The telltale sign of a dry scalp is persistent itchiness, but it may also be accompanied by dandruff, soreness, and hair loss.

Dry scalp can have a number of different causes, though the most common is a reaction to the change in weather or a harsh ingredient in hair care products.

Sometimes, something as simple as washing your hair every day or not drinking enough water can be the cause, though medical conditions like eczema or psoriasis could also be the reason.

No matter the cause, we’ve put together some solutions for at-home treatment you can try to treat your dry scalp.

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If you are experiencing any of the aches and pains listed below, seek aid from a medical professional as soon as you can.

Chest Pain

For many, chest pain could be run-of-the-mill indigestion, but with heart disease still one of the top killers of people throughout the world, you should take no chances. If the chest pain spreads and becomes more of a stabbing pain than a pressure, you might be experiencing angina, which happens when there is a blockage that is depriving your heart of oxygen.

Other symptoms to watch out for are subtle, especially in women. One study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine found that out of 1,000 patients, 1 in every 5 women under the age of 55 years old had zero chest pain when having a heart attack. If you feel a sharp, stabbing pain between the shoulder blades, left shoulder, or arm that is accompanied with a shortness of breath, dull jaw pain, and nausea, you could be having a heart attack.

Stay calm and call 911 as soon as you can. Every second counts.

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Managing diabetes can be a challenging task. However, the prospect of following a healthy lifestyle can potentially make a huge difference regarding how well you manage your condition. Taking part in regular workouts, taking a nutritious diet and maintaining a healthy weight are perhaps the cornerstones of diabetes management. Of course, you don’t have to surrender some of your favorite meals so as to handle your condition, but, you must understand the effect of your choices on your blood glucose levels. With the help of a certified diabetes educator, or a registered dietitian, you can be taught on how to count your carbs, size up your portions, and read food labels. Those tips are critical to managing your condition successfully.

Before you retire to bed, examine your feet

You can use a hand mirror to check your feet. You may also ask a friend or even a close relative to aid you to look for any swelling, cuts or changes in color. Carefully examine between your toes, too. If you notice anything unfriendly, contact your physician immediately. Additionally, you should inform him/her if you have ay calluses or corns.

Taking a great care of your feet should form part of your daily routine. Thoroughly wash and moisturize them on a regular basis. Again, keep the toenails of yours trimmed.

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Oftentimes, heel spurs happen on their own, but they can also be caused by other underlying health issues. In fact, heel spurs usually are the result of stress from repeated actions. Jogging, running, walking, or jumping on hard surfaces for extended periods; walking in worn-out footwear or flip-flops and sandals frequently; or other issues like obesity, arthritis, plantar fasciitis, or gait problems increase the chances of developing a heel spur.

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Swelling & Inflammation

Any inflammation associated with a heel spur will be at the front of the heel. When the spur worsens over time, the arch will also swell and become inflamed. The skin may feel tender and hot to the touch. You may also notice some redness.

Should you visit the doctor, they will often check for swelling around the plantar fascia and heel immediately by gently palpating the area. If any inflammation is found, your doctor will probably recommend that you take anti-inflammatory medicine, such as NSAIDs, like ibuprofen. Sometimes, if the inflammation and pain that results from the swelling is unbearable, you have the option of getting an injection.

To reduce swelling, you can also treat a heel spur with ice. Freeze a gel pack or put ice cubes in a plastic Ziploc bag then wrap it in a towel before resting your heel on the pack. Apply ice for no longer than 30 minutes in a single sitting and attempt to re-ice your heel spur frequently, about every 2-3 hours.

Sharp Pains In Foot

One of the most noticeable symptoms of a heel spur would be that initial shock of a sharp pain in the morning, when you put your feet on the ground and attempt to stand up. Many patients describe this pain as a stabbing or a poking feeling. However, there are some people who never feel this stabbing pain in the heel when they try to stand up. Also, it should be noted that foot pain can be caused by a multitude of feet problems, so if you notice a stabbing pain, schedule an appoint with a podiatrist or orthopedic specialist as soon as you can.

The doctor will oftentimes ask questions related to your lifestyle and physical activities. They will want to know what you do that worsens the pain and when the pain is most frequent. You should also let them know about any treatments, such as elevating and icing the foot, that help reduce the pain. To understand the cause of the pain, be ready to walk around the examination room or perform some exercises. Depending on how the heel spur is affecting your gait, you might be prescribed orthopedic insoles or physical therapy.

