Congratulations! Now your baby will probably begin to stay awake longer during the day and sleep more at night. Probably — but the range of normal is still very wide.
Your baby’s sleep phases are much the same as your own: drowsiness, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, and very deep sleep. Your baby might start sleeping through the night now — but the definition of “sleeping through the night” at this age is a stretch of only 5 hours! Continue reading
You are fortunate to live in a time when the field of anti-aging medicine has become a vital and increasingly well-researched area of medicine. Health-care practitioners who are involved in anti-aging medicine are excited by the forward-thinking nature of this new approach, which involves helping people take the steps necessary to maximize quality of life in their later years. Basically, anti-aging medicine is concerned with three concepts.
Anti aging medicine is the pinnacle of biotechnology joined with advanced clinical preventive medicine
Our blood sugar plays the role of fuel in order for us to do our activities of daily living. The brain also functions and needs a good supply of sugar in the blood in order for it to work. The term hypoglycemia refers to the clinical syndrome that result from low blood sugar Continue reading
If you have already come to an age when you feel pain in your joints whenever you move, then it is most probably because of gout. Also known as gouty arthritis, gout is characterized by joint tenderness, swelling of the joints, heat in the joints, and sudden joint pain, accompanied by redness.
Even if you take good care of your skin very well, there will always be times when skin conditions will appear all of a sudden. Eczema is one of the most common skin ailments that affect so many people. There are a few types of this skin condition that have to be very well distinguished first before they get treated properly. Atopic eczema is the genetic type that is very itchy and affects both adults and infants. Dishydrotic eczema is an isolated type that affects the hands or the feet. It is very severe and when the blisters burst, is very painful. Nummular eczema is widespread already. You have to keep your skin very well-moisturized to prevent this type of eczema.
Lowering triglycerides is very important because too much triglycerides in the body may increase the risk of serious health problems like stroke and heart attack. Normalizing triglycerides is necessary through medications, regular exercise and lifestyle change. Continue reading
Bronchitis commonly occur from respiratory disease may be either acute or chronic. The signs and symptoms brought by bronchitis may be relieved by applying the natural cures for bronchitis. Continue reading
Maybe you have heard the recent guidelines about walking 10,000 steps per day. How far is 10,000 steps anyway? The average person’s stride length is approximately 2.5 feet long. That means it takes just over 2,000 steps to walk one mile, and 10,000 steps is close to 5 miles. Continue reading
Erectile dysfunction that affects men from all walks of life. It was formerly known as impotence. It is a sexual disorder wherein there is an inadequacy in erection during the sexual act. It is very hard for the man to handle it if he is diagnosed with ED. This usually causes pressure and low self esteem, which also brings strain to the relationship.
Asthma is one of those common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that causes airway hyperresponsiveness, mucosal edema, and mucus production. This hyperresponsiveness and inflammation ultimately leads to recurrent episodes of asthma symptoms which are cough, chest tightness, wheezing, and difficulty of breathing (dyspnea). Asthma is different from other obstructive pulmonary diseases in that it is largely reversible. This can be reversible either spontaneously or with treatment. People suffering from asthma may have asthma symptom-free episodes alternating with acute exacerbations, which can be very dangerous too. Acute exacerbations can last from minutes to days. Continue reading