Some are only small sores, others are open wounds that can lead to serious complications.
She then received terrible news: her mother had developed gangrenous bed sores, and was seriously ill.
"I would have regarded them as more serious but they've been long going sores, " he added.
Radiation treatment every day for tonsillar cancer was filling his throat and mouth with sores.
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An officer shined a light on my wrists, saw the sores from the handcuffs, and arrested Garrido.
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Back in the 1850s Florence Nightingale was complaining about the presence of bed sores, saying they represented a failure of nursing.
The condition - also known as bed sores - is nearly always avoidable.
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Manager Becky Lloyd said Kon-Tiki was very tolerant despite all the treatment it had received for sores and ticks.
Our first winter, she'd foundered (foundering is an equine wasting disease of the hoof), and developed sores and abscesses.
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Chemotherapy, radiation and drug therapies often leave patients with nausea, diarrhea, constipation, mouth sores, taste alterations and unintentional weight loss.
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Within a few days they were broken hulks, emaciated and covered in sores, more helpless than the original camp inmates.
At the time, he said that he had tested positive because of a cream he was using for saddle sores.
They noticed she was swelling up and had sores on her skin but were told there was nothing to worry about.
This year the government's researchers published results showing that LEDs can clear up mucositis, the mouth sores suffered by chemotherapy patients.
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But what is most telling about this data is that something as avoidable as bed sores is proving such a problem after all this time.
Research shows - and the NHS has accepted - that 95% of bed sores can be avoided through regular assessment and turning patients when necessary.
Even if Armstrong himself came under scrutiny in the 1999 Tour after using a cream containing a banned corticoid to combat saddle sores.
As Mr Spivey, a Cambridge classicist, shows in a book which consistently picks at our sores, these are also dilemmas which have long histories.
The researchers screened several drugs and found that amlexanox, used in an ointment to treat canker sores, changed the action of genes that control metabolism.
They then injected the animals with a drug called amlexanox, which has been on the market for more than 15 years to treat canker sores.
Armstrong blamed a prescription skin cream used to treat saddle sores.
Survivors may be physically and mentally stunted, and ravaged by sores.
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Lesions also develop in the mucous membranes of your nose and mouth and quickly turn into sores that break open, spreading the virus into your saliva.
In addition to swollen joints, she said the other symptoms include fatigue, facial rash, fever, chest pain, swollen glands and sores in the mouth and nose.
Sprawling sores like the meltdown in Somalia or the conflict in Rwanda were to be scrupulously avoided, and Bosnia tiptoed round for months with pettifogging excuses.
Most MRSA infections acquired in community settings present themselves as sores or boils and often appear red, swollen, painful or with drainage such as pus, the CDC says.
The mattress inside would also be specially designed to prevent bed sores and make it more comfortable for the baby who spends most of its time in there.
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