Here are some other side effects that may occur when taking the tetracyclines:
· As with many other antibiotics, you may experience mild indigestion and abdominal upset. They can also cause more severe gastrointestinal irritation (inflammation of your esophagus or stomach).
· Rashes are uncommon, but when they (more…)
Cholesterol begins to influence your body even before you’re born. According to a 1996 report in the journal Science, cholesterol enhances an embryo’s healthy development by triggering the activity of the specific genes that instruct embryonic cells to become specialized body structures — arms, legs, spine, and so on. Sadly, as Science reported, approximately one in every 9,000 babies is born with a birth defect linked to (more…)
Framingham, Massachusetts, is a small industrial town about 20 miles west of Boston. I mean no disrespect to its hardworking inhabitants when I say that you would probably never have heard of Framingham if a team of Boston University Medical School researchers hadn’t set up shop there shortly after World War II. But they did. And they recruited most of the town’s nearly 30,000 citizens as volunteers in a study of who (more…)
Have you heard the phrase “gravity sucks”? Well, figuratively speaking, it’s true. Since most of us are either on our feet or have our feet lower than our heads most of the time, these toxic waste materials can settle at the end of our nerve endings on the bottoms of our feet. These nice (more…)
I recommend that you make every effort to taper off oral antibiotics as soon as your acne is under control. An oral antibiotic may be intended for daily use over an extended period of time, often for four to six months and possibly much longer. Eventually, your doctor will taper off the medication and finally (more…)
What is it about the foot that’s so neat? For starters, most of us have a pair of them. Many of us remember childhood rhymes such as “This Little Piggy Went to Market,” which was traditionally recited by some older person speaking baby talk to us while wiggling (more…)
Our feet are the first thing that brings us back to earth and into our waking world when we get out of bed each morning. In our dreams many times we fly or float. The dream world is not where the feet are important, but in waking life they keep (more…)
Many people think that letting someone touch their feet will tickle. Understandable, since many of us had playful dads who held our ankles and tickled our feet unmercifully while giggling “koochey, koochey, koo!” Actually, when done properly, reflexology is anything but ticklish.
To be effective, reflexology should be a fairly firm, deep pressure (more…)
A quick, relatively painless procedure, known as an intralesional cortisone (steroid) injection, is extremely effective in reducing the pain, swelling, and redness of acne papules or nodules (cysts). These shots are particularly effective for the larger, long-lasting lesions.
Each papule or nodule is given a single injection of a dilute cortisone (more…)
Think back to your first chemistry or physics class. Never took chemistry or physics? Well then imagine being in class where one of the first things your teacher wants you to know is that there’s no such thing as (more…)