February 17, 2011

Quick Cures for Headaches

A lot of people are very reliant on painkillers for relief for their headaches. Headaches are usually pretty annoying, so people believe that a pill is the quickest and most effective way to relieve the pain. This can be true, but sometimes a pill just doesn’t want to work. In almost all cases, natural remedies are the best way to go anyways. Natural remedies can fully heal your headache in 5-10 minutes! If you don’t believe it, you should try these headache remedies next time you have a headache, instead of taking a pill.

1. Aromatherapy. This is becoming an increasingly popular remedy. A lot of people would never believe that something as simple as a scent could take away your pains. Before knocking it, why not try it? Sandalwood, peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, and many other natural oils can reduce, or even fully take your pain away! These scents can be found in oils, candles, and soaps.

2. A Large Glass of Water. This remedy is underestimated because of how incredibly simple it is. One of many reasons for headaches is dehydration. For this reason, a quick, cool glass of water may be all that is required for your headache to be cured.

3. Hot Shower. Stand in the shower and let the hot water hit your head and run down your neck and back. Doing so will loosen the muscles in your head and neck, allowing better blood flow. While in the shower, you could also try some of that aromatherapy soap, mentioned in the first step.

4. Deep Massage. A firm massage on the head, face and neck can quickly get rid of headache pain. This is one of many overlooked methods of headache relief.

5. Diet. Do certain foods give you headaches? If so it is time to drop them from your diet. If you get frequent headaches you should start to watch what you eat closely to see what foods may be giving you these problems. If necessary, you may want to keep a food diary.

6. Pressure Points. Using pressure points is one of the most underestimated remedies for headaches, probably because of how farfetched it seems. Don’t judge it until you try it! Find where the bones of your thumb and index finger meet. Apply pressure to this spot for a couple minutes, if you’re doing it right, you should begin to feel your headache going away!

7. Relaxing and Resting. Sometimes when you get a headache, it’s just your body telling you you’re working too hard. Lay down in a dark, quiet room and just take rest. When you start to feel better, you can get up and get back to your life, just try to do some things that are a little less stressful and enjoy yourself more.

8. Ice Pack. You don’t have to use an ice pack, anything really cold will work fine. Put a cold item on where ever the pain is, allow it to sit for 5 to 10 minutes. This will reduce any inflammation and probably numb the pain.

9. Exercise. This one may not be as easy as some of the others, given that moving while in a lot of pain is not always Ideal. Regardless, you should try to do this during, and after the headache. Exercising increases blood flow and circulation throughout the body. This will bring more blood and oxygen to your brain. Exercising regularly will prevent headaches from returning.

10. Calcium Supplement. If you are without supplements, a tall glass of orange juice will help. Experts recommend taking a supplement that contains both calcium and magnesium for maximum headache relief. Calcium supplements will increase blood flow and help relax your muscles, this helps to take some of the pain away.

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February 1, 2011

Hand Washing

Filed under: hygiene — Tags: health, hygiene — bstacey @ 2:10 am

How many of us wash our hands after we use the washroom? For quite some time, not nearly enough of us did. Studies sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) showed that in Boston, only 77% of American adults in 2007 were seen to wash their hands in public washrooms. In 2010, 85% of American adults were seen to wash their hands. In a telephone survey, 96% of adults said that they wash their hands after using a public restroom, this number has stayed fairly constant over the years. Certain trends are still noticeable throughout these studies; in a 2007 study, 88% of women in Boston were seen to wash their hands, while only 66% of men washed theirs. In the 2010 study, 77% of men washed their hands while 93% of women washed theirs. It seems in most cases, women will wash their hands more than men will.

In Chicago and San Francisco, a study in 1996 showed that only 68% of people washed their hands after using a public restroom. The study was repeated in 2000, and it was an all-time record low of 67% of people washing their hands. The highest rate of hand washing was seen in Chicago and San Francisco in 2010 when the study showed 89% of people washing their hands. A telephone study of 1,006 American adults showed that approximately 89% of people wash their hands after using the restroom at home, 82% of people after changing a diaper, and 77% of people before handling or eating food; but only 39% of people wash their hands after sneezing or coughing. Hand washing after coughing or sneezing is particularly important because many communicable diseases are usually transmitted through contaminated hand contact.

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