You might want to know the health facts for travelers.  Here are the facts, including estimation of the risk of getting sick from traveling. The basic facts 8 million travelers travel to a developing country. 1 in 10 seek medical care after travel 64% report 1 or more illnesses during travel 26% are ill upon [...]

Don’t be fooled if you ever get this diagnosis.  It doesn’t mean you’re eligible to compete for a gold medal.  Here’s the real truth about athlete’s foot. The official medical term is tinea pedis.  Tinea means infection from dermatophyte fungi and pedis means foot, so it clearly is a fungus infection of the foot.  Although [...]

An adverse reaction to a food can be the result of either food allergy or food intolerance.  Many people think these two terms mean the same thing, but they do not.  A food allergy occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks a food protein. Ingestion of the offending food may trigger the sudden release of [...]