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Allergies
Arthritis
Causes:
•Low immune system or a certain virus from sickness or environment effects the cells (Type 1)
•Overweight (type 2)
•Genetics or food allergies that effect your liver/pancreas
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. There are two types.
•Type 1 diabetes (previously known as insulin-dependent, juvenile or childhood-onset) is characterized by deficient insulin production. Body's own immune system kills the insulin producing cells.
•Type 2 diabetes (formerly called non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset) results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin or when the pancreas can not produce enough insulin. (Most Common)
–90 % of the population has type 2 diabetes
–29.1 million people in the Us have Diabetes
Prevention
Keep weight under control and try to eat healthy
Treatment
•Insulin regulating medicine
Symptoms:
•Urinating often
•Feeling Hungry/thirsty
•Extreme Fatigue
•Sleepy
•Blurry vision
•Weight Loss (type 1)
•Tingling or pain the feet (type 2)
Narcolepsy
Crohn's Disease
Prevention
•CAn't preevent because the causes are unknown and they only have ideas
•conditions with chronic or recurring immune response and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
•Inflammation affects the entire digestive tract in Crohn’s disease and only the large intestine in ulcerative colitis
MAkes you nap randomly
Treatment
•Medicine to stop inflammation in the intestine and medicine to prevent flare-ups
Symptoms
Persistent diarrhea (loose, watery, or frequent bowel movements).
Cramping abdominal pain.
Fever.
Rectal bleeding (at times).
• Approximately 1.6 million Americans currently have IBD, a growth of about 200,000 since the last time CCFA reported this figure (in 2011).
• As many as 70,000 new cases of IBD are diagnosed in the United States each year.
Causes
• Immune system problems
•genetics
•Environmental factors
Hearing:
inability to hear noise (well).
–1 in every 3 people between the ages of 65-74 have hearing loss.
–40 million people claim to have a degree of hearing loss
–20% of adults in the US have hearing loss
Sight loss
Causes
•Listening to loud persistent noises
•Age
•Medication
•Fluid in the ear (buildup of wax)/damage to the ear
•Infection
Asthma: A disease that effects the lungs and causes asthma attacks. These asthma attacks happen when the airways swell up and don't allow a sufficient amount of air through to the rest of the body.
A person's eyesight is not corrected to a "normal" level
Signs and symptoms: If a person has trouble breathing after light activity or around pets and/or strong scents.
Some symptoms are tightness of chest, wheezing and coughing or colds, that last for longer than 10 days.
Up to 45 million people are blind
Prevention
•Sometimes it's unpreventable with age
•Don't listen to loud noises
•Keep fluids out of ears
Causes: The cause isn't known, but doctors have found that if a family member has it, you're more likely to have it as well.
Symptoms:
•Squinting
•Blurry Vision
•Having trouble reading
•Blink more than usual
Prevention
•Good diet
•Eye exams
The different kinds of asthma are related to what triggers each one
Statistics:
Treatment:
•Hearing Aid
•Cleaning out the ear
•Medicine for infection
Treatment
•Laser eye surgery
•Glasses
•Contacts
Dwarfism
There aren't ways to prevent Asthma but there are ways to prevent asthma attacks. Inhalers help and just staying away from strong smells.
Causes
•Damage to the eye itself
•Eye shaped incorrectly
•Problem in the brain
•Genetic
•Poor diet
Intellectual Challenge
Signs and Symptoms:
•Trouble understanding phone conversations
•Trouble understanding background noises
•Misunderstanding people
•Asking people to repeat what they say
•Everything is a mumble and not clear
Also known as mental retardation
•Limits to a person's ability to learn at the expected level and function
Treatment Options: some asthma's can be treated with inhaling the medicine, other types can be treated through taking pills.
Prevention
•Try to stay away from injury
•Don't drink alcohol when pregnant
•Can get tested and treatment right when the baby is born
Causes
•Disease in the brain
•Injury in the brain
•Problem in the brain
•Alcohol abuse
•Birth Defects
•genetics
Everyone who has asthma has different asthma attack triggers.
Most Common types are...
•Down Syndrome
•Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
•Fragile X Syndrome
Approximately 1% to 3% of children in the United States are estimated to have MR.
Treatment
•Different medicine and therapy for specifics intellectual challenges
•Life-style changes to help alleviate the signs/symptoms
Signs
•Sit up/crawl later than other children
•Learn to talk later/trouble talking
•Find it hard to remember things
•Having trouble remembering
•Having social unawareness
•Having trouble solving problems
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Cystic Fibrosis
Causes Of Dwarfism
It is a fatal and genetic disease of the mucus glands. primarily affects the respiratory and digestive systems in children and young adults
•30,000 Americans, 3,000 Canadians, and 20,000 Europeans with CF.
•occurs mostly in whites whose ancestors came from northern Europe
•Accordingly, it is less common in African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans
• about 1 in every 20 Americans is an unaffected carrier of an abnormal “CF gene
•These 12 million people are usually unaware that they are carriers.
Signs/Symptoms
•Effects everyone differently
•Lose excessive amounts of salt when they sweat
•Mucus in CF patients is very thick and accumulates in the intestines and lungs.
•Lung disease is the usual cause of death in most patients.
•sinusitis (inflammation of nasal sinuses)
•nasal polyps (fleshy growths inside the nose)
•clubbing (rounding and enlargement of fingers and toes)
•pneumothorax (rupture of lung tissue and trapping of air between the lung and the chest wall)
•causes other diseases
Causes
•Genetics
Treatment
•Gene therapy
•Replace loss minerals/proteins
Epilepsy
Tourette's [TS]: a condition of the nervous system that causes people to have "tics" These tics are sudden movements, twitches or sounds that people do repeatedly without control.
The main symptoms of TS are the Tics. These usually start between the ages of 5-10 with tics in the neck or head area.
In the U.S. 1 in every 360 kids from 6-17 years old is diagnosed.
Causes: exact cause unknown. Research suggests its inherited through genes.
TIc Types:
Fibromyalgia
Prevention:
•No way to prevent it
Widespread muscle pain and tenderness
Causes
•reduced effectiveness of the body's natural endorphin painkillers and the increased presence of a chemical called "substance P." Substance P amplifies pain signals.
•Brain trauma
Signs/symptoms
Pain: in the muscles, elbow, back, neck, or abdomen, can occur at night, can be chronic, throbbing, sharp, or diffuse, severe
Sleep: sleep disturbances, difficulty falling asleep, or sleepiness
Sensory: pins and needles, sensitivity to cold, or sensitivity to pain
Muscular: muscle tenderness, muscle spasms, or delayed onset muscle soreness
Hand: tingling or sensation of coldness
Gastrointestinal: bloating or constipation
Psychological: anxiety or depression
Mood: mood swings or nervousness
Whole body: feeling tired, nausea, fatigue, or malaise
Also common: acute episodes, irritability, joint stiffness, tingling feet, headache, or painful menstruation
Treatment
•Physical therapy
•Medical Marijuana
•Cymbalta
•Specific mEdications
•Lyrica
•Savella
•Effects 2% of popualtion
•5 million adults
•More common in women
Tics can be either simple or complex:
Alzheimer's