Medical Symptoms Guide

Adenomyosis is far more common than most people realise, and increasingly recognised in younger women without children, which is a shift from how it was traditionally understood.

Each year, as pollen levels begin to rise, millions of people experience the familiar symptoms of seasonal allergies.

Gonorrhoea is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It's passed on through vaginal, anal, and oral sex, and can infect

Perimenopause symptoms commonly include changes to your periods, hot flushes, night sweats, sleep disturbance

A stroke happens when part of the brain is suddenly deprived of oxygen. This usually occurs because a blood vessel becomes blocked

Vitamin D deficiency means the level of vitamin D in your blood is too low for your body to function properly, particularly for maintaining healthy bones, muscles and immune function.

A patient in her early sixties once came to see me after a minor fall in her garden left her with a broken wrist,the sort of fall she’d have shrugged off a decade earlier.

A patient came to see me last summer with a neat row of itchy red bumps across both ankles, convinced she'd picked up something exotic on holiday.

Cortisol is a hormone made by your adrenal glands, two small glands that sit above your kidneys. It's often called the “stress hormone,” but according to the Society for Endocrinology, cortisol

Yellow fever is a serious viral infection that has affected human populations for centuries. Although outbreaks are now less common than they once were, the disease remains

In 2024, the UK has seen a concerning outbreak of Whooping Cough with nine deaths reported so far this year.

Tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths, are small, hard, whitish or yellowish lumps that form when debris, dead cells, mucus, food particles and bacteria become trapped