Last month, when I was sick coughing, my mother-in-law gave me these Chinese Medicines…

This one I think is very popular in China because this has a commercial (on Chinese Cable channels).

And this one is to prevent me from coughing and coughing and coughing… She also gave one to my mother who was also sick.

Those caterpillars on the images you saw, I thought those would be the exact thing I would put in my mouth! My mother-in-law told me to just put some on my tongue, and let them melt there. When my hands felt circular objects inside the plastic container (yung lalagyan nung gamot), I asked her if what’s inside is what’s on the drawing. She was laughing and telling me that it’s not that’s inside. She said something like… The caterpillar is one of the ingredients of the wine… err… I really don’t understand. But the good thing is, I don’t have any caterpillars on my tongue

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According to ABS-CBN online, BFAD has banned 56 milk products.

A partial list of the products containing too much melamine are:

1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Mango Magic
3. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Orange Chill
4. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Strawberry Spin
5. Anlene Milk
6. Anmum Materna 180 g
7. Anmum Materna Chocolate
8. Dutch Lady Pure Milk
9. Farmland Skim Milk
10. Green Food Yili Pure Milk
11. Jinwei Drink
12. Jolly Cow Pure Fresh Milk
13. Jolly Cow Slender Low Fat Milk
14. KLIM instant full cream milk 1.8kg
15. M&M Chocolate Brown 40g
16. Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (Red Bean Ice Cream)
17. Meiji Ujikintoki (Red Bean and Green Tea Frozen Confection)
18. Mengniu Original Drink Milk
19. Mengniu Pure Milk
20. Milk Chocolate Bars/China
21. Milk Chocolate Candies/China
22. Milk Boy repacked
23. Milk Boy repacked
24. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
25. Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk
26. Monmilk High Calcium Milk
27. Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk
28. Monmilk Pure Milk
29. Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (mango flavor)
30. Natural Choice Milk Ice Bar
31. Nespray
32. Nestle Carnacion Calcium Plus non fat milk powder 1.6 kg
33. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice Cream cone
34. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
35. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone
36. Nutri Express Milk
37. Nutri Express Milk 15 Nutritional Elements (Blue, Red and Orange label and cap)
38. Nutri Express Milk
39. Nutri Express Milk Green Apple
40. Prime Roast Cereals 28g
41. Pura Fresh Milk
42. Snickers brown 59 grams
43. Strawberry Sorbet
44. Trappist Dairy Low Fat Yogurt Drink
45. Vita Fresh Milk
46. Wahaha Orange
47. Wahaha Yellow
48. Want Want milk drink
49. Yili High Calcium 250ml
50. Yili High Calcium Milk 1 liter
51. Yili High Calcium Low fat milk beverage
52. Yili Low Fat Milk 1 liter
53. Yili Milk
54. Yili Pure Milk 250 ml
55. Yili Pure Milk 1 liter
56. Yinlu Milk Peanut

Check for the full news at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/26/08/bfad-bans-56-milk-products.

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

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I do not want to have acne. First, it looks bad on your face. Second, it is itchy sometimes. If you are single and looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend, it is usually a turn-off seeing you with so many of it on the face. Let us face the fact.

Many acne on the face is hard to cure. Many of us knows that. There are so many treatments for such disaster. Some works, but some don’t. Many have tried using Murad Acne by the renowned world dermatologist Dr. Howard Murad. And they say that their acne are all gone for good.

If the medicine doesn’t work, how can it be featured on TV and on female magazines? If you want to look beautiful again without those acne, you can try this one. You can actually order the Acne Complex online. It’s good to look beautiful.

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It is health and technology combined. Yes, we can not say that the medical information is caged on books. And do not forget about the yearly updates of those medical terms. I can see on bookstores that there are those 2007 edition, 2008 edition. And then next year there would be a new edition, and so on and so forth.

And what’s great online? It is software. You can access it anywhere. I believe almost all medical institutions does have a PC for each doctor. And those PCs are connected from the Internet. With that, doctors and any other medical-related people can check on a particular drug. It helps if the drug information on the Internet is complete.

A good example to check on is the drug Cipro listed on the Internet. It have the dosages for adults and kids. There is also feed if the drug is safe for pregnant women. And there’s the drug interaction, and many more. And what I like about it is, there are pictures of the actual medicine.

