Health Blurbs

Causes of Burning Feet, Burning Feet Syndrome Treatment

2009-11-19T19:17:56Z

Burning feet is a sensation that your feet are painfully hot. Your feet could actually be hot to the touch or just feel like they’re burning. The burning of feet is typically felt in the soles, but can extend upward. Sometimes, burning feet are accompanied by paresthesias. Or be so painful you can’t sleep. There’s a condition called burning feet syndrome, [...]

Glucocorticoid Natural Anti Inflammatory Hormones, Immunosuppressant Steroids for Treatment

2009-11-18T19:31:30Z

Glucocorticoids are natural hormones, made and secreted by your adrenal glands, its cortex specifically. There are three types of glucocorticoids hormones: cortisol, corticosterone and cortisone. They are in the class of chemical substances known as steroids. The most abundant glucocorticoid naturally produced by your adrenals is cortisol, also known as the primary stress hormone. And this hormonal group [...]

Low Estrogen, Testosterone Sex Hormones Causes Hypogonadism Symptoms

2009-11-18T19:33:09Z

No matter your gender, you have various hormones running around in your body. And it is the sex hormones that control your sexual maturity and reproduction. If you’re female, your primary sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone produced by the ovaries. If male, testosterone from your testes. Normally, the amount generated increases at puberty and decreases [...]

Coronavirus Causes Common Cold, SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

2009-11-16T15:40:36Z

Coronaviruses are second to rhinoviruses for causing the common cold. And a strain of this virus causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, popularly known as SARS. Severe acute respiratory syndrome can be fatal. Frequent cause is respiratory failure. However, a known transmission of SARS coronavirus infection hasn’t been noted since 2004. Coronavirus may also cause other respiratory tract infections, [...]

Fibrosarcoma Fibrous Tissue Sarcoma

2009-11-15T16:07:36Z

Fibrosarcoma is cancer originating in fibroblasts, which are a type of cell found in your fibrous tissue that produces collagen. Fibrous tissue is composed of collagen fibers and rows of connective tissue cells. Fibrosarcoma is a rare soft tissue sarcoma that primarily affects the connective fibrous tissue at the end of a leg or arm bone. It can spread to [...]

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Causalgia Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Causes Burning Pain

2009-11-19T19:21:33Z

Are you experiencing increasingly intense burning pain in your leg, arm, hand or foot? Is this pain taking place after an injury involving this limb? You might have complex regional pain syndrome. Complex regional pain syndrome is a chronic health condition for which the pain of injury progressively gets worse, instead of better. This syndrome is [...]

Eye Infection Causes, Eye Infections Symptoms, Eye, Eyelid Infection Types, Eye Infections Treatment

2009-11-13T16:29:37Z

An eye infection is a health condition many will encounter at least once in a lifetime. Sometimes your eye can clear an infection without treatment, while other times these vision producers need a bit of help. When in doubt, have it checked out. You can develop eye infections from a bacteria, virus, fungus or parasite. Eye [...]

Nocardia Bacteria Causes Nocardia Infection, Pulmonary Nocardiosis Symptoms

2009-11-12T18:59:42Z

Nocardia bacteria causes an infection, mostly infecting your lungs, brain or skin. Since nocardia bacteria dwells in the soil worldwide, its avenue into your body is usually by inhalation or open wound. Higher infection rates are in hot, dry climate areas, likely due to dust in the air. Nocardia infection, aka nocardiosis, generally strikes those with [...]

Nerve Pain Neuralgia, Neuropathic Pain Symptoms, Causes, Types and Relief Treatment

2009-11-11T20:19:30Z

Neuralgia means a sudden sharp, shooting or stabbing pain down a damaged or malfunctioning nerve. This nerve pain follows the path of a nerve and can be intermittent or constant. Neuralgia is caused by some sort of irritation or damage to a nerve. And neuropathic pain differs from neuritis in that there’s no nerve tissue inflammation nor [...]

Chagas Disease Trypanosoma Parasite Infection Causes Swollen Eye Symptom

2009-11-10T18:29:37Z

Chagas disease, aka American trypanosomiasis, is a parasite infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Not to be confused with African trypanosomiasis, which is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei. Chagas disease is spread by insects, and not via casual contact person to person, like a cold or flu. The parasite is transmitted through the feces of an infected insect, most commonly triatomine bugs, [...]