How To identify Jaundice With Their Symptoms

Jaundice is listed as one of the top 5 illnesses that are common during the summer season. The unbearable heat and soaring temperatures induces constant thirst, increasing your chances of drinking contaminated fluids. Jaundice is mostly commonly caused by Hepatitis A virus that is spread through infected or contaminated water. But, it is also seen in several other diseases affecting the liver. So, the signs vary depending on the actual cause of jaundice. Here are some common, early signs of jaundice that you should be aware about:

1. Yellowing of the skin and eyes: The term jaundice is derived from the French word ‘jaune’ that means yellow. Yellowing of the skin and the sclera of the eyes is a characteristic sign of jaundice. This discolouration takes place due to high levels of bilirubin, a pigment that is produced by destruction of red blood cells (RBCs) in the liver. So, any disease that affects the normal functioning of liver may also lead to abnormally high levels of bilirubin that gets accumulated in the skin and eye tissues.

2. Dark urine: Normally, the RBCs are converted to bilirubin and further modified to a pigment called bile that is excreted out of the body through urine. With abnormal levels of bilirubin, the amount of bile pigment excreted through urine also increases. This makes the urine dark in colour.

3. Pale stools: In a healthy individual with normal bilirubin level, a significant amount of bile is also excreted through the feces. But in a person suffering from jaundice, excessive amount of bilirubin is excreted mainly through urine and the rest circulates throughout the body via the blood stream to get deposited in various body tissues. This makes the stool discoloured or gray in colour.

4. Stomach pain: Jaundice may also result due to obstruction of bilirubin or bile in the bile duct. Obstruction is commonly seen with gallstone formation or due to infection or inflammation of the bile duct. It causes the pigment to get accumulated to a high level. Many people with obstruction of the flow of bile due to gallstones suffer abdominal pain. The pain is generally experienced on the right side of the stomach just below the rib cage.

5. Excessive fatigue: Fatigue is common in people who suffer from jaundice due to disease of the bile duct. It is commonly associated with primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and vanishing bile duct syndrome (drug induced liver injury).

6. Vomiting: Obstructive jaundice may also cause vomiting and nausea. It may further lead to complications if not treated properly.

7. Pruritis (itching): Itching is commonly seen in individuals suffering from jaundice due to cholestasis (obstruction of flow of bile to the intestine). Itching may first begin in the hands and the feet. It later gets generalized all over the body and may become worse at night.

8. Sleep disturbances: Sleep problems and emotional distress is also quite common in adults with jaundice.

Painless jaundice:

Jaundice without abdominal pain may indicate obstruction of the bile duct. In such cases, apart from yellowing of the skin, signs like weight loss, anorexia and soft or loose stools may be associated with jaundice.

Neonatal jaundice:

Jaundice in newborns or neonatal jaundice is quite different from adult jaundice. Babies don’t suffer from jaundice because of liver disease or damage to the liver. Liver in babies is not matured to a level that it can eliminate bilirubin as effectively as an adult liver. This causes accumulation of bilirubin in the blood resulting in jaundice. Sometimes, the baby might produce antibodies against RBCs, causing the break down of hemoglobin to raise bilirubin level of the blood. Common signs of neonatal jaundice include yellowing of the skin and eyes, sleepiness, poor feeding and high pitched cry.

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Mumps - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Mumps is a contagious viral infection that used to be common in children. Before the development of vaccination, it was a common childhood disease worldwide. It’s most recognizable by the painful swellings of the salivary glands at the side of the face under the ears (parotid glands).

Diagnosis of mumps:

If your doctor suspects that you or your child has mumps, a virus culture (PCR) or a blood test may be needed. Your immune system normally makes antibodies to help you fight an infection. So if you have mumps, the blood test can detect the antibodies in your system that are fighting the mumps virus.

Treatment options for mumps:

Because mumps is caused by a virus, antibiotics aren't effective. Like most viral illnesses, a mumps infection must simply run its course. Fortunately, most children and adults recover from an uncomplicated case of mumps within about two weeks. If you or your child has mumps, time and rest are the best treatments. You can take some steps to ease pain and discomfort and keep others from becoming infected.

Rest in bed until the fever goes away.

Isolate yourself or your child to prevent spreading the disease to others. Take pain relievers

Use a warm or cold compress to ease the pain of swollen glands.

Avoid foods that require lots of chewing. Instead, try broth-based soups or soft foods, such as mashed potatoes or cooked oatmeal, for nourishment.

Avoid citrus fruits or juices, which stimulate saliva production.

Drink plenty of fluids

Complications of mumps:

Mumps will usually pass without causing serious damage to a person’s health. Serious complications are rare. Most mumps complications involve inflammation and swelling in some part of the body, such as testicles, pancreas, ovaries, breasts and brain membranes and fluid around the brain and spinal cord. In rare cases, mumps can cause hearing loss and pregnancy loss.

Prevention of mumps:

In general, you’re considered immune to mumps if you've previously had the infection or if you've been immunized against mumps. The mumps vaccine is usually given as a combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which contains the safest and most effective form of each vaccine.

Two doses of the MMR vaccine are recommended before a child enters school:

The first between ages 12 and 15 months

The second between ages 4 and 6 years, or between 11 and 12 if not previously given

Once both doses are given, the vaccine provides 95% protection against mumps.

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Top Five Summer Diseases In India And Their Precautions

Now days its summer and summer causes many problems due to its unbearable temperature. There are mainly skin problems as per where temperature is concerned but now a days unbearable temperature that harm you but a large variety of diseases that might put damper into your lifestyle and your plans. So here are the most common diseases you must be aware of in summers.

Mumps:-

It is an extremely  contagious viral disease. It is known to occur mainly in children during peak summer when their is soaring temperature. The mumps is a virus and it is caused by the transmission of a viral by a infected person when he cough or sneezes. Its symptoms are swelling up of the person's salivary glands at the base of neck. Its symptoms are fever muscle aches, tiredness, headache, loss of appetite and is followed by swelling of salivary glands. 

Precaution:- It can be cured by MMR vaccine.

Measles:-

It is common disease of summer. This disease is also known as rubeola or morbilli. It is mainly the lining up at the back of the throat and is transmitted same as chicken pox. It is caused by a virus named paramyxo. Its symptoms are high fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat and red eyes fever, cough, runny nose and tiny white spots within the mouth. The measles rashes usually appear 3-5 days after the initial symptoms and start around the hairline and face in most cases.

Precaution:- The MMR vaccine.

Chicken Pox:-

This disease is named after the chicken as their is peck marks of chicken. It is caused by the Varicella zoster virus. Chicken pox manifests as itchy red rash like spots or boils all over the body, usually in children. Spread by air-borne particles, the disease spreads when an already infected person sneezes or coughs. Another mode of transmission is if a caregiver touches the blisters or the fluid oozing out of it. Its symptoms are fever, headache and sore throat. After about a day or two a rash like blister appears in a localized part of the body which will later spread to the entire body. The boils or blisters burst after about 2 days and once they crust over, the patient can resume their daily activities. Until then, it is important that the he/ she is kept in complete isolation and given a good amount of rest. It takes about 10 days for the body to recover from the illness. On the bright side, once you suffer from chicken pox you will not contract the disease again due to the natural immunity the first attack confers on you.

Precaution:- By keeping your self sanitized and vaccine.

Jaundice:-

It is a water-borne disease caused by mainly contaminated water supplies  and food cooked in unclean places. Now days water bottles by well named companies known to as purified water is even contaminated sometimes. It virus is also known as Hepatitis. Its symptoms are yellow discoloration of the skin, mucous membranes and the whites of the eyes, light-colored stools, dark-colored urine and itching of the skin.

Precautions:- By drinking boiled water and avoiding junk foods. 

Typhoid:-

It is also a water-borne disease commonly known as typhoid fever. Passed on by the oro-feacal route,  the bacterium is commonly found in unsanitary food or water sources. It is caused by a bacteria called Salmonella typhi. Its symptoms are high fever, fatigue, weakness, pain in the abdomen, headache, loss of appetite, and sometimes a rash. Once treated a person can still carry the bacteria but not suffer from the disease.

Precautions:- Two types of vaccines available to protect you against typhoid. One is a vaccine that uses the killed bacteria. The second is the attenuated or weakened bacterium that is administered in the form of medicine.

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ChickenPox: Causes, Diagnosis And Treatment Guide

It’s summer time having allot of heat in which itches and rashes are common. A common disease in the summer, chicken pox occurs mostly in children and sometimes in adults. Rashes that are accompanied with fever between the range of 102 to 103 degrees and general fatigue are the most tell-tale symptoms of the disease.

