Crohn s Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatment

•Alzheimer s Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
It is not known yet what exactly triggers off the weakening of the brain cells. There are many factors which lead the growth of Alzheimer's disease. Causes of Alzheimer's disease: The chief factor in the growth of Alzheimer's disease is age of the sufferer. The tendency of the growth of the disease is more once you cross the age of 65 and adds up every five years after 65 years of age. But this condition is not faced by older people alone. Alzheimer's disease is genetic, but people even...

•Syphilis Causes Symptoms and Treatment
Syphilis is a caused by Spirochetal bacterium treponeme pallidum, a spiral shaped organism. It is a disease that is transmitted through sexual contact. However, there are examples, which show that it can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to an unborn fetus. The disease is alternatively referred to as the ‘great pox’, ‘Cupid’s’ disease or ‘Lues’. An Italian physician is said to have coined the name “syphilis”. The origin of the disease is traced back to the 13- 14th centuries and more often...

•Allergic Rhinitis Causes Symptoms And Treatments
Allergic rhinitis is a situation wherein you breathe something which you are allergic to causing inside of your nose swollen or inflamed. It causes irritation mostly in the eyes and nose. You can be allergic to dust, dander, pollen etc. Allergic Rhinitis is commonly referred as Hay fever. Allergic Rhinitis is a disease which is inherited from parent. If your parent have any respiratory disease like tuberculosis, asthma etc then the probability of you getting such a disease is 50...

•Sickle Cell Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
Sickle cell disease or Sickle cell anemia is a type of blood related disorder where red blood cells are affected. As we all know, hemoglobin is the key substance in the red blood cells which carries oxygen to lungs and other different parts of the human body. A regular and perfect red blood cell contains hemoglobin A. It’s the abnormal case where the red blood cells contain hemoglobin S or C which is a different type of hemoglobin substance in blood cells. In this medical condition, often the...

•Gonorrhoea Causes Symptoms and Treatments
The bacteria bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae cause Gonorrhoea. It is an infection transmitted sexually. Other sites where the bacteria infect are eyes and the throat. This spreads while we are having sexual intercourse. Also it can get transmitted from the mother to New born children. This bacteria also causes Conjunctivitis. The normal period for the bacteria to infect is around 10 to 20 days. The majority of the symptoms start occurring by the fifteenth days after getting infected. Some...

•Trichomonas Causes Symptoms and Treatments
Trichomoniasis is one of the sexually transmitted infections (or sexually transmitted diseases, STD) caused by a microscopic parasite, a protozoa. Usually it is found in urethral tissues and vagina. Although women are likely to be infected men can be infected too. So let's try to understand that sexual transmitted disease. Causes This disease is the most widespread curable sexual infection. The trichomonad has an average size of 15 mm which cannot be seen by naked eye and the parasites are...

•Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease or PID is an infection of the women’s reproductive organs or an inflammation of the female’s uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. As this infection spreads it affects the nearby tissues and organs. The disease makes the normal tissues scarred and it further blocks the passage for an egg to pass. This prevents one from having children. In cases of the egg implanting itself outside the uterus, then a dangerous condition is formed which is called the ectopic pregnancy...

•Coronary Artery Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
CAD (Coronary Artery Disease) refers to the contracting of the heart arteries because of atherosclerosis. The heart muscle doesn't get sufficient oxygen when the heart arteries are contracted. If your heart is starving out of oxygen, then the pain in the chest arises which is called as angina. If your artery is totally blocked then the result would be heart attack. In medical terms, the heart attack is referred as myocardial infarction (MI). Coronary Artery Disease is considered to be the most...

•Thyroid Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
The 'thyroid' is a small gland situated below the 'Adam's apple' in the neck. It releases two hormones; the thyroxine (T4) and the triodothyroxine (T3). These hormones increase the amount of oxygen that the body uses and incites your cells to generate new proteins. By regulating the release of the hormones, the thyroid establishes the metabolism rate of almost all your body's organs. Problems mainly occur when the thyroid gland tends to become either 'underactive' (leading to hypothyroidism)...

•Tay Sachs Disease Causes Symptoms and Treatments
Tay-Sachs disease is a very rare genetic disease where the fatty compounds in the body accumulate themselves in brain cells and tissues and results in malfunctioning of brain cells. This genetic disorder on a long run can destroy the entire nervous system. It generally occurs because of the absence of a very important enzyme called beta-hexosaminidase A. The purpose of this enzyme in the human body is to split down the fatty compounds which are called as Gangliosides. There are two types in...