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  It's no surprise many of us experience bloat around the holidays. Between talking with family at the dinner table, sitting for extended periods of time, drinking alcohol , and consuming sugary, high-carb foods, this holiday is the perfect storm for gastrointestinal upset. Here are some potential reasons you may experience bloat around the holidays: You're eating more food than you usually do, and it isn't moving through your digestive system and out of your body at the ideal pace. You're eating in a more social setting with lots of talking (you know, as one does during holiday dinner parties) and are swallowing too much air, causing gas to accumulate in your stomach. You're eating holiday foods that your small intestine has a more difficult time digesting (e.g.,  high-FODMAP foods  like apples, dairy, asparagus, wheat, garlic, onion, honey), so they moved along the GI tract to be fermented in the large intestine (aka colon). Gas has now accumulated as a byproduct ...

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) also known as Stroke or Apoplexy is a condition that produces sudden neurological signs and symptoms and paralysis as a result of rapture of a cerebral blood vessel or occlusion by a blood clot leading to disruption of blood supply to the brain tissue and death of brain cells. INCIDENCE It is considered often as disease of the aged because approximately 60-75% of all CVA cases occur in persons over 65 years of age. Young people occasionally sustain CVA because of trauma to cerebral blood vessels, inflammatory disorders of arteries of the brain, or congenital vascular anomalies. CVA is a major public health problem in terms of mortality and permanent disability. In United States, it is ranked third among all causes of death. TYPES OF STROKE 1.       ISCHAEMIC STROKE: It is a sudden loss of function resulting from disruption of blood supply to a part of the brain. It is caused by either an embolus or a thrombus. A.   ...

  DEFINITION: Cleft lip is a congenital crack or fissure which almost invariably affects the upper lip and could either be unilateral or bilateral on both sides of the upper lip. The crack or the fissure results from the failure of the maxillary and pre-maxillary process to fuse during the 5 th to the 8thy weeks of intrauterine life. The cleft may be a simple notch in the vermilion line or it may be extended up into the floor of the nose. INCIDENCE Cleft lip occurs in about one out of every eight hundred (800) live births and it is most common in males than in females. AETIOLOGY The causes of left lip are not entirely clear. However, it appears to be genetically influenced, it also does occur in isolation with no genetic history. Other predisposing factors include maternal viral infections such as rubella, exposure to excessive radiation during fetal life, alcoholism, oxygen and vitamin deficiency and cortision intoxication. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Development of the upper Lip i...