When there is a recurrent or repeated urinary tract infection, we must figure out the reason why it is repeated especially if the duration is short. Recurrent urinary tract infection is at least having at least 2 infections within 6 months or 3 infections for 1 year. Recurrent urinary tract infection can be alarming because [...]
Urinalysis performs to analyze the urine physical color and appearance, microscopic appearance, and chemical appearance. Your physician may require having urinalysis to diagnose certain disease such as urinary tract infection or kidney infection, diabetes mellitus, and high blood pressure and evaluate the causes of kidney failure. Urine sample is collected from patient in order to [...]
Last night, I heard the news about the spreading of a new and different strain of swine flu virus. A strain of swine flu is suspected to be the killer of dozen of people in Mexico. Swine flu is caused by type A influenza viruses among pigs. It regularly happened in pigs but human infection [...]
Personal grooming is plays vital role to maintain a healthy body. It is the act of cleaning, grooming and maintaining parts of the body such as bathing, washing, showering, cleaning hair, cutting nail, brushing teeth, clothing properly, and applying make up. Also, it helps to build up self confidence. Whether we like it or not, [...]
Two brand of peanut butter here in the Philippines and pistachios in the US find out that there is a salmonella contamination. I wonder if these companies followed quality procedure to measure the levels of bacteria count. It is important to check the bacteria from raw materials, to tables and equipment in the working areas [...]
It is very hard to maintain our healthy meal most especially today because fast food chain is everywhere which usually offers junk food or super fatty foods. But of course, it is really up to you if you will follow the food pyramid or not. Always think of the possible disease which will come your [...]
I decided to post heat stroke because summer here is approaching. Every summer, many people are suffering from heat stroke due to very hot weather condition. One of the most severe forms of heat illness is heat stroke. It is also one of a life-threatening emergency as a result of long exposure to the sun [...]
Running a big organization is a tedious job so it is important to hire a right person to a right job. Business owner finds it hard to employ a right individual maybe because there are so many candidates and it is hard to choose among them. Most business owner has a hard time dealing with [...]
Living a healthy lifestyle could also mean living in a healthy environment. To maintain our healthy body is to live an eco-friendly lifestyle. Healthy environment means free from pollution. The most common pollutants or contaminants are waste products from industrial plants, mines, power plants, agricultural operations, transportation, facilities and human dwellings. Pollution cannot be entirely [...]
I decided to note down what is hernia is because one of our friends called us yesterday regarding hernia symptoms and causes. Six years ago, my husband went through operation to repair hernia. He suffered inguinal hernia since it is develop in the groin. According to our physician, hernia is develops when the outer layers [...]
