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Alternative Names
Awe nocturnus; Sleep terror disorder

Definition of Night terror
Night terrors are a sleep disorder in which a person quickly awakens from sleep in a terrified state.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
Night terrors (sleep terrors) occur during deep sleep, usually during the first third of the night. The cause is unknown but night terrors may be triggered by fever, lack of sleep, or periods of emotional tension,stress , or conflict. (more…)

Bacterial vaginosis is a disease or a common infection that affect women. It is not a sexually transmitted disease and is known to occur when there is an abundance of bacteria. It can occur due to smoking, douching and some other lifestyle factors. Everyone has bacteria, but there are good bacteria and bad bacteria, when there is an overgrowth of bad bacteria it can lead to this infection. It is characterized by a fishy smell and by a discharge that occurs. (more…)

What is cancer of the stomach?
The stomach cancer is an abnormal proliferation of cells in the stomach. It most often affects men, is rare before 50 years, and risk increases with age.
The chances of survival are greater if the cancer is diagnosed early, if spread to lymph is absent or limited, or if it is a superficial damage.

What are its causes?
Additional factors are known, but not always found: a personal history of stomach disease chronic inflammation of the stomach with atrophy, including infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, gastric ulcer, gastric polyps, surgery, high intake of salt, smoked foods. (more…)

What is malaria?
Malaria (and malaria) is an infectious disease caused by a parasite of the genus Plasmodium of which there are 4 species specific to humans: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae. It is transmitted to humans by a particular species of mosquito: the anopheles, and only by female mosquitoes. It can be abbreviated in almost all warm tropical regions of the globe, where the mosquito can live primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, East and Latin America.

Malaria affects hundreds of countries around the world, particularly tropical disadvantaged. An estimated 250 million cases of malaria each year, nearly one million deaths. (more…)

In most cases a result of smoking, lung cancer remains the 1st cause cancer in humans and is becoming the most common cancer of women to breast cancer. Often diagnosed late, his chances of recovery are still limited. Only effective prevention: stop smoking!

What is lung cancer?
Also known as lung cancer or lung, is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lungs. Over 90% of cases it is caused by tobacco.

• smoking “active”: the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of years of smoking,
• Smoking or “passive”: people who live or work with smokers also inhale the smoke can develop lung cancer.

In 10% of cases, lung cancer is secondary to occupational exposure: asbestos, tar, arsenic, nickel, chromium, silica .. However, smoking is still increasing significantly the risk among workers exposed to these substances. (more…)

What is a hiatal hernia?
A hiatal hernia is the transition of part of the stomach into the chest through the diaphragm. It occurs when the fixations of the stomach and lower esophagus are failing. It may be of two types: the most frequent (90% of cases), part of the stomach and the cardia (junction of the esophagus and stomach) slide both in the chest: it the sliding hiatal hernia.

More rarely, a part of the stomach enters the chest by sliding along the esophagus, the cardia remains in its normal position under the diaphragm, the abdominal cavity: the rolling hiatus hernia.
This anatomical abnormality may be intermittent or permanent. It may be easier and makes more particularly the prolonged reflux of acid from the stomach into the esophagus. (more…)

What is the prostate?
The prostate is a male sex gland located below the bladder near the rectum, and traversed by the urethra (urine drainage). It comes in sexuality, especially in the formation of sperm.

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?
The prostate cancer develops at the periphery of the gland. He remains silent for a long time. The appearance of signs often reflects an advanced stage of disease. (more…)

Alzheimer’s disease is similar to a terrible epidemic. Its frequency increases with age. There is thus one in ten reached after sixty-five. However, attitudes and simple natural remedies could help diminish the risk of delay of several years its occurrence or to stop or even an improvement when it is still at the beginning …

The cardiovascular risk in primary
The first is, undoubtedly, the suppression of cardiovascular risk factors. For anything that is harmful to the heart is also bad for the brain. (more…)

Rhythm disorders have multiple causes, some are mild, others more serious. Everyone can benefit from effective treatments.

What is “arrhythmia”?
The heart beats with electrical impulses at a steady rate. At rest, the normal rate is 60 to 90-100 beats per minute.
The electric current that drives comes in an area of the heart – the sinus node, at the right atrium – which plays the role of power. It then goes through the two atria (right and left) and causes contraction, which causes the blood from the atria to the ventricles. He then came into the area at the junction between the atria and ventricles, the atrio-ventricular node, where it is dispatched to the two ventricles, causing a contraction is homogeneous and powerful than the blood so the heart and circulates throughout the body.
For various reasons, this beautiful mechanics can become misaligned. The rhythm of the heartbeat becomes irregular and / or inadequate: this is called an arrhythmia or an arrhythmia.
These disorders can be punctual (they are then called paroxysmal) or permanent. (more…)

Migraine is a disease that affects approximately 12% of the population is nearly 7 million people. It especially affects women. It is characterized by recurrent attacks of severe headaches, the frequency and duration can vary from person to person.

Migraine is caused by increased sensitivity of the nervous centers in the brain to precipitating factors such as psychological (stress, anxiety, etc..), Hormonal (menstruation, oral contraceptives), sensory (light, noise), food, climate, or environmental. (more…)