Individuals with skin biting disorder often consider the action of biting at their own skin as “soothing”. The act of biting the skin helps to de-stress the individual and usually is the conclusion to an episode of anxiety. Be it externally motivated (bills, relationship problems, job issues) or internally motivated (disgust with one’s own body)…
DetailsMore than 4.5 million United States citizens of adult age are affected with psoriasis. There is no known origin of this disease. However, there are about 150,000 more cases detected each year. People develop this condition during different stages of their life. Forty percent of those who develop it do so before they are 20…
DetailsInstead of putting up with ineffective treatments and painful, itchy toes, would not you love to know how to cure foot fungus once and for all? Athlete's foot can be very difficult to deal with because it keeps coming back. The real question is, is there a cure for athlete's foot? Messy creams and powders…
DetailsWhat causes bloating? Mostly overeating, eating foods which do not agree with you thus producing excess gas, and constipation. Other causes include menstruation, food allergy/food intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome. Suffering from belly bloat is a common but annoying disorder. You feel uncomfortable, lethargic, unmotivated, embarrassed because of your bulging belly and the rumble it…
DetailsAfter you quit smoking, there a number of physical and neurological symptoms that your body goes through. Many of which obviously can make things a bit uncomfortable and difficult to resist satisfying your desire for nicotine. Here’s what to expect after you quit smoking. Plan for the symptoms to continue for about 8 – 12…
DetailsMagnet therapy is an alternative medicine that has been utilized for centuries. It is a natural way to align ions within the human body. You may be a skeptic, but there are millions of people who have tried magnetic therapy magnets and been astounded by the results! How are the ions constructed within the human…
DetailsLoneliness, like depression, is simply a problem of life that everyone experiences at one time or another. It is one that millions of people face every day. Changes in life circumstances can spell out a period of loneliness for anyone. The death of a loved one, relocating to a strange place, the loss of a…
DetailsA woman that has a phobia of ants walks into a room that is covered with pictures of ants. This phobia they have means they can not even look at a picture of an ant without going into a panic attack. She continues looking in the room for live ants. She looks under the chair,…
DetailsAnxiety is a reaction to any stress. It helps one deal with a tense situation in the office, or having harder study for an exam. Generally, it helps one cope but when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder. Anxiety Disorders affect about 40 million American and…
DetailsIf you suffer from insomnia, then you know how tough it can be on your life. Millions of people do suffer from insomnia and are looking for relief. A prescription drug called Ambien may just be the answer to your problem. It is a commonly prescribed treatment for insomnia and is, in fact, used by…
DetailsBecause orthopedists use many different terms to describe ankle fractures, coders should seek keywords in physician documentation to determine whether a fracture is bimalleolar, trimalleolar, medial malleolus or lateral malleolus. Our physicians sometimes use terms in their documentation that don’t exist in CPT says Deanna Bennett coder at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s Department…
DetailsI've seen many low budget kitchen upgrades in my thirty years of cabinet building. To succeed at remolding you just need a couple of ideas that will look good, but do not cost a lot of money. I'm going to give you one proven to make an improvement to your cupboards without spending a ton…
DetailsComplications during the process of labor and delivery can result in various types of injuries for a newborn baby. These injuries, commonly known as birth injuries, can be mild, severe, or fatal in various cases. One of the most common causes is oxygen deprivation, which commonly takes place if the umbilical cord gets compressed or…
DetailsWhat is an inguinal hernia?An inguinal hernia is a protrusion of a loop of intestine into the groin or scrotum through a ‘hole’ in the lower abdominal wall. It is common in baby boys and older men. Only 10 per cent of inguinal hernia patients are female.What causes an inguinal hernia and who is at…
DetailsBacterial Vaginosis and Yeast infections, such as thrush, may have similar symptoms but the cause and therefore the cure are very different. Put simply, Bacterial Vaginosis or BV is caused by a bacteria or bacterial imbalance and a yeast infection is cased by a yeast imbalance or excessive growth of vaginal fungi. BV is the…
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