Hives Urticaria - Articles
The Curative Effects of Honey
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Methods of Healing
Honey is the thick, sweet by-product of bees and has been used as a healthy alternative to sugar and other sweeteners. It is simply amazing how bees can feed on flower nectar and through a chemical process, their saliva turns that nectar into honey. In addition to being a natural sweetener, there has been a lot of scientific research that supports ...
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The babies' first Thanksgiving!
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Little Wonders
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, my faithful blog readers! I hope you enjoyed a day filled with the warmth of family, friends and good food! Let me give you a quick recap of our day ... the babies 1st Thanksgiving! - Amaya broke out in hives all over her body as a reaction to her nebulizer meds. I talked to the pediatrician on call who told me t ...
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How to Recognize that You May Have a Food Allergy
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Methods of Healing
Millions of people have allergies, some that stay with them throughout the year and others that are seasonal. These allergies are typically environmental and can be blamed on pollen, grass, dust mites and a host of other factors. These allergies are easily identifiable by sneezing, congestion, itchy, watery eyes and occasionally itching skin. Howev ...
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Exercise Induced Anaphylaxis
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GB
This article has excellent information about anaphylaxis. The symptoms I had were dead on to the "classic exercise-induced anaphylaxis." Here's a brief description of those symptoms: "A prodromal phase is characterized by fatigue, warmth, pruritus, and cutaneous erythema. The early phase follows, with the urticarial eruption that p ...
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What About Afterward?
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NicoleD
We talk a lot about pregnancy and birth on this blog, but what about after baby comes? There are so many options to consider before baby even makes her arrival, from vaccination and circumcision, to breastfeeding and diapering, there are so many things to work through. This post will, hopefully, set you on a course to helping navigate all of the ch ...
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I'm just a cat sitting on the ledge of the universe
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Jennette F.
Picture by mgrenner57 used under Creative Commons license.When I fly, it is inevitable that I start thinking about the meaning of life. No matter the airline or the destination, no matter the time zone or the country, when I look out an airplane window, my spirit soars with awe and my stomach sinks with terror. Looking down on our planet, I can see ...
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I'm just a cat sitting on the ledge of the universe
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Jennette F.
Picture by mgrenner57 used under Creative Commons license.When I fly, it is inevitable that I start thinking about the meaning of life. No matter the airline or the destination, no matter the time zone or the country, when I look out an airplane window, my spirit soars with awe and my stomach sinks with terror. Looking down on our planet, I can see ...
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Exercise Induced Anaphylaxis
by
GB
This article has excellent information about anaphylaxis. The symptoms I had were dead on to the "classic exercise-induced anaphylaxis." Here's a brief description of those symptoms: "A prodromal phase is characterized by fatigue, warmth, pruritus, and cutaneous erythema. The early phase follows, with the urticarial eruption that p ...
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What About Afterward?
by
NicoleD
We talk a lot about pregnancy and birth on this blog, but what about after baby comes? There are so many options to consider before baby even makes her arrival, from vaccination and circumcision, to breastfeeding and diapering, there are so many things to work through. This post will, hopefully, set you on a course to helping navigate all of the ch ...
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Farewell Cross Country, until next Fall. I will miss you.
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GB
Pictures below courtesy of Lynn Walker and Carolynne Juarez (SF Examiner) Yesterday was MY final cross country meet of the season with the PAUSATF. Our team's top runners are now prepping for Club Nationals in December and I'm so excited for them! To be blunt, my fitness sucked going into this race. Let's see, the last five weeks were like this: ...
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