Zoonotic Diseases caused by your Pet's Worms

A zoonotic disease, loosely defined, is a disease that can be transmitted from an animal to a human. These diseases can be transmitted by direct contact, by vectors or by the consumption of animals and/or animal products. While many animal diseases are zoonotic, we are going to highlight some of the more common ones caused by worms. Migrane A) Hookworm (Ancylostoma caninum) Zoonotic Diseases caused by your Pet's Worms These are distributed worldwide and are found wherever dogs live.In dogs they can cause anaemia(bloodloss), weight loss, loss of appetite, poor growth,bloody stools, coughing and localised skin inflammation, especially...

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Headaches and High Blood Pressure

Just because you get a headache doesn't mean that you have high blood pressure. Headaches CAN be an indication of very high blood pressure, but more often that not, a headache is just a headache. Take an aspirin or a Tylenol and move on. Hypertension isn't called "the silent killer" for no reason. There are no symptoms that you or anybody else would recognize as symptoms of high blood pressure. If you or someone you love is having a SEVERE headache, blurred vision, and nausea all at the same time, you should without any hesitation, get to a doctor or an emergency room. Those symptoms could indicate a blood pressure that is high enough...

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Mood Control - Food, Neurotransmitters And Reclaiming Your Calm

You and I know that we can't always control what happens in our lives, but we can control how we respond to them. What happens however when your having a bad week, your peri-menopausal or pre-menstrual? Well science might have an answer. Let me introduce you to the world of brain chemistry and a powerful group of natural chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters. The communication network in your brain is a multi-trillion maze of connections capable of performing 20 million-billion calculations per second. Yes, I did say 20 billion! Migrane How does this intricate network operate? Well there are three major players: Mood Control...

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After Exercise Headache - More Serious Than You Think?

It's surprisingly common - you're exercising, everything's fine, and then POW - a headache strikes! Or, sometimes, a headache hits while you're exercising. Is it just a minor annoyance? Or could it be a signal that something serious is going on? Should you go to the doctor, or just shrug it off? If you already suffer from headaches or migraine, it may just be that your exercise is starting the headache chain-reaction. In that case, it's important to look at the overall picture and make sure you're getting the treatment you need for headaches. Your doctor may recommend a pain killer to take just before you exercise, to stop the pain...

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7 Things You Should Know About Optical Migraines

Sometime in our lives, we experience headaches that come and go and are often so severe that our daily routines are affected. Oftentimes, when these headaches occur, we also experience some form of visual changes. Then we say, "It's probably just a migraine." 1. What is a migraine? Migrane Migraine is a recurrent type of headache that is severely painful and usually occurs only on one side of the head. An aura occurs right before one of these attacks. An aura could be manifested as visual flashes or spots or even ringing in the ears which is opposite of the side where the headache is about to occur. The migraine attack may also come...

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Migraine Headache in the Eye

Migraine headache in eyes is a form of migraine that the patients suffer from total and sudden loss of their physical sensations. The eye headache numbness is prickling and tingling feeling, which could be caused by many triggers. It is a symptom of many ailment, disorders and other disease. Loss of sensation can cause accident or injury. You are about to have eye headache when you feel a numbness in the following: Migrane 1- Tongue Migraine Headache in the Eye 2- Arms3- Hands4- FaceThese are the initial symptoms of the eye headache attacks. There are 3 types of this headache:1- Silent migraine2- Ocular migraine3- Complex migraineThe...

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