80+ Diseases Covered
Anemia
Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying capacity is insufficient to meet physiologic needs, which vary by age, sex, altitude, smoking, and pregnancy status. Iron deficiency is thought to be the most common cause of anemia globally although other conditions, such as folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin A deficiencies, chronic inflammation, parasitic infections, and inherited disorders can all cause anemia.
Appendicitis
Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix, a finger-shape pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen. The appendix doesn't seem to have a specific purpose. Appendicitis causes pain in your lower right abdomen. However, in most people, pain begins around the navel and then moves. As inflammation worsens, appendicitis pain typically increases and eventually becomes severe.
Arthritis
Arthritis literally means inflammation of one or more joints. Arthritis is frequently accompanied by joint pain. Joint pain is referred to as arthralgia. Arthritis is classified as one of the rheumatic diseases. They are similar in that they have a tendency to affect the joints, muscles, ligaments, cartilage, and tendons, and many have the potential to affect internal body areas as well.
Bone related
Bone disease, any of the diseases or injuries that affect human bones. Diseases and injuries of bones are major causes of abnormalities of the human skeletal system. Although physical injury, causing fracture, dominates over disease, a fracture is one of several common causes of bone diseases.
Hormonal disorders
Hormonal disorders are conditions that affect the endocrine system and the hormones they release. These powerful chemicals travel around your bloodstream telling tissues and organs what to do. They help control many of your body’s major processes, including reproduction and metabolism. When you have a hormonal imbalance, you have too much or too little of a certain hormone. Even tiny changes can have serious effects throughout your whole body.
Hypocalcemia
Hypocalcemia condition is low calcium levels in the blood serum. Mildly low levels that develop slowly often have no symptoms. Otherwise, symptoms may include numbness, muscle spasms, seizures, confusion, or cardiac arrest. Common causes include vitamin D deficiency, hypoparathyroidism. Diagnosis should generally be confirmed with a corrected calcium or ionized calcium level. Include milk and milk products in your diet to improve calcium level. Vitamin D is important to absorb calcium. If due to hypoparathyroidism, phosphate binders and hydrochlorothiazide a low salt diet may also be recommended.
Kidney
Most kidney diseases attack the nephrons. This damage may leave kidneys unable to remove wastes. Causes can include injuries, genetic problems, or medicines. You have a higher risk of kidney disease if you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or a close family member with kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease damages the nephrons slowly over several years. The purpose of this diet is to keep the levels of minerals, electrolytes, and fluid in your body balanced when you have CKD or are on dialysis. People on dialysis need this special diet to limit the buildup of waste products in the body. Limiting fluids between dialysis treatments is very important because most people on dialysis urinate very little. Without urination, fluid will build up in the body and cause too much fluid in the heart and lungs.
Skin Related
Conditions that irritate, clog, or inflame your skin can cause symptoms such as redness, swelling, burning, and itching. Allergies, irritants, your makeup, and certain diseases and immune system problems can cause dermatitis, hives, and other skin conditions. Many skin problems, such as acne, also affect your appearance. Your skin can also develop several kinds of cancers. The nutrients in your food determine how well your skin can repair itself, defend against damage.
Blood Pressure
Blood pressure usually refers to the pressure in large arteries of the systemic circulation. Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic pressure over diastolic pressure. Blood pressure that is low due to a disease state is called hypotension, and pressure that is consistently high is hypertension. Both have many causes and may be of sudden onset or of long duration. Long term hypertension is a risk factor for many diseases, including heart disease, stroke and kidney failure.
Burn
A burn is a type of injury to the skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation. Most burns are due to heat from hot liquids, solids, or fire. While rates are similar for males and females the underlying causes often differ. Among women in some areas, the risk is related to use of open cooking fires or unsafe cook stoves. Among men, the risk is related to the work environments.
Cancer
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells anywhere in a body. These abnormal cells are termed cancer cells, malignant cells, or tumor cells. Cancers are a large family of diseases that involve abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. They form a subset of neoplasms. A neoplasm or tumor is a group of cells that have undergone unregulated growth.
Celiac disease
Celiac disease is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the small intestine. Celiac disease is caused by a reaction to gluten, which are various proteins found in wheat barley and rye. Moderate quantities of oats, free of contamination with other gluten-containing grains, are usually tolerated. It occurs in people who are genetically predisposed. The only known effective treatment is a strict lifelong gluten-free diet, which leads to recovery of the intestinal mucosa, improves symptoms and reduces the risk of developing complications in most people.
Liver
You need food to power your body, giving it energy and the material it needs to grow and repair itself. When you eat food, it is broken down in your stomach and intestine (gut) and three main nutrients are extracted: Carbohydrates, fat, protein. These nutrients are then absorbed into the bloodstream and carried to your liver. At the same time, your liver is also working to detoxify substances which may harm your body such as alcohol, chemicals used in pest control, which may be present on unwashed fruit and vegetables, medicines, other drugs and some waste products produced in the body. If you have a liver problem, then your liver may not be able to do these jobs as efficiently as it should.
