Anemia occurs when a person’s red blood cell count falls under normal numbers. Red blood cells in the body are responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs so when these numbers start to fall, an anemic person may start to feel tired and lethargic due to a lack of oxygen.

There are many causes of anemia and for a doctor or physician to treat it, the cause has to be known. Some of the most common causes of the condition include iron deficiency, blood loss, disease, poor diet and reaction to certain medications or medical procedures.

If someone contracts anemia, they could have it in either mild or severe form, as well as having a temporary or chronic anemic condition. In the very serious cases it can create such oxygen deficiency in the body’s organs that it can lead to heart attacks and death. Symptoms of the condition could initially be unnoticeable but obviously increase as the condition gets worse. Some of these symptoms include dizziness, confusion, fatigue, tiredness, headaches and paleness.

Of all the types of anemia around, the most common are the result of iron deficiency. Therefore, the people most at risk are women that suffer from heavy periods, women that are pregnant and people that suffer from internal bleeding due to a variety of conditions.

Symptoms of Anemia

Anemia can be treated, depending on the initial cause. These treatments could be something as simple as dietary changes and exercise or at the other end of the scale, injections or blood transfusions.

People with personality disorders may have conditions such as not being able to live with others, not being able to maintain relationships with other people, finding it difficult to control emotions or upsetting other people when distressed.

Causes of personality disorders can include genetic makeup, mental or emotional state or brain problems. There are three types of personality disorder: suspicious, emotional and impulsive, and anxious.

Suspicious personality disorders are where the sufferer is often paranoid of other people, and finds it difficult to interact with others, preferring their own company instead.  The person with a suspicious personality disorder is often seen by others as strange or peculiar.

Emotional and impulsive personality disorders are where the sufferer is indifferent to other people’s feelings and can be quite aggressive.  They often find it difficult to control emotions and will do this spontaneously without thinking about the consequences.  Sufferers will also self harm if they feel really bad about themselves.

Anxious personality disorders are where the sufferer worries about everything.  They are very indecisive and worry constantly about doing the wrong thing.  Anxious sufferers are overly sensitive to criticism and can often feel worthless or incompetent.

There are therapies which can help such as psychotherapy or cognitive behavioral therapy.  There is also medication available to help with the different groups of personality disorders.  Antipsychotic drugs can help those in the suspicious group while antidepressants can help to relieve the symptoms of those in the emotional group.  There are also some antidepressants which have been shown to help those in the anxious group such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).

Personality Disorders

Hay fever can be described as an allergy caused by pollen. Pollen is the very fine powdery substance created by plants for the use in pollination, or fertilization. In its most common guise, hay fever is the allergy caused by grass or hay pollens and usually occurs from late spring until early summer.

Usual symptoms of the condition include a runny nose, sneezing, and streaming, itchy eyes. The symptoms are caused due to the body’s immune system reacting to the pollen. Cells which line the nose and eyes tend to release chemicals such as histamines when they come into contact with the pollen, and this causes the inflammation in the eyes and nose which produce the symptoms.

Hay Fever

Hay fever is a very common allergy and affects almost two in every ten people in western society. It usually develops in children of school age and teenage years and the symptoms reappear year after year. Eventually, the symptoms start to decrease over the course of many years, until the condition either disappears totally, or improves vastly. The condition usually runs in families and an individual is more likely to develop asthma or eczema if they already suffer from hay fever.

Although it’s impossible to avoid pollen totally, symptoms are less severe if exposure is reduced. Nowadays pollen counts are freely available for all regions via TV, radio and the internet. Sufferers of the condition are normally treated with antihistamine tablets, antihistamine nose sprays, steroidal nose sprays and eye drops.