What are the common diseases?

In daily life, some common and prone diseases may occur due to environmental reasons, climatic reasons, personal diet reasons, etc. This is mainly because viruses or bacteria invade the human body, causing these common diseases. Next, for the sake of everyone’s health, health experts have listed several of the most common daily diseases to help everyone identify diseases and recommend that everyone prevent these diseases from occurring.

Colds and diarrhea are the most common diseases. If these diseases strike us, it will be really painful. Symptoms such as dizziness and vomiting will appear, making the patients suffer a lot. So besides these, what other common diseases are there? Next, everyone should learn more about common diseases, not only to prevent them, but also to treat them early when they occur, so as not to delay the best time for treatment.

Common disease type 1: cold

The common cold, commonly known as "cold", is a common respiratory disease caused by a variety of viruses, of which 30%-50% are caused by a certain serotype of rhinovirus. Although the common cold is more common in early winter, it can occur in any season, such as spring and summer, and the pathogenic viruses of colds in different seasons are not exactly the same. Cold cases are sporadic, do not cause epidemics, and are often complicated by bacterial infections. The common cold has an acute onset. Early symptoms include dry, itchy or burning throat, sneezing, nasal congestion, and runny nose. The runny nose starts out as clear water and becomes thicker after 2 to 3 days. It may be accompanied by sore throat. There is generally no fever or systemic symptoms, or only a low-grade fever and headache. It usually takes 5 to 7 days to recover.

Common disease type 2: abdominal pain

Abdominal pain refers to lesions of organs inside and outside the abdominal cavity caused by various reasons, which manifests as abdominal pain. Abdominal pain can be divided into acute and chronic types. The causes are extremely complex, including inflammation, tumors, hemorrhage, obstruction, perforation, trauma and functional disorders. Therefore, comprehensive considerations should be taken into account during diagnosis, and the medical history and various examination results should be analyzed in detail.

Common disease type 3: diarrhea

Diarrhea is a common intestinal disease that can cause malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, anemia, and reduce the body's resistance. When diarrhea occurs, the body not only loses a large amount of water and nutrients, but also loses a large amount of electrolytes, such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. If the loss exceeds a certain limit, electrolyte imbalance and possible acid-base poisoning will occur.

Common disease type 4: gastritis

Gastritis refers to inflammation of the gastric mucosa caused by any cause and can generally be divided into acute gastritis and chronic gastritis. Acute gastritis develops suddenly. In mild cases, there are only loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. In severe cases, there may be vomiting of blood, melena, dehydration, electrolyte and acid-base imbalance, and those with bacterial infection are often accompanied by symptoms of systemic poisoning. Chronic gastritis generally only causes indigestion symptoms such as fullness after meals, heartburn, belching, and irregular abdominal pain.

The emergence of common diseases not only brings pain to everyone's body, but sometimes also infects other people, having more or less impact on everyone's physical health and life. The above are some common types of diseases introduced to you, which are to help you know what disease you have and how to treat it when these symptoms appear.