Though many folks don’t know it, an infants teeth actually start developing months before birth. In fact, tooth buds begin appearing in the fetus by the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy. By the time the baby is born, all 20 of the primary teeth that will be sprouting over the next 2 1/2 years are already present and accounted for in the jawbone. Usually those first teeth start pushing for daylight about four to eight months after birth. Baby’s gums will become swollen and tender and your little

Working in the yard? Silly ideas of tanning and you fell asleep? Sunburn hurts, try these remedies.

Vinegar – Contains acetic acid, one of the compounds of aspirin. It can help ease sunburn pain, itching, and inflammation. Soak a few sheets of paper towels in white vinegar and apply them to skin. Leave them on until the towels dry, and repeat as needed. Add 2 cups vinegar to cool bathwater to help relieve itching

oatmeal – Can be added to a cool bath when you’re badly sunburned. Grind 1 cup

Most people know when they have them, but few people including doctors seem to know what they are. Most experts prefer the terms tendinitis or periostitis, but even those terms don’t really describe the condition. Shinsplints can be a variety of things. Some say they are the beginning of stress fractures, or a muscle irritation, or the irritation of the tendon that attaches the muscle to the bone. The problem is treating them goes back to the problem of indentifying exactly what they are.

The condition, also known as Edbom syndrome is usually a chronic annoyance rather than a symptom of a serious neurological disorder. It is characterized by an irresistible urge to move the legs, jumping of the legs, and deep creeping or crawling sensations in the legs. Typically its the lower legs that are involved, although the thighs and even the arms can be involved. The origin is unknown, some doctors suspect it may be an imbalance in the brains chemistry. So here are a few things you can

Motion sickness results when the brain receives wrong information about the environment. To help keep our bodies in balance, our sensory systems continually collect information about our surroundings and send it to our inner ears, and like computers, they organize the information and send it on to the brain.

It is when our balance system notes a discrepancy between what our inner ears sense and our eyes sense that motion sickness can take hold. Once you feel the symptoms coming on, motion

It’s totally different for everyone, some get it hard, some not too bad, sometimes it’s really in the morning sometimes it’s at night. Smells can trigger it, sometimes activity can trigger it. Morning sickness usually begins around week 6 of pregnancy, about the same time that the placenta begins serious production of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a special pregnancy hormone. Symptoms usually begin to peak during week 8 or 9 and wane after week 13. I say usually because as mentioned