Are you tired of red and swollen skin covered in acne? Are you tired of your skin condition (rosacea, for example)? If you’re looking for a way to soothe irritation, eliminate redness, treat hyperpigmentation, prevent sun damage and fight breakouts, then look no further. Here are a few natural ways to keep your skin looking great:
1. Eat More Foods with Beta-Carotene.
Beta-carotene is a very important nutrient that can improve the overall health of your skin.…
Every time you get around your family, you have to deal with snarky remarks about your weight, your job, your love life, or your style of dress, etc. The holidays coming up are already making you dread seeing your family members again, and if you struggle with depression, this can make it that much harder, so here are five strategies to cope.
1. First, realize that their criticism is masking their own insecurities.…
In the past, when a woman needed a hysterectomy, it meant that she would have an open surgery that would leave a scar on her abdomen. The incision was made in either an up and down or side to side pattern and the opening was large enough to remove the woman’s uterus through. Fortunately, recent medical technology has made a hysterectomy a much less invasive form of surgery.
Depending on their health, many women are good candidates for a robotic hysterectomy instead.…
Trying to stay physically fit while you are pregnant becomes more challenging each day as the baby continues to grow in your belly. By the third trimester, everyday activities such as walking to the store or around the block can become seemingly impossible to do. Engaging in an exercising program is often last thing on your mind. However, you do have the option of getting into a swimming pool to perform exercises to stay in shape.…
Subungual melanoma is a rare form of skin cancer that attacks the nails. Although it can attack any nail, it is more prevalent in the toenail or thumbnail. Dark-skinned ethnic groups, with a prevalence of 15% - 35%, tend to get it more than Caucasians (prevalence 3%).
Symptoms
The main symptom of subungual melanoma is pigmentation under the affected nail. This usually occurs as a pigmented stripe that runs under the nail.…
Everyone knows about the standard things a nine-month-old can eat, but if your baby is getting tired of blueberries and peas, you may start looking for new food choices. Here are some interesting and unusual meal options you may not have thought of before.
Hummus
Now that your child can eat things like crackers and bite-size pieces of bagels, you can add a bit of hummus on top of these snacks.…
When you go about your daily life, driving to work, sitting at your desk doing your work, and taking care of your home and family, you never expect for an emergency medical situation to occur. And on most days, you will go through your day without incident and everyone around you will be just fine. However, one day, you may be confronted with an emergency medical situation. What you do in such situations depends entirely on you and any training you may have had for such situations.…
