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The Treatment For Hay Fever
Posted by admin in July 25th 2010
Hay fever does not always require medical treatment. Avoid known or suspected allergens. Hay fever symptoms lend themselves to home treatment.
Gargle with warm salt water, 1-2 tablespoons of table salt in 8 ounces of warm water, to soothe a mildly sore throat. Take nonprescription antihistamines such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) to relieve symptoms of sneezing, runny nose, and itchy throat and eyes. Caution these medications may make you too drowsy to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
For stuffy nose, a combination of an antihistamine and a decongestant such as pseudoephedrine (Sudafed, Actifed) may work better. The best treatment overall is to avoid contact with your allergen. Since this is rarely possible, you may want to take medication to reduce the symptoms.
The treatment of hay fever depends on the severity, symptoms, and consequences of the disease. The medications most often used to treat hay fever symptoms are listed in the next paragraph.
These sprays work very well in most people with few of the side effects of corticosteroids taken by mouth or by injection. They reduce congestion (stuffiness) and swelling. Examples are beclomethasone (Beconase), triamcinolone (Nasacort), and fluticasone (Flonase).
These are not the steroids taken by some people to increase athletic performance. Sprays take a few days to work, but when they reach an effective level, they do a very good job of decreasing symptoms without causing drowsiness. They must be used daily if they are to work properly.
Nonprescription antihistamines (diphenhydramine [Benadryl], clemastine [Tavist], tripelennamine [PBZ], hydroxyzine [Atarax]) are the most commonly used drugs. Loratadine (Claritin), a long-acting, nonsedating antihistamine is also now available without a prescription.
These antihistamines are inexpensive and readily available. The effects do not last long. They may make you too drowsy to drive a car or operate machinery safely. You may start using them at bedtime. Drowsiness often lessens with continued, regular dosage.
Many hay fever sufferers choose to take longer acting prescription antihistamines, such as fexofenadine (Allegra), loratadine (Claritin), and desloratadine (Clarinex). These drugs are more expensive, but they have to be taken only once or twice a day. The biggest advantage of these drugs is that they cause only mild sleepiness, if any at all.
Montelukast (Singulair) is a leukotriene inhibitor approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of hay fever. It is available with a prescription and comes in tablet, chewable tablet, or granule forms. The granules may be sprinkled directly on the tongue or mixed with cold or room temperature soft food like applesauce or pudding.
Leukotrienes are powerful chemical substances that promote the inflammatory response seen during exposure to allergens. By keeping these chemicals from producing swelling, leukotriene inhibitors reduce inflammation. Leukotriene inhibitors are particularly effective when used with an antihistamine.
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Free Magic Tricks – The Jumping Card
Posted by admin in July 22nd 2010
This is a real baffler from Scotland. It appears that you use very clever sleight of hand. However, it is very easy to do.
How it looks To The Audience
The Magician counts two even piles of cards onto the table. He then takes an odd card and asks the spectator which pile he would like it added to. With a mysterious wave of the hand, he causes the odd card to jump from one pile to the other!
How The Trick Is Done
This is a very effective trick and it all depends on suggestion and the way the cards are counted.
STEP ONE
Ask the spectator to place both hands flat on the table, as though he is playing a piano.
Take two cards from the deck and hold one in each hand, face down.
Say ‘Two cards, a pair, always even’ and place the two cards between the little and third fingers of the spectator’s left hand. The spectator clips them between those fingers, so the cards are held vertically.
Take another two cards from the deck and hold one in each hand, face down, and again say ‘Two cards, a pair, always even’. This time place the two cards between the third and second fingers of the spectator’s left hand.
Continue placing two cards between all his fingers (including first fingers and thumbs) until you reach the fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand. Then take one card and say ‘one card, always odd’. Place the card between his fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand.
STEP TWO
Remove the first pair of cards and place them side by side on the table, saying ‘two cards, a pair, always even’. Continue doing this until you reach the single card. The position at this stage is that you have two piles of cards on the table.
Hold the single card and say ‘one card, always odd’.
