Symptoms

Wrist pain

Healthline — Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common cause of wrist pain. You may feel aching, burning, numbness, or tingling in your palm, wrist, thumb, or fingers. The thumb muscle can become weak, making it difficult to grasp things. Pain may extend up to your ...More…

Wrinkles

Healthline — Most wrinkles are associated with aging changes in skin. Aging of the skin and related structures (hair and nails) is a natural process. Nothing can be done to decrease the rate of skin aging, but many environmental factors will increase the ...More…

Wilson's disease

Healthline — Wilson's disease is an inherited disorder where there is excessive amounts of copper in the body's tissues. This causes a variety of effects, including liver disease and damage to the nervous system. Wilson's disease is a rare inherited ...More…

Whitehead

Healthline — Whiteheads are white, raised bumps caused by collections of oil and skin in pores. Whiteheads are also known as closed comedomes and pimples. See acne.More…

Wheezing

Healthline — Wheezing is a high-pitched whistling sound during breathing. It occurs when air flows through narrowed breathing tubes. Wheezing is a sign that a person may be having breathing problems. The sound of wheezing is most obvious when exhaling ...More…

Weight problems and children

Healthline — In the U.S., at least one out of five kids is overweight. The number of overweight children continues to grow. Over the last two decades, this number has increased by more than 50% and the number of "extremely" overweight children has nearly ...More…

Weight loss - unintentional

Healthline — Unintentional weight loss is a decrease in body weight that is not voluntary. In other words, you did not try to loss the weight by dieting or exercising. There are many causes of unintentional weight loss. Some are listed below: Practice ...More…

Webbing of the fingers or toes

Healthline — Webbing of the fingers and toes is called syndactyly. It refers to the connection of two or more fingers or toes. Webbing usually only involves a skin connection between the two areas, but in rare cases may involve the connection (fusion) of ...More…

Weakness

Healthline — Weakness is a reduction in the strength of one or more muscles. Weakness may be generalized (total body weakness) or localized to only one area, side of the body, limb, or muscle. Weakness is more notable when it is localized. Localized weakness ...More…

Watery eyes

Healthline — Watery eyes occur when there is too much tear production or poor drainage of the tear duct. Tears are necessary for the normal lubrication of the eye and to wash away particles and foreign bodies. Oddly enough, one of the most common causes of ...More…

Vulvovaginitis

Healthline — Vulvovaginitis is inflammation or infection of the vulva and vagina. Vulvovaginitis can affect women of all ages and is extremely common. It can be caused by bacteria, yeasts, viruses, and other parasites. Some sexually transmitted diseases can ...More…

Vomiting blood

Healthline — Vomiting blood is a backward flowing (regurgitation) of blood through the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The GI tract includes the small intestine, stomach, mouth, throat, and esophagus (the tube that moves food and secretions from mouth to ...More…