1. Seasonal Flu

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Symptoms

• High Fever

Neil Schachter MD, author of the Good Doctor’s Guide to Colds and Flu says that if you have Fever more than 101 Degree Fahrenheit or 102 Degree Fahrenheit along with the ache, congestion in Chest and exhaustion then it shows that you are suffering from Seasonal Flu.

Best Treatments

• Medicines

Take tablets to relieve pain and Fever, take rest and try to drink of Water and other liquids as well. Pregnant women, elder people and others suffering from severe diseases have higher risk of this disorder; they should consult a doctor before taking any medicine.

2. Swine Flu

Swine Flu is also known as H1N1.

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Symptoms

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• Fever
• Nausea
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting

Best Treatments

• Medicines

The Swine Flu is like seasonal Flu; it is mild but mostly causes the issues of Gastro. Gastro leads to the dehydration of body. Try to drink a lot of Fluids and follow a good treatment for the cure of this type of Flu. This flu if not treated well can be life threatening. Try to keep distance from others as Swine Flu is contagious. If you don’t get in a Week then consult a doctor because sometimes Flu can also cause Pneumonia.

3. Colds

Symptoms

• Nasal Congestion
• Rest

Best Treatments

• Take rest
• Drink plenty of Water

If you are suffering from runny Nose, Cough or a low Fever below than 100 Degree Fahrenheit then you must be suffering from Cold that can lead to pain in body or high Fever. Try to consume plenty of Water in this condition because Hydration can enhance the Immune System and will help in relieving pain and congestion. It will help you feel but for proper cure, you should also take rest. The side-effects of Cold are dry Mouth and difficulties in sleeping.

4. Allergies

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Symptoms

• Itchiness in Nose
• Inflammation in Eyes
• Scratchy Throat

Best Treatment

• Antihistamines
• Neti-Pot

Allergies that are found in Winter are less bothersome as compare to allergies that are found in Spring or Fall. If you are suffering from Sneezing, itching and runny nose then the chances of attack of an Allergy increases. You should proactively start taking medicines for Allergy to prevent any sort of attack. For extreme congestion, try Neti-Pot. It is a Tea-Pot like tool that clears your Sinuses and washes all the offenders. Saline Nasal Spray is also effective for relieving Congestion.

Flu, Cold and Allergies are commonly found now days and you should have information to avoid any type of complications related to these conditions.

More than 5,000 chemicals are used in different Hair products. These chemicals may depend on the type of color and coloring agent that you choose for yourself.

The first safe commercial Hair color was manufactured in 1909 by French Chemist Eugene Schuller. Paraphenylenediamine was used for the manufacturing of this Hair dye. This dye was made in the result of so many chemical reactions that took place between the Hair molecules, pigments, peroxide and Ammonia. All these things are essential for Hair coloring.

Types of Hair Colors

Following are the few types of Hair Colors:

1. Permanent Hair colors
2. Gradual Hair colors
3. Temporary Hair colors
4. Semi-permanent Hair colors

1. Permanent Hair Colors

Permanent Hair coloring agents make up about 80% of the market. These agents do not wash easily.

2. Gradual Hair Colors

These Hair colors are applied with the passage of time to have the desired shade.

3. Temporary Hair Colors

Temporary Hair colors are washed by the application of shampoos.

4. Semi-permanent Hair Agents

They stay even after multiple washes and don’t go quickly.

Disadvantages of Permanent Hair Color

Permanent Hair colors can alter the texture of Hair; they bind to the surface of Hair, making them weak, dry and brittle. The damages of Permanent Hair dyes can be minimized with the use of conditioners containing Silicone in it.

Bleaching of Hair

Hairs are always bleached with the Hydrogen Peroxide. It removes the original color of them and makes them White or Yellowish White. Hair bleaching may not lead to the falling of Hair but it usually makes your Hair dry and brittle, same can be done with the dyeing of Hairs. New growth of Hair is not affected by the Bleach so they grow normally.

Frequent Changing of Hair Colors

Frequent changing of Hair colors can damage your Hair, making them dry and brittle. People should wait for at least 4 weeks between colorings. To maintain the color that you have, people should just color their new grown roots that can be seen. Hair grows about 0.3 mm to 0.4 mm every day on your Scalp, so it may grow up to 8.5 mm to 11mm in 4 weeks.

Exposure to Water and Sunlight

Damage to colored Hairs can be prevented by limiting the exposure to Sunlight and Water. Sunlight may lead to the fading of Hair dye and frequent washing can make Hair dry.

