Sentences with phrase «underlying illness or disease»

Since there are many different causes for melena, the symptoms will vary according to the underlying illness or disease.

Always make sure that you have no underlying illness or disease that could be compromising your health.

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The underlying cause of the disease known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is unknown, although a number of abnormalities have been detected in individuals with the illness.

(Risk factors for C. diff include a serious underlying illness or a compromised immune system, gastrointestinal surgery, and the use of proton pump inhibitors, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)

Functional medicine searches for the underlying imbalance, or root cause, which can contribute to illness or chronic disease.

Therefore, the goal of the naturopath is to discover the underlying cause of illness, rather than merely focusing on the patient's symptoms or disease.

This flu - like illness can be fatal, particularly in people with underlying health conditions such as respiratory, lung and heart diseases or impaired immune systems and is also particularly dangerous to very young children.

These clinical signs could mean hip dysplasia, arthritis, or acute diseases such as intervertebral disc disease, tick borne illnesses, or underlying metabolic or endocrine diseases.

However, diarrhea can also be a symptom of a more serious underlying disorder such as allergies, bacterial or viral infections, inflammatory intestinal disease, organ dysfunction, or other systemic illness.

Beyond your pet's potential discomfort or underlying illness, skin diseases, like parasites, ringworm, and MRSA (antibiotic resistant bacterial infection), can spread to you or your family.

Testing for hyperkeratosis Typically dogs with underlying infectious and immune mediated diseases will have other lesions and / or illness that will lead your veterinarian to suspect these conditions as the cause of your dog's hyperkeratosis.

Higher rates of disease occur in children aged less than one year, children aged 1 — 4 years and adolescents 15 — 19 years of age.1 Reported risk factors for IMD include household crowding, chronic underlying illness, active and passive smoking, some immunosuppressive illnesses and anatomical or functional asplenia.2

Families and individuals living with severe, chronic, potentially life - shortening illnesses or disability often have multiple, complex, and interrelated problems that emerge as part of the underlying disease processes.