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I have just done reading about bed bugs, on what they are, where they are, and what they do. I seems scary because they suck blood out of you, while you are sleeping. They are hard to catch on the act. But luckily, they are not rated as dangerous insects. They are said to be irritating after they are done with you.

The problem is, if you would not get rid of them quickly, there would be more and more on your bed mattress. You would not like for many bed bugs to bite you, right? According to what I have read, there are many ways of getting rid of them. One way is getting yourself a bed bugs spray and do yourself a favor, kill them.

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I thought China’s “One Child Policy” was demolished after China opens her gate to embrace the world. The rule still exist!!! There are two different rules depending on the “situation”. What is the “situation”? I can’t clearly understand what my husband and mother-in-law was explaining to me. But I guess it’s about on what part of China you live, or maybe on where you work????

Anyway the two different rules for the two different situation:
1. Only one child and you can’t have another one.
2. If your first child is a girl, you can try again to have a boy for the second time. You can only have two children.

They say you should pay for an amount so you can keep your unborn child. But as what my husband have told me, the government would inject something on the pregnant woman to “kill” the baby inside. This situation happens if they found out you are pregnant again. But when you get to “trick” them and managed to give birth to your unborn child, then you would have to pay for the fee.

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I got an infection on my belly button!!! Just imagine… stuck a jolen ball (holen) on your belly button. And the half portion of that jolen ball is “proudly” surfaced in the air. That’s what it looks it on my belly button! I can’t even see my belly button with the infection.

The reason of the infection? I don’t know. The cut on my ceasarian operation is a little far from my belly button. So I don’t exactly know why. Maybe I have not cleaned that portion :p

Hygiene problem? Hahaha maybe, I guess.

The infection has been around 3 weeks to date. Last two days ago, those slimy yellowish thing popped-out. I’m not sure if there are still inside. What happened on my medication?

1st Week:
I didn’t do anything. Since I have an schedule with my OB for the next week, I thought of just telling her about the infection on my visit.

2nd Week:
OB told me to take Zinnat for a week, 2 times a day. And there’s a cream that I have to put on the infection. Zinnat is an anti-biotic. The medicines cost around 1,500 PHP. Nothing happened.

3rd Week:
Mother-in-law was getting worried with the infection. She told hubby to go to the Chinese skin doctor at Manila. The doctor is from China. And I think he is good. I was taking his medications until now.

The medicine:
I don’t know what are the brands of the medicine I’m taking. Anyway, it’s my last this day. These are the three medicines I’m taking.

The paper with the Chinese characters say something like… “Take 2 tablets each, 3 times a day.”

I also have this “brown paste” that I put on the infection.

When you opened the ball, it looks like…

The brown ball would be disolve in a wine to become a paste, like…

Okay. About the wine. The doctor said “wine”. Hubby have thought of buying a San Miguel Beer! Mother-in-law said it should be a white colored wine. Thanks God! Father-in-law told hubby to buy a gin. Hubby came back with a Vodka!!! What the!!!

I asked hubby if he had asked the cashier if it’s a gin. Hubby told me…”I asked if it’s a wine. The cashier said yes.” I said… “Of course it’s a wine. But it’s not a gin.” Hmmmm anyway, it’s white. Bahala na si God sa akin.

Then there’s this sticky brownish thing that serves as the cover to prevent more infection.

I would be heated, the brown portion, so it would become sticky. And the ending of it on my belly button…

Please excuse my belly button hehehe…

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I have a hard time getting pregnant. I have a “Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome” (PCOS). Women with irregular menstruation are known to have this PCOS.

According to Wiki, PCOS is “the most common hormonal disorder among women of reproductive age, and is a leading cause of infertility.[2][3] The principal features are weight problems, lack of regular ovulation and/or menstruation, and excessive amounts or effects of androgenic (masculinizing) hormones. The symptoms and severity of the syndrome vary greatly between women. While the causes are unknown, insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity are all strongly correlated with PCOS.”

Someone had sent me an email regarding PCOS. She was asking how I get pregnant. She was having the same problem with me, how to get pregnant. I was happy to share to her how my OB had helped me. So I am sharing to all people by posting here the “routine” the OB had made with us.

Here is how I get pregnant, with my OB’s instructions:

Step 1: Take drug to menstruate. This would just simple make you menstruate. You and your OB would not like to wait for months to do the next step.

Step 2: After a few days (I forgot, 5 days I think) take Clomid. Clomid helps to make women ovulate.

Step 3: After a few days (I forgot again) I should have ovulated. I have an sched with my OB to check if I ovulated through ultrasound.

