I would like to know what is the difference between a chronic illness and a terminally illness because my wife has a chronic disease called diabetes.
2006-10-19 01:03:53 · 9 answers · asked by D 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
Terminal means it will kill you. Chronic means it is life-threatening. I have diabetes, too, and it can be severe, but there is a treatment.
Cancer is sometimes a terminal illness.
I hope this helped. :)
2006-10-19 01:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah E 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Simple illness is a type of illness which goes after short period of time. This is usually due to virus or bacteria. Chronic illness is type of illness which is permanent. This can be caused due to some body part not working properly. Terminally illness is type of illness which is deadly and normally doctors give time for a patient's maximum time of survival.
Diabetes is a malfunction of an organ in our body.
2006-10-19 03:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by samranelahi 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
chronic illness is an illness that you will have to live with for the rest of ones life, terminally illness, unfortunately means one will past away.
God Bless!
2006-10-19 01:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An acute ailment has an exceedingly short historic previous, it rather is rapid and signs and indicators look rapidly. regularly those words are employed in connection with infective themes like sore throat. An acute tonsillitis is inflammation of tonsils (sore throat in undemanding English) which develops in rely of minutes and hours after the an infection has invaded our physique. on the different hand a persistent ailment encompasses an prolonged time span. Like Diabetes and maximum cancers are persistent ailments. persistent Dysentery is as an occasion a illness of small gut which keeps on coming and going. There are sessions of remissions and relapses in a persistent ailment. The underlying reason keeps to be embedded in our bodies.
2016-10-02 11:10:18 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
terminally illness you can die from it but chronic illness your just going to be sick for a long time or your going to get sick over and over for the same thing
2006-10-19 01:08:53 · answer #5 · answered by blaze67247 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
terminally illness will kill you quicker where a chronic takes much longer to do you in, sad to hear this best wishes
2006-10-19 01:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by blue_eyed_southernman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
chronic illness you learn to live with and it wont kill you,terminal it will get worse and kill you
2006-10-19 01:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chronic illness wont kill you unless you stupid... and terminal means the end, it will kill you....
2006-10-19 01:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by ABBYsMom 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Chronic illness simply won't ever go away.There is no known cure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_illness
Terminal illness usually results in death.
2006-10-19 01:06:20 · answer #9 · answered by joecseko 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