Improve Your Child’s Quality of Sleep with White Noise White noise can play a complex role in helping a child maintain healthy sleep hygiene. It’s hard to get a child to sleep and creating a routine can be an important part of getting your kid to bed. Adding a white noise machine or using a …
If your allergies won’t let up, it may be time to see your doctor. A detailed diagnosis also includes multiple steps to treat allergies as best as possible. The number of people who suffer from allergies or asthma keeps increasing. These ailments affect approximately 40 to 50 million Americans. Since allergies are so common, doctors …
Restless Legs Syndrome: An Overview If you’re overcome by the painful urge to constantly move your legs, or by unconscious kicking and jerking that’s keeping you awake at night, you’re not alone. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) affects up to 7-10% of adults in the US population, with approximately 2% of RLS patients being children. However, …
What to Do if an Allergic Reaction Becomes Dangerous Millions of Americans suffer from allergies, and while most of them only experience mild to moderate symptoms, others can be at risk for potentially deadly allergic reactions. Here is a list of signs that you’re having an allergic reaction and what to do if it becomes …
Do You Find it Hard to Sleep in New York? Old, sepia photographs of New York City from just a hundred years ago show a landscape of buildings only a few stories tall. It’s a shocking contrast to the monoliths of today; but evidence that we built from the ground up. It seems obvious, but …
Common Cold or Allergies? How to Tell the Two Apart Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between allergies and a cold. Others may run from you, thinking you’re contagious, but in reality, you may just be suffering from a bad case of allergies. Like a cold, allergy symptoms can include runny nose, a cough, sneezing, and …
Asthma is a manageable condition, but certain triggers may be out of your control. It is important that you always have your inhaler with you when you go out – and always be prepared for the worst. But what if the worst does happen? What if you have an asthma attack with no inhaler? Here’s …
Is it Actually Possible to Catch Up on Lost Sleep? While the National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults aged 18 to 64 get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep a day, this may prove challenging for some people. Full-time students, parents of young children, and people with second and third shift jobs are just a …
What are Skin Allergies? Skin allergies can be caused by a variety of factors. These can include immune system disorders, medications, and/or infections. Something touches your skin, and your immune system responds to the allergen, triggering the attack. It overreacts and sends antibodies to help fight the allergen. The result is a red, itchy rash, …
Sleep Hygiene: Overcoming Sleeping Problems Time is a funny thing when you should have been asleep hours ago. You wait for sleep behind closed eyes, and the seconds draw out. But when you check the clock, precious time raced by. You’re going to be so tired tomorrow. At times like this, the most obvious solution …