Ask the spectator which pile he would like you to place the odd card, then do so.
STEP THREE
Tell the spectator that you will cause the odd card to jump from one pile to the other. Wave you hand over the cards and them take the pile that the odd card was added to and count them out in pairs again (two cards, a pair, always even). The pile will come out even with no odd card remaining.
Take the other pile and count them out in pairs. After all the cards are dealt, you will be left with one odd card. The odd card has apparently jumped across!
A FURTHER EXPLANATION
There are seven pairs of cards and when they are dealt into two piles there are seven cards in each pile. So each pile is odd to begin with. However, by saying ‘two cards, a pair, always even’ all the time, you suggest to the spectator each pile is EVEN.
When you add the single card to either pile it will make it even, so the trick is self-working.
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Tone Up Your Muscles With Heavy Weights
Posted by admin in July 16th 2010
Probably the biggest training fallacy that get’s under my skin the most is that to tone up, you should lift lighter weights and do more reps. This misconception, just like many others in the fitness industry have now become the gospel truth.
I would often hear people say “Oh I don’t want to do heavy weights I just want to tone up.” In this article, I’m going to show you why I believe this is completely wrong.
I am not going to force you my beliefs down your throat. I am just going to give you my honest opinion and I’ll let you make up your own mind. Cool?
My belief is that the fastest way to get toned is to lift heavy weights. Here’s why.
There is no such thing as a toned muscle or an un-toned muscle. A muscle is always toned and can never be un-toned. Sometimes they may look un-toned simply due to a layer of fat on top of them or not having enough muscle to give your body shape.
To achieve the toned look you simply have to have muscle and low body fat levels. This is why lifting heavy weights is much more effective. For one, they help you build muscle, and two; it speeds up your metabolism, making fat loss much easier.
Another great benefit of lifting heavy weights, especially the big lifts like squats, deadlifts, dips and chin ups, is that they stimulate two powerful hormones, testosterone and growth hormone. This makes losing fat and building muscle happen much quicker and easier.
Performing high reps with light weight achieve none of this. It doesn’t build muscle, which means it doesn’t increase our metabolism and is far from being the most efficient way to burn fat. It also fails to stimulate testosterone and growth hormone.
The only thing training with light weights does, is build up a lot of lactic acid which gives you that burning sensation. This gives you the false hope that what you are doing is actually toning up your muscles. This burning sensation does nothing to tone up your muscles. It doesn’t help you build muscle, nor does it help you lose much fat.
Many people choose to believe that the high rep stuff works simply because they don’t want to do heavy weights. That is understandable. But by when I say heavy weights, I mean lifting enough weight which will cause you to reach complete muscle failure in 6-12 reps.
This means you don’t have to do weights at all, if you don’t want to. There are many bodyweight exercises which are extremely tough to complete more than 6-12 reps. You could do stuff like parallel bar dips, chin ups and pistols (one leg squats.)
Basically to tone up, you want to push your muscles to the level of complete exhaustion in the 6-12 rep range. This rep range is perfect for building strength and muscle. Once you get over 15-20 reps you are now training more for endurance. This does little to build muscle or lose fat.
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Learn Card Tricks – Become a Magician!
Posted by admin in July 15th 2010
Learn Card tricks if you want to become a Magician. Card Tricks are an essential part of any Magician’s performance. Some require difficult sleight-of-hand techniques, most just need you to distract your audience while you ‘do the deed’, many can be done in full view. If you learn a few simple techniques then you can make up your own card tricks!
The False Shuffle is one of many and possibly the easiest to do. With it you can appear to fully shuffle the deck whilst actually maintaining the top card in place or keep the bottom card in place or move the top card to the bottom or bottom card to the top. In all of these moves, keep the backs of the cards towards the audience or they might spot the selected card during the shuffle.
