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The gastric banding is an operative method that suppresses the natural feeling of hunger in overweight people. During surgery, a silicone band is wrapped around the upper part of the stomach. This artificially creates a very small stomach pocket. If it fills with food, the stomach signals satiety. Because of a rather high complication rate,…

Not only conventional medicine knows effective strategies against sinusitis – home remedies can also support the healing process. Read here which are the best sinusitis home remedies and which complementary healing methods (such as homeopathy) are additionally applied. Medicinal plants and essential oils This is very effective in the treatment of sinusitis essential oil of…

Cat allergy (cat allergy) is an overreaction of the immune system to certain proteins released by cats. These are mainly in the saliva and urine of the cat and get from there in the air. An untreated cat allergy can in extreme cases lead to bronchial asthma. Read all important information about cat allergy here….

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a mostly harmless but highly contagious viral disease. Especially children are affected. The disease is transmitted via body fluids, stool or contaminated objects. Typical symptoms include painful blisters on the hands, feet and around the mouth. The hand-foot-mouth disease usually heals without consequences after ten days at the latest. Read all important…

As hypothyroidism (hypothyroidism) refer to medical doctors a defective hormone production of the thyroid gland. The hormone deficiency slows down all metabolic processes of the body and reduces the efficiency. Thyroid hypofunction is one of the most common metabolic diseases. Women are more likely to suffer from hypothyroidism than men. Here you will learn everything…

Achillodynia is a painful injury to the Achilles tendon. The disease occurs almost exclusively in athletically active people and is one of the most common sports injuries. The cause is usually a long misalignment or overloading of the Achilles tendon. Typical of achillodynia is a load-dependent pain in the area of ​​the lower leg and…

With the short name “herniated disc HWS” my doctors an incident on the cervical spine, in short HWS. Another technical term for this is cervical disc prolapse. Cervical spine and thoracic spine are much more rarely affected by a herniated disc than the more heavily used lumbar spine area. Read more about the herniated disc…

In larva migrans cutanea (also called skin molehill, “creeping eruption”) and the hookworm disease, larvae of various parasites (mostly worms) infest the body. In dermal mole, they remain in the skin, where they slowly drill through the tissue. The corridors show up in a characteristic line pattern on the skin. In hookworm disease, the pathogens…

The eye disease glaucoma (glaucoma) is treacherous: The threat of damage to the optic nerve and optic nerve is in the early stages of the affected hardly recognizable. They are often alarmed only when vision is impaired, or when the so-called glaucoma pressure increases the pressure in the eye threatening. Some of the signs are…

As splenomegaly doctors refer to an enlarged spleen. It can be a symptom of various illnesses such as infections, blood disorders or liver damage. Patients occasionally complain of a feeling of pressure in the left upper abdomen. The therapy depends on the underlying disease. Eventually, the spleen must be removed. Read all about splenomegaly here!…