Sore Throat Remedy – A Natural Cure
I woke up with a bad sore throat yesterday morning. My doctor couldn’t fit me in yesterday. (I wanted to find out if it was strep) so I searched for a natural remedy. I found several different ideas which I combined into one “recipe.” Lo and behold it worked like a charm. My sore throat was gone by the end of the day. Here’s what I did:
Recipe: Natural Sore Throat Cure
Combine these 5 ingredients in blender. (Of course my recommendation is a Vitamix. Find out why I recommend the Vitamix over all other blenders.)
Once combined, gargle and drink this in small amounts over the course of the day...
Source: Life Learning Today - January 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living cure remedy sore throat sore throat cure sore throat remedy strep throat Source Type: blogs
Spring Thaw?
Interesting. It is winter in New England, but you wouldn't necessarily know it. It isn't cold, but it isn't warm, either - about 42-43 degrees Farenheit. Raining. The rain probably explains why I don't feel especially well. Mild sore throat and a little bit achy. I'm hoping that the concoction of over-the-counter medication I took earlier does its job. The sooner the better; I have to work tonight.Yesterday should have been the first day of classes for me in PA school. I've been a bit sad because of not being able to go. While I'm hopeful that I'll be able to go next year I'm not terribly certain about it happening. Mainly...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - January 14, 2014 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Burn, baby, burn... on strep throat, insufficient anesthesia, and other woes
Disclaimer: This is not a real advertisement, it is not a real product,and Jackie Chan has not endorsed it. Yet.So, it happened that over the last Thanksgiving I was stricken for the first time with the dreaded strep throat. A miserable business. In addition to the antibiotics, the Doc gave me a prescription for a lidocaine rinse to ease what was a surprisingly incredible amount of pain for a sore throat. Turned out to be about as useful as a snooze button on a smoke detector. You can't swish and gargle the stuff because it's as viscous as honey, but you're not supposed to swallow it either (presumably because you don't wa...
Source: Across the Bilayer - January 12, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
SELF's #FitGirl Fights a Bug -- and Finds an App to Get Her Back on Track
Hey #FitGirls! How has your week been?
I landed in London earlier this week and let me say, it's wonderful to be back (I lived here while attending grad school a few years ago). I got on my flight from NYC feeling totally fine and landed in London a mere six hours later with a pounding headache, sore throat a lost voice and other signs of fever. Interestingly, I recently downloaded this really cool iPhone app that measures your heart rate and I noticed the past week that my heart rate upon waking was about 10 BPM faster than my usual resting heart rate is. I thought it was a misread initially, but when I asked my husband...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - December 20, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: FitGirl #FitGirl Elettra Wiedemann fitness tips travel Source Type: blogs
Dogs And Cows And Toxic Vials, That’s What Vaccines Are Made Of!
Conclusion
It is apparent that our vaccinations include some very strange and unsavoury ingredients. The three single vaccines were certainly not the only vaccines I came across containing parts of animals, humans and insects. In fact, I found a huge list of them on a PDF which I have included as extra research.
For some reason, many parents are perfectly happy to have their tiny babies vaccinated with everything from insect cells to pigs’ gelatin, without a moment’s hesitation, arguing that the vaccines are to protect their children and keep them strong and healthy. Others remain totally unaware of the vaccine...
Source: vactruth.com - December 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Events adverse reactions Measles Vaccine Medi-Mumps MMR mumps vaccine Pavivac rubella vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
How to Relieve a Sore Throat at Home
There are many home remedies for a sore throat, here are just a few of them.Contributor: Tina SamuelsPublished: Dec 04, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - December 4, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
I basically have respect for the medical profession but this is ridiculous
Using data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care surveys (there are two because on covers outpatient practices and the other ambulatory care delivered in hospitals, mostly EDs), Drs. Barnett and Linder (no link because you need a subscription to JAMA Internal Medicine) give us some disturbing news.Only 10% of people with sore throats have an infection that is treatable by antibiotics. And almost all of them have group A streptococcus. Good news about good ol' group A strep -- it's not antibiotic resistant, in fact it's 100% susceptible to good ol' penicillin, which by now isn't good for much else, and is also very chea...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Foods That Fight…Illness, That Is
By Amy Campbell
That time of the year is upon us: the "holidays." It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but the stores are already filled with Christmas decorations and gifts. Holiday music is playing on radio stations. Holidays are fun, but this season can come with side effects, including colds and flu, heartburn, upset stomach, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. Medicine is often needed to treat these maladies, but if you're looking for something a little more natural and gentle, think, instead, about food. Food is medicine, too, and what better way to remedy your maladies and nourish your body at the same time?
