Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance vs. Milk Allergy. Lactose intolerance can be genetic, or it can be caused by damage to the small intestine due to a viral or bacterial infection, Dr. Barto explains. Itâs also fairly common, and more so in certain populations.
Asterix (character) Asterix (French: AstÃ©rix) is a fictional character the titular hero of the French comic book series The Adventures of Asterix. The series portrays him as a diminutive but fearless Gaulish warrior living in the time of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.
Adams and Foley first described asterixis in 1949 in patients with advanced hepatic encephalopathy. [1] It is a disorder of motor control characterised by brief, arrhythmic interruptions of sustained voluntary muscle contraction usually observed due to brief lapse of posture.ecently mini-asterixis which is a part of the spectrum of the gross flapping tremor seen in hepatic encephalopathy was proposed as being due to the involvement of motor cortex causing a pathologically slowed and synchronised motor cortical wave. [11].