Word: diarrheas
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...Northeastern health center confirmed over 100 cases of the infection among students and another 30 among cafeteria workers. The illness, discovered during freshman orientation week, sent 11 students to the infirmary for several days to recover from severe dehydration, diarrhea, and vomiting, Dr. Job E. Fuchs, director of the health center, said yesterday...
There are also reminders of the first encounters with that grisly ailment of the atomic age, so puzzling to its initial victims, known as radiation sickness. Among the early signs: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever and diarrhea. By the second week, hair began to fall out, the gums became painfully swollen, the white-blood-cell count fell sharply. Severe exposure usually meant death. Lethal rays did not always come directly from the blasts. The explosions produced some 200 different isotopes, most of them radioactive, with varying half-lives. Days after the bombs fell, survivors were exposed...
There are signs, however, of a shift in attitude. It stems in part from studies showing that the gripping pelvic cramps as well as the headaches, backache, nausea and diarrhea suffered by many women during their monthly flow may be caused by prostaglandins. These potent chemicals, produced by the body, help regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts...
...couple of weeks before it closed, the Realp ran an interview with feminist Andrea Dworkin, something on land reform in El Salvador, Zippy the Pinhead comics, part of a continuing series called "The Fashion Police" which found illdressed people, a short medical note on diarrhea, and a big spread on "Altered States" which dealt with mostly legal ways, like sitting in saltwater tanks, of altering perception...
...Repeated flare-ups can totally block the intestine. Fistulas or abnormal passages may develop in the inflamed bowel and lead into adjacent organs. In some instances the disease also causes arthritis, skin lesions, an inflammation of the eye or, rarely, a disruption in liver functioning. Sufferers experience abdominal cramps, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, fever, lack of appetite, weight loss and vomiting...