Apr 17, 2021 | Mental Health
If you identify as being emotionally exhausted talk to someone who’s supportive, a psychologist or a friend or family. Exercise, don’t drink alcohol excessively, get plenty of sleep, and work on a plan to address the stress that’s causing emotional...
Apr 15, 2021 | Travel Health
What is cholera? Cholera is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the bowel caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The infection can be asymptomatic (no obvious symptoms) to severe or life threatening. The most...
Apr 13, 2021 | Exercise and Fitness, First Aid and Self-Care, Healthy Living, Mental Health
Self care, exercise, regular rest and eating well are all strategies to help ensure you don’t experience a burnout. It is important to keep an eye on your mental health and also those of the people around you. Burnout was a term that was coined in the 1970s....
Apr 12, 2021 | Respiratory Health, Symptoms
What is Nonallergic Rhinitis? Nonallergic rhinitis is inflammation of the nasal passages. There are many causes of a runny nose due to inflamed nasal passages, from infection through to cold weather or for no obvious reason at all (see below). It’s considered...
Apr 12, 2021 | Mental Health
Caring for yourself when you’re a carer is a really important element for carers to be mindful of. The risk is if you don’t prepare for yourself, to try and make sure you don’t get overwhelmed, you can then become highly stressed and develop burnout....
Apr 9, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, Mental Health, Women's Health
It is important to treat depression in those who are pregnant. Failure to so will impact on the health and wellbeing of the baby once it is born because it will compromise the mothers ability to be positively and actively involved in looking after her child ....
Apr 6, 2021 | Bites and stings, First Aid and Self-Care, Travel Health
Australia is home to some of the most venomous creatures in the world. Snakes, spiders, jellyfish and molluscs, such as the blue ringed octopus and cone snail, can all inflict a sting or bite that may cause significant illness and occasionally, death. Australian...
Apr 6, 2021 | Exercise and Fitness, Muscle Workouts, Sports Fitness
Two easy exercises to strengthen your trapezius muscles. Trapezius push-ups Assume the push-up position. Create a diamond shape with your hands, keeping your hands beneath the centre of your chest. Keep your arms and body straight with weight on your toes and balls of...
Apr 3, 2021 | Allergy, Bites and stings, First Aid and Self-Care
Only 2 Australian spiders, the redback and the funnel-web, pose a threat to human life. Medical treatment is usually not required for white-tailed spider bites, although ice packs may relieve acute pain. Clinical experience appears to be limited with mouse...
Apr 2, 2021 | Arthritis, Pain
Arthritis pain is often most severe first thing in the morning and delays the start to your morning. Symptoms of Arthritis So, arthritis, the most common symptom that you’ll be familiar with, is the pain. And it’s often the kind of pain where the first...
