My six-and-a-half-year-old daughter has developed a persistent dry cough over the past six weeks. She has no phlegm, no cold and no other symptoms. She is usually a very healthy and active girl. I wonder if it is a reaction to going back to school...
Teflon®, DuPont’s trademarked heat-resistant coating, is now everywhere. On any given morning, you may well encounter it while curling your hair, ironing your clothes, wearing your clothes, cooking your breakfast or sitting on your sofa. All the...
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Silicone-gel breast implants and other silicone prostheses may cause arthritis-like symptoms such as swelling of joints, pain, fever and chronic fatigue.
All of us are prone to all manner of infections during the summer - from athlete’s foot and holiday tummy to more serious infections like malaria. Conventional medicine offers little in the way of cure other than antibiotics,
A few ideas for the man who had an abscess in his right lower gum, caused by a baby tooth that's still there.
Propolis - that gummy substance collected by bees from leaf buds and tree bark - may be helpful in preventing and shortening the duration of the common cold in both children (Rom J Virol, 1995; 46: 115-33) and adults
At the first sign of an elevated temperature, worried parents attempt to treat a fever. However, fever is the body’s in-built infection control.
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