Hepatitis

In this essay I will inform you about Performance Enhancing Drugs(PEDS) in sports, such as, Anabolic steroids, Human Growth Hormone(HGH), and Creatine. I will tell you about what it does to you like risks and how it is a PED. Steroids are the most common type of PEDS especially Anabolic Steroids, which are synthetic testosterone, which increases muscle mass. The risks for males are: prominent breasts, baldness, shrunken testicles, infertility, impotence, and prostate gland enlargement. Woman…

campaigns or agencies that aim to reduce drug-related harm and the spread of disease. Needle-exchange programs reduce the chances of drug users sharing the syringes and using them more than once. Syringe-sharing has been linked to infections such hepatitis C and HIV can spread from user to user through the reuse of needles contaminated with a user’s infected blood. Agencies that are medically supervised are designed to handle the problems related to drug use and provide a clean, sterile and…

responds to them. Traditionally vaccines are pathogens themselves, today it is possible to genetically engineer bacteria to mass-produce a protein from pathogens, and this protein can be used as vaccine. This method has produce a vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus-induced disease, and cine against malaria, a prtozonan induce disease. Vaccinations can be very effective in men women and children, and therefore still been study and tested and is used to save…

Heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine, which comes from the Asian opium poppy plant. Heroin ranges in how it looks. It is normally a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance. Heroin can be injected, snorted, or smoked. Heroin enters the brain and changes into morphine. It latches on to opioid receptors in the brain. Opioid receptors are also located in the brainstem which controls breathing, arousal, and blood pressure. Prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin have…

disease cannot be caught again! STDs with Manageable Symptoms Beyond that, currently no major STDs can be completely cured. The good news is that the symptoms of other diseases can be managed once their presence is known via a STD test: - Although Hepatitis C has no cure, the symptoms can be so minor as to not be noticeable. It can develop into a chronic condition that can cause serious liver failure though - if your doctor knows about this, the situation can be monitored and treatments…

her newborn. This mom was from out of state but delivered her baby in the Emergency Department parking lot here in Kansas City, Missouri. The mom of this newborn had already declined the dose of Vitamin K, Erythromycin eye ointment, the initial Hepatitis B vaccine, was requesting early discharge, and was now declining to schedule a follow-up appointment for the newborn here in Kansas City even though she would not be returning to her home for at least a week. I stayed calm, reiterated the…

Heroin It is eight a.m. and she has been up for hours at this point. The diarrhea is uncontrollable and her stomach is killing her. She needs to vomit again. Her bed is covered in sweat. Her body feels hot, but she is freezing cold. Her hands are shaking because she is a nervous wreck. Her legs are restless and her entire body aches as if she had been run over by a semi. She feels weak, both physically and mentally. She has been crying all night because she hates herself. Her addiction is the…

Alcohol Addiction in New York What is alcohol addiction? Alcohol addiction is a chronic disease caused by long term, habitual alcohol consumption. The disease of alcohol addiction is widely known by varied common terms such as alcoholism, alcohol dependence syndrome, and alcohol use disorder. This disease has several distinguishing characterizations that determine a positive diagnosis. Accepted medical conclusions of a positive diagnosis is made if two or more of the following signs are…

infections that are spread through the re-use of needles, including but not limited to Hepatitis C, and Human Immune-deficiency Virus, or more commonly known as HIV, as well as other medical concerns such as abscesses, and other wounds. In the article by Kondro, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Executive Director Ralf Jürgens said, “Some 34% of an estimated 4190 new HIV infections in 1999, and 60% of the 4000 hepatitis C infections diagnosed annually, are attributable to drug use” (1415). Under…

These incorporate, but will not be restrained to, Lupus or SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), rheumatic fever, bird pox, mumps, hepatitis and the common flu. If any of these are left untreated it might reason more severe issues to arise. It would be Lyme disease if a headache, rash and tiredness accompany the ache. Sharp pains within the toes, toes and ankles might be identified as…