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3 Qualities of Those Who Succeed In The Health and Wellness Industry

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If you’re considering working in the health and wellness industry, it’s good to know what areas of your personality are going to be compatible with this work and what tasks might stretch you past your current abilities. While anyone who’s passionate and has the drive to succeed can often find a way to make their dream career a reality, it’s often found that those with certain characteristics have an easier time finding that success and feeling fulfilled by their career choice. To help you know whether this is really the field in which you want to work, here are three qualities that people who succeed in the health and wellness industry usually have in spades.

Compassion

A major indicator of whether or not you’ll enjoy your work and find success in your field is the amount of compassion you’re able to have for your patients, clients, and coworkers. According to Tanya Robertson, a contributor to Chron Work, especially those who choose to work directly with people will need to have a lot of compassion for whatever situation they find themselves in. Whether they need someone to help them through a rough diagnosis, someone to give them support and encouragement as they strive to get healthy, or just someone to understand where they’re coming from with their feelings, having compassion is going to make your job so much easier on you. [Read more…]

Issues That Can Go Wrong With Your Senses

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Your health is important, and while people that have no issues with all of their senses may take them for granted, there are problems that can happen. You are lucky to see and hear clearly, and it can be very traumatic to lose any of your five senses. But how is it that people can lose things like smell and taste?

Well, it is possible. Your hearing and sight aren’t the only senses that can be lost or diminished. Here are some of the things that can affect your senses.

Hearing

You use your hearing everyday, from listening to the people around you to listening to the television. Without hearing, you would not be able to listen to music, TV, other people, or anything, for that matter. Whole plenty of people survive in the world without hearing, why not work to protect yours.

That means wearing earplugs when you will be around loud noises, and learning the safe and proper way to clean your ears. If you experience ringing in your ears or any amount of hearing loss, talk to your doctor.

Eyesight

For most people, eye problems come with age. However, some people are born blind, and some children need glasses at a young age. People are born with lazy eye issues, and more. These are things you deal with as they come along.

You do want to get a yearly eye exam though, to make sure that your sight is good, and to allow your eye doctor to look behind your eye at all the components that keep you seeing, Eye exams to help with early detection of blindness, glaucoma, and other eye issues.

Touch

There are illnesses that can cause you to lose your sense of touch. Most commonly, though, an injury to your nerves, such as a broken limb or spine, or trauma of some sort, can cause loss of feeling. If you have nervous system issues, this too can be an issue.

Smell

If you are not smelling things normally, or at all, it could be something as simple as a cold or sinus infection affecting you. However, it could also be something more major, such as tumors, polyps, or even something wrong within your brain. If you don’t have a cold and you’re sense of smell is gone, or not normal, talk to your doctor.

Taste

If there is something wrong with your sense of smell, then it will commonly affect your sense of taste as well, since they both work together. But you can also lose your sense of taste on it’s own. As you get older both of these senses can wane some as well, just like your other senses.

4 OTC Meds and Drinks You Should Not Mix

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Numerous medicines abound on the market today. They come in all shapes and sizes and are available in various brands. With this scenario, it can be hard to know which ones are safe to take.

Many people often rely on over the counter (OTC) drugs to cure common illnesses. Those who have certain conditions, however, may need to take more than just one medicine at specific times of the day.

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But did you know that it’s not always a good thing to mix OTC drugs and take them with liquids other than water? Here are some of them you should avoid.

Antihistamine and Grapefruit Juice

A research done at the University of Western Ontario in Canada has shown that citrus fruits and grapefruit products may have an effect on medications inside your body due to the chemicals they contain. Specifically, the flavonoid compound in grapefruit juice called naringin can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb drugs. [Read more…]

Alternative Health Remedies in Asia

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Numerous people today, particularly those from America, Europe and Australia are seeking alternative treatments in Asian countries. Oftentimes, they find Asian treatments more affordable than in their own place and being in a different country also allows them to visit great tourist attractions at the same time. That’s hitting two birds with one stone.

China, India and Thailand are among the Asian countries that offer a wide range of alternative treatments also called complementary or alternative medicine (CAM). These include herbal therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda and hypnosis, among many others.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the U.S. classifies these treatments as mind-body medicine, whole medical systems, biologically-based practices, energy medicine and manipulative and body-based practices. They can also be a combination of these categories.
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New Pill Approved for HIV Treatment

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After long years of waiting, a new breakthrough has been made in the fight against HIV and AIDS. With the creation of the quad pill, researchers are positive the new medication will help improve the condition of patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS.

The quad pill is called as such because it contains four antiretroviral drugs combined into one. It is recommended to be taken once a day unlike the previous treatments that required the intake of multiple drugs several times a day to control the virus.

The problem with past treatments, however, was that patients given multiple drugs up to 40 of them sometimes forgot to religiously take their medications which did not help in effectively treating the virus. Researchers emphasized that missing doses can cause the virus to become resistant to medication. With the new pill to be taken only once a day, though, there is a great chance that patients will not miss out on their medication and improve their condition.

A U.S. study published in the Lancet revealed this four-in-one pill has proven that the new medication is safe and effective. Some 700 HIV patients in North America were involved in the study spearheaded by Harvard Medical School researchers. They were divided into two groups with one taking the Quad pill and the other group taking the Atripla, another effective HIV drug. Compared to those taking Atripla, 88 percent of those Quad takers experienced suppression of the virus.

With these new findings, experts expressed satisfaction that a simple treatment has finally been discovered to treat HIV patients resistant to the virus. This development, they agree, will allow more patients to live longer and lead a healthy life while keeping the virus under control.

The FDA advisory committee first reviewed the quad pill in May and members voted for its approval. They’re expected to come out with a final decision any time this summer.

As of 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said more than 1.1 million Americans were suffering from HIV.

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