Blood Pressure

Blood Pressure

High blood pressure gives few symptoms and most people feel healthy during the early stages. Yet, if undetected and untreated, high blood pressure can be a contributing  cause of heart trouble,  blood vessel disease and degenerative disease of the kidney. Reaction to various physical and emotional influences may cause the blood pressure to rise. These influences include…

Arthritis

Arthritis

Arthritis is a degenerative joint disease that causes inflammation, swelling and pain that can range from mild to excruciating. Exist more than two hundred diseases classified with the name of “arthritis,” but the majority of the arthritic conditions are included in one of these four categories: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious or toxic arthritis and gout….

Asthma

Asthma

Asthma is an interesting disease characterized by respiratory difficulty; not in taking a breath, but in breathing air out. In an acute asthmatic attack, one may have difficulty breathing air in because of the thick  secretions in the bronchiole, the tubes leading to the air sacs of the lungs. Asthma then must be treated from the…

Anxiety

Anxiety

“UK has experienced ‘explosion’ in anxiety since 2008, study finds” On Monday 14 Sep 2020, The Guardian published this title, with some interesting and alarming news: “There has been an “explosion” in anxiety in Britain over the past decade, research has shown, with the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, climate change and social media blamed for massive…