Question 1

home remedies for sore throat. it hurts everytime a swallow. i've tried salt water, lister one, ect. but never helps.

Accepted Answer

Home remedies: You can gargle w aloe vera juice a couple of times per day. A mix of chamomile tea w honey ; a small amt of lemon juice helps. For significantly sore throat w swollen tonsils / lymph nodes – see physician ; get a strep throat test ; culture. Antibiotics are imperative for strep throat.

Question 2

list any 5 acquired diseases
list any 5 hereditary disease?

Accepted Answer

See below: Acquired:
tuberculosis
malaria
gonorrhea
hiv
flu

hereditary:
cystic fibrosis
neurofibromatosis
hemochromatosis
huntington's
ehlers danlos.

Question 3

is it true that chromes disease is hereditary?

Accepted Answer

To a minor degree: Most cases of chrohn's disease are sporadic.  There is a small tendency for it to run more commonly in families but identical  twins for instance do not both  always have the condition so there is probably an inheritance component lowering the susceptibilility but not being causative.

Question 4

is conduct disorder hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Conduct disorder is not a condition so much as a description of a cluster of symptoms of inappropriate behaviors occurring in other conditions. People with bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depression and ad/hd have a high incidence of conduct problems. The primary conditions are all heritable. Treatment of the primary problem usually helps the conduct problem.

Question 5

is lou gehrig's disease hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Some are: Research shows that about 5% of cases are hereditary.

Question 6

is hirschsprung's disease hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Some familial cases: Disease can be familial or develop spontaneously. It is more common in boys than girlls.Approximately 3-5 % of male siblings and 1 percent of female siblings of children with short-segment disease also have the disease.Risk substantially higher (12.4-33%) in siblings of children with total colonic involvement.Eight genomes have been associated with Hirschsprung’s disease.Most cases not familial.

Question 7

is it true that beurgers disease is hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Buerger's Disease: According to Mayo Clinic " It's possible that some people may have a genetic predisposition to the disease." http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/buergers-disease/basics/causes/con-20029501

Question 8

is lipedema a hereditary or an idiopathic disorder?

Accepted Answer

: It is mostly a hereditary disorder

Question 9

is there a hereditary component to fothergills disease?

Accepted Answer

Trigeminal neuralgia: There is no hereditary component for trigeminal neuralgia. No geographic tendency or racial differences have been found for trigeminal neuralgia. However, females are affected up to twice as often as males (range, 3:2 to 2:1). In addition, in 90% of patients, the disease begins after age 40 years, with a typical onset of 60-70 years (middle and later life).

Question 10

is grave's disease hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Sometimes.: People with relatives with thyroid problems are at higher risk to have thyroid problems themselves.  But their problem may not be the same one their relative has.  Auto-immunity (where the immune system attacks a person's own proteins) runs in families & causes most thyroid problems, including an enlarged thyroid (goiter), overactive thyroid (graves' disease), or underactive thyroid (hashimoto's).

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