Overview: What’s food poisoning? Foodborne illness, more commonly referred to as food poisoning, is the end result of eating contaminated, spoiled, or toxic food. The most frequent symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Although it’s quite embarrassing, food poisoning isn’t unusual. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 6 Americans […]
Overview: Blood oxygen level is the amount of oxygen circulating in the blood. Most of the oxygen is carried by red blood cells, that accumulate oxygen from the lungs and deliver it to all areas of the body. The body tightly promotes blood oxygen levels to keep them within a specific range, so that there’s
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Overview: What are the basic functions of the liver? The liver can be found in the right upper part of the abdominal fascia just under the rib cage. The liver has several functions which are essential to life. Briefly, some of the important features of the human liver are: Detoxification of blood Generation of important
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Overview: The Breast Illustrations: The tissue overlying the chest (pectoral) muscles. Women’s breasts are made of specialized tissue that creates milk (glandular tissue) in addition to fatty tissue. The amount of fat determines how big the breast. Within each lobe are smaller constructions, called lobules, where milk is produced. View breast illustrations of the milk
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Review: Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and ulcers (sores) in the digestive tract. Ulcerative colitis affects the innermost lining of the large intestine (colon) and rectum. Symptoms usually develop over time, instead of suddenly. Ulcerative colitis may be debilitating and can sometimes cause life-threatening complications. Though it has no known
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Overview: A muscle cramp is a sudden and involuntary contraction of at least one of your muscles. If you have been awakened in the night or stopped in your tracks by a sudden charley horse, you are aware that muscle cramps can cause severe pain. Though generally harmless, muscle cramps can make it temporarily impossible
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Review: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). In MS, the immune system attacks the protective sheath (myelin) that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between your brain and the rest of the body. At some point, the disease can cause irreversible damage or
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Overview: As the name implies, iron deficiency anemia is a result of insufficient iron. Without sufficient iron, your body can’t produce enough of a chemical in red blood cells that enable them to carry oxygen (hemoglobin). Because of this, iron deficiency anemia may leave you exhausted and short of breath. You can generally fix iron
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Review: Heart failure, occasionally known as congestive heart failure, occurs when your heart muscle doesn’t pump blood as well as it ought to. Certain conditions, such as narrowed arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease) or higher blood pressure, gradually leave your heart too weak or rigid to fill and pump effectively. Not all circumstances
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Review: A vaginal yeast infection is a fungal infection that causes irritation, discharge, and extreme itchiness of the vagina and the vulva — the cells at the vaginal opening. Also called vaginal candidiasis, vaginal yeast disease affects up to 3 out of 4 girls at some point in their lifetimes. Many women experience at least
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