For fungus on your feet, especially between the toes, apply a baking soda paste, says experts.
How to apply baking soda on your athlete’s foot?
1. Take one tablespoon of baking soda.
2. Add a little lukewarm water.
3. Rub that on the site of your fungus, then rinse and dry thoroughly.
4. Finish off the treatment by dusting on cornstarch or powder.
What is rabies?
It is caused by a virus which medical experts describe as “neurotropic” because of its attraction to nerve tissues. Once the virus has found its way into the cell tissue of a host, it turns into a highly prolific producer. The virus is transmitted to man by the bit of rabid animals.
Who can get rabies?
Anyone can get rabies. However, cases are highly seen in developing countries because mainly of poor control of stray dogs and cats and poor vaccination of dogs. Incidence was noted higher in children below 15 years old.
Are dogs the only rabies carrier?
Dogs aren’t the only carriers of rabies. The main carriers are bats. Rabies is also carried by cattle, cats, swine, monkeys and even human being who had been bitten by rabid animals. It is reportedly “extremely rare” in squirrels, rats and mice.
They say the dog’s saliva is curative, is it safe to let my pet lick my wounds?
Some people believe that the saliva of dogs has some curative properties and they encourage their pets to lick their wounds. This practice is extremely dangerous, no matter how you religiously immunize your pet.
I was bitten by a dog, what should I do?
The following first aid measures should be followed by a person bitten by a dog or any animal assumed to be rabid.
Then be sure to consult a physician immediately for appropriate preventive measures. These practices should also be applied to those licked wounds, especially the open ones.
Who can be given rabies vaccine?
Anyone who was bitten by a dog or a rabid animal should receive vaccine, especially in areas where there are high cases of rabies. Further, victims of dog bites in the dangerous sites such as the head, neck, face, fingertips and back should immediately be given rabies vaccine. The nearer the site of the bite to the brain, the faster the movement of the virus.
What are the symptoms of rabies?
Symptoms may include nausea, a slight headache which is usually accompanied by fever, and a feeling of fatigue, lasting from two to three days or even more from the time of inception. But once the virus reaches the brain and starts to “colonize,” it tortures its victim with terrifying ferocity.
A rabid patient often become maniacal… An excessive flow of thick saliva pours over his face and neck and becomes smeared on hands and clothes and over the bedding and floor…Convulsions are brought about by the least irritation and by the slightest current of air. When the patient attempts to drink, there is an immediate viselike contraction of the muscles of deglutition with an excruciatingly painful spasm of the glottis and the pharynx. The body trembles with convulsive movements, the jaws are clenched, respiration is impossible. As a rule, death occurs after two or three days from cardiac or respiratory failure.
Almost every article we read regarding weight management is tackling about weight loss. Everybody wants to be slim, that’s the point of each of this article. But how about those who are naturally slim and want to put some weight? What could we recommend?
The discipline and guidelines you need work similarly in losing and gaining weight.
So how to gain some weight without compromising your health?
1. Observe the food you eat. Increase your food intake without consuming too much fat and sugar. Add more carbohydrates and protein to your diet. Drink a lot of juices and milk.
2. Eat your regular meals with in-between snacks. However, do away with fast foods. A healthy tip is to always bring your home-made sandwich or any snack at your work or office.
3. Take your time with meals and make sure you are relaxed. This is to ensure that your digestive system functions properly.
What Should You Eat To Gain Weight?
The following diet for gaining weight can supply those extra calories. Eat at least these group food items.
a) Milk Group: milk, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream.
b) Meat Group: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dried beans and peas, nuts.
c) Vegetable Group: fresh, frozen, canned, juiced vegetables.
d) Fruit Group: Fresh, frozen, canned, dried, juiced fruits.
e) Grain Group: Cereals, breads, rolls, pasta, muffins, pancakes, grits, rice.
What foods to avoid? Caffeine and nicotine are good stimulants and help to increase the metabolism of our body. Avoid having these stimulants in excess quantity to help your body retain maximum nutritional value from what you eat.
