Tonsil hypertrophy
Hypertrophy, or, more simply, enlarged tonsils is quite common in children under 10–12 years old. Adults suffer from this pathology much less often. Before we talk about hypertrophy of the…

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Do adults need vaccines?
Vaccination is often associated with childhood. And many people are confident that once they have entered adulthood, you can forget about vaccinations. And the recommendation to make revaccination (repeated vaccination)…

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Non-child problems: the danger of measles in adults
Although it is considered a pediatric infection, measles may well affect an adult. Is an adult likely to become infected? Does he need to be vaccinated against the disease? How…

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Unusual Diseases: Hermaphroditism

What it is?
This sexual pathology implies the presence of both male and female sexual characteristics in humans. The name she received on behalf of the son of Aphrodite and Hermes. He was so beautiful that one of the nymphs asked the gods to connect her with a young man forever, and Hermaphrodite turned into a bisexual creature. Continue reading

Gaucher disease

A rare hereditary disease, characterized by the fact that the patient in the cells of bones and internal organs accumulate fats of a certain type – glucocerebrosides. Gaucher disease is a rare disease, it occurs in one of 40–100 thousand. But in closed ethnic communities in which kinship marriages are common, there may be an order of magnitude more cases.
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8 reasons for early gray hair

Over the years, with us, someone earlier, others later, the hair begins to turn gray. This is quite normal, although it does not please us. But sometimes gray strands are found in very young people who have not even turned thirty. What is it? Pathology? And can this process be prevented?

Why does our hair have a different color?
Our hair can be dark, light, red in various shades due to melanin. Continue reading

Influenza and SARS in children with allergies. How to help the child?
Do you know the situation when a child is like a few days in a kindergarten, and then for 2-3 weeks he is ill at home? Everything is even worse…

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Unusual Diseases: Stone Man Syndrome
The stone man's syndrome in medicine is called progressive ossifying fibrodysplasia, or Müncheimer's disease. This is a genetic pathology that is caused by a mutation of the gene responsible for…

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