There are plenty of names for it – Candidiasis, thrush among other things, but most people know it as a yeast infection. Generally, it’s an awkward condition to have and one that spans the gamut from a simple awkward infection to one that could cut a life short. Fortunately, the more dangerous forms of yeast [...]
It has plenty of names, from stomach flu to gastroenteritis but no matter what you decide to call it you’ll end up hating it after a while. This is basically when your stomach and your small intestine develop a slight swelling, which eventually ends up with things getting squeezed out the wrong end in the [...]
Whoever you are, you’ve probably suffered from the common cold virus. It never needed to be popularized – I mean, there’s a reason it’s cold the common cold. It comes with the seasons or with a simple cough. In fact, it’s incredibly contagious, almost making sure that it will never go out of style, virus [...]
It’s never fun to have an infection that affect’s a person’s pee-hole. It’s not even fun to say. Bladder infections or urinary tract infections are when bacteria gets into the urine – that’s not really normal. There are a lot of things in urine and most of them are unpleasant stuff along with salt and [...]
If your air-conditioning can be centralized, why not your vacuum system? Conceptually, that may be a little more jarring and can inspire scenes of explosive decompression on various space shuttles and many sci-fi and space based shows, but it is completely safe – although unlike many consumer devices, central vacuum systems isn’t exactly the norm [...]
Insomnia is a very real and very troubling condition. It is when a person cannot fall asleep. One of the most important facts about insomnia is that it isn’t a stand-alone condition. It is a symptom, or the effect on the body due to something else. To be fair, it isn’t just because a person [...]
Joint pain can belong to one of two groups – Arthralgia for non-inflamed or for pain without swelling and the more familiar term arthritis for when there’s inflammation. No matter what kind of pain it is, whether it is knee joint pain or finger joint pain or even sacroiliac joint pain, it’ll fall under one [...]
Sleep apnea is one of the more dangerous sleeping issues you could get or develop. If a person has sleep apnea, it means that their breathing stops every now and then when they sleep. Now, a person does not need to be a doctor to figure out that it’s a bad thing for that to [...]
There are many ways to lower blood pressure out there – but that information isn’t as promulgated as say, the concept of safe sex or hamburgers. It should be. If there’s anything we’ve gotten more out of food, it’s fat. Fast food is full of fat, gourmet food is full of fat as well as [...]
Colon cleansing, while an important aspect of body maintenance, is a topic that is rarely discussed on television. It’s somewhat understandable – it isn’t exactly a fond or fun topic of discussion and talking about it isn’t quite the sale making topic either. However, it is part of anyone and not cleansing the right way [...]