Archive for: May 2008

Drugs for the Suppression of Pain (Analgesics)

Filed under: Convulsions - 28 May 2008

Pain is a designation for a spectrum sensations of highly divergent charact and intensity ranging from unpleasa to intolerable. Pain stimuli are detecte by physiological receptors (sensor nociceptors) least differentiated mo phologically, viz., free nerve ending. The body of the …

What are Hysterical Convulsions?

Filed under: Convulsions - 19 May 2008

These convulsions are of a psychogenic origin, also called psychogenic seizures or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. These should be differentiated from true epileptic convulsions; hence the value of an eyewitness for the precise diagnosis of epilepsy. Simple information, that the patient …

Know About Asthma Food Allergy

Filed under: Allergy, Asthma - 05 May 2008

There are findings that many asthmatics don’t consider food an asthma trigger, particularly in adults. Most of the studies connecting food and asthma are done with children, who it is understood may be food allergic.

So recently, food allergy is yet …

Do You Have Asthma?

Filed under: Asthma - 05 May 2008

The number of newly diagnosed asthma cases in the United States has risen dramatically over the past ten to fifteen years. Part of the reason may be due to the availability of better medical care and early diagnostic methods used …