Rainy and cold autumn, complaining of depression or that have "blown", we do not even suspect that ascribe to themselves the symptoms of other real, if not non-existent diseases. Most popular imaginary ailments in our survey.The main supplier of imaginary diseases - popular rumor. Eradicate the myths and convince the public that they are healthy and do not suffer from that disease, which itself came up with, it is very difficult.
"Blew through"
"Blew through" - we're talking about the nagging pain in the back or neck, angrily recalling the time has not closed the window, beneath which sat for an hour or two. Neuroscientists the existence of a cause-and-effect relationship is not denied, but the accents are arranged differently. "Hypothermia - the only one of the factors of pain - explains the Head of Department and Director of the Clinic of Nervous Diseases of the First MGMU them. IM Sechenov, d m n., Professor Vladimir Parfenov - and by no means decisive.
Most often, the pain is due to microtrauma to muscles, ligaments and intervertebral joints, as they emerge from a long stay in the uncomfortable position of involuntary, sudden movements and unprepared. " Simply put, if you were sitting at the window and you are "blown" back then, not because the window, but because they were sitting properly.
Rheumatism
Another example of how the word is beside the point. It is associated mainly with the gnarled back because of which neither stand nor sit, nor dig up potatoes. In this case, the real rheumatism nothing to do with his back has not. As explained by a cardiologist Perm Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery Olga Okulov true rheumatism - an inflammatory disease that affects the first layer of the heart. Since the immune system responds to infection by microorganisms from the group streptococci. Rheumatic fever is a disease of young, it is transferred between the ages of 7-15 years. Older people they do not get sick. Heart with his back messed up for the same reason as with atherosclerosis sclerosis. Rheumatic fever - only one representative of a family of diseases that are accompanied by inflammation and lesions of connective tissue. Prior to the beginning of the XX century is not related to joints of back pain is often called muscular rheumatism, believing that there is a place inflammatory response. Later refuted the theory, but the word is not a sparrow, and flies among patients so far.
Delirium tremens
There are two versions of why alcoholic psychosis called "delirium tremens." The first is connected with the old name of bread wine - white. A second hypothesis, this condition is accompanied by fever, that is, an increase in body temperature to 39 degrees and above. Fever and is in infectious diseases, but in these cases, the person turns red, and when the decay products of alcohol poisoning is not so white.
She dearly beloved writers anecdotes "squirrel". If you believe the rumor, this condition occurs somewhere in the second week of the regular use of intoxicating beverages. Alas, all the jokes about the Green Line-drinkers can be considered unfunny. Because psychosis is manifested not in the abuse of alcohol, and in a day or two after the "strings".
"Alcohol causes the body to decrease the level of a hormone that regulates water excretion by the kidneys [it is called antidiuretic hormone, or ADH] - tells the therapist Petersburg City Psychiatric Hospital № 3 them. II Skvortsov-Stepanov Ilya Nikitin. - I think that the diuretic effect of drinking is known to all. So, if you hold the ADH at a low level for a long time, then after the binge comes compensation - hormone levels rise sharply. The kidneys will retain water, and with it - all of the decay products of ethanol. Trying to get out of this state is called "hair of the dog." But after a long binge sober will not help, and will manifest symptoms of severe poisoning. "
Sclerosis
Bychno sclerosis is responsible for no one knows where the missing keys and not wanting to come back the name "of the actor." But in reality there is no such illness.
There are about a dozen cognate diagnoses, and all of them involve the proliferation of connective tissue. For example, in the walls of blood vessels in atherosclerosis. "Reducing the memory itself is not a disease but a symptom - says Ilya Nikitin. - In general, cerebral atherosclerosis may contribute to this process. Typically, this occurs in old age. But here, his relationship with the vernacular "Alzheimer's disease" and ends with ".
Without cause and effect
Often, even non-existent diagnoses fall in popular publications, advertising, and even in the vocabulary of physicians.
Cellulitis
Guru disguise of "nebolezney." The ending-itis means inflammation (remember the gastritis or conjunctivitis), but thinking about the "orange peel", hardly anyone is thinking just that. True cellulitis - an inflammation of the subcutaneous adipose tissue, and cause it to germs. It looks much worse than the bumps and pimples, and fight it out surgery and antibiotics. And expensive anti-cellulite treatments and creams in beauty salons "treat" distortion of the structure of adipose tissue in women.
Osteochondrosis
A rare disease in which there is necrosis of the bone. But in the post-doctors famously put this diagnosis almost everyone who has a change in the intervertebral discs. The main cause of degenerative disc disease is called walking upright. According to Vladimir Parfenov, the evolution of these victims are not required.
"The majority of people over age 40 have a so-called low back pain, including herniated discs. But they did not even know it. Just because they did not hurt. But the diagnosis sounds ominous. And that's often made a lot of money. For example, to say exactly what a hernia is, we need to do imaging. And it's expensive. Not to mention the bill for treatment that also includes methods of unproven effectiveness of massage, electrotherapy, spinal traction. In most cases the pain in the back - it is the muscles and ligaments. "
Lost in Translation
Depression, vitamin deficiency, migraine - surely everyone found at the symptoms of this "disease". And they do exist, but their original symptoms are different from our ideas, and even more difficult to recover.
Migraine
What we have in mind: the annoying headache.
In fact: regular (once a month or more often) and very excruciating pain, often hereditary. Migraine nausea and svetoboyazn.Mogut show and neurological disorders: changes in vision, numbness of an arm or leg - in this case we speak of migraine with aura.
Depression
What we have in mind: sadness, grief, melancholy.
In fact, depression - a disease largely physical. At its core - the metabolism of the hormone serotonin. It determines the synthesis of other hormones, and hence mood immunity sensitivity to pain. Pain and is considered the main manifestation of the disease. The eternal cold and waist, which whines third year - a reason to suspect depression.
Beriberi
What we have in mind: the sound of malaise Spring drops associated with the lack of vitamins in the diet.
In fact: tooth loss in scurvy, pellagra madness when, bending limbs with rickets. The complete absence of any vitamin in the body. Polar storm XIX century and the poorest people in Africa.
Vasoneurosis
Sister of degenerative disc disease. She also explained that fell: from tingling in the chest to panic attacks. And again: The term IRR is only in the Russian practice. If you translate the name into plain Russian, you get something like "you have something with the nerves and therefore something with the vessels." On the disease does not pull, and an exhibition, when nothing else is found.
"Nowhere in the world such a diagnosis is not put. Own view on which it is based out of date 30 years ago - said Vladimir Parfenov. - The fact that the IRR is still "diagnosed" in Russian clinics, says only that the doctor just poorly versed in the patient's condition. But the worst thing that this "disease" hides the real problem, as it always is. It may be disturbing, depressive disorder or first signs of neurological disease. "
Yet Jerome K. Jerome noticed that if desired, can be found at the symptoms of all that is in a medical book. Citizens are beginning to treat phantom limb disease, but a real disease progresses in the meantime. So do not harm yourself, and see your doctor.
