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This blog is an ongoing collection of news and features about current issues including diseases and conditions, preventative medicine, and the latest healthcare news.
We are also creating a collection of informative guides and guidelines for best practice which will be dedicated to both patients and healthcare profesisonals. This ongoing plan is part of Medelit’s project for empowerment. We believe that information and education are essential for best care and want to contribute as best we can to promote independence and education in all people having health issues.
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Long COVID: Here’s How Acupuncture can Help
Long COVID: Here's How Acupuncture can Help Long-term COVID, also known as Long COVID or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), refers to a complex and often debilitating condition that persists for weeks or months after the initial recovery from COVID-19. It encompasses a wide range of both physical and psychological symptoms and [...]
Can Acupuncture Help Solve your Insomnia?
Natural Sleep Solutions: How Acupuncture Tackles Insomnia Sleep is essential to our wellbeing but, ever since our lives have become more fast-paced, it has become more common for some of us to start struggling with Insomnia. What is insomnia? Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or [...]
Understanding Thick and Curved Toenails: Onychogryphosis (Ram’s Horn Nails)
Thick and Curved Toenails: Understanding and Treating Onychogryphosis (Ram's Horn Nails) Onychogryphosis, often referred to as "Claw nail," "Ram's horn nails" or "Ostler's finger," is a condition that primarily affects our toenails, with the big toe being a common target. This condition causes toenails to grow irregularly and become unusually strong, often curving [...]
Tips for Foot Care in the Elderly
Tips for Foot Care in the Elderly If you have an elderly loved one in your life who struggles with foot issues and needs help, it is important to know how to deal with their foot care properly. Mobility in older people is often already reduced by aches and pains that appear with [...]
Sandal Season is Coming Back, but What to Do about Cracked Heels?
Sandal Season is Coming Back, but What to do about Cracked Heels? Cracked heels (or foot xerosis), are a common foot problem that affects many people. The cracks that form in the heels are annoying and unsightly cuts essentially due to the continuous repetition of local micro-traumas. However, there are many factors that [...]
How to Recognise Autism
How to Recognise Autism Autism is a disorder that affects the capability of an individual of understanding and interacting with their social environment. The condition can have a serious impact on the person's capability of developing normal social interactions and relationships. In the last years, it has become increasingly clear that an early [...]
Does My Toddler Have a Speech Delay? How Can I Help?
Does My Toddler Have a Speech Delay? How Can I Help? Language development is a process that can be very different between one child and another. This is because each child develops language according to their own times and abilities. Usually, children first learn to communicate, and then to speak. However, some children [...]
How to Treat an Ingrown Toenail
How to Treat an Ingrown Toenail An ingrown toenail (or onicocriptosis) forms when the edges or corners of the nails grow into the skin near the nail itself. Our big toes are the most frequently involved by this process which usually starts an infection that can be very painful and unpleasant, and can [...]
5 Tips to Beat End of Holiday Anxiety
5 Tips to Beat End of Holiday Anxiety After a holiday break, especially in summer, it is very common to go through a change in our mood. It usually starts during our last day of vacation, when we pack our things, we start thinking about our job again, and we say goodbye to [...]
Stammering in Children
Stammering in Children How to recognise the Problem and How it can be Treated Stammering (also known as dyslalia or dysarthria) in children is quite common, but sometimes dealing with the problem is not only an issue regarding speech. For a child it can also be a matter of discomfort, isolation and prejudice. [...]