Lice: A parasitic insect that can infect humans. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Lice is available below.
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Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut. This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good" bacteria in the digestive system. The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures containing more of the good bacteria. See digestive imbalance and probiotics....read more »
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Wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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