Saturday, May 8, 2010

10 strange diseases of human experience

Serious illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, stroke or heart already widely known. But actually there are many other diseases of unknown and even sound pretty strange. Any disease that? Many people who may never have heard of this disease and some of them have bad effects. As quoted from Healthmad and Docshop, Friday (5/7/2010) She's the diseases that sounded strange to humans:

1. Trichotillomania
The disease is spelled weird to comprehend. People who have this disease have the urge to pull hair to fall out, including body hair, scalp hair, beard, eyelashes, nose hair or eyebrows. This condition is likely due to abnormalities in serotonin and dopamine.

2. Cotard's Syndrome
Patients with this disease will feel that he is dead and nothing in the world again. It also felt that he had lost blood or internal organs and body parts that had decayed. This condition can be developed as a result of mental disease or associated with depression.

3. Kleptomania
Patients with this disease will always steal anything that is not even worth though. In some cases patients do not realize that it is a form of theft. At the time of stealing the patients feel happy or there is a certain satisfaction. An evidence suggests that abnormalities of serotonin in the brain can cause these diseases.

4. Stendhal Syndrome
This condition is spelled weird because someone who has this disease will suffer if exposed to the beautiful artwork in great numbers. In a short time the person will experience dizziness, rapid heart beat, confusion and hallucinations.

5. Exploding Head Syndrome
Patients felt there was a loud noise that seems to appear from inside his own head like an explosion. Usually occurs after a person is sleeping for two hours, but not because of a dream. Patients will feel fear and anxiety that accompanied the increase heart rate.

6. Pica
This disease causes the sufferer has the urge to eat strange foods other than food in general, such as paper, glue, clay, dirt, bricks or yarn. Some researches suspect this is due to mineral deficiency, but the exact cause is unknown.

7. Genital Retraction Syndrome
This syndrome causes a person becomes panicky, anxious and confused about parts of her body. For men have the idea that their penis will continue to shrink and disappear into the abdomen. Whereas a woman feels her breasts will shrink and get into the body.

8. Insensitivity to pain since birth
People who have this condition to become insensitive to pain or pain, they will not feel the pain if injured or bleeding wounds such as stab a pin in the skin. The cause is gene mutation that occurred in the synthesis of sodium in certain streams involved in the pain stimulus.

9. Moebius Syndrome
The disease is characterized by a lack of nerve in the face, eliminating eskpresi face. People with this syndrome will often be seen sleeping with open eyes, can not smile, frown, control eye blinking and disruption of the ability to speak and swallow.

10. Ondine's curse
It is estimated there are about 200-300 people around the world who has this disease. People who suffer from Ondine's curse has a very difficult time for taking in oxygen to make them look tired often and easily tired. If this happens during sleep and no medical help, it can cause death.