Category Archives: Health & Beauty

Lasik eye surgery is a fantastic route to take if you no longer wish to be burdened with wearing, cleaning, or replacing glasses or contact lenses in order to correct your vision. Whether you are long-sighted or short-sighted, being free to go about your daily routine without having to worry about your glasses breaking or your contact lenses becoming uncomfortable, makes a huge difference.

That is exactly what Lasik eye surgery can do for anyone who has the surgery. Now, that is the good news, but the bad news is, it might be the case that laser eye surgery is not suitable for you. Unfortunately, there were a number of reasons why someone might not be recommended to have Lasik eye surgery.

This could be temporary, meaning it might be possible in the future, or it could be permanent meaning it can never be considered. Even so, there may be other options open to anyone for whom Laser eye surgery is not possible.  One of these is Lasek eye surgery and another is intraocular lens implants

To check whether you fall into any of the categories of people where Lasik eye surgery is not suitable, here are some of those reasons.

You Are a Nursing Or Expectant Mother

Although pregnancy and having a child is a wonderful experience, sadly, it is not the time to be having Lasik eye surgery. The fluctuations in hormones that new and expectant mothers experience causes changes in the cornea, and there is also a risk that medication prescribed to help combat infection might harm unborn babies or newly born babies who are being nursed.

Having the need for emergency dental treatment is never pleasant, even if it happens at home and you can call on your local dentist for help. However, there are often people who need emergency dental treatment when they are away from home, and on those occasions, the options are often not as clear.

One prime example of this is when someone is in Bali, either because they’re there on holiday, or they had otherwise planned to have other dental treatment, such as cosmetic dentistry. Regardless of why they are there, the question arises as to what you can and should do if they need for emergency treatment arises whilst you are in Bali.

The first piece of advice we can give you is not to panic, and that applies whether you are in Bali or any other country for that matter. All places you are likely to visit will have local dentists, and assuming you have some form of travel insurance, arrangements should be able to be made quickly for you to see a dentist as soon as possible.

Even without travel insurance that would cover your medical costs,  in many countries, including Bali, the price of emergency dental treatment is a lot lower than it is in Australia, so should you need to pay for treatment at the time, the cost should be much less than you might have expected it to be.

One thing that might be somewhat confusing is determining what is classed as emergency dental treatment, and which treatments come under the umbrella of cosmetic dental treatment. If someone suddenly lost a tooth, they claim replacing it with a dental implant and crown, is an emergency, whilst others might say that should be considered cosmetic dental treatment.

A lost tooth certainly would be regarded as emergency dental treatment, as would any of the following symptoms or conditions if they arose:

• Broken or cracked tooth
• Missing or loose fillings
• Misaligned or loose teeth
• Lost dentures or bridge
• Constant or severe pain in teeth and gums

If you’re planning to go to rehab, well done! Respect.

Thousands of people know that heading to drug rehab to get control of their lives back was the best decision that they ever made. What a large percentage also know, is that the night before rehab, was scary. But they got through it, and changed their lives for the better, and wouldn’t want it any other way.

You’re about to leave your life for a designated amount of time, you will be with strangers, you contact with the outside world will be limited and possibly monitored, you don’t know what’s going to happen at drug rehab, what will the people be like, what will they make you do, and withdrawal looms, how is it going to feel, will you be able to bear it?

A toxin from the bacteria that causes botulism is used to make Botox or botulinum toxin type A. Botox is well known as being used by celebrities and others to reduce or prevent wrinkles. It does this by paralysing the muscle into which it is injected. The effects are not permanent as the body works to remove this toxin, even though it is in a very weakened form. The amounts used are very small and in a diluted state, which is why Botox work is very safe to do, even though it springs from the toxin of a bacteria that causes food poisoning.

The many uses of Botox

Botox is not only used in the pursuit of smooth skin. It can be used to alleviate the symptoms of many nasty diseases and conditions, including migraine, upper motor neuron syndrome, blepharospasm, (uncontrollable twitching of the eyelid) and bruxism (teeth grinding), underarm sweating and overactive bladder, to mention just a few.

Generally speaking, it works to paralyse or weaken a muscle that is working more than it should, or to relax a muscle that is too tight. Or it can work by blocking a nerve that is causing some kind of problem, making sufferers’ lives that little bit easier to bear.