Now that’s a depressing and alarming fact.
The Center for Disease Control reports that more than 3 million teenaged girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease (STD). Mostly affected are African-American teens, with 48 percent of African-American teenaged girls have an STD, compared with 20 percent of white teenaged girls. Common sexually transmitted diseases found in this population include human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis.
What do these findings say? Aside from being reflective of promiscuity of teenage nowadays, more than 3 American teens are at risk of complications of STD including cervical cancer and infertility.
STD is always preventable. The only sure way to prevent STIs is by not having sex. If you have sex, you can lower your risk of getting an STI by only having sex with someone who isn’t having sex with anyone else and who doesn’t have an STI.
For parents, proper education to their children is advocated. Learning always comes first from home. Teens are always curious. They want to try every thing, that even including sex. With proper education and guidance, teens can be made to understand the risks of early sexual relationships and unprotected sex.
Acne scars are much more common than doctors once believed; most people will have acne scars that are mild. However, some will have scars that look significant even to others.
The best approach is prevention and to treat acne right away as sometimes even mild acne can cause scarring, this can minimize the risk of permanent acne scars. There are a number of different looking scars caused by acne.
Acne is mostly an inflammatory response to sebum outbreaks within the hair follicles, and is followed by the proliferation of acne bacteria, within clogged pores.
Acne Treatment must address both inflammation and acne bacteria, and always aim to avoid acne scarring. The Regimen is a simple three step process, using inexpensive over- the-counter products. You may have even experimented with these products before. But while the products themselves are important, the quantity you’ll be using is equally important. Also vital is reducing irritation.
Home Remedies for Acne Scars
1. Squeeze the juice out of fresh lemons or limes. Apply the juice directly on your acne scars using a cotton ball. Let your skin soak up the lemon juice for a while before washing it off with water. Lemon juice improves the appearance of dark acne scars and blemishes by lightening them.
2. Mix sandalwood with a few drops of rosewater to make a paste. The sandalwood and rosewater paste can be used as a facial mask and can be directly applied on the scarred area. Leave the paste on for more than an hour. Wear it overnight if you can. Wash off completely with water. This is an effective method of how to treat acne scar because of sandalwood’s soothing and cooling effect on the skin.
3. Slice up a tomato and place it over your face. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin A that hinders overproduction of sebum that causes acne. Vitamin A also has antioxidant qualities that refreshes and renews scarred and damaged skin.
4. Keep your hands away from your face or other affected areas. They contain oils and bacteria that promote acne. Wash your hands frequently.
5. Honey is another natural moisturizer that can help in treating acne scars. You can use honey as a mask or orally take a specially formulated honey acne scar treatment.
6. To treat acne scars, use this mixture as a face mask: 1 tablespoon of sour cream, 1 tablespoon of yogurt, 1 tablespoon of oatmeal, and a few drops of lemon juice. Pat the mixture onto acne scars, leave on for 10 minutes, and rinse off.
7. A popular way of how to treat acne scar is to use a face mask made out of tomatoes and cucumbers. These two combined can greatly reduce the visibility of acne scars. Using a tomato and cucumber face mask also tightens the pores of the skin giving it a nice, even texture.
8. Wash your skin gently twice daily with an antibacterial soap or cleanser containing salicylic acid, not regular soap, as it is alkaline and will promote bacterial growth. Don’t scrub too hard, as this will irritate your skin further.
9. Fenugreek is an effective solution to how to treat acne scar. You can make a paste out of fenugreek leaves and use it as a face mask. You can also boil Fenugreek seeds in water and use the solution on acne scars after it cools down.
10. Saturate a cotton ball with a few drops of acne-fighting essential oil such as lavender oil. Apply it on acne scars at least two times a day.
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Trashing tobacco out of one’s system improves health. Here’s what happens when a smoker quits after:
Indeed, the only quitters to win are the smokers.
