Diabetes can make your legs swell because of poor peripheral circulation. If you do not have very good circulation, fluid will accumulate in your lower extremities due to gravity. Exercise will help this problem because it will increase circulation and keep your blood sugar down, which in turn promotes health veins. High blood sugar weakens … Read more

If it's 4 days before your period, then discharge and spotting should not be considered an accurate indicator of pregnancy. Are you on birth control? Have you had unprotected sex while you were ovulating (which would have been about 10-12 days ago according to your "4 days to next period")? If you said no to … Read more

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Ocular headaches, more commonly known as ophthalmic migraines, are related to a dilation or constriction in the vessels of the brain in or near the visual cortex (where vision is perceived). The symptoms are typically strobing or arcuate lights that flash in the peripheral vision, a horseshoe-shaped glittery or shimmering, jagged light that starts in … Read more

The optic nerve that connects your eye to the brain translates images seen into electrical impulses. These impulse signals travel down the optic nerve to the area of your brain known as the visual cortex (I've never heard it referred to as the visual "association" cortex). If the visual cortex is damaged, the impulses can … Read more

Impetigo is a staph infection of the skin. We have staph that lives on top of our skin normally and is kept under control by our immune systems. If the skin has an unusually high amount of staph (from being dirty, usually) it can enter in places where the top layers of skin have been … Read more

To put it in the simplest terms: The difference between high pitched and low pitched sounds is the speed of the vibrations (frequency). If it's a high frequency, the pitch will be high because of the very fast vibrations of the audible sound waves, the opposite applies to low pitched sounds; the lower the frequency, … Read more

Shingles is a herpes virus called herpes zoster. It's only conctractable if you've had chicken pox at some point in your life, because that virus lays dormant for years until your immune system is no longer competent enough to suppress it, at which point it manifests as shingles. Shingles lives on certain nerve branches that … Read more

I'm assuming that you are aware of what an ESR test is measuring--the level of an inflammatory cell-marker present in your blood. Well, systemic inflammation can be caused by many different factors, some of which we can alleviate. The foods we eat affect the levels of inflammation in our bodies tremendously. When we eat foods … Read more

Yes, rotten teeth can make you very sick. Think about it, the teeth are rotten because the enamel is no longer there to protect the teeth from bacteria. That bacteria that has infected your teeth can travel through your digestive tract to your intestines where it can multiply like mad, or it can gain access … Read more