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Malaise is a non-specific symptom and can be present in the slightest ailment, such as an emotion (causing fainting, a vasovagal response) or hunger (light hypoglycemia [2]), to the most serious conditions (cancer, stroke, heart attack, internal bleeding, etc.).
On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again.
Morbidity (from Latin morbidus ' sick, unhealthy ') is a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause. [17] The term may refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient. Among severely ill patients, the level of morbidity is often measured by ICU scoring systems.
Image credits: Eric McCandless/Getty Images #4 Dave Coulier. Full House actor Dave Coulier revealed on November 13 that he had been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer just a month before.
A telltale sign you’re getting sick is excess mucus, and if you’ve ever been desperate to stop coughing and sneezing, you’ve likely examined your mucus color, from yellow to green, for signs ...
When you're ill, it can be hard to tell whether exercise will make you feel better or worse. If you're unsure, you can use the "neck rule" to determine whether working out is a good idea.
Ancher, Michael, "The Sick Girl", 1882, Statens Museum for Kunst. Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection. [1] They usually, but not always, [2] accompany fever and aid survival.
A dog owner whose nine-month-old puppy fell ill after a visit to a beach says she was scared when her pet started vomiting. Lottie James, 29, is one of several pet owners to have spent hundreds of ...