Raynaud’s disease, aka syndrome or phenomenon, is a condition that causes numbness and tingling most often in your fingers and/or toes, but it can affect the tip of your nose and ears as well. This tingling and numbness sensation is in response to cold temperatures or stress.
Raynaud’s disease goes beyond just cold feet and [...]
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Hemoptysis definition is coughing up blood, spitting up blood, blood in your phlegm, bloody mucous, blood sputum or a less graphic way by saying expectoration of blood from your respiratory passageways.
Surprising and frightening as the sight of blood in your cough-up might be, the cause is not necessarily serious. Some causes for hemoptysis symptoms [...]
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Vasculitis is a condition wherein your blood vessels become inflamed, making it difficult, sometimes impossible, for life sustaining blood to make it through. This inflammation is caused by your immune system erroneously attacking its own arteries, veins and capillaries.
Undoubtedly, this type of attack can lead to some very serious health complications.
There are two classifications [...]
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Tick Twister
Ticks are little bloodsucking bugs, and they only diet on your health preserving blood. When a tick bites, just its mouth enters your skin. Generally this is a painless process. Once a tick is gets its fill on your blood, it drops off on its own.
If you discover one of these [...]
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Atherosclerosis is a disease that diminishes your arterial circulation of oxygenated blood to your life sustaining organs or other parts of the body. Plaque build up inside any of your oxygen carrying arteries of the circulatory system may cause you to experience a couple of life threatening conditions.
Atherosclerosis results in different diseases depending on [...]
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Regular visual inspection of your stools is a great resource for monitoring your health. Discovering that you have blood in/on your stool, or a bloody stool, can be a frightening experience. However, there are many causes for bloody stools, some considered minor in nature.
Now before you panic, take a gander at the following list [...]
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Hemophilia is a blood clotting disorder that usually occurs in males only. Hemophiliacs have little or no clotting factor, which is a protein needed for normal blood clotting. If you have this disorder you may:
bleeding for a long time
heavy bleeding from a minor cut
have nosebleeds for no obvious reason
internally bleeding, causing [...]
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Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a medical condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in one of your large veins, usually in the lower leg, thigh, or pelvis. This thrombosis can happen to anyone, thankfully it is preventable and treatable with a correct and early diagnosis.
There are some steps you can take to help [...]
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A bleeding disorder is a health condition that makes it difficult for you to stop any bleeding. Normally, blood clots by changing from a liquid to a solid in an effort to stop your injury from bleeding continuously. This is called coagulation.
In order for blood to clot, it needs blood cell platelets and clotting factors. [...]
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Peripheral vascular disease (PVD), aka arteriosclerosis of the extremities, refers to all blood vessel narrowing in your body, with the exception of your heart’s. This disease is a result of plaque buildup on the walls of your peripheral arteries causing them to narrow. And in turn, reducing the supply of blood to your arms and [...]
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