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and can cause fever, headache, and fatigue. if left untreated, the disease can then cause joint problems, cardiac issues, and neurological issues. there is typically a rash that appears at the site of the bite that looks similar to a bulls eye. this disease can be contracted numerous times without your body creating a defense against it due to the fact that it hides in your lymph nodes and can even change their structure.

Lyme disease is not the only disease that can be contracted from a tick. Another disease is called Anaplasmosis. this pathogen invades your white blood cells and causes flu-like symptoms such as fever, chills, muscle aches and headaches. The other is called Babesiosis, a pathogen that invades your red blood cells and, according to Mr. Dapsis, “blows them up.” this disease causes malaria-like symptoms such as sweats, chills, gastrointestinal distress, respiratory distress, and severe anemia.

The issue that plagues many is how to successfully keep ticks from attacking people and transmitting these diseases. there are several things people can do to help reduce the likelihood of a tick bite, such as using an insect repellant that contains DEET or Permethrin. there are also Permethrin sprays for your clothing, which last for approximately six washes before needing to be reapplied. there is now even Permethrin-treated clothing that can repel ticks for up to 70 washings.

“In terms of protecting yourself, what really has been under-communicated is the potential benefit of repellent treated clothing,” said Larry.

Mr. Dapsis had a pair of these slacks on hand, made by the company Insect Shield, and demonstrated their power. He placed three female deer ticks on the pants and we watched as the ticks appeared to become increasingly more disoriented until they eventually stopped moving altogether. The whole process took approximately 10 minutes. according to Mr. Dapsis, the ticks are doomed if exposed to the chemical infused apparel for more than 60 seconds.

“These pants act like a tick waterslide, the grab on then slide right off. I have been using these pants as well as spraying my boots and socks with Permethrin and have not had a single tick bite all year, and I am out there in the brush looking for them,” Mr. Dapsis said.

According to Mr. Dapsis, there are simple ways to protect one’s yard and pets as well. Homeowners can spray the perimeter of their yards with a repellent that must be used in early spring and again in early summer. Homeowners can purchase the chemical or hire a company to provide this service. The chemical acts as a barrier to help keep ticks away from your property. Homeowners can also mulch the perimeter of their property, which helps keep ticks at bay. other, easier methods include keeping bird feeders away from the home, and staying away from plants that attract white tail deer. Bird feeders attract white footed mice, which are known carriers of ticks. Deer are also carriers of a large number of ticks. according to Larry, a deer can carry as many as 200 to 300 ticks around their ears.

Pet protection is pretty straightforward: simply apply flea and tick medication such as Frontline or Advantix as directed. this has proven to be a successful tick inhibitor, and is all that is necessary to help ensure a pet is protected.

Ticks only feed three times in their two-year life cycle. there are four stages to a tick’s life cycle. They are egg stage, the larva stage, the nymph stage, and the adult stage. a bite from a tick in the larva stage holds no real threat as they have not had the chance to contract anything from biting an infected animal. The nymph stage is the most dangerous, because ticks in this stage typically bite small rodents or birds and contract the diseases from them. once they finish feeding and detach from that animal, they are now infected for life and can transmit that disease to another organism it attaches to.

Mr. Dapsis said 25 percent of nymphs carry at least one of the three main tick-borne diseases, and they transmit these diseases most often due to their small size. a typical nymph is the size of a single poppy seed. Fifty percent of adult ticks carry at least one of the three diseases, but transmission is less likely as they are more readily seen and are removed before anything can be transmitted. Mr. Dapsis said it takes approximately 24 hours to contract a tick-borne disease.

For more information visit Barnstable County’s website capecpdextension.org or call Larry Dapsis at 508-375-6642.

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D. anemia
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Al-Fajar Foundation arranges blood for more than 200 patients.

Umar Tariq, a father of three children with thalassaemia shared his views, “Today finding one blood bag is not possible, I salute the administration and staff of Al-Fajar who regularly finds blood for more than 200 registered patients.”

A large number of parents of thalassaemia patients, civil society persons and local elders attended the event that was organised by Al-Fajar Foundation, the only hospital in Malakand Division.

The rate of thalassaemia incidence is alarmingly high in Malakand Division as compared to other parts of the country.

Briefing the audience about thalassaemia, Sar Zamin Khan, an expert of the disease explained that the disease is caused by genes inherited from the biological parents. it can develop if only one parent has abnormal genes.

About the symptoms of the disease he said, “Symptoms most often begin within 3-6 months of birth and include anemia, jaundice, enlarged spleen, fatigue, lethargy, reduced appetite, enlarged and fragile bones, growth problems, increased susceptibility to infection, pale skin, hormone problems, heart failure, shortness of breath, liver problems and gallstones.”

Diagnosis and treatment were also discussed, but the expert stressed that prevention of the diseases is only possible if blood tests are carried out before marriage.

Maulana Sadiq Ahmad who runs a maddrassa, said, “The 200 students of my madrassa are regular donors with Al-Fajar Foundation. We not only feel special but it is our duty to save lives of the young generation of our country. Whenever the hospital needs blood we welcome them.”

Some of the audience could not control their tears when thalassaemic children appeared on the stage and expressed their resolve to fight the disease.

There are more than 7,000 patients of the fatal disease, which is increasing at an alarming rate, but there is no single government hospital, only philanthropic organisations have taken the responsibility. “It is the duty of the state to provide facilities to the patients, but unfortunately no such platform exists,” said Khalid Mahmood, an elder of the Pakhtunkhwa Mili Awami Party.

Bushra, a young girl carrying the disease, thanked Al-Fajar Foundation for taking care of her, calling it the best hospital in the world.

“This is the only hospital which provides blood transfusion free of cost in the country,” said Rahimullah, the father of a patient.

APP adds from Mirpur: World Thalassaemia Day was also observed in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday with renewal of the pledge to utilise maximum efforts to save the patients of thalassaemia by ensuring regular transfusion of blood and other required treatment.

Special ceremonies were held in the public sector hospitals in various parts of AJK to observe the day while a ceremony followed by a walk entitled Umeed-e-Kiren Walk starting at the Thalassaemia Treatment Centre located in DHQ Hospital under the auspices of Al-Shifa Blood Bank, Mirpur.

Speakers at the walk said the first modern Thalassaemia Treatment Centre in AJK is here at DHQ hospital.

They recalled that the centre was set up in collaboration with philanthropists engaged in serving the community.

They also pointed out that establishment of the Thalassaemia Centre was a pilot project of the integrated plan chalked out to extend the latest medical treatment to thalassaemia patients by establishing special treatment centres in all eight DHQ hospitals in AJK.

Published in the Express Tribune, May 9th, 2011.

Mesothelioma is a red grow of cancer which affects persons who boast been exposed to asbestos. Mesothelioma is to some extent infrequent all the rage with the intention of its symptoms are not without delay apparent. all the rage fact, a number of afflicted patients exit so elongated while 50 time in the past realizing they comprise the disease. however, in attendance are a little register symptoms to be present experienced of.

The a large amount conventional symptoms of mesothelioma mean the lungs. Patients recurrently details squatness of breath before upset breathing, a large amount time and again payable to the amassing of fluid popular the lungs. this fluid is bright to write the lungs next surrounding areas payable to the swelling of tumors. being a conclusion of these tumors, patients may possibly what’s more know-how unstable degrees of grief popular the artificial area.

Depending taking place the key of mesothelioma by which a unwearied is afflicted, additional symptoms may possibly vary. The a large amount collective manner of the disease is acknowledged at the same time as pleural mesothelioma. clothed in accumulation to the symptoms above, patients together with this grow of the prerequisite time and again know-how heaviness loss, harm of appetite, upset swallowing, furthermore problems sleeping.

For patients in the midst of peritoneal mesothelioma, extra symptoms may possibly contain abdominal pain, inflammation of the abdomen, bowel obstruction, anemia, unsettled stomach next fever.

Lastly, patients who comprise the pericardial create of the prerequisite recurrently familiarity tenderness irregularities, chest grief moreover regular coughing.

In enjoin to fruitfully analyze mesothelioma, doctors a large amount time and again activate together with an x-ray of the patient’s chest before abdomen. even if not for ever and a day conclusive, an x-ray willpower assistance the general practitioner verify whether before not mesothelioma is a possibility, before whether the unwearied has a further correlated condition.

