What's making you so tired all the time? Stress, poor eating habits, overwork, even medical treatments can wear you down and cause fatigue.
A febrile seizure is a convulsion in young children that may be caused by a sudden spike in body temperature, often from an infection. Watching your child experience a febrile seizure can be alarming. And, although a febrile seizure may last only a few minutes, it may seem like an eternity to you.
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control your bowel movements, causing stool (feces) to leak unexpectedly from your rectum. Also called bowel incontinence, fecal incontinence ranges from an occasional leakage of stool while passing gas to a complete loss of bowel control.
An estimated 10 to 15 percent of couples are classified as infertile, which means that they've been trying to get pregnant with frequent, unprotected intercourse for at least a year with no success.
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a condition that results from prenatal alcohol exposure. If you drink during pregnancy, you place your baby at risk of fetal alcohol syndrome.
A fever is usually a sign that something out of the ordinary is going on in your body. For an adult, a fever may be uncomfortable, but usually isn't dangerous unless it reaches 103 F (39.4 C) or higher.
Have you ever just hurt all over, and frequently feel exhausted. Even after several tests, your doctor can't find anything specifically wrong with you. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia.
Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system, including your nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
Food allergy is an immune system reaction that occurs soon after eating a certain food. Even a tiny amount of the allergy-causing food can trigger signs and symptoms such as digestive problems, hives or swollen airways.
Food poisoning, also referred to as food-borne illness, is a result of eating contaminated food. Infectious organisms — including various bacteria, viruses and parasites — or their toxins are the most common cause of food poisoning.
During an erection, the penis is engorged with blood. If the penis is bent suddenly or forcefully while it's engorged, the trauma may rupture the lining of one of the two cylinders in the penis (corpus cavernosum) responsible for erections — resulting in a penis fracture.
Freiberg disease is the death of the tissue (necrosis) of parts of the bones in the ball of the foot, usually next to the big toe.
Epilepsy symptoms can vary, depending on where the seizures originate in the brain. Seizures that begin in the front of the brain (frontal lobe seizures) may produce unusual symptoms that can appear to be related to a psychiatric problem or a sleep disorder.