Methadone is a prescription medication that is used to treat severe pain. It also helps those addicted to heroin to cease their use of the drug without experiencing horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Since heroin causes an excess of dopamine to be released into the brain, addicts feel a constant need for the drug to maintain this high. Methadone satisfies this need…
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Pms More Than Once A Month Mood Swing
For many women, PMS is a nightmare come true. For the uninitiated, Pre menstrual syndrome (PMS) is a disorder that adversaly affects women around one to two weeks before periods. While such mood changes have been described at the time of the ancient. Greeks, it was Katharina Dalton, a physician and women’s health pioneer, who first identified this cyclic phenomenon.…
Is This Depression Or Am I Just Sad
Do you know the difference between being depressed or just being sad? Most people don’t. However, this matters because perhaps the best way to avoid health complications arising from depression is to deal with it in its early stages. It is normal to feel sad from time to time. Sadness is a natural reaction to something upsetting which has happened.…
Asthma And Its Symptoms
In his book, Essential Allergy, Niels Mygind defines asthma as, “A lung disease characterised by: 1, variable and reversible airway obstruction; 2, airway inflammation; and 3, bronchial hyper-responsiveness.” Asthma is a disease where bronchial tubes are sensitive to irritants, which cause them to inflame and produce difficult breathing. The inflammation can cause, * contraction of muscles around the air passages,…
Gastroenteritis Is A Serious Problem
Gastroenteritis means inflammation of stomach as well as the gastrointestinal tract. It is also known as stomach flu. It can be caused by an infection, virus, bacterium or parasite. These viruses can lead to condition like fever, diarrhea and vomiting. The different viruses that cause gastroenteritis are rotavirus, adenoviruses, caliciviruses and astroviruses. The signs and symptoms of gastroenteritis may vary…
When Bird Allergy Flies Your Way
Bird allergy is a normal reaction of your body’s immune system to the feather dander, or more popularly known as feather dust, and droppings or fecal matter coming out of birds. People who work closely with birds and those who take care of birds as pets are the most at risk to develop bird allergy. Farm workers, bird fanciers and…
Ankylosing Spondylitis Treatment And Symptoms
What is Ankylosing Spondylitis? Ankylosing Spondylitis is a condition which is related to arthritis. Ankylosing Spondylitis affects approximately 1 in every 250 mainly young men so while many may have not heard about it, it is quite common. The word Ankylosing means inflammation of the spine while Spondylitis means joint which is fixed solid and unable to bend. So, in…
Take It From Alonzo Mourning Check Up On Your Kidneys
It’s National Kidney Month and basketball star Alonzo Mourning is taking the opportunity to spread the word about a condition he has a personal connection to–chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease is a condition where the kidneys do not function effectively and are unable to stimulate the bone marrow to produce enough red blood cells, help control blood pressure or…
Quitting Smoking Through Hypnosis
Smoking is one of the most difficult vice to let go. It is because it is difficult to drop the habit that techniques and devices were created to help smokers in their fight to become smoke-free. It includes the use of smoking aids like: nicotine patches, artificial cigarettes, nicotine gums that help smokers get through nicotine cravings. Some techniques use…
Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety is a part of everyday life in the new millennium. But for people, it expresses itself much worse than for others. Anxiety symptoms that go beyond the typical expressions of unease and nervousness should not be ignored. While many people can expect to suffer an anxiety attack at some point in their life, recurring episodes of extreme anxiety are…