My husband and I recently took our daughter to the Emergency department of the IWK Children’s hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The IWK is pretty well reknowned locally and is hailed as being one of the best health care facilities for children east of Toronto.
I was shocked when we …

I’m pretty pro-active when it comes to catching the common cold. Any time I feel even the slightest bit “off” in that regard, I immediately start taking something of a preventative nature. Plus, I’ve started, a few months ago, taking Flinstone vitamins every day with my teenage kids (even …

I have fought indigestion and acid reflux for years. I realize soft drinks are my main culprit in the onset of this problem. However, since I don’t seem to be stopping the soda I am forced to find a way to deal with the burning symptoms of heartburn.
Nexium …

Simvastatin 10mg is what I was prescribed for high cholesterol for over a year. I do not have any other known medical conditions except I am somewhat overweight. For the entire time I was on the medication, I had no side effects as listed in the literature.
My cholesterol …

For years, I have suffered digestive issues such as heartburn, vomiting, nausea, flatulence, irritable bowel syndrome and constipation. One of the herbal supplements I take with meals on a daily basis to help relieve, treat and sometimes even prevent these conditions from happening is the Spring Valley Chewable Papaya …

Well, I’ve been to the doctor quite a bit lately thanks to a very taxing job lifting heavy boxes and going up and down ladders all day. My latest encounter with the doctor came after a very intense back pain began in my lower quadrants, usually radiating down my …

I had acute tonsillitis about 6 months ago and had high grade fever because of it. I tried to check my tonsils and I found out that both were severely inflamed and there were dots of whitish pus attached to them. I was rather very painful, even …

I have been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis for 14 years now. The doctors all say I had it for the last 18 years though, because I had a goiter at the age of 16. That is a symptom of the disease. Usually with regular hypothyroidism you don’t …

Lipitor is a drug used to stablize cholesterol, so that it minimizes any heart problems. Lipitor is considered one of the statin drugs used for this purpose. It is the type of drug that is metabolized through the liver.
My husband had been on Lipitor for approximately …

When I have to take medicine for any kind of aches and pains I like for that medicine to work fast. I do not like having to sit and wait for the medicine to kick in because then I’d start getting the idea that I should take more than …

I am sure you have seen the commercials for the products like head on which promises you simple relief for your head ache and Renewin which works the same by rolling the thing onto the section where you need it and you will experience joint pain relief. Well, since …

Antacid Tablets Extra Strength is CVS pharmacy’s generic brand of ant acids fortified with calcium. Now I am not a person who gets a lot of indigestion. The few times that I have this has worked just fine for me. I was actually given this by a friend who …

I am in my late twenties and just suffered my first yeast infection and I must say it was painful, itchy, annoying and embarrassing. However, didn’t want to take an antibiotic that my doctor prescribed me to use to help rid it away because I did not like the …

The worst thing about have seasonal allergies is that once one symptom begins the rest of them are sure to follow. My biggest symptom is the sneezing: I don’t just sneeze once and that’s it, I end up having a thirty minute to hour long sneezing marathon. The downside …

I have had hypertension for several months now. My doctor told me that the probable cause was that I came from a family who has a long history of this illness. Because I was also suffering from another condition, my doctor was careful in prescribing me with a medication …

After a hard days work, my whole body (from head to toe) would ache terribly that I would have to take pain killers to get some relief. Although I totally disregarded the idea of taking pain killers and would try getting relief with my massagers for particular areas of …

If this product was designed to relieve migraines and headaches, it doesn’t work. It does feel good I admit, having cold compress on your neck, but it doesn’t do anything for my headache. It was a gift from my boyfriend, and he paid $44 for this. I wanted to …

I am a workingwomen and I also have 3 children and my very common problem is the headache. As we all can understand, it is not really easy to work outside and even at the home. I used to get the headache every day in the evening …

Our house is just about ready for repairs, so my husband and I went in and looked at the stuff to be taken care of. It has not been repaired for about 6 months and no one as living in it, so the dust and the pests were all …

I don’t know what came over me that I listened to my friend when she recommend Goody’s to me, but I made the mistake of not listening to my better judgment instead. During the summer months, when our temperatures here in Vegas can hit upwards of 110 degrees, I …

I am a big fan of Vaseline products. The stuff has been around since I was a child and it has so many different house hold uses that I keep a jar around just because it’s handy. However, I was at Wal-Mart last winter looking for more Carmex when …

When I began going through menopause, I had a horrible time with hot flashes. I would have tried anything just to get the furnace inside me turned off. I would suddenly feel as though someone had turned the knob up on my internal heater. I had read something about …

Alaxan FR is the latest innovation inline with Alaxan medicines and for me it is really better compared to the regular tablet. Alaxan is already known for its effective ways of curing body pain. Now that they have Alaxan FR with FR meaning “fast result” the product was made …

For a period of time I was feeling a little sick. After a quick self-diagnosis, I found out that I had a slight fever that was climbing rapidly into a severe fever. I quickly went over to the drugstore and got myself a box of NyQuil Cold and Fever …

In this day and age, most of us are in front of the computer for most of the day. I go to the office and sit in front of the computer all day, and then come home, open my laptop to do some of my online jobs. As a …