Chicken pox is a condition that is caused due to infection by a virus called Varicella Zoster virus (VZV). It is a highly contagious disease that is spread via contact with an infected person. Although it is believed that chicken pox is spread mostly by particles in the air, the most common way a person can get infected is by touching objects that may have been used by the patient. So avoid it so as to be safe.

Once the rashes appear, a person with chicken pox should not be in contact with other people, as he/she is highly contagious at this time. After about seven to ten days, the rashes dry out and a scab forms. Once these scabs fall off, a person is considered non-contagious. A person usually suffers from chicken pox for about 10-15 days. Chicken pox is usually seen in children under the age of 15 but can occur in adults as well. Doctors say that if an adult suffers from the disease, it usually lasts longer and is more severe. The good thing is if you get the disease once you can’t get it again. This is because the body manufactures antibodies against the virus and prevents it from occurring again. The disease takes about 14 to 24 days after infection to manifest as symptoms.

Pregnant woman have higher risk as they have chicken pox as it leads to have a weak immune system which can affect the foetus and mother very adversely. If a pregnant woman contracts the disease between the first and second trimester of pregnancy there is less chance but chance is that the baby may be born with a condition called Congenital Varicella Syndrome (CVS). In this condition the child is born with certain congenital defects such as malformation of limbs scarring of the skin, , an abnormally small head, some neurological problems and vision defects. A woman and her child are at greatest risk if chicken pox is contracted between the 13th and 20th week of pregnancy and five days before delivery and two days after delivery. This kind of chicken pox can give the baby what is called newborn chicken pox.

Do and Do not's:-

Have a bath in warm water infused with neem leaves. Another natural remedy for itchiness of the rash is to soak some oatmeal in warm water and use it for a bath. This will help to reduce the itchiness and get rid of any skin infections that might occur. Do use calamine lotion to soothe the skin, ask for a lotion that soothes the skin while not making it dry. Drying the skin could increase the itchiness.

Do not scratch the rashes. Scratching them can cause severe skin infections. Apart from the obvious disadvantages of scratching, the pus that oozes out from the rash can spread infection to other people.

Do take adequate rest, do not over exert yourself. This will delay the recovery process by weakening your immune system. Do stay away or keep your child away from other children and people. Chicken pox is highly contagious and is easily spread.

Do wear or put socks on your child’s hands at night so that they don’t scratch their rashes while sleeping. Remember to cut your nails well so as to avoid scratching yourself. To relieve the itchiness you could wash a bunch of neem leaves in warm water and stroke it over the rashes.

So here is all about chicken pox do consult with your doctor if u find symptoms in you. For any query do ask me i will be happy to answer you.

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Fibromyalgia Its Causes And Some Symptoms Of It In Humans

Fibromyalgia is a disorder caused by a widespread of musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. It is believed that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensation by affecting the way your brain processes pain signals. Symptoms sometimes start after a physical trauma, surgery, infection or any type of significant psychological stress. Women are much more likely to develop fibromyalgia than men. People having fibromyalgia also have tension headaches, temporomandibular joint disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety and depression. There is no cure for fibromyalgia but having exercises, relaxation and stress-reduction measures can help feel better.

Symptoms:-
Fibromyalgia is characterized by additional pain when firm pressure is applied to specific areas of your body, tender points. Tender point location include.

• Top of shoulders
• Front side of neck
• Upper chest 
• Back of head
• Upper hips 
• Outer elbows
• Between shoulder blades
• Sides of hips
• Inner knees

Coexisting conditions 

many people who have fibromyalgia also may have :

• Fatigue
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Endometriosis
• Headaches
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Tensions and thinking them again and again

Causes:-

Doctors do not knew the actual causes of fibromyalgia, but it is likely involves a variety if factors working together. These may include:

• Infection
• Genetics
• emotional trauma or physical trauma

So here are some tips for fibromyalgia and if you are going through such symptoms do consult your personal doctor and if you find any thing you want to ask do ask me about it i will be happy to answer you.

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Depression Symptoms And Some Ways To Control It

The day today has come when there are many depression patients and this is a warning to our next growing up generation. There is a great deal of human with many difficult circumstances due to which when the circumstances are not applicable for a person according to him he mostly go through some of the tough face of life and which sometimes leads to depression of a person . So friends today i  am going to write some depression symptoms and how can we cure our-self from depression.

What is depression ?

