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Whipple’s disease is a rare infectious disease caused by bacteria. Whipple’s disease is characterized by fever of unknown origin polyarthralgia and chronic diarrhea. Whipple’s disease causes weight loss, incomplete breakdown of carbohydrates or fats, and immune system disorders. The diagnosis of Whipple’s disease was based on the identification of abnormalities in biopsies of the small intestine (an actinomycete as a small rod) during the endoscopy and the large number of complaints received by a patient. The disease affects mainly middle-aged white men and the onset of symptoms is usually slow. Untreated, it can be fatal. Whipple’s disease is extremely rare and risk factors are not known. Whipple’s disease, people can develop heart murmurs. Movements of confusion, memory loss, or uncontrollable eye infection suggests that the brain has spread. Patients may experience neurological symptoms as well. The diagnosis is based on the symptoms and the results of the biopsy tissue of the organs of the small intestine or others are affected.  In general, Whipple’s disease is more common in men over 45 years. If detected and treated, Whipple’s disease can be cured. Left untreated, the disease can be deadly. The disease can affect all organs, including the central nervous system, but usually occurs in the gastrointestinal tract. Arthritis and fever often occur several years before intestinal symptoms develop. Chest pain can occur if the fluid in the lungs and the lungs, the pleura is inflamed. Patients with joint pain has been found that have the organism in the synovial tissue. The bodies were found in heart valves of patients with heart disease and Whipple’s disease in the CNS of patients with neurological diseases. Whipple’s disease is treated with antibiotics to kill bacteria that cause disease. The doctor, a number of different types and doses of antibiotics to find the best treatment.
Whipple’s disease is caused by an infectious organism Tropheryma whippelii called.  The disease is most common in middle-aged white men.  Tropheryma whippelii DNA, in patients with symptoms are found.

Some of the symptoms associated with Whipple’s disease as follows.

Abdominal pain.  Loss of appetite.

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Fever.

Fatigue and weakness.

Headache.
Abdominal cramps.

Lymphadenopathy may be present.

Patients should be prolonged antibiotic therapy with a drug to treat infections of the brain and central nervous system. If symptoms occur during therapy again, but patients may require a change in treatment with antibiotics.

In severe cases, the replacement of fluids and electrolytes is necessary.

place due to difficulties in absorption of nutrients with Whipple’s disease, can recommend your doctor, more iron, folic acid, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium and ensure good nutrition.

Patients who suffer from malnutrition caused by malabsorption proper treatment for dietary supplements.

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a medical condition in living organisms (plants or animals) that the functioning of the body of the organization. Diseases can be caused by external influences or internal problems. Diseases, which refers to certain characters that are called symptoms and pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems and even death of the body concerned. Diseases can also infections, injury, temporary disability, syndromes, diseases, and even isolated symptoms.  Infectious diseases are caused by agents that transfer most of the microbes that cause disease, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, protozoa, etc. All the infections are not diseases, an infection not a disease, if it is the normal body temperature changes function. Examples include the common cold (caused by viral infections in man), downy mildew (caused by a pot of water), etc.  All diseases are not caused by infections as non-infectious diseases. Examples include cancer, heart disease, mental disorders, etc. in humans. Some diseases in humans and animals are sexually transmitted and sexually transmitted from mother to fetus in the womb. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a disease that is mainly transmitted sexually, but can also be transmitted through the blood of infected patients. Syphilis is another example of a sexually transmitted disease.
Some diseases such as glaucoma, thalassemia, heart disease, etc., people have a genetic basis for a partial or complete, and from one generation to another. They are known as genetic diseases.
There are also caused disease in humans by a problem in the way of life of patients. For example, obese people who are sedentary are more likely to have diabetes than thin and active. Some diseases are caused by deficiencies of certain nutrients in the diet of an animal. Skin rashes may be caused by dogs in the diet because of lack of vitamins and minerals, while iodine deficiency in humans leads to hypothyroidism.

The term Hansen’s disease instead of leprosy is now preferred by some experts, it is less pejorative. Hansen’s disease was named after the Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Hansen Armauer, discovered in 1873 the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae, the first microbe found, the cause of his illness in humans. see Hansen discovered the bacterial cause of coal for 3 years. Hansen’s research helped establish the basic principles of microbiology, immunology and public health.  Hansen’s disease is a chronic infectious disease with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. It is a chronic granulomatous disease of the skin, mucous membranes, nerves, lymph nodes, eyes and internal organs such as liver, spleen and testes. Hansen’s disease is one of the oldest diseases known to mankind. It is curable but if untreated it can cause serious birth defects.   Hansen’s disease in an attempt to eliminate the stigma of centuries, is usually transmitted by direct contact from person to person, usually repetitive, over a long period of time. However, it is one of the least contagious of all diseases, and only four fifty-six percent of the world population is even more sensitive.

