I had to take out my daughter from school last Wednesday as the outbreaks in her nose spread to the other parts on her face. Which was the wisest decision despite her insistence that she did not want to miss school. The doctor confirmed that she has streptococcal …

Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil is a wonderful natural healing medicine that can be used for almost any skin complaints. I normally buy it in small bottles as I have found it to be quite expensive. However, the tea tree oil lasts for ages, so even a …

My youngest son has severe asthma and allergies. His asthma is particularly aggravated by pollen in the spring, and is also exercise induced. Although we have tried a variety of other prescription medications to help with his allergies, the one we have found to work best is Cetirizine. Cetirizine …

My son hardly eat vegetables. Only certain kind of vegetables that he like to eat. And those vegetables also need to be ground so he doesn’t have to chew anymore when he eat it. I don’t know why he is doing like that.
To give more vitamins for his …

While I am not a fan of sleeping pills of any kind, as I find they leave me drowsy in the morning and can be addictive, there are times when I find I need something to get a good night’s sleep, especially if I am experiencing some kind of pain. …

I think that the antidepressant Abilify is much better than others that I have tried in the past. Unlike the others I actually could tell a difference. I really like the fact that within a couple of weeks my depression was starting to get better. I have been taking …

I had great difficulty handling my tensions both from my work as well as from my family. The worries accounted for quite a good number of sleepless nights, filled with anxiety. The problem of sleeplessness further added to my worries, which was already in heaps. This was the stage …

Paroxetine (Paxil being the brand I consumed) was prescribed to me by a well-intentioned doctor as a treatment for my depression. The drug works by increasing the amount of serotonin (which helps perk up the mood) that travels to the brain. I had a very surprising and …

Now that I am in my mid-thirties, I notice that my digestive system tends to act up form time to time. This is particularly evident after a meal like pizza or fast food.
So, because I don’t always eat the way I should, I sometimes pay for it with …

Buckley’s Cough & Cold Medicine is the only thing I can rely on when my kinds get sick with a bad cold in the wintertime. I am also allergic to some of the ingredients in other cold medications and find that Buckley’s doesn’t bother me. It’s potent …

I like to keep my medicine cabinet stocked with first aid items in case something happens. I often have my grandchildren over and they get cuts and bruises just from everyday play sometimes. I purchased Bactine Pain Relieving Cleansing Spray to add to the medicine cabinet because my grandmother …

AZO is one of my favorite companies, and they have a whole string of products that not many people even know about. I was talking to a coworker the other day who was telling me she thought she had a urinary tract infection and the first thing I thought …

Glioblastoma is a form of primary brain cancer. My father was diagnosed with it in February of 2007. He underwent brain surgery, where they removed as much of the tumor as they could. The tumor was almost in the center of his brain, and very deep. …

A few months ago I got the flu. I hadn’t had the flu in quite some time. My big problem with the illness was how congested my sinuses were. I could not breathe, but I was also in a lot of pain from the pressure behind my eyes in …

I cannot stand having headaches, I have not tolerance for them. However, when I turned 16 I started getting headaches very frequently. They range from mild and tolerable to a full fledged migraines in which I wish someone would just remove my head. I usually take Excedrin headache and …

Simvistatin is a cholesterol-lowering prescription medication that my husband was prescribed, along with Zocor, by his doctor at the VA. Together, they appeared to have caused him joint and leg muscle problems., as well as lowered libido. His doctor pretty much disregarded my husband when he described …

I was put on this medication to lower my blood pressure.It is a combination water pill. That way,everything you need is suppose to be in one pill.It works very well but as with most,can cause muscle pain.You have to see your doctor at least once a month to check …

When I was plagued with a cough that just wouldn’t go away, I tried every cough syrup known to man. It was pathetic how nothing seemed to help. My father had a similar problem, and his doctor gave him what he called —˜the pearls’. I had no idea what …

Since my job as a Technical Support Engineer on a night shift place my health at risk, it’s necessary for me to have my check up once in a while. I’m glad that Borough Medical Care Institute is accessible from my work location. I have undergone several check up …

Weakness forced me to contact my physician. For obvious reason I was advised to go for some pathological tests. It was prerecorded to my doctor that I was diabetic and had been on oral medication for last fifteen years. While the reports reached it became evident that oral medication …

So my boyfriend has never had pink eye and comes home early from work the other night with a bright red right eye. He said he woke up and it was matted shut and proceeded to get worse all day.
So he called the doctor and the nurse prescribed …

Abreva Cold Sore/Fever Blister Treatment does work really well, and you do get what you pay for it. It’s expensive and the tube that you get is quite small but it does work really well which is always a plus because who wants to be stuck with cold sores …

Watson’s is another chain of drugstore here in the Philippines(mostly in Manila Area). This is a chain of store owned by the “chain” of shopping malls in the country as well, the ShoeMart or the SM. Watson’s is conveniently located in all of the SM shopping malls in the …

Sometime in 1970, there was an outbreak of contagious skin disease in our village. It was characterized scabby lesions on the skin which was very itchy. The people called it by a native name “kurikong” or scabies in English. Nobody could really say if that skin disease was really …

I was prescribed Geodon (20 mg twice a day) to take the edge off my anxiety. My daytime dose caused me to experience an early afternoon crash, so I had to start taking the entire 40 mg at night. This change started to help, but apparently, not soon enough …

