Abdul R. (ablulrah)

Temporary blindness Another rare disease has been reported in Australian Natalie Adler, who lives in Melbourne. A young girl suffers from temporary blindness. It is expressed in the fact that the patient periodically cannot open her eyes due to severe spasms of the eye muscles. An interesting fact: the girl's phenomenon is observed cyclically and repeats once every three days. Natalie says that this happened to her for the first time after she suffered severe sinusitis with complications of a staphylococcal nature. Since doctors can't help her heal yet, she plans all her activities in such a way that she can do everything that is most important before the next spasm.

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Hutchinson's disease Progeria, or Hutchinson's disease, is one of the most famous rare diseases. Due to congenital genetic abnormalities, a young child's body begins to age at a tremendous rate. At the same time, his psychological development remains, as it should be, at the childish level. The child's appearance becomes characteristic of the disease when he turns 2 or 3 years old. He is diagnosed with severe stunting, loss of skin elasticity, lack of hair and secondary sexual characteristics. Veins appear on the thin and pale skin. Progeria is 2 times more common in boys than in girls. Approximately 80 people with this pathology are officially registered worldwide. Death from progeria occurs at the age of 10-13 years, but there are cases when patients live up to 27-30 years. A kind of record was set in Japan when a person lived to be 45 years old and died of progressive heart failure.

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Morgellon's disease In 2002, American doctors officially registered the rare Morgellon's disease for the first time. When it develops, the patient feels as if nasty small insects are running around under his skin. On the one hand, the clinical manifestations of the disease strongly resemble the classic psychosis observed in some forms of schizophrenia. However, on the other hand, during an objective examination, lesions did appear on the skin of patients, and the muscles cramped. The vast majority of patients reported that some kind of "worms" or strange "fibers" penetrated into the depths of their skin. Previously, researchers thought that rare mutagenic fungi that can survive in any situation could cause the pathology. Over time, the fungal nature of Morgellons disease was not confirmed, and in 2012, the opinion was finally confirmed among doctors that the phenomenon has a psychogenic origin.

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Hutchinson's disease Progeria, or Hutchinson's disease, is one of the most famous rare diseases. Due to congenital genetic abnormalities, a young child's body begins to age at a tremendous rate. At the same time, his psychological development remains, as it should be, at the childish level. The child's appearance becomes characteristic of the disease when he turns 2 or 3 years old. He is diagnosed with severe stunting, loss of skin elasticity, lack of hair and secondary sexual characteristics. Veins appear on the thin and pale skin. Progeria is 2 times more common in boys than in girls. Approximately 80 people with this pathology are officially registered worldwide. Death from progeria occurs at the age of 10-13 years, but there are cases when patients live up to 27-30 years. A kind of record was set in Japan when a person lived to be 45 years old and died of progressive heart failure.

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Which juice is not recommended to drink with medication?🍊 Grapefruit juice is not recommended to drink with medication. It contains furanocoumarins, which contribute to a multiple increase in the concentration of active substances of medicines in the blood, which can lead to an overdose. The high-risk group includes antiarrhythmic, antihistamines, hypolipidemic and antitussive drugs, and in total, undesirable effects from mixing with grapefruit juice have been identified in at least 40 drugs, including medications for erectile dysfunction.

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Why are ambulances called carriages?🚐 Ambulance services originated in large cities at the end of the 19th century. Special carriages were designed to transport bedridden patients. They began to be called "ambulances", and this phrase remained in the language even after the replacement of crews by cars.

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Medical Facts ⚕️: 56. Human teeth are almost as hard as hard stones. 57. The eyes never grow, and the nose and ears of a person are in the process of growing all their lives. 58. The nail on the middle finger grows the fastest. 59. Children begin to grow more actively in the spring. 60. The human nose distinguishes odors 20 times worse than the nose of a dog.

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