This particularly unpleasant form of headache is sometimes known as sick headache and a percentage of the population, mostly female, is prone to recurrent attacks. The patient will be warned that a migraine is imminent by visual disturbances such as bright flashes of light and squiggly patterns before the eyes. These are caused by the [...]

Chicken pox is caused by a specific virus which is highly contagious. Chicken pox is contracted through the air from a person who has the disease. Symptoms may appear within 12 to 21 days after being exposed to a person with chicken pox. One attack of chicken pox makes a person immune for life, unless [...]

Once you’ve mastered the art of talking and listening more effectively, there are other steps you can take to widen and deepen your social circle, Dr. Ornish says. Here are the actions he recommends. Practice altruism, forgiveness, and compassion. It’s in your own selfish best interest, says Dr. Ornish. A major 12-year study showed that [...]

Growth screening The regular weighing and measuring of children enables certain conditions to be detected early and treated. Measuring a baby’s head circumference is also a valuable screening procedure because it can alert the doctor to preventable conditions developing inside the skull. Developmental screening Used on babies and older children this appears to produce good [...]

Pre-menstrual tension affects 70% of women. Symptoms include depression, headaches, painful breasts, water retention, fatigue. Actually, it should be called pre-menstrual syndrome. The tension side is only part of the problem. PMT can be divided into four subgroups: PMT A (anxiety), PMT C (craving), PMT D (depression) and PMT H (hyperhydration). Some vitamins and herbs [...]

Migraine headaches are discussed under Migraines, but now let us look at so-called normal headaches. These headaches can develop after a hard day’s work, or spending too much time in glaring conditions. These are a different type of headache but certainly painful and debilitating. There are a number of causes of headaches that are not [...]

Cold sores are a viral infection {herpes simplex) and are highly contagious. The name cold sores apply to their appearance when you are suffering with a cold. They can also accompany periods of stress. The reason they manifest at this time is because your immune system is underactive when you have a cold, an infection, [...]

Bites and stings can be very painful and some people have life-threatening allergic reactions to the venom. There are many preparations available, manufactured and natural. Our grandmothers used to apply blue-bag to bee stings. There are many other things you can do to help reduce the pain of bites and stings. Bull ant sting can [...]

Too often I find that the diet is made up in one day of toast, sweetened coffee or tea, biscuits, soft drink, a meat pie or sausage roll, hot chips; cream bun; sausages or fried foods, bread, tomato sauce, and peas, mashed potato and gravy. This is typical food for a number of working persons [...]