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Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Joint-pain can be debilitating and enervating and cause extreme discomfort. Anyone afflicted with pain caused ...
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Immune Boosters
Living in South Africa makes red lights and alarms an everyday occurrence. We are so conditioned to the sound of alarms that we can continue with our task at hand without lifting an eyebrow. The body also has an armed security system to detect any trespassers. The question is whether we are going to respond [...]
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Joint-pain can be debilitating and enervating and cause extreme discomfort. Anyone afflicted with pain caused by degenerative joints will attest to this. Durban-based journalist, Adrian Rorvik, has suffered from knee problems for most of his life. “I was told by doctors that my knee cartilage stopped developing at ‘fish’ stage in the womb,” he says. [...]
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Migraine
Did you know that even the ‘Desperate Housewives’ suffer from migraine? Marcia Cross, better known as Bree, knows what it is to suffer from this terrible pain! It started when she was 14, these days she avoids triggers such as stress, red wine, chocolates, cheddar cheese and oranges. It is common knowledge, that migraine is [...]
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Female Health Talk
Urogenital infections are an extremely common reason for women to seek medical care. These infections, specifically yeast vaginitis, bacterial vaginosis and urinary tract infections (UTIs) remain a major medical problem in terms of the number of women affected each year.Although treatment with antibiotics and anti-fungal medication is usually effective, there is a high risk of [...]
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Itchy Eyes
The eyes are probably the most sensitive organs of the body. They are moist and constantly exposed to the environment, which makes them easy targets for foreign particles to attack. Allergic reactions in the eye are called allergic conjunctivitis. Let us explore allergic conjunctivitis in more detail. Allergic reactions are the body’s way of reacting [...]
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Infant Nutrition
South Africa, like most other countries, has adopted the World Health Organisation’s policy with regard to the “promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding”. It is therefore the responsibility of all health care professionals to promote and support breastfeeding. A large proportion of the population are however opting for infant formula substitutes. Many different milk formulae [...]
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Pneumococcal disease
At just six weeks old, baby Jennifer Language of Centurion lost her fight against pneumococcal meningitis in May 2012. She was just one of the 3 608 cases of invasive pneumococcal disease in South Africa that the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) had recorded in the previous year. Despite these deaths in our midst, the [...]
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Ethnic Hair Care
Hairstyles for African hair are beautiful. Many variations and intricate twists look absolutely gorgeous, and are worth it even if they take a long time to complete. However, the hair itself still needs a lot of care to ensure that it remains healthy and shiny and actually needs more care than Caucasian hair. Sometimes the [...]
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