Well, it’s that time of year again. When couples’ test that cherished and ominous line in the wedding vows that begin as, ‘In sickness and in health’. And trust me, you must really love a person when they are snot-nosed, feverish and coughing up their spare lung and you still …

I’ve had this non-productive and nagging dry cough for 3 days now. I hate having a cough because this made me very uncomfortable in public and also with the way I breathe. I would often get a tight feeling in my chest and no matter how many times …

I think that Pliva is a very good farmaceutical company and their drugs aren’t very expencive either.
This tablets have 500 mg of metamizol natrium and it is a very strong anti-inflammatory drug with the analgesic and antipiretic effect, metamizol is a pain reliefer by itself. This drug is used …

If you suffer from acute gastric and indigestion problem then here is complete solution for it with just no side effects what so ever.I have been using it for sometime and it just doesn’t have anything of side effects but works efficiently in solving indigestion.
We Indians mostly love Spicy …

Do you ever have dandruff problem? I did have this problem with my hair few years ago. And honestly, I had no self-confidence at all to go out and meet people when I had this hair problem.
I though after I changed the shampoo’s brand, this dandruff problem will stop …

My husband yelled at me a few weeks ago, because I woke him up in the middle of the night yelling “Yuck! That’s SO gross.” And if it’s not a strange statement like that, then I’m reacting to spiders in my dreams and hitting my husband yelling “Get them …

Soffell mosquito’s repellent is one of a product that I often use in the house. Actually we also use another mosquito’s repellent. We did not really stick to one brand of mosquito repellent. But we do always have a sock of mosquito’s repellent. So if I go to …

Two months ago, I experienced some series of vomiting and loose bowel movement. I was alone in the house, feeling weak and exhausted. Then, I remember the last time that I was in this situation, the doctor prescribed Hydrite Granules-Oral Rehydration Salts. I poured out the entire content of …

Soma(Carisopodol) 350 mg tablets are designed to work as a skeletal muscle relaxant and its main agent is blocking pain sensations between the nerves and the brain. This is a widely used muscle relaxant and I found that it did work well for me when I have really …

I have tried various brands of anti-hypertensive drugs for many months. I suffer from hypertension and I have recently discovered that the diuretic type of medication works best for me. But instead of settling on just one type of medication, I still do some experimenting every now and then …

My mother had bought these capsules in Malaysia, for $13.5 USD a pack which contains 20 capsules. This medicine is used for fever, headaches, joint pains, and as a pain-reliever alone. It contains 500mg acetaminophen and every time I have a headache or feverish, I use this medicine alone, …

I had never tried these Ricola herb sweets before and I bought them to help clear my congested chest and help relieve my cough when I am out and about. I have a rotten cold at the moment and I am constantly buying all kinds of cough sweets. …

One time after dining out with my family at a restaurant, I went home with crazy runs that left my stomach painful for hours. I ate something there that upsets my stomach (half-cooked food, I believed so). Just like other people who wanted to wait a little bit …

I have never really experienced many problems dealing with my time of the month. I don’t often find myself having to deal with painful cramps. It is great not having to worry about cramping and bloating most of the time, but when I do have to deal with it, …

I’ve always been a fan of drinking tea, ever since I was a little girl. And, as my children grew up, they would see me making tea at least once a week and decided, when they were a bit older, they would like to try it out for themselves …

Whenever I have really bad cramps, I like to take the strongest medicine I can find. Since I don’t get menstrual cramps often, they are really intense when I do get them. Ever since I had my tubes tied, it seems that the pain is worse and leaves me …

It is cold, the holiday season is in the air, and after New Year’s day my nose is dying of allergic rhinitis because of the fireworks’ gunpowder blasts. I am already using my reliable nasal spray but I guess this just was not enough.
Since I really did not want …

When it comes to food there is nothing I will not try, except for spicy food–there is something about the spiciness which makes me not enjoy the food and all that I end up tasting is heat. A few of my friends and I were at a college football …

Paxil is an antidepressant that I have been taking daily for about six years now. I notice no major side effects, and I have been happy with the way that the drug works for me. Although it should not be thought of as any kind of miracle …

The Sengkang polyclinic is situated within 5 minutes walk from Compassvale bus station. The polyclinic shares the same building as the Community Centre, in which many residents staying around Sengkang would join activities such as yoga, aerobics, badminton club, and cooking classes.
The polyclinic attracts a few hundred patients every …

Lamictal is a medication usually prescribed for bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is an illness categorized by extreme mood swings- manic highs, and depressed lows. That is why the illness was originally called manic depression. Lamictal helps with these mood swings. It can also be taken for …

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 …

One unforgettable thing that happened a few days before new year’s eve, in the middle of a holiday vacation, was the time my stomach went on a vomiting spree. I still couldn’t make sense of what happened, whether it was food poisoning, perhaps a bad case of indigestion, …

Restoril is a medication I must take to be able to go to sleep. I have a problem relating to my medical conditions that causes me to be unable to fall asleep on my own. The other name for this medication is Temazepam. I am on …

I take diuretics occasionally to relieve bloating and water retention. This is a problem for me once a month, and also any time I have too much salt in my diet. I always keep a diuretic in the medicine cabinet in case I need to take one. …