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Fertility problems in women have various causes: Subfertility is a delay in conceiving, while infertility is the inability to conceive naturally after one year of trying.
Erectile Dysfunction is an inability to achieve or maintain an erection for a long enough period of time for sexual intercourse to take place. Formerly called Impotence.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) refers to a collection of symptoms that appear due to irregular muscular contractions of the digestive tract, which cause food accumulation, leading in turn to a build-up of toxins and mucus in the intestines.
Menorrhagia is a condition of menstruation when there is very heavy loss of blood for a variety of causes not always evident. It may be accompanied by dysmenorrhoea (painful periods).
Hot flushes and night sweats represent the most common and often most distressing symptom of the menopause, but are not the only major problem to consider.
Although the two gastrointestinal conditions have similar causes and treatments, heartburn and indigestion differ in their location of symptoms. Heartburn occurs in the chest and oesophagus, while indigestion affects the lower abdomen.
This condition is where there is a build-up of deposits on the inside of the artery walls. This in turn causes them to narrow and harden making it increasingly more difficult for the blood to travel round the body.
Haemorrhoids, also known as piles, are swollen veins around the anus and in the rectum, which can be either internal or external or both.
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