Health A to Z

Most health pages tell you what a condition is. Very few tell you what it is like to sit beside somebody who has one. This library does both. Search by name, or by the name you know it under.

Important: This page is general information, not medical advice, and it is not a diagnosis. If you are worried about your health or someone else's, speak to a GP, pharmacist, or call 111. In an emergency, call 999.

20 conditions filed under G, showing 11–20 (page 2 of 2).

G

Gilbert's syndrome

A harmless inherited quirk causing mild jaundice when unwell or fasting. Its main importance is not being mistaken for liver disease.

Glandular fever

Also called Infectious mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr virus, Mono

A viral infection whose fatigue outlasts everything else. And there are two things you must not do while you have it.

Glaucoma

Pressure damaging the optic nerve. Painless, silent, and the sight it takes never comes back.

Glomerulonephritis

Also called Nephritis, IgA nephropathy, Inflammation of the kidney filters

Inflammation of the kidney's filters. Usually silent, and often found only because somebody tested the urine.

Goitre

Also called Thyroid swelling, Thyroid nodule

A swollen thyroid. Usually benign, and thyroid function tests may be entirely normal, which does not make the lump nothing.

Gout

Crystals of uric acid in a joint. Ferociously painful, entirely treatable, and still treated as a joke.

Group B strep

Also called GBS, Streptococcus agalactiae

A common, harmless bacterium in adults that occasionally causes serious infection in newborns. Antibiotics in labour prevent most of it.

Growing pains

Common leg pains at night in young children. Not caused by growing, and the point of this entry is what they are not.

Guillain-Barré syndrome

Also called GBS, Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

The immune system attacking the peripheral nerves, usually after an infection. Weakness that climbs, and it climbs fast.

Gynaecomastia

Also called Enlarged breast tissue in men, Man boobs

Real breast tissue in men, not fat. Very common in teenagers and usually resolves; in an adult it needs a cause looked for.