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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.
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 ...
Baby dumping refers to parents leaving a child younger than 12 months in a public or private place with the intent of terminating their care for the child. [1] It is also known as rehoming when adoptive parents use illegal means, such as the internet, to find new homes for their children.
Alimentary hypoglycemia (consequence of dumping syndrome; it occurs in about 15% of people who have had stomach surgery) Hormonal hypoglycemia (e.g., hypothyroidism ) Helicobacter pylori -induced gastritis (some reports suggest this bacteria may contribute to the occurrence of reactive hypoglycemia) [ 14 ]
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 garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by human populations. These human-caused collections of plastic and other debris are responsible for ecosystem and environmental problems that affect marine life, contaminate oceans with toxic chemicals, and contribute ...
Sea dumping is a major contributor to the pollution of water in Lebanon. Sea dumping refers to the practice of disposing waste or debris into the ocean or along the coastline of a body of water. This practice has numerous negative effects on the health of the environment, marine life and humans in the area.
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.