Complementary Medicine

Bell's palsy is a temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face. These facial muscles are controlled. Since there facial nerve on both sides of the face of a person, and Bell's palsy usually affects just one nerve, people in Bell's palsy is likely to notice stiffness or weakness on one side of the face.

When the facial nerve is working properly, brings many of the messages from the brain faces. These messages can be said to close the eyelid, one side of the mouth to smile or frown, or salivary glands make saliva. Facial nerves also help our bodies make tears and taste favorite foods. But if the nerve swells and is compressed, as in Bell's palsy, these messages are not sent correctly. The result is weakness or temporary paralysis of muscles on one side of the face.

Cerebral palsy is a group of diseases that affect a person's ability to move and maintain balance and posture. The disorders appear in the first year of life. Usually they do not become worse over time. People with cerebral palsy may have difficulty walking. They may also have problems with tasks such as writing or using scissors. Some have other medical conditions including seizure disorders or mental disorders.

Cerebral palsy occurs when the brain regions that control movement and posture do not develop properly or be damaged. The first signs of cerebral palsy usually appear before 3 years. Babies with cerebral palsy are frequently slow to roll, sit, crawl, smile or walk. Some babies are born with cerebral palsy, while others get it after birth.

There is no cure for cerebral palsy, but treatment can improve the lives of those who do. Treatment includes medicines, braces and physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.

Epilepsy is a brain disease in which groups of nerve cells, or neurons, the brain sometimes signal abnormally. Neurons normally generate electrochemical impulses that are present in other neurons, glands and muscles to produce human thoughts, feelings and actions. Epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity should be disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions and behavior or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. During a seizure, neurons may fire up to 500 times per second, much faster than normal. In some people, this happens only occasionally, for others it can happen hundreds of times per day.

Lyme disease is often associated with wooded or grassy areas where deer mice live. It is more common in the north, the Pacific Northwest and northern states of the Midwest.

Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. This bacterium is found in small animals like mice. It can carry people in these animals by Ixodes ticks (known as black-legged ticks or deer). These ticks pick up Borrelia burgdorferi when they bite infected birds and then infect humans by the bite of their person and pass the bacteria in the bloodstream.

Anemia, one of the most common blood disorders, occurs when the level of healthy red blood cells (RBC), the body is too low. This can lead to health problems because RBCs contain hemoglobin that carries oxygen to tissues. Anemia can cause various complications, such as fatigue and stress are the body's organs.

Anemia can be caused by many things, but the three main bodily mechanisms that produce them are excessive destruction of red blood cells, blood loss, inadequate production of red blood cells. Among many other causes, anemia caused by hereditary diseases, nutritional problems (such as an iron or vitamin deficiency), infections, some forms of cancer, or exposure to a substance or toxin.

Myocarditis can be caused by a variety of infections and diseases such as viruses, sarcoidosis and autoimmune diseases, pregnancy, and others. The most common cause of myocarditis is an infection of the heart muscle by a virus. The virus invades the heart muscle causing local inflammation. After the immune system of the initial infection of the body decline continues to cause inflammatory damage to heart muscle. This immune response may actually prolong myocarditis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in the lungs is contagious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a few of these to be infected.

Left untreated, each person with active TB disease infect on average between 10 and 15 people each year. But people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. The immune system "walls off" the TB bacilli, which is protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years. When the immune system is weakened, the chances of getting sick are greater.