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Excessive Hair Growth Home Remedies 2008-12-13 16:08:36
Rarely do men complain about having too much hair—even if it grows dark and dense on arms, chest, and legs. But for women, the tendency of hair to crop up in places other than the scalp can be a decided cosmetic liability. For some women, it goes beyond a cosmetic problem; it is a serious [...] Read more:Growth
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Ear Infection Home Remedies 2008-12-12 18:30:38
Step into a pediatrician’s waiting room, and You’re likely to find that one of every three children under the age of three is there because he or she has an ear infection. Some one-third of all children have more than three middle-ear infections (the medical name is otitis media) during the first three years of [...] Read more:Remedies
Earache Remedies 2008-12-12 18:21:52
Most people don’t think about their ears much, unless they’re self-conscious about their size. But when an earache develops, the affected ear can feel as if it has taken on monster proportions, making it difficult to think of anything else.
For all the unspeakable pain caused by earaches, they are rarely life threatening. Still, they can be [...] Read more:Remedies
Sun and Dry Skin 2008-12-12 08:09:40 If you’re a sun worshipper who is always “working on your tan,” you’re also drying out your skin and increasing your risk of developing wrinkles, age spots, and skin cancer (melanoma), warns Frank Parker, M.D. “Just as the sun dries wet clothes hanging on a clothesline, it dries out the outer layer of the skin,” [...] Read more:Dry Skin
Dry Skin Home Remedies 2008-12-10 20:51:08
Everyone occasionally suffers from dry skin, according to dermatologist James Shaw, M.D., chief of the Division of Dermatology at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center and associate clinical professor of medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University, both in Portland. “Dry skin is largely influenced by genetics and by climate and other drying factors like taking [...] Read more:Dry Skin
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Dry Hair Home Remedies 2008-12-09 20:10:17
Your hair feels like straw dry, fly-away, unmanageable. How could you have been cursed with such a mane? You probably weren’t, according to Frank Parker, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. “While some people are born with hair that tends to be more dry, most dry [...] Read more:Remedies
The Young and the Old 2008-12-09 20:02:20
For most people, diarrhea is nothing more than a minor inconvenience. But for the very young and the elderly, it can be life threatening, even fatal.
Why is it so dangerous for these groups? “Young children have a much smaller blood volume,” explains Harry S. Dweck, M.D., director of the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at [...]
When Diarrhea Lasts 2008-12-09 19:59:26 Sometimes diarrhea goes on . . . for weeks. That’s when a more serious problem is probably responsible. Your doctor can ferret out the cause. Here are some of the possibilities:
Lactose intolerance. “If you get diarrhea every time you drink a glass of milk, you may suffer from this condition that involves an inability to digest [...] Read more:Lasts
Diarrhea Home Remedies 2008-12-09 19:55:57
You may blame it on a 24-hour bug or 1 something you ate, but if you’re like the average American, you’ll suffer once or twice this year from diarrhea—frequent, watery bowel movements that may be accompanied by painful cramps or nausea and vomiting.
Gastroenteritis—the catch-all medical term for intestinal flu, viral infection, and food poisoning— is the [...] Read more:Remedies
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