Problems with Your Sympathetic Nervous System and What to Do About Them
Your sympathetic nervous system provides the "fight or flight" response of your body to stress. It prepares your body for action by regulating your heartbeat, the release of sugar from...
Vaculitis: What It Is, What to Do About It
Vasculitis is a collection of diseases involving inflammation of the blood vessels. It's not just a problem of golfers or hikers or people who take long walks on hot days...
First Aid for Burns on the Tongue
Nearly everyone burns their tongue sooner or later. Scalding hot coffee, or soup that was in the microwave too long, or bubbly cheese eventually meet up with tender tongue, with...
Sunburn Management: How to Minimize the Damage?
The question is how to turn a sunburn into a tan. The answer to that is with time. The melanin cells in the skin become stimulated with sun exposure which results...
Tonsil Stones: What They Are, and How to Tell If They Are the Problem
Everyday bad breath has any number of causes. We have all had the unpleasant experience of bad breath after eating onions or garlic. We have all had the experience of...
Restoring Regularity After Gallbladder Surgery
Cholecystectomy, the removal of the gallbladder, has a way of causing one of two extremes in bowel regularity. Either you have to go all the time, and you tend to...
Burning Mouth Syndrome: What It Is, and What You Can Do About It
Burning mouth syndrome is a condition of searing pain in the mouth that seems to come on for no reason at all. It can affect just the tongue, usually the...
Different Strains of Marijuana Have Very Different Effects
Marijuana fans know better, but they often speak of marijuana as if all pot was the same. Even 50 years ago, that wasn't true, but with modern breeding programs different strains...
Abdominal Sprains, Strains, and Hernias
Muscle strains (an injury to the muscle itself or to the ligament connected to the muscle) and sprains (an injury to the connective tissues attached to a muscle) can occur...
Managing Pain After Hemorrhoid Surgery
Hemorrhoids can be treated with different procedures at different stages. Smaller hemorrhoids might be treated with banding, a procedure that involves minimal pain. Larger hemorrhoids might be treated with Stapled...