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Aedes (Stegomyia) polynesiensis is dispersed across the South Pacific and also appears in parts of the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Tuvalu and other islands, representing an important vector of dengue fever and filariasis.
The mosquito tiger is a species with a similar food and reproductive behavior of mosquito Asian tiger, as both the people males and females feed on nectar for energy.
Only females must be fed on the blood to form eggs and Polynesiensis female Aedes elect human beings, pigs, dogs, horses, birds or other animals as guests.
The eggs of this mosquito are deposited individually, just above the water line in containers natural or artificial (buckets, tires, holes of the trees, the pods, fallen leaves, etc.)
Mosquito’s young people only have the dengue virus when the capture of an infected person and in 3-15 days the virus spreads.
Home Remedy:
STEP 1: Wash the affected area with soap and water as soon as you recognize that you have been bitten and try to maintain the site clean and dry until the irritation decreases.
STEP 2: Avoid scratching.
STEP 3: Make a paste of baking soda and water, with enough water to make the adhesive pulp. Spread the mixture on the bites.
STEP 4: rub the soap directly on the bite. It is a home remedy oft-repeated by mosquito bites.
STEP 5: Apply an ice pack or ice wrapped in a cloth to the area of the bite.
STEP 6: Use a calamine lotion or a topical anesthetic containing itching to help relieve the pain and itching.
STEP 7: Use an anti-inflammatory medication such as ibuprofen or naproxen to reduce any swelling or redness of accompaniment. Read the rest of this entry »

If lately you feel like your “home sweet home”, rather than sweetness, is replete with negative energy and bad wave by others, not recurred to an exorcist.

In the dictionary of Feng Shui, Sha-Chi is the negative energy. It has to do with electromagnetic fields, the movement, and the arrows. The Sha-Chi acts as an invisible enemy. You may be in a single room or installed throughout the house. Children and pregnant women are more sensitive.

Here, some ways to protect against the negative energies that causes:

-The best thing is that nothing is hanging on the bed to the bedtime. Neither lights nor ceiling fans. If you have fan, choose one aspect of light.

-Is preferable that the furniture that is located near the locations of transit or places of seat are rounded corners and soft. Read the rest of this entry »

As Katy Garcia, and a specialist in psychology group, “laugh is very good because you move a lot of muscles and then you relax”. Some theories medical attributed to the laughter beneficial effects on health and welfare because they are released endorphins.

To the endorphins are also known as the hormone of happiness, because they function as natural painkillers. Promote a mental state positive, raise the optimism and self-esteem. This causes the stress and depression of the people decreases, as well as the reduction of insomnia.

Laugh out loud tantamount to perform physical activity aerobic, due to be exercised all systems of our body. Example is the immune system; it improves its operation thanks to the feeling of well-being and the stress reduction.

It is more difficult sick when you have much good humor in daily life!

On the other hand digestion, because it increases the contractions of the abdominal muscles this is because, due to the “massage” that occurs on stomach and intestines, facilitates the evacuations.

The recommendation of the experts in risatarapia, as Garcia, is laughing at least 10 minutes a day, although it is alone in doing so it was also reduces blood pressure. Now, if one takes into account that the laugh daily would be less stress, a blood pressure and adequate stable, in addition to fewer diseases…The lives of people would be more elderly!

There are many reasons to laugh, and recalls that in doing so it look more jovial and attract the attention of others. Thus, the laugh, in addition to stay healthy, you might find the love of your life. Read the rest of this entry »

In the day of yesterday we can say that ended the “holiday period” and with it the excuses for our health is a disorder. It is time to begin to incorporate healthy habits into our lives and what is best to do step by step.

Incorporate new habits and change our behavior can be a long process that requires much willingness and efforts to achieve healthy life that both long.

To adapt to live on a more positive way we have no why be radical and change of a moment to another, but that this change may be gradual and transform the “great strides” in “micro-steps”.

Plans what are the areas of your life that you want to change and defines what the habits now incorporate. For example, if your goal is to run 5 kilometers per day, it is easier to begin to walk every day, then to run 1km and 4km walk, to the following week running 2km and 3km walk and go gradually increasing to your body to adjust and become a routine. Read the rest of this entry »