Abnormally low numbers of red blood cells and a reduction in the amount of hemoglobin in those cells results in anemia. Because red blood cells are needed as carriers of oxygen to the tissues, oxygen supply to the body is subsequently interrupted. The exact cause of anemia must be diagnosed by a physician before any treatment can begin.
Anemia can be caused by an iron deficiency due to blood loss from excessive menstrual flow, gastrointestinal bleeding and ulcers, during pregnancy, breast-feeding, from frequent blood donations, colon cancer, or a lack of iron in the diet. It can result from autoimmunity, a condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks itself, in this case the red blood cells; or from a malfunction of the bone marrow system when it is adversely affected by infection, cancer, or toxic chemical exposure or radiation. Anemia can also occur because of a deficiency of vitamins B6, B12, folic acid, or copper; and from certain antiinflammatory drugs or antibiotics or an excessive consumption of alcohol. Genetics may also be a factor.
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All human can suffer inflammation, although many people either don’t realize or even don’t know whether their suffer from it, in facts they actually can feel the symptoms of this common medical condition and their body also show many signs about it also.
What is Inflammation ?
Inflammation is a complex reactions to infectious agents such as microbes and damaged (usually necrotic cells), that consist of vascular responses, migration and activation of leukocytes and systemic reactions. or in simple way can described as protective response to rid organism of both the initial cause of cell injury, such as microbes, toxins and the consequence of such injury, like necrotic cells and tissue.
Why Inflammation is Important ?
Without Inflammation, infections would go unchecked, wound would never heal, and injured cell, tissue or organ might become prominent and severe. Although inflammation can also become potentially harmful, like hypersensitivity symptoms reactions to insect bite on hypersensitive
How many type of Inflammation ?
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Have you ever heard about kidney stone ? If no than you should continue read this articles, you can pass this articles or keep reading it because there are some informations that you may not found everywhere.
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Pain
There are 2 types of pain: renal (kidney) colic which is caused by stretching of collecting system or ureter and the non colic type which caused by distended of kidney’s capsule. The pain usually constant and frequently is abrupt and severe (it may awaken you from sleep), the person having kidney stone frequently move constantly into unusual position trying to relive the pain.
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Hematuria (Bloody Urine)
Frequently occur in person with kidney stones, whether the stone is still inside the kidney or when it already inside the ureter. Sometimes it manifested in gross hematuria or a micro hematuria which can be detected using urine test under the microscope. This symptom develop because the stone is cause injury to the wall of kidney or ureter.
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Infection
This sign related with struvite stones (magnesium ammonium phosphate) or usually called the infection stones which also associated with certain bacteria such as, Proteus and Pseudomonas. The symptoms usually a dysuria (pain during urinating) and fever because local inflammation of urinary tract. Another aspects of infection is urosepsis, a severe infection with clinical signs such as fever, tachycardia (rapid pulse) and hypotension. This is why if urinary stone associated with fever is a relative medical emergency.
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Nausea and Vomiting
Although not a main symptoms but also can occur frequently in person with kidney stones. A intravenous fluid should be given to this person because it can develop to hypovolemic state.
This Three are common in person with kidney stones, although there are few other that can occur based on whether other complications are already develop accompanying this condition.