Disease

infections by the immune system. The disease occurs when the normal function of tissue is impaired. Health organizations have for a long time tried to understand all causal agents of diseases as fight strategies against these agents including understanding surviving strategies, their cycle, and multiplicity once they infect a human being. This has facilitated discovery of therapeutic drugs for various diseases (Klepac et al., 2013). Vaccination against different diseases has led to the…

skin diseases from childhood age to adulthood. Psoriasis among others is a very common chronic skin disease that will cause the skin to become inflamed, red, itchy and can show small scaling spots or thick red patches. Many people live with this chronic disease. This disease can affect a variety of ages but it is very common to onset in childhood. Psoriasis is a familiar condition in pediatrics. According to studies in North India, twenty to thirty percent develop an onset of this disease…

Alzheimer's disease destroys memory and mental functions, it is most commonly to happen to occur at old age. My research topic will provide a brief summary of the disease focusing on its causes and the effect on the body, and how treatment strategies can be useful to help prevent this traumatic disease. Also detailing the effects of what body system is targeted to give a main site of where Alzheimer's disease attacks the body from start to finish. This research will focus primarily on some of…

inflammatory throughout the digestive tract is the general outcome of Crohn’s disease. The disease mainly aggresses towards the small and large intestine, but it could also impact other parts of the digestive tract as well. The small intestines are divided into three categories which are the ileum, jejunum, and duodenum. Crohn’s disease mainly impacts the ileum section where it swells up when irritated. The leading cause to Crohn’s disease is the process of being genetically passed on to further…

Whether or not you or a loved one have developed Parkinson’s Disease, you may be wondering how this disease will affect you or your loved one and what they mean for your own risk or that of your children. Parkinson 's disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain leading to quivering, muscular stiffness, difficulty with walking, stability, and coordination. There have been half a million reported cases in the United States where the average onset of symptoms usually develops at 60 years of age…

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause for dementia, afflicting about 5% of the population older than 65 years (Alloul et al., 1998, as cited, Maia and Medonca, 2002). It is a genetic disease caused by a mutation of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene. This type of gene is mostly found in the central nervous system which it helps direct migration of neurons during early development (Genetics Home Reference). Linn and Small stated that there is evidence that Alzheimer’s can be…

Alzheimer's is a disease that a lot of people get when they are old, most people that have it are in the ages of 65 and older. A lot of cases of dementia come from alzheimer's almost between 60-80 cases. Alzheimer’s normally hits older people just randomly because they do not catch the early onsets of the disease. You do not just randomly get it most the time you start with an early set of alzheimer’s and this process starts between the age of someone's early 40’s and 50’s. Alzheimer's is a…

Treatments of Parkinson’s Disease In this day and age, many people are affected with a wide range of diseases that can potentially last for a few months to a lifetime. However, there are a few factors that can alter the outcome of a disease depending on an individual’s environment and wellbeing. Some of the factors involved includes: age, gender, and genetics. It is commonly known that as we age throughout life, we have a higher risk to be prone to more than one disease that can ultimately…

Introduction Celiac disease is not considered a food allergy1 but rather considered an autoimmune disorder that will affect the villi which can cause malabsorption in the gastrointestinal tract.2 In general, the villi will help absorb the nutrients from the food. When eating gluten, the villi in the small intestine will become inflamed. When the villi are not working properly nutrient deficiencies will be a result which is also malabsorption.1 Gluten is in a lot of foods that athletes eat when…

Celiac disease (CD) AKA celiac sprue, is a auto immune disorder of the small intestine. CD affects genetically predisposed individuals when they ingest the protein gluten. Gluten is a storage protein that is necessary for the germination of grains including; wheat, rye, barley, and to some degree, oats.When a patient with CD ingests gluten the immune system's response damages the intestinal lining mucosa through lymphocytosis, crypt hyperplasia and villous atrophy. These changes are the…