Anal fissures: symptoms and causes

Anal fissure is a wound, usually a linear or oval-shaped ulceration, several millimeters long and located at the level of the outer muco-cutaneous margin of the anus.
It can occur at any age and affects the male and female sexes equally. In 85-90% of cases it is a single, solitary lesion usually located in the posterior, while in 10 15% of cases it is localized to the anterior midline.

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Deprivation, abandonment and illness

How much can experiences of abandonment, deprivation, or trauma affect both psychic development and brain organization and development?

Wasps, bees, hornets: avoiding complications

Wasp and other insect bites are common. Generally, most people recover quickly and without complications, but others, because they are allergic, can face serious complications. But caution and prevention can protect our vacations.

Beware of the tick: practical tips to prevent and combat Lyme Borreliosis

It is fine to live in nature and enjoy the greenery, but always take some precautions to avoid becoming a preferred host of the tick that transmits Lyme Borreliosis.

Going from about eleven months of desk work to a month or less of challenging and sometimes dangerous summer sports

For those accustomed to a sedentary lifestyle, it is important to be very careful, as some sports may become strenuous and sometimes dangerous.

Beware of dehydration

When our body lacks all the water it needs to live then comes dehydration. So what? Drink enough water during hot weather preventing mild dehydration from turning into more severe dehydration.

Do’s and don’ts in ankylosing spondylitis

Since no specific, well-defined therapy is available for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis, the patient's lifestyle becomes important

Methods of poisoning: blockers (propranolol, atenolol, oxprenolol)

An overdose of such drugs in children may occur accidentally, while in adults it may be voluntary or from therapeutic overdose. By their blocking action on nerve endings, these drugs

A night shift?

It is not night work as such that is responsible, but the shifts that occur that go into changing the balance of the biological clock. Fatigue may be a direct sign

Hypertension

Increased blood pressure is a widespread condition in industrialized countries, and its prevalence in people of all age groups and sexes also depends on the current lifestyle, which is characterized

Diabetic ketoacidosis

Diabetic ketoacidosis can cause symptoms ranging from simple asthenia to obnubilation of consciousness to coma. It is also possible for the victim to have abdominal pain, polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, dehydration,

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Anal fissures

Anal fissures are small tears in the mucosa lining the anus; they can occur upon passage of hard or large stools during a bowel movement, usually cause pain and bleeding

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