The reaction of the immune system to substances that the body knows that they could compromise an allergy. Usually these substances are benign and helpful, however, the body reacts to it here if it were something bad and then prduceert antibodies to defend themselves. Well to have an allergy what is now, it’s important to [...]
Without blood in our body, we would not live. Blood is very important for various functions in the body. It ensures, for example that the inhaled oxygen in our body to all tissues in our body. It also moves the carbon dioxide back out. Blood carries not only oxygen, it also transports nutrients from the [...]
The nervous system allows us the information from different parts of our body to receive shelves and offered to send our entire body. These messages affect various functions such as movement, learning, memory, emotions and thinking. The fundamental unit of the nervous system is the nerve cell (neuron). A nerve cell consists of a cell [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the tooth, the pain can vary in constant pain and throbbing. Pain while chewing Sensitive teeth, especially in warm and cold Fever and malaise Swollen lymph nodes in the neck Most people think a little fact about tooth decay. “It still has no serious consequences.” It may be unpleasant consequences. [...]
The best way to prevent tooth decay, can be reached by three steps: to look good on the diet. Not too much food that sticks to the teeth. Every day the teeth brushing with toothpaste, and floss afterwards. It is also wise to your teeth by a dentist regularly checked. It is best after every [...]
Signs and symptoms Soft gums that is going up. Gums that blood very quickly. By deposition of dental plaque, the sticky film that forms on the teeth is formed, there may be an inflammation of the gums caused. During puberty occurs to most people for the first time. Then it will come back a few, [...]
Signs and symptoms Smooth, raw tongue Dark, sometimes black tongue. When it seems that it sits. Normally sit on the tongue, tissue bulges, the papillae. In glossitis are no longer papillae on the tongue. This allows the tongue to discolor, and can understand his silky avoid losses. Glossitis can be caused by various reasons, it [...]
Signs and symptoms On the side of the tongue, the tongue base, palate, cheek, floor of mouth or a small pale lump or thickening. Cancer is quite common in the mouth. Like almost all cancers, it is important to note too early. Then there is a good chance of successful treatment. The cause is unknown, [...]
Saliva provides the mechanical cleaning of the mouth and teeth. Saliva also helps to swallow, and reduces the chance of an infection. Saliva actually doing quite a lot for the mouth. There are three pairs of major salivary glands and several pairs of smaller, in the mouth. The parotid gland is located on the sides [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling of the mouth floor, under the jaw or the ears. Reduced saliva Strange taste saliva Pain in the mouth. An infection of the salivary glands is common. For example you can have the mumps. When the salivary gland closes, or poor oral hygiene, it may be that an infection develops. When [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling under the chin or the ear, especially at dinner. Less saliva, especially at dinner. Pain in the mouth. In the mouth floor are submandibular glands. These glands can be closed by a small hard confirmation, like a stone that occurs as rainfall. This consists of the chemical ingredients that saliva also [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling under the chin or ear. It can be a very case than in one of the salivary glands a tumor arises. This is caused by tumor cells multiply. In most cases, these benign tumors The tumors are not the one the other day. The tumors occur very gradually. You may also [...]
If you’ve had an accident, leaving a wound of the teeth or mouth, behind, chances are that it is broken or dislocated jaw is a. Also, of course, so that a missing tooth by such a blow. If there is something wrong with the jaw, should be looked at as soon as possible.
Signs and symptoms Teeth are no longer close to each other. Pain when moving the jaw, or they can no longer together. Alarming signs When the respiratory tract is blocked. Much bleeding. If there is something wrong with the jaw, it is often the lower jaw. If you have an injury, you should as soon [...]
There is a very famous picture where George Washington on it. Here he is with a left facial pain. This is said that the expression is said, because he used an ill-fitting wooden teeth. Not always exist a denture. It was therefore not used to be handy if you lost teeth, because it became increasingly [...]
As a permanent element is lost, must not be thought, that’ll come again. This should really be replaced immediately. Det teeth are mutually help each other place to stand. If there is a tooth is lost, it is possible that other teeth gradually disappear, and it becomes more difficult for a new element to insert [...]
When the teeth from the teeth to be achieved by parodontosose or tooth decay, there will come a denture. This will be in collaboration with the dental technician and the dentist made. Dentures and never works as good as the real teeth. Yet it better to have false teeth, teeth without going through life. During [...]
Signs and symptoms The lower jaw is always loose. Pain in the mouth when you bite into it. Gum disease. Sores, where the teeth down. Because the denture is not the body itself, may well be that there are problems. It may be that the dentures is not good, or no longer fit. There may [...]
Signs and symptoms Weight loss. Diarrhea. Abdominal cramps, gas and bloating. General weakness. Foul-smelling, gray stools that float on water. When it all goes well in the body, the quiet broken food components, molecules to which a little later in the bloodstream can be included. Unfortunately, there are several reasons why the food ingredients are [...]
