23 MEDICAL FACTS WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

Fantastic 23 Medical Facts which Everyone should know

Do you know why left lung is slightly smaller than the right lung ? A new born baby has 300 bone but adult have 206. Why ? Ketchup were sold for some other purposes  during 1830s. Do you know the purpose? Well if you don't know any of them, then please don't get worried. In this article you will get to know about these facts. This article is about some awesome Medical Facts Everyone Should Know which you don't know. If you know any of them then try to find out why it is so, wherever possible. So, after reading this article, there would be only one word on your lips, " Fantastic ". Without wasting time let's get started.

1. Ice-Cream headache is also known as Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia in medical terms.

Other name for Ice-Cream headache is brain freeze. It generally happens when something too cold touches the upper plate of the mouth. Usually happens in hot weather and an individual consumes something too early.



2. An important risk factor for silent killer disease like cancers and heart disease is Smoking. 87% of the lung cancer is caused due to smoking.

Smoking damages the air ways of and small air sacs ( alveoli ) found in your lungs. Neary, one-fifth of people die due to smoking each year in US.


3. According to medical study low cholestrol was also linked to aggressive behaviours with higher rates of suicide.


4. You can get an artificial hip, knee, elbow, even ankle but there is no way to make synthetic blood substitutes in laboratory.

There are certain substitutes for blood which can perform only a particular function of it but not all functions. So in general there is no any substitute for blood till date.


5. Your brain sees the world upside down.

We see images when light is refelected from the object. Our eyes are curved at front and it bends the light and an upside down image is formed on retina. However, the brain fixes its position. Eye is responsible for conveying  4/5th of the information to brain.


6. Women blink more than men. Almost twice.

Also older women blink more than younger women. Blinking usually lubricates our eyes and also protects from external damage.


7. Men burn fat more quickly then women.

Also, Men gain more benefit than women when they reduce weight.


8. The fingernails on the longest fingers grow faster as compared to fingernails on the shortest fingers.

Nail growth depends upon the  bones of the fingertips. So, simply longer the fingertip bone faster is the nail growth.


9. Heart attacks occur more often on Monday than any other day of the week.

The reason is typically funny, Monday generally comes after week-off day i.e. saturday and sunday. So after enjoying a restful weekend and going back to work on next day increases physical and mental stress due to which adrenaline and cortisol is secreted which can trigger heart attacks. 


10. You cannot tickle yourself.

Studies show that our little brain i.e. the cerebellum can predict our movement but not of others.


11. Michael Eugene Chevreul, the French Chemist, in 1985, realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that he urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.


12. A scientist  discovered this weird medical fact – the left lung is slightly smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

Left lung shares its space with the heart.


13. In 1972, a group of scientists reported that by freezing the big toe we can cure common cold.


14. The first Band-Aid Brand was Adhesive Bandages. Its dimension was three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You could make  your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.


15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Doctor John Cook Benett beleived that it has medicinal properties and can be used to treat diarrhoea, indigestion, jaundice


16. Coca-Cola contained Coca (in which active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

It mainly had two key components when it was launches, Cocaine and Caffeine. Cocaine was obtained from Coca leaf and Caffeine from Kola nut ( Kola is also spelled Cola ). And in this way it got its name Coca-Cola.


17. Americans spend an estimated $500 million each year on allergy treatments.


18. Coffee increases mental alertness, shortens eye-hand reaction time, reduces depression, treats asthma, and potentiates all pain medicines.

So, you must have coffee along with tea to keep youself healthy.


19. According to the Center for Health Administration, one out of every ten Americans spends one day a year in the Hospital.


20. The Insulin used to treat diabetes in human beings is taken from pigs and sheep.


21. When Louis Pasteur was working on the rabies vaccine, if he or his assistants somehow got infected then they were to be shot in the head.


22. A Cancer patient won 5,000 Euros from bookies after betting he'd stay ALIVE longer than doctors predicted.

His name was Jon Matthews.


23. We made to exercise 36 muscles whenever we smile

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