If you’re about to take your Taxi and Limousine Commission, also called the TLC physical exam, plan carefully. A high blood pressure reading can restrict or even temporarily cancel your certification to drive. Unfortunately, it’s common to find your blood pressure rising in the doctor’s office, resulting in a temporarily high reading due to something called white coat syndrome. This is a condition in which your blood pressure goes up when you’re in the doctor’s office (the name “…
Your child’s vision can begin to deteriorate early on in their life. Regular checkups and eye exams by an optometrist will help to catch any vision issues that your child may be experiencing early on. However, if you cannot afford insurance, then the cost of seeing an optometrist regularly can quickly add up. In addition, the cost will increase if your child needs to visit the optometrist several times a year for any vision issues.…
Diseases of the heart and blood vessels aren’t always easy to spot because their symptoms aren’t always obvious. However, you can manage your heart’s health if you know what to look out for so that you don’t make serious health mistakes. Avoiding these three mistakes is a good start for looking out for your heart’s health:
Ignoring Erection Problems
If you have a problem getting or maintaining an erection, then you may be dealing with more than a case of impotence.…
As a parent, it can be hard to determine how to best deal with your child’s emotions. Children’s emotions are extreme because they are still learning how to control them. When they feel out of control or ignored, a child may react with anger because they haven’t learned how to express themselves in a positive way yet. It’s your job as a parent to help your child manage their anger. How do you do that?…
Physical therapy is often sought by individuals following a surgery in order to restore physical function and for chronic pain, particularly in the back and neck. Physical therapy often combines many different approaches, including massage, stretching and hydrotherapy. These techniques have the ability to help a wide range of ailments, disorders, and conditions. In fact, physical therapy can help with more things that most people think, including health conditions like arthritis, incontinence, and Alzheimer’s disease, for adults.…
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.…
