Nobody wants to see their family spend the holiday season wrapped up in bed or, worse still, sent to the local Emergency Room. Unfortunately, the threat of illness is greater than ever at this time of the year, which is why you need to take greater responsibility to keep healthy during the holidays. Follow the…
Before you get cozy with your beau this Summer, make sure you’re both in good health. The kissing disease, better known as mononucleosis, is spread through saliva. So you could get it by drinking out of an infected person’s cup, sharing food, or kissing. Know the signs and symptoms of the kissing disease, so you…
Bees, hornets, yellow jackets, and wasps. It’s easy to get these creatures confused in the brief desperate moment of getting stung. One may hurt more than the other, but without reference, who could possibly know the difference? Once you learn those differences, you may be able to figure it out the moment that stinging sensation…
The world is full of exotic and wild creatures of all shapes and sizes. Out here in the Mojave desert, the likelihood of you running into a venomous animal isn’t very high—but considering that the desert is full of things like rattlesnakes, spiders and scorpions, it is still very much a possibility. What do you…
If there’s one place you do not want to get caught, it’s getting caught in the cold. Just like any survival tips, surviving the cold isn’t easy if you aren’t always prepared. Now is the time to start getting prepared. Anytime you decide to go travel during the winter months you are in fact putting…
The holiday season has its share of pros and cons. Obviously, it’s a wonderful time we get to spend with our families, celebrating together—but it’s also a time where we’re all at risk of getting sick. It’s a small price to pay for the relaxing cool weather and the chance to be close to those…
Every single day, we encounter millions of germs on just about every surface we touch. If you touch these surfaces and then bring them up to your face or even when you eat with your hands, you risk getting sick. Since it’s basically impossible to avoid these surfaces, the only way to prevent this and…
Mother Nature is an unpredictable and often terrifying thing. At any given moment, something could burst out of the ground or fall out of the sky, scathing or shattering anything in its path. We’re speaking, of course, about a lightning strike. Surviving a lightning strike is all about handling burns, shock, and damage to the…
Chances are, you’ve had some uninvited guest living inside you at some point in your life. Maybe you scratched your arm and an adolescent fluke found its way into your skin, fed off of you until it reached adulthood, laid eggs, and then left. It’s the circle of life, all part of nature. It’s possible…
There are some strange symptoms out there, and there are downright scary symptoms—but sometimes, things aren’t as bad as they may seem. People often have misconceptions about how severe some urgent care symptoms are, due to misinformation online or just scaring ourselves into seeing a doctor right away. So, how do you know when to…
