Question

What are the difference between acute and chronic diseases with examples

Answer 1

Acute diseases are those diseases which occurs for a relatively short period of time, while chronic diseases are those which occurs for long time.

Explanation:

• Any condition of uneasiness to the physical, mental, and emotional state of the body us termed as disease.
• On the basis of the duration of time period that this condition exists, the diseases can be categorized into two different types, acute and chronic diseases.
• Acute diseases are the ones that affects the body for shorter periods of time.
• They are also easily curable and generally take shorter span of time to be completely cured.
• They also occur suddenly and are generally not fatal.
• Examples are: common cold, pneumonia, migraine, etc.
• While chronic diseases are long term diseases which takes longer periods to develop and also take longer periods to be cured, sometimes they might not be cured.
• They are generally fatal.
• Examples are, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, etc.

Answer 2

Answer:

• The diseases that last only for very short period of time are called acute disease.

• For example :- Common cold which last only for a few days.

• An acute disease do not cause major effect on general health.

• The diseases that last for a long time or for life time are called chronic disease.

• For example :- Infection causing Elephantiasis, Asthma, tuberculosis, diabetes etc.

• The chronic disease are more severe and has adverse effect on body than acute diseases because they cause poor functioning of some part of the body. Resulting in drastic long term effect on people's health.