Raise awareness about chronic illnesses by understanding their impact, symptoms, and the importance of support and education.
Migraine involves severe, throbbing headaches, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme light and sound sensitivity. Such headaches are never fun, but they can seriously disrupt your life if they happen almost every day. You are likely to be diagnosed with chronic migraine if you experience 15 or more days of headache each month. Approximately 2.5% of people with episodic migraine transition to chronic migraine each year. For most of your days in pain, you…
Scientists believe there is a continuum of headaches, with headache of tension on one end and migraine on the other. A migraine mixed pain is a headache that has both tension headache and migraine headache features. Among women they occur more frequently than in males. Migraines are thought to cause pain-producing inflammatory substances in the brain that surround the blood vessels and nerves. Throughout the planet, millions of people suffer frequent migraine headaches. Muscle tension…
Understanding Lupus and Arthritis Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus) is a common symptom of arthritis. The distinctive feature of rheumatoid arthritis is inflammatory arthritis. Lupus arthritis tends to be less damaging than rheumatoid arthritis. However, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are genetically related, and one person can experience the characteristics of these two distinct diseases. It’s called comorbidity when a person has two different illnesses. One report Trusted Source notes that the comorbidity of lupus and rheumatoid…
Understanding Protecting Yourself If you have lupus, it will be necessary to shield yourself from sunlight. There is photosensitivity or exceptional exposure to the sun in people with lupus. This can cause skin rashes, scratching, burning, and other symptoms. Excess sun exposure can also cause systemic lupus flares and trigger symptoms including joint pain, exhaustion and weakness. In some cases, internal organ damage may even occur. Understanding UV Radiation Risks UV is a type of…
Understanding Lupus Lupus is a disease that is auto-immune and causes inflammation in different bodies. The signs may vary, depending on the individual, from mild to serious and even non-existent. In the US, about 1 out of 2,000 people have lupus and 9 out of 10 cases can happen in women, according to the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center. In the teenage years early symptoms may appear and can hit adults in their 30s. Although lupus…
Understanding Psoriasis vs. Lupus Lupus and psoriasis are chronic conditions with some major similarities and differences. Of example, psoriasis is significantly higher than lupus. Worldwide, psoriasis affects about 125 million people, and some form of lupus affects about 5 million people worldwide. Understanding Immune System Role The body will make antibodies when you have a healthy immune system, and you are injured or sick. Antibodies are strong proteins that help you to cure. The antibodies…
Understanding Pregnancy Insomnia For a new mother, sleep deprivation is a given thing when a baby is born. But you probably didn’t realize that the first trimester of pregnancy could occur. Through childbirth, most women suffer from sleep problems. In their first half, pregnant women tend to sleep more (hello, early bedtime), but their sleep quality is deteriorating dramatically. It turns out you can feel tired all day long. It turns out. In the night…
Understanding Chronic Insomnia Treatments There are a number of options for chronic insomnia at home and medical care. Therapy may depend on the cause of your sleeplessness and may require medication or treatment to resolve a disorder underlying yourself. Your doctor may prescribe one or a combination of treatment options for chronic insomnia in addition to treating any current conditions. 1st is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Research showed that the use of sleep medicines in…
Understanding Chronic Insomnia Sleep failure is a typical sleeping disorder, with difficulty falling asleep, sleeping, or both. So a third party of American Trusted Source reported that every night, at least 7 hours, they don’t get the recommended amount of sleep. However it is also known as acute insomnia, constantly having trouble sleeping. Because a few days or weeks of acute sleeplessness occurs often in times of strain or change in life. Chronic insomnia is…
There is short-term insomnia for many people. This frequent sleep disturbance can make sleeping and sleeping until we wake up. Even if the amount of sleep required varies between people, at least seven hours of sleep is needed for most adults. If your sleep patterns affect your life quality, home remedies can help. Continue reading to learn how to handle your sleep patterns through exercise, workout, and other home remedies. Understanding 1st Remedy is Mindfulness…