Lungs
When you breathe, your lungs take in oxygen from the air and deliver it to the bloodstream. The cells in your body need oxygen to work and grow. During a normal day, you breathe nearly 25,000 times. People with lung disease have difficulty breathing. Millions of people have lung disease. The term lung disease refers to many disorders affecting the lungs, such as asthma, COPD, infections like influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis, lung cancer, and many other breathing problems. Some lung diseases can lead to respiratory failure. Good nutrition is very essential to prevent infections and keep your lungs healthy.
Neurology
The brain and nervous system require essential nutrients and energy to develop and maintain their neurons and supporting cells. A deficiency of any one of these essential nutrients may impair the structure or functionality of the neurological system. Stroke is the most common life-threatening neurological disease. Other neurological conditions are epilepsy, chronic headaches, and Alzheimer's disease. Severe deficiencies of vitamins, especially the B-complex group, impair nervous system function. Thiamin deficiency causes beriberi neuropathy. Inadequate niacin intake causes pellagra and dementia. Deficiency caused by vitamin B12 malabsorption in untreated pernicious anemia.
Post Operation
The instructions you are given by your surgeon and care team have been carefully calculated to aid in your recovery. You can assist in the speed of recovery by doing certain breathing and moving exercises in the recovery room. It is important that your circulation and body functions return to normal after your surgery. You can help these processes by moving around, sitting up in a chair, and even walking, as indicated by your surgeon and healthcare team. The food you eat can make a great impact on your recovery and on how quickly your wound heals. Eating the right foods can prevent complications.
Heart
A range of conditions that affect your heart. Heart disease includes blood vessel diseases, such as coronary artery disease, heart rhythm problems (arrhythmia) and congenital heart defects. The term “heart disease” is often used interchangeably with the term “cardiovascular disease.” The cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain or stroke. Some other heart conditions that affect your heart's muscle, rhythm or valves, also are considered forms of heart disease. Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle choices.
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. Symptoms of high blood sugar include frequent urination, increased thirst, and increased hunger. If left untreated, diabetes can cause many complications. Acute complications can include diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state, or death. Serious long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, foot ulcers, and damage to the eyes. Prevention and treatment involve maintaining a healthy diet, regular physical exercise and a normal body weight.
Fever
Fever, also known as pyrexia, is defined as having a temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature. There is not a single agreed upon upper limit for normal temperature with sources using values between 37.5 and 38.3 °C. The increase in set-point triggers increased muscle contractions and causes a feeling of cold. A fever can be caused by many medical conditions ranging from non-serious to life-threatening. This includes viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections such as the common cold, urinary tract infections, meningitis, malaria and appendicitis.
Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal diseases refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, mainly the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum, and the accessory organs of digestion, the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Reasons for gastrointestinal diseases include low fiber diet, injury, chronic constipation, a genetic disease like Crohn’s disease etc.
Pox
Chickenpox, also known as varicella, is a highly contagious disease caused by the initial infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV). The disease results in a characteristic skin rash that forms small, itchy blisters, which eventually scab over. It usually starts on the chest, back, and face then spreads to the rest of the body. Other symptoms may include fever, tiredness, and headaches. Symptoms usually last five to seven days. Complications may occasionally include pneumonia, inflammation of the brain, and bacterial skin infections. The disease is often more severe in adults than in children. Symptoms begin 10 to 21 days after exposure to the virus.
Vitamin Deficiency
A vitamin deficiency can cause a disease or syndrome known as an avitaminosis or hypovitaminosis. This usually refers to a long-term deficiency of a vitamin. When caused by inadequate nutrition it can be classed as a primary deficiency, and when due to an underlying disorder such as malabsorption it can be classed as a secondary deficiency. An underlying disorder may be metabolic as in a defect converting tryptophan to niacin. It can also be the result of lifestyle choices including smoking and alcohol consumption.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose Intolerance is the inability to digest and absorb lactose sugar that results in gastrointestinal symptoms when milk or food products containing milk are consumed. It is due either to a genetically programmed loss of lactose, the intestinal enzyme responsible for the digestion of lactose, or diseases affecting the small intestine that destroy lactose. Genetically programmed loss of lactose occurs between early childhood and age 21.
Thyroid
The thyroid gland is an endocrine gland in the neck, the thyroid gland secretes thyroxine hormones, which primarily influence the metabolic rate and protein synthesis. The thyroid hormone's triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) are created from iodine and tyrosine. The thyroid also produces the hormone calcitonin, which plays a role in calcium homeostasis. Thyroid may be affected by several diseases. Hyperthyroidism occurs when the gland produces excessive amounts of thyroid hormones, the most common cause being Graves' disease. In contrast, hypothyroidism is a state of insufficient thyroid hormone production. The most common cause is iodine deficiency. Thyroid hormones are important for development. In iodine-sufficient regions, the most common cause of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's thyroiditis.