Symptoms
Common symptoms
Ovulation pain
Ovulation pain may occur around the middle of the menstrual cycle. It is usually mild, short-lived and not a cause for concern.
Abdominal bloating
Abdominal bloating is a feeling of fullness or tightness in the abdomen. It is often related to digestion and usually temporary.
Intestinal worms
Intestinal worms are parasitic infections of the gut. They can cause itching, abdominal pain and digestive symptoms.
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The skin of the lips is thinner than elsewhere and has no oil glands, so it is the first to react to cold, wind, dry air and dehydration.
The foot has more sweat glands per square centimetre than any other part of the body, and it spends most of the day enclosed in a shoe.
Someone suddenly loses consciousness and falls, the body stiffens, then the arms and legs start jerking rhythmically, the breathing sounds harsh, saliva comes…
Shortness of breath is the feeling that there is not enough air: breathing turns fast and shallow, you find yourself gulping for it, stopping in the middle of…
The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body, and the price of that mobility is stability: it is held together not by bone but by muscles, tendons and…
A strong smell from your urine is usually noticed by accident, and then it stays on your mind.
Roughly one adult man in two and one woman in three snores, and most of the time it really is a noise rather than a disease.
A child has been using the toilet for a long time, and yet stool keeps turning up in their pants — sometimes as smears, sometimes runny, sometimes as hard…
The tongue is the one place people inspect themselves, and they are almost always alarmed by what they find.
Everyone gets a sore throat, and almost always for a harmless reason: a virus, too many hours in dry air, an evening of shouting, smoke around you.
