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By Sarah Jio
I write about health and fitness for a living, so when it came to flu prevention, I thought I was already armed and ready. I’m a frequent and religious hand washer, and I eat healthy, organic and immune-boosting probiotic-rich foods like yogurt and kefir. I rarely get
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So, I have two pet fancy mice, Loren and Quincey. Both are male, and Loren is an albino mouse and Quincey has black fur. Today, when cleaning their cages, I noticed that Loren's ear was clawed at the bottom edge of his ear, and his other ear seemed slightly scabbed/crusted. It was hard… Read More »
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Looking hot in your swimsuit shouldn’t mean risking your health. But surprisingly, one common pre-beach beauty ritual—getting a salon bikini wax—can be dangerous, even deadly. And the popular practice of taking it all off (also known as a Brazilian wax) may carry special…
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I have spent the last month with major eye problems. I’ve had a couple of infections, and major irritation most of the time. The only common factor is that I get them after working out at the gym. I’ve had to throw out three expensive pairs of contact lenses, three mascaras and about five different eyeliners. And I’ve spent countless days looking not-so-glamorous in my old pair of glasses. (I have nothing against bespectacled people--I think rocking glasses can be quite sexy--I just really need a new pair!) As you can imagine, I was desperate to figure out the exact cause of my problem. Read More »
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We've tackled a lot of germy topics here on Vitamin G: the germiest jobs, the germiest foods, the ickies chillin' on the lemon wedge in your drink and most recently the germiest places at the gym. Now, we take on public hot tubs--like the ones at hotels, gyms, or the one you're about to dive into at your friend's pool party. Read this before sticking your toe in... Read More »
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Unless you are living under a rock -- and perhaps even then! -- you know that we have an outbreak of Read More »
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Is sex in a jacussi dangerous? Can it give you an infection? The reason I ask is that my boyfriend and I are thinking of getting a hotel room together and we want to get a jacussi...Now I don't know if he actually wants to have sex in it but one of my friends just warned me that it can be… Read More »
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Most sexually active women will at some point experience the agony of a bladder infection, or UTI.
It's
one of nature's missteps that our urethra (the short tube going into
the bladder) is located so close to our vagina, making it easy for
bacteria to be pushed north and cause a UTI.... Read More »
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