About three years ago, I was diagnosed with asthma. Before that, I lived with it for most of my life without having any idea why exercise was a struggle for breath and lying in bed at night was sometimes more scary than restful. When I was finally diagnosed, I decided 23 years was more than [...]

I recently completed yet another article about ears. This one is about how to get rid of earwax. I’ve done my best to make sure we don’t rely on the old cotton-tipped swab, because those have the potential to cause more harm than good, especially if you’re one of those unlucky people who produces more [...]

PMS jokes: we’ve all heard them; most of us have cracked them. But if you’ve ever had symptoms of PMS, you know it’s not actually very funny. For one thing, it sometimes hurts—physically hurts. And then there’s the problem of trying to wrangle control over your mind, since bursting into tears midsentence and yelling at [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve written an article, and since I was on the topic of how to get rid of infections before, I thought I’d follow that up with an article about how to get rid of external ear infections, or “external otitis.” It’s also quite commonly known as Swimmer’s Ear. Recently a [...]