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Mouth Ulcer: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

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Any discomfort in the body may impede the daily activity of a person. Every day, people are learning about various ailments due to pollution, genetically modified foods, stress, etc. In this milieu, a minor discomfort in the mouth may put a person in big trouble. A mouth ulcer may look small in size and might not cause any severe injury to the body, but it may impede daily activity like eating, brushing the teeth, drinking a glass of water, etc. Therefore, it is imperative to discuss mouth ulcers and their preventions to avoid discomfort. Knowing About Mouth Ulcer: A small sore in the mouth that develops severe pain and impedes elementary activities like eating, drinking, and brushing the teeth, is considered as mouth ulcer. Another name for mouth ulcer is canker sore. A mouth ulcer does not cause any severe harm to the body, and it sustains for a week or two. It gets cured by itself without any assistance. However, if the ulcer remains for more than two weeks, the patient must s...
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Kidney Stone: Treatment and Home Remedies

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The human body is sensitive and needs special care to keep it in a safe zone. Maintaining a balanced diet, regular exercise, and healthy habits are key factors to live a healthy life. But it is not possible to adhere to the strict norms or checklist all the time. People have tendencies to avoid minor pains and body irregularities that often lead them to face trouble in the future. A kidney stone is one such issue that does not shows any signs or symptoms in its initial stage, and little pain does not call for medical help. Therefore, people do not care about the issue. This issue may later develop into a severe ailment with each passing day and the patient might take long to get cured. Understanding Kidney Stone: Symptoms and Cause When crystalline minerals and salts get deposited within the Kidney and the Urinary tract, it develops into a kidney stone. Kidney stone does not show any symptoms in its initial stage, but once the stone starts moving down the ureters, it causes sev...
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

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It is normal and okay to forget things. People often have a habit of forgetting things at a younger age. Forgetfulness can be caused by a range of physical and environmental factors. The habit of forgetting things can be controlled by adopting various strategies, such as making a note, maintain a daily log, and engaging in brain-stimulating activities. However, if anyone starts noticing development of symptoms related to forgetting, followed with behavioural changes that makes them vulnerable and subside family members, then the person should seek help and find out the real cause of the condition as the person may be developing the symptoms of the Alzheimer’s disease. Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer's disease is a neurological condition that leads to forgetting things and other neurological disorders. The situation raises a question on a person’s credibility by weakening the ability to reason, making judgments, language, and concentrate. These changes impede a perso...
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All You Need to Know About Diabetes!

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Food is one of the prime resources for life. Everyone loves eating. Different flavours of food give pleasure to the palate and satisfaction to the soul. People mostly follow abbreviations like “live to eat or eat to live.” However, they forget the repercussion of reckless eating. A diet that contains high calories, saturated fat, sodium, and high lactose contributes to the development of various diseases that could lead to life-threatening situations. These diseases include: Obesity Heart disease High blood pressure Cholesterol Stroke and Diabetes.  Diabetes is one of the major diseases that affect a large section of people worldwide each year. Almost every house has a couple of diabetic patients living in it. Therefore, the issue needs the focus for discussion so that people will be aware of the disease and could avoid the factors that can push them towards it. What is Diabetes? The pancreas is one of the organs in the human digestive system that produces a hormo...
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How pain killer works: understanding the mechanism.

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Pain and pleasure are two significant aspects of life. Good news, success, good health, and wealth bring joy, while heart-break, losing a loved one, or getting a physical injury causes pain and grief. Pain is a sharp sense of discomfort due to an internal or external stimulus. It can be mild such as a pinprick, mild burn, or a small cut, or it could be excruciating, such as blast injuries, severe infections, or chronic illnesses. Pain is divided into two types: physical or emotional. Being disheartened or being sad can be emotional pain, which cannot be cured by medicine alone. But when the body gets injured by any foreign object, it experiences physical pain and may require assistance for recovery and rehabilitation. Pain can also be acute (Appendicitis pain) or chronic (Migraine pain).  How Does Pain Work? When a body is subjected to an external or internal stimulus, a special cell called nociceptor sends a signal to the brain. The brain then perceives the signal as p...
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Understanding the Importance of Clinical Trials

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What are clinical trials? Clinical trials are studies that get conducted aiming at evaluating a medicine, surgical procedure, or behavioural intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, like a new drug, vaccine, diet, or medical device is safe and effective in people. Clinical trials are often used for learning if a new treatment is more effective and/or has fewer side-effects. What are the phases of clinical trials? Four phases of clinical trials are: The United States Food and Drug Authority (FDA) standards for clinical trials are considered as the benchmark of clinical trials all over the world. The US FDA typically requires very strict protocols to be followed while conducting a clinical trial. The different phases of a clinical trial are as follows: Phase I trial:  In this phase of a clinical trial, the experimental drug or vaccine is administered to a small group of healthy people (20 to 80). This step is taken to assess ...
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Tinnitus: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments

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People make some goals and targets in their life. Rich or poor, all have to work hard for a better future; however, a little inconvenience in any of the body parts can put impediments in achieving the targets made.  Every single part and organ in the body has a particular job to be done. Moving, sleeping, eating, and sensing the environment, all are vital life processes. Each sensory organ enables the person to know the surroundings that they are living in and taking necessary actions.  One of the prime sensory organs in the body is the ear that helps in hearing various sounds. People react according to the sounds they hear. But what if they face trouble listening to those instructions or infect could not hear that at all? What is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is not a condition. Instead, it is a symptom of hidden ear-problems like infection or tissue damage. Constant ringing or buzzing sounds in the ear are the main characteristics of tinnitus. These sounds impede the ability to...
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