Primary or essential anemia includes chlorosis and pernicious anemia; secondary anemia results from hemorrhages, poor nourishment or intoxications, poisons.
The same treatment as for anemia and chlorosis will be usual for this trouble.
If it occurs after acute nephritis the symptoms of acute nephritis subside, but anemia and the changes in the urine persist.
For brain congestion and anemia kind other means must be used first, and the drugs as the last resort.
Lack of ventilation is a fertile cause of headache, anemia (or an impoverished condition of the blood in iron and oxygen), and dyspepsia.
The cause of the profound anemia itself may be insufficient nutrition, overwork, or lack of exercise.
The cause is usually a pus microorganism, and there may be anemia from the sepsis.
Crile, one of the best medical authorities on this matter of somatic death, holds that the human respiratory system may survive anemia for from thirty to fifty minutes.
Rheumatism in the patient or in her immediate ancestors, epilepsy, fright and other emotions, and anemiaare predisposing causes.
The prevalence of anemia and malaria throughout the Island has also weakened the productive ability of the people and has caused the casual observer to classify the Porto Rican countryman as unambitious and lazy.
There is also a close relation between sickness and poverty, the average countryman of Porto Rico being only partly as efficient a worker as he should be, due to physical weakness caused by anemia or malaria.
Emaciation andanemia are inevitable in such cases.
Associated with progressive anemia is mal-assimilation, improper nutrition, ebbing of the nervous and vital forces and the lessening of the secretory, excretory and digestive powers.
The functional effects are thought to be brought about through the anemia of the areas supplied by the ruptured vessels.
According to Mott, the Shell-shock symptoms themselves are due to capillary anemia and to nerve cell changes such as he found in various regions.
Sometimes, however, the lesion which causes damage to the nerve trunk without actual destruction to the axis cylinders is nothing more than a temporary anemia or hyperemia.
John's tendency to abhor the vacuum of success was corrected by the arrival of Maud, the parlor-maid, whose statuesque anemia and impersonal neatness put something in it.
And it takes something to rosify such moral anemia as Hugh's.
This is an obscure form of anemia associated with great enlargement of the spleen.
The blood resembles that of secondary anemia in many respects.
The anemia is more conspicuous during convalescence.
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
The commonly described varieties of primary anemia are perniciousanemia and chlorosis, but splenic anemia may also be mentioned under this head.
At times it is most difficult to overcome the anemia and accompanying emaciation on account of the disease precluding the giving of the foods especially designed by nature to produce flesh.
Rectal feeding is likewise valuable in cases of extremeanemia accompanying diphtheria.
The extreme exhaustion and anemia accompanying these conditions make it necessary to increase the diet carefully but soon to offset as far as possible the devastating effects of the disease.
Heart symptoms, pneumonia, albuminuria, andanemia are among the complications to be dreaded and combated.
The diet is thus shown to be directed toward overcoming the emaciation and anemia and relieving or preventing the gastro-intestinal disturbances which are so apt to occur.
Acute and spasmodic pain, tenderness and distention in the bowels, moderate fever, straining and a constant desire to defecate, small stools containing blood and mucus, loss of weight and marked anemia when condition becomes chronic.
However, acute attacks of enterocolitis do not produce the marked anemia or the emaciation which are so common in the chronic cases of enteritis.
Hence the starvation treatment cannot be carried on over a very extended period or the resulting anemia may be more difficult to overcome than the original trouble.
When anemia is severe, as is often the case in gastric ulceration, the diet must be reenforced to overcome it.
Anemia must be combated, but care should be used not to push the diet to such an extent as to impose too great a tax upon the already weakened heart.
Anemia is one of the most common results of prolonged diarrheal attacks, especially in those toxic diarrheas resulting from infectious diseases, dysentery, etc.
The wheat and oat cereals, as well as the bread, contain protein, and a judicious use of these foods will enable the nurse to give her patient the necessary quantity to offset, in a measure, the anemia which is at times most troublesome.
In this way the anemia which so often results from prolonged attacks of whooping cough is in a measure held in check.
In tuberculosis a similar breaking down of the tissues occurs, as is likewise the case in anemia and other diseases in which the functions of the blood-making organs are interfered with.
Anemia and chlorosis (poor blood) should be treated by the administration of iron in some form.
It is to be noted, however, that Variot remarks that these infants frequently develop anemiaunless additional diet is given, so that it must be considered open to question whether some of these babies did not have latent scurvy.
This anemia is of the secondary type, but has definite peculiarities, and does not resemble that encountered in the course of tuberculosis, rickets or marasmus.
Sato and Nambu described an increase of connective tissue, and others anemia and pigmentation.
In some infants pallor and anemia may persist for months after apparent cure; however, this is the exception rather than the rule.
And those who did not die displayed in varying degree a type of anemia or consumption, and sometimes a decline of the mental faculties, which spoke ill for the salubriousness of the building.
A typical example was the so-called tropical anemia which existed in Porto Rico when the Americans took possession of the island.
Anemia develops as a consequence and there may be slight fever which is sometimes inanition fever.
This anemia adds to the tendency to a freer flow and as a consequence the menstrual period is lengthened in time and increased in amount.
