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What are different home remedies and exercises for Back Pain? Part 3

Causes of Backache
- Sedentary living habits
- Hazardous work patterns
- Psychological conditions associated with emotional stress.
- Spasms of the muscles
- Bad posture or illness
- Overweight.
- Muscular Tension, Straining of the Joints, Poor Posture.
- Kidney or Prostate Problems, Female Disorders, Influenza.
- Sitting for a Long Time, High Heels.

24.) Back Cushion
- Buying a seat cushion to help give you extra support is a great way to help relieve a sore back.
- Use a cushion for any seat you sit in including your car seats and your office chairs.
- Lean your seat back a little to help your back rest.

25.) Carrying Things Close, Home Treatment for Back Pain
- Instead of carrying things away from your body, you should carry them close to it.
- When you carry things holding them out from your body it tends to put stress on your back.
- Make sure to lift using your legs, not your back.
- Also avoid carrying over weights.

26.) Weight Loss Back Pain Natural Cure
- Watching your weight is another natural cure for back pain.
- The best way to maintain your weight at a healthy level is to eat a well-balanced diet and make sure not to overeat.

27.) The Ginger Root Back Pain Home Remedy
- Grab two ginger roots and slice them up into pieces and place them into a pan of water.
- Then place the pan of water and ginger root on a burner and bring it to a slow boil.
- After it starts to boil let it boil for thirty minutes and then remove it from the stove.
- Let it cool down and sit for thirty minutes.
- Once it has cooled down strain the water into a cup and add honey to it (for flavor), then drink it.

28.) Wheat Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Take an ounce of whole grain wheat and soak it with water overnight.
- In the morning add in an ounce of khas khas grass and mix them together.
- After you have mixed the soaked wheat and khas khas grass you should add an ounce of coriander, 8 ounces of water into the mixture and heat it on the stove.
- Boil the mixture until there is only one third of it left then drink it.
- This will help strengthen your digestive system and the rest of your body.

29.) Mint Oil Remedy for Back Pain
- Grab some mint oil out of your cupboard and rub it on your back on the area of the pain.

30.) Khas Khas Grass Remedy for Back Pain
- Take Khas Khas grass and a little sugar candy and mix them together and take them like medicine.
- Do this on a daily basis.
- It will help prevent back pain.

31.) Bryonia Album Natural Home Cure for Back Pain
- To get rid of back pain try using the Bryonia Album homeopathic treatment.
- Bryonia Album is a homeopathic drug that influences both the muscular and skeletal systems in the body.

32.) Rhus tox Remedy for Back Pain
- Rhus Tox is another homeopathic drug that works along with Bryonia album in reducing your back pain.

33.) Arnica Montana Remedy for Back Pain
- Arnica Montana is homeopathic drug derived from plants that does wonders on pain in the back.

34.) Celery Juice Remedy for Back Pain
- Celery is called one of the best healing foods for people.
- The reason is that it is high in sodium content and it also alkalizes the human body.
- This will help you with the stiffness and inflation of your back.
- Put the celery in a juicer by itself and make a juice to drink out of it.
- You should do this twice a day for two weeks.

35.) Water Home Remedy for Back Pain
- Drinking eight to ten twelve ounce glasses of water a day is what people should drink on a normal day.
- Get plenty of water which will help keep the body hydrated.
- It also help the blood circulate in your body.

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What is Hepatitis? What are causes of Hepatitis?

Hepatitis is a medical condition in which the liver cells are inflamed.
Overview
- The word hepatitis comes from the Ancient Greek word hepar (root word hepat) which means ‘liver’, and the suffix Latin itis meaning inflammation.
- Its plural is hepatitides.
- This condition is recognized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ.
- This condition can progress to cirrhosis and fibrosis.
- Hepatitis may occur with limited or no symptoms.
- It often leads to jaundice, anorexia (poor appetite) and malaise.
- Hepatitis is acute when it lasts less than six months.
- It is chronic when it persists longer.
- A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide.
- It can also be due to toxins (notably alcohol, certain medications, some industrial organic solvents and plants).
- It can also be due to other infections and autoimmune diseases.

How many types of hepatitis are there?
There are five main types of hepatitis that are caused by a virus, A, B, C, D, and E – plus types X and G.
- Hepatitis A
This is caused by eating infected food or water.
- Hepatitis B
This is an STD (sexually transmitted disease).
- Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is usually spread through direct contact with the blood of a person who has the disease.
- Hepatitis D
Only a person who is already infected with Hepatitis B can become infected with Hepatitis D.
- Hepatitis E
A person can become infected by drinking water that contains HEV (Hepatitis E Virus).
- Hepatitis X
If hepatitis cannot be attributed to the viruses of hepatitis A, B, C, D, or E, it is called Hepatitis X.
- Hepatitis G:
This is a type of hepatitis caused by the Hepatitis G virus (HGV).

Acute Causes

1. Viral hepatitis:
- Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.
- Yellow fever
- Adenoviruses
- Parvovirus B19

2. Non-viral infection
- Toxoplasma
- Leptospira
- Q fever
- Rocky mountain spotted fever
- Alcohol
- Toxins: Amanita toxin in mushrooms, carbon tetrachloride, asafetida
- Drugs: Paracetamol, amoxycillin, antituberculosis medicines, minocycline and many others (see longer list below).
- Ischemic hepatitis (circulatory insufficiency)
- Pregnancy
- Auto immune conditions, e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Metabolic diseases, e.g., Wilson’s disease

Chronic Causes
Viral hepatitis:
- Hepatitis B with or without hepatitis D.
- Hepatitis C (neither hepatitis A nor hepatitis E causes chronic hepatitis).

