Personal Health Care

Mumps is an illness caused by a virus. It typically causes painful swelling of the parotid glands, salivary glands located below the ear at the angle of the jaw. It is highly contagious and the virus spreads by droplets from the mouth, nose or throat when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It is most [...]

It is a sensation of uncomfortable tingling or prickling, usually felt in the hands or feet. The effected area is sometimes said to have fallen asleep. The medical name for pins and needles is paraesthesia and it is caused bu blocked blood flow to a pressed nerve. Paraesthesia is a sign that sensory nerves in [...]

Back pain treatment is a hotly debated topic for your personal health care. Every week you can read a least one research study that claims a popular, conventional back pain treatment is ineffective. Even the most established treatments such as physical therapy do not escape the headlines. Only recently researchers at Warwick University (UK) found [...]

If you are new father or new mother or soon become father or mother, you need to know more about your baby sleep patterns. Sleep pattrens play important part in our baby health care. An average newborn sleeps much of the day and night, waking only for feeds. A newborn baby cannot distinguish night and day and [...]

Ask any nutritionist on what you need to do in order to ensure that you eat healthy for your personal health care, and you will probably get the same answer; eat a balanced diet made of a variety of foods and in moderation. Does that sound familiar? Well, that is just a general summation of [...]