Coloring of Eyebrows

The products that you use to dye your Hair should never be used for the Eyebrows; it may lead to serious reactions on the Skin or in Eyes because they come in direct contact with the Eyes. The FDA advices people not to use Hair dyes on Eyebrows or Eyelashes at home or at parlors. If you want make the color of your Eyebrows darker, you should try to do it with the Eyebrow pencils, gels or Powders that are made especially for Eyebrows. It is not necessary to match the color of your Eyebrows with the Hair dye. It does not matter if the color of Hair and Eyebrows is not same.

Natural Look in Old Age

The color of our Skin becomes transparent with the passage of age. Too dark Hair color can make you look pale and too light Hair color can ruin your complexion, in other words it makes your complexion dull. For a natural look, Hair experts say that people should change their Hair color, in order to enhance the beauty and looks.

Result of Hair Colors on Gray Hairs

Permanent Hair colors give best result on more than 50% of Gray Hairs. Gray Hair has fewer pigments. Pigments are the substance that may give color to the Hair. The permanent Hair coloring may take away pigments from the Natural Hair so, the addition of artificial color to the Gray or natural color gives a balanced look to your Hairs.

Motivation for Hair Coloring

About more than of 3rd of women over the age of 18 years use Hair colors. All of them have different motivations, some want to hide their Gray Hair, some wants to change their looks and some want to look stylish or adding some classy look to their Natural Hair color.

Pre-testing Of Hair Dye

FDA suggests that before applying the dye on your Hair, you should try to check a bit of it on your Elbow, inside or outside. It should be tested 2 days before its application on the Hairs. The result will be shown within 2 days, whether it suites you or not. If any rash develops, this means it will not suit you. This is known as patch test, people should do this at least once before applying on Hair, it will make you sure that you are not allergic to this exact dye.

Henna, a Natural Hair Dye

Henna is a natural dye that is prepared from the leaves and roots of Mignonette Tree. It is a semi-permanent type of coloring dye.

It produces a color of Brown, Orange-Brown, Reddish-Brown shade however more products can be added to Henna to produce colors like Blue and Black.

Gradual Hair Dyes

Gradual Hair Dyes are mostly used by the men to color their Gray Hair. These Hair dyes may contain Lead Acetate in it; this Lead Acetate is known as “Probable Human Carcinogen”. This chemical is tested on the animals. The FDA says that these products, which contain Lead Acetate, are safe to use. People should carefully see the instructions and harmful products should be kept away from the kids.

Risks from Hair Dyes

An analysis of 4 studies shows that women who used to dye their Hair before 1980, they may be at risk of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma as compare to those who have not dyed them before. Now manufactures have changed the formulas for the making of Hair dyes in the mid to late 1970s. There is no evidence that Hair coloring have caused damage to the Hair.

Researches about Hair Coloring

An American Congress of Obstetricians Gynecologists recommends that is not completely safe to dye the Hair during pregnancy even though some of the Dye is absorbed in to the Skin.

The American Academy of Family Physicians suggests avoiding the exposure to Hair dyes and other Hair treatments during first 3 months of Pregnancy, in order to avoid the future complications.

If you are pregnant and you want to change your Hair color, you should consider Highlights because fewer chemicals are used for the process of Highlighting Hairs.

If you want to color your Hair, you should have complete information about the process the Hair dying, so that you Hairs may not get damaged.

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Unwanted Hair on the body is always a problem for women.They are mostly found worried about it. Usually the Hirsutism or excess of Hair occurs on the woman’s body due to increased level of male Hormones.The situations that may lead to Hirsutism may include abnormalities like Polsystic Ovary Syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome and specific medicines containing Steroids. The women suffering from Polsystic Overy Syndrome, the unwanted Hair can be controlled with the birth Control medicines, medicines of Blood Pressure and some other treatments.

Whole of our body is covered with the Hair except Palms of Hands, Soles of Feet, Lips and the Eyelids.

There are 2 types of Hair:

1. Vellus Hair
2. Coarser Hair

1. Vellus Hair

These are the soft and Fine Hair and are found on most of the body. The main purpose of this Hair is to maintain the temperature of body.

2. Terminal Hair

Terminal Hair is a type of Hair is grown on Head, under arms and Genitals. this Hair protects the sensitive areas of body.

Methods to remove Hair

Following are some of the methods to remove Hair from the body including:

1. Plucking
2. Threading
3. Shaving
4. Waxing
5. Depilatories
6. Electrolysis
7. Laser Therapy

1. Plucking

People should not over pluck their Hair on Eyebrows because the Hair on Eyebrows grows slowly as compare to the rest of body. Most of the Hairs on Eyebrows are in the Telogen phase; being in this stage the Hair grows back slowly. When you tweeze Hair, do it with great care and scarcely because plucked Hair will come back in few weeks.

Plucking an Eyebrow

Plucking is the least expensive and easy method for making the shape of Eyebrows, people can do plucking themselves.

