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Confusion is the inability to think clearly. In this altered mental state, a person may feel disoriented, think more slowly than usual, and have difficulty paying attention, remembering, and making decisions

About cardiogenic shock: in medicine, 'shock' refers to a syndrome, i.e. a set of symptoms and signs, caused by reduced systemic perfusion with an imbalance between oxygen availability and oxygen demand at the tissue level

Nausea is the feeling of having to vomit. Pregnancy, vertigo, motion sickness, digestive infections (such as food poisoning), reactions to medication, and alcohol are the most common causes of nausea, but there are others

Skin-whitening' spots that enlarge little by little. Vitiligo is a disease that affects the epidermis. It is not contagious but can lead to a heavy psychological burden to live with due to the blemish

The presence of blood in stools gives them a very dark colour, tending to black. This is blood coming from the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract, i.e. from the oesophagus, stomach and small intestine. If the blood came from the lower…

Traveller's diarrhoea is a frequent disorder when travelling abroad, especially when reaching destinations with lower hygiene standards than in the country of origin

Lyme disease (or borreliosis, Lyme disease) is on the list of rare diseases and in recent years there has been an upward trend in cases

Meconium-stained amniotic fluid is often caused by fetal hypoxia or other physiologic stress

Concussion consists of a generally temporary and reversible alteration of brain functions caused by brain trauma

Kussmaul's Breath (or big breath) is a type of pathological breathing characterised by very slow breathing acts, and in particular by a deep and noisy inhalation, followed by a short inspiratory apnoea, then a short and moaning exhalation,…