Health Info
For more information on these conditions see your Doctor or Healthcare Professional.
| Condition up down | Summary up down |
|---|---|
| Alzheimers Disease | Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia: about 60% of all dementia patients suffer from Alzheimer's disease. |
| Anaemia | Anaemia is the term used for abnormally low levels of haemoglobin (Hb) in the blood. |
| A D H D | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a condition characterised by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and not appropriate to a child's age. |
| Bipolar Disorder | Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness is a serious mood disorder that affects 1-2% of the population. |
| Epilepsy | Epilepsy is a condition in which the patients suffer from so-called attacks or seizures. During a seizure (sometimes also called a fit or attack) the patient loses control over various bodily functions: some lose control of their muscles, others over their thinking process. |
| Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disease | Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease or GORD is usually used as a broad term to refer to a number of digestive disorders of the oesophagus (the food pipe or tube that carries food from your throat to your stomach). |
| H I V | HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Some viruses, such as HIV, never go away. When a person becomes infected with HIV, that person becomes "HIV positive" and will always be HIV positive. HIV kills or damages the body's immune system cells, destroying a person's ability to fight disease. People with damaged immune systems are highly susceptible to common diseases as well as to certain cancers and infections that seldom infect healthy people. |
| Migraine | Migraine is much more than a headache. Migraine headaches are part of a chronic, disabling condition. Migraine attacks are associated with throbbing pain, often on one side of the head, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light, sound, smell, or movement. |
| Multiple Myeloma | Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the blood that is under-recognised and currently has no known cure. In multiple myeloma, white blood cells called plasma cells, responsible for the production of antibodies (proteins which fight infection) are over produced in the bone marrow - the tissue inside the bone which manufactures all blood cells. |
| Pain | Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, which is primarily associated with tissue damage. Pain generally originates in the peripheral nervous system and is processed and interpreted by the central nervous system. |
| Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness, and is probably the most distressing and disabling of the severe mental disorders. |
| Transplant And Immunosuppressant | Some people suffer an irreversible decline in the functioning of their organs and ultimately organ failure. Organ transplantation may be the only lifesaving option available to these patients. |
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