Hansen’s disease attacks the nerves of the hands and feet were numb. A person may not know cuts or burns on the numb parts and which cause infections that cause permanent damage. Fingers and toes may be lost to infection. Severe infections of the feet may require amputation. The paralysis may curling fingers and toes permanently.
Hansen’s disease, a variety of abnormalities of the skin such as spots or areas that are thicker than normal and her skin is lighter than normal. These stains can be increased, decreased or no contact and temperature sensation / or. Hansen’s disease can also nasal internal surfaces, creating a stuffy nose and nosebleeds. The long-term complications can include loss of data, changes in the face and a secondary infection.
Once infected with mycobacteria are, the average incubation period two to three years, but can vary from 6 months 40 years or more. In 90% of patients the first sign of disease numbness, the skin lesions by a number of years may precede. The temperature is lost, the first feeling, followed by light touch, pain and deep pressure. Sensory loss usually begins in the extremities (hands and feet).

The best way to prevent the spread of leprosy is early diagnosis and treatment of infected persons. For household contacts, are immediate and annual examinations at least five years after the last contact with someone who is contagious recommended.
Dapsone is the first treatment have effective against Hansen’s disease, but bacteria developed resistance to the drug. So in 1970 the scenario has changed from monotherapy to multidrug therapy (MDT). The drugs used in WHO-MDT is a combination of rifampicin (600 mg once a month), clofazimine (300 mg once monthly and 50 mg per day) and dapsone (100 mg daily) for one year for multibacillary (MB) of leprosy patients and rifampicin (600 mg once per month) and dapsone (100 mg daily) for six months paucibacillary leprosy.

What would you do if you had only two options and must choose one, a short life that was healthy from the beginning till the end  or a long life that ended with many years of disease and its attendant sufferings, pain, surgeries, disability, immobility, bed sores and many others?

These are the two options available in a world where cure for incurable lifestyle diseases is sought after instead of prevention. In a world without preventive health education and motivation for lifestyle change to prevent diseases like cancer, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, degenerative joint diseases and other diseases of civilization, the only people that would escape the above-mentioned sufferings are those that die early before disease strikes.

None of us would choose to die early or commit suicide for the sake of escaping disease or its attendant sufferings and neither would any of us want to end our long lives like many who worked so hard only to suffer heart, kidney and organ failures, paralysis from stroke and degenerative diseases affecting the spine, cancer and other preventable but incurable diseases.

If it turns out that I’m right, then it means nobody wants to die young and nobody wants to live a sadly- ending long life. For those of you that belong to this category, I’ve got good news for you: “You can remain young even in old age by slowing the ageing process and staying disease-free. In other words, even though you can’t reduce  your calendar age, you can do something about your biological age such that you can have the anatomical, physiological and biochemical systems of a 30-year old in a 90-year old.

Did I hear you say impossible? Then you must not have seen the 90-year old woman climbing trees the other day on CNN because you needn’t be a mathematical genius like Einstein to figure out that her muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints could not be functionally older than yours when you were 30 provided you could climb trees then.

Experts now know that our health would benefit more from a slowing down of the ageing process by a new approach that teaches prevention instead of traditional medical approaches that passively address prevention and target individual disease. The people in developed nations who get the best curative management are increasingly experiencing more than one age-related disease and now, co-morbidity, the term used to describe the presence of more than one disease in an individual, has become a big health problem in these parts.

Recent advances in the study biological mechanisms responsible for ageing, which give rise to most diseases and other age-related health problems show that aging can be slowed down and disease can be prevented when we adopt healthy lifestyles as preached by medical professionals genuinely interested in prevention instead of cure. Embracing this new model of health promotion and disease prevention will not only guarantee a longer healthy lifespan but also a longer calendar lifespan and independence of invasive medical and surgical management. We must therefore be wise and embrace health promotion and disease prevention.

Here are a few rules you must follow to slow down aging and prevent disease:

Always seek preventive health knowledge from experts: By attending seminars and trainings organized by orthodox medical professionals like physiotherapists and doctors in preventive health, you will understand how your body works and you will acquire lifestyle change skills necessary to change your lifestyle from a disease-promoting to a disease-preventing lifestyle. Disease and its medical and surgical management make you age fast while a positive lifestyle change helps you slow down aging and prevent disease.

