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Nail problems
The nails can be thin, thickened, broken, frayed, fragile, deformed, discoloured, bended, ingrowing, and loose. Onychomycosis, inflammation, psoriasis, and growth disturbances can be caused by various nutrient deficiencies.
Nausea - Sickness
Indisposition and loathing of food that may cause vomiting. Occurs in relation to infection, pregnancy, motion sickness (car- and seasickness), or when consuming a very fatty diet. Ginger has a very good effect on nausea.
Nervousness
Bears resemblance to stress and anxiety. May be chronic or transitory. Can be caused by exterior influences or internal ones with no explainable outer cause. Symptoms can be agitation, nail-biting, restlessness, muscle tension, palpitation, and dyspnoa.
Nettle rash
Skin rash with itching ulcerations as after having been into contact with nettles. In angioneurotic oedema, liquid seeps out of the veins and pools in body tissues. Involves wrongly encoded reactions of the immune system.
Neuralgia
Neural pain in a demarcated area of the body. The causes may be various inflammations, squeezing of a nerve, a slipped disc, muscular infiltrations, or viral infections. The treatment should be focused on the origin of the pain.
Nickel allergy
An allergic dermatitis following from direct contact with nickelous metals; e.g. kitchen utensils, zippers, trinkets, bracelets, and earrings. The symptoms usually appear 1 - 3 days after having been in contact with the metal.
Night blindness
See "Visual problems".
Nosebleed
Caused by damage to veins in the nasal cavity. The most common causes are local infections, common cold, nose picking, and other injuries. More rare causes are blood- and liver diseases, high blood pressure, and atherosclerosis.
Nursing & breastfeeding, Problems with
Children get the best start in life by drinking breast milk for at least the first six months. Therefore, it is important to address problems with breast feeding which may arise in this period.
Nystagmus
Rapid, wandering, involuntary movements of the eyes. Nystagmus is seen in certain eye diseases and in multiple sclerosis. May also be provoked by high activity in certain centres of the brain, especially the cerebellum, or be a result of brain damage.