In most cases, hearing a thumping sound in your ear that’s in rhythm with your heartbeat during exercise is benign. However, there are serious causes that need to be ruled out. “The carotid artery and [...]
Do you smell the stink of dirty feet but there’s no dirty feet or socks around? Why does it seem that everything smells like dirty socks or feet? […]
The twist on this is the accompanying burning throat that comes with waking up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe. Usually when someone awakens gasping for breath, that’s their only symptom. [...]
Do you smell something minty nearly every time you inhale, as though it’s coming from INSIDE your nose? And you haven’t even eaten anything minty, either! If you smell something minty coming from inside your [...]
Any brain tumor is bad news, but there are the deadliest and then there are “good” ones – from a relative standpoint, of course. If you could choose a particular brain tumor to have, there [...]
Tinnitus can be caused by loud noise, but sometimes the continuous ringing in the ears occurs years after the loud sound. […]
“Hearing aids should not be causing one’s tinnitus to worsen and if they do, a visit to the audiologist is necessary,” says Rivka Strom, AuD, CCC-A, chief audiologist at Central Hearing LLC in NY. “The [...]
Can all those loud “Kiiii-aiiii!”s actually harm the hearing of students in martial arts classes? A male adult’s booming voice can be quite loud, while the children – especially eager novices – are capable of [...]
What are the likely causes of tinnitus suddenly affecting one ear when you have not been exposed to loud noise like a concert or auto racing event? […]
Isn’t it wonderful when your tinnitus magically goes away overnight? Unfortunately, it comes back to rattle you all throughout your waking moments. […]
“In general, throat clearing is a non-specific a symptom of many things,” says Dr. Bande Virgil, MD, a board certified pediatrician, professor of clinical pediatrics, and Amazon Best Selling Contributing Author of “The Chronicles of [...]
Why shouldn’t an infant be scratching his or her head? After all, adults and kids do it all the time: There are many reasons an infant and any other age person will sometimes scratch their [...]
How is it that every time you do pushups, BOTH wrists end up hurting, yet you have no problem doing other pushing routines at the gym? Though carpal tunnel syndrome can cause a pain in [...]
Can you bench press without a problem, but when it comes to pushups, you always get pain in only one wrist? And it’s enough pain to screw up the set. “Pain in one wrist during [...]
Aside from bare feet getting sweaty and stinky, is there any harm in letting children run around without any shoes? […]
Can the nose of your baby actually detect odors and scents with far more superiority than an adult’s nose? And if so, can you imagine how awful certain things would smell to the nose with [...]
Do you know what to do if you happen to discover a goose egg on your toddler’s head, but you have no idea how it got there? Obviously, the toddler somehow got hit in the [...]
It’s one thing when your entire hand feels chilly cold, but what if only one finger feels cold? This is a very oddball symptom, but it has explanations. […]
Restless leg syndrome can occur in only one leg, and there are a few risk factors that can make this happen. […]
If your lungs are truly itching, how can you tell it’s your lungs and not something else under your skin like your ribs or muscles? […]
Does your baby experience pain in the stomach after he or she has been breastfed? “Belly pain after breastfeeding is extremely common,” says Joel Gator Warsh, MD, of Integrative Pediatrics and Medicine, Studio City, CA, [...]
Have you noticed that your baby sweats a lot? How can a baby sweat when they don't engage in any exercise, and the temperature in the room is normal? What's even more puzzling is that [...]
If there’s green gunk or mucus coming out of your baby’s ear, there’s no reason to panic (if it was blood, yes, ER time), but a ruptured eardrum is one possible cause. There is no [...]
Some babies are fat and tubby while others are skinny and scrawny. And many fall in between somewhere. What makes one baby fat and the next one thin? Is it as simple as some babies [...]
Looking for a great sport for your tall son OR daughter other than basketball? There are very tall children out there who don’t like their height. Some hate it, especially girls, since it’s more unusual [...]
Green, brown and even yellow are okay for baby’s poops, but grey – even if the stools are only part grey and part green, means big trouble. […]
Phooooey, want to know why your child smells like poop even though he or she wipes themselves clean? […]
If only one eye gets cloudy after running or other exercise, especially if you get hot, you need to see a doctor. […]
The good news is that the most likely cause is NOT worms, even though these CAN make your eye feel like something’s in it. […]
Do you hate laughing around people because it always makes your eyes water? “I laughed so hard that tears rolled down my cheeks” is a common statement, but for some people, even a little laughing [...]
A constant headache plus ongoing pressure behind an eye would be an emergency situation under certain circumstances, while under others would be less serious. […]
A brain tumor can cause one pupil to be bigger or more dilated than the other. But so can less serious conditions including totally benign. […]
Something is definitely wrong if food feels like pieces of glass when you swallow. Unless you’re swallowing pistachio shells, there is no normal reason for any food – even ground-up hard candy – to feel [...]
A GI doctor has some very surprising news for sufferers of IBS who keep getting wakened overnight by cramps and diarrhea. If you’ve been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, you already know what this does [...]
It’s one frightening experience: You wipe yourself after pooping, glance at the toilet paper and see red or pink smeared in with the poop stain. Your heart races; your breathing stops; your eyes don’t blink [...]
Don’t you just hate it when you’re looking forward to a delicious meal and you realize you can’t taste or smell due to your cold? And no matter how hard you blow your nose [...]
Have you opened your mouth lately to discover, to your alarm, a yellow orange color to your tongue? Could GERD be the cause? After all, you haven’t been sucking on any lemon or orange popsicles [...]
Many things, including a brain tumor and sinus cancer, can cause ear pain. And believe it or not, GERD can block a Eustachian tube. What exactly is the Eustachian tube? It’s a canal-like structure that [...]
The symptom pair of constant loud stomach noises with severe cramping can be caused by one of multiple different diseases, including a very serious one. The thing about loud or noisy stomach sounds is that [...]
As your poops plunge into the toilet water, you notice something odd: Bubbles form and rise to the surface and then pop. Can this mean a disease? Or is it more of a mechanical issue [...]
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