It s almost time for the winter sports season to begin. So break out your skis, lace up your boots and fill up the hot water bottle. With winter sports comes the agony of sore muscles, particularly when it s your first time on the slopes this year. Everyone knows it s important to stretch before taking a run or starting up a basketball game, but novice skiers forget that the same rules apply to them, even if they are bundled up in a snowsuit and boots. Exercise and fresh air are part of keeping your body and mind healthy, even in the cooler winter months, said Jaime D. McKinley, vice president of marketing at W. Young Inc., a company that makes topical pain relief products. She recommends the following: Start with a slow warm-up. Cold muscles suddenly put to work are more likely to become damaged than those that have been warmed up properly. With a warm-up, the body is properly adapted to the demands of winter sports. Stretch your legs, arms and torso. A few key stretches will get you ready for vigorous activity. Even though research hasn t proved this to speed healing, massage has...

Pregnancy is a beautiful even a sacred thing. A woman body suffers many changes during pregnancy that helps the mother deliver the baby. But during this period of time vaginal secretions increases and from this various bacteria and fungus can profit. Candida finds this environment very prolific. The first signs of an infection vaginal Candida are a red and irritated vulva and a white, cottage cheese-like discharge. This fungal infection that appears in pregnancy is more dangerous because the body changes from this period of time are prolific to Candida: in this period hormonal changes that alter the acid alkali balance are produced. So an acid secretion occurs, a secretion that represents the optimum environment for Candida to proliferate. In these conditions the infection can turn in to a chronic one. Most women know that the best treatment for Candida cost in a course of antifungal pessaries or creams. This treatment is for the symptoms and not for the cause. Further more with prolonged use, this treatment can become ineffective. To apply this way we must first understand what a...

A sty is a pimple or abscess that forms in either the upper or lower eyelid. The medical term for sty is hordeolum say HOR-dee-oh-lumm and it is an infection caused by bacteria that normally live peacefully on the eyelid skin surface. Some of thee germs get trapped along with dead skin cells inside crypts along the eyelid margin. Stys are usually superficial and plainly visible. Occasionally they can reside deeper within the eyelid. This common infection or inflammation results from blocked glands within the eyelid. When the gland is blocked, the oil produced by the gland occasionally backs up and extrudes through the wall of the gland, forming a lump, which can be red, painful, and nodular. Frequently, bacteria can infect the blocked gland, causing increased inflammation, pain, and redness of the eye and even redness of the surrounding eyelid and cheek tissue. The lump can point externally outward or internally inward . Frequently, the lump appears with a visible whitish or yellowish spot that looks much like a large pimple. An external sty starts as a pimple next to an eyelash. It...