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- Cataracts - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye, which is typically clear For people who have cataracts, seeing through cloudy lenses is like looking through a frosty or fogged-up window Clouded vision caused by cataracts can make it more difficult to read, drive a car at night or see the expression on a friend's face
- Monosodium glutamate, also called MSG: Is it harmful? - Mayo Clinic
Monosodium glutamate, also called MSG, is used to make food taste better Glutamate is a form of the amino acid glutamic acid Both are naturally in food such as cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and meat Glutamate is not related to gluten The U S Food and Drug Administration, also called FDA, lists MSG as a food ingredient that's safe to eat in typical amounts But some people may react to MSG
- Shingles - Symptoms causes - Mayo Clinic
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash Shingles can occur anywhere on your body It typically looks like a single stripe of blisters that wraps around the left side or the right side of your torso Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox After you've had chickenpox, the virus stays in your body for the rest of your life
- Lyme disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Overview Lyme disease is an illness caused by borrelia bacteria Humans usually get Lyme disease from the bite of a tick carrying the bacteria Ticks that can carry borrelia bacteria live throughout most of the United States But Lyme disease is most common in the upper Midwest and the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states It's also common in Europe and in south central and southeastern Canada
- Parkinsons disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder of the nervous system that worsens over time The nervous system is a network of nerve cells that controls many parts of the body, including movement Symptoms start slowly The first symptom may be a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand or sometimes a
- Left ventricular hypertrophy - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Left ventricular hypertrophy is a thickening of the wall of the heart's main pumping chamber, called the left ventricle This thickening may increase pressure within the heart The condition can make it harder for the heart to pump blood The most common cause is high blood pressure
- Mental illness - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Overview Mental illness, also called mental health disorders, refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors
- Cirrhosis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Cirrhosis is advanced scarring of the liver caused by many diseases and conditions, including long-term alcohol use, obesity and fatty liver, or liver infections, among others The definition of cirrhosis covers a broad process Each time the liver is injured — whether by alcohol use or another cause, such as infection — it tries to repair itself In the process, scar tissue forms As
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