Health Tip: Keep a Health Journal
A health journal is meant to be a complete record of a person's medications, illnesses, symptoms, surgeries or procedures.
A health journal helps you and your doctor keep track of what makes you sick or what causes symptoms, and you can use it to become a healthier person.
Here are suggestions for what to include in your health journal, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians:
* Any illness or injury you've sustained.
* Any hospitalizations or surgeries.
* Any symptoms or allergies that you've had.
* OTC medications, prescription medications, supplements and vitamins that you take, including the dosage and how often you take them.
* Any diseases, conditions or illnesses that run in your family.
Health Tip: Safety at the Salon
Salons that don't follow proper safety procedures may pass along infections to customers who get manicures or pedicures.
Before you get too comfy in a salon chair, consider these suggestions from the International Pedicure Association:
* Be sure all areas of the salon look clean.
* All technicians at the salon must be licensed, and their licenses displayed.
* Before a manicure or pedicure begins, the technician should examine your hands or feet and point out any signs of infection or other health condition.
* All tools should be disinfected after use on prior customers.
* All tools that cannot be sterilized must be disposed of.
* The salon should be properly ventilated.
* Each customer must receive a clean towel.
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