Health A-Z - Conditions and treatments starting with B

B1

• B12 vitamin deficiency

Ba

• Babies
  • Babies, crying
  • Babies, skin rash
  • Babies, weaning
  • Baby essentials
  • Health and development
  • You and your life
• Back pain
  • Back pain guide tool
  • Managing back pain
  • Neck pain

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  • Sciatica
  • Shoulder pain
  • Slipped disc
  • Spondylolisthesis
• Bacterial arthritis
• Bacterial vaginosis
• Bad breath
• Baker's cyst
• Balanitis
  • Sexual health

• Balding
• Bariatric surgery
  • Exercise
  • Find weight loss support services
  • Healthy eating
  • Surgery planner
• Barium enema
• Bartholin's cyst
• Basal cell carcinoma

Bc

• BCG (tuberculosis) vaccination
  • Vaccinations

Be

• Bed sores
• Bedbugs
• Bedwetting
  • Pregnancy and baby guide
• Bee stings
• Behçet’s disease

• Bell's palsy
• Benign migratory glossitis
• Benign prostate enlargement
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Prostate health
  • Prostate problems

• Beta-blockers

Bi

• Bile duct cancer
  • Find cancer support services
  • Living with cancer
• Bilharzia
• Binge eating disorder
  • Healthy eating
  • Tool: Score your wellbeing
• Biopsy
• Bipolar disorder
  • Living with a mental health condition
• Bird flu

• Birth control
  • Combined contraceptive pill
  • Condoms
  • Contraceptive injections
  • Contraceptive patch
  • Emergency contraceptive pill
  • Female sterilisation
  • Find sexual health services
  • Intrauterine device (IUD)
  • Intrauterine system (IUS)
  • Male contraceptive pill

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  • Progestogen only pill
  • Vasectomy
• Birthmarks
• Bites
  • Bites, animal and human
  • Dog bites
  • Insect bites
  • Snake bites
• Bites-insect

Bl

• Black eye
• Blackheads
  • Teen boys
• Bladder cancer
  • Find cancer support services
  • Living with cancer
• Bladder infection
• Bladder stones
• Bleeding (haemorrhage)
• Bleeding after sex
  • Sexual health
• Bleeding from the bottom
• Bleeding in the brain
• Bleeding or spotting after the menopause
• Bleeding or spotting between periods
  • Periods, irregular

• Blepharitis
  • Eye health
• Blepharoplasty
• Blepharospasm
• Blindness
• Blisters
• Bloating
• Blocked nose
• Blood clot
  • Arterial thrombosis
  • Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
  • Pulmonary embolism
• Blood donation
  • Blood donation centres
• Blood groups
• Blood in phlegm

• Blood in the semen
• Blood in the stools
• Blood in the urine
• Blood in vomit
• Blood poisoning
• Blood pressure (high)
• Blood pressure (low)
• Blood pressure test
• Blood spot screening
• Blood tests
• Blood transfusion
• Blue lips or skin
• Blushing

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Bm

• BMI
  • BMI calculator
  • BMI iPhone app

Bo

• Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
• Body odour
  • Smelly feet (bromodosis)
• Body piercing
• Boils
• Bone cancer
  • Find cancer support services
  • Living with cancer
• Bone cyst
• Bone densitometry scan
• Bone health
  • DEXA scan
  • Falls
  • Osteomalacia
  • Osteophyte (bone spur)
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rickets

• Bone infection
• Bone marrow donation
• Bone marrow transplant
  • Surgery planner
• Bone spur (osteophyte)
• Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome
• Borderline personality disorder
• Bornholm disease
• Bottle feeding
• Bottom pain
• Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections
• Botulism
  • Food poisoning
• Bowel cancer
  • Bowel cancer screening
  • Find cancer support services
  • Living with cancer

• Bowel incontinence
  • Living with incontinence
• Bowel polyps
• Bowel transplant
  • Surgery planner
• Bowel, 'leaky'
• Bowenoid papulosis
• Bowen's disease

Br

• Braces (dental)
  • Find a dentist
  • Help with dental costs
• Brachycephaly
• Brain abscess
• Brain aneurysm
• Brain death
• Brain haemorrhage
• Brain injury
• Brain tumours
  • Brain tumour, benign (non-cancerous)
  • Brain tumour, malignant (cancerous)
• BRCA gene mutation test
• Breast abscess
• Breast cancer
  • BRCA gene mutation test
  • Breast cancer (female)
  • Breast cancer (male)
  • Breast cancer screening
  • Find cancer support services
  • Living with cancer
• Breast discharge

• Breast enlargement in men
• Breast implants
  • Cosmetic surgery
  • PIP implants
• Breast infection (mastitis)
• Breast lump
• Breast pain, cyclical
• Breast reduction (female)
  • Breast reduction on the NHS
• Breast reduction (male)
  • Breast reduction on the NHS
• Breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding and diet
  • Breastfeeding problems
• Breath-holding spells in children
• Breathing difficulty
• Breathlessness
• Brill-Zinsser disease
• Brittle bones
• Broken ankle
• Broken arm
• Broken collarbone

• Broken finger
• Broken heart syndrome
• Broken hip
• Broken leg
• Broken nose
• Broken ribs
• Broken toe
• Broken tooth
• Broken wrist
• Bromhidrosis (body odour)
• Bromodosis (smelly feet)
• Bronchiectasis
• Bronchiolitis
• Bronchitis
• Bronchodilator medicines
• Brucellosis
• Brugada syndrome
• Bruised ribs
• Bruising
• Bruxism
  • Find a dentist
  • Help with dental costs

Bs

• BSE

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Bu

• Bulging eyes
• Bulimia
  • Binge eating disorder
  • Eating disorders

• Bullous pemphigoid
• Bunion
• Burns and scalds
• Bursitis

• Buscopan