2. Threading

Threading is good for flat surfaces so it is best for Face. An individual twists a piece of thread over the face of another person, capture Hairs and pull them out of root. Threading become popular in a short time, it is an easy and a less painful way to remove Hair from Upper Lip, Hair line and other parts of the Face.

Threading Upper Lip

3. Shaving

Shaving is another way to remove Hairs but it is a myth that Hair may become thicker and darker after shaving. Shaving makes the tip of Hair blunt so it looks darker and rough when it grows again.

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4. Waxing

Waxing is a good way to remove unwanted Hair. It is the process in which the melted Wax is applied to the areas where you find unwanted Hair, allow the wax to cool down, become hard then pull the patch of wax in opposite direction. The patch of Wax will take all the Hair out with it. However FDA forbids using Wax on the areas including Nipples, Genitals, Eyelashes, Nose and Ears. People don’t bother about this warning and they use wax anywhere on the body including Face and Bikini areas.

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Waxing can also lead to the infections and inflammation. Avoid using Wax on the Sunburned or infected Skin.

Waxing and Use of Certain Medicines

Some medicines including Antibiotics and Acne treatments can make Skin thinner, sensitive start tearing. You should consult a doctor, if you are using any type of medicines. Ask the doctor, if you can do waxing along with the medications. This is required as the Antibiotic can remove the Skin layer and can lead to bruises and infections.

5. Depilatories

Depilatories are inexpensive and easy way to remove the unwanted Hair from the body. It works by dissolving the Hair and separate them from Skin. Depilatories react with the Protein in Hair and dissolve them in to a jelly like thing which can easily clean from the body. It is a painless to remove Hair but the smell of these depilatories is annoying.

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Drawbacks of Depilatories

Following are the drawbacks of depilatories:

• It can burn the Skin, if left for a long time on it.
• It may not be effective on thick Hair.
• It should not be used on the Eyebrows, infected Skin or near Eyes.
• It comes in many forms including Gel, Lotion, Cream, Spray and Roll-on.

6. Electrolysis

Electrolysis is technique that permanently removes Hair from body by destroying the center of growth of a Hair. The Skin may become Red soon after Electrolysis but there are no permanent side effects of this technique. Electrolysis is considered as a painful treatment but in real, it is not. People say they have a tingling feeling while Electrolysis is done being done on their body. In this process, an Electrologist enters a small needle in to the Hair Follicle and applies Electrical current that may kill the Follicle. This procedure is done on each and every Hair so Electrolysis is difficult to be done on larger parts of body.

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It is a permanent technique of removing Hair so, a fewer people have re-growth of their Hair. Electrolysis may lead to the risk of infection due to unsterile needles. People may have scars if the Electrologist is not an expert person.

7. Laser Therapy

Laser Therapy is another permanent technique of removing Hair from the different parts of body. Laser is best for Light Skin and dark Hair. In this procedure, a beam of light is used to destroy the Hair Follicles. The Light is absorbed in to the Melanin; the pigment colors the Skin and Hair that’s why it is best for the light Skin and dark hair. Laser treatment is not very effective on the light Hair.

Laser Therapy

Laser treatment is best for the larger areas with unwanted Hairs it is also not very painful. The complete treatment is composed of several treatments.

Risks of Laser

Risks of Laser may include Blistering, discoloration, swelling, Redness and scarring.

Patients need to have the treatment after every 6 months to a year.

Effectiveness of Laser Therapy

Laser therapy is most effective on the areas of Bikini and underarms as it is good for the areas with the thin Skin and Skin at Bikini and Underarms is quite thin as compare to the other body parts including Legs and Arms etc. a numbing cream is best to decrease the effect of pain due to Laser therapy.

People should take the sessions of Laser treatment from expert dermatologist as there is risk of Skin burn or discoloration but it does not affect the surrounding Skin and the side effects of Laser are not permanent.

Laser treatment is a medical treatment as it can damage your Skin or lead to discoloration if not done with care. Workers in the salon are not permitted to do the laser therapy as it has its own practice and expertise. The limitations and requirements of Laser doctors may vary from country to country.

Exfoliation for Ingrown Hairs

Exfoliation is good for ingrown Hairs. Ingrown hair occurs when the Hair does not come out of the Skin after shaving and makes a bump or leads to irritation. Ingrown Hairs are usually caused due to frequent shaving. The best way to avoid these ingrown Hairs is to do exfoliation regularly. Take a scrub and rub it softly, the upper dead layer will be removed and the ingrown Hairs will come out easily. Try to use warm Water while shaving and shave in the same direction of Hair. It will reduce the chances of ingrown Hairs.

The above mentioned is information about unwanted Hair and few methods to remove them, which may help you too get rid of unwanted body’s Hairs.