Source: A White Paper on Tobacco and Smoking
A puncture wound - such as stepping on a nail - doesn’t usually result in excessive bleeding. Often, in fact, little blood will flow and the wound seems to close almost instantly. But these features doesn’t mean that treatment is unnecessary.
A puncture wound can be dangerous because of the risk of infection. The object that caused the wound may carry tetanus spores or other bacteria, especially if it has been exposed to soil.
If you sustain a puncture wound, see a doctor to have the wound thoroughly cleaned. As a precaution, you may need a tetanus shot.
Didn’t we always hear our mothers reminding us (or even nagging us at times) that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that it shouldn’t be skipped. I could pretty much relate to breakfast skipper. I have been depriving myself of hearty breakfast (for four years) ever since I entered medical school. I usually start my day with only a cup of coffee and two slices of bread, especially if I have only minutes to get prepared for hospital duties and school. I am a late riser so I am always having an early morning rush. My mother would always remind me that it is a healthy way to start my day and she’s been right.
In a U.S. study, skipping breakfast was found out unhealthy and is linked to teen obesity.
Teens who ate breakfast daily have a healthier diet overall and were more physically active than teens who skipped breakfast. A five-year follow up was done showing consistent results with breakfast skippers gaining more weight also.
So always have a healthy breakfast. Aside from preventing obesity, breakfasts energizes your day.
Reuters reported that A vaccine (AngQb) that targets angiotensin II appears to be safe and effective in reducing blood pressure in patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension, according to results of a phase II study reported in the March 8th issue of The Lancet.
Lifestyle interventions and drug therapy are the mainstays of treatment for hypertension, but both require patient compliance to be effective, Dr. Ola Samuelsson and Dr. Hans Herlitz, from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden, write in a related editorial. “If vaccination against high blood pressure were safe and effective in the long run, it might solve many problems of non-compliance.”
The current study involved 72 patients with mild-to-moderate high blood pressure who were randomized to receive AngQb, at one of two doses, or placebo at weeks 0, 4, and 12. The main focus was on safety and tolerability, but 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure was assessed prior to treatment and at week 14, note senior author Dr. Martin F. Bachmann, from Cytos Biotechnology AG in Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland, and colleagues.
Five patients dropped out of the study and were excluded from the efficacy analysis: two of these patients given AngQb 100 micrograms and three given AngQb 300 micrograms.
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At night, while parents extend their work at home under bright artificial lights, little kids also lose their sense of a relaxed home. Their stress may be expressed in the form of irritability, crying, bed wetting, and misbehavior.
Here are some tips on how to have your children get a good night’s sleep:
1. Feed your children right. Children get poor sleep with stomach discomforts. Thus, they often wake up and cry at night. To avoid this, feed them with light, easily digestible, carbohydrate-rich food before sunset. Ripe banana of any variety is suggested because it contains serotonin and potassium that induce sound sleep. Children need light stomachs to sleep comfortably. Feeding them while tired or drowsy at late night may lead to indigestion, flatulence and discomfort.
2. Dedicate an early evening time with your kids. As soon as you get home from work, spend time (between 6 and 8 p.m.) with your family. Tag this period as “family time.” Attend to their needs and play with them in a variety of creative, less active endeavors both indoor and outdoor. Make this schedule regular and consistent.
3. Establish prebedtime routines at an early age. After family time, help your kids prepare their bottles, brush their teeth, empty their bladder, wash their face and body, change to their sleep clothes, and set their beddings. Massage them or simply tap them lightly for physical and nervous relaxation. This pattern will eventually become normal and spontaneous as they grow up. Likewise, such routines cue them to get to bed right away and condition them for a comfortable peaceful sleep.
4. Pray as a family before going to bed. Train your kids to say short prayers. Praying makes them feel safe knowing they have asked God to watch over them. Praying also instills int heir young minds faith and trust in God.
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The researchers advise that diabetics shouldn’t be rushing to drink masses of black tea thinking it will cure them of diabetes. Their research into tea compounds is at a preclinical, experimental stage and people with diabetes should continue to take their medication as directed by their doctor.
Source: HealthDay
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