Random Fact #60

Conjunctivitis caused by a chlamydia infection is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world.

Random Fact #59

Children urinate three to four times the volume of an adult per kilogram of body weight.

Random Fact #58

A ruptured Achilles tendon can sometimes be painless and only present with marked planter flexion weakness.  One Dr. told a story of a patient coming in complaining of a sprained ankle when in fact he had a torn Achilles.

Doesn't look painless to me!

Random fact #57

Thomas Edison's assistant died of x-ray burns caused while Edison experimented with over 1800 fluorescent materials for use in x-ray imaging.

Random Fact #56

A headache is determined as a migraine only if the pain:

-Is unilateral focusing in the frontal/temporal area of the head.

-Has a throbbing characteristic with each pulse.

-Gets worse with exercise or exposure to light and or sound.

Random Fact #55

Sperm containing the X chromosome create a female and Y male.  It is theorized that there are more males born because the Y chromosome sperm is smaller and and can swim faster.  That's right guys are the result of faster swimmers.

Random Fact #54

Symptoms of syphilis go through 3 stages.  The symptoms sometimes go untreated and the third stage can cause serious neurological impairment.  It is thought that mental hospitals at one time had many third stage syphilis patients.  Al Capone went crazy with it.