They may also irritate the upper respiratory tract, causing coughing, choking, and general debility.
Thiamin deficiency results in beriberi, a disease characterized by multiple neuritis (lesions of nerves), general debility, and heart failure.
The treatment of Brucella, a disease which produces abortion in cattle and general debility in man, involved many of their successes.
A Pennsylvania chaplain noted a peculiar reason that two men in the regiment claimed for a discharge: "Both of them have been married for some years; and yet such are the pernicious effects of the early indulgences, that now they frequently have nocturnal emissions, foul dreams, etc. — besides rheumatism and general debility — such as renders them unfit for service".
Endogenous factors: age over 65 years, obesity, nicotine and alcohol abuse, diabetes, vascular diseases, immunosuppressive therapy, cancer or general debility may lead to a suppression of the cellular and humoral resistance to infection [16].
The papaya bark, leaf, and fruits are being used as medicines to treat several diseases such as amenorrhoea, general debility, constipation, corns, cutaneous tubercles, warts, sinuses, eczema, glandular tumours, blood pressure, diabetes, malaria, expel worms, gonorrhoea, and syphilis (Aravind et al. 2013; Sinhalagoda et al. 2013; Rashed et al. 2013).
Chronic hypophosphatemia, in which a prolonged deficiency depletes the body's normal phosphate stores, causes generalized debility, weakness, and anorexia.
Its underlying aetiology is multifactorial, with increasing fatigue, muscle wasting and generalized debility all contributing to this phenomenon [ 2].
Besides attacks, persons with malaria commonly have anemia (owing to the destruction of red blood cells by the parasites), enlargement of the spleen (the organ responsible for ridding the body of degenerate red blood cells), and general weakness and debility.
When viewed in this context, these results highlight the vulnerability of patients with severe sepsis who receive care on the general medical floor in terms of functional debility and associated costs both individual and societal.
Walker dutifully recorded the effects of leaking miasma on the constitution of gravediggers, ranging from general ill health ("pain in the head, heaviness, extreme debility, lachrymation, violent palpitation of the heart, universal trembling, with vomiting") to sudden death.
