We absolutely hate it when our daughter gets a cold; mostly because there are very few medicines out there that can help keep her symptoms under control.
This past weekend, in an effort to give her relief from her stuffy nose and sneezing, we purchased Children’s Triaminic Thin Strips. …

I remember once, when I was fifteen, some three years after I had started menstruating, I woke up one morning and was bowled over by the pain of my cramping, the tightness I felt all over thanks to water weight, and this isn’t to mention the headaches and general …

Last month, I switched from the Depo Provera shot of birth control to a pill. Before that, I had been on Depo for 3 years!
Depo Provera is a form a birth control given by vaccine. You must have a prescription; however, you can administer the vaccine yourself. The …

Flonase is a nasal spray designed to relieve allergy symptoms. It appears as if I have developed allergies in the past couple of years and I’m not sure what I am allergic to. With the summer comes my allergies, and some days are worse than others. I tried quite …

Been having terrible headaches lately, and upon consultation with my doctor, he said that my sinus is blocked. He gave me a really expensive brand of nasal spray, so I had to look for an alternative. The pharmacist recommended Sinutab Nasal Spray, as it is more than 300% cheaper …

The leaves of Lagundi or Vitex negundo L. is a traditional Philippine herbal medicine for curing coughs. Traditionally, Lagundi leaves were boiled and the resulting broth is drunk to relieve and cure coughs. In the form of tablets, it provides less hassle in preparation. Tablets also mean that …

In the Philippines, people have all swarmed up drugstores and even beauty specialty stores because of several and different types of whitening products that promises wonderful effects in a short time. One of the most common now is the Glutathione. There have been many variants of this medicine, or …

When I developed a serious case of bronchitis after a flu episode, I was given a prescription for Cipro antibiotic to take for two weeks. When I read the leaflet included in the bag, I got a little worried about the strength of this drug and its many …

Sometimes after a hard days work, you come home, sit down and are simply exhausted. You decide to try and get to sleep, but then you realize something you have forgotten to do at work. You are then unable to sleep even as exhausted as you may be. This …

Implanon is so far I think the simplest method of contraception. I’m using it for 3 yrs and now ready to share the positive feelings I have regarding Implanon. Implanon is not pill like, it’s an implant that is inserted under your skin (small, very small). It was such …

Bonamine is to me a proven and trusted brand for prevention of nausea and vomiting. This is a medicine for me when I encounter motion sickness. When in a very long travel I usually become dizzy and this would then turn to nausea and vomiting. I could …

Celexa is an antidepressant from the SSRI family. It has a ?new, improved? version called Lexapro, but I have only tried Celexa and used the latter product for chronic, clinically diagnosed major depression. Celexa took about 2 weeks to take effect, although unlike other antidepressants, I didn’t …

I have taken effexor xl for my symptom of cataplexy for my sleeping disorder called narcolepsy. While effexor is given as an antidepressant after being on it for one year,I found that I had built up a tolerance too it pretty quickly and therefore had to come …

I cannot believe it but having just got over the most horrible flu like virus that worried me into looking up the symptoms of swine flu on the internet, I now have a cold. As a result of that virus, as it was quite severe on my chest, …

Tylenol PM provided people suffering with colds, headaches and pain with an added bonus.
It allows people to get a good night sleep when such symptoms may make sleeping very difficult to attain.
It does work as well as it promises and it avoids the negative side effects of Nyquil, another …

In my twenties I contracted a severe case of bacterial food poisoning, and despite antibiotic treatment, I was left with some scarring in my intestines that caused me to develop irritable bowel syndrome. (IBS)
With IBS, your intestines are very…well, irritable. You can have diarrhea, or constipation, or both in an …

My children are brats; they find it difficult to sit quietly in any part of the house. Running around the house and especially in the garden area has become their daily routine. The result - they keep falling and getting hurt now and then. By the time they come …

This medication is for any allergies, and indeed relieves runny nose, sneezing, itchy and watery eyes, and itching of the nose or throat. The active ingredient is ‘diphenhydramine’ which will definitely make you very drowsy within an hour or two. This medication is not recommended if you’re …

I like the outdoors. On the weekends, I go with my friends hiking in the mountains. I never imagined that I would have a dangerous encounter with one of nature’s aggressive insects. As usual we would hike for about 2 hours then find a nice spot to rest and …

I can easily say that I really hate this time of year…. all the way through winter! For about the past eight years, I’ve been over-run by sinus congestion and allergies for more than half of each of those years, that have been very intense, as far as the …

My son’s pediatrician prescribed this Restor Big EF because he is really not eating too much and is also not asking for milk the way a three year old boy should be. He really has no appetite I can really say. He can’t even finish a spoonful …

This is a paedatric anti-pyretic susupension prescribed for treating fever. My baby(now around 18 months old) has been using this medication since she was a year old.Intially she was prescribed Crocin Paedatric syrup for fever but it didn’t quite suit her. She was thereafter precribed Junimol , dosage - …

When I was six months pregnant will my baby girl, I was diagnosed with appendicitis and since my appendix already ruptured and had to be taken out, it caused me a lot of pain, I thought I was going to die, it was so painful. I was not given …

For the doctors, one of the hardest things was trying to figure out how someone young such as myself at 23yrs old could have DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) Usually older people or those who travel a lot have such blood problems. The blood in …

We all know that women are more prone of having a Urinary Tract Infection because Urinary Tract of women is shorter than men.
I have suffered several bouts of UTI and most of them attacked at midnight causing me some chills and fever.
When I have a UTI, my doctor always …