In addition, doctors may possibly do a CAT (CT) look into before MRI to advance research the subject clothed in question. additional viable diagnostic procedures contain a thorough pure examination, blood tests of detail protein levels as well as biopsy of the abnormal area.

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I'm really asking this seriously. my friend is really freaking out because he has found all these website about vampires. he almost bit his girlfriend and he was going to do it hard enough to get blood. Now he is worried about it. I was just wondering if there were any medical conditions that could cause such an odd symptom. Please help. I don't need any "he is a vampire" answers. I just want possible medical conditions. Thanks

sounds like a low platlet count or some kind of anemia get a cbc

There is none. you can't possibly have a thirst for blood especially if you've not ever drank any. your friend is caught up in a lame fantasy, that's all. I doubt he will bite anyone and it's hard to bite anyone hard enough to draw blood and if you do there's a good chance their wound will get infected, or they will be infected themselves from drinking someone's body fluid. even the phrase 'thirst for blood' is just stupid. It sounds like someone thinks they're in a movie.

Although scurvy is more a deficiency disease than one of the haemopoietic system, it has two points of resemblance: marked capillary bleeding and progressive anemia. Scurvy is due to a prolonged deficiency of vitamin C in the diet and takes about 4 to 8 months to develop clinical signs. Habitation in an unhealthy surrounding predisposes.

Vitamin C is required for the activity of prolyl hydroxylase, which is responsible for the extensive hydroxylation of prolines in collagens. Deficiencies in proline hydroxylation interfere with the assembly of the procollagen triple-helix, resulting in degradation of the collagen. an understanding of the cause and remedy for scurvy grew out of the experience of British sailors in the 18th century. It occupies an interesting place in the history of the world when English sailors became progressively ill after long voyages at sea. It was only with the observation that the consumption of fruit helped to ward off the devastating effects of scurvy did the sailors begin to transport limes with them.

Scurvy has been known since ancient times, but the discovery of the link between the dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid and scurvy has dramatically reduced its incidence over the past half-century. Sporadic reports of scurvy still occur, primarily in elderly, isolated individuals with alcoholism. the incidence of scurvy in the pediatric population is very uncommon, and it is usually seen in children with severely restricted diets attributable to psychiatric or developmental problems. the condition is characterized by perifollicular petechiae and bruising, gingival inflammation and bleeding, and, in children, bone disease.

Scurvy was in some ways a more serious, certainly a more widespread problem. Relatively few men actually died of scurvy except on very long ocean passages, but it effectively limited the time a squadron could stay at sea, and thus directly affected the efficiency of the Service. No strategy of blockade, or any other which depended on keeping squadrons at sea for long periods, was possible in the face of endemic scurvy. the difficulty was to find a cure.

Causes of Scurvy:

Fortunately, there was a general understanding among sea officers that scurvy was a dietary disease, caused either by the presence of something harmful in the sailor’s diet, or by the absence of something essential, and in either case curable by fresh victuals.

Scurvy is due to a prolonged deficiency of vitamin C in the diet and takes about 4 to 8 months to develop clinical signs.

Habitation in an unhealthy surrounding predisposes.

Symptoms of Scurvy:

The chief deficiency sign is an inability of producing and maintaining the intercellular ground substance as collagen of all fibrous tissues: the matrix of bones, cartilages and dentine and all non-epithelial cement substances especially of vascular endothelium. as a result there is an increased permeability of the capillaries to the red blood corpuscles causing hemorrhages, new bone formation stops but as bone absorption still goes on, the bones become friable at the growing ends, interference with timely collagen formation causes delay in healing of wounds.

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Some other important symptoms of scurvy are gradual weakening, pale skin, sunken eyes, tender gums, muscle pain, loss of teeth, internal bleeding, and the opening of wounds such as sword cuts that had healed many years before.

Exhaustion, fainting, diarrhea, and lung and kidney trouble followed.

There is massive periosteal reaction with increase in the distance between tibia and fibula.

This deficiency disease usually shows epidermal pallor in the upper part of the epidermis.

Psoraisiform hyperplasia with pallor of the lower half of the epidermis.

Numerous extravasated rbcs with lymphocytic infiltrate in the upper dermis are also present.

