Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

  • Crossed Eyes: Causes And Treatments, Including Vision Therapy

    According to Eyes Apart, approximately two to four percent of America's population is affected by strabismus, or crossed eyes. If your child was recently diagnosed with strabismus, your eye doctor might be discussing various treatment options with you. Some are more invasive than others, and before you consider surgery, realize there are other ways to treat this common issue. Here are a few possible treatments for strabismus, including vision therapy:

  • 3 Steps To Kissing Your Winter Depression Goodbye For Good

    If you suffer from winter depression, then you may feel like you are living half a life, because you only feel fully functional during the spring and summer. When others are embracing fall weather and happily shopping for those warm, cozy winter sweaters, you may be looking at the clock at dusk and dreading when the sun begins setting even earlier. Thankfully, you don't have to suffer through another spell of winter depression, often called seasonal affective disorder (SAD), when you follow these three steps to finally getting rid of it for good.

  • At-Home Content Writers With Chronic Neck Pain: Can Muscle Strain Be The Cause?

    If you're an at-home content writer who experiences chronic neck pain that doesn't go away even when you take OTC pain medication, you may wonder if there's anything you might do to ease your discomfort. Neck pain can be a troublesome and painful problem for many people who work on computers, especially if they work for long periods of time. One of the reasons for your neck pain is muscle strain.

  • 4 Things Diabetics Need To Know About Hammertoes

    A hammertoe is a type of foot deformity where the middle joint of the affected toe becomes abnormally bent. Hammertoes are a nuisance for otherwise-healthy people, but for diabetics, they can become a serious health problem. Here are four things diabetics need to know about hammertoes. What causes hammertoes? Hammertoes can develop for many different reasons. Poorly-fitting shoes, such as shoes that are too small, can force your toes into a curled position, and eventually, they will remain in that position even when you're barefoot.

  • Battling Glaucoma: Why Surgery Is Now Considered An Affordable First-Line Treatment Option

    If you have recently been diagnosed with glaucoma or have been battling it for years, then you likely wonder when it will be a good idea to begin looking into surgical options to manage it instead of using eye drops daily. While glaucoma surgery used to be considered a "last resort" after eye drops and lifestyle alterations began to fail to keep intraocular pressure under control, many ophthalmologists have since reconsidered this opinion and now recommend them much earlier than before.

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Coping with Chronic Health Conditions: Tips

Ever since I was a young girl, I have had bad asthma and allergies. I had to stay in the hospital several times when I was in elementary school just to help get my asthma under control and it seemed like I was trying medication after medication with little success. I don't remember all of my childhood health details, since I was so young, but my mother has "filled in the blanks" for me. Thanks to modern medicine and a natural remedy, my health conditions are currently under control and have been for a few years now. I am very grateful for my good health, and I want to "pay it back" to others by creating a blog where I will post my health tips. I hope I can help you learn how to achieve good health!

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