Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
Haemorrhoids: Everyone has them, but they can become problematic
Haemorrhoids: Everyone has them, but they can become problematic
YOU FIND PAUL over by the laxatives, and he asks you what you would recommend for piles, which he says have been bothering him for the past four months, since he started a new job that involves heavy lifting. He’s pretty confident they are haemorrhoids because he can see and feel them and had them a few years ago. He says he doesn’t have time to go to the doctor at the moment.
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