Malaria is a contagious ailment that is caused by the transmission of a parasite by the mosquitoes. It is a fatal disease of the tropical areas of the planet and is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium.

There are four types of plasmodium parasites that can cause the ailment and these together are called as malaria parasites. Vivax, malariae, ovale and falciparum are the four different malarial parasites out of which falciparum is the one that is most serious and life threatening.

Cycles of fever and chills, headaches, sweating, nausea, muscle aches, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, jaundice (yellowing of the skin), anemia, bloody stools, coughing, yellowing of the whites of the eyes etc are some of the symptoms of malaria. There are a lot of ways by which malaria can be prevented and here are some of them:

High risk area: in order to prevent one from being infected by malaria, it is always good to avoid the areas that are thought as high risk areas for mosquito bites.

Since all of us are aware of the fact that the mosquitoes are the carriers of the ailment and a mere sting can easily multiply the disease, hence it is best for the starters to avoid those places that can have greater risk for the spread of the ailment.

Cover your body: The best way to avoid contracting the disease is by covering up the body. by wearing clothes that helps us to cover up the whole body, one can avoid the mosquitoes suitably. The use of permethrin clothes is thought as a wise decision as these types of clothes are made up of a synthetic chemical which is useful as insecticide as well.

Cleaning garbage cans: Make it a point to clean the garbage cans on a regular basis else these unclean and dirty cans can become the most convenient breeding grounds for the mosquitoes. They should also be closed tightly when left unused.

Soaps and lotions: Scented lotions, soaps, perfumes and suntan lotions should be avoided while leaving home.

Mosquito nets: Mosquito nets are extremely useful for all the individuals at the time of sleeping as they prevent the mosquitoes from disturbing while sleeping.

I have had symptoms for the past two months that mirror a UTI.
Lower Back Pain
Pelvic Fullness
Urinary Urgency and Frequency
Stinging and Burning when voiding
And sometimes not having much urine to match the urgency.

My doctor put me on a week of antibiotics and everything seemed to be cleared up for all of two days.
So I started another weeks course of another antibiotics.

The problem is I am halfway through my second course of Antibiotics and I'm not feeling much relief.

In fact I now have leg pain, pelvic pain opposed to just pressure and pain with orgasm.

So of course I'm worried I have ovarian or uterine cancer.

I'm 18 by the way and not sexually active…

I have no idea, other than to say that at your age, either of these cancers would be a total statistical rarity.

What kind of doc? if he's not an ob/gyn, you might have fibroids, which are benign but can get quite large and wreak all kinds of havoc.

Also, I assume with all these antibiotics you've been given a CBC? if the white cell count indicates an infection, then it's probably not fibroids, but the fact that it's not responding is why I asked.

any bleeding after orgasm?
weight loss?
anemia?
not siginfyin for the cancers
check ur urine d/r and c/s
try checking your rbs: blood sugar
plz mention the chemical formula of the prescribed drugs here.
thank you

Probably, at your age, a benign cyst. it too can cause all of those symptoms.

what are the effects??? plz note that i dont want the SYMPTOMS, i want the EFFECTS

give me accurate answers please not just your guesses!

Mainly people suffer from hemolysis and often hepatitis. It is hemolysis that is the most debilitating resulting in anemia and it's attendant fatigue and weakness. the heart, too, overworks to try to compensate for the anemia.

shaking and fevers and faster heart beat

I have CD and was wondering about some of the sores in the mouth and was also wondering if people gets sores on their genital form CD.

Abdominal pain. the pain often is described as cramping and intermittent, and the abdomen may be sore when touched. Abdominal pain may turn to a dull, constant ache as the condition progresses.
Diarrhea. Some people may have diarrhea 10 to 20 times per day. They may wake up at night and need to go to the bathroom. Crohn's disease may cause blood in stools, but not always.
Loss of appetite.
Fever. In severe cases, fever or other symptoms that affect the entire body may develop. A high fever may mean that you have a complication involving infection, such as an abscess.
Weight loss. Ongoing symptoms, such as diarrhea, can lead to weight loss.
Too few red blood cells (anemia). Some people with Crohn's disease develop anemia because of low iron levels caused by bloody stools or the intestinal inflammation itself.

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doesnt sound like fun!