Helping to prevent hives

Written by Anonymous


Question : MY 13-month-old daughter has been getting hives forrepparttar past six months. It can appear and disappear withinrepparttar 145518 day. I really have no idea what triggers it. I have sought advice from a paediatrician but he advised me to wait for another two months or so. He doesn't like to prescribe drugs to babies unless absolutely necessary. I don't likerepparttar 145519 idea of giving drugs to a small child because they may only suppressrepparttar 145520 symptoms but not treatrepparttar 145521 root ofrepparttar 145522 problem. I would like to know whether there's any natural cure for hives. Of courserepparttar 145523 best treatment is to findrepparttar 145524 cause ofrepparttar 145525 allergen!

Answer : HIVES are very common, especially in people who have experienced other allergic reactions like hay fever, and are sometimes hereditary. When you, have an allergic reaction to any substance, histamine and other chemicals are released into your bloodstream. These chemicals cause itching, swelling, hives and other symptoms. When swelling or welts occur aroundrepparttar 145526 face, especiallyrepparttar 145527 lips and eyes, it is called angioedema; swelling from angioedema can also occur around your hands, feet, and throat.

Many substances can trigger an allergic response, resulting in hives, such as medications, certain types of foods such as berries, shellfish, fish, nuts, eggs and milk, pollen and even animal dander or insect bites. Hives may also develop from an infection (like mononucleosis) or illness (including lupus and other autoimmune diseases, leukaemia and others), emotional stress, extreme cold or sun exposure and excessive perspiration.

Qutting Smoking - Ways to Stop

Written by Steven A. Harold


There are numerous ways that people use to stop smoking. People do actually succeed in stopping smoking butrepparttar same method of stopping does not work for everyone and sometimesrepparttar 145517 same method may finally work only after a second or third attempt at it is tried.

The most popular methods used to quit smoking and not in any particular order are: -

1) Will power 2) Cutting down 3) Hypnosis 4) Patches, Gum, Lozenges 5) False Cigarette 6) Zyban 7) Acupuncture 8) Shock event

There is no doubt that each of these methods has been successful in helping someone to stop smoking. The work in slightly different ways to each other and I will attempt to describe each method and in my opinionrepparttar 145518 pros and cons of each

1) Will power This is probablyrepparttar 145519 most used method for stopping smoking and one that does work. Actually a certain amount of will power will be required no matter what method of quitting smoking you use. Unfortunately will power can of suggests a fight and suggests that if you are strong minded you will succeed and that if you fail you are weak minded. The description will power is not helpful as far as stopping smoking is concerned because ofrepparttar 145520 perceived battle thatrepparttar 145521 word suggests. A better word would be 'decision'. Just make your decision and then that can be that. But make it a final decision and not some halfhearted attempt and then you can quit successfully.

2) Cutting down This involves will power withrepparttar 145522 idea of feedback that you are succeeding plus knowing that you are gradually weaning yourself off any perceived chemical dependency of cigarettes. In theory it sounds great because if each day you smoke one less cigarette you know you are getting closer to stopping. Unfortunately in order to know how many cigarettes you are smoking you have to count them and then know at any particular moment ofrepparttar 145523 day how many you have had and how many more you can have. This method means that you have to think about smoking much more than if you were smoking freely. If something is on your mind more often, it then make it harder to stop it. If you really want to succeed with usingrepparttar 145524 cutting down method, don't get into counting each cigarette.

A better tactic is to decide to leave out certain cigarettes such asrepparttar 145525 one at 10:30 orrepparttar 145526 one after lunch. This way you don’t have to count how many you are smoking and yet you know you are cutting down.

3) Hypnosis This method still requiresrepparttar 145527 'will power' or even betterrepparttar 145528 'decision' fromrepparttar 145529 smoker that they want to stop. Hypnosis does not take awayrepparttar 145530 choice ofrepparttar 145531 person to smoke rather it supportsrepparttar 145532 decision to stop. It is like getting some extra help to support your decision to stop. Importantly it uses suggestions that are aimed atrepparttar 145533 stronger part ofrepparttar 145534 mind,repparttar 145535 subconscious mind, to let get of this old outdate and no longer useful response to life.

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