| Treating Migraine : Over-the-counter Pain Relief |
| Acetaminophen is an over-the-counter analgesic for pain relief. When you can’t use aspirin or other NSAIDs due to illnesses or pregnancy, acetaminophen alone, or in a combination analgesic, can treat migraine pain. |
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| Reduce Personal Stress : Manage Unhappy Moods |
| Sometimes negative thinking is more than a passing emotion and becomes a more pervasive mood. Cognitive restructuring will help you to challenge your negative moods and change the thinking that lies behind them. |
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| Reduce Personal Stress : Analyze Your Emotions |
| Emotional analysis will help you to understand your emotions and what they are telling you. You can decide whether they are correct or not, and either change your interpretation of the situation or take action. |
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| Treating Migraine : Treatment with Medications |
| The medications used to treat a migraine attack can be classified into 2 main groups: those that treat the pain are called nonspecific and those that abort the attack are called specific. Medications used to treat the pain of a migraine attack are classified as simple analgesics, combination analgesics, or opioid analgesics. |
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| Sleeping Well : Sleeping Environments |
| The bedroom should be a time-free environment. However, since many people rely on an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, most of us have a timepiece in the bedroom. |
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| Analyzing the Causes of Stress : Analyzing Jobs |
| Some jobs are intrinsically more stressful than others. Jobs at different levels within the hierarchy of an organization each have their own stress factors. Likely stress levels are an important consideration when deciding if a job is suitable for you. |
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| Understanding Sleep : Dreams and Dreaming |
| Dreaming, like sleep, is hard to define and some scientists prefer to use the term “sleep mentation,” which means all the perceptions, emotions, and thoughts experienced during sleep (or its processes). Dreaming occurs mostly during REM sleep but can also occur in NREM sleep. |
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| Understanding Sleep : Amount of Sleep |
| An adult requires an average of 7.5–8.5 hours of sleep every night. However, this requirement varies widely between individuals and depends on age, genetics, and the amount of physical and mental activity. |
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| I am Sure I Saw My Baby Smile Getting to know your baby |
| You can incorporate a massage into your baby's daily routine. Massage him in the morning, before you dress him, or make this part of his bedtime routine, massaging him after his bath, or before you get him ready for bed, which is a perfect way to settle him before bedtime. |
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| I am Feeling So Depressed Your emotions after the birth |
| Following the birth, it's often the case that the attention that was focused on the mother during pregnancy shifts to the baby and, as a consequence, the mother's emotional needs may be neglected. There are steps you can take to help avoid postpartum depression, or to deal with it quickly if you think you are becoming depressed. |
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| Analyzing the Causes of Stress : Changing Practices |
| Change is less stressful when anticipated. Keep abreast of recent developments within your industry, familiarize yourself with new technology, try to gain experience of as many different skills as possible, and maximize the options available to you. |
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| Analyzing the Causes of Stress : Changing Organizations |
| In recent years, many companies have launched new products or services while also making cutbacks. Such changes can be vital to a company’s survival, but employees may find themselves working harder than ever, and facing an uncertain future. |
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| Understanding Sleep : Chemicals Involved in Sleep |
| Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal gland and has an important role in circadian rhythms. The daily rhythm of melatonin secretion is controlled by a built-in, free-running pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and is synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan. |
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| Understanding Sleep : The States of Sleep |
| There are two states of normal human sleep: nonrapid eye movement sleep, or NREM sleep, and rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep. NREM and REM sleep usually alternate in cyclically with each other. |
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| Analyzing the Causes of Stress : Changing Societies |
| Demographic change has been dramatic in recent years. Changes include rapid population growth, migration from rural areas to cities, a rise in the number of elderly people, and the developing role of women. All these changes have increased stress levels. |
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| Understanding Stress : How Stressed Are You? |
| The first hurdle to beating stress is recognizing its existence – acknowledging that stress is a problem is a vital step towards reducing it. Measure your level of stress regularly by responding to the following statements, and mark the options closest to your experience. |
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| Understanding Stress : Measuring Stress |
| There are a number of elements that can be quantified and used as approximate measures of stress levels. These elements vary according to whether stress is being measured in an individual, in an organization, or in society itself. |
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| Understanding Stress : Recognizing Symptoms |
| There is no single symptom that can identify stress – stressed and unstressed people may equally well have heart disease or drink to excess. A common factor in stressed individuals is the presence of a number of symptoms. |
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| Understanding Sleep : The Rhythms of Sleep |
| Our body’s circadian rhythms dictate the rise and fall of our internal temperature over the course of a day. We are most likely to fall asleep when our body temperature is in the downward phase. |
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| How Aging Affects Sleep |
| The actual amount of sleep we need changes very little with aging. What does change is the pattern of our sleep, in that as we grow old we experience less slow wave sleep (especially men) and slightly less REM sleep. |
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| Understanding Stress : What is Stress? |
| On occasions, all of us experience stress. Beneficial stress can help drive a few of us to become Olympic champions, but harmful stress can drive others to despair. A force as powerful as that should always be handled with respect. |
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| Making Lifestyle Changes : Migraine Diary |
| Tracking your activities and noting when you have a migraine attack enables you to identify triggers, such as missed meals, traveling, stressful situations, or certain foods, and to avoid them as much as possible in future. |
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| Migraine Triggers : Medication Overuse Headache |
| Many different medications can be associated with medication overuse headache. Some of these are prescription, some over-the-counter (nonprescription), and some are considered natural herbal medications. |
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| Migraine Triggers : External Triggers |
| As with other triggers, such as stress or menstruation, vulnerability to food triggers varies widely among individuals. The food triggers most commonly reported include wine, aged cheese, aged meats, caffeine, and citrus fruits. |
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| Sleep and Pain : The vicious cycle of pain |
| Acute pain can lead to poor sleep in the short term, but this is reversible as long as the individual returns to having good sleep or manages the pain so that sleep is unaffected |
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| Sleep and Cancer |
| Many different types of drugs are used in the treatment of cancer pain, ranging from acetaminophen through nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), to morphine and its derivatives. |
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| Migraine Triggers : Internal Triggers |
| Although menstrual migraine is the result of an internal trigger—the drop in estrogen levels just before menstruation—it is more likely to occur or to be more severe if other triggers are also present. |
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| Hormonal Imbalances, Heart Disease, and Indigestion |
| Hormones play an important role in the regulation of metabolism, growth, and sexual function. Abnormalities in the level of hormones such as insulin and thyroid hormone can affect many systems and organs in the body. |
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| Respiratory Disorders |
| Respiratory disorders affect the breathing passages and lungs, muscles of breathing, breathing centers in the brain, and the space around the lungs (pleural space). |
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