy, red bumps. Red, painful open sores. A local numbness or a feeling just like someone pricking needles into your skin. Alarming signs Swelling of the face, severe paralysis, muscle cramps, difficulty breathing, headache, nausea or fever. Unconsciousness. The symptoms of an insect bite caused by poison and other products in the [...]
A hair is made of keratin, the same protein product to the nails and the outer layer of skin is formed. The portion of the skin, the hair shaft or sheath called her. An average man has one hundred thousand hairs on his head. The root of a hair found under the skin and is [...]
Signs and symptoms An overall reduction in the amount of hair on the head. A moderate reduction in hair growth on the crown and the hairline. It is common in women the hair becomes thinner, as they age. A person may at the age of 80 years just as much as her when she was [...]
Signs and symptoms A receding hairline. Moderate to extensive loss of hair, especially on the crown. The image of male baldness is well known. It usually starts the first time at the hairline, which gradually withdraw in the form of a capital M. It is also possible that the hair thinning and not as long [...]
Signs and symptoms Small bald patches on the scalp. The hair over the skull is thinner. Complete hair loss over the body. Gradual loss of hair can have various causes, including excessive styling hair, a hairstyle where the hair too much tension, compulsive damaging her (turning, rubbing or pulling), diseases or infections of the skin, [...]
Nails occur at the ends of our fingers and toes and are made of thin layers of a certain type of protein called keratin. Each nail grows into the end of the finger or toe nail from a root, which is located in a fold of skin. Just before the root is a piece of [...]
Signs and symptoms A red and swollen areas of skin around the nail. A paronychia is an infection of the skin around the nail, usually caused by staphylococcus (bacteria) and fungi. It is usually due to an injury or stripping skin of a sheet or a torn nail bed of the nail pushing back the [...]
Signs and symptoms Thickened and lusterless nails of fingers and toes with discoloration and crumbling edges. Spores can adhere to the compact layer of keratin cells, which is the nail. These microscopic organisms can digest keratin and to reproduce it. The result is an infection known as onychomycosis (fungal nail) and can last indefinitely. You [...]
Fear and lack of self esteem in our society, perhaps the greatest obstacle to mental health. Anxiety may be due to a collision or an unresolved situation that causes stress. Anxiety can manifest itself in physical symptoms such as poor sleep and bad food. A lack of self-esteem may be because it fails to meet [...]
Conflicts will always occur in life. The ability to process these we identify as mental health. Most people in their lives too predictable patterns of conflict to come. It can be a great comfort to know that we are able to recognize this and are good to deal with than to think that only we [...]
In the development of a teenager’s growing interest in sexuality is a key feature. In this period also changes the body of a child to that of an adult. In addition to these physical changes there are many changes in the life of a teenager in other areas of life. The question “Who am I” [...]
In the early adult years, both men and women to make important choices and decisions made. Business as a career, choosing a partner and start a family ensure that the free time they had as children and adolescents is becoming less. A necessary evil to get ahead in life. For most people this is a [...]
The deterioration of their physical health that most people in older age feel has a strong influence on emotional adjustment. At least 75 percent of people over 65 years suffer from at least one chronic physical condition. One in ten find it difficult to leave his skin. Severe losses, such as the death of the [...]
Despite the image of carefree youth, this time far from easy. Quite a few children find it emotionally difficult to deal with a wide range of topics. Think of self-control, dealing or coping with peers and for example the separation of the parents. The result is that parents often become easily alarmed and wonder if [...]
Signs and symptoms Involuntary voiding at least twice a month by a child older than 5 years. Almost every parent should be the words “Mommy, I wet the bed”. Many children are thus at an early age suffered from an accident. When we talk about bedwetting, or enuresis, but that’s about it at least twice [...]
Signs and symptoms Repeated production of feces in the wrong places (other than toilet or chamber pot) by a child at least 4 years old. Encopresis is frequently produce relief in places where it does not belong like the pants or on the gravel. Encopresis is only found in children over 4 years and which [...]
A child with learning disabilitiesis a child that insufficient action has a specific learning area. This is not the result of a demonstrable physical or neurological disorder, mental retardation or insufficient opportunity to be trained. Usually there is a disturbance on a specific intellectual maturation area – reading, math, language or speech.
Signs and symptoms Body weight at least 25 percent higher than the average. We are talking about obesity or obesity when a person is overweight or that fourth more than the average. It is often caused by more calories into the body than the body can handle. The excess calories are stored as fat than [...]