Visible Protrusion On or Under Heel

Take a close look at the heel of your hurting foot. Do you see a protrusion or a lump under the skin? This bump is the calcium deposit that is causing the heel spur. You can see it because it grows outward, away from the foot and towards the surface of the skin. Sometimes, the deposits are very small and cannot be seen by the naked eye or even felt. However, an X-ray is usually capable of picking up even the tiniest of heel spurs. That said, most doctors will order a CT scan, since CT scans are more precise and will detect spurs that other methods would have missed.

About the time the protrusion is visible, you may be in significant pain. Debilitating heel spurs often need to be taken care of with surgery. During the surgery, also known as an endoscopic plantar fasciotomy, the surgeon will open a small insertion point in the foot and look around with a camera to locate the spur before removing the growth. Once the calcium deposit is removed, new fascia will grow.

After surgery, you will be off your feet for about a week, and it will typically take anywhere between 3-4 weeks before you are completely pain-free.

Problems With Walking

Heel spurs can be problematic, particularly when they cause walking challenges. Depending on the severity of the heel spur, you may have issues with walking on flat surfaces, walking up and down stairs, or running and jumping. At first, the pain may be intermittent, but as the growth gets larger, people noticed that walking even short distances is nearly impossible.

Furthermore, you may end up with alignment issues that disrupt balance if you are favoring the foot with the heel spur. This will cause muscles on one side of the body to be more tense or unstable, and that can lead to injury. Those who have medical conditions or are of advanced age will struggle with heel spurs.

If you are experiencing problems with walking, see a doctor immediately. You may need a walker or cane to aid with mobility until you can get the ailment treated properly.

Chronic Aches In Foot

Beyond the early stages of a heel spur, where you may notice sporadic flashes of pain, the spur grows longer and thicker, and the pain will be more chronic. People describe this chronic aching a number of ways, either as dull or as an unrelenting throbbing. Your footwear will play a role in the pain that you feel, since shoes with more support and padding will oftentimes take pressure off the heel spur, while shoes that lack support will increase pain.

If you believe you have a heel spur, don’t wear sandals, flip-flops, or any other shoe that lacks arch support. Contact a podiatrist or orthopedic specialist to let them know of your symptoms. It may help to keep a symptom journal, especially if the pain does not abate, so you can describe when the pain gets worse or when it dissipates.

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Limiting saturated fats in your diet along with regular exercise and other healthy practices may help lower the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in your blood.

Cholesterol is made in your liver and has many important functions. For example, it helps keep the walls of your cells flexible and is needed to make several hormones.

However, like anything in the body, too much cholesterol (or cholesterol in the wrong places) creates concerns.

Like fat, cholesterol does not dissolve in water. Instead, to move around the body, it depends on molecules called lipoproteins. These carry cholesterol, fat, and fat-soluble vitamins in your blood.

Different kinds of lipoproteins have different effects on health. For example, high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) results in cholesterol deposits in blood vessel walls, which can lead to:

• clogged arteries
• stroke
• heart attack
• kidney failure

In contrast, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) helps carry cholesterol away from vessel walls and helps prevent these conditions.

There are many natural ways to increase HDL (good) cholesterol and lower LDL (bad) cholesterol.

The link between dietary and blood cholesterol

The liver produces as much cholesterol as your body needs. It packages cholesterol with fat in what’s called very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL).

As VLDL delivers fat to cells throughout the body, it changes into the more dense LDL, which carries cholesterol wherever it is needed.

The liver also releases HDL, which then carries unused cholesterol back to the liver. This process is called reverse cholesterol transport, and it protects against clogged arteries and other types of heart disease.

Some lipoproteins, especially LDL and VLDL, are prone to damage by free radicals in a process called oxidation. Oxidized LDL (oxLDL) and VLDL (oxVLDL) are even more harmful to heart health.

Although food companies often advertise products as being low in cholesterol, recent research has shown that dietary cholesterol actually has only a small influence on the amount of cholesterol in the body.

This is because the liver changes the amount of cholesterol it makes depending on how much you eat. When your body absorbs more cholesterol from your diet, it makes less in the liver.

Current guidelines by leading U.S. health organizations for lowering risk of heart disease no longer contain specific recommended levels for dietary cholesterol, including the:

• American Heart Association (AHA)
• American College of Cardiology (ACC)
• 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA)

Beginning in its 2015–2020 guidelines and continuing in the current 2020–2025 guidelines, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee eliminated its previous recommended daily cholesterol limit in favor of a new focus on dietary patterns rather than macronutrients. Its recommendations are based on an extensive review of recent research.

The 2020 DGA recommends, for people 2 years old and over, to limit intake of saturated fat to less than 10% of calories per day. They also recommend replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats, particularly polyunsaturated fats.

