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...
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...
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...
Whipple's disease is a rare chronic multi-system pathology of infectious origin. Most common with it are general practitioners( therapists) and gastroenterologists, because the most common reason for primary treatment to a specialist are signs of joint and gastrointestinal tract damage. Earlier Whipple's disease was lethal in 100% of cases, but now it has a favorable prognosis. Adequately selected antibiotic regimens allow not only to save patients life, but also to significa...
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 ...
Neurosis in adolescents is a shallow, completely reversible psychogenic disease, the basis of which are disorders of the higher nervous activities that are manifested by affective disorders (mood changes, fears, anxiety, depression, etc.). The prevalence of neuroses among adolescents is difficult to determine, since not all parents turn to specialists for help. Out of the number of adolescents being monitored in psychoneurological dispensaries, 15% suffer from neuroses. The number of childre...
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 ...
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....
Any pathologies and diseases that are associated with human eyes are, as a rule, very dangerous.After all, the risk of loss of vision is very critical for modern people - the vast majority of the surrounding information we perceive with the help of the eyes.But the pathologies are different - and in the case of some of them, people do not fully understand what harm they do and in principle bear. An example of this is the retinal rupture of the eye. Content 1What it is 2Causes 3Symptoms ...
Herpetic encephalitis is a common form of neuroinfection caused by herpes viruses. Herpetic encephalitis occurs in all age groups with a frequency of 8% -10% of the total number of viral encephalitis. The disease causes herpes virus type 1 and type 2.Newborn children are more often diagnosed with herpetic encephalitis, which is caused by the herpes simplex virus type 2.The source of herpes simplex for a child is a woman with an active stage of the disease, when there are erup...
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