How to stay healthyWritten by Anonymous
Question : I AM a 33-year-old male smoker who often suffers from coughs and colds. How can I improve my health? Answer : ON average, adults have two to four colds a year. The symptoms may vary but typical cold starts with a sore throat, sneezing, nasal congestion and a runny nose, frequently followed by a cough that can linger for a week to 10 days. You may catch a cold - or flu - if you have a weak immune system. There are no cures for common cold. However, there are numerous alternative and folk remedies worth trying to alleviate cold symptoms. Get plenty of rest. Drink extra fluids to thin mucus. A cool-mist humidifier to increase air moisture can relieve nasal symptoms. Abstain from smoking and stay away from smoky or polluted environment as these may prolong cold symptoms. Hot baths or alternating warm and cool showers will help you feel better. For immune system to function vigilantly, you must have good nutrition and take some supplements to boost it.
| | Dr. Will Horsley, M.D.Written by Sara Goldstein
After over 10,000 LASIK procedures and thousands of other refractive procedures, Dr. Will Horsley Medical Director of Lasik Vision Institute in Burlington is one of most experienced LASIK and refractive surgeons in New England.Dr. Horsley is Cornea fellowship trained and Lasik board certified by American Board of Eye Surgeons, (www.aces-abes.org) in addition to being Board Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology. Other refractive surgeries performed at Horsley Eye Center are Conductive Keratoplasty, (to restore reading vision after 40), clear lens exchange, (for sever hyperopia), and intra ocular contact lens or ICL for extremes of myopia untreatable by laser refractive procedures. Besides doing all LASIK procedures for LASIK Vision Institute, Dr. Horsley also treats his own private patients from his private office in Stoneham. The private patients are all treated EXCLUSIVELY on VISX STAR 4 laser with active track 3-D eye tracking and WaveScan WaveFront System. The tracker can measure and incredible five times for each pulse of laser, and shuts laser off in a 50th of a millisecond should movement exceed trackers range of motion, computer that directs laser remembers where it left off, so procedure can resume without any adverse effect if patient needs to cough or sneeze or just inadvertently moves.
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