Take Heart: Hope For A Silent Disease
Imagine not being able to walk to your mailbox, climb the stairs or complete regular, everyday activities due to severe shortness of breath or dizziness. For people with pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, that s the reality. While health and wellness should always be top-of-mind, National Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month offers an opportunity for us to learn about PAH, a rare but life-threatening condition that is often challenging for doctors to diagnose right away. The Problem PAH is a condition in which the blood vessels blood pipes in the lungs become thicker, constricted or plugged, making it more difficult for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, said Dr. Soto of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis. Over time, the heart cannot keep up and less blood is pumped to the lungs to pick up oxygen, which leads to the symptoms of PAH. Eventually the...
Beware Of Tanning Pills: Tanning Pills Are Not Approved By Fda!
The sales guy or the advertisement promoting the tanning pills will make you spell bound telling the benefits of Tanning Pills . The craze for a tanned skin is an opportunity for the manufacturers to earn millions by making fools all around. Never try tanning pills blindly. You may lose your eye sight and turn like a turtle in color. Tanning pills have caught the attention with the propaganda that sun tanning is harmful and tanning inside the tanners too cause skin cancer. If sun would have been so harmful, why do people like farmers or others don t suffer from cancer working day long in under the sun. There are several side effects of the tanning pills, otherwise why FDA have not approved it. Tanning pills contain such elements that can harm you to that extent that you can not dream of. Tanning pills come in three forms: some contain caretenoid pigments, some may contain tyrosine...
Demystifying Sciatica
What is sciatica. Sciatica is the official name given to a pain in the leg, foot, or buttock, brought on by a form of irritation to the sciatic nerve, the longest nerve in the entire body. Sciatica is most commonly caused by a slipped disc in the lower back, some form of arthritis, or a pinched nerve. It begins with back pain, followed by calf or hamstring pain, and sometimes included numbness in the toes. Forms of sciatica, resulting from inflammation get better with time, healing themselves. However, bed rest is not the best way to treat sciatica. It is shown that remaining active and performing exercises that are not weight bearing can help. Given time, even herniated spinal discs can heal. Treatment for sciatica is varied. It is only possible to find out what treatment is best for you by going to your doctor for an accurate diagnosis. Your doctor may order an MRI to conclude...