Signs and symptoms The diagnosis of shortness of breath depends on the rate of breathing. To determine, if your child is actually short of breath, count the number of breaths per minute when the child is at rest. The average, normal rate of breathing for newborns is 40 breaths per minute; for one-year-olds, it is [...]

What is it? Psoriasis is a common skin condition affecting a million people in the UK and a further 7 million in the US. About 80 million people suffer from it worldwide. It appears as red, raised pustules covered with silvery scales and it can occur on any part of the body, though knees, elbows [...]

Overnutrition Obesity caused by eating too much of the wrong things can result in all kinds of diseases and disabilities secondary to obesity, and the link between cancer and obesity is now too well proven to ignore. It is estimated that one in three Americans are clinically overweight; juvenile obesity is a growing cause for [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems If you notice a discharge from your penis that looks like pus and you also find it difficult to urinate, see your doctor right away. These are the two major signs of a sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhea in particular. Because gonorrhea infects the urethra, which causes it to swell up, [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems Like a crick in the neck or a headache that won’t go away no matter how many ^aspirins you take, if you become constipated, it tends to affect everything you do. Constipation that appears all of a sudden or over the course of several days is usually due to a [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems Some elderly people have a condition in which the heart rate alternately speeds up and slows down, and it can vary back and forth several times a day. Sometimes the person may appear to be in normal spirits, but occasionally she may have chest pain, shortness of breath, or fainting. [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems Sometimes your skin may turn red due to nervousness or stress. The redness may last for a few minutes or a few hours. However, if you develop solid red, scaly plaques on the trunk of your body that are very sharply defined and scaly in appearance, chances are you have [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems When you accidentally bite your tongue, it may swell up for a few hours before it returns to its normal size. It may leave behind a sore that might last a day or two. But when your tongue becomes enlarged and stays that way without biting it, this could indicate [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems If you notice that one of your eyes is bulging slightly more than the other, possibly accompanied by redness, pain, impaired vision, and a change in the appearance or color of the iris, you should see your doctor immediately. These are all signs of retinoblastoma, which is a tumor that [...]

When a person is having convulsions or seizures, our tendency is to jump to one of two conclusions: either the person is going through drug withdrawal, or he is having an epileptic seizure. Though drug-related seizures are by far more common, epilepsy remains one of the most misunderstood diseases around. An epileptic seizure is the [...]