Symptoms

Belly Button Pain Causes in Adults, Children and Pregnancy

Pain in the belly button or pain around the belly button may arise with various diseases. Usually it is caused by problems with the abdomen. The pain may come from the abdominal wall or from the organs within the abdominal cavity. Belly button pain can sometimes be serious and should always be investigated, especially if >> Read More ...

Heavy Chest Feeling Causes and Other Symptoms

What is a heavy chest? A heavy chest is a common term to describe a feeling of heaviness in the chest often associated with difficulty breathing (dyspnea) or a tight or crushing sensation in the chest (chest pain). Two situations where this feeling occurs repeatedly is with asthma (lung) and angina pectoris (heart) but >> Read More ...

Pain Under Right Rib Cage

The rib cage is the part of the axial skeleton that protects the vital organs within the thoracic (chest) cavity and the upper part of the abdominal cavity. It is made up of the ribs that articulate at the back with the vertebral column (vertebrae) and at the front with the breastbone (sternum). Numerous costal cartilages >> Read More ...

Rectal Discomfort Meaning, Causes, Treatment

The rectum is the last part of the large intestine that leads to the anus. Stool that is stored in the colon is pushed into the rectum and then passed out during defecation. Although the rectum is just 4 to 5 inches long a number of diseases can affect it that cause significant discomfort. Rectal conditions are very common >> Read More ...

Chest Pain After Eating – Causes When Eating, After Meals

Chest pain after eating or while eating is not an uncommon symptom. It may be as a result of swallowing larger than normal-sized bites, excessively hot food or drinks or due to acute acid reflux that occurs occasionally. In most of these cases, the pain is short-lived, does not increase in intensity and other signs or >> Read More ...

Headache Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention

What Is a Headache? A headache is diffuse pain in the head not confined to the area of distribution of any nerve. By headache, we usually mean pain anywhere between the back of the head and front (like tension headache), or pain in one half of the head (like migraine or cluster headache). Head pain confined to particular >> Read More ...

Headache and Pain in the Back of the Head – Causes, Symptoms

How to Find a Cause of Pain in the Back of the Head? You can suspect a cause of pain in the back of your head from the pain duration and characteristics, other symptoms and circumstances. A. NEWLY APPEARING headache in the back of the head B. EPISODIC, SHORT-LASTING headache in the back of the head C. CHRONIC, RECURRENT >> Read More ...

Sudden Severe Headache – Causes

What To Do in a Severe Headache? If you have a newly appearing severe headache, visit your doctor as soon as possible. Severe headache, or a headache that worsens with time, can be a symptom of a life threatening disorder, like bleeding within the head or intoxication. What Can Cause a Severe Headache? SUDDEN, UNEXPECTED >> Read More ...

Migraine Headache Triggers: Foods, Estrogen, Stress, Weather…

Migraine and Migraine Triggers Migraine is a throbbing headache (one- or both-sided) with nausea and sensitivity to lights and sounds, lasting from 4 to 72 hours. Migraine is considered as an inherited sensitivity of the nervous system resulting in dilation (expanding) of the arteries on the brain surface when triggered by >> Read More ...
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