General health

Summer is upon us and it is time for fun in the sun and sand. When we want to cool off, most of us head for the pool or the beach. The water is warm and inviting and we love to swim the day away.

Newborn skin care has changed a good deal, and nearly all of the change is towards doing less. The rashes that need nothing, the ones that need a pharmacist, and the one that needs an ambulance.

Many families have pets or live in areas where others have them. When your family has a pet you can feel relatively confident that your child is safe. However, you can’t always know that when your children are out in nature or around animals you’re not familiar with. You want to know what to do if your child gets bitten by an animal.

Regular exercise is important for everybody, young and old. Some seniors might find it hard to “work-out” due to knee, hip and balance problems. The DVD ‘Stronger Seniors Chair Exercise Program’ is geared for seniors who want to improve their fitness level with low impact exercises. Most of the exercises are done while sitting on a chair, so ideal for seniors with knee and other physical problems.

The normal window for starting puberty is five years wide, so being at either end of it means nothing; the sequence of changes is far more predictable than the timing, and the thresholds that warrant a GP sit outside the normal range.

Bodies crave movement. It’s in our blood. Anybody, everybody needs physical activity to stay healthy. Here are some of the benefits of regular exercise.

No one wants to hear the “e” word. It leaves a bad taste in their mouths. Exercise means work and when you have a regular job you don’t want more work afterwards. But, exercise doesn’t have to be work. You can make it fun so that your body can reap the benefits.

Before we talk about the benefits of regular exercise, let’s talk about ways to make it fun so that you’ll want to reap those rewards.

Rosacea is a long-term inflammatory condition of the facial skin, producing flushing, lasting redness, visible blood vessels and crops of acne-like spots. It is harmless to physical health, treatable, and frequently mistaken for something else — with the wrong treatment making it worse.

Eczema is a group of conditions in which the skin barrier works poorly and the skin becomes inflamed. It cannot be cured, but it can almost always be controlled — and the gap between a well-managed case and a badly managed one comes down largely to how emollients and steroid creams are used.

Acne is a disorder of the oil glands and the follicles they empty into — not an infection, and not a matter of insufficient washing. It is treated with specific combinations of topical and oral medicines reviewed at twelve weeks, and the scarring it can leave is prevented rather than cured.