There are two main types of hair and scalp diseases: infectious and non-infectious. Infectious diseases are those that they can go contagiously from one man to another. The most common examples of them are: impetigo, head-lice, ringworm, scabies, warts and some more. Severity of these infections and their danger to surrounding people may differ greatly. Therefore, it is of primary importance to note the symptoms, define the cause and begin the proper treatment as soon as possible. For this purpose, let’s have a look at some common infectious diseases of the scalp and hair.

Impetigo is a highly infectious disease that is most common among children. The cause of it is bacteria that enters through cut or injured head-skin. Impetigo is characterized by large moist blisters that gradually dry and form a yellow crust. Scabies is an ectoparasite skin infection that is caused by a small animal mite that can burrow through the scalp and lay eggs there. It is characterized by itchy rash and reddish spots and burrows on the scalp.

Warts are little raised lumps, which are typically found on hands and feet, but can occur on the head-skin as well. The cause of this infection is a human papillomavirus (HPV), which is spread by direct contact with the infected person. Ringworm is also known as Tinea capitis. It is a highly infectious scalp disease that is characterized by pink patches that gradually develop into round areas with damaged hairs. The cause of this infection is the fungus that can be spread directly or indirectly through combs and brushes, clothes and towels.

Head-lice is very infectious disease caused by small wingless parasitic insects that spend their entire life on the scalp, lay eggs, reproduce and suck human blood. This infection is very common in children. Folliculitis is an infectious inflammation of hair follicles caused by bacteria that enter the scalp through scratching or by direct contact with the infected person. These are common infectious diseases and conditions of the scalp and hair. If you suspect that you may have one of these disorders, you must instantly seek medical advice from either a doctor or a trichologist.

Basically, heart disease is a disorder affecting the ability of the heart to function normally. There are various types of heart diseases such as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Mitral Stenosis, Holt-Orams Syndrome, heart attacks, Coronary Artery Disease, etc.

The symptoms for each of these diseases vary. Also, the symptoms for heart diseases in men and women vary. In the earlier days most studies and research were conducted on men. But now that new studies and research have been performed on women, new results have been found. Typical symptoms of heart diseases are pain in the left arm, heavy chest pressure along with sweating, dizziness and short breath. However, studies have observed that mostly men are known to complain from these symptoms. Women, on the other hand complain of different kinds of symptoms. They experience fatigue, sleepnessness, indigestion, short breath, anxiousness. Women mostly have heart attacks later in life than men. Also, women are less prone to heart attacks than men. This is mostly because women generally refrain from drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes. Also, women are more prone to silent heart attacks than men.

Some other symptoms experienced by women maybe weakness, vomiting, pain between the shoulder blades. Surprisingly, it has been noted that women do not experience chest pain at all during a heart attack. Instead, they experience totally different symptoms. And all these symptoms start occurring one month before the actual heart attack or heart trouble. It has been observed that women generally refrain from admitting that their cardiac trouble is severe. They generally refer to it as mild trouble. While men on the other hand refer to their heart trouble as very severe. This is not because the men are amplifying their illness, but because the women are trying to de-emphasize their problems. Women do so because they have the responsibility of the house on them so they try to act tough.

Even menopause has been related to heart diseases. In women, before menopause, estrogen maintains HDL cholesterol in the body. Estrogen also plays an effective role in relaxing the arterial muscles, maintaining blood pressure, etc. However post menopause, the cardio friendly effects of estrogen are gone and women are exposed more to the risk of heart disease. So in a woman’s midlife the risk of heart disease increases. The only solution to prevent these symptoms and further the heart disease is to exercise daily, eat heart healthy meals, lose weight if you are obese, quit smoking and drinking.

You should understand that heart disease is preventable by living a healthy lifestyle. So prevention is much better than cure.