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Sleep apnoea

Obstructive sleep apnoea is the airway closing repeatedly during sleep, rousing the brain dozens or hundreds of times a night without the person remembering any of it. What the symptoms are, how it is actually diagnosed in the UK, why CPAP is worth persisting with, and what the law requires of anyone who drives.

Shift work and sleep

Working outside ordinary daytime hours leaves the body's internal clock in permanent disagreement with the timetable. Why it does not adapt, why the commute home is where shift work actually hurts people, the measures that make daytime sleep possible, and the health monitoring UK night workers are legally entitled to and rarely offered.

How sleep works

What sleep is for, the two independent mechanisms that decide when it comes, the four stages and where each falls in the night, how much is actually needed at each age, and what sleep loss does. Including the four-stage classification that replaced the old five-stage one, and why eight hours is the middle of a range rather than a requirement.

Babies' sleep in the first year

What normal infant sleep actually looks like through the first year, which disruptions matter, and the older advice on breathing monitors that is dangerously wrong.

Baby skin care

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.

The Sedentary Life

Sedentary lifestyles are those characterized by a lack of physical activity and prolonged periods of sitting or lying down, and these are not good.

The Benefits of Regular Exercise

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.

Malaria and travel

Preventable, treatable, and still fatal in the UK every year.

Natural Cosmetics and Skin Care Products, The Better Option

It seems like you can’t turn on the television or open a magazine anymore without hearing about natural cosmetics or skin care products. You’ve probably seen advertisements on TV along with various natural products in your grocery store. You may have also noticed that these products often come with a larger price tag.

Rosacea

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

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.

Curing Dandruff Naturally

While chemical shampoos may temporarily cure your dandruff, they also sit on your scalp and seep into your body. So why deal with all those synthetic substances when you can get rid of your dandruff safely, effectively, and naturally?

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