Diseases

Chronic fatigue: symptoms and treatment

Until the last century, mankind coped with the flow of information without significant harm to health. The last century has made a breakthrough in most areas, and now, in order to keep pace with the times, a person simply needs to process a large amount of information every day in different spheres of life. It takes more time for mental stress, less and less for physical exertion, rest and sleep. And so every day. In the end, this leads to a breakdown in the adaptive reactions of the body, ...

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Vegetosovascular dystonia: modern methods of treatment

Vegetosovascular dystonia (VSD, or neurocirculatory dystonia) is a very common problem that a modern person has to face. This combination of emotional and psychological disorders with vegetative disorders (from the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, urogenital systems). Treatment VSD - the process is complex, requiring an individual approach and constant correction. Modern methods of treatment include lifestyle modification, changing the approach to professional activity, correction of ...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Intercostal neuralgia. How to treat intercostal neuralgia

One of the most common causes of pain in the chest is intercostal neuralgia. This disease occurs when irritation or infringement of the intercostal nerve, the main symptom of which is acute pain. As a rule, intercostal neuralgia affects elderly and senile people. Also, this disease occurs in young people (especially in people leading sedentary lifestyle, as well as swimmers) and even sometimes in children (mainly during the period of intensive growth). About why this pathology develops, what...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Multiple sclerosis: the first signs

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic progressive disease of the nervous system, which often affects young people. It is quite common, and in recent years there has been a tendency to increase morbidity even more. The disease does not always manifest itself immediately with expressed symptoms, besides it does not have clinical specific signs, which makes diagnostics very difficult. It is important not to miss the initial manifestations of multiple sclerosis, because the treatment started in time a...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Contusion of the brain: symptoms, treatment, consequences

Contusion (contusion) of the brain is traumatic damage to the structures related to the brain that occurs when the mechanical force is applied. Any part of the brain can be affected, but most often these are the poles of the frontal lobes, the basal (lower) sections of the frontal and temporal lobes. The clinical picture of a brain contusion is formed from a combination of cerebral, focal and vegetative symptoms. The degree of their severity and stamina depends on the severity of the bruise ...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis

Tick-borne encephalitis is an acute viral disease of the nervous system. The causative agent of the disease is a specific virus, which often enters the human body with a tick bite. Possible contamination when eating raw milk from sick animals. The disease manifests itself as a general infectious symptom and a lesion of the nervous system. Sometimes it is so severe that it can lead to death. People living in areas with a high prevalence of the disease are subject to preventive vaccination. V...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Neurosyphilis: Symptoms and Treatment

Neurosyphilis is a specific infection of the nervous system, consisting in the penetration of the causative agent of syphilis into the nerve tissue. Clinical manifestations can be very diverse, they depend on the stage of the disease. Neurosyphilis can occur in any period of syphilitic infection, but is more common in the secondary and tertiary periods. Diagnosis is based on clinical manifestations, given serological research methods. The treatment is based on antibiotics of the penicillin ...

  • 10-Jul-2018
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Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine: symptoms and treatment

With osteochondrosis of the spine, many are not familiar from popular programs from the TV screen, but from their own sad experience. Statistics - a harsh thing: up to 80% of the population suffers from this disease, which, moreover, significantly younger. If earlier on the problems in the spine mostly the older generation complained, now the children's osteochondrosis does not surprise anyone. And the blame for everything is a sedentary lifestyle and the so-called "benefits of civilization....

  • 10-Jul-2018
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What is phacomatosis?

Fakomatozy, or neyrokozhnye syndromes - is a whole group of diseases characterized by simultaneous damage to the skin, nervous system and internal organs that arise from similar embryonic violations. That is, the origins of phakomatosis are genetic. The name itself does not say anything to the man in the street. It may seem that these are some outlandish and completely uncommon illnesses. But here, for example, about albinism, perhaps, everyone heard. And this is a real phakomatosis. A tota...

  • 26-Jul-2018
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Vaccination against poliomyelitis

Vaccination against polio is a reliable way to prevent severe neurologic infection. Poliomyelitis is a viral infection that leads to the development of paralysis, which causes disability for life. There are no drugs that effectively affect the poliovirus. Therefore, to reduce the risk of disease can only be through vaccination. The world has been using polio vaccine since 1955, which has allowed many countries to get rid of this disease completely. In the American and West-Pacific regions, t...

  • 26-Jul-2018
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