I would like to explain my feeling on the usage of Valium for muscle spasms. When I read this article I was surprised to see that Valium was prescribed for this purpose. Though it can be used as a type of relaxant, it is usually prescribed for the …

I’ve reviewed a lot of sinus medications and sprays, mostly because I’ve used a lot. And even though I’ve reviewed almost two dozen, I’m pretty sure that doesn’t even come close to covering the different things I’ve used to try to alleviate my allergy and sinus symptoms, which have …

I got this gel from our pediatrician. We often use this gel for the blue spot on our body if we bump into something. Kids often have this kind of blue spot. They move a lot and they are so clumsy as well. They often bump to the cupboard …

Avil are one of the most common medicines used in India for treating minor allergies, it’s so common that even my grandma knows about the medicines and she tells me to take Avil whenever I get these itchy skins due to change in weather or anything else. …

I want to review Magic Mouthwash because it was prescribed for me to use when I had some oral lesions. I had a very strange cold that was leaving me with them and even after getting ride of the cold they seemed to linger. They did eventually go away …

This was my first doctor’s visit in over ten years! I was suffering from kidney stones. I cannot believe how friendly the staff was. They were there to help. I was not treated like a number, I was a real person and they treated me like …

I don’t do a lot of extreme exercising (quite the contrary), but when I do exercise, my favorite thing is to go on walks. We live not far from a park right on the water, and I like to walk there and get some fresh air. Problem is, usually …

I was amazed that I was able to find a product like this which was so cost effective. I normally spend around $6 for a box of pain relieving patches that only come with maybe 6 patches in it, but this box had a count of 40 in it …

Three Legs Brand Cap Kaki Tiga is a Chinese balm for insect bites. We buy it from the Chinese drugstore. It is a green balm in a small transparent glass container with a yellow cap on top with the Three Legs logo on it.
For some reason, I …

I am very active in sports, playing all kinds of strenuous and fast games, from tennis to badminton and the occasional basketball pick-up game. Age has not been too kind to me, and as a result, the older I got, the more muscle aches I would get per game. …

Early last year, I wasn’t feeling too hot so I went into the emergency room. After waiting almost a whole day, I was seen by a doctor. The doctor told me that I had a type of infection and would need to take the antibiotic Flagyl. I had never …

Anemia is a common complaint especially among women and most of us neglect this until it gets worse. I was always slightly anemic ever since my teen years with my hemoglobin level ranging around 9 to 10gm/dl while the normal level should be 12.1 to 15.1 gm/dl for women. …

I notice my nose is easily upset. I would inhale a swirl of dust, a gust of air from airconditioning or the fug smell of parched ground suddenly moistened by rain and am sneezing helplessly. Not surprisingly, the rainy season has contributed to my allergic rhinitis and …

Cavite Skin Clinic is a small derma center located in Imus Cavite near Puregold Mall. I can say that this is one of the popular derma center in our town.
We went there this morning because I had a friend that needs medication for a skin problem. I will …

I’ve never been a fan of cough drops. Ironically, I do love Sucrets products, not to treat a sore throat, but to use to treat a toothache. And, thankfully, I rarely have a toothache, because those things taste awful! And really, they are no different than any other cough …

Every once in a while I experience extreme muscle pain accompanied by pounding headaches. This was due to my intense gym workout. This stops me from doing my normal activities for that day. Sometimes it would even last for several days. Irritability and intense outburst of emotion are common …

I had a real problem with insomnia after my third child was born. She has cerebral palsy and she has always had difficulty at night time. Therefore I now have very poor sleeping habits. I went to my doctor for some help & he suggested stilnox. …

As a child and teenager, I suffered from horrible allergies. These allergies were accompanied by headaches, watery eyes, runny nose, and a clogged nose. I think that is one of the worse feelings a person can ever have. I got tired of walking around sneezing all of the time …

Children kind of freak me out, I’ll admit. I don’t have any of my own, but my best friend whom I have known for almost twenty years has two very nice little boys, and when they were younger, she was always forcing me to hold them and change their …

I’ve been taking Nexium (40 mg) for about four years now, every since my heartburn got to the point where I literally couldn’t eat anything without severe pain and burning. The over-the-counter antacids, such as Tums and Rolaids and Prevacid, were almost totally ineffective, so I finally broke …

Alan Dockery is a doctor that I will never forget, this is because in my view he was responsible for most of the things that happened to my grandmother when she went for medical care. Being a senior citizen she did not have much of a choice as to …

Zilactin-L Early Relief Cold Sore Liquid is a medication that comes in a point two ounce squeezable tube for eight dollars. I sometimes use this medicine to treat cold sores while other times, I’ll use Canker-Rid by Durham’s Bee Farm, Inc. The reason I don’t use just one cold …

First I would like to give you a bit of information some people may not be aware of. Theraflu is manufactured by the Novartis Corporation; which isn’t a U.S. based company.
I have tried their other products and they worked quite well, so I gave Theraflu a try. I …

I can not believe how fast Welby’s Anti-Diarrheal loperamide HCI tablets worked for me. The 2 mg tablets worked so fast that it was like I was never even sick.
I woke up early on Sunday morning with a big day. My niece had her first communion, but …

Recently I broke out into small itchy bumps all over my skin. I wasn’t sure what caused them, but they were very irritating. It was so bad that I would wake up in the middle of the night itching like mad. I tried just about everything I could think …