Colds and ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - November 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
The antibiotics crisis
Why are antibiotics so important?Without them, modern medicine would not be possible. Arguably the most important factor in the 30-year jump in American life expectancy in the 20th century, these "wonder drugs" allow us to fight the whole gamut of bacterial illness, from everyday ear infections to diseases such as syphilis, typhoid, and tuberculosis that used to kill millions of people. Their discovery about 100 years ago also revolutionized the world of surgery: As antibiotics drastically reduced the number of post-operative infections, standard operations that used to be considered perilous — such as appendix removals ...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 18, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
What to Watch out for with HIV
What to watch out for?
It is important to keep in mind that not all people infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus experienced symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms only get manifested when the virus has already progressed and much damaged has been made, in other words, there is a possibility that a person infected with the virus only feels sick when it is already progressing to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS.
For those people who feel the symptoms early on the onset of the disease, the manifestations usually do not solely suggest infection of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus because the symptoms th...
Source: aids-write.org - November 4, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: featured article Source Type: blogs
Not all sore throats are self-limited – the role of antibiotics
This article is written in French, but the translate button allowed me to read the article clearly.
These ENTs note increasing numbers of peritonsillar abscess. They argue that sore patients deserve more than a rapid test. They argue for a history and physical done by a physician who looks for complications and explains red flags to the patient.
Long time readers know that I lament the term “just a sore throat”. While most sore throats are self-limited, we still should respect the possibilities for either suppurative or non-suppurative complications. I argue regularly that our sore throat treatment nihilism...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - October 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccinate Under 5′s With Two Dangerous Vaccines
Conclusion
Surely, unless the mayor of New York City is a qualified doctor or scientist, he should not be recommending the force-vaccination of children as young as six months, no matter how good his intentions are, especially since the two vaccinations he is recommending are possibly completely incompatible with one another and could possibly lead to multiple child deaths in New York City and across America.
This is absolutely unforgivable, and in my opinion, he should be severely reprimanded for his actions.
I suggest that the public of America join forces and either attend this meeting in person to voice an opinion or s...
Source: vactruth.com - October 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Flumist Fluzone force vaccination Mandatory Vaccination Michael Bloomberg Pneumococcal vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
Making your own medical decisions
The newest trend in medical care is to involve the patient in the decision making process. Sometimes it can be easy to just go with the flow. The doctor says you have this so we need to do that. Simple?But what if the doctor says 'what do you want me to do for treatment?' Eek! Now you can't sit there passively you have to become a participant. This can take research. It can take time online. It can take deep thought. And it can impact your life significantly.Using the example of a woman with breast cancer where the choices with relatively equal outcomes are lumpectomy and radiation or mastectomy. Shouldn't the patient get ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: medical decisions being a patient Source Type: blogs
Easy peasy sore throat remedy
No, I don’t have a sore throat. But a sore throat was one of the main symptoms of the illness I had in early September (see my Sept 18 “Feverzzz!” post). Then, at some point during my convalescence, I started getting a sore throat again (what happened is that one day I did too much, […] (Source: Margaret's Corner)
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 7, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, October 4, 2013
From MedPage Today:
‘Meaningful Use’ Still on Target During Shutdown. The government shutdown may be slowing or halting a number of health-related activities, but federal incentives for electronic health records aren’t one of them.
Inappropriate Antibiotic Use Still High. Despite years of persuasion and publicity, antibiotics are still drastically overprescribed for two common complaints — sore throat and bronchitis.
Fecal Transplant, Now in Pill Form. Gel caps containing concentrated fecal microbes stopped recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and were well-tolerated by recipients.
Higher Vit...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 4, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News GI Health IT Infectious disease Neurology Source Type: blogs
