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Chronic constipation can be either functional or structural in nature... management can be surgical or medical with laxative or enema

Left heart failure.....

Shock management and causes with clinical features

Joint stiffness.... usually from rheumatological causes ....like arthritis or osteoarthritis.... remote causes due to compartment syndrome from limb swelling due to accident or trauma... management is based on supportive care and address the causes

Common drugs or medications for treatment of peptic ulcer disease which may find usefulness in indigestion or dyspepsia especially anti acid

Gouty arthritis due to elevated uric acid level in the body....a deviant form of arthritis manifesting with joint tophi, pains , deformity and most cases that may lead to leave mb amputation

Vitamin b12 deficiency...

Osteoporosis a sudden bony loss of calcium.... making the bone brittle and liable to fracture...... management is with nutritional support, palliative care and drug to defer or reduce resorption of calcium from the bone with bisphosphate

Cardiac arrest a sudden cessation of heart activity....can be caused by hypertensive and non hypertensive causes... kindly ensure you get checked up regularly please

Palmer erythema

Medical tips for your perusal

Echocardiogram and echocardiography

Blood pressure emergency related to an hypertensive individual

Osteoarthritis quite different from rheumatoid arthritis.....based on the part of or structure of the joint affected...soft tissues versus bony tissues is what is considered here as difference

Calf pains may arise from muscle spasms due to tetany, cramps from poor oxygen supply usually from athletes after prolonged usage....also can arise from poor circulation due to elevated blood pressure, hypercholesterol blocking the blood vessels called intermittent claudication... management is usually center on the cause

Diabetes......common early signs starts with frequency in urine output, excessive thirst and weight loss... kindly ensure you get checked up by routine blood sugar assessment

Hip pains and back pains are two forms of pelvic pains especially if the back pain is on the lower part .... management being almost on the same pattern or part.. analgesic, brace support in most cases of spondylosis

Diabetes neuropathy....a complication arising from poorly managed diabetes

Common gastroenteral problems by most patients

Pre eclampsia a medical and also an obstetrics emergency...with elevated blood pressure in a pregnant woman... manifesting with various multi systemic features or complications has depicted

Tips on kidney or renal failure

Heat stroke.....a life threatening condition that manifest with various forms of ..... neurological, metabolic complications with delirium, seizure, dehydration to coma and even death.... management is basically removing or staying away from source of etiology along with conservative approach to management

Tips on heel Spurs

Prostate cancer......I slow growing disease affecting men at old age.... usually missed in diagnosis at early stage with vague symptoms of low back pain and in most cases asymptomatic at early stage.... periodic screening is essential for men

Medical tips on rheumatoid arthritis..... management and causes with clinical features

GBS....a neurological condition with cause mostly tired to auto immune factors

Tips on chronic obstructive airway lung disease.. smoking being a key factor

Medical advice on management of knee replacement surgery.....

Medical tips or features of encephalitis.....a brain condition that manifest with various forms of clinical and neurological sequel

Tips on leg cramps and ways to manage it

A mid surgery interrupted on 28th July this year in Asia Pacific Japan where a major magnitude earthquake struck the major health care facility disrupting the surgery, cutting water and power supply.....however the procedure was later completed.... showing the level of risk most health care facility faces and putting patients who in critical level or health care at risk

Killings of individuals or persons may take various forms ...as described

Spot the difference between a fungi and scabies infection....while scabies is a parasitic infection, fungal infection stands out different

Tips and information you should recognize with herpes zooster or simply called chicken pox....a repeat form is shingles....severe in nature than the primary chicken pox

Difference between a cyst and tumor....both a somewhat similar in one form or the other with Great difference...a cyst is usually a comfirn fluid like sac content with or without some element of solid or semi solid component which might take the form of a tumor either malignant or benign....while on the other hand a tumor is classically and most times an abnormal growth usually and mostly sold in consistency

Spot the difference between syphilis and herpes infection.... syphilis a bacteria infection while herpes a viral infection...with two separate pathogenesis inspite of both being contacted or contracted via unprotected sexual intercourse and both being a blister like leisons, painfull with burning sensation and involving neurological sequel

Has a doctor or student.... patients position you should know

Medical tips on diabetes Early signs are frequency in urination, thirsty habit and rear case of weight loss Ensure you get checked up and get treated to avoid complications with diabetes

Tips on liver diseases

A US woman diagnosed with poliomyelitis at age five.... became the last polio victim to die in the US age over seventy years old....who has lived on artificial iron lung support for her to breathe all this years.....say no to polio and ensure your child and or sibbilngs etc get vaccinated early today

Benign prostatic hyperplasia....a non cancerous growth of the prostate associated with old age.... secondary to elaboration of hormonal testosterone... treatment usually medical to shrink the prostate and surgical removal

Bacteria conjunctivitis...an information of the outer conjuctiva layer... usually from bacteria causes...other cause may trigger with ocular trauma, migraine, chemical irritants.....

Nose bleeding or simply epistaxis can be caused by various etiologies...from hypertension, nasopharyngeal cancer, bleeding diasthesis, infection like sinusitis etc....management is identifying the cause and treat as impromptu

The scalp growth with a lesson.... punctured and painless is most likely to be an epidermoid cyst usually following trauma due to the punctured....an epidermoid cyst is acquired from trauma and contain skin keratin appendages structure.... unlike a dermoid cyst that is congenital and contain germ cells of complex origin but painless as well....lipoma also painless but immobile while a carbuncle is painful following a bacterial infection like stalp aureus

New drug to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes just discovered in the NHI in Wales and england ...teplizumab an immunosuppressive therapeutic drugs that can add an extra five years before the onset of diabetes to individuals

Stress response should trigger the elevation of blood sugar through stress hormones like cortisol, cathecolamine, growth hormone and vasopressin etc

The most common cause of pitting pedal edema after congestive heart failure is chronic renal failure

The most commonest cause of arteriosclerosis in human is not hyperlipidemia, not diabetes but hypertension being most common and with smoking a risk factor....... pathogenesis centered on arterial wall damage via intima wall of damage from repeated effect of uncontrolled hypertension setting up a plaque, scarification and calcinosis leading to the Hallmark of the condition

Prurigo nodularis is almost similar but does not transmit via contact...just an autoimmune in nature with nodularis...scabies most likely present with this intense itching, transmissible through contact or contagious with area of erythema

Things you should know about wet and dry gangrene of the feet