Health Care

If you have a wound, ulcer, or burn requiring medical attention, there are many tried-and-true ways to fight infection and promote healing. But if you want to try the following points in mind.
. Sugar dressing is only useful in treating open wounds or burns. It will not work on abscesses or pustules that are covered with skin. An important point to note: Do not use on a bleeding wound as sugar promotes bleeding.
. Honey will work as well as sugar, provided it’s pasteurized. (This is to protect against microorganism like botulism spores that are sometimes present in honey, which can gain entry into the wound.)

Here’s how to start:

1. Unravel a 4 inch piece of gauze into a long strip and coat it with petroleum jelly (Vaseline). Place it around the outside edges of the wound, like a medhu vada.
2. Cover the wound with ¼-inch of sugar. (The Vaseline “vada” will keep it in place.)
3. Place a 4 inch sponge on top of the wound. Bandage it firmly but not too of the wound. Bandage it firmly but not too snugly with a cling dressing.
4. Change the dressing every one or two days. Remove, irrigate with sterile water, saline, or hydrogen peroxide, and pat dry and repeat steps1-3.

Farting, also known as flatulence, is the act of passing intestinal gas from the anus. A fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide). The word fart is just one of many different terms used to describe the release of gasses from the human body. Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, air biscuits, bombers, barking spiders, rotten eggs, and wet ones.

A fart smells the same to the person who delivered it and to the person smelling it. However, the farter probably smells it last because the fart is propelled away from the body in the opposite direction of the farter’s nose.

On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts. Whereas it may be difficult for you to determine your daily flatus volume, you can certainly keep track of your daily numerical fart count.

Some foods make your gas more potent. As  bacteria in the colon ferment indigestible bits of food, smelly gas results. Sulfur rich foods such as cabbage, cauliflower and beans and the sugar substitute sorbitol (found in gum), produce a particularly pungent odor. People who swallow a lot of air fart more than people who don’t. This can be cured somewhat by chewing with your mouth closed. Nervous people with fast moving bowels will fart more because less air is absorbed out of the intestines.

Drinking a half cup of cranberry juice a day can help cut the smell; it contain phytochemicals that suppress the odor causing bacteria. Other foods with deodorizing ingredients include yoghurt, parsley and mint leaves.

So, you want to catch the eye of that sexy little aerobic instructor. For starters, ditch the muscleman tees and go with the preppy or sporty look. Leave something to the imagination: You don’t need to strut around your stuff all the time, for heaven sakes. This means only slightly fitted, plain cotton T-shirt. Sober colors – navy, gray, or white – lend a more mature look. If you have run a marathon in the past 2 years and have the T-shirt to prove it, put it on. Legs should be covered by sweatpants or by shorts that stop just above the knee – no higher. Keep socks short and white. No exceptions. 

Tobacco + Alcohol = Two poisons that feed off each other. That’s the verdict of Duke University researchers, who say that even a little alcohol can increase the pleasurable effects of nicotine. In their study, 48 smokers drank either booze or a placebo beverage and then lit up. Those who drank alcohol felt calmer and found their smokes more satisfying than those who had no hooch. Nicotine stimulates brain pleasure receptors, and “alcohol has been shown to prolong the activation of those receptors”, says Jed Rose, M.D., the study author. If you want to kick the cigs, lay off alcohol for the first few weeks, when nicotine withdrawal symptoms may be at their worst. You are more likely to suceed in giving up the habit.