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Allergies & Immunity
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Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a group of 20-30 primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) which have a common set of symptoms, but with different underlying causes.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:46 PM
in Just diagnosed - any advice
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Environmental Allergies
An allergy can refer to several kinds of immune reactions including Type I hypersensitivity in which a person's body is hypersensitised and develops IgE type antibodies to typical proteins.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:52 AM
in Singulair for Environmental...
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Food Allergies
A food allergy is hypersensitivity to dietary substances, leading to various types of gastrointestinal complaints. It occurs mainly, but not exclusively, in children.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:42 AM
in Something new being used in...
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Fructose Intolerance
Fructose intolerance (Dietary Fructose Intolerance, or DFI) is a hereditary condition due to a deficiency of liver enzymes that metabolise fructose.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:57 AM
in Fructose allergy using soap?
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G6PD Deficiency
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-linked recessive hereditary disease featuring nonimmune hemolytic anemia in response to a number of causes.
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IgA Deficiency Selective
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency is a relatively mild genetic immunodeficiency.
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Friday, November 16, 2007 5:51 PM
in Initial diagnosis
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Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the condition in which lactase, an enzyme needed for proper metabolization of lactose (a constituent of milk and other dairy products), is not produced in adulthood.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:14 AM
in Need food choice guidance
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Brain & Nervous System
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Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterized clinically by progressive cognitive deterioration together with declining activities of daily living.
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Friday, November 16, 2007 9:18 PM
in My Darling Grandmother
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Amnesia
Amnesia (or amnaesia) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:19 AM
in Bike accident
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, Maladie de Charcot or motor neurone disease) is a progressive, almost invariably fatal neurological disease.
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:07 AM
in Wondering if I have ALS
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Aphasia
Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain (like Broca's area).
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Friday, December 28, 2007 10:41 PM
in What can I do for a friend?
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Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Arnold-Chiari malformation, sometimes referred to as 'Chiari malformation' or ACM, is a congenital anomaly of the brain.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:02 AM
in Anyone been through the surgery?
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Ataxia Telangiectasia
Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) (Boder-Sedgwick syndrome or Louis-Bar syndrome) is a primary immunodeficiency disorder that occurs in an estimated incidence of 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 300,000 births.
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Bell's Palsy
Bell's palsy (facial palsy) is characterised by facial drooping on the affected half, due to malfunction of the facial nerve (VII cranial nerve), which controls the muscles of the face.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:20 PM
in How to deal
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Brain / CNS Tumors
A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either found in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue or blood vessels.
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Monday, October 29, 2007 10:45 PM
in Feeling like there's no future
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Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage.
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 3:16 PM
in Just introducing myself
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist causing symptoms like tingling, numbness, night time wakening, pain, coldness, and sometimes weakness in parts of the hand.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:07 PM
in Is this a sign?
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Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy or CP is the most common childhood physical disability. It is a permanent physical condition that affects movement.
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Monday, November 12, 2007 1:40 PM
in Aging with CP
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Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than the normal course of time associated with a particular type of injury.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:26 PM
in Advice needed
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Coma
A coma is a profound state of unconsciousness. A comatose patient cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have sleep-wake cycles, and does not take voluntary actions.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:59 AM
in Anyone out there?
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Dementia
Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging.
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Monday, November 12, 2007 7:15 AM
in How do you deal with emotions?
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Dizziness & Vertigo
Dizziness is the sensation of instability. The term is extremely common, and can include a number of more specific conditions, ranging from harmless to life-threatening.
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:36 PM
in How do we get thru the days?
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Dyslexia
Dyslexia refers to any reading difficulty not associated with obvious problems (such as bad eyesight).
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:25 PM
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Dyspraxia & Apraxia
The Dyspraxia Foundation describes developmental dyspraxia as "an impairment or immaturity of the organisation of movement.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:24 PM
in Any help
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Dystonia
Dystonia (literally, "abnormal muscle tone") is a generic term used to describe a neurological movement disorder involving involuntary, sustained muscle contractions. Dystonia may affect muscles throughout the body (generalised).
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:43 AM
in Explaining dystonia
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Epilepsy & Seizures
Epilepsy (often referred to as a seizure disorder) is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The condition is named from the Greek epilepsis ("to take a firm grip on").
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:17 AM
in Vagus nerve stimulator
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Essential Tremor
Essential Tremor (ET) is a neurological disorder characterized by shaking of hands (and sometimes other parts of the body including the head), evoked by intentional movements.
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Monday, November 19, 2007 3:45 AM
in Tremor caused by anxiety
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (i.e. not the brain or spinal cord).
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:08 AM
in Questions
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Hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain. This incre | | |