Lyme disease is a condition that is caused by bacteria and specifically bacteria that comes from ticks. Ticks attach themselves to our skin and use this position in order to draw blood and feed off of the host. This can often lead to an infection. Ticks are tiny creatures that look a lot like spiders […]
Conditions
15 Most Common Symptoms of a Hernia
A hernia is a highly painful condition that is caused by an internal organ pushing through an opening in the muscles and tissues that usually hold it in place. Often this is due to weakened abdominal walls or other areas but hernias can also affect other areas and for other reasons. Most hernias aren’t immediately […]
16 Signs You Have a Thyroid Problem
Your thyroid gland is an endocrine gland located in your neck. This gland plays a crucial role in the body by producing the hormones T4 (thyroxine) and T3 (triiodothyronine). These hormones, in turn, are responsible for helping to regulate the metabolism, thereby allowing us to get more energy from food and to burn fat at […]
14 Early Signs of Autism
Autism is a developmental disability that results in impaired social skills, communication and abstract reasoning. This condition causes profound changes in the way that patients view the world around them and relate to others but can also range greatly in terms of severity and the impact that it has on an individual’s life. The term […]
20 Causes of Eye Twitching
If you were animating a character in a cartoon and you wanted to make them look stressed, there are a few different ways you might go about achieving that. One way would be to give them a big throbbing vein on their forehead. Another way might be to make their eye twitch incessantly. Yes, eye […]
13 Most Common Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Many of us are afraid of heart attacks and rightly so: as one of the leading causes of death in the US, heart attacks are something that we should be afraid of. Heart attacks and heart disease are together responsible for over 600,000 deaths in the US alone and in 75% of cases, they have […]