Anemia generally seems to predispose to it, but the affection may occur among children who seem to be in excellent physical health, though usually a distinct nervous heredity is found.
Before long it was found that the real reason for the anemia of the Porto Ricans was the presence in their intestines in large numbers of the so-called hook-worm.
If the secondary anemia from this is not overcome during the interval profuse menstruations may succeed each other for many months.
Rocking seems to relax a certain tension of muscles that of itself prevents the brain anemia which is the physiological basis of sleep.
Why should we attempt to cure anemia with inorganic iron, hyperacidity of the stomach with baking soda, swollen glands with iodine, the itch with sulphur, ricket conditions in infants with lime water, etc.
It will take him, perhaps, months or years to die a gradual, miserable death through malassimilation and malnutrition, which usually end in some form of wasting disease, such as pernicious anemia or tuberculosis.
Rahtjen’s letter to the layman read: “Your inquiry relative to my isolation and classification of the Germ of Anemia received.
The reply constantly confuses the efficiency of cacodylate in anemia and in syphilis.
Gillen, in the treatment of infantile anemia on Randall’s Island in New York City.
Six cases of Pernicious Anemiawere observed under treatment.
Three hundred cases diagnosed as Anemia and Chlorosis were treated under observation.
In hematuria from anemia (watery blood), whether from insufficient or badly adjusted rations or from the poisonous products of fermentations in impervious or marshy soils, the treatment must be essentially tonic and stimulating.
Bleeding at the mouth or nose may be noticed, the membranes where the leech is attached are liable to be swollen and congested, and as a result of the loss of blood a condition of anemia may result.
The other organs do not appear to be affected except from the anemia present in the later stages of the disease.
Hookworms, when numerous, may cause anemia and other symptoms similar to those caused by stomach worms (see p.
Indicated in anemiaand convalescence from acute diseases and surgical operations.
In Anemia and Chlorosis, the blood cells lack oxygen, and in Neurasthenia the nerve cells are deficient.
Anemia in a girl of 23 working in a bookbindery: “I promptly decided to use Sanatogen.
It is also said to be “valuable in uterine reflex neuroses due to congestion; in amenorrhea due to anemia and chlorosis and suppressed menstruation.
In syphilis the mercury-content of Bannerman’s Solution is inadequate; in anemia the intravenous administration of iron is unwarranted, and in tuberculosis there is no evidence that the injection of bactericides is efficient.
Breitenbach Company circulated what pretended to be an abstract of the report of a government commission for the investigation of the anemia then prevalent in Porto Rico.
Physical symptoms include weakness, breathlessness, and heart palpitations, which may occur as the heart attempts to compensate for anemia by circulating blood faster than normal.
Inherited blood disorders such as sickle-cell anemia can also lead to anemia.
The main emotional symptom of anemia is depression.
Many persons whose circulation is none too strong may feel faint on suddenly rising, but in a person whose pulse is slow and the circulation weak the danger of causing anemia of the brain by the sudden erect posture is much increased.
In anemia when the patient is active the heart is generally rapid.
Such a heart must never beat slowly, as the longer the diastole prevails the more blood will regurgitate into the left ventricle, and death may occur from sudden anemia of the base of the brain.
There is more or less anemia of the brain, and therefore the legs and perhaps the lower part of the body should be elevated.
The attacks of syncope are doubtless due to anemia of the medulla, because of the infrequent ventricular contractions.
Sometimes convulsions may occur, epileptiform in character, due possibly to anemia or irritation of the brain.
This anemia of the medulla and of the brain may also cause an epileptic seizure, or a partial paralytic seizure without any apparent paralysis.
Therefore such hearts should not be slowed to less than eighty beats per minute, or sudden anemia of the brain and sudden death may occur.
Oxygen: to be inhaled in anemia from loss of blood or suppuration.
USES: Anemia or chlorosis, with hysteria or nervous exhaustion; epilepsy, chorea, etc.
Acids: for a tonic action on the mucous membranes in anemia of young women.
Acid, Gallic: in anemia due to a chronic mucous or other discharge.
Iron: to diminish anemia with a flabby tongue, give the per-salts.
Asafetida: along with aloes in anemiaand torpor of the intestines.
Those arising from anemia and poor nutrition are most frequently present in girls from ten to fifteen years of age.
The conditions which most frequently produce anemiain childhood are improper feeding and unhealthy surroundings.
Iron should be continued for a number of months after all traces of theanemia have disappeared.
Children suffering fromanemia are pale; girls with chlorosis have a peculiar greenish yellow tint in the skin.
It rapidly weakens the child and great debility and anemia follows.
The cough may be indirectly caused by anemia (poor blood) or heart or stomach trouble, or it may have a number of other causes.
It might be anemia of the brain, but she rather thought it would be general paralysis, because this would be so much the more disagreeable of the two.
Well--it seemed that it was not general paralysis this time, nor yet anemia of the brain; but he could tell her more about it in the morning.
She thought of several likely illnesses, beginning with general paralysis and ending with anemia of the brain.
But whether it is death by anemia or asthenia, the state of suspended animation, common to both these forms is expressed by the single term—syncope.
The contraction of the cells may be due to imperfect nutrition or perhaps anemia or some other action causing great emaciation of the body.
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