Eating After a Dental Filling: Numbness, Hard Foods and When the Tooth Feels Normal
With a composite (white) filling you can usually eat as soon as the numbness fades, typically within a few hours; with a silver amalgam…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,196 plain-language articles across 62 topics, symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing, written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
Is It Kawasaki Disease or Scarlet Fever? How Doctors Tell Fever-and-Rash Illnesses Apart
Kawasaki disease and scarlet fever can both cause several days of fever, a red rash, a strawberry tongue and later peeling skin, but they…
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Calcium and Zinc Foods: Hitting Your Targets Without Supplements
Most adults can meet calcium and zinc targets from food alone. Yogurt, milk, cheese, calcium-set tofu, canned sardines, fortified plant milks and low-oxalate greens…
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Why CT Angiography Comes Before TAVI: Planning Valve Size and the Access Route
CT angiography comes before TAVI because the scan gives the heart team millimeter-level measurements that an echocardiogram alone cannot: the exact size and shape…
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Myomectomy vs Hysterectomy for Fibroids: How Pregnancy Plans Shape the Choice
Myomectomy removes fibroids while keeping the uterus, so it is usually the surgical option for people who may want a future pregnancy, though fibroids…
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Abdominal Etching: How Six-Pack Liposuction Works and Who It Actually Suits
Abdominal etching is a specialized liposuction technique that removes small amounts of fat in precise lines over the abdominal muscles to mimic a six-pack.…
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What Regrowth After Alopecia Areata Treatment Usually Looks Like: Fine, Pale Hairs First
Regrowth after alopecia areata treatment usually begins as a soft fuzz of fine, short hairs that are pale or white, appearing inside the patch…
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Life After Cushing Syndrome Treatment: Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar and Bone Health Follow-Up
Life after Cushing syndrome treatment usually means months of gradual recovery rather than an overnight change. Cortisol levels often fall abruptly after surgery, so…
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Protein in Urine: What a Urinalysis Finding Means for Your Kidneys
Protein in urine, called proteinuria, means the kidneys' filters are letting protein such as albumin leak through. A single positive result on a urinalysis…
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After an IVIG Infusion: Headache, Chills and Tiredness, and When to Contact Your Team
After an IVIG infusion, the most common effects are headache, chills, mild fever, muscle aches, nausea and tiredness, usually starting during or within a…
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Gut Reset, Gut Cleanse and Colon Cleanse: What the Trends Promise and What the Colon Actually Needs
A gut cleanse, gut reset or colon cleanse is not needed for health: the colon clears itself through daily bowel movements, a self-renewing lining…
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How a Brazilian Tummy Tuck Is Performed: Abdominoplasty Plus Waist Liposuction in One Session
A Brazilian tummy tuck is a marketing name, not a distinct medical operation. It usually describes a standard abdominoplasty (removing loose lower-abdominal skin and…
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How Long Does It Take to Digest Food? A Journey Measured in Hours
Most food takes about 24 to 72 hours to travel from mouth to toilet. A typical meal spends two to five hours in the…
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Is Vaser Liposuction Right for Stubborn Fat? Skin Elasticity, Weight and Other Checks
Vaser-style ultrasound-assisted liposuction suits adults who are close to a stable, healthy weight, have firm skin that snaps back, and want to reshape specific…
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Targeted Therapy for Myelofibrosis: How It Aims to Shrink the Spleen and Ease Symptoms
Targeted therapy for myelofibrosis usually means a JAK inhibitor, a medicine that blocks an overactive signaling enzyme inside blood-forming cells. Quieting that signal lowers…
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How PRK Surgery Is Done: Removing the Surface Layer, Reshaping and the Bandage Lens
PRK surgery is done in three steps. After numbing drops, the surgeon removes the cornea's thin outer skin, the epithelium, using a soft brush,…
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When Is Hypospadias Repair Usually Done? Why Timing in Infancy Is Weighed Against Waiting
Hypospadias repair is usually done in infancy, commonly between about 6 and 18 months of age, and in some cases up to around age…
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Getting Ready for Hiatal Hernia Surgery: Blood Thinners, Fasting and Pre-Op Checks
Preparing for hiatal hernia surgery usually means a pre-op visit with blood tests and an anesthesia review, a medicine check in which your surgical…
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