15 silent and silenced diseases that must be recognized

A disease can be defined as silent when starts and evolves without the person realizing it (or want to realize), because does not cause symptoms.

However, we will see that in many cases they are not as silent as they seem and that often offer symptoms we simply don’t want to acknowledge, which are like screams that we silence and do not deign to listen to. Seeing beyond those “misleading operations” of the most common silent diseases is the objective of the early diagnostic.

Health reviews in the workplace, blood tests or control examinations are used to detect these diseases or their possible development in the future, so that they can be prevented or begin to treat while there is still time.

Silent diseases include “muted” or “hidden” callswho do have symptoms but few people would publicly admit to having them because are considered shameful. Among them are those of sexual transmissionsuch as AIDS or syphilis, but also others such as tuberculosis, fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Until very recently, cancer was a silent diseasesince the word itself was taboo: people were said to die of “a long illness”.

And what about those suffering that we do not hear, to which we ignore, for repetitive and apparently obvious? In this section you will find many mental disorderswhich try to cover up by considering them of less importance, although in the long run they can evolve until they suppose a major health problem.

Hypertension

Mild hypertension does not usually cause any discomfort. Sometimes the opposite occurs, it seems that it even helps to maintain the body’s tone. The most common hypertension is the so-called essentialwhich means that it is not known where it comes from and that possibly linked to genes.

However, some circumstances do favor the appearance and the development of hypertension, many of which are common to cardiovascular diseases. The diet constitutes a key factor and the consumption of meat, exciting like coffee and alcohol, and salt invariably raise blood pressure. But other aspects of life habits are also important.

atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is the formation of atheromatous plaques in the blood vessels, mainly in the arteries. atheromatous plaques are fat depositswith a matrix of proteins, which accumulate in the lumen of the vessel and reduce its caliber.

When located in the coronary arteries, prevent or reduce blood flow to the heart and give rise to episodes such as angina pectoris or the myocardial infarction. If they are located in the cerebral arteries, they increase the memory deficiencies and cause an increased risk of stroke.

The term “sclerosis” means stiffness or hardening, and is the second consequence of this process. Increasing the elasticity of the arteries implies changes in life habits, since a diet low in fat and protein, and more exercise. On the other hand, foods with antioxidant action can play a salutary role.

The control of atherosclerosis necessarily involves the control of the risk factors that cause it, such as excess cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, or uric acid.

Cancer

Many will think that cancer is the silent disease par excellencenot only because of the absence of previous symptoms but also because of the severity that its diagnosis sometimes entails.

The real prevention of cancer lies in dietary and lifestyle habits and has to take place long before any early diagnosis can be made. On the other hand, the cancer screening tests on few occasions they are really effective if they are carried out on the entire population.

Breast and prostate cancer have specific screening tests, but even these have been disputed.

In it prostate cancer the test called PSA may not attract attention to a large group of people at risk for it, even though it is a cancer slow to evolve, discreetly insidious and in the latest clinical studies it is not at all clear that a removal of the prostate actually improves the survival of patients.

As regards the breast cancerit is proposed to carry out periodic mammogramsalthough the excess of mammograms performed in recent decades has made gynecologists and oncologists reconsider the negative health impact that has to irradiate the entire female population, in addition to inducing breast cancer itself.

Osteoporosis

The bone decalcification It is a very frequent problem that is usually experienced by the postmenopausal womanalthough it is a process that is forged from youth and that is usually triggered then favored by hormonal changes.

Osteoporosis is truly silent and sometimes its first symptom is a fracture of a hip or a vertebra, which given the loss of bone mass is already hard to repair.

Osteoporosis is diagnosed using a test called bone mineral densitometry (BMD). A few years ago many densitometries were carried out; today less, since they serve as diagnosis but not so much to assess the evolution of the illness. To a person who in a BMD shows a notable osteoporosis, I might have it for the rest of my life.

Osteoporosis is a condition lattached to the person and their habitsand it does not depend so much on the amount of calcium that is consumed as on sunbathe (to be able to assimilate it) and exercisetwo of the first measures to be taken to prevent it.