Do not lose your muscle strength:  Muscle strength declines with age and the faster you lose muscle strength, the older you become. Strengthen all muscles in all parts of the body as advised by your physiotherapists and certified trainers. Note that exercise in the hands of people who don’t understand your anatomy and physiology is dangerous. Many orthopedic patients referred to me damaged their backs, necks and joints while exercising.

Do not lose your balance and co-ordination: Balance refers to your ability to remain stable especially when in the upright position. Coordination refers to your ability to use the right muscles at the right time and in the right sequence of steps that make up an activity and at the right intensity. The faster you lose them, the faster you age. When balance is lost, people begin to rely on walking sticks and frames and loss of coordination makes simple tasks like taking a spoon from a plate of food to the mouth impossible such that the individual has to be fed.

Do not lose your muscular endurance: Muscular endurance refers to the ability of a particular muscle group to perform repeated contractions or work over a period of time. The faster you lose your muscular endurance, the faster you age. The more your muscular endurance, the more your ability to work for prolonged periods before fatigue sets in.

Do not lose your cardiopulmonary endurance: This refers to the ability of your heart and lungs to supply your tissues with the amounts of blood and oxygen required in long periods of activity involving large muscle groups. These activities include, brisk walking, running, swimming, biking for long periods. The faster the rate at which the time you can safely spend on these activities diminishes, the faster you age. Your preventive health physiotherapist can safely help you increase the amount of time you can safely spend on these aerobic activities.

Do not lose your flexibility: flexibility refers to the ability to move your joints, knees, hips, ankles, elbows, shoulders, the joints in your neck and back and other joints in the body through an unrestricted, pain-free range of motion. This depends primarily on the ability of the muscles to lengthen and this depends on how often these muscles get stretched through the maximum possible range. Muscles that don’t get stretched regularly become permanently shortened and lose the ability to lengthen to allow full movement.

The old woman climbing the tree on CNN could because she never stopped flexing her hips to climb trees and so the muscles which allow flexion, the hamstrings did not get shortened. Many people half her age will hurt their hamstrings if they attempt to climb and so, even though younger in calendar age, their hamstrings are biologically older than hers. I’m not advising you to start climbing trees so I will not be responsible for any fractures or deaths through falls from trees. Your physiotherapist can design a programme that will help improve your flexibility.

There are many other determinants of aging and your preventive health physiotherapists and doctors will teach you to improve them and stay young and disease-free.

Though many people have not even heard of Lupus, it is common – more common than some well-known diseases such as multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and leukemia. But because not much is known about the disease, treatment of lupus is made more difficult. What is lupus, exactly?

Diagnosis and treatment of lupus(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/Lupus.html) is made more complicated by the fact that currently, there is no one single test that can positively identify the disease. In fact, lupus is often mistaken for other diseases with some similar symptoms, such as multiple sclerosis or arthritis. In fact, lupus is an auto-immune disease in which the body essentially “turns” on itself. When this happens the body creates antibodies that attack the body rather than protect it.

Lupus(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/Lupus.html) sometimes only affects a single area of the body. Some of the most common areas to be affected are:

# Lungs: lupus can cause inflammation of the lungs’ lining, which can lead to pneumonia or pleuritis

# Kidneys: Inflammation of the kidneys can be caused by lupus, and this inflammation can lead to nephritis. The onset of nephritis is usually not accompanied by pain, so the lupus may not be detected.

# Heart: Chest pains, and subsequent hardening of the arteries, may be caused by lupus

# Blood: Anemia and inflamed blood vessels can result from lupus.

Lupus can often be identified by a rash on the body, most often on the face. Sunscreen can help to treat this rash. Some medications for other illnesses can trigger attacks, so this should be kept in mind in the treatment of lupus. Flu shots are recommended for lupus treatment, as they can prevent secondary infections which commonly occur in those with lupus. Other suspected triggers of lupus are dental fillings and hair dye, though there is no conclusive evidence of this. Because fear and anxiety may be triggers of lupus attacks, discontinuing use of certain products believed by patients to trigger attacks may be beneficial, even if these substances do not truly affect the body physiologically.

Natural Treatment of Lupus(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/Lupus.html)

A healthy diet containing necessary vitamins and nutrients, as well as regular exercise, are most effective in the prevention and treatment of lupus. Other kinds of meditative or calming activities, such as breathing exercises, can be effective in lupus treatment and can prevent skin flare-ups.