A disease is a disorder that causes physical or mental disturbances in the normal functioning of the body, whether physical or psychological level. The number of diseases affecting human beings is very wide.

Medicine has succeeded over the years to find the solution for many of the diseases that were once fatal. Today is still being studied to find out how to get to remedy all of them.

Types of disease

The number of diseases is infinite, but following different parameters can be classified according to the body that affect, depending on whether they have a cure or for its ability to spread.

In many cases, they are also categorized by the disease so that the individual contracted. A person may suffer from a disorder that has inherited, has eaten something or had suffered an accident.

Acute Disease

They are those who have a short lifetime. Many of them are kind of infectious and heal easilyBut it also can be classified within this group attacks infarction.

They are opposed to the chronic usually by their different extension in time. Among the most common acute illnesses are the flu, chicken pox or runny nose.

Chronic Diseases

They are the ones who can extend over a long period of time or throughout life, such as allergies. Many of them have a hereditary or congenital origin.

In many cases, early detection and appropriate treatment can improve the quality of life. One of the best known chronic diseases and hereditary origin is diabetes.

Infectious Diseases

They receive this name diseases caused by the presence of micro-organisms such as viruses, fungi, bacteria and protozoa. Those that are produced by bacteria usually treated with antibiotics, which however are not effective in the case of the virus.

The gravity of the same is very variable. A otitis is an infectious disease, but so is AIDS. Other infectious diseases are measles, mononucleosis or the flu.

Hereditary Diseases

They are those diseases that are inherited from the parents. The genes of people are sometimes influenced or predisposed to develop certain diseases.

Many inherited diseases are chronic and persist throughout life. Within this group are diabetes or hemophilia. Currently, it is believed that genetic predisposition is a risk factor for the development of cancer.

Mental illness

Mental disorders are characterized by abnormal or unjustified cause changes in behavior, as well as distort perceptions and interpretations of the facts.

Within this group can be found conditions requiring drug therapy, such as schizophrenia or other normally dealt with psychological therapy as anxiety disorders.

Diseases bodies

Each of the organs of the body is characterized by power suffer certain diseases:

·  Cardiovascular disease affecting the heart and circulation system.

·  Liver disease of the liver.

·  Digestive: diseases of the digestive system which includes both those affecting the stomach and the intestine.

·  Brain: diseases that affect the brain.

Terminal Disease

This term is used to refer to incurable diseases for which there is no solution. They usually involve a short life expectancy. In many cases are degenerative diseases.

Among the terminally ill are some sort of cancer. In many cases the fact that a terminal illness is influenced by the treatment he has received in time as in the case of AIDS or for the detection of certain tumors.

Degenerative Diseases

These are diseases that pose a progressive deterioration of the body. In many cases are diseases that affect the nervous system or more specifically the brain.

The chronic degenerative diseases are therefore often prolonged in time.. Within this classification, we find conditions like alzheimer.