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Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech.
Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury. [3] Symptoms depend upon the type, dose, method, and duration of exposure. [3] [4] They may include muscle weakness, poor coordination, numbness in the hands and feet, skin rashes, anxiety, memory problems, trouble speaking, trouble hearing, or trouble seeing. [1]
Dumping syndrome occurs when food, especially sugar, moves too quickly from the stomach to the duodenum—the first part of the small intestine—in the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This condition is also called rapid gastric emptying. [ 1 ]
A side effect of the gastrectomy is "dumping syndrome," she says. "If I eat something — careful as I can be — my body will try to reject it, my heart rate spikes and I get so exhausted and ...
Blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus syndrome; Blind loop syndrome; Bloom syndrome; Blount's disease; Blue baby syndrome; Blue diaper syndrome; Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome; Blue toe syndrome; Bobble-head doll syndrome; Body fat redistribution syndrome; Boerhaave syndrome; Bogart–Bacall syndrome; Bohring–Opitz syndrome; Bonnet ...
Amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) is an illness caused by consumption of shellfish that contain the marine biotoxin called domoic acid. [1] In mammals, including humans, domoic acid acts as a neurotoxin, causing permanent short-term memory loss, brain damage, and death in severe cases.
In general, fish consumption advice attempts to convey the message that fish is a good source of nutrition and has significant health benefits, but that consumers, in particular pregnant women, women of child-bearing age, nursing mothers, and young children, should avoid fish with high levels of methylmercury, limit their intake of fish with ...
A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident.