5 Russian diseases that have not been heard about in other countries

Complain of neck, back, lower back pain? Surely get this diagnosis, which is not in the international classification of diseases. By it, our doctors mean a dystrophic change in the cartilage and the bone adjacent to it. By and large, this is one of the signs of aging, such as gray hair or wrinkles.

In fact. Bones, cartilage, and the spinal cord do not have pain receptors and cannot hurt. The source of suffering is the joints, ligaments, blood vessels, muscles. For example, there are herniated intervertebral discs, which are subject to serious treatment or even require surgery. Or with some ailments of the muscular system, myositis, fibromyalgia, patients suffer from pain throughout the body, but are diagnosed with osteochondrosis. All this is treated in different ways – something with gymnastics and massage, something with drugs, something – surgically. A therapy that works in one case may be harmful in another.

This diagnosis means a violation of the composition of the intestinal microflora: there are many “bad” bacteria, few “good” ones. The main complaints of patients are stool disorder, gas formation, pain, colic.

In fact. Symptoms can be caused by various reasons: change of water, intolerance to certain foods (lactose or gluten), poisoning, medication, polyps in the intestines. If painful manifestations do not go away for more than five days, it is important to find their true source, and not treat with bifidobacteria.

Complaints of frequent colds, apathy, depression and other unpleasant symptoms Russian doctors hear from spring to mid-summer. “Poor immunity, so you catch a cold,” the doctor sums up, prescribing a tincture of echinacea, immunoglobulin or homeopathy. You can often hear such a diagnosis as “vitamin deficiency”. In translation – a critically low content of any vitamin in the body.

In fact. A serious reason can weaken the immune system: pathology of the blood or kidneys, chemotherapy. In other cases, the body’s defenses are most likely normal, it is just that it is different for all people. As for vitamin deficiency, in modern conditions it is practically impossible. But the lack of some vitamins and minerals is determined by a blood test, and only after that the drug is prescribed.

Dizziness, increased heart rate, heart failure, chest pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, sweating, heat waves, nausea. A third of adults experience these symptoms. The diagnosis of “vegetative-vascular dystonia” in translation into medical language – “I do not know.” The doctor does not find a disease, but is obliged to submit a resume, since you have complaints.

In fact. All over the world, a patient with such symptoms in the absence of physiological disorders is diagnosed with “panic attacks”. If the test results are alarming, then the diagnosis is continued: each symptom can be a manifestation of a separate disease. For example, an increase in heart rate sometimes indicates a decrease in hemoglobin, sweating and heat waves will be hormonal in nature, and chest pain will be a neurological cause.

Every second expectant mother, at the very first ultrasound, writes such a diagnosis on the card, which scares the poor woman and all her loved ones, because the pregnancy is at risk.

In fact. There is a real diagnosis of “hypertonicity of the uterus” – this is an excessive contraction of the organ during childbirth, it has nothing to do with early gestation. The explanation of the tone is simple. The uterus is a muscular organ. She tends to contract, for example, almost always – from excitement at the doctor’s appointment. Foreign doctors do not attach importance to this phenomenon and strongly recommend continuing to rejoice in the expectation of the baby.