I just woke up and I’m hung-over. What now? There has to be something I can do! After awakening, there are many things you can & should do to begin the hangover recovery process. Here are 10 suggestions to have you feeling better soon:
These first 5 suggestions for hangover recovery are recommended immediately after stumbling out of bed:
1) Re-hydrate your body with plenty of liquids. Drink plenty of purified or spring water immediately after awakening and continue throughout the morning. Tomato juice (such as V8), and other fresh fruit juices are also very effective liquids. Sports drinks, such as Gatorade or Powerade, often speed up the body’s replenishing process by including electrolytes and other essential vitamins. Herbal teas, such as ginger tea, peppermint tea and chamomile tea can do wonders for a hangover-laden stomach. Read more »
Bronchitis is a health disorder of the lungs. This specifically refers to the swelling of the mucous membranes that lie in the bronchial tree deep within the lung passages.
This condition can either be acute or chronic: Acute bronchitis is generally caused by viral or bacterial infection, and may also be brought about by irritation from environmental pollution like fumes, acids, solvents, or tobacco smoke.
Among the first symptoms of this ailment are a dry, nonproductive cough. Within a few hours or days, the coughing caused by this lung disorder begins to produce significant amounts of mucus. If a bronchitis cough and/or fever lasts for more than seven days, the individual should seek immediate consultation with a doctor for prompt treatment. Read more »
Bed rest is the number one advise any person in their right mind would give another individual when sciatica pain attacks. After all, with the body pain that sciatica brings about, how can one possibly perform any exercises for sciatica relief? However, bed rest,in line with most experts, is the most detrimental thing one can conduct for sciatica pain. Typically, the intensity of lower back pain and hip pain brought on by sciatica is most severe the moment you attempt to get out of bed after a lengthy rest.
In contrast to other types of discomfort that would require lengthy bed rest, sciatica pain would only gain from rest during an acute attack of discomfort or during the initial 48 hours after pain onset. Being sedentary after 48 hours will only make things worse. Why does rest cause more pain when it is expected to help? Back support becomes a lot weakened when one rests for an extended period of time since the muscles and spinal structures become relaxed. Discomfort becomes serious as the back becomes vulnerable to anxiety and harm. Read more »
Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all experience inflammation on a daily basis, yet few among us fully understand the vital purpose that inflammation serves in our bodies and the havoc it can wreak upon us when it goes unchecked. Many see inflammation as the redness, heat, swelling, and pain that we get upon injury, and while this is true, it represents only one kind of inflammation: acute inflammation. Inflammation, by itself, is a natural process and without it healing could not take place in the body. Acute inflammation is seen as the body’s reaction to injury, helping to aid in repair and protect damaged tissue, and is at the heart of protecting our bodies from disease and illness. This type of inflammation acts to heal by getting more nourishment and immune system activity to the area that needs it most.
Where inflammation becomes dangerous and even deadly is when it manifests as chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation, as the name suggests, represents inflammation that lasts weeks, months, and even years and occurs when the initial stimulus which led to acute inflammation persists, as the body interprets the stimulus as unresolved. This form of inflammation can be sinister in nature, silently damaging your tissues without the usual redness, heat, swelling or pain that would normally be seen with acute inflammation. Tissue damage is a classic hallmark of chronic inflammation, often forming fibrous or scar tissue from the tissue which once existed in the site of repair. New blood vessel formation (or angiogenesis) is another common hallmark of chronic inflammation, which plays a part in many disease processes, such as cancer. Read more »
Physicians have found that fibromyalgia does appear to be affected by the foods we eat. Its effect can manifest itself differently for each individual, similar to having the same medication effect an individual differently than someone else. Some responding better or worse with the same medication or food. This is partly due to our complex body systems and depending on what each part of our bodies need at any given time. It is a difficult one to explain fully.
Eating healthy foods on a daily basis has been found to help people with fibromyalgia and other disorders like it. Actually, a good healthy diet serves to help with all things. Fibromyalgia can be quite debilitating and suck the energy right out of you. A lot of energy is used just dealing with the discomfort in movement and the ever present fatigue. It is not even clear what causes the fibromyalgia symptoms of muscle/joint pain and fatigue. At any rate, it can zap the zest for life. Read more »
Have you ever noticed the ad of a young girl, naked from the waist up, with a little pink ribbon of remembrance glued next to her nipple? I cannot remember anymore just when or where I saw it, but the feelings it brought up in me then which were strong to begin with, have only deepened over the course of time. Her body vulnerable, her eyes looking longingly, innocent yet tainted with fear and sadness haunt me.
Why, I ask myself, is this image so cleverly memorable? Is it because, like almost every person in North America, I have known, loved, and seen the passing of friends and relatives from breast cancer? Is it because my own Aunt had breast surgery three years ago and is still fighting the fear of recurrence and realizing her own mortality? Obviously, these impressions have affected me. But, the passion that has fueled my interest in breast care comes not entirely from looking at the past. Rather, it comes from the future. I plan to have children, daughters, and when I saw that picture, every cell in my body shouted that they will not be raised in the same ignorance and fear that has characterized the last twenty years of the so-say breast cancer epidemic. They also should not have to suffer monthly tenderness or mental contortions over breast size and shape that is also still very much with us. They have a right to feel fit, free, and fearless in their bodies especially in the parts that make them female. Read more »
Water exercises are a good way to get rid of the pain caused by a herniated disc. Water-based exercises basically offer the same benefits you get from the associated land-based exercises. One great advantage to exercise in the pool is that water makes it easier for pain-patients to perform the movements.
This is due to some great property that water has:
- It takes the pressure away from the discs while you exercise
- It diminishes the risk of unwanted injuries due to inapt movements
- It makes exercising feel easy and even relaxing
Here are some of the most basic water exercises for herniated disc problems that help relieve the acute pain: Read more »