Keeping the top card in place; hold the pack in your left hand, face down, tilted at about 45 degrees with the backs toward your right hand. With your right hand remove the top half of the pack. Flip the pack upright with your left thumb so that the backs of the cards rest against your finger tips. Using the same thumb, start to detach small packets of cards from the half pack held by you right hand so that they drop alternately on top and bottom of the deck. The pack is alternately supported by the thumb and the tips of the other fingers as it is rocked to allow cards to drop on either side. Your forefinger should be bent against the top card to prevent it accidentally moving when you are dealing the last package. Continue this until all cards are back in the pack making sure that the last cards go on the top.
Move a card from top to bottom; as above but make sure the last card goes to the bottom.
Keeping the bottom card in place; as above but take the half pack from the bottom of the deck and ensure that the last card goes back on the bottom.
Moving a card from bottom to top; as above but ensure the last card is dealt to the top.
In many tricks you will have a selected card replaced at the centre of the pack. You need to control this card to the top or bottom. One way is to hold a break in the pack by squeezing it as the two halves of the pack are reunited. This pushes your own flesh in the way of the pack coming back together and enables you to separate the two halves again at the required point. To move the card to the top, make the break above the selected card in other words get your fingertip in the way after the card arrives on top of the half deck. Now simply cut the deck at the break and the card arrives at the top. Use the false shuffle to move the card to the bottom if you need to.
These techniques are the basis of many card tricks and if you master them – practise them! – you will soon be able to develop your own magic.
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Did u notice when u let people in they never say thank you anymore?
Posted by admin in July 9th 2010
while driving. its polite to lift ur hand in the window and say thank you! i actually say thanks out loud! y dont people do that anymore. i do!
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What if there never was horses. What would the world be like today?
Posted by admin in June 25th 2010
Saying that horses/donkeys/mules never developed. Never were an animal. What would the world be like today? Back before cars horses were used for almost everything. What would the modern world be like?
You’ll prob ask “what made u think of that?”
I need to do a science project this year and i was thinking up ideas for one. What do u think of doing research on this topic?!
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I need to do a science project this year and i was thinking up ideas for one. What do u think of doing research on this topic?!
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Is The World Getting Odder?
Posted by admin in June 22nd 2010
Oddity #1: As of 2009 there are more new fragrances released yearly than there were in the 1970’s and 1980’s combined – at least 500 a year. In 2008 celebrity scents made up 10% of fragrance sales – more than 3 million bottles. It seems perfume is the best way to sell celebrity. The perfume houses don’t pay for what’s in the bottles. Fragrance manufacturers develop scents for free and share the profits with the perfume houses. Also, having celebrities’ names on the bottles saves millions of advertising dollars. Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, 50 Cent – celebrities are profitably “scentimental”.
Oddity #2: In 2009 the ball was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The curator explained that the Ball had just gotten in because the Toy Hall of Fame didn’t come into existence until 1998 and because only 2 or 3 toys are inducted a year. Both the Atari 2600 Game System and the Nintendo Game Boy were already in. So were the Cardboard Box and the Stick. Obviously, those who decide which toys are inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame hadn’t been keeping their eyes on the ball.
Oddity #3: On November 1, 2009 family and friends identified the body of 59-year-old Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer in southern Brazil, who had died in a car crash. The funeral took place the following day, the Day of the Dead, a holiday when Latin Americans pray for family and friends who have died and remember them with gifts. When Goncalves attended his own funeral, shocked relatives tried to jump out of windows in the funeral home. Although Goncalves wasn’t dead, he’d been dead the night before – dead drunk in a bar near the crash site.
Oddity #4: On November 11, 2009 Forbes magazine ranked Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman 41st on its list of the world’s most powerful people. That ranking put him ahead of Russian President Medvedev (43), Oprah Winfrey (45), Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu (46) and U.S. Chief Justice Roberts (49). Guzman isn’t a world leader, a religious leader or a humanitarian. He’s a reputed, Mexican drug lord, head or the Sinaloa Cartel, with a $5 million reward on his head. Over the past 8 years Guzman has shipped between $6 billion and $19 billion in cocaine to the U.S. The world’s 41st most powerful person is a drug dealer addicted to power.
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