Disease info
Flood is One of Diarrhoea Causes
One of the scary diseases in the past time is diarrhea. No one knows what the causes. Until now, this disease is often to be met in some environment. Examples of diarrhoea causes is you can meet with flood victims, the unhealthy environment and no access to get some clean waters just make them the target of diarrhea disease. Because of the flood, they cannot get any access to a healthy environment. The unhealthy condition would not be they worrier.
When this situation is continually, you can see in the news that there are many people in a victim of the flood died because they get a diarrhea and they do not get a proper treatment. This situation can cause for serious concern. Many of the flood victims often become a source of disease due to their environmental condition which are not adequate to be lived. Wet and humid conditions are the most convenient place for virus and bacteria to live and grow.
There are so many causes of diarrhea, but this one is the important causes that you need to notice about it. There is a cure for this disease, but if your environment does not support for your health, then this cure is nothing than a drug. It can make you healthy, you need to find a better place until you get fit again.
Toxoplasmosis: Implications and Treatment
What are the implications for the future with this disease?
This disease is usually mild and no sequelae. Exceptionally there may be complications such as encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) or retinitis (inflammation of the retina).
When an infection occurs, the body reacts by producing antibodies against the parasite, which provides immunity to the same infection.
If a woman becomes infected during pregnancy can transmit the infection to the fetus (the risk is estimated at 20%, but varies according to length of gestation). Infection in the first trimester of pregnancy tends to be very serious for the fetus and often ends with a spontaneous abortion or serious illness in the newborn. Infection in late pregnancy usually does not cause specific symptoms, except the aforementioned retinitis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Toxoplasmosis: Tips and Diagnosis
Some tips
Pregnant women who do not know if in the past have had the disease or have been infected should take some precautions to minimize the risk of infection during pregnancy, and prevent the disease could pass to the fetus:
- Wash hands after contact with raw meat or vegetables.
- Wash hands after being in a park or garden, etc..
- Do not eat raw eggs, and avoid unpasteurized milk (especially goat).
- Avoid any contact with cat feces or objects contaminated by them.
- Do not eat meat that has not been well cooked by heat. Eating properly cooked meat. Remember that many sausages have not been previously cooked.
- The control of flies and cockroaches are also useful.
Pregnant women who have cats are more easily infected than those who do not. Read the rest of this entry »
How Do People Get Toxoplasmosis?
How do people get toxoplasmosis?
The two main routes are oral, and congenital and more rarely can be acquired through transfusions, organ transplants or accidents in the laboratory.
Cats eliminate a form of the parasite in the feces, called oocysts, which can remain viable in soil for many months. Under certain environmental conditions, the oocysts mature and form the so-called tachyzoites, which when ingested by a person, it can cause infection. Therefore, soil or food contaminated with cat feces can be a source of infection.
As in humans, in many other animals tachyzoites spread throughout the body and eventually forming in their tissues third form of the parasite we call tissue cyst. Ingestion of meat from an animal containing cysts, if undercooked, is also a source of infection. Read the rest of this entry »
Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by a protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma exists throughout the world. Birds, cats and other pets serve as a reservoir of the parasite and virtually all mammals can be infected by it. The cat is very important in the transmission of this disease.
In most of the people whose immune system is normal, Toxoplasma causes no illness as such but only an infection without symptoms. Subsequently, the parasite can stay in the body as cysts, causing a chronic infection that usually causes no consequences (even if there is an alteration of the immune system, the parasite could be “reactivated”). In these cases, treatment is generally required.
In humans, Toxoplasma can cause any of the following conditions: Read the rest of this entry »
Lupus Disease and Symptoms
Lupus own sense of the word in Latin means “coyotes.” This term began to be known about a century ago. Initially, patients with this disease thought to have skin disorders, such as redness around the nose and cheek. Red blotches on face and arms, heat and prolonged fatigue, hair loss, swollen joints and often arise sprue. This disease is not only attacking the skin, but also can attack almost all organs in the body.
The symptoms of the disease known as Systemic Lupus Eritomatosus (LES) aka Lupus. Eritomatosus means reddish. whereas significant systemic spread every related organ. The term is called LES or lupus. The symptoms which are common are:
1. Easily burnt skin from the sun and the incidence of digestive disorders.
2. Symptoms generally sufferers often feel weak, excessive fatigue, fever and aches. This phenomenon is mainly found in the active period, while in periods of remission (inactive) disappears. Read the rest of this entry »
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