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Q I got Covid last summer, and I still don’t feel well. I’m tired and “foggy-headed” quite often, sometimes for days on end. I had another Covid test, which was negative. How can I restore my health and vitality? Many viral diseases have a “post-vira

Here’s a simple exercise for strengthening your lungs that you can do in minutes: • Sit on the edge of a chair or your bed with feet flat on the floor, knees at a 90° angle. •Place your palms facing up on your lap, elbows out slightly and away from y

OXYTOCIN provides warmth and nourishment for the newborn as he is laid on your chest skin-to-skin. Your skin warms him, and your breasts supply the first milk – colostrum. ENDORPHINS provide pain relief for the baby as he works his way down the birt

Remember back when you learned this ditty as a kid to help understand how your skeleton fits together? Well, similar sentiments could be sung about your organs and how they, too, are interconnected. “Every organ depends on the other to work properly,

Breathe through your nose rather than your mouth. Your nose clears air, heats it and moistens it for easier absorption. The nose can also trigger a cavalcade of hormones and chemicals that lower blood pressure, regulate our heart rate and ease digest

Humans are in a mess. We live sedentary lifestyles, eat poorly and too much, and we sit in our workplaces for eight hours a day hunched over our keyboards, all of the time hardly ever taking a proper breath. A large percentage of the population suffe

Text by Lisa Wood, Professor, Head of School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle. Source: The Conversation, the conversation.com Most of us understand that eating too much of the wrong foods — those high in energy and low in

Most patients with COVID-19 have a mild or asymptomatic disease course; however, about 10% require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) because of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).1,2 Mortality rates of up to 60% have been reported for

A A variety of physiology or lung function tests give the specialist information about your lungs, their condition and what may be wrong with them. These can usually be done in outpatients and many simply involve breathing into machinery. The commone

WINTER is the perfect time to reassess your horse’s stable management, with the aim of improving the quality of his breathing zone. We saw in part one of this series (15 October) how creating a cleaner indoor living environment, with fewer airborne p

My hands resting in my lap, I felt my chest rise and fall in time with my laboured breathing as I listened, wide-eyed, to my consultant. He sat in front of me drawing a picture of my lungs on a piece of paper, explaining how most of the arteries that

Breathing is not something that we have to think about, and is controlled by muscle contractions in our body. Breathing is controlled by the diaphragm, which contracts and expands on a regular, constant basis. When it contracts, the diaphragm pulls a

These areas are where air enters the body so that oxygen can be transported into and around the body to where it’s needed. Carbon dioxide also exits through these. This is part of both the respiratory and digestive systems. A flap of connective tissu

The primary organs used for respiration in humans are the lungs. Humans have two lungs, with the left lung being divided into two lobes and the right into three. The lungs have between 300 and 500 million alveoli, which are where gas exchange occurs.

• Adenocarcinoma is cancer that forms in mucus-secreting glands throughout the body. • Lung adenocarcinoma accounts for about 40 per cent of all lung cancers, and is more prevalent in women. • Lung cancer symptoms include a persistent cough, coughi

Breathing ……it sounds simple right? Breathing is something we are born to do, and perform on a daily basis, in fact we take approx. 20,000 breaths per day. Did you know your breathing can affect how you think, how you feel, how you ride, and how you

Pressing her ear against my belly, my little girl listened intently. ‘That’s right,’ I smiled at her. ‘There’s a baby in there.’ A few hours before, in December 2018, my husband Adam, now 26, and I had sat our daughter Devon, then two, down to reveal

“The first thing we do when we’re born is inhale. The last thing we do is exhale,” says Dr Noah Greenspan, founder of the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation and the Pulmonary Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in New York. It’s a mostly automatic, unconsc

Carbrook Veterinary Services When horses are bred to be ‘genetic superstars’ but fail to live up to their owners’ and trainers’ expectations, the questions that often arise are: • Did I choose the best bloodlines? • Am I feeding my equine athlete all

When most of us think about building endurance, we think of twenty-mile running slogs or fifty-mile bike rides. A steady diet of these will undoubtedly help build endurance. Sure, they are excellent training routines for competitive runners, bikers,

This may be because we have heard about it on various medical programmes. Some of us unfortunately will have dealt with it directly or have had friends or family who have been affected by it. So what is neoplasia? Neo means ‘new’ and plasia means ‘

For most of her career, Monika Charyga believed people didn’t fully understand her job. The 28-year-old would mention that she was a respiratory therapist at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, and someone would guess that she examined people’s lung ca

Breathing is something we often take for granted. But it’s an area of our health we can affect profoundly with simple movements and breath practices. Essentially, breathing is a continual tidal rhythm, drawing oxygen into the body with the inhalation

Adelaide mum Julie Wong-Ogisi is grateful for every breath she takes after a double lung transplant gave her a second chance at life. Julie was diagnosed with a rare lung disorder that left her lungs severely scarred and functioning at less than 40 p

The story of 41-year-old Laksh Jain’s father confirms one of our worst fears about Covid-19—that the effects of the viral infection can linger in afflicted patients even after blood tests show they have recovered. Jain’s father, who had a severe Covi

I believe I caught the virus very early, and I can’t tell you how long it takes to recover from it, because I have not recovered

BE AFRAID. Be very afraid. This is the message the authorities keep sending and for good reason. South Africa is fully in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, with infections rising alarmingly every day and the death toll creeping up. And it isn’t goin

What does the clinical course of COVID-19 look like? It tends to start with fever and cough, but before then, the average incubation period – the time between the moment you get sufficiently exposed to the virus and the moment you start showing sympt

Maxine Flewett, 59, Lincoln Watching my partner Ron cross yet another finish line, I felt so proud. Swimming, cycling, running, he could put youngsters to shame. Even competed in around six triathlons. And at 51, he showed no signs of slowing down. T

Where you live and breathe every day counts as much as the air quality outside. It’s important to keep pollution out, but also have clean air inside. Key sources of potential lung irritants include fireplaces, dirty heating or cooling system filters,