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  2. Kleptomania - Wikipedia

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    People diagnosed with kleptomania often have other types of disorders involving mood, anxiety, eating, impulse control, and drug use. They also have great levels of stress, guilt, and remorse, and privacy issues accompanying the act of stealing. These signs are considered to either cause or intensify general comorbid disorders.

  3. List of childhood diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection; necrotizing enterocolitis; neonatal conjunctivitis; parainfluenza (PIV) infection; pertussis; poliomyelitis; prenatal Listeria; Group B streptoccus infection; Tay–Sachs disease; tetanus; Ureaplasma urealyticum infection; respiratory Syncytial Virus infection; rhinovirus; common cold

  4. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis - Wikipedia

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    Most conditions are mild and often show little or no symptoms. Heavy infections however are debilitating, causing severe intestinal blockage and impairing growth in children. Children, compounded with malnutrition, are most infected, with the most common age group being 3- to 8-year-olds, with an annual death of about 20,000. Children are more ...

  5. Neonatal infection - Wikipedia

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    Signs of infection include maternal fever, vaginal discharge, tender uterus or pain with urination. GBS Colonization - group B streptococcus is a bacterial pathogen commonly found in the gastrointestinal and vaginal membranes of healthy women.

  6. Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic causes that are known.

  7. Gratification disorder - Wikipedia

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    The child remains conscious during episodes of infantile masturbation and can be distracted from the behavior, which could help rule out the suspicion of a serious condition. [5] Additional symptoms can include: rhythmic or rhythmical rubbing of genitals against objects or hands; [ 7 ] a fixated or dazed gaze; [ 8 ] straightening of the legs or ...

  8. Acute cerebellar ataxia of childhood - Wikipedia

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    Acute cerebellar ataxia of childhood is a childhood condition characterized by an unsteady gait, most likely secondary to an autoimmune response to infection, drug induced or paraneoplastic. [1] The most common viruses causing acute cerebellar ataxia are chickenpox virus and Epstein–Barr virus , leading to a childhood form of post viral ...

  9. Nosophobia - Wikipedia

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    Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...