hemochromatosis Essay

Hemochromatosis, also called iron overload, is a disease when the body absorbs too much iron from the food we eat and most often affects the liver, heart, pancreas, and skin. It is usually caused by genes in the body that mutate keeping them from working. Some signs and symptoms of this disease are weakness, joint pain, low libido, and/or if the disease has progressed to far diabetes or heart failure. Hemochromatosis is one of the more difficult diseases to diagnose because many symptoms are nonspecific…

Lee and to the barber pole. Bruce Lee is compared to the iron-deficient macrophages of the immune system because they are viewed as being inferior, as is Bruce Lee, but can kill better than their fully equipped counterpart in a human without hemochromatosis. The barber pole was the place to go for centuries in the west to be bled. The pole had all the aspects of this practice. The brass bowl at the top was representative of the bowl used for holding leeches that drew the blood, and the bowl on…

cirrhosis, starts in the liver tissue itself. This cancer has a high mortality rate. • Diagnosis Transmission, including heredity/genetics A less common factor for contracting cirrhosis is Inherited Diseases: • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, hemochromatosis (where too much iron is absorbed, and the excess iron is deposited in the liver and in other organs, such as the pancreas, skin, intestinal lining, heart and endocrine glands). • Wilson's disease, galactosemia, and glycogen storage diseases are…

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Survival of the Sickest, written by author Dr. Sharon Moalem, is a book discussing why evolution has not allowed for the destruction of certain diseases. He states that these deadly diseases, such as Anemia, Hemochromatosis, and High Cholesterol, are in fact tools that evolution used to help the human race survive. He explains how these diseases helped fight against more dangerous and life threatening sicknesses such as, Malaria, the Bubonic Plague, and Vitamin D deficiency related illnesses. The…

like most other disease or disorder, if the liver has not been taken care of properly there are many negative outcomes that can affect and destroy the liver. There are many complications when the liver is abused or damage for example cancer, hemochromatosis, gallbladder or even liver cirrhosis (Lee, 2014). We will be focusing more about liver cirrhosis. Liver cirrhosis has been the 12th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010 (Murphy, Xu, & Kochenek, 2013). We will primarily focus on…

Liver can be caused. The leading causes in The United States are alcoholism and hepatitis C, (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, 2003). Some other ways that it can be caused are inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis, hemochromatosis, Glycogen storage disease and Wilson's disease (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, 2003). Cirrhosis of the liver can be caused by too much metal, such as copper or iron, in the liver which can cause abnormal storage…

patients with metabolic syndrome. However, an elevated iron store is not necessarily a causal factor for diabetes. Their results supported the idea that patients with increased iron stores, even in a range not considered to be associated with hemochromatosis, have a higher predisposition to develop non-insulin dependent diabetes. The results of the Rafat et al. [28] study showed that Hb concentrations were positively correlated with HbA1C concentrations, which HbA1C concentrations tended to be higher…

Hemochromatosis is a genetic disease in which there is too much iron that builds up in your body, this is referred to as an iron overload. Iron is an essential nutrient found in many foods but can be toxic to our bodies if we have to much. “Normally, humans absorb about 8-10% of the iron found in foods that they eat.” People with Hemochromatosis can absorb up to four times more iron than a normal human being. Since our bodies have no natural way to get rid of the extra iron, it gets stored in…

cadmium (Cd) etc. Iron is important as a mineral in human body (part of haemoglobin) and also part of many enzymes and proteins. Deficient amount of iron in human body will cause anaemia while excess amount of iron may cause iron poisoning or hemochromatosis. Zinc is a metal which known as essential trace element as very little amount of it is necessary for human health. Zinc is important for cellular metabolism, catalytic activity of enzyme, immune system, synthesis of protein, wound healing, cell…