Most people associate allergies with the standard hay fever-like symptoms: runny nose, itchy eyes, and sneezing. But allergies have a broad reach and can even contribute to neurological problems such as tics and Tourette's syndrome.

Tics are involuntary movements and vocalizations of sounds and words which are not appropriate. Patients with frequent, severe tics are often diagnosed with a neurological dysfunction known as Tourette's syndrome.

There are few definitive answers...

Considering that you vacuum and you make sure that your bed sheets are clean, you are probably wondering why on earth you have bed bugs. The fact is that they are robust little creatures, and once they have settled in, you have to do more than basic cleaning to get rid of them.

So then, how to kill bed bugs? One way on is by making use of an insecticide spray. They work as a contact killer, and so any bed bug that even touches it will be dead within seconds.

You...

The Bronchial Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways or lungs where an obstruction or disturbance in the ventilation of the respiratory passages evokes a feeling of shortness of breath or variable and recurring symptoms. This leads to paroxysms which squeeze the bronchial air passage.

Causes of Bronchial Asthma

There are various causes of triggering Bronchial Asthma. The main cause is a raised level of resistance to the airflow in the bronchial passages or weak...

It isn't just dust. Eighty percent of household dust is actually dead skin cells from us and our pets, and the feces from dust mites that eat that skin dander. Most of us are not greatly affected by this "dust", some of us suffer from sneezing, runny nose, and headaches from just a minute amount of this stuff floating in the air. What has this to do with vacuum cleaners? Plenty, it turns out.

Filtration is the most important consideration here. HEPA (High Efficiency...

Exogenous dermatitis

• Air-borne contact dermatitis
• Photodermatitis
• Phytophotodermatitis
• Irritant contact dermatitis
• Allergic contact dermataitis
• Infectious eczematoid dermatitis

Endogenous dermatitis

• Atopic dermatitis
• Seborrheic dermatitis
• Nummular eczema
• Stasis dermatitis
• Pompholyx

Atopic dermatitisIt is a part component of atopic diathesis and is characterized by...

Our body temperature when in accordance with the surrounding temperature may develop ideal conditions for the growth of microbial organisms either internally or externally. While half of these organisms may benefit your body half of them cause pure nuisance. They bring about infections that may cause extreme discomfort in the form of pain and unusual growths in and around the area that is infected. Nails are one of the exoskeletons of the body that is in close contact with the skin...

Clinical featuresThe disease begins as prominent flush. Initially it is limited to lower half of the nose and then extends to involve the blush area of the face, chin, and central forehead. With time the intermittent episodes become long lasting. Residual erythema may persist. This is accompanied by telangiectasia, blanching on diascopy. This is followed by the greasy appearance over the face and formation of papules, pustules, nodules, and cysts localized to the central one third of...

Clinical FeaturesPRP been classified into five groups on the basis of age of onset, clinical features, and prognosis. They are classical adult, atypical adult, classical juvenile, circumscribed juvenile and a typical juvenile.

Classical adultaffects the adults and accounts for nearly half the patients of PRP. It starts as small, yellow pink, acuminate papules caused by follicular hyperkeratosis. At the summit of the papule is small, broken hair.

Atypical adultIt is...

EtiologyThe etiology of seborrheic dermatitis is unknown, although it is believed that;

• Increased secretion and retention of sebum on the skin may act as an irritant and alter the epidermal function following percutaneous absorption. In some cases, however, the sebum production may be normal or reduced.
• Pityrosporum ovale colonizes the scaly epidermis and induces inflammation.
• It may be associated with parkinsonism. Treatment with levodopa reduces seborrhea in...