Best HVAC Filters for Patients with Bad Allergies

For patients with bad allergies, management of symptoms include not just medications and allergy shots , but also avoidance. Avoidance entails not just physically avoiding allergy particulates, but also removing them from the air you breath as much as you can. Outside of a school or work environment, the home is where a patient may spend a great deal of time. The home is where one can easily take steps to improve the air quality and therefore reduce allergy symptoms and need for (more) all…

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Turbine Nasal Dilator to Help with Nasal Obstruction

There is a device that has become popularized by Chris Froome (2x Tour de France winner) that may help with people suffering from nasal obstruction . Known as Rhinomed  Turbine Nasal Dilator , it works by opening up the internal nasal valve of the nose allowing greater nasal airflow. However, this device will not work for all cases of nasal obstruction . The internal nasal valve is located about 1 cm into the nose from the entrance of the nose. This area is also the most "narrow" …

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Chin Strap May Help with Snoring

There is a relatively simple (and cheap) device that  may help some people who snore called a chin strap . This lowly, humble, and low-tech device may benefit patients who typically snore when: 1) Lays on back, but not on side 2) Mouth-breathes when sleeping (but suffers no nasal obstruction ) 3) Does not suffer from severe obstructive sleep apnea 4) Appears to be "slack-jawed" when sleeping (chin pushed back relative to upper jaw creating a pseudo-overjet dental appearance…

2/12/2014 1

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Acupuncture Helps with Ear Surgery Pain

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital has found that acupuncture may be effective in diminishing both pain and post-anesthesia agitation in children after ear tube placement determined thru a prospective randomized controlled trial . Typically, children are placed under general anesthesia in order to have this procedure performed and upon waking, are often tearful and agitated. In this study, acupuncture needles were placed at LI-4 and HT-7 immediately after anesthesia, but prior to …

12/18/2013 0

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Does Drinking Alkaline Water Help With Reflux?

Image by WJ Pilsak from Wikipedia Treatment in some reflux-sufferers may require addressing not just the acid in reflux, but also the pepsin. In one tantalizing  research paper,  alkaline water (pH 8.8) was found to instantly and permanently inactivate pepsin in vitro (ie, in a test tube). Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that can cause inflammation and mucosal damage when in the throat area. This peptic enzyme can be deposited outside the stomach due to laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and ca…

7/07/2013 1

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Does Acupuncture Help With Allergies?

Image from Acupuncture For All According to one study , it does... Performed by researchers in China and Korea, they divided 238 patients suffering from allergies into 3 groups: active acupuncture, sham acupuncture, and no treatment. They found that acupuncture, even if it was sham, did help significantly with nasal allergies. However, only active acupuncture helped with not just nasal allergies but also allergy symptoms beyond the nose! Of course, when considering all the other researc…

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Video and Audio Recording with RCA Connectors: Primer for Surgeons

In the medical world, video recording of surgical procedures is not unusual, especially when it comes to endoscopy. A camera attached to an endoscope throws up a live image to a screen for the surgeon (and others) to watch. Video output for recording is now standard in such situations. The monitor where the endoscopy procedure is viewed itself contains video output plugs. The endoscopy equipment itself like the KayPentax EPK-1000 contains not just one video output, but 3... Two S-video…

11/14/2012 0

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