Dementia refers to a steady decline in one’s mental ability that becomes so severe that it affects your daily life. It ranges from the mildest form to the most severe state where one becomes totally dependent on another to live their life. Loss of memory is one of the most common examples of dementia. Alzheimer’s is revealed to be the most common kind of dementia. Other kinds of dementia include Frontotemporal disorders, Lewy body dementia, and vascular dementia. What are the most relevant symptoms of dementia? People having dementia may develop difficulties in paying bills, preparation and planning of meals, keeping appointments, and travelling outside one’s neighborhood. It also includes Difficulty in paying attentions and focusing Memory loss Impairment of judgment and reasoning Impairment of visual perception What causes dementia? This disease is normally triggered when brain cells get damaged, thus interfering with the capability of one’s brain cells to correspond with one another. Various kinds of dementia occur due to specific kinds of cell damage of the brains in particular portions of one’s brain. Treating dementia Treatment mostly depends on what has caused dementia. In most progressive kinds of dementia like Alzheimer’s, there is absolutely no kind of cure or treatment that can arrest or slow progression of this disease.

Hemophilia, a bleeding disorder, causes the blood to take longer to clot. There are different types of hemophilia. The main symptom of hemophilia is excessive bleeding. Sometimes this condition can go unnoticed for years until a serious condition occurs. Internal bleeding and frequent bleeding into joints could end up occurring anywhere without a cause in some cases. People with moderate hemophilia bleed less often (around one time every month) or could bleed for a long after an injury, surgery or accident. People with mild hemophilia sometimes never have bleeding problems. What causes hemophilia? Hemophilia belongs to a class of inherited bleeding disorders, causing exaggerated or abnormal bleeding and poor blood clotting. It is caused when the blood vessel lining is damaged; an initial plug is formed by the recruited platelets to the wounded area. These stimulated platelets end up releasing chemicals which flag off a clotting cascade, triggering a sequence of 13 proteins called clotting factors. Finally, the fibrin forms. It is a kind of protein crosslinking itself to form a mesh, producing a blood clot. The protein in hemophilia A is factor8 and hemophilia B is factor9. Types of hemophilia Hemophilia A results from a deficiency of factor8 due to a mutation on the corresponding gene.

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It is most commonly caused due to a virus that tends to affect and target the cells of your body and causes liver damage. Some of the symptoms with regard to the immune system of hepatitis include fever and nausea. As more damage is done to the liver, the amount of transaminase blood will increase and it can break down to amino acids. If the symptoms continue or the virus exists for more than 6 months, then the hepatitis virus goes on from being acute to chronic inflammation. You must see a doctor the moment you experience symptoms of hepatitis virus. There are 5 types of hepatitis virus, and each of them have totally different causes. They share one issue in common: infectious disease infects your liver and causes it to become inflamed. The hepatitis A virus is transmitted through additives and seasoning in food and water, and travelers seem to be very prone to hepatitis A infections. The hepatitis A virus is the least risky of its kind and, as a result, it nearly always inflames and augments on its own. It does not result in long-term inflammation of your liver. Even then, people need to go to the doctor, since there is a vaccine that may stop it.

Asthma is an airways disease that is chronic in nature which is related to the transportation of air from and to the lungs. There is no complete cure to this chronic disease, however, there are methods that can manage the disease and let the person suffering from it to lead a proper active life. When a person is suffering from asthma, the inner walls of the airways that are known as the bronchial tubes are either inflamed or swollen. This inflammation or swelling makes the airways highly sensitive and prone to irritation and also increases the risk of allergic reactions in a person. Also, the airways of the asthma patients during the swelling become narrow and hence the supply of the air to the lungs is also restricted. In the case of an allergic reaction, the walls of the airways will be swollen while the surrounding muscles of the airways will also tighten up. This makes the movement of the air difficult from in or out of the lungs. Approximately 8.3% of individuals in the country have some or the other form of this airway chronic disease. There are different forms of asthma and the causes underlying this chronic disease also differ.

Dryness in any form can be uncomfortable, be it dryness in the skin or mouth, and eye dryness is no exception. Dry eyes are a common medical condition when the tears in the eyes are not adequate, hence unable to provide sufficient lubrication. The reason for the inadequacy of the tears in your eyes may be for many reasons, such as but not limited to, your eyes are producing poor-quality tears or they are unable to provide sufficient tears required to keep the eyes lubricated and moisturized at all times. Dry eyes, as a condition, can be mild and temporary or chronic. Your chances of experiencing dryness in the eyes is inevitable in certain circumstances such as riding a bike, getting into an air-conditioned environment, looking at the computer screen for prolonged periods of time and a more recent addition to the list is increase screen time on the smartphone, which has shown to affect young children as well. According to an online poll, the results are staggering; it showed that close to 48% Americans of ages 18 years and older frequently experience symptoms of dry eyes, which is about 50% of the country’s population. Another poll known as the Gallup Poll conducted in 2012 showed that about 26 million people in the country are suffering from dry eyes, and in a decade’s time, this number is expected to surpass 29 million.