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What are the 5 Major Causes of Disease?
Why do some people never get sick and others always seem to have come down with something?
The answer is really more complicated than you may think.
There are five major causes as to why a disease or dysfunction occurs in the body. Some get more attention than others, but each is of great importance.
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How to tell if is a Bacterial or Viral Infection?
When you experience a respiratory or gastrointestinal infection, you must decide when or if you need to go to the doctor.
Most bacterial infections require the use of antibiotics and a viral infection does not. One of the major problems is we have too many antibiotic-resistant bacteria because too many people are prescribed antibiotics for viral infections.
The body has an immune system that was made to deal with bacteria, not viruses. The common symptoms of the flu, such as: aching, sore muscles and joints and extreme fatigue, are just the side-effects of our immune system trying to deal with the infection.
Very simply, your immune system is your front line of defense against all invaders to keep you healthy. “Invaders” include: pathogens, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. Collectively, these make up a group of antigens. The response to these is invaders are called the antigen response. The word comes from the generation of antibodies to fight them off.
This sophisticated system is made up of proteins, cells, organs, and tissues. These all interact in a very sophisticated network of partnership towards one goal – keeping you healthy.
If you are not familiar with basic anatomy or physiology, you’ve likely not heard much about the lymphatic system. It’s important to know what this is and how it affects your body.
The lymph system is a network of vessels and filters (also known as “nodes”) that act as a complex “toxin removal system” for the body. This network is actually a drainage system for all of the various parts of the body help to drain excess fluids from different parts of the body. If this fluid is not removed, then toxins will build up in the body and cause swelling in areas where the fluid has been concentrated.
What are the Kinds of Diseases?
A person who does not feel at ease or is uncomfortable and not well was said have a disease.
In this day and age, when you talk about disease, we mean some type of discomfort caused by a dysfunction of some part of the body.
Some diseases can attack very suddenly. These are called “acute diseases” (“acute” means sudden onset).
These may or may not be serious, but they usually make the patient feel quite ill. The acute disease ends with a patient either recovering or dying from the disease.
Managing fatal injuries or illnesses is the main objective of critical care medicine. There may be various types of organ support systems needed by patients who are critically injured or ill to survive. In the intensive care unit or the ICU various equipments are fastened to the patient’s body.
People who have specialized in Critical care take care of them. There is 24-hour vigilance over the condition of the patient so as to ensure instantaneous intervention if there is any problem in the patient’s condition. There is a monitor attached to almost all patients, which measures the breathing and heart rate of the patient. The staffs get alerted if they hear the beep of the monitor.
If we want to define an infection it can be defined as the colonization of a host organism by parasite organism.
Parasites that cause infection try to use the resources of the host to reproduce. This mostly results in the host organism getting diseased.
To be more specific, infections are mostly caused by microscopic organisms or micro parasites. These microorganisms could be viruses, prions, bacteria and viruses. However, it is also possible that larger organisms such as macro parasites and fungi can also cause infections.
The normal process of a host to counter these microorganisms from causing an infection is the host’s own immune system.
Over 60% of earth is covered with water. An average person needs at least 2.5 liters of water, a day. We all know that without water life could not exists and the day the water dries up is the day that planet earth will be nothing but barren. Unfortunately, water is becoming increasingly contaminated and statistics show that water contamination results in 14,000 deaths daily and the consequences of water pollution are many.
Understanding what to look for, and watching for possible sources of pollution is a very important step in protecting our groundwater supplies from contamination. It is the first step in safeguarding the drinking water you and your family rely on everyday.
Nature isn’t perfect, there are even naturally occurring contaminants that can pose problems to our ground water supplies too. Naturally occurring contaminants such as minerals can present health risks. Other potential sources of pollution cause by human activities can be from either the past or present. These can be things that we normally do in our everyday life, make or use. Gardening and lawn care are two examples of toxic chemicals around the home that are often used.
Many parents mistakenly assume that the emergency room is the only place to take their child when an injury or illness arises. Actually, an emergency room should only be considered when an injury or illness appears life threatening.
Examples of life threatening injuries/symptoms that would warrant an immediate visit to the emergency room include: compound fractures, seizures, major head injuries, severe pains, ingestion of poisons, snake bites, severe burns, chest pains, etc.
As a general rule of thumb, emergency care will usually be warranted anytime:
