If you routinely wear contact lenses, you may occasionally find yourself dealing with a red, swollen, or painful eye. Even with proper cleaning and handling practices, contact lenses can accumulate small amounts of bacteria, viruses, and other debris that may irritate your eyes. In the vast majority of cases, this irritation is harmless and goes away within a day or two.
But in some rare cases, searing eye pain and redness combined with light sensitivity can actually be the warning sign of an infection called acanthamoeba keratitis.
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- If you've been struggling with fertility, but IVF seems out of your budget, don't give up. There are ways to pay for your treatment that you might not have thought about yet. Before you give up on your dreams of undergoing IVF treatment, it's important that you investigate every avenue available to you. Here are four steps you should take when trying to find a way to pay for your fertility treatment.
- As a woman, you may have experienced the monthly pain that comes along with having your period, and may even have experienced premenstrual syndrome that can make the week or so before your period especially painful as well. However, if you experience chronic pelvic pain that lasts all month or comes at random odd times, then you may be dealing with something more than your standard PMS or period pain. Get to know some of the reasons that you might be experiencing this pelvic discomfort.
- Tracheostomy care is a task that calls for a number of steps to be handle accurately over many administrations. Whether you or a loved one require a breathing tube to be in place, it is critical that it remains clean and in optimal condition. Knowing what the job takes, however, will ensure that you can establish a clear routine. Qualifying Educational programs are available to teach people to handle tubes with an appropriate level of care.
- For many people with arthritis, the usual recommendation to be more active and exercise regularly to improve arthritis symptoms can seem ridiculous. If you already have trouble performing daily tasks and experience extreme pain while walking, how are you able to exercise? One way you can exercise with severe arthritis is pool therapy – the water in the pool bears some of the weight of your body, which can reduce the amount of pain you feel while exercising.