Few people know, but any disease approaches a person far from suddenly, but ripens in his body long before that. In the interval between the stages when a person feels completely healthy, and when he is sick, there are a number of transitional stages, which are collectively called pre-illness. Preexisting disease is a kind of hidden period of the disease itself, during which the first changes in the human body occur.
What is pre-disease?
In medicine, the following explanation of the term "pre-disease" exists. This concept includes preparing the body for the development of a certain condition.
Once the great physician Avicenna tried to explain this phenomenon, characterizing him as a third condition. He believed that during this period the human body contains and contains two opposites - health and disease. It is generally accepted that this stage is not necessarily a sign of the imminent onset of the disease, but rather a chance to avoid it. If health is called the normal physical and emotional well-being of a person, and illness is deviation and disruption, then pre-illness is something in between these two conditions.
Symptoms of pre-disease
The name “latent period” itself comes from the Latin word latens, which means “hidden” in translation. That is why at this stage of the disease to diagnose it is extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible at all. If we are talking about pre-disease, the task is doubly complicated, because in modern times, doctors establish only two diagnoses - “sick” or “healthy”.
However, pre-disease still has several symptoms by which it can be recognized. The main ones include:
- general malaise;
- overeating or loss of appetite;
- diarrhea, constipation;
- nausea and heartburn;
- menstrual irregularities;
- headache;
- increased anxiety;
- excessive sweating;
- drowsiness or insomnia;
- fatigue;
- slight dizziness.
During the third stage of the disease, a person has time to reconsider his habits and lifestyle, changing them for the better. If this is not done, the body will waste all resources on the fight against an external pathogen and the latent period of the disease will smoothly flow into the main one.
How does the disease begin?
The process of transition from pre-disease to disease has its own additional stages, each of which is characterized by certain conditions of the body. In general, there are four such stages:
- adaptive - when the body has sufficient functional capabilities;
- prenosological, during which the body functions are realized at a higher than usual tension of regulatory systems;
- premorbid - the latent period of the disease, which is accompanied by a decrease in adaptive reserves;
- stage failure adaptation - the onset of the disease.
Unfortunately, modern medicine does not involve taking any measures to support the body during the first two stages. It’s very in vain, because pre-illness is a person’s chance to avoid further development of the disease, however, most doctors either do not notice this transition, or simply do not take it into account due to the workload of patients with already occurring changes in the body.
Valeology
In the past, healers paid special attention to the latent period of the disease. Indeed, during this period, the disease can still be stopped. The goal of the majority was to understand how the disease begins and to repulse it before the adaptive stage of transition passes into the stage of disruption. Over time, more and more people became interested in this issue, new information began to appear, and then a whole direction in the knowledge of human life, which was called "valeology".
The term “valeology” is derived from the Latin word valeo, which translates as “hello”. The first mention of this science appeared in the 80s. Then Dr. Brehman spoke about the need to correct and maintain the functions of the human body in order to avoid the disease.
Over time, the piggy bank of knowledge about a person began to replenish with new information, which in the long term could make it possible to diagnose the body, guided by data on the physical, biological and psychological state of a person. Thanks to the totality of all these concepts, the science of valueology has appeared, the main purpose of which is the prevention of diseases.
How to prevent pre-illness
The process of treating the body when the disease is in a latent stage and is just preparing to develop is called the future of medicine. Currently, there are many clinics and laboratories around the world studying this possibility. Experts check a huge range of problems, ranging from hidden physiological processes to the last stages of cancer.
This is necessary in order to determine the norm of a particular organ. Only by identifying the difference between the state during the stage of failure of adaptation and at the prenosological and premobrid stage, it will be possible to diagnose the onset of pre-disease. It is not so simple to do this, because the body of each person is unique, and individual data are always used to calculate the norm, including the gene pool, stay in a certain environment, lifestyle and many other factors.
It is also worth remembering more traditional methods to prevent the latent period of the disease, which the brilliant doctors of the past spoke about. This is a serious lifestyle change when you feel the first symptoms of the latent stage of the disease, which may include headache, fatigue, insomnia, lightheadedness, and much more. If before this a person worked hard at work and practically did not rest, while often skipping breakfasts and dinners, he needs to take a vacation and normalize his nutrition.
Why do diseases arise?
In some cases, such actions are not enough to resist the disease, because its occurrence and development in the body depends on many factors. All of them have their own nature and varying degrees of impact. Mechanical factors affecting an individual’s health include bruises, sprains, friction, compression, and shock. To the physical ones - sounds, changes in temperature, pressure and gravity, ionizing and electromagnetic radiation, electric shock. Biological factors are various microorganisms, toxins and allergens. Psychogenic factors include all of the above factors, which are perceived by the brain as pathogenic information.