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Heart Failure | Congestive heart failure

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Heart Failure is generally described as a long-term illness which happens when your heart does not pump enough blood as normal flow to function the body’s parts. Over a period of time, blood and fluids will collect in your lungs and legs. This will lead you to cause shortness of breath. Medications and other treatment methods will help you to manage symptoms like swelling. For many people, heart failure is a life-time illness. Specific heart conditions will gradually leave your heart too weak or it makes it stiff to pump blood properly. These health conditions include having narrow arteries in the heart or having high blood pressure. Prompt and proper treatment might improve the symptoms of heart failure and it may help people live longer peacefully. And changes in your lifestyle can improve the quality of life. You have to try to lose weight and do exercise and use less salt and manage stress. But heart failure can be life-threatening for some people with this health condition. Some p...

American Trypanosomiasis | Chagas Disease | kissing bugs

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American Trypanosomiasis is described as a tropical parasitic infection which is transmitted by blood sucking insects like kissing bugs which usually crawl to bite. Yow will face flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all. But this disease can lead to serious life-threatening complications. With the help of immediate treatment, most people with Chagas disease will recover fully. Also called Chagas disease, American trypanosomiasis can infect anyone. If you are left untreated, Chagas disease will cause severe heart and digestive issues. In the acute phase of infection, treatments of Chagas disease will aim to kill the parasite. People who have chronic Chagas disease, no longer able to kill the parasite. Treatment in this phase of managing signs and symptoms only. But you can take preventive steps to prevent infection. Causes Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is caused by the parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi. This disease can spread by infected blood-sucking bugs called triatomine...