Inflammation is associated with some of the worst health problems including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Although acute inflammation is a beneficial process in the events of an injury like spraining your ankle or cutting your finger, chronic inflammation is harmful. As said, inflammation is like a coin, […]
Category: Rare Diseases
Reye’s syndrome Symptoms and Treatment
What is it? Reye’s syndrome is a rare, non-inflammatory disease that can cause serious damage to the liver and brain. If the disease is not managed quickly, it can cause irreversible damage to the brain or even be lethal to the individual. The most common subjects affected by Reye’s syndrome are children and young adults under […]
Proteus Syndrome Symptoms and Treatment
What is it? Proteus syndrome is a rare disease characterized by significant growth of bones, skin and other tissues. The organs and tissues affected by this pathology are disproportionately large in relation to the rest of the body. This abnormal size of certain organs and / or tissues is generally asymmetrical. Indeed, the disease can affect the […]
Lyell Syndrome Symptoms and Treatment
What is it ? Lyell’s syndrome is an acute, rare and serious disease, most often caused by a drug allergy. It is characterized by the destruction and the sudden detachment of the superficial layer of the skin (epidermis) and the mucous membranes (epithelium) over a large part of the body. The toxic epidermal necrolysis (NET) designation includes […]
What is rabies? Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Rabies is a zoonotic disease, which affects animals and transmits them to humans through a bite or scratch. Schematically, rabies results in encephalitis, an infection of the brain, that is to say the brain. Cause of rabies: Rabies is a virosis, pathology linked to the contamination of the body by a virus, the lyssavirus, an RNA […]
Progeria or Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Progeria is a rare genetic disease characterized by early aging of the child. Definition of progeria Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, is a rare genetic disorder. It is characterized by an increased aging of the body. Children with this pathology have early features of old age. At birth, the child has no abnormality. It looks “normal” until […]
Myofasciitis macrophage Symptoms and Treatment
What is it ? Macrophage myofasciitis is characterized by histopathological lesions (disease affecting the tissues). These are myopathic consequences, which affect the muscle tissue. This disease has been described following a human biopsy, an adult patient and in 3 children. Damage within the muscle fibers was put forward without the presence of necrosis. Examinations of these lesions (nuclear […]
Mononucleosis Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
The infectious mononucleosis is a disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus . Mononucleosis mainly affects teenagers and young adults, but it can also affect children. The mononucleosis most often manifests as sore throat , a very great fatigue and a feeling of weakness throughout the body. The degree of fatigue can vary a lot from person to person. Some hard-hit people have to stop for a few weeks. It is […]
Sleeping sickness Symptoms and Treatment
What is it ? What is commonly known as sleeping sickness is African human trypanosomiasis . Like malaria , it is a tropical disease, more specifically a tsetse-transmitted parasitosis, which occurs exclusively on the African continent. In the absence of treatment, parasites injected into the body by an infected tsetse fly invade the central nervous system, causing sleep and behavioral disturbances […]
Coal disease Symptoms and Treatment
What is it ? Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium: Bacillus antracis . This bacterium is characterized by a rod shape (bacillus) and is Gram + type. This Gram stain allows a classification of bacteria according to their morphological characteristics. The mode of contamination is via the infected animal or ingestion of contaminated animal products. Man can be exposed […]