Interstitial Cystitis Interstitial cystitis is a condition that causes inflammation of the bladder. The bladder is a hollow organ in the lower part of your abdomen. It stores urine after the urine is made by your kidneys. With interstitial cystitis, you may have pain in the bladder area. You may also have a frequent and urgent need to urinate. The severity of interstitial cystitis can vary from person to person. You may have flare-ups of the condition, and then it may go away for a while. For many
In 2005, I was diagnosed with an inflammatory bladder condition called Interstitial Cystitis (IC). My IC symptoms included intense bladder pain, pelvic pain, urinary frequency, a constant, strong urge to urinate, and more. Certain foods and drinks also irritated my bladder, forcing me to make drastic dietary changes. While women are the more likely to be diagnosed with IC, it also impacts men and children. Like Lyme disease, there is no foolproof test to diagnosis IC, and many patients take an average
DEFINITIONS Cystitis is the medical term for inflammation of the urinary bladder. Most of the time, the inflammation is caused by a bacterial infection, and it’s called a urinary tract infection. A bladder infection can be painful and annoying, and it can become a serious health problem if the infection spreads to your kidney. Cystitis is a common female problem. Its is estimated that 50% of adult women experience at least one episode of dysuria; half of these people have a bacterial UTI. SYMPTOMS
have been found to move and create encrustations on the urinary catheters. The encrustations cause the catheter to block. Symptoms for urethritis are mild including frequency of urination and pyuria (presence of white blob cells in the urine). Cystitis (bladder infection) symptoms are easier to distinguish and include back pain, concentrated appearance, urgency, hematuria (presence of red blood cells in the urine), a... ... middle of paper ... ...d ciprofloxin. In cases with severe stone formation
allows society to remove the labels and confront the supposedly taboo subjects like race, parenting, and sexuality. Even though Shanna Benjamin has researched the farthest in this topic by identifying the space that exists between the binaries as “interstitial space”, I aim to delve into this location to discover really what process is occurring, what results this process creates, and how and why Morrison does this. By using the term “integration”, which is not the space between the signifiers but the
explode.” Gregory is one of the more than 700,000 people in the U.S. – 90 percent of them women –who is battling interstitial cystitis, a chronic disorder characterized by inflammation of the bladder that causes urinary frequency and urgency and pelvic pain. There has been relatively little advancement made on this condition since the first written reference to interstitial cystitis was made in 1836. More than a century later, there are still few clear answers to what causes this multifaceted disease
Digestive: Irritable Bowel Syndrome This disease affects the muscles in the intestines. It can cause gas, abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation. It usually does not lead to further diseases. Most people can control the symptoms through diet, stress management and medication. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Inflammatory bowel diseases include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. It can lead to severe bowel problems, abdominal pain and malnutrition. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can
Urinary System The urinary system has many different organs in order for it to work as a whole. Each organ does different functions. The urinary system consists of the two kidneys, the two ureters, the bladder, the two sphincter muscles, the nerves in the bladder, and the urethra. After your body takes what it needs from the food you eat waste products are then left behind in the blood. The urinary system works with the lungs, skin, and intestines to keep the chemicals and water in your body balanced
Question d, Physical Examination rationale for methodology BP Blood pressure reflects the pressure that is exerted on the walls of the arteries. Varying with cardiac cycle, high with systole and low with diastole. A measurement of the pressure of the blood in the arteries. As ventricles contract you have systolic blood pressure and when the ventricles relax you have diastolic blood pressure. Expressed as a ratio of the systolic over diastolic pressure external influences like caffeine, nicotine
Sulfur Natarsha Harris Introduction to Chemistry Professor Michael Jones June 7, 2017 Sulfur goes back to the ancient times but it was called brimstone. In 1979, a French chemist named Antoine Lavoisier recognized sulfur was an element and added it to his list of elements. The element sulfur is considered a nonmetal and is the 10th most abundant element in the universe. On the periodic table sulfur is in group sixteen and it is a representative element. Sulfur has an atomic mass
The Urinary System How do the urinay system work ?? Your body takes nutrients from food and uses them to maintain all bodily functions including energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, waste products are left behind in the blood and in the bowel. The urinary system works with the lungs, skin, and intestines--all of which also excrete wastes--to keep the chemicals and water in your body balanced. Adults eliminate about a quart and a half of urine each day
The age-related change that I am most concerned about developing is osteoporosis. The bones in our bodies are living tissue, and there is an ongoing process of replacement and reabsorption. When this process is interrupted in a way that the new bone doesn’t keep up with removing the old bone, osteoporosis can happen. Studies tell us that men and women are affected, but Caucasian and Asian women who are post menopause are at a higher risk of developing this bone disease. It causes bones to be
On the outside, I look like a normal twenty-one-year-old girl. On the inside I feel like a car crash victim. You should know I work very hard every day to look normal so you don’t ask what's wrong. I may not look sick, but you don't know how I feel. Even if I explained how I felt, you wouldn’t understand. You wouldn’t understand that everything I do is a struggle. Maybe I don’t want you to understand; I don’t want your sympathy. Jenna Birch wrote an article in May, 2016. When I read it, I felt like
retention problems, which is when you have trouble releasing urine from the bladder (Friedl, n.d.). Incontinence can be treated with medication and exercise that can help to retrain the muscle around the bladder and urethra area (Friedl, n.d.). Interstitial cystitis (IC), also known as painful bladder syndrome (BPS), is a type of chronic bladder condition that is primarily found in women (Zimmermann, 2016). IC can cause bladder pressure and pain, bladder scarring, and can cause less elasticity in the
Stolen Health & Life: How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Marauds Its Victims The Golden Girls was an eighties sitcom about four women that shared a home in Miami. The sitcom presented a myriad of topics from homelessness to age discrimination. One of its more poignant episodes was about the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This two part episode showed how Dorothy (portrayed by Bea Arthur), struggled to find the cause of an ongoing illness that mimicked flu like symptoms. After visiting a multitude
Stress can be a negative social determinant of health in very many ways. Numerous poignant and physical disarrays have been associated with stress. For instance, high levels of stress may cause depression, heart attacks, anxiety, hypertension, stroke, and immune system disorders that augment susceptibility to infectivity (Folkman, 2010). In addition, stress is responsible for a host of viral allied disorders that range from herpes to common colds, various cancers, in addition to autoimmune infections