The guidelines do recommend moderating cholesterol consumption, but this is more to limit the saturated fat that often accompanies cholesterol in foods than to limit intake of cholesterol itself.

While dietary cholesterol may have little influence on your body’s cholesterol levels, other factors in your life may, such as:

• family history
• smoking
• a sedentary lifestyle
• heavy alcohol consumption

Healthy lifestyle choices can help turn the tide by increasing the beneficial HDL and decreasing the harmful LDL. Read on to learn about natural ways to improve your cholesterol levels.

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Skin Spots

We all get some sort of skin spots, especially with age. However, a clear indicator of a blood infection is either reddish or spotted patches on the body’s extremities i.e. the hands, feet, arms, and legs, in addition to other body parts.

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Continue reading to learn more about the different ways to relieve the god-awful sensation of having a scratchy and painful sore throat.

Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

Although it might seem as though anti-inflammatory drugs are used for everything, they might be your saviour when it comes to sore throat relief. As you probably know, there are a variety of different types of anti-inflammatory medications. For instance, there is acetaminophen like Aspirin or Tyleno, ibuprofen like Advil, and naproxen like Aleve. We would bet that most of you reading this have a bottle of at least one of these in your medicine cabinet (and/or car and/or purse). They are always good to have on hand.

As with any medication, it is essential to make sure that you take the recommended dosage and do not take more than necessary. If you are listening to the instructions on the label and still find that you are not experiencing any relief, it might be time to call your doctor in order to see if they have any other suggestions for ways that you can get relief from your sore throat symptoms. A more advanced treatment may be necessary.

If your child us suffering from a sore throat make sure to use a child’s version of the above medications as an adult dose may be too much for your child’s body to handle.

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To actually overcome this disease or prevent it from happening in the first place, it is important to actually understand it. Not only are there certain ages of people who are more likely to get LD, but there are also specific regions where the condition is far more likely. If you want to stay healthy, you need to know the symptoms, causes, infection rates, and treatment possibilities for LG.

Prevention

Of course it is better to avoid getting the condition altogether, but it can be somewhat tricky to prevent LD. Because there are no vaccines that are effective, larger populations cannot be innoculated against the LD infection. Another issue with prevention is that the condition is often spread through water systems in a building. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell if the system used to hold water in water tanks, hot water heaters, or water based air conditioning devices is at risk for Legionella bacteria contamination.

The main method for preventing contamination from a building’s water systems is rigorous use of disinfectants. Since Legionella bacteria grows at rapid rates in warm or hot water, buildings need to pay special attention to hot tubs or warm water tanks. All water systems should be regularly flushed with disinfectants to keep Legionella out. People can also lower their risk of getting a severe case of LD by quitting smoking and staying generally healthy.

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Blood in stool indicates that there is bleeding somewhere in the digestive tract. Blood in the stool can appear as bright red, black or maroon in color. The shade of the blood is dependent on the location of the bleeding, with black blood being farther up the digestive tract, bright red being lower and maroon coming from somewhere in between.

The medical term for fresh blood in stool is hematochezia, which is a common occurrence, affecting up to 15% of adults. This type of bleeding can be visible in the toilet, or on the toilet paper.

It’s normal to worry and to ask yourself, “why is there blood in my stool?” so we’ve compiled a list of some common causes of blood in stool.

Anal Fissure

An anal fissure is a small cut or tear in the tissue lining of the anus. This is usually a result of injury and can easily happen in people who have a tight sphincter tone, which inhibits adequate relaxation of the muscle during a bowel movement.

Anal fissure can be painful, and bowel movements are usually followed by a burning sensation on the skin in the sensitive area. The most common cause of anal fissure is the forceful passing large and hardened stools.

Since the damage is around the anal area, bleeding from an anal fissure is bright red in color and is usually nothing to worry about, as the tissue damage will heal itself in a few days. If anal fissure is happening frequently due to constipation, an increase in water consumption and fiber-rich foods can help.

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What is Perimenopause?

Many women know the basics of menopause, since most women have mothers and grandmothers to learn from. Yet, few women understand what happens in perimenopause, the second stage of menopause. Perimenopause comes after pre-menopause, a time when you are completely fertile and still without many symptoms. When perimenopause commences, however, the body receives signals that start the gradual shutdown of reproductive functions.

Therefore, perimenopause can be defined as the time when a woman’s body prepares to permanently stop the operation of the ovaries, causing a decrease in both estrogen and progesterone levels. Because of this fluctuation in female hormones, the body undergoes numerous changes that may last over ten years or longer.

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