Sentences with phrase «permanent damage to the brain»

However, if the paint is not handled properly, it can cause lead poising which causes permanent damage to the brain and other organs.

As an EPA official, he called mercury a «potent toxin that causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system.»

Understand that people who have used Statin drugs sometimes sustain permanent damage to brain, nerves, muscles, metabolism.

«I was attending a presentation by Dr. Karen Overall, in which she said that stress is the worst thing a social species can experience, causing permanent damage to the brain.

As long as they receive treatment promptly and there is no permanent damage to the brain, kidneys, or liver, the prognosis for hypernatremia is usually pretty good.

In 2009, veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker attended a presentation where veterinary behaviorist Dr. Karen Overall said something that changed his life: «Fear is the worst thing a social species can experience, and it causes permanent damage to the brain.»

Learn why fear is the worst thing a social species can experience, and how it causes permanent damage to the brain.

If your dog is alone at the time (common with outdoor dogs) and nobody notices the symptoms, it is likely to be fatal due to the permanent damage to the brain, lungs, and other vital organs from loss of oxygen.

As an EPA official, he called mercury a «potent toxin that causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system.»

The Natural Resources Defense Council flagged an unbroken quote from May 2002 Congressional testimony, where Holmstead recognized that «mercury is a potent toxin that causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system,» that «mercury exposure comes through eating contaminated fish,» and that «power generation is now the largest uncontrolled source of mercury emissions.»

TBI often results in long - term, permanent damage to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.

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Kevin - Prince Boateng netted his first goal for Eintracht Frankfurt — and paid tribute to Ajax's Abdelhak Nouri, who suffered permanent brain damage after collapsing in a pre-season game.

Lead is a potent neurotoxin that can cause permanent brain damage in children, leading to learning difficulties, aggression and hyperactivity.

For that matter, there are various genetic conditions for which either breastfeeding or conventional formula would be deadly or lead to permanent brain damage.

Baby grows and appears to thrive and then suddenly dies or ends up with permanent brain damage.

While I congratulate the NFL on tackling the issue of its players» health and safety head on, there is no denying the fact that we are never going to see a non-violent game of football, or one from which the risk of permanent brain damage is completely eliminated (the touching pre-game feature on former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason's battle with ALS was proof enough of that).

then the resulting injuries are very often to the brain and could cause permanent damage.

Babies should never be shaken, as the fragile brain bangs against the inside of the skull and can lead to death or serious permanent damage of the brain and it's function.

Animal testing indicates that pesticides can cause permanent changes in brain chemistry that may lead to behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and even long - term damage to the brain and nervous system.

She was resuscitated and transported to another hospital NICU, but suffered permanent brain damage.

(Shaking a baby can cause permanent brain damage, so if you feel angry, and colic can do that to you, put your baby down.)

Do NOT decline this shot as without vitamin K, your baby could be at risk for sudden and serious bleeding in the brain or intestines which could be life threatening or lead to permanent brain damage and even death.

I know how long it takes for oxygen deprivation to cause permanent brain damage.

Moderate to severe jaundice however, is more serious as the bilirubin can travel up to the brain, staining the brain, thus resulting in permanent brain damage.

Hib meningitis causes death in 1 out of 20 children and permanent brain damage in up to 20 percent of those who survive.

Through education and awareness, Head Case aims to prevent traumatic brain injuries and long - term permanent brain damage due to repeated undetected concussions.

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

Shaking your baby sometimes results in severe head injury to the baby, permanent brain damage or even death.

Finally this can even lead to permanent brain damage or death.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

Nor was the activity completely turned off — that would lead within minutes to permanent damage and brain death.

Since neurons don't regenerate, brain damage is often permanent — but scientists would like to change that.

Down the road, such findings could help doctors who desperately want to help patients without rolling the dice on something as serious haloperidol - induced permanent brain damage.

However surgery is permanent and has the potential to damage other brain areas.

Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.

CPR essentially consists of a pattern of chest compressions and rescue breaths (i.e. artificial blood circulation and lung ventilation) and is intended to maintain a trickle of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart and thereby extend the otherwise brief window of opportunity for successfully restarting the heart without permanent brain damage.

Autopsies of people killed by heat stroke often reveal microhemorrhages (tiny strokes) and swelling, and 30 percent of heat stroke survivors experience permanent damage in brain function, according to Wilderness Medicine.

Damaged axons in the brain and spinal cord of mammals don't regenerate, and spinal cord injuries can therefore lead to permanent paralysis.

A stroke can cause permanent damage to important parts of the brain, with the result that many stroke survivors require lifelong care and support.

If babies born with this condition continue to eat foods containing phenylalanine, they suffer permanent brain damage and eventually die.

Heavy alcohol consumption can lead to cognitive decline and permanent brain damage.

Once damaged, the optic nerve does not regrow back to the brain, resulting in permanent blindness.

For more than a century, scientists thought that glial cells were responsible for scar formation; now, however, a paper published in Science shows that spinal cord scar tissue largely derives from a completely unexpected type of cell called a pericyte, opening new opportunities for the treatment of damaged nerve tissue.Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment.

Though a cause - and - effect link has not been proven, many public health experts fear the virus can cause microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to be born with permanent brain damage and very small heads.

If ignored, a B12 deficiency can affect the entire body, leading to permanent brain and nerve damage.

While sleeping, we repair damaged tissues and organs, we metabolize hormones our body no longer needs, and our brains use this time to organize our thoughts and experiences, and to make permanent neurological links (memories) for the learning we experienced that day.

This is one area where conventional emergency medicine excels, as there are emergency medications that can actually dissolve a blood clot that is blocking blood flow to your brain, and if done quickly enough can virtually reverse any permanent neurological damage.

Laura Hayes, BA, (with distinction from Stanford University) is the mother of 3 young adult children, all of whom suffered some level of vaccine injury, one to the point of permanent and severe brain damage and disability.

The continuous low level exposure to neurotoxin can lead to progressive and permanent brain damage.

Plus, low vitamin B12 is linked to potentially permanent nerve damage as well as brain atrophy.