minerals Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/minerals Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:09:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://healthhype.com/wp-content/uploads/logoicon.png minerals Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/minerals 32 32 7 Signs of a Vitamin Deficiency (Shortage, Low Levels) https://healthhype.com/7-signs-of-vitamin-deficiency.html https://healthhype.com/7-signs-of-vitamin-deficiency.html#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:23:23 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=32159 Deficiencies of vitamins are not an uncommon problem in humans. It is also not only a nutritional problem associated with poverty, fasting or starvation. Any person can suffer with a vitamin deficiency even if they have access to sufficient food and eat well. It may be a result of not eating a balanced diet or having gut problems that prevents the digestion and even absorption of sufficient vitamins. Often, a person will not even know that they have  vitamin deficiency unless it is severe and causes complications. It can even be life-threatening. Vitamins play a number of different roles in the body. It helps to form certain stuctures in the body, assists with various biochemical processes that are necessary for sustaining health and life, used by tissues for repairing and supports the different systems like the immune system to defend the body. Vitamins are therefore a necessary micronutrient, and for that reason a deficiency will lead to symptoms and diseases over time. Read more on immune boosting vitamins. Although the term vitamin refers to a specific type of micronutrient, it is also used to describe minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron. Therefore it is not uncommon for a mineral [...]

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]]> https://healthhype.com/7-signs-of-vitamin-deficiency.html/feed 0 MRSA Staph Infection, Superbug (CA-MRSA, HA-MRSA) Pictures https://healthhype.com/mrsa-superbug.html https://healthhype.com/mrsa-superbug.html#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:27 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/mrsa-superbug.html What Is a Superbug? Superbugs, also called Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) bacteria are resistant to several antibiotics. Not all superbugs necessary cause a severe infection, though. A common superbug is MRSA. What is MRSA? Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a strain (a genetic variant within the same species) of a Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, resistant to antibiotic methicillin and other antibiotics from the same class as penicillin, amoxacillin and oxacillin. The main problem with MRSA is that it is often not recognized as such, and is therefore treated with inappropriate antibiotics (1, page 25). MRSA and “Usual” Staph Aureus Pictures It is impossible to say from staph skin infection pictures, if the cause of infection is MRSA (Methicilin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) or an “usual” staph – MSSA (Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus). Even a staph carrier without any symptoms can have MRSA. Folliculitis, which is usually a mild infection, may also be caused by MRSA or MSSA (folliculitis pictures). Picture 1. A boil below the knee, caused by MRSA (source: phil.cdc.gov)  Pictures obtained by a light or electron microscope cannot help in distinguishing between MRSA and usual staph. Picture 2.Staph aureus under the light microscope, magnified about 100x (source phil.cdc.gov) Picture 3. Cluster of MRSA bacteria as [...]

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