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The Hottest Painkiller In Town

April 17, 2020September 21, 2020 - by Kathryn Lunceford

We have always known that pain management studies designed for finding alternative and much better means of treating and managing pain. Present-day anesthesia and pain medications are loaded with undesirable unwanted side effects. The usage of anesthesia in surgeries is undoubtedly effective. However, overcoming post-operative pain, discomfort, and risks that arise in the effects of anesthesia is pretty difficult. Pain medications also offer a lot of dangers, risks, and unwanted side effects linked to them. These are the logic behind why researchers are continuously seeking safer and less inconvenient strategies for easing pain. Some have resorted to different ways like meditation, distraction, and relaxation. All these help in reducing pain however they are not efficient in numbing pain. Leaving no stone unturned, there are current studies on a possible alternative to anesthetics and pain medication – hot chili peppers!

Have you ever munched on the hot chili pepper and couldn’t …

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Dentists Create Smiles That You Can Be Proud Of

January 10, 2020March 19, 2020 - by Kathryn Lunceford

Dentists are more than just practitioners to keep your mouth looking beautiful; they are major contributors to your overall health. Being productive in life has a great deal to do with how you feel about the world around you. Your communication device is, in fact, the very vehicle that opens up windows of opportunity for you; and is generally the confidence you have in your smile.

Getting along with your medical professional is extremely important when you want to create a pattern of health. While no one doctor specializes in everything it is imperative to seek out practitioners that you feel comfortable with. Open lines of communication provide the forum needed to stay ahead of unwanted circumstances.

When you want to change behaviors that are not beneficial to your health your physician can be a great resource of information. While no one is perfect it is always crucial not to …

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Herbal Granny Knew Best

October 16, 2019December 2, 2019 - by Kathryn Lunceford

I can still remember in horror my grandmother grumbled in her overgrown garden picking these leaves in the leaves, throwing them all into a pot of boiling water and drinking it. Of course at the time I, plus a lot of the other young members of the family, thought she was quite mad and more than a little weird. What we didn’t realise at the time was that Grandmother was saner than any of us and quite the herbalist, and it seems, quite a brilliant one at that. As much as I rack my brain I can’t remember her suffering from anything so common as the common cold in her entire long life time. Of course, some might say it had nothing to do with her unusual er…habits, she was just one of those lucky few who experience a better health for most of their charmed lives. Of course, I …

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Are You Still Writing for GP Reports to Manage Absence? – 5 Reasons To Think Again

September 25, 2019December 2, 2019 - by Kathryn Lunceford

As an experienced Occupational Health Nurse, I have always wondered why it is that some HR professionals and managers write to GPs rather than ask an Occupational Health specialist for a report to help them to manage absence. Occupational Health is the speciality of medicine which has the knowledge skills and training to provide advice on fitness for work in any industry setting and also has specialist knowledge of the diseases of occupations

Asking a GP, who has never had any occupational health training or even visited a workplace, for an opinion on fitness to work, rarely provides any useful advice on capability. It generally lengthens the management of the absence as GPs are very busy and can take weeks before a response is received and the report can be expensive.

Maybe it’s time to review your approach?

1. In my experience, non-medical people writing for a GP report are …

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Simple Steps to Start Eating Healthy

May 25, 2019December 2, 2019 - by Kathryn Lunceford

Eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is one of the things that many people are ignoring these days as life tends to become too busy with goals, chasing dreams and of course, dealing with day to day stress and challenges. If you are one of those trying to start living a healthy life, read on for some steps to help you start eating healthy as well.

Indeed, eating healthy is one of the biggest steps to help you start living a healthy life. Aside from that, you also need to start an active lifestyle which is also one of the most ignored elements of living healthy as well.

– Assess your daily routine. This will help you assess how much calories you will also need to get you going through your daily activities. To start eating healthy, you need to balanced your diet as well as your metabolism as …