Jess Z
Drug Allergy
Step right up and identify the drug allergy It’s easy to confuse “drug side effect” with “drug allergy.” Sedation and constipation with...
Jess Z
- Nov 21
- 2 min
Runner's Knee Pain
Don't power through the pain. Runners are a unique breed. We wake up at ungodly hours to run. No rain, heat, or wind shall keep us from...
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Jess Z
- Oct 10
- 2 min
Colon Polyps
For colon polyps: nip it in the bud, nip it in the butt, or nix it in the bud? Thank goodness for crowdsource clarification via the...
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Jess Z
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Common Wart
Sharing (a wart) is not caring Here at Wellzaa, we admittedly like to unearth nasty potions of animal bits as treatment for X disease to...
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Jess Z
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Hemorrhoid Prevention
Pain in your derriere? Here are some common sense ways to prevent hemorrhoids that do not involve dried toads. Throughout human history,...
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Jess Z
- May 23
- 2 min
Benign Positional Vertigo
Put the crystals back where they belong, please. The Epley Maneuver: The Vestibular Labyrinth Maze Challenge Background: There is a tiny...
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Jess Z
- May 16
- 2 min
Sciatica
Doh(nut)! Pain! It’s not such a stretch of the imagination for early Germans to attribute the misery of sudden, sharp, radiating leg pain...
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Jess Z
- May 9
- 2 min
Eczema: to salve and protect
Tired of applying thick creams and ointments on your dry, itchy skin? You're not alone. Is your skin routine for your eczema working? Are...
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Jess Z
- May 3
- 1 min
Dandruff
Have a dandruff problem and terrified of transforming into a human confetti dispenser? So...you’ve come to realize that wearing skin-tone...
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Jess Z
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Metabolic Syndrome
(Mis)fortune-telling... sort of. Face reading is a specialized form of fortune telling in which the face is mapped and broken down to...
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Jess Z
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Nail Fungus
Not a good look on the nails. Augh! Toenail fungus. For many, the presence of thickened, discolored nails poses no serious health...
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Jess Z
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Pet Allergy
Love Feldi-the-Cat? Hate the allergies? I hear ya... We love our pets! Unfortunately for millions of devoted pet owners out there, their...
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Jess Z
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Gastric Reflux
Got GERD? Rejoice! There are fixes for it that doesn't involve coral powder. You think your gastric reflux is bad? Well, imagine...
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Jess Z
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Deep Venous Thrombosis
Game-over with prolonged periods of immobility. Crush injury from bull riding, concussion from football, collision injury from auto...
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Jess Z
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
Hate to break it to you preppers and pranksters. Urine is not clean. “Urine is sterile.” It’s a dogma that dates back to the 1800’s and...
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Jess Z
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Vitamin D Deficiency
If (photo)synthesis of vitamin D is not your thing... Plants are fueled by it. Algae can get nourishment from it. We, inept humans can...
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Jess Z
- Dec 23, 2021
- 2 min
Low FODMAP Diet
... the more you eat them, the more you ... “Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart The more you eat them, the more you fart…”...
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Jess Z
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
Kidney Stones
Pain that's worse than child birth. You know that pain scale chart that providers show to help assess your pain? Well, you were probably...
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Jess Z
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Not so Pooperific
Eat the rainbow. Poop the rainbow? Remember that public service announcement, “Eat the Rainbow!”? Editors must have stopped the message...
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Jess Z
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Too hot to handle: menopausal hot flashes
Is your smokin' hot body too hot to handle? Here are some therapies to discuss with your doc. Ladies, feeling hot but not in that...
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