Bleach has many uses and you can find it in almost every home. Because it does so much people have been faced with the obvious question about what the difference is between these products. CLOROX brand leads all kinds of other bleaches on the market today. So we will put the question to rest today ...
St. John’s Wort is a perennial plant that grows in many parts of the world including northern California, southern Oregon and Colorado. Wort” is an old English word for an herb or plant. Its scientific name is Hypericum perforatum. It was believed to bloom on the birth day of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, ...
Less than 48 hours after my husband flew home from a winter wedding in another state, he developed serious respiratory symptoms. After a diagnosis of pneumonia, he missed two weeks of work. Initially, we weren’t particularly worried about the exact type. However, when doctors discovered that I took immunosuppressive drugs and wasn’t permitted to have ...
What is cytomegalovirus? Cytomegalovirus, also known as CMV, is a commonly occurring virus in adults and children. CMV is usually harmless and causes no lasting affects, or even illness in individuals who contract the virus after birth. CMV usually remains in the person’s body, live but dormant for the rest of their lives. This kind ...
Ischemic colitis. That’s clearly a medical term, the kind that can confuse some lay people, but actually it’s fairly simple. Most of us know that anything medical ending in “itis” means an inflammation, so this is partly an inflammation of the colon. Ischemia means impaired blood flow to an organ or tissue. So in simple ...
There is a high desire for the need of B negative blood type. Out of millions of registered voters and civilians, we are forced to rely on a very frail 2% of Americans to step forward and donate. Unfortunately, the real challenge is that there are still not enough people who are participating at blood ...
One day in November 2006 our family life changed, irrevocably. My thirteen-year-old daughter, who had been complaining of stomach pains and elimination problems, was the color of chalk. The whites of her eyes, her skin, even her lips were pale. Diagnosed with mononucleosis a year prior, she’d still been sleeping more than usual and felt ...
