DISEASE AND DISORDER

Hello guys so this week i'm back with another interesting topic for this week. We will be talking about disorder. First lets understand the difference between the two.

What is a disease?

One of the original definitions of a disease was published in the British Medical Journal as early as 1900.

Definition of disease: Resulting from a pathophysiological response to external or internal factors.Today, doctors treat and diagnose a disease based on abnormalities in systemic functions – for example, cardiovascular disease.

These abnormalities can cause both physical and emotional signs and symptoms, as well as pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems or death.

What is a disorder?

While doctors diagnose and treat a disease, a disorder is defined as follows.

Definition of disorder: A disruption of the disease to the normal or regular functions in the body or a part of the body.

For example, a disorder resulting from cardiovascular disease is an arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat. An arrhythmia is not a disease itself – it’s an abnormal heartbeat that occurs as a result of having cardiovascular disease.

Disorders can be classified into Mental, Physical, Genetic, Emotional, Behavioural, Structural

So in essence disorders are basically side effects of diseases

Hope you were able to learn something for today. next week we will go deeper in understanding how we can aplly this knowledge to keep us healthy. Until then stay healthy.