Month: February 2020

SIRS is the medical term for a severe inflammatory reaction of the body to an external influence. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome may be caused by pathogen toxins as well as serious injuries or burns. Due to the massive reaction, the body tries to ward off damage, but damages itself. Read here everything you need to…

The fracture treatment depends on various factors such as the location, type and extent of the fracture as well as possible accompanying injuries. In principle, a bone fracture can be treated conservatively (for example with a plaster cast) and surgically. Everything important to the possibilities of fracture treatment and the complications that can occur, read…

Bronchiectasis is a saccular enlargement of the bronchi in the lungs that can not regress. Bronchiectasis may have both congenital and acquired causes. Typical for bronchiectasis is a strong cough with a lot of mucous expectoration. If left untreated, bronchiectasis can lead to severe damage to the lungs. Learn about the causes, symptoms and treatment…

Kidney cancer symptoms are not obvious in most cases. The first signs of a malignant kidney tumor may be blood in the urine and flank or back pain. Often a disease runs for a long time without any symptoms. Kidney cancer is therefore often discovered only by accident. Read here for signs of kidney cancer….

The pyloric stenosis (gastric spasm) is a congenital constriction of the stomach outlet, in which the chyme can not leave the stomach. It affects mainly boys in the third to eighth week of life. A typical sign of pyloric stenosis is that a child vomits shortly after the meal. A pyloric stenosis is treated in…

The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome is a kind of pseudoallergic reaction that some people experience after eating Chinese food. These include, for example, weakness, headaches or tachycardia. For a long time, monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer, was the culprit – but this has not been scientifically proven. Learn here what is behind the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome….

The fact that diverticulitis plays a crucial role in diet and lifestyle is also reflected in the prevalence of intestinal diverticula today: autopsies have shown that the prevalence from 1910 to today in Western countries has increased from five percent to fifty percent – analogous to the changed eating habits. Learn everything here for the…

Rosacea (rosacea) is an inflammatory, chronic condition of the facial skin that runs in bouts. It starts with skin redness. Later, vascular dilations, blisters, nodules and tissue neoplasm may be added. Those affected suffer from itching and pain, stressful is also the cosmetic impairment. Find out everything important about rosacea here – symptoms, causes, diagnostics,…

Typhus fever is an infectious disease caused by bacteria. These are transmitted to humans through clothing lice. In Germany, it is extremely rare. Typical are high fever that lasts for days, and rash. With timely treatment, typhus heals without consequences. Here you read all important information about typhus fever. Spotted fever: description Spotted fever (also…

In a phlebitis ignited a venous blood vessel. Doctors call the phlebitis also as phlebitis. It can be superficial (phlebitis superficialis) or deep-seated veins and is often associated with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus). A superficial phlebitis, in which a thrombus has formed, is also called thrombophlebitis. Read more about the causes and…