Category Archives: Cold and Flu

It’s officially here, people taking time off work, your kids and grand-kids staying at home, sick in bed with high fevers, and hospital and doctors offices entertaining high volumes of people with similar complaints, a cold and flu virus, and while we are no stranger to the effects and inconveniences of the cold and flu ...click here to read more

Most years, there are over 100 million doses of influenza vaccine available to protect Americans; however, on average about 30 percent of the adult population in the United States receives an annual flu shot. Now, medical researchers are giving people more reason to consider protecting themselves against influenza. They believe the flu shot can curb ...click here to read more

In the past decade, tea drinking has increased in the Western world, resulting in massive production and sales of green tea and other types of herbal beverages.  The Western world has traditionally used black tea for ages, yet the introduction of green tea from China has been given much attention due to its positive effects ...click here to read more

Many people would rather wait it out then have to face the dreaded public toilet, but are they really as scary as they are made out to be? Most people spend as little time as they can in any kind of public restroom, from the ones at your doctor’s office, to the one in the ...click here to read more

We all like to think that Grandma knows best, but the reality is that some of her home remedies just don’t work. While well intentioned, in certain cases home remedies do us more harm than good. One age-old home remedy for constipation is castor oil. Derived from the castor bean plant, it has always been ...click here to read more

It’s not exactly what you would expect but it falls into the category of health tips that all mothers should know. New research is showing that getting a flu shot while pregnant could provide some interesting benefits to the immune system of the baby. The Health Tips for New Mothers Researchers which included those at ...click here to read more

Our immune system can often fight off infection; however, sometimes our body doesn’t want to co-operate and people need help to fight off the invaders. This is where antibiotics come in. When our immune system can’t destroy bad bacteria, doctors are known to prescribe antibiotics…the problem is, sometimes those antibiotics are useless. Infections and Antibiotic ...click here to read more

With the cold and flu infecting millions of people a year, it’s no surprise that researchers have been investigating influenza resistance in the hopes of developing a universal vaccine against the influenza virus. The problem with current influenza vaccines is that they only work for a couple of seasons. This occurs because the vaccine stimulates ...click here to read more

So you have started to feel the inevitable nastiness of influenza sneaking up on you. The symptoms of influenza are well known and marked by fever and chills, nausea, stomach upset and a general feeling of malaise. We are all aware of the old adage “you are what you eat”, so can this theory be ...click here to read more

Warm toast and honey, honey-garlic chicken, honey-roasted almonds…there are numerous food combinations that contain natures sweet nectar, but now people aren’t just eating honey, they are also turning to it to fight bacteria. There is evidence that shows honey can fight bacteria and be used as a preventative measure when it comes to certain illnesses. ...click here to read more

Have you ever been told that there’s no way to prevent getting the common cold — that catching one here and there is an inevitable part of life sometimes? But how do we explain those friends and family members that never seem to get a cold? Why do some people seem to succumb to the cold ...click here to read more