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Oxygen Conserving Devices & Regulators

Types of Oxygen Regulators: Understanding and Ensuring Safe Usage

Oxygen regulators are devices that enable a person to adjust the liter flow of oxygen from 1-25 liters per minute depending on the amount the doctor has prescribed for the device you are using. Regulators for children are specialized o regulate between 1 -32 litres and comes in small doses.

Hearing and Listening Aids

Telephony for the Hearing Impaired

As the old commercial states “reach out and touch someone,” but as we age phoning a friend or family member can become a little more difficult. Hearing loss can make everyday conversations, watching TV, or simply calling a grandchild a very frustrating endeavor. Depending on your level of loss, there are plenty of technology aids to help you communicate with your loved ones.

Organic Food Products

Food For Healthy Eyes

Keeping the eyes healthy is as important as keeping skin, muscles and bones healthy. Though overall healthy and active lifestyle is the key to bright eyes, add these healthy foods to diet to prevent them from macular degeneration, vision loss, dry eyes, cataracts, and problems with night vision.

Walkers Rollators

Accessorize Your Walker or Rollator

To properly use a walker or rollator you must always use two hands securely. It’s a lot like driving your car; the best way to do it is with two hands. As you can imagine this makes carrying any belongings problematic at best. How do you take your favorite magazine or maybe an umbrella?

Walkers

Rollator or Walker: Similar but Different

As we age we sometimes require a little help to maintain our stability and mobility. The last thing we want for ourselves or our loved ones is to fall and sustain an injury occur to ourselves or a loved one. How do you choose the piece of equipment that is right for you or your loved one? Rollators and walkers can seem like the same piece of equipment, but actually there are subtle differences.

Asthma

How To Measure Asthma?

Exposure to asthma triggers on a daily basis can result in an inflamed airway in kids with asthma even when they're not having any specific kind of breathing problems. Airway inflammation increases over time, and results in unexpected flare-ups being a big risk. They might feel normal, even as their airways are swelling, becoming narrow, and eventually getting blocked up.

Specialized Adult Nutrition

Keeping Your Kidneys Healthy

To keep your kidneys healthy and in its best functioning condition, number of things can be done. Those tiny little two bean shaped organs can be kept healthy at every stage of life. Just follow these points and you are on the way to healthy kidneys.

Foot Conditions

Athlete’s Foot - Causes, Symptoms, and Cures

Athlete’s foot is a kind of fungal infection that affects the bottom of the foot and the region between the toes. The fungus lives in moist areas like swimming pools and locker rooms, and also can be spread through animals.

TENS and EMS

Zap It: TENS and EMS Therapy

Our muscles work by receiving electrical impulses from our brain telling them to contract or relax. When they need a little help you can use electricity in a beneficial way. EMS therapy (electrical muscle stimulation) is a method of using external electrical impulses to trigger your muscles.