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Vitamin A deficiency in children

Vitamin A (retinol) is an important fat soluble vitamin for good vision, healthy immune system and cell growth. Eggs, milk, liver, cereals are the foods rich in vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness.
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Rickets

Rickets is a disease of caused by the deficient calcification of the bones in children leading to softening and weakening of the bones mainly due to the deficiency of vitamin D.
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Complications Of AIDS

Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome or hiv/253657?iL=true" >AIDS is a condition that is caused by the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus or HIV which leads to serious destruction and loss of a person?s ability to fight with a infection. In few years slowly a person?s immune system will be unable to fight against infections and various infective agents will conquer over the immune system easily and a person will face a numerous complications due to that.
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Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a condition in which the arterial wall thickens due to deposition of the fatty material like cholesterol. Atherosclerosis mainly affects the arteries.
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Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. The virus spreads by direct person-to-person contact, by contact with infected mucus or phlegm from the nose or mouth, or by contact with infected feces. The virus enters the mouth and multiplies in lymphoid tissues in the pharynx and intestine. Small numbers of virus enter the blood and go to other sites where the virus multiplies more extensively.
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Glucagonoma

Glucagonoma is a tumor of the islet cells of the pancreas, which secrete the hormones insulin and glucagon.
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Arthroscopic Joint Procedure

Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure used to visualize, diagnose, and treat problems inside a joint. An arthroscope is a telescope that can be inserted into the joints, enabling to see directly inside the area. Two small stab wounds are made on either side of the front of the knee. One is for the telescope, the other is either for an examining probe, or the instrument used to perform arthroscopic surgery.
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Congenital Zinc Deficiency

Congenital Zinc Deficiency is also known as Acrodermatitis Enteropathica. The other names for the condition are Brandt syndrome and Danbolt cross syndrome. The disease is an inborn error in zinc metabolism and is inherited as a autosomal recessive disorder. This means that out of four babies born to the carrier couple one will be suffering with the disease, two of the babies will be carrier and one of the babies will neither be sufferer of the disease and nor the carrier.
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Abruption Placental

Abruption placenta or abruption of placenta is premature separation of placenta from the uterus before delivery of the fetus.
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Nocturnal Asthma

Nocturnal asthma is a type of asthma that tends to produce symptoms only at night. Asthma involves constriction and inflammation of the airways particularly lower airways (bronchi and bronchioles).
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