Health N Diets Blog

Tips to prevent nausea and morning sickness

• Eat more often but smaller amounts. Try not to go more than four hours between eating.
• Get out of bed slowly
• Keep biscuits handy to eat before getting out of bed
• Avoid large meals
• Rest as much as you can as feeling tiredness makes the feeling worse
• Try to avoid smells and food that make you feel worse
• Clean, lemony smells may make you feel better
• Avoid eating spicy or fatty foods
• Try to wear loose clothes that don’t put pressure on your stomach

Tips to prevent heartburn

• Try putting a pillow between your knees to help ease the strain on hips and knees.
• Decrease your fluid intake in the evenings (but not during the day) and avoid caffeine to avoid heartburn.
• Eat little and often. Drink milk or herbal teas with chamomile or fennel after eating.
• Also eat peppermints after eating.

Travel tips

• The second trimester is the best time to travel. At this time, you are probably over the sick and nauseous feelings of the first trimester. The miscarriage risk is also minimum at this time.
• On the road or in the air, avoid sitting for extended periods of time, try to walk around at least every hour or two. On a plane or train, even a trip up and down the aisles can help get your circulation going. Also make frequent trips to the toilet.
• Carry light snacks so that you do not go without food for long periods of time. Keep munching a carrot, an apple or a sandwich every hour or so.
• In the sultry heat of India, keep water handy all the time ot prevent dehydration and cramping.
• Use travel sickness bands - these work by massaging your pressure points.

Miscellaneous

• If you suffer with piles during pregnancy ice packs covered with a soft cloth on the area can provide relief.
• To relieve backache, place a warm hot water bottle on the relevant area. Press your spine against a wall and keep in that position for a few seconds.
• For cramps, gentle exercise will help - swimming is particularly good. Raise your feet on a pillow when lying in bed.

Pain relief during labour

• Having your back rubbed during labour helps with the pain.
• When you are in labour, try and walk around or at least stay in an upright position for as long as possible. This speeds up the process.
• Squatting, hands and knees or standing during delivery increases the pelvis size by over 30% giving you a faster, easier and safer delivery.
• Eating and drinking fluids during labour is the best natural remedy for labour pain.
• You can help your baby move into the optimal position for birth in your third trimester by making sure that your knees are lower than your hips when driving, sitting or relaxing.

10 Health Tricks Every Parent Must Know

From bee stings and sunburn to splinters and poison ivy, kiddie injuries and illnesses can ruin your summer. Read on for the easiest — and most effective — ways to treat ‘em fast.

The people you spend the most time with profoundly impact your life. If they make more money than you, chances are your income will rise. If they make less than you, chances are your income will fall. It seems to me the same principle holds true with physique. If the people you spend the most time with are health conscious and fit, then you will likely become more fit. But if they are lazy and overweight, then you will likely become lazy and overweight, too. One exception to this rule: If you are already healthy and fit, you will probably be unaffected by spending a little bit of time with a friend who is the polar opposite of you. In fact, by the power of contrast, it may motivate you to be different. I’ve found this to be true in my own life. After spending time with someone who is well on their way to achieving an overfed, middle-aged suburban physique, I feel motivated to act and behave differently so I don’t wind up in the same place. Ask yourself: Am I spending too much time building wrong relationships? Am I spending too little time nurturing right relationships? (Of course, when you consider these questions, it’s important to weigh many different factors, not just health habits.)

HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE”: (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)

Men should know that not every heart
attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during
the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating
are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack
while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.
Let’s be careful and be aware.
The more we know, the better chance
we could survive…
A cardiologist says if everyone
who gets this mail sends it to 10
people, you can be sure that
we’ll save at least one life. Read this…
It could save your life!!

Let’s say it’s 6.15 pm and you’re driving home .

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain
in your chest that starts to radiate out
into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five
miles from the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be
able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that
taught the course did not tell you
how to perform it on yourself.

“HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK
WHEN ALONE”:

Since many people are alone
when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating
improperly and who begins to
feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left
before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves
by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough,
deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum
from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated
about every two seconds
without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart
is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs
and coughing movements squeeze
the heart and keep the blood circulating
The squeezing pressure on the heart
also helps it regain normal rhythm.
In this way, heart attack victims
can get to a hospital. Tell as many
other people as possible about this.
It could save their lives!! “