What is insulin allergy and resistance? Insulin is a natural hormone produced in the pancreas in our body. This hormone is essential for the maintenance of blood glucose levels in our body. Insulin helps the different cells and tissues in our body to utilize glucose for energy production. Diabetes is a chronic disorder that is characterized by a deficiency of insulin in our body. This necessitates the administration of synthetic insulin to hel ...

Toddlers often have imaginary friends. They like to tell stories about them. Having imaginary friends is not a problem at all as long as it does not interfere with the normal life of the toddlers. Having imaginary friends is very common between 2 and 3 years of age. Two thirds of the toddlers have imaginary friends. They usually disappear within 6 months whether or not the caretakers encourage the children of having them. Normal social deve ...

The use of scans and imaging in the field of medicine is done to create images of the human body in order to diagnose, reveal or examine a disease.  The field of biological imaging incorporates medical photography, radiology (X-rays), nuclear medicine, investigative radiological sciences, endoscopy, thermography and microscopy.  Other measurement and recording techniques also incorporated in the field include; magnetoencephalography (ME ...

What is anticonvulsant drug allergy? Anticonvulsant drug allergy can be explained as any hypersensitivity reaction(s) that occur in patients who are treated for epilepsy. Some of the widely prescribed anticonvulsants are: carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproic acid, gabapentin phenobarbitone etc. Commonly observed hypersensitivity reactions are dizziness, sleeplessness (insomnia), headache, slurred speech, nausea, fever, rashes, skin reactions ...

How is eye color determined? The eye color in humans is controlled by the amount and type of pigment that is deposited in the iris. Eyes of all color except the reddish or pinkish eye of people with albinism contain a dark-brown pigment in the iris epithelium that is called eumelanin. It is produced by the melanocytes in the iris and is the same substance that darkens our skin when it is exposed to sunlight. The red eye color in people with al ...