I can only remember a small handful of times that I’ve actually been sick with nausea and most of them were from stomach flus. I never went from nausea to hugging a bucket, but I hate that sick feeling like I might at any moment. I …

Due to heavy rains —“ my house had suddenly become a favorite place for mosquitoes. Whether it was day or night I had all sizes of insects flying around my place. The worst part of it was that these mosquito bites were not only hazardous to my family’s …

Growing up I always hated my nose. It was big and it had a big bump in the middle of it. I always considered plastic surgery, but I was too scared to go through with it. Than one day the unthinkable …

Buckleys Mixture Cough Suppressant is an over the counter cough medicine that comes in liquid form and in a four ounce bottle for a little over five dollars. It’s about the most repulsive stuff I’ve ever tried in terms of odor and taste, but it sure does work better …

After a nasty cold virus, the most prevalent lasting symptoms are a cough and a soar throat. To relieve these symptoms, people should look into Non-Mentholated Halls Breezers: Pectin Throat Drops. The drops truly cool and sooth dry, scratchy throats, coming in flavors which taste like candy.
As a company, …

While visiting my mother one day, I had an extremely bad backache. I had run out of pain reliever and asked my mother if she had any. She told me the only thing she had was Bayer Women’s Low Dose Aspirin Pain Reliever. I decided that was better than …

If you find yourself dealing with heartburn as much as I do, I am sure you have tried almost anything to get rid of it. It seems like I can have heartburn for 12 plus hours at a time, if I don’t do something about it. I hate having …

For the past 8 years I have been a sufferer of heartburn. It is a quite painful experience for the people who don’t know. It feels like your chest is on fire, because acid comes back up your esophagus and haunts you. It is hard finding a medicine that …

Phazyme Anti-Gas Relief is a quick dissolve chewable tablet that works fast on the worst bouts of gas build-up. The smooth cool mint flavor dissolves quickly in the mouth and neutralizes the discomfort of gas build-up within several minutes. I do not like this medicine too much, because it …

I am only 29 years old and already have severe tendonitis and arthritis in some of my joints due to years of pounding from sports. After Vioxx and Betra were taken off the market, I discovered Bextra. It is a Cox-2 inhibitor and anti-inflamatory medication. For …

The last time I got a tattoo, I remembered that using antibiotic ointment was much better than any lotion or cream that they may suggest. My tattoo that I used ointment on came out brighter and nicer than any other that I have. I wanted to make sure that …

This what some doctors will prescribe to you (you can’t get this over the counter) if you have like a rash or a spot that itches when it’s inflammed or other skin dermatitis. This type of topical medicine covers a whole variety of skin dermatitis from rash to eczema. …

Remicade is used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. I myself have Crohn’s disease. All in all, I have to say that the treatments are well worth the money (at least for me since most of it is covered under insurance). The treatments are intravenous infusions. Typically they last …

I love using this medicated patch to ease any pain in my body especially associated with muscle or joint pains. It works much effective after taking a warm shower when the pores in my skin are open. The patch with menthol ingredient in it just works wonders in easing …

My wife often gets bad flu when the weather is cold. Apparently, she had sinusitis, and a few months ago she had surgery to reduce the frequency of common symptoms from sinusitis. This was indeed able to reduce the frequency of colds, but she still could not escape the …

I really, really hate post-holiday sickness. Now that everything is back to normal, my health is starting to get worst. Is it because of the weather? Probably. Or maybe because of the post-fireworks celebration that has my colds really getting the best of me.
I was literally sneezing every …

Campho-Phenique Cold Sore Treatment With Drying Action is a product that I keep handy for my nine year old son. He is prone to licking his lips and surrounding facial skin area during Michigan winters. This leads to chapped lips, which eventually turn into lip cracks. At his very …

It’s quite a mouthful in the name of this product, but I got it mostly because I’ve tried everything else on the market, and it seems a lot of these sleeping aids simply lose their effectiveness after a while. I’ve been diagnosed with delayed sleep disorder, so it takes …

Whenever I have suffered from a yeast infection, I try a different treatment. I want to find the one that is best for me so I can use it any time this happens to me. I decided to save a buck this time around and go for the Equate brand …

It is not really nice when you realize that you have scorbutic inside your lip or mouth. Just like what I have two days ago. When I woke up, I realized that I have this problem. I thought that it’s not gonna be good for me since I will …

There was a few months at the beginning of summer when I was having some health problems and was retaining water really bad. My lower legs, ankles and feet were huge. My socks were leaving imprints in my skin. It was really bad. After having tried an over-the-counter pill …

Okay, I have to admit, I’m a total sucker for products that have a catchy look to them. If it looks “old world” or has a catchy title or humorous catch-phrase, then I’m usually all over it like white on rice. I have some serious back problems that have …

As I am a regular hyperacidity sufferer, I have bought Maalox Plus Chewable Tablets to provide relief of my hyperacidity. It contains:
Aluminum Hydroxide, 200 mg, simethicone 25 mg, Magnesium Hydroxide 200 mg. It comes in tablet form. There is a liquid form too but I haven’t tried it yet. …

During my pregnancy, every now and then, I used to suffer from mild to occasionally severe heartburn and acidity. At first I wasn’t sure if I could take any medication and was trying to cure it using home remedies. Home remedies are effective but is quite troublesome …

I did a big boo boo the other day when I was at a friends house and she lives in a very small apartment and has two long-haired cats that I didn’t realize I was allergic to until I’d been petting it and then, as I sometimes naturally do, …