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abdominal pain

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Lactose intolerance: symptoms and treatments

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Lactose intolerance means that your body cannot properly digest lactose, a natural sugar that’s found in milk and other dairy products. Did you know that lactose intolerance affects about 75 percent of the entire world population? When lactose travels through your colon and it’s not completely digested, it can prompt painful symptoms. Levels of lactose intolerance vary. Some people can…

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What are kidney stones and how are they formed?

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We hear about how painful kidney stones are, but what exactly are kidney stones? Kidney stones are hard masses that form in your kidneys, usually made up of insoluble calcium compounds. There are multiple reasons why kidney stones appear. How are kidney stones formed? Kidney stones could come from any one of the following issues: Genetics – you get it…

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Appendicitis warning signs

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The appendix, a small, useless bit of tissue that hangs off of our large intestine. It may have had a function thousands of years ago, but as we’ve evolved, it’s now just for show. Although it doesn’t have a purpose, it can still cause very serious health problems. If inflammation of the appendix, appendicitis, goes untreated, the infected and inflamed…

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