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Haemorrhoids
Caused by varicose veins; bulges in the lower part of the rectum. Some will appear outside the opening of the rectum, others inside. Often seen in chronic constipation, pregnancy, and overweight. A frequent symptom is bloody faeces.
Hair problems - Hair loss
May be caused by age, nutritional deficiencies, fungal infection, medical drugs, poisoning, metabolic disorders, or hormonal disturbances, but may also be caused by an inherited hypersensitivity to the male sex hormone, dihydrotestosterone.
Halitosis
See "Bad breath".
Hay fever
Sensitivity reactions to the pollen of various plants. The reactions begin when the white blood cells release histamines, causing cold symptoms like: sneezing, itchy, or stinging in the eyes, and in more serious cases bouts of asthma.
Headache
Headache is aching of the skull. It is a symptom to which one should always try to find the cause. Look at headache as the red warning signal of the body, telling you about a problem somewhere in the organism.
Heart cramps
See "Angina pectoris".
Heartburn
Heartburn is caused by reflux of gastric juice into the oesophagus because of a defective function of the sphincter between the stomach and the oesophagus - sometimes with an accompanying hernia in the diaphragm and oesophagus.
Heavy metal poisoning
Heavy metals are all metals with a density larger than that of iron. In practice, it is the non-essential metals that are poisonous, e.g. aluminium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, and palladium. praksis
Hepatitis
Inflammation of the liver. Symptoms are: nausea, loathing of food, vomiting, headache, pain below the right rib, and pronounced fatigue. Can be caused by either a viral infection with the hepatitis virus or by intoxication and poisoning.
Herpes genitalis
Also called Herpes simplex type II. A viral infection often transmitted by sexual contact. May also be transmitted from mother to child during delivery.
Herpes simplex
Contagious viral infection of chronic character. More than 70 different types are known. Among all these, 5 are of special importance. Virus hibernates in the nervous system. The immune system plays an important role. Outbreaks must be avoided.
HIV infection and AIDS
The HIV virus weakens the immune system. Infection takes place via bodily fluids - mostly through sexual contact. AIDS develops as the immune system is progressively weakened by the HIV infection giving way to serious infections and disease.
Homocysteinuria - Homocystinuria
Characterized by high concentrations of Homocysteine in the blood and urine. Homocysteine is a poisonous breakdown product of the amino acid methionine. Homocysteine attacks the nervous system, circulation, and bones, and may cause numerous diseases.
Hookworm
See "Parasite infection".
Hormonal disturbances
Too large or too small amounts of hormones can cause damage to our body. Hormonal disturbances are involved in diabetes and several other metabolic diseases, osteoporosis, and hormonal disturbances during menopause.
Horton's headache
Periodically and recurrent headache in one side of the head in the eye-region occuring during the night. Both the eye and the nasal mucosa are runny and blushing and swelling occurs. The suffering can be elicited by the allergy substance histamine.
Hot flushes
Sudden hot flushes with bouts of perspiration, blushing, and a pronounced feeling of warmth. In females these are often caused by hormonal imbalances at menopause.
Hypersensitivity
Generic term for different allergic symptoms, and non-allergic symptoms where the body reacts against usually harmless substances in the surroundings. Also see e.g. "Allergy", "Food allergy", "Food intolerance", "Hay fever", "MCS", and "Nettle rash".
Hyperthyroidism
Leads to increased metabolism with severe symptoms such as rapid pulse, restlessness, weight loss, increased perspiration and sensitivity to heat, tiredness, muscle pains, diarrhoea, and menstrual problems.
Hypoglycaemia
See "Low blood sugar".
Hypothyroidism
Leads to decreased metabolism with severe symptoms such as overweight, tiredness, drowsiness, sensitiveness to cold, depression, dry skin, menstrual problems, headache, and increased risk of infection. Moreover the bones' calcium uptake can be affected.