How to Get a Pill Unstuck From Your Throat
When you swallow a pill -- either prescription medication, an over-the-counter type or a vitamin formulation -- it can sometimes feel as though it is stuck in your throat.
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How to Pop a Zit Inside Your Nose
A zit, or pimple, on the inside of your nose can be extremely painful. The swelling paired with the sensitive nerves on the inside of your nose can create an awkward position and painful inflammation that makes it difficult to get rid of.
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Good Uses for Bacteria
You may hear the word "bacteria," and shudder, thinking of the bacteria that can cause sickness and the spread of illness. But not all bacteria is bad. In fact, some bacteria is necessary for us to live, eat, work and feel healthy.
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Nighttime Post Nasal Drip in Children
Postnasal drip is responsible for 50 percent of lingering coughs that last more than three weeks, according to "Kelley's Essentials of Internal Medicine."
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How to Get Rid of Children's Fevers
A fever is a sign that your child's body is fighting infection or illness. A fever occurs when the body temperature exceeds the average temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. While a child's fever causes potential panic, most low grade temperatures aren't serious and can be successfully treated at home.
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Can I Exercise With a Hernia?
Hernias often occur when you've exerted your body to the point where the pressure is so extreme that a sac of lining pushes through the tissue surrounding a muscles. Abdominal and femoral hernias are common in adults and are usually the result of strain.
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How to Relieve Tooth Pain When Pregnant
Physical changes during pregnancy can increase the risk of dental problems that cause tooth or gum pain. Getting this pain evaluated and treated can pose some challenges during pregnancy, but there are some steps you can take to manage tooth pain during pregnancy.
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The Pros & Cons of Prescription Drugs
Prescription drugs have their place in our medically advanced society. There are many diseases people would die from if not for prescription drugs, and some prescription drugs seem to make life easier when you have a small ailment such as the flu or a cough. But prescription drugs have a dark side as well.
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Can Sweeping & Mopping While Pregnant Hurt the Baby?
While it would be a convenient excuse, housework generally is safe for pregnancy. Since the actions could be considered low-impact exercise, sweeping and mopping actually could be a beneficial way to stay active while pregnant.
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How To Relieve Sore Gums
When your gums feel painful, throb, are reddened or produce sores, you may have unhealthy gums. Healthy gums are pink in color, and shouldn't cause you pain. When you're dealing with sore gums, it may be difficult to eat or talk, so it's important that you address the problem immediately.
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Ringing in the Ears After Exercise
When you step off of the elliptical or you've finished a round of weight lifting, you may notice that you experience a ringing or high pitched sound in your ear.
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Effects of Skin Bleaching
Skin bleaching is popular with darker-skinned people to obtain a more even skin tone, but skin bleaching cream is also often used to lighten sun damage and age spots on the skin in people of all skin colors.
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How to Increase Core Body Temperature
The baseline core temperature for most humans is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Your body temperature fluctuates throughout the day depending on physical activity, body heat loss and environmental factors.
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Exercises for Gas Relief
Whether the result of poor diet, inactivity or a chronic intestinal condition, gas can build up in your belly and make you feel bloated and uncomfortable. Gas pains can be sharp and stabbing or simply make you feel full, but either way they mean you may experience an embarrassing need to pass gas.
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What Are the Causes of Fine Thin Hair?
Whether you're male or female, fine, thinning hair can be a source of embarrassment. When your scalp beings to peek through the strands of your hair, you may need to investigate the source of your thinning hair, especially if it's a sudden occurrence.
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Sleep Tips for the Night Shift
When you agree to work the night shift, you expect to change your lifestyle only slightly to match the need to sleep during the day in order to sleep at night. But that change of schedule can be easier said than done, warns the National Sleep Foundation.
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How Do Hats Cause Thinning Hair?
While most experts will agree that wearing a hat daily will not cause you to lose your hair, it can cause problems for those who are already losing their hair due to male pattern baldness and genes.
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Allergic Reaction to Hair Dye & Head Itching
Millions of women and men use hair dye to enhance, update or change up their look. Most people tolerate hair dye without a problem, but it can cause a reaction in some users. These reactions, known as contact dermatitis, are due to various chemicals in different types of hair dye.
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Workouts With an Achilles Injury
Injuring your Achilles tendon can be extremely painful. You use the Achilles tendon grouping a lot, for example, while standing and walking. So, an injury can be especially inconvenient because it affects nearly all of your movements.
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Sweating While Breastfeeding
Even if you don't choose to breastfeed your baby, postpartum sweating is a common and normal reaction your body has in the weeks following childbirth. The close proximity of your baby and increased body temperature of breastfeeding may exacerbate the problem.
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