Dietary prevention of osteoporosis advises consuming foods rich in calcium and magnesium (cereals, legumes, nuts, sesame, low-fat dairy) and a diet poor in protein and fatty foodssince they decalcify and inhibit the assimilation of calcium.

Diabetes

The diabetes symptoms may be sparse at first but numerous and chronic when the disease progresses.

The moderate alterations in sugar levels in the blood they do not offer symptoms either, although the symptomatic triad that must be taken into account is: polydipsia (very thirsty), polyphagia (great appetite) and polyuria (great desire to urinate), which usually mark the symptomatic onset of disease.

Regular control of diabetes is vital for cardiovascular health of the future since blood glucose exerts a true corrosive effect on blood vessels and many tissues in the body.

Hepatitis and other liver diseases

The liver is the great organic toxic waste scrubber, which can accumulate due to bad habits (inadequate diet, drug abuse, alcohol…) or due to internal dysfunction. However, the liver no symptoms until sufficiently affectedwhen sometimes it is too late to act.

Mild liver disorders are easily diagnosed with a routine blood testthanks to the determination of the transaminases. Transient elevation of transaminases occurs frequently in people who overindulge in eating or drinking alcohol on the weekends.

Within liver pathologies hepatitis deserves special attentionsince it causes the seropositivity to hepatitis, which will last a lifetime, and the possible liver damagewhich can be initial due to suffering from the acute disease, or evolve over the years.

Hepatitis can be addressed with numerous and varied treatmentssome of them of natural origin, but what it demands above all is a analytical or ultrasound control regularly to assess how the disease is progressing.

As in most diseases, a healthy life significantly reduces the possibility of a negative evolution of hepatitis.

Constipation

The constipation it is not a disease in itselfbut it is found Among the factors that aggravate numerous illnesses, from varicose veins and migraines to cholesterol or cancer. Its control would necessarily have to be included in any therapeutic plan for any disease, since it it is “the mother” of many sufferings.

Constipation is a betrayer of incorrect dietary or lifestyle habitssince it is very difficult for a person who consumes plenty of fruit and dietary fiber, and who also exercises, to be prone to constipation.

accumulation of feces causes toxemia levels to rise significantly and that the compression on the abdominal organs is greater, with the consequent tissue suffering.

consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains It is of the utmost importance in the innocuous solution to constipation. The laxative remedies are very poorly indicated, since they offer a temporary solution which is usually followed by more persistent constipation. When diet doesn’t work acupuncture can be quite effective by toning the organs involved.

fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia has been defined as the disease of lonelinesssince whoever suffers from it feels misunderstood both by those around him and by doctorswho find no explanation for the problem.

However, more and more attention is paid to it, not because it can be easily diagnosed (which it cannot), but because Every day there are more people who suffer from it..

Fibromyalgia causes constant painrepetitive, insidious, of the soft parts of the bodyespecially at muscle insertions.

As all this is linked to a low mood has been associated with a depressive undercurrent, and indeed some tricyclic antidepressants seem to offer a slight improvement.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is another of the diseases misunderstood by the people who surround the patient, since no obvious symptoms other than tirednessoften related to a low mood.

CFS frequently appears after viral illnesses apparently banal, often caused by viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) or Epstein Barr (EBV).

as he has a uncertain diagnosis and even more uncertain treatmentthere is discouragement, typical of the disease, when facing this problem.

follow a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and antioxidantsis the first step to ensure that CFS does not last too long or cause many problems.

AIDS

He acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS is undoubtedly the best known sexually transmitted disease. Although there are currently numerous drugs that allow survival unthinkable a few years ago, and a remarkable quality of life, it is still one of the most stigmatized diseases of those currently suffering.

A not insignificant part of HIV-positive people still do not know it, because the virus can remain silent for yearspossibly decades.

The diagnostic method is easy, cheap, reliable, but very feared; Anyone who has ever had this test knows the anguish that precedes knowing the results; but when these…