Step 4: I did not ovulate. On the ultrasound result…”with __ numbers of follicles”. If I do ovulate, the result should be something like… “with one mature follicle”. The mature follicle, that’s the egg that have successfully ovulated. OB said to take the drug to make me menstruate again. So back to Step 1.

After a round on Step 1, my OB told me to increase my Clomid intake. After a few more rounds. My OB said to take Clomid with Metformin. Metformin is a drug for diabetes which has a side-effect. It’s side-effect? It makes woman ovulate. Now, that’s a nice side-effect. After a round with Metformin, I still did not ovulate. So this time, my OB told me to increase my Metformin intake. Then I get pregnant.

And by the way, after Step 4 and I didn’t ovulate, my OB told me to do Step 1. There’s no need to wait for weeks. My self-made reason: “What would I wait for? I didn’t ovulate. Those follicles are now useless. Better flush them up. And so I can take Clomid (and Metformin) so try if I will ovulate again.

I know many women does have the same problem with me. I was newbie then with this PCOS thing. I really don’t understand everything. So I do some research of my own even when I’m checking with my OB. I want to make sure that my OB is doing right.

And another thing, my OB said that women who have goiter would have problem on ovulating.

I hope this post helps you understand on how actually the treatment goes. If you are newly married and you have irregular menstruation, more likely you would have the same problem I have before. So after trying to conceive for about 6 months and you failed, you can check an OB for help. OBs usually say that they consider couples to have problems on having a baby after a month. But with that situation, it is sure that you would have a hard time getting pregnant. Or you might not get pregnant at all if you don’t see an OB. So don’t waste your time. I think I went to my OB after 6.

Hope I have helped a lot. I would be happy to hear some comments from you guys.

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A few days ago, afternoon after lunch, I was feeling dizzy at work… really dizzy. Then the other day morning, my mother-in-law gave me a box of I think are food supplements. I’m not really sure what they are. I’m not sure if they are food supplements or energy drink. It’s a box with 10 bottles. And a box costs 300 PHP.

At the office, I quickly search on about the food supplement, or whatever it is. I can’t understand what the bottle and box label and description says. Everything is in Korean language!

Okay, here’s what it is…

WONBI-D Vitamins of Il-Yang Pharm.

1 bottle(100ml) contains Ginseng, Lycium Fruit ,Vit.B6, Vit.B2 , other 3 kinds of Vitamin

Supplement and improvement of hepatic function, tonic, recovery of fatigue, weak constitution

It is an energy drink. But my boss told me that energy boosters does “boost” you to your limit. You’ll fell strong. But after that, when you stop drinking them, you’ll feel weak. That is because your body and mind is relying on that energy booster. If you drink everyday, that means that you do all the work without feeling tired most of the time. But actually, your body is tired. You just have the energy to go on and on. When the booster’s effect is gone, the your body would then feel the fatigue.

But Wonbi-D has no caffeine. All of the said ingredients are nutritions to our body. I’m not sure how my body would react if I stop drinking the Wonbi-D vitamins. But as of my I have experience, maybe I’m still sleepy, but I still gets going. Maybe it’s because of Wonbi-D.

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One of the diseases that has no cure yet is Alzheimer disease, or simply called Alzheimer’s. We always hear AIDS as incurable, AIDS is deadly, and so forth. But we all know how people got AIDS. Alzheimer’s? Scientists has not yet discovered what actually causes that disease. What is just known is that it is related to the brain. People just get it with no reason at all.

I have heard a friend who have a family member having Alzheimer’s. First, the memory lost. The old man has been forgetful of some simple things first. Then lately, without his family’s knowing, he actually forgets who his love ones are. Then maybe because of old age and the disease, he had also felt neglected and alone. He also felt stressful even by just walking a short distance inside their house.

I don’t want to have a disease that would make me forget my love ones. My family is my most true treasure. And in times of illness, the only people that I would think of are my family. They would be giving me the strength to go on, or at least be happy. With a disease that would give you memory loss, how would feel the love and care your family would give you?

Join Alzheimer’s Memory Walk. Support the unfortunate people who got the incurable disease. How them your concern. Create a team and have a walk to let them know that they are not alone, that there are other people who care about their condition. Team up with your family and friends, and invite others too. Get involved and touch other people’s life. You know that Alzheimer’s is not an ordinary disease. So extend your help, even by just walking.

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