Ever wondered why your tummy remains bulgy even after a very rigorous training at the gym or with your personal trainer that lasted for months already? Abdominal fat is considered as one of the most difficult areas to strip of fat. It is where most of your visceral organs are found so the cushion effect of the fat deposits are only to be expected and held on to tightly. Continue reading
Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or stopped beats. The heart’s rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitations can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck. Continue reading
2. Referral: Children are rarely self-referred: their parents or other adults decide the child needs help and seeks it out. The first task of a clinician working with children is to determine whether or not a problem actually exists. Intolerance, ignorance, and misconceptions on the part of the adult may be the reason for the referral. Indeed, parents’ referral of their child may be more a factor of their own emotional state. Other problems in referral are that certain behaviors may be overlooked. Parents, teachers, and other adults who refer a child for help, may underidentify children with certain disturbances because those disturbances are less salient or troublesome to them. For example: the child who withdraws from social contact will not be as salient as the child who disrupts class, and so may not be identified as needing help. Continue reading
Abnormal behavior in children is considered as any type of behavior that interferes with daily functioning. Abnormal behavior can be symptoms of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, extreme defiance, rage or physical aggression to self or others. Behavior is a tool of communication that children use when they don’t have the words to express themselves to others. It is important to pay attention to sudden changes in behavior that are outside the normal developmental milestones based on the age of the child. Continue reading
Some people can have varying degrees of cardiac enlargement and have no symptoms. Once dilation or hypertrophy begins to place undue demands on heart function, however, symptoms do result. These can include:
When you hear the word testosterone, you immediately think of men. Unknown to most people, women also produce the testosterone hormone but evidently in much lower amounts. Testosterone is the male hormone responsible for aggression and secondary male characteristics. When women have this hormone in higher levels, they usually have hirsutism or excessive facial hair, smaller breasts, and a protruding Adam’s apple. There are actually women who are mistaken for men because they have more testosterone in their bodies. The imbalance of testosterone levels can either be an excessive increase or a excessive decrease in the amount of hormone.
Candida albicans is a yeast species that naturally grows in the vaginal area. There are factors that make the normal yeast population to over proliferate and then yeast infection develops. Some symptoms are vaginal irritation, intense itching, intense burning, cheesy white discharge, and redness in the vaginal area.
It is already a known fact that more and more people develop elevated blood pressure or hypertension at any given age already. This is a saddening condition that is faced by so many individuals, families, and institutions every single day.
Cardiac enlargem
rs to an increase in the size of the heart. There are two types of cardiac enlargement: hypertrophy and dilation. (Though usually occurring separately, they may occur at the same time.) Hypertrophy involves an increase in the thickness of the heart muscle. Dilation involves an increase in the size of the inside cavity of a chamber of the heart. Hypertrophy usually occurs in only one chamber while dilation may occur in one, two, three, or all of the chambers, based on its cause. In most cases, cardiac enlargement is abnormal and accompanied by additional cardiovascular problems. The one exception is regular aerobic exercise, which produces a beneficial enlargement involving both hypertrophy and dilation of the heart. Continue reading
A complete blood count (CBC) test measures the following: