
Hormonal contraception by "the pill" is the method most used to prevent pregnancy and for birth control. The pill may also be prescribed for menstruation disorders, acne and excessive hair growth (see below). If used properly the pill is 99,9% reliable. Hormonal contraception pills usually consist of a combination of 2 female hormones: an estrogen and a progestagen. There also exist special devices like a ring or a patch containing these hormones. There are biphasic and triphasic preparations which are designed to mimic the pattern of the cycle more closely.

Acne is a very common skin disorder that most young people get in early puberty. It is caused by inflammation of the small oil glands (sebaceous glands) that surround the fine hairs on the face and chest.

Gastro-oesophageal reflux is stomach acid flowing from the stomach back into the food pipe (oesophagus). Various conditions can cause reflux as a result of the pressure they exert on the stomach, for example, pregnancy and hiatus hernia. Reflux can cause symptoms such as indigestion, acid regurgitation, or the painful burning sensation of heartburn.

Allergy is a harmful reaction of the body caused by a substance from outside. This reaction may be damaging. This substance (allergen) can be a variety of things: most common is pollen (the cause of hay fever), animal hair and household dust mite. After repeated contact the body can react with a strong allergic reaction due to excessive histamine excretion such as a swollen and wet nose, red tearing eyes, headache and tiredness.

Benign Prostate Hypertrophy (Hyperplasia) or BPH is an enlargement of the prostate gland which is common in men with increasing age. More than 50% of men over 50 years have an enlarged prostate and may have symptoms of obstruction, such as urinary retention or irritative symptoms such as frequency, urgency, nocturia, urge incontinence resulting from bladder instability.

Modern day pest is caused by viral infections which spread more rapidly over the world than ever, helped by human travel, migrating birds and the increasingly high concentrations of animals held as livestock.
* Influvac is an influenza vaccine that contains inactivated fragments from three different strains of the virus that causes influenza.
* Tamiflu is made by Roche Germany and comes as a capsule to take by mouth, in a package of 10 capsules containing 75 mg of the anti-viral oseltamivir.

Analgesics are medicines used for pain relief, also called painkillers. Rheumatic disorder such as arthritis is an auto-immune disease, causing chronic inflammation mostly of the joints. Therefore rheumatic disorders are treated with anti-inflammatory drugs, mostly NSAIDs , nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which also relieve pain.

Hypercholesterolaemia or hyperlipidaemia are the medical names for an increased level of cholesterol and other fatty substances as triglycerides in blood.
When your total cholesterol level exceeds 5 mmol/l you need to take action.
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