This whole is related to the feelings of a person weather he is feeling sad, or what we can call him to be  ''depressed'', this happens to all of us. This is a kind of sensation usually which passes after a while. So this is a phase of a life which is in our hand that how we do tackle with the situations. People who are fail to tackle situation are known to be depressed.

Symptoms and signs of depression:-

•  A general feeling of pessimism sets in(the glass is always half empty)
• A constant feeling of sadness, anxiety and emptiness
• hopeless feeling
• feeling restless
• irritability may be experienced by an individual
• may lose interest in sex
• patients may lose interest in activities or hobbies they once enjoyed
• feeling lower energy level
• hard to concentrate, remember details and make decisions
• sleeping up of too little or too much
• eating too much or have no appetite
• suicidal thoughts 
• headaches, cramps or digestive. 

Some ways to control depression:-

1. Exercise:- Exercise  boosts your stamina and also boost feel-good chemicals called endorphins which in result give a long relief to the depressed people. Regular exercise seems to encourage the brain to rewire itself in positive ways .
2. Get enough sleep:- Depression can make hard for a person to get enough sleep and it can make person depression worst. For this do have a task for every morning which should be at same time which will indulge you to sleep even if you are not having sleep.
3. Responsibilities:- If you are depressed then do take least responsibilities in your office and at home too. Always take rest and be positive do not indulge in any of daily responsibilities.
4. Do something new:- Always indulge yourself busy in doing something different and new read book do accept physical challenges such as in games.
5. Set goals:- Going through depression you may feel like you can't accomplish anything which makes you feel worse about yourself. To push back, set daily goals for yourself start from easy challenges and slowly slowly when you get confidence on yourself start take great challenges.
6. Eat always healthy:- Omega-3 fatty acids--such as salmon and tuna and folic acid such as spinach and avocado could help ease depression.
7. Always do have fun:- Life is very short my friend no-one knew when death comes so always make time for things you enjoy.

So friends here are some of the symptoms and ways to control depression. I would like to say the most important thing and that is control your mind do-not get it free for wavering of mind. You can ask me any of your question related to this topic i will be happy to answer you.

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Cancer And Its Symptoms

Hello friends today i am going to share some information related cancer which leads to death. Yes it's true if cancer is not cured it leads to death. So its a dangerous disease here today i will write some information and symptoms related to it. There are over 200 types of cancer. This is expanded below to list more specific types of cancer found in each general categories. Here are some of the general names of some cancers such as: Carcinoma, Sarcoma, Leukemia, Lymphoma and myeloma, and Central nervous system cancer.



Carcinoma:-
Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs such as ''skin, lungs, colon, pancreatic, ovarian cancers,'' epithelial, squamous and basal cell carcinomas, melanomas, papillae and adenomas etc are some of the diseases which come under carcinoma.

Sarcoma:-
Cancer that begins within bone, cartilage, fat,  muscle, blood vessels or in other connective or supportive tissue such as ''bone, soft tissue cancer,'' these such come under sarcoma.

Leukemia:-
Cancer that starts in blood -forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes large number of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.

Lymphoma and myeloma:-
Cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system.

Central nervous system cancers:-
Cancers that begin with in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord such are called as some of the few names i.e brain and spinal cord tumors, pituitary adenomas, vestibular schwannomas, primary CNS lymphomas etc.

What causes cancer?

Anything that may cause a normal body cell to grow abnormally potentially can cause cancer . Many things can cause  cell abnormalities and have been linked to cancer development. It is often difficult or impossible to determine the initialization event of cancer to develop in a specific person, research has provided clinicians with a number of likely causes that alone or incorrect with other causes, are the likely candidates for initiating cancer. The following is a major causes and routinely added as research advances:

Ionizing radiation:
 Uranium, radon, ultraviolet, rays from sunlight, radiation from alpha, beta, gamma, and x-ray-emitting sources.

Chemical or toxic compound exposures to body:
Nickel, asbestos, cadmium, benzene, vinyl chloride, Benzedrine, tobacco, cigarette smoke and aflatoxin.

Pathogens:
Human papillomavirus (HPV), EBV or Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis viruses B and C, Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpes-virus; other bacteria are being researched as possible agents.

Genetics:
A number of specific cancers have been linked to human genes and are as follows: breast, ovaries, colorectal, prostate, skin and melanoma; are the specific genes .

So friends here are some of the cancer symptoms and there names which will help you in your precious life. You can ask about anything i will be happy to answer you.

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