Autoimmune Causes
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Methyldopa
- Nitrofurantoin
- Isoniazid
- Ketoconazole

Heredity Causes
- Wilson’s disease.
- Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.
- Primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis occasionally mimic chronic hepatitis.

Alcoholic Hepatitis Causes
- Long term alcohol consumption.
- Patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease.
- Alcoholic cirrhosis.

A large number of drugs can cause hepatitis:
- Agomelatine (antidepressant).
- Allopurinol.
- Amitriptyline (antidepressant).
- Amiodarone (antiarrhythmic).
- Atomoxetine.
- Azathioprine.
- Halothane (a specific type of anesthetic gas).
- Hormonal contraceptives.
- Ibuprofen and indomethacin (NSAIDs).
- Isoniazid (INH), rifampicin, and pyrazinamide (tuberculosis-specific antibiotics).
- Ketoconazole (antifungal).
- Loratadine (antihistamine).
- Methotrexate (immune suppressant).
- Methyldopa (antihypertensive).
- Minocycline (tetracycline antibiotic).
- Nifedipine (antihypertensive).
- Nitrofurantoin (antibiotic).
- Paracetamol (acetaminophen in the United States) can cause hepatitis when taken in an overdose. The severity of liver damage may be limited by prompt administration of acetylcysteine.
- Phenytoin and valproic acid (antiepileptics).
- Troglitazone (antidiabetic, withdrawn in 2000 for causing hepatitis).
- Zidovudine (antiretroviral i.e., against HIV).
- Some herbs and nutritional supplements.

Other Toxins that can cause hepatitis:
- Amatoxin-containing mushrooms.
- White phosphorus, an industrial toxin and war chemical.
- Carbon tetrachloride.
- Cylindrospermopsin, a toxin from the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and other cyanobacteria.

Metabolic disorders can cause hepatitis:
- Hemochromatosis (due to iron accumulation).
- Wilson’s disease(copper accumulation) can cause liver inflammation.
- Necrosis.
- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is effectively a consequence of metabolic syndrome.

How is wilson’s disease diagnosed?

Wilson’s disease is also known medically as hepatolenticular degeneration which is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. In this disorder copper accumulates in tissues.

Overview
- This manifests as neurological or psychiatric symptoms and liver disease.
- It is treated with medication that reduces copper absorption
- Medication that removes the excess copper from the body also can be used.
- Occasionally a liver transplant is required for this disorder.
- The condition is due to mutations in the Wilson disease protein (ATP7B) gene.
- A single abnormal copy of the gene is present in 1 in 100 people.
- If a child inherits the gene from both parents, the child may develop Wilson’s disease.
- Symptoms usually appear between the ages of 6 and 20 years.
- Wilson’s disease occurs in 1 to 4 per 100,000 people.
- Wilson’s disease is named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878–1937) who was the British neurologist who first described this condition in 1912.
- This condition is most common in eastern Europeans, Sicilians, and southern Italians.
- A small amount of copper obtained from food is needed to stay healthy, but excess copper is poisonous.
- High copper levels can cause life-threatening organ damage.

In Wilson disease, copper builds up in:
- the liver
- brain
- kidneys
- eyes
- other organs

Who gets Wilson disease?
- Patients who inherit two abnormal copies of the ATP7B gene, one from each parent.
- Who have only one copy of the abnormal gene, do not have symptoms.
- Most people with Wilson disease have no known family history of the disease.
- A person’s chances of having Wilson disease increase if one or both parents have it.
- It equally affects men and women.
- Symptoms usually appear between ages 5 to 35.
- New cases have been reported in people aged 2 to 72 years.

General Symptoms
- Abnormal posture of arms and legs
- Confusion or delirium
- Dementia
- Difficulty moving arms and legs, stiffness
- Difficulty walking (ataxia)
- Emotional or behavioral changes
- Enlargement of the abdomen (abdominal distention)
- Personality changes
- Phobias, distress (neuroses)
- Slow movements
- Slow or decreased movement and expressions of the face
- Speech impairment
- Tremors of the arms or hands
- Uncontrollable movement
- Unpredictable and jerky movement
- Vomiting blood
- Weakness
- Yellow skin (jaundice) or yellow color of the white of the eye (icterus)

Exams and Tests
A slit-lamp eye examination may show:
- Limited eye movement.
- Rusty or brown-colored ring around the iris (Kayser-Fleischer rings).

A physical examination may show signs of damage to the central nervous system. This includes:
- loss of coordination
- loss of muscle control
- muscle tremors
- loss of thinking and IQ
- loss of memory
- confusion (delirium or dementia)

Lab tests may include:
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Serum ceruloplasmin
- Serum copper
- Serum uric acid
- Urine copper
If there are liver problems, lab tests may find:
- High AST and ALT
- High bilirubin
- High PT and PTT
- Low albumin

Other tests may include:
- 24-hour urine copper test
- Abdominal x-ray
- Abdominal MRI
- CT scan of the abdomen
- Head CT scan
- Head MRI
- Liver biopsy

DNA Testing
- The gene responsible for Wilson’s disease has been found.
- It is called ATP7B.
- DNA testing is available for this gene.
- Testing is complicated as different ethnic groups may have different changes (mutations) in this gene.