Statistics, causes, symptoms, and current treatments around the cold and flu.
Cold and flu viruses are highly contagious and adaptive, which explains why according to the Center for Disease and Control (CDC), 8 percent of the U.S. population, on average, gets sick from the flu each season.
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How One Schoolteacher Takes Measures to Prevent & Alleviate Cold and Flu Symptoms.
Everyone can relate to the dreadful feeling of knowing a cold or flu is coming on, starting with a sore throat, or made evident through the constant sniffles and chills throughout the body. Yet, these may just be the initial symptoms, eventually followed by a week to two-week battle.
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How Do You Treat Back Pain?
Back pain affects an estimated 31 million Americans according the ACA and is one of the single leading causes of physical disability worldwide. Including the lower and upper back, sciatica, neck and shoulders, the pain can travel form your neck to your legs.
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Treatment Options for Scars
Depending on the type and severity of scarring, there are many treatments available. Options include cosmetic surgery, dermatological procedures, injections and topical treatments among others.
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What Causes Scars?
Love them or hate them, scars are something we all manage to collect throughout our lifetime. They’re life’s little reminders of incidents, and accidents we have suffered over the years.
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What is Neuropathic Pain?
Nerve pain is a common affliction that can affect individuals of all ages and backgrounds. For those that suffer from it, managing the frequent pain can be a difficult task. Nerve pain is frequently sharp and stinging pain, and can have a significant impact on the quality of life of those it impacts. While nerve pain can often improve or subside on its own, there are ways to successfully manage it with self-care. Following are some of the root causes of nerve pain and ways you can treat it at home.
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Cold Sores, Canker Sores or Fever Blisters
Our H-Balm Control Extra Strength is designed to reduce the pain, burning, itchiness and redness associated with cold sores, canker sores and fever blisters from the very first application. It also aids your body’s immune system, to prevent re-occurrences and outbreaks from appearing in the same location. If you’re already taking prescribed antiviral medications, H-Balm Control Extra Strength will work in conjunction with them, enhancing their effectiveness, rather than hindering it.
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Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist, Caylee Clay Shares her Journey with Psoriasis
Meet Caylee Clay, RDN CDN Living with psoriasis is a force to be reckoned with. It's hard to even know where my psoriasis story begins. Does it begin in February 2014, which was the last time I was free of plaque psoriasis? Or before February 2014, when my psoriasis would just come and go? Does the story begin with my parents and grandparents, who in hindsight I now recognize may have had undiagnosed psoriasis?
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Treating Internal Hemorrhoids
It is estimated that over half of men and women will have some form of hemorrhoids (also known as ‘piles’) by the time they reach 50 years of age. So, if you have been diagnosed with or suspect you have hemorrhoids, you are not alone.
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How to Prevent Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids are essentially varicose veins of the rectum. Hemorrhoidal veins are located at the lowest point of the rectum and anus. The vein wall will stretch and become swollen this causes them to become thin so that when there is a bowel movement, they are irritated. When these veins are swollen, itch, bleed, or hurt they are known as hemorrhoids, or piles.
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What Causes External Hemorrhoids?
External hemorrhoids are a condition that causes the veins around the anus, and lower rectum to become swollen, and inflamed.
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How Are Hemorrhoids Diagnosed?
Hemorrhoids are swollen veins in your rectum or anus. The type of hemorrhoids you have depends where they are located. Internal hemorrhoids are found inside your rectum, they are usually painless, and they may bleed.
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