Celiac disease (also known as non-tropical sprue or gluten enteropathy) is a common cause of malabsorption. This disease is caused when a hypersensitivity or allergy to gluten. Because the body can not stand the gluten, the small intestine are small “flakes” losses. Because of these flakes are the food components absorbed. In the lining of [...]
Tropical sprue can also cause malabsorption. This is most common in people going to tropical areas in the world have traveled. After having been in the tropics it does not mean that the right to be recognized. It can occur years after that. It is not yet known what is the cause of tropical sprue. [...]
Normally there is no problem when bacterial overgrowth occurs. This is namely because the bacteria with a constant bowel movements are eliminated. This bacterial overgrowth can also cause in such profusion that malabsorption occurs. This does sometimes happen in people who have diabetes, or diarrhea. When an excessive bacterial multiplication, this is often a peristaltiekstoornis [...]
AIDS can also lead malabsorptieproblemen. When malabsorption is due to AIDS, it is quite possible that people will suffer from diarrhea and weight gain. It is also possible that infections classification and thin in the colon.
Whipple’s disease is a rare form of malabsorption. It is so rare that it almost exclusively occurs in people older than 45 years. The cause of this form is still uncertain. It is certain that the symptoms are diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss and dark staining of the home occur. Slight fever can also occur. [...]
Amyloidosis is a rare form of malabsorption. It occurs only when the protein amyloid is present. Amyloid is very starchy properties. It depends on where the protein in the body, if one wants to say how bad it is. It can be a violent response, when an accumulation of amyloid in the small intestine is. [...]
In cow’s milk is the main sugar lactose. Lactose is only found in milk or milk products. When digests lactose to be, the enzyme lactase needed. When the lining of the small intestine does not develop enough of this enzyme for lactose intolerance occurs. When the body can not tolerate lactose, you may experience abdominal [...]
After surgical removal of a significantly large intestine, may malabsorption problems. This condition is called “short bowel syndrome of the ‘called. Because different food components in different locations in the small intestine to be absorbed, the effect of surgery on food absorption depend on how much bowel was removed and what part. If no significant [...]
Signs and symptoms Constant pain in the upper abdomen or around the navel starts, then right into the abdomen and felt worse when the stomach is moved, such as walking, coughing and the like. No appetite. Nausea and vomiting in many cases. Often unsuccessful urging to stool or wind to. When an appendicitis, there is [...]
A diverticulum occurs in a weakened spot in the intestinal wall. It is a bulge in the shape of a bag. A Meckel’s diverticulum is an example of a diverticulum is that since birth. This bulge is in most cases in the latter part of the small intestine. The bulge will average 6 inches long. [...]
Signs and symptoms Sudden, severe abdominal pain. Weakness and lethargy. Vomiting, usually with bile. Blood in stool which may look dark. Shallow breathing. Shock. Invagination is a disorder that rarely occurs. When intussusception of the intestine occurs, the small intestine invagination as a telescope. This happens in the next damdeel. The cause is not known, [...]
Disorders of protein loss. There are disorders that cause the proteins to be secreted. This means that a protein deficiency in the body. This is often the case with an inflamed or ulcerated mucosa. The proteins can then easily through it, and then come right in the gut. Intestinal lymfangiëctasie is a type of protein-losing [...]
Signs and symptoms Chronic diarrhea. Slight fever. Fatigue. Weight loss. Abdominal cramps and pain around the navel or belly in the right half. Joint pain. Skin problems. When two disorders of the gastrointestinal tract used to describe people there often use the term for an inflamed bowels. The cause is still unknown. These conditions are [...]
Signs and symptoms Bloody diarrhea that may contain pus. Abdominal pain. Fever. Weight loss. Joint pain. Skin problems. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory disease of the two that are located in the intestines. The cause of these diseases is unknown. It looks like Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease but the biggest difference is that it can [...]
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 [...]
Signs and symptoms Loss of appetite. Weight loss. Nausea and vomiting. General fatigue and weakness. Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). Abdominal pain. Intestinal Bleeding. Areas with small red, spider-like blood vessels arranged in the skin or easy bruising. Lost sex drive (libido no) men impotent and women can cease to menstruate. Itching. Swollen [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis Cirrhosis is often a result of alcohol abuse. After years of heavy drinking will occur cirrhosis. These people drank over 10 years every day a pint of liquor, wine liters. 3 drinks every day can be enough to cause cirrhosis. Most alcoholics do not notice the symptoms. [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis This form of cirrhosis is also known as post-hepatic cirrhosis. The hidden cirrhosis is the final stage of chronic liver disease caused by hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or any other cause. Chances are it or a virus. There are no different symptoms compared to other forms of [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis The biliary ducts and consist of tubes of the liver in larger halls together in common bile duct. Through this course, the bile to the intestine transported. Primary biliary cirrhosis is often combined with chronic inflammation and scarring of the gallows small ducts in the liver. The [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis If any of the common bile ducts is closed creates secondary biliary (gallige) cirrhosis. The closure may be due to a chronic infection. It is also possible that the closure is caused by an earlier operation, thereby narrowing occurred. The complaints will generally correspond to primary billiaire [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis Hemochromatosis is a very rare disease that is genetically determined. Hemochromatosis in the body very much iron store. The liver will be the first to get sick, because here the most iron is stored in the body. By the accumulation of iron in the liver cirrhosis may [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis When a person has Wilson’s disease, copper will be stored in various organs of the body. This can occur in eyes, kidneys, brains or liver. A patient may have to suffer pigmentation of the cornea of the eyes, trembling and liver inflammation. If Wilson’s disease is not [...]
Note: This piece complements the topic liver cirrhosis People deficient in alpha-1-antirypsine, enzyme inhibitors, may later in life emphysema and liver disease. When liver disease has been developed during childhood, it is often associated with deficiency. These people often have no symptoms, but they officially have cirrhosis.
Signs and symptoms Sometimes there are no symptoms. Loss of appetite and weight. Abdominal pain. Nausea and vomiting. General fatigue and weakness. Enlarged liver. Ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity). Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). Almost all tumors that occur in the liver are malignant. Under normal circumstances, this cancer that has [...]
Signs and symptoms Persistent fever. Chills. Nausea and vomiting. Weakness. Weight loss. Touching the liver area is painful. Jaundice. By an infection of the liver caused by bacteria or amoebas to abscesses. Abscesses caused by bacteria that have a fast course with fever and chills occur. When abscesses caused by amoebas aggravate the symptoms gradually [...]
The gallbladder is a bag that looks like a pear. He is about four inches long and about an inch in diameter. The gallbladder is located under the liver. In the liver, bile production, which is stored in the gallbladder. Occasionally, the gallbladder is drained by the drain and twaalvingerige intestine. Gal makes the digestion of [...]
Signs and symptoms Violent and sudden attack of pain in the right upper abdomen that radiates to the right shoulder blade, after fatty or fried foods. Nausea and sometimes vomiting. Loss of appetite. Gallstones (cholelithiasis or gallstones = having) come to many people. Gallstones come in as many as 0.6 percent of the total world [...]
Signs and symptoms Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). High fever with chills. Putty-colored stools. Urine the color of dark tea or coffee. Pain in the upper abdomen. Alarming signs Shock: cold, clammy pale skin with soft, fast pulse. Mental confusion. Closing gallbladder is often the result of a gallstone in the common bile [...]
Sometimes the bile duct removed, because cysts in it. This may secrete fluid into the common bile duct coming. This fluid can cause inflammation which in turn can cause a narrowing of the bile duct. The whole process is not at once. It runs in phases. As a result, people who suffer from it but [...]
In the lower part of the stomach is the pancreas. The head of the pancreas lies at the duodenum and the tail of the pancreas gets to the mild. The pancreas makes and secretes substances also again for later in another part of the body can be used. This can tell you that double the [...]
Signs and symptoms Intense and persistent abdominal pain which may radiate to the back and chest, which often begins 12 to 24 hours after a big meal or after heavy drinking have. Slight fever. Nausea and vomiting. Clammy skin. Swollen, tender abdomen. An inflammation of the pancreas may be acute, but chronic form may also [...]
Signs and symptoms Intense abdominal pain that persists and spreads to the back and chest. Fever. Compact and low stools that float on water. Nausea and vomiting. Weight loss. Clammy skin. Bloating. Occurrence of diabetes. The symptoms appear periodically over the years, as recurrent acute attacks. This inflammation of the pancreas is not the same [...]
Signs and symptoms Abdominal pain that may radiate to the back. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). Itching (pruritus). Nausea and vomiting. Intestinal Bleeding. After lung cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer, pancreatic cancer is the most in the line of the causes of death. Pancreatic cancer is [...]
Pancreas annulare. A pancreas annulare is a ring-shaped formation of pancreatic tissue which, by a disturbance in the development, includes the duodenum and therefore can close. It may be one of the causes of an ileus (darmafklemming) in newborns. In many cases, a pancreas annulare little or no pressure on the bowel. There are no [...]
If someone has a fracture / hernia, one will have often thought that the result of heavy lifting. This can only be wrong, because most hernias have no apparent cause. A newborn baby may even have a hernia. By a plague of flat muscles of the abdominal